Weekend Diary December 21, 2002 - The Globe and Mail by James Adams Have you found yourself wondering, "Gee, what's up with Woody Harrelson these days?" Toronto filmmaker Ron Mann has the answer. In fact, the Woodmeister is the focal point of Mann's upcoming documentary, Go Further, that's having its world premiere in March at the fabled SXSW Festival in Austin, Tex. Mann, whose previous acclaimed docs include Poetry in Motion, Grass, Comic Book Confidential and Imagine the Sound, calls his latest "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test on wheatgrass" mostly because it follows the 2,500-kilometre bike ride to Los Angeles from Seattle that Harrelson and friends made last year as part of the Simple Organic Living tour. Rolling along with the bikes was a "bio-fuel bus" that ran on hemp and vegetable oil. Harrelson, a dedicated environmental activist who, lest we forget, got an Oscar nomination for his performance in 1996's The People Vs. Larry Flynt, dubbed the bus "the Mothership." However, Mann, as the title of his film suggests, saw it as just the latest incarnation of "Furthur," the legendary International Harvester school bus Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters drove around the U.S. in the mid-sixties. Mann is now in postproduction, having wrapped his shooting schedule last weekend by filming a Medeski, Martin and Wood concert in Orlando, Fla. The hook here was that the electrical power for the MMW gig was supplied by fans riding six bikes hooked up to generators! Did MMW play Marvin Gaye's eco-classic Mercy, Mercy Me? Yes, they did. Other vegan/musicians in the movie are Bob Weir (Grateful Dead, Ratdog, the Other Ones); Dave Matthews; Trey Anastasio (Phish); and Anthony Kiedis (Red Hot Chili Peppers). Copyright © 2002 Globe and Mail