• The Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back soundtrack debuted at #92 on the Billboard album chart. It will likely climb quite a bit higher than that as well. The Top Soundtracks chart in today’s Hollywood Reporter, however, shows the J&SBSB soundtrack debuting at #10, with 16,125 units sold. (For comparison, “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?” is at #1, with 71,125 sold last week.) VH-1 also gave props to the soundtrack and showed a minute or so montage about it during their “Rock Accross America” show. We’ll keep tabs on it for ya here.
• Don’t forget, Jay & Silent Bob take over the FX network on August 21st! The full press release, complete with a full schedule, can be located HERE.
• We’d like to thank the New York Post for this plug for the Scooping The Monkey website. Our J&SBSB sometimes official site has been referenced in this piece they ran earlier in the week:

• A recent E! News Daily aired a bit on cameos in J&SBSB which revealed some footage and Kevin talking a bit about hosts Jules and Steve’s appearances in the flick. If anyone has it captured, let us know, as we missed this one.
• A recent Countingdown.com article on American Pie 2 has some of the actors, (Seann, Shannon, and Jason), mentioning their roles in J&SBSB:

Read the full article HERE.

• Chicago’s Rock station Q101 is giving out tickets to the Chicago Premiere of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, which takes placeon next Monday the 20th. You’ll find details HERE.
• Stroke 9 was caught playing “Kick Some Ass” during the X-Games inline skating events on ESPN2. They were live and did a slightly different version of the song from the video. No mention of the flick, though.
• This recent Cinescape article discusses Kevin’s refusal to do a Green Arrow movie, because of the high fan expectations. He cites the uproar over Spiderman’s organic web-shooters as an example. He also states that the Preacher film adaptation-to which he’s attached-is still stuck in limbo. Another Cinescape piece re-iterates Kevin’s determination to stay close to the book regarding Fletch Won.

• The creator of that drawing we mentioned of Jay & Bob that appears in Roxy’s deli in NYC’s Times Square got in touch with us and sent us a scan. It’s some pretty fine work. Check it out above.

• There’s always a lot of fan art that comes from Kevin’s stuff, but this one is certainly one of the cooler things we’ve seen done lately. Here’s his vision of an alternate one-sheet for Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, a nice composite job of some of the pics we’ve released here at the site.
• Today’s IMDB poll asks you what your favorite Kevin Smith movie is.
• Here’s the finalized ratings for J&SBSB in Canada: (1) AA in Ontario (This means Adult Accompaniment (AA) Viewing should be restricted to persons 14 years of age or older or to persons younger than 14 who are accompanied by an adult), (2) BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan has an 18a rating (Anyone under 18 years of age must be accompanied by an adult), (3) Martimes (14A), and (4) NWT/Yukon/Numuvet (Fallow Albert and BC guidlines).
• Jason Lee is the subject of a story in the September edition of Talk magazine. Here ya go:

Will the real Jason Lee please step forward?

10 things you need to know about Hollywood’s hottest everyman.

1. Yes, you have seen him before: He was the LSD-licking lead singer in Cameron Crowe’s “Almost Famous.”

2. Next up: Kevin Smith’s “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back;” Barry Sonnenfeld’s “Big Trouble;” and “Stealing U.,” a Tom Green comedy. This December he’ll also appear in Crowe’s “Vanilla Sky” with Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz, and Cameron Diaz.

3. A 31-year old high school droopout and former skateboarding pro, he peppers his speech with words like “awesome,” “dude,” and “cool.”

4. He doesn’t really do soft drinks at all, but if you must know, he prefers Pepsi to Coke.

5. He considers himself a businessman. “I look at acting as a job, ” he says “It’s a profession. You get paid. That’s it.”

6. Did we mention that he’s real? Instead of running into L.A.’s Vicodin-spiked young actors’ scene, he keeps company with his wife, actress and photographer Carmen Llywellyn, and a group of aspiring young artists whose canvases he hopes to hang on Hollywood Boulevard. “I want to create something like New York’s art scene here in L.A.,” he says.

7. When he’s not acting, he performs with his electro-experimental band Chiaroscuro.

8. When we ask him what he would do if he weren’t acting, he says, “I’d act.”

9. Even though he has brought to life countless toking, dosing characters, he claims he doesn’t drink or smoke.

10. He had never before met the action here and donkey-eared girls pictured here–they were simply walking down Hollywood Boulevard on the afternoon of the shoot. “There was Jason in this Gucci suit, and in walks Superman, wanting to rub elbows with him,” reports one observer. “But he’s the kind of guy who doesn’t have to be the only star in the shot.”

• A young man has written an article for his school newspaper about Kevin’s work and placed it online. You can check it out online HERE.
• A Philly DJ for radio station Y100 recently did an interesting stunt…As part of their Top 25 countdown, he played Afroman’s “Because I Got High” as EVERY slot, 25 times in a row! At the end of the show, the DJ offered Tickets to a screening of J&SBSB for the first caller to name all 25 songs in order.