Reggae: Past, Present and Future

I stumbled across this strange bizness this morning by accident.
This interview on the blog, This Socialite's Life with the actor turned director David Arquette explains how he was inspired to write a slasher/horror film titled "The Tripper" after a visit to Humboldt. The movie was released earlier this year on 4:20. According to Arquette, the plot concerns "a group of drugged-out hippies that go out to the redwood forest for a weekend long concert, that get hunted and attacked by a killer that's obsessed with Ronald Regan."

It gets weirder, and more specific...

Interviewer/blogger Josh asks: What inspired you on this movie?

David: I was at one of these concerts at a place called Garberville. It's in Humboldt county. I was at a concert called "Reggae rising." I was looking out at the field, a little wasted, and I thought, "Man, it'd be crazy if a killer came out of these woods and started hacking all these hippies up." That was one of the germs.

OK, I recall someone saying they saw David Arquette at Reggae, but needless to say it wasn't Reggae Rising, it was Reggae on the River. What does this tell us? I suppose that Reggae Rising has supplanted Reggae on the River, if not in the public eye, at least in the mind of one stoned actor.

Incidentally, the festival in the movie is not a reggae concert it's a retro rock fest. Paul Reubens (aka Pee Wee) plays a concert promoter who is nothing like anyone I know. Watch the trailer here and laugh your ass off. (Warning it's ridiculously violent.) It's out on video in October.

side note: If you go to The Tripper MySpace, you'll find a banner ad link to Reggae Rising.