An Evening With Kevin Smith

On Saturday, Nov 7th, Jon and I went to the House of Blues in Dallas to hear and Q&A session with writer/director/actor/all-around bad ass Kevin Smith. He has been doing these sessions for the past couple of years now and he has always had a great turn out.

One thing that I love about his Q&A sessions is that nothing is off limits with him. No matter how graphic, stupid, or private a question maybe, he will do his best to answer it in great detail. Mr. Smith did say that the only question that he will never answer is how much he weighs. He had always stated that he has always been sensitive about that subject and lets the public know so much private things about him that he wants to keep that private so he can feel somewhat normal because not everyone will no everything about him.

He stated that he never has anything prepared to talk about with the exception of thanking people for coming to the show and a story about the last time that he was in Texas.

He did talk about a wide array of subjects. He talked about directing the "undirectable" Bruce Willis in his new movie called "A Couple of Dicks" with Tracy Morgan, why he named his daughter Harley Quinn, a character from a Batman Comic book.

At some points of the session, he would ask some of the audience questions just because he became interested in that person and wanted to know more about them. Another high point of the show was when some dumb ass kid actually paid Kevin Smith 50 bucks in order to sit on stage with him for the rest of the show. Kevin Smith took the guys money and just let the kid hang out for a little bit. When the show was over, Kevin gave back the guy's money and signed whatever the kid wanted.

The whole event lasted a little over 3 hours with no breaks at all. I was really surprised that he could talk to so much and be very candid with people with no fear of what the audience might think.

The House of Blues did set up to do a meet and greet with Kevin, but no one told Mr. Smith about. Since he was also running late due the Dallas Mavericks traffic, he said that if anyone wanted anything signed that they should just put stuff on the stage while he talked and he would sign it after the show. And for the people who were refunded their money for the meet and greet, he said that he would do group photos with those people.

Another cool thing about Mr Smith was how nice he was towards people. When someone asked him a question, 80% of the time he would talk directly to that person like they were having a private conversation.

It was a great time listening him talk about how he felt about George Carlin, his wife, everything else that anybody wanted to know. I just can't wait for the DVD to come out just so I can remember all the questions that he answered and what topics he talked about.