Snoogans!

As September melts into October (thank heavens!), I'm prepping for another round of fun with another live-action roleplaying event in the Chi-town area. For those of you not familiar with live-action roleplaying, think of it as a murder mystery dinner night. It's basically that.

Last year, I took part in the Curse of Whatley's Monster. This year, we're heading back to the 1970's for Scooby Doo. Within our little motley Madison crew, me and Eva are the two women that will be participating that night.

Eva's Velma. I'm Jay from Jay and Silent Bob. Yes, you read the last sentence correctly. I'm Jay. Enich is going to be Silent Bob (because no one else can rock that look as well as Enich in my book). It's more appropriate anyways, because I can be that foulmouthed without any problems.

Not to mention, the thought of hitting on Daphne and Velma all night amuses the hell out of me as well as the thought of calling Enich my "hetro life-partner Silent Bob."

Anyways, thanks to this little adventure, I'm getting back into Kevin Smith movies. Enich and I watched Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back on Thursday to get into the spirit of things, and I'm rereading Kevin Smith websites.

I forgot that I also had a crush on the man too (much to the horror of Raizel and Keidra when I admitted that one -- I've got a strong thing for geeks). He does dialogue writing really well and in a patter that's completely believable for me. I know I've had conversations similar to the ones in Clerks and Dogma. I never saw Jersey Girl (just looked a bit to schmaltzy for me), but Dogma and Clerks are two movies that I'll always enjoy.

His dialogue can be a bit mouthy to perform, but I think that in the hands of the right people (Jason Mewes, aka Jay), it just flies. Ben Affleck for some reason also can rock Smith's dialgue alright. His performances in Dogma and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (Lion Face! GRRR! Lemon Face! Sad!) are pretty damn good.

The man's also got a blog, My Boring Ass Life that I've been compulsively reading for the past few days. It's kind of boring (as the title says), but there's something interesting about reading what he's doing. It's voyeuristic (especially when he talks about jacking off to nude pics of his wife) and it falls into the vein of "yesterday I did X, Y, Z and fell asleep to the Simpsons" type of blogs, but every now and then -- there's some oddball gem in there. I'll probably keep reading it as I prep to become a blond stoner boy.