It’s the official beginning to the Kinetic weekend, which of course means that there’s a Rutabaga Ball happening somewhere around these parts. This year’s somewhere is the Eureka Theater, where for $20 at 7 p.m. you can join the happy hordes of racers and partiers. If you’re in the mood for another style of weirdness, here are a couple of options. Downstairs at the Arcata Veterans Hall at 7 p.m., you will find the final night of the dark rockabilly play The Starlight Inn, an R-rated affair directed by Tisha Sloan and set in the titular desert — and nearly deserted — motel, stocked with a few damned and horny souls. Speaking of desert dramas, an hour later at the Arcata Theatre Lounge, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s evil psychedelic western El Topo will be filling up the big screen with even bigger imagery, possibly spilling out of the margins and embedding itself into the wastelands of the gray matter of the audience. Doors at 6 p.m., show around 7 p.m., $8 to get in, $12 to leave with a poster. And finally, if you want to break from the triple sevens of the entertainment clockface, wait until 8:30 p.m. and head over to Humbrews, where the doors will be opening for Yak Attack, an electronic trio from Portland specializing in drum and bass, house, funk beats and chipped up breaks ($15).
This article appears in ‘God Looking Back at You’.