You'll recall my recent post on a Hollywood movie about a mad Reaganaut out to cleanse society of hippies: it's called "The Tripper," and they're looking for phreak-y extras in that most phreakishly extraneous NoCal locale, Santa Cruz. Well, the producers were in clover at Monday's casting call: more than 300 people showed up and I guess would-be movie extras are almost as needy for attention as bloggers.

Santa Cruz High School student Parker Mozee-Baum said he was wearing everyday clothes: boxer shorts poked out above the silver-studded black leather belt in his baggy jeans, black mascara adorned his eyes and his orange and purple hair was tied in a ponytail. "I love acting and entertaining people, even if it's just a small role," Mozee-Baum, 15, said. "Honestly, I enjoy the attention".....The flick, directed by David Arquette, is about a conservative logger — a fan of Ronald Reagan's trickle-down economics — out to murder a bunch of free-loving hippies with the help of his killer dog, Nancy. The extras are likely to play part of a large audience at an outdoor music festival, where they find themselves stalked by the logger and his dog, Spencer said. The scene could involve drug references, gore and blood, she said.

Pix here of the assorted and sundry applicants. Apparently, that rumor about Jerry's OD on chili dogs was a hoax.

TECHNORATI TAGS: SANTA CRUZ, THE TRIPPER, DAVID ARQUETTE, RONALD REAGAN, JERRY GARCIA