Kevin’s been posting some thoughts on the show over in its WWWBoard thread where he and others have been posting more photos of this amazing art (including a beautiful piece that Kevin himself now proudly owns).

The gallery continues, so be sure and stop by the gallery and see these amazing pieces if you have the means. Gallery 1988 at 7020 Melrose in Los Angeles. We’re not sure just how much longer you’ll have a chance to see this stuff. So, if you can’t make it there in person, we’ve got video of the event thanks to our old pal, Tony T. Hit good ‘ol YouTube for a look at Tony’s report.

Kevin will be LIVE for an in-studio appearance on KROQ radio Tuesday (tomorrow) morning at 8:00 AM pacific time.

You can listen live to the broadcast via their website, no matter where you live. He’ll likely be there to plug the show, but you know that some other stuff’s gotta come up as well. Be sure and tune in locally or via the web.

SModcast 20: Here Comes the Bride -

In which the sausage party is crashed by a sausage patty, the feminine touch is heavily felt throughout, a de facto marriage counseling session ensues, uncomfortable sexual revelations are made, and made, and made some more.

Enjoy SModcast, exclusively at Quick Stop Entertainment!

George Lucas has long cultivated an interactive relationship with the geekerati on all things Lucasfilm, especially “Star Wars.” Lucas and Steven Spielberg’s “Indiana Jones 4″ approach derives from the Lucas DIY ethic. “They’re keeping their fan base happy until the movie comes out,” says web-savvy director Kevin Smith. “‘Indiana Jones is presold, man! That audience is coming.”


Early Internet adopter Smith learned about a group of “Clerks” fan sites back in 1996 when he was depressed after “Mallrats” bombed. Reading the commenters buoyed his spirits. He hired one of the site creators to build his first site. When Smith suggested doing a weekly live Q&A, he was told all he had to do was join the site’s message boards and chat with his fans directly whenever he felt like it. Ever since, Smith spends several hours a week with fans. He’s proud that the site has grown organically, adding merchandise when fans demand it. Smith uses his year-old MySpace page, which boasts more than 172,000 friends, to announce book-signings and public appearances, which promptly sell out. “I don’t organize with the studio at all,” he says. “It’s about letting us do whatever we want.”

Listening to your fans can be both good and bad, Smith says. “It’s not Kenneth Turan of the L.A. Times, it’s what the guy who paid for your pic has to say,” says Smith. “You have to keep in perspective that you can’t believe the enthusiastic positive stuff or the shitty horrible soul-crushing stuff. The truth is between the two.”

KEVIN SMITH
The Fairly Odd Filmmaker

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ANGLE: Diary, comedic op-ed, and plugs for his ”SModcast” podcasts and live appearances.

HIGH POINT: It’s a tie between a happy-birthday greeting for his wife (”From a one-night-stand to my partner and soul mate. You boggle my mind, you fill my heart, you race my blood, you take my breath away”) and a series of e-mails between Smith and a writer from The Clarion-Ledger in Mississippi debating whether Alanis Morissette sang a tune called ”One of Us.” (Smith was right — she didn’t.)

LOW POINT: After famously attacking film critic Joel Siegel for walking out of a Clerks II screening, Smith repents when he discovers that the spat is mentioned in a Siegel obituary.

VERDICT: Smith calls his diary ”My Boring-Ass Life”; it’s apropos, given that much of it addresses subjects such as his diet and his man-crush on Bruce Willis. Nonetheless, fans will appreciate his candor.

GRADE: A-

The blog’s been around for quite a while now, and continues to evolve to reflect the current atmosphere at View Askew and in Kevin’s life. We expect the blog to continue for many years, and look forward to all the great “Zack & Miri” news that we’re gonna see in there in the coming months.

SModcast 19: We Owe It All to Nook-Nook - In which our heroes broadcast from a talking house, get their Trek on, briefly interrupt the proceedings to do some work, suss out why they never abused the casting couch, debate an indecent proposal, brag about oral proficiencies gone to waste, marvel over the frigid, define love, and hail the first cro-magnon sexual astronaut…

Get on over at grab your own personal copy! As always, listener discretion is advised.

And hey, while you’re over at Quick Stop Entertainment, check out some of the other great exclusives there — It really is an amazingly cool site full of content — Including a new epsidoe of Paul Dini’s entertaining “Monkey Talk”. You just can’t go wrong with puppets.