Comedy Wish List: Kevin Smith

Photo by View Askew

You better watch 'dem stitches in your side if they aren't done healing from Doug Benson's MMJ Tour! Because next up in the batting line is Kevin Smith at the Orpheum Theatre, October 24th. You know him from such films as Clerks (OG and roman numeral II), Mallrats, Chasing Amy (Affleck killed that movie, or maybe I just hate his character), Dogma (I changed my mind, think I just dislike Affleck), and most notably as Silent Bob in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (heart). You can check out his IMDB here if you have to know all about his career. View Askew, his official website, shows that he'll be visiting 12 lucky audiences, making their ears fall off with sheer hilarity and opinionated rants. If you still can't wait to be apart of his methodical madness then go to his blog. Yes, I said blog. Don't worry, I just found out too! It's called, My Boring-Ass Life. And it doesn't stop there!!! Go to his MySpace. Ok, I'm done promoting. He can do that himself. Get your tickets from Ticket Bastard for $46.50-56.50 plus that handling fee they try to hustle you for. Good luck with trying to get into this dude. I say good luck because you're gonna get stoned and totally forget I told you about this and then you're gonna remember two days after or two hours before and shit your geeky self...but, if you arrive, arrive baked and don't forget the tickets! Don't forget about the SModcast! 


Click on the Comedy Wish List: Kevin Smith title up there to listen to a session of the SModcast.


xo

Doug Benson's Medical Marijuana Tour

You might know Doug Benson from his portfolio of work on VH1, The Marijuanalogues, and his deeply moving and also hillarious medical marijuana com-umentary Super High Me.

Benson is back with the Medical Marijuana Tour October 1st-13th. The tour is 13 days and 13 medical marijuana supportive states of guaranteed laughs, special guests, and many HIGHlights.

If you go to one of his shows you should consider yourself lucky you have the money! ($20) And you should probably have a pre-game puff session. Don't forget to make sure you bring all your papers. Both, the legal medical ones and the ones you roll with. Orange slow burn zags preferably.

If you can't make it to the MMJ Tour like in San Francisco, then you can catch Benson before his tour:

September 14th in Los Angeles @ Largo on La Cienega with Special Guests!!!

September 16th in Canoga Park @ The Madrid Theatre with Dan Gabriel!!!

If you can't afford tickets because you're broke like I am and have no paying job then you can find his "I Love Movies" Podcast Online here!!!

Don't forget to follow him on Twitta!! @DougBenson

Photo from Doug Benson's Myspace

Bummed? Or just hung over?

Kind of have a case of the Mondays, on a Friday. I went drinking last night with Evan and we got pretty drunk. I love going dancing. It's probably the one thing I like that's up there with sleeping. But there will be no dancing for me tonight. I cancelled and I feel bad there will be no Discotheque, but I need tonight to be as painless as possible. Especially since I threw up last night and this morning I had to tutor. It sucked being so tired, hungry, in pain, and still a little drunk. Can't believe I did that. Kinda unprofessional but I took it easy with the kid today.

Hunter S. Thompson doing what he did best. Besides journalism.

Photo courtesy of obit-mag.com (wow an online obituary?)

I told him we were relocating and we headed from the library over to a burger/mexican/everything restaurant. We ordered, sat down, and I asked him if he had come up with some brainstorming about the create your own movement project. Hunter S. Thompson is our hero in this discovery. We discussed Gonzo Journalism and how it became a movement. We got on to making a bubble connections chart and I asked him questions to get started because he didn't know where to start or what to make of this project. I'm pretty sure he knows I'm weird.

So, I tell him that every character on tv, in movies, cartoons, etc has specific qualities. Now, if we're those characters what qualities do we posess? I said what do you like to do? You seem pretty relaxed. The kid says, I like to go with the flow. I say, Ok, put flow down and put a circle around it. What's another thing? And we kept going back and forth thinking about qualities he has in himself that he might want to create a movement with. What a good idea. I didn't know I had it in me to create a project like that. At the end of the hour we were there sitting in the restaurant conversating and I looked at his bubble chart thingy where he wrote down ideas and I said you can make that into a poem. Well, it's kind of already a poem. And I asked him if he had ever written a poem or anything, ever. And he says no. Well, you have one right there, I said. He looked at me kind of like, cool, but like a weird huh agreement.

I lost the reason of why I'm talking about this. Oh yeah, I guess it was just something cool that happened today despite the hangover. We ended up going back to the library, plugged in the headphones into the computer, and watched flight of the conchords youtube videos for the rest of the hour. Fun. And I got paid today! But, I bought some Headband, so it's now a little less. But that's ok. It's a loss I'm willing to smoke! :) I guess the outcome of this whole blog was positive.

I ended up staying in bed all day smoking and watching the 1st season of this show "Party Down". It's great. I can't believe I finished a whole season. 2nd season isn't out yet. Now, to listen to the Jamiroquai discography...Jay Kay is so fucking hot.

I get by with a little help from my friends...

I'm just now realizing that I'm not honest enough. I mean, I'm honest, but not saying everything that's on my mind. So here's to honesty...Smokie's sleeping on my bed again getting baked. He's a voluntary stoner dog, don't worry. He knows why he's on my bed, passed out, all smug with his freedom and shit. He's probably dreaming of marmalade doggy fountains and sugar plum kitty cat chew toys. Maybe I'm just stoned. It's funny, Smokie comes up to me and puts his face inside the smoke cloud. That's why his name is so perfect. He chose his name, not us. LOL wow. Good herb. Smokie's snoring, hogging the bed, again. He needs to take a bath for real. His paws smell like Frito corn chips. Inappropriate doggy.

Now listening to "If You're Into It" and "Sellotape" By Flight Of The Conchords and watching "Cheer Up Murray" on Youtube.

You know the economy's bad when...

People won't buy the special brownies you made. In times of hardship people always resort to home baked edibles. Why can't the government call this what it really is? A damn DEEP DEPRESSION. I never would have guessed that my first blog on here would be so political. I've gone too deep. I must recede. I'm listening to David Bowie "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust" and I am in love. I'll be out in the cosmos for a while riding out this deep depression storm...far out...