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It’s not a podcast, it’s a SModcast — the collective brainchild of Kevin Smith (above) and Askewniverse producer Scott Mosier. The filmmakers will be doing their ‘cast live from the stage of the Two River Theater on September 27.
The news has already made the rounds of the observable Askewniverse (and been posted to the normally staid Two River Theater website), but Ming Chen over at Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash — the splendid comix emporium, popcultural crackerbarrel and burger-free Planet Hollywood for all things Kevin Smith — reports that his boss will be returning once more to Red Bank on the evening of Saturday, September 27, for the purpose of publicly purveying the latest in a series of weekly podcasts, or in this case SModcasts.
SModcast is the name of the free downloadable program co-created by Bayshore-bred realiseur Smith with Scott Mosier, longtime producer on Smith’s films — a weekly tithing that the authors freely define as “the meandering palaver of a pair of dudes whose voices are so dull, they don’t deserve to be on the radio (and, hence, aren’t).” Over the course of more than two years, it’s a forum that’s touched upon topics ranging from anal fissures, underwater singing and beef, to Harry Potter, flushable moist wipes and — in a special live ‘cast from Brantford, Ontario — Wayne Gretzky.
Those live SModcast recordings may soon be a thing of the past, if Smith’s own website is to be taken at full frontal, and to send them off in style the Smith/Scott tagteam will be taking their act to the Two River building’s Rechnitz auditorium for the first time (Smith’s solo presentations having previously graced the Count Basie Theatre and the plein-air stage at Marine Park). It’s a special event in more ways than one, being keyed in to the publication of the new book Shootin’ the Sh*t with Kevin Smith — a collection of musings from the SModcast, and the View Askew factory’s latest ingenious device for selling back to fans that what they previously got for N/C.
The originally announced ticket price for the event (a bank-breaking $90, including signed copy of the book) was described by Smith as “very high to watch two guys do something you can listen to online for free. But we were including the SModcast book, signed by me (big deal) and Mos (insanely rare), and the theater size being what it is, a far more intimate installment than the live SModcast in Brantford.”
In an updated post on Sunday evening, the director announced that the last 100 available tickets for the event would be bargain-menu priced at $45 — minus the book, and with those who had already paid the higher price being treated to priority seating and the newly added bonus of having the book personally signed live on premises. And “everyone leaves with a door prize.”
Remaining tix for the event are available exclusively from the Secret Stash online store, with further details right here.
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September 15, 2009
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