An Evening With Kevin Smith

A friend of mine managed to score some tickets to a talk by movie-maker Kevin Smith (click the link if you don't know who he is) tonight up at the St. Cloud State University campus. They were only $5! If you have never heard him speak before, I highly recommend the DVD set, An Evening with Kevin Smith. He basically tours around college campuses and holds long question and answer sessions with his fans (his fanbase consists mostly of the college-age 20-somehting crowd). What is most entertaining with him is his ability to take relatively mundane details from everyday life and make them magically interesting. Like the time he had to serve jury duty while suffering from a nasty case on anal fissures (I am not making this up, he talks about this tuff). He also tends to answer questions with other long, drawn out stories, but they are always fascinating and somehow connect. The whole event went for 5 hours, which was actually about 2 hours longer than it was supposed to, but he is known to go much longer and no one was going to tell him to stop (he was allowed one final story at the end at which point he launched into the "anal fissure" story which lasted almost an hour, but was hilarious the whole way through). That's some good entertainment for five bucks.