Nah. It’s just press: me, Brian and Jeff doing morning radio shows, morning TV shows, and sitting down for one-on-ones with the local press and round-tables with the ‘net folks. And since it’s do press all day, then travel to the next city at night, there’s little time to do much else (in the way of signings and whatnot).

A few of you have asked what Brian/Jeff or me will be doing on those stops in those cities. The day is pretty much as follows…

6 am to 10 am: Morning radio shows and local morning tv shows
11 am to 5 pm: Print one-on-ones and ‘net round-tables
6 or 7 pm: Flight to next city.
6 am to 10 am: Start same routine in next city.

This leaves no time for signings, appearances, etc. Sorry.

Your best bet is to listen to the morning radio shows or tune in to the morning tv shows (though, in the past, some folks have camped out in front of the radio stations/tv stations in hopes of running into me).

That same theater was testing trailers and commercials for market research, and the commercial i was shown was a TV spot for Clerks 2! Great little commercial, but having seen the film already at Vulgarthon, It did give some great jokes away.

Harry Knowles – Ya know that there was always a part of me that missed the X-MEN’s real costumes. It’s always going to be there for me, and I know they might be incredibly silly if adapted, but when I saw the SUPERMAN… given the history of this film… and from when you came aboard it became an entirely new film from what had been in development at Warner Brothers for 15 years. From there, Jon Peters was talking about getting rid of the cape, make it a black costume, make it where Superman can’t fly. Ya know, all that kind of stuff. Personally, I can’t really imagine people griping.

Bryan Singer – By the way, I’m not totally sure that was up to Jon Peters. I know Jon and I talked to him about that personally, because I deal with him quite a lot and he’s really quite sweet and I asked him about all that stuff and the problem is he does no press, he just sort of stays out of the limelight and he’s never really had a chance to defend himself, but he’s like, “I don’t know what these people are talking about. There were aspects in the early development,” but he never defends himself…

Harry Knowles – Well, I believe almost all of that came strictly out of Kevin Smith when he departed from the project.

Bryan Singer – You never quite know, I’ve never talked to Kevin about this, but it is… but I do have access to everything that has come before and there are certainly some… -interesting- costume tests that were done. That I have been privy to and I (laughs)

Harry Knowles – Yeah, I’ve seen some of those too. (laughs)

6/14/06
Tomorrow, Jeff and Brian kick off their three week, city-by-city grass roots press tour to support the flick. This is what their daily grind looks like…

June 14 – San Diego
June 15 – San Francisco
June 16 – Portland
June 19 – Seattle
June 20 – Phoenix
June 21 – Denver
June 22 – Houston
June 23 – St. Louis
June 26 – Kansas City
June 27 – Cleveland
June 28 – Miami

On the 19th, my leg of the grass roots press tour kicks in (I was also supposed to start tomorrow, but had to put off my departure ’til Monday, as Harley’s birthday party is this weekend). Here’s where I’ll be whoring out the flick…

June 19 – Dallas
June 20 – Minneapolis
June 21 – Chicago
June 22 – Detroit
June 23 – Boston
June 26 – Philly
June 27 – DC
June 28 – Atlanta
June 29 – Toronto
June 30 – NYC

When the boys and I are done, there will be press days in NYC and L.A. for the whole cast as well (which is where Rosario kicks into action).

We’re now less than a month away from the premiere (July 11th at the Cinerama Dome in Los Angeles) and a little over a month away from opening day.

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6/13/06

Scott, Jeff and I recorded the In-Theater Commentary Track for “Clerks II” today. On the Monday after the opening weekend, you’ll be able to download the track at iTunes (not sure if it’s a free download or not just yet, but I’d imagine it is), pop it on your iPod, and bring it to the theater to listen to in conjunction with a viewing of “Clerks II”. It’s a wall-to-wall conversational commentary (no dead spaces of us just watching the movie, folks), and it’s loaded with spoilers, so I wouldn’t suggest listening to it unless you’ve seen the flick first.

The whole thing turned out nicely: very informative and pretty funny. I could see doing this for every flick’s theatrical run.

I know many people including myself wondered if Kevin had lost his nerve after Jersey Girl and just wanted to play in a pond where he knew the water and could avoid jumping any sharks. He seemed to be pretty happy about the production and the direction of the film based on interviews or items on his various websites and I cant knock the guy for returning to his roots…hell Ive got how many versions of Star Wars? If George Lucas can rape your childhood then Kevin can play a secret touching game with my early twenties I suppose- he did promise candy if I got in the car- so away I went.

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If you identified with the movie 10 years ago chances are its still going to ring true for most people (us slacker types, who like to bitch..talkbackers I’m looking at you) and its a lot of fun. Though I admit I left the theater feeling like I had a strange warped sense of Déjà vu- like I wasn’t sure what to think at first, it was Clerks, but at the same time it was in color and had some parts of Jersey Girl thrown in or contaminated (depending on your point of view), all in all, the movie is pretty damn funny and the plot has more going on then the first Clerks, in that it goes outside the short time frame and gives a sense of whats gone on between the films and what could happen after, instead of just keeping the status quo of the first film. It feels more complete as a film than Clerks did and its a good thing.