• Well, myself and a bunch of other View Askew fans cranked up the speakers and opened our RealAudio sessions up to listen live to Kevin’s chat on Esoterica last night. For those of you who missed it, here’s a summary of what went down & what we learned:

• A few IRC and WWWBoard regulars got in on the phone lines. VioLenT BoB, whom some of you may know from the board, got quite a few words in, including his main question about Big Helium Dog, and even snuck a “News Askew” inthere for us. Thanks, BoB! Upon being questioned about secret stuff in Dogma or the 5th film, Kev said something to the effect of (not exact quote), “I think he missed the target and hit a tree.” (referring to the next film’s plot revolving around a theme park). Hmmm…
• Kevin’s in the talking/early planning stages of possibly holding his own ComicCon in the New Jersey area. This would be VERY cool if it came to light. If anyone can make it happen, we’re sure that Kev can!
• “Dogma” will begin lensing in February, with filming continuing into June. Filming takes place in Memphis, mainly due to weather conditions necessary for the film.
• Kev hasn’t read his e-mail in over a month now, so if you e-mailed him recently or were planning to do that, we’d suggest posting your questions/comments on the WWWBoard instead.
• The hosts of Esoterica don’t know too much about Kevin Smith aside from the Clerks laserdisc they watched the night before the interview, and the female (Astra) seems to swear uncontrollably. Some of the more painful things I heard spoken by the hosts were, “Is Bluntman & Chronic a real comic?”,”It was so funny, I was pissing myself” (overheard several times), as well as an argument the host trying to have with Kev about none of his dialogue being ad-libbed, and citing the cut scenes from Clerks (as I said before, their only source of Smith info) as an example of ad-libbing. I suppose any footage that gets cut from a movie is an ad-lib in that man’s world. The way some people think…

Basically, I think the phone calls carried the show. For a listener who’s been in the dark about what’s been going on lately, I suppose a good portion of the show (when Kev got to talk) might be pretty informative for you. For those of you who read our board and the WWWBoard pretty regularly, you’ve just about heard it all. Then again, I think this will most likely ALWAYS be the case.

Here’s a direct feed to last night’s Esoterica show! It’s around an hour long, so get comfortable and grab a sandwich or something (and be sure you have RealAudio/Player installed) before you start the show…

• Kevin Smith on Esoterica (Sunday, July 27th, 1997)
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