Archive for October 31st, 2009
Catching Up With Twitter…
- Kevin’s been quite chatty on twitter the last couple of days, especially today with a mini-marathon of Q&A tweets and replies. Here’s a look at some of the most newsworthy, including confirmation of a 40th Birthday Q&A edition at the awesome Count Basie Theater in Red Bank, NJ on August 2nd, 2009:
- Already got date w/RedBank’s vampire king, Count Basie: MY 4OTH BDAY Q&A 8/2.
- Because you demanded it! The comic book flicks I’ve liked the best (in no particular order)
- Via @lexica_areola “just watched MANCHILD, hilarious!” Ah, MANCHILD. Here’s a little taste of what might’ve been: http://tinyurl.com/yj99vp6
- Via @s_spatz “Scale of 1-10… How was last nights show?” I missed a pretty big laugh line and the out wasn’t a gut-buster, but I’d say 8/9.
- A Q&A’s only as good as the questions. To the Bay-ers who filled @thewarfield last night: thanks for some good queries. Same time next year?
- Via @DrFACIALPhD “can’t find tickets to ur show in Edmonton.” Small room that sold out quick. I’ll be back for 3/7 Devs game, so maybe then?
- Wait a sec – @NHLDevils have less than 5k in followers?! Puck that: I wanna double it. Follow Devs and I’ll pick 12 or more per games I’m attending. First add @NHLDevils, Jersey’s Team. Then, Tweet “I wanna worship the Devs with Kev. @NHLDevils & @ThatKevinSmith”
Yep, that’s right — A simple follow on Twitter and you might join Kevin at an upcoming Devils game. How cool is that? Despite being a Flyers fans, we’ll take one for the team and follow the Devils too, as a sign of solidarity, in response to this tweet: “Flyers-lovers! You can do it too: add/follow @NHLDevils and you can watch a game in my box (which sounds more erotic than it really is).”
Wanna hear what Kevin thinks of Twitter? Catch him on “Q the Podcast” (from CBC Radio) talking about his and other celeb tweets, as well.
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- Stark Toons does it again with new 5 minute animation from a classic moment of SModcast. Check out “For the Love of Smod 2” at Youtube and laugh your head off. We have no idea how Stark chooses which segments to bring to life, but it just works — Brilliant stuff.
- Entertainment Weekly lists “Clerks” as #13 in their look at “25 Essential Cult Movies”
13. CLERKS (1994)
Kevin Smith’s debut, about a day in the life of two service-industry suburbanites, was made for $27,575. It’s hard to tell where all that money went, but the cruddy lensing and muddy sound actually enhance the experience. This spitball of nonstop scatology and pop-cult obsessiveness — what are the ethical implications of killing independent contractors aboard the Death Star? — feels like a bootleg copy of an adolescent mind. SIGNATURE LINE “I’m not even supposed to be here today.”
- Start Christmas shopping early with some signed (or unsigned) Kevin Smith books for that fan in your life — Or yourself. SHOOTIN THE SHIT WITH KEVIN SMITH can be bought signed OR unsigned direct from the Stash. You can also nab the NY Times #1 Best Seller BATMAN: CACOPHONY in both signed and unsigned editions. We highly recommend the signed stuff, of course.
- The lovely blogger of DatingIsMiserable.com has some pretty swell things to say about Mr. Smith in a recent entry.
- “Mad Men” creator Matt Weiner cites “Clerks” as an early inspiration to him in this USA Today piece :
Earlier today, I heard you talking about how you were inspired by the movie Clerks. I thought that was somewhat surprising.
MW: I was inspired because there’s always been this story that the machinery of filmmaking was going to make its way down to the population. And I was inspired by the fact that this guy made a movie in his basement, and it was a complete movie, and it was entertaining, and he pulled it off. My wife and I went to Paris on the world’s cheapest vacation — $319 airfare, we stayed in someone else’s apartment — and all I remember is we went to the Pompidou Centre and I was like, “Clerks is playing here. That’s incredible!”
I found that very inspiring that, you know what? We all have these aspirations, and … just to see that that guy got off his a- and made that movie, I was blown away.
Kevin Smith is actually a massive Mad Men fan.
MW: Well, that’s cool!
The other day he sent me a question to ask you …
MW: Wow. Don will never try to fellate himself. (Everyone laughs)
- An interesting post from actor/comedian Tom Green, who recently heard that his name had been thrown around for the Willenholly role in J&SBSB — Though we never heard anything of this officially, perhaps his name was on a list of possibles at some point. On his blog, he says:
Bummer. I never even heard about this. I love Kevin Smith. Might be time for me to find a new movie agent. One who doesn’t suck ass. That would have been amazing to be in Jay and Silent Bob… Huh…… Also, if you can let Kevin Smith know I would love him to stop up here to the web show. That would be rad. Also ask him if he knows any movie agents who are not money grubbing douche bags.
So, there ya go. Perhaps Kevin will find a use for Green in a future project. We think it’d be a good pairing, the guy’s got a fun, odd sense of humor that might be a good match for one of Kev’s scripts. Maybe he’ll even work him in “Hit Somebody”, with those whole Canadian thing going on. Never know.