The Barnesyard

Through one of those miraculous space-time confluences that happens maybe once every few millenia, two of the greatest things that have ever happened in the history of the world will occur this week within 100 miles of each other.

First, the Tower Theater is having midnight screenings of John Gulager's Project Greenlight horror film "Feast" on Friday and Saturday night. I'm planning to show up on Friday just to make sure that DP has to work late - it's the only way he'll learn. Fans of the cancelled Bravo show "Project Greenlight" - all six of us - have been waiting breathlessly for the release of "Feast", which concerns a ragtag group of misfits (Jason Mewes and Henry Rollins among them) in a deserted roadhouse fighting off ravenous aliens in full feeding frenzy mode.

The first two Project Greenlight films were unwatchable, sentimental tripe. "Feast", on the other hand, may be unwatchable tripe, but at least it won't be sentimental. At any rate, I find it difficult to follow a series about the making of an independent film without at least skimming through the finished product. Of course, "Project Greenlight", while entertaining as television, set its novice filmmakers up against impossible odds. Besides the fact that the winners all had precious little behind-the-camera experience (the producers seemed to cast the show more for entertaining personalities than for competent filmmakers), they are given barely any pre- or post-production time and an intensely abbreviated shooting schedule. The result: a movie like "Feast". Did I mention it features Jason Mewes and Henry Rollins?

Also, this chick's in it:


Her too:




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The other big event this week is the Little Richard show on Saturday night in Cache Creek. Darcey had to bow out due to scheduling difficulties, so DP will accompany me to the Cache Creek showroom to watch The Georgia Peach butcher...er, perform his many rock-and-roll classics. Anyone who has witnessed The Quasar of Rock's manic incoherence on the TV show "Celebrity Duets" may have an idea of what we're in for. I'll have the complete story of the trip, the performance, and the post-show orgy next Monday.

Here is the stock Little Richard picture for all the ladies: