Shut Up, Little Man! is the birth name of this twisted cinematic exploration into the recorded life of a pair of warring Lower Haight alcoholics, and it positively sounds like the best way you could spend $10 this weekend:

In 1987, Eddie and Mitch, two young punks from the Midwest, moved into a low-rent dump in the Lower Haight district of San Francisco. Through paper-thin walls, they were informally introduced to their middle-aged alcoholic neighbors, Raymond Huffman, a raging homophobe, and Peter Haskett, a flamboyant gay man. Night after night, the boys were treated to and terrorized by a seemingly endless stream of vodka-fueled altercations between the two unlikely roommates. Oftentimes nonsensical and always vitriolic, the diatribes of Peter and Ray were an audio goldmine just begging to be recorded and passed around on the underground tape market. For 18 months, Eddie and Mitch hung a microphone from their kitchen window to chronicle the bizarre and violent relationship between their borderline-insane neighbors.

The showings start Friday at 7pm at our favorite Mission District theater, The Roxie, and go through the week (including a special drunken 9pm showing Tuesday after the Uptown Almanac Comedy Night).

[The Roxie]