Fairuza took part in two documentaries in 2009: THE HEART IS A DRUM MACHINE, and BLOOD INTO WINE. The former will be available on DVD in March, the later is still being edited.

For much of 2009 Fairuza spent time going from one Horror convention to another, meeting fans, taking pictures, and signing autographs. This is how I got to meet her for the first time :). IT WAS AWESOME!

Ru also performed in a Star Studded version of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES for charity.

As for G13, I haven’t heard anything about since her appearance on The Late Show with Craig Kilborn.

Also in 2010 we’re awaiting more information on Ru’s film THICKER which is still listed as being in pre-production on IMDB.

I really hope the 2010 picks up with more Fairuza… although I think it was great that Fairuza took a lot of 2009 to actually meet her fans, I was wondering if I’d ever get the opportunity to meet her.

If you haven’t seen too many fish out water squares learning a thing or two from the free spirit movies (or if you, like me, recently saw Out There which by contrast makes this one seem an immortal classic) and you can get past the eccentricity heavy first to point where it settles down and somewhat quietly takes off, you might well be surprised how much you like this movie. The movie clearly prefers it’s pot growing hippies but seems to have a sense of humor about their flakiness and a willingness to put the lie to the more pie-eyed optimism of their rhetoric and further resists the smugness that might killed it in other hands by not depicting the Peter Bogdanovich character as monster. Jeremy Strong does a fine job of depicting what amounts to a sheltered cypher of character in the process of growing a personality, Brad Dourif, Frances Conroy (who almost steals the entire movie with one heartbreaking monologue), Chris Messina, an impressive young actress Madison Davenport and fairuza Balk (in a brief role that includes her jazz singing) also come off with good work here. A promising first feature. Currently available On Demand (but just till the end of the week and then it goes into theatrical release)