[cheebacheeba]

Yknow, I bought these tickets the moment I could.

Perhaps I should have researched it a little better, true...when I initially saw the name "Jay and Silent Bob get old" I had assumed they'd be in character for at least part of the show, going to see something written by Kevin Smith, but live, well yeah that would've been pretty cool.
Disappointing that it wasn't, but I accept that.
A bit of an annoying misrepresentation if you ask me, but hey, it is what it is.

As I mentioned above, I had planned on taking in a couple of dvds to get signed.
So, I called the theatre they're on at...left a message, no reply.
Called back, talked to a guy that "didn't know".
The wife went on facebook and asked one of the theatre reps if they'd be doing any brief signings or anything like that.
The answer she received was
"The guys won't be signing anything, but there's plenty of good merch".

I feel slapped.
I have been a fan of Smiths since I was 14 and I first hired out Clerks, not knowing who the fuck he was.
Now I'm not some crazy fanboy or anything, I hated Chasing Amy and never even bothered with Jersey Girl. But I have seen *most* of Kevin Smiths stuff, I'm following comic book men, and I'm looking forward to checking out Red State as soon as I'm able to buy it...
Not to mention I've bought and read a lot of the comics he's written, including his entire run on daredevil.

Now, it's not like it is for you guys in the states here in Australia.
Those film/horror/comic conventions you guys get just...aren't done here...I'm not saying things like that never have been at all, just that they are VERY few and VERY far between and usually only on in like...one city in the whole country, if that.

So obviously, they next to never get out here.
Considering this - Is a brief signing really THAT much to ask for?
I mean I'd just paid $90 each for two SHITTY tickets (more a theatre issue) to a show that was...well, not what I would ideally like it to be (a me issue, sure), and there's nothing, no chance of even getting something signed?
No alternative dates that there would be.
Just no.
...and not even the (likely overpriced) merchandise they'll be profiting even further off pushing? That can't even get signed?

So, I've never done this before...I've never been annoyed like this by something along these lines.
I know I shouldn't let it get to me but frankly as one of his Australian fans, I feel disrespected and have started to look at Smith (and to a lesser extent the most-likely-still-drug-fucked Mewes) in a different light.
I mean he's had his heyday...his new show/podcast is pretty much being panned as shit anyways...he's essentially rocking a Tarantino level of "has been" without ever quite having hit the same heights, occasionally drumming out yet another film that will never live up to his former works...and he's resorting to "going on tour" to "talk about life and shit", just totally cashing in.
I could have accepted this as a fan, but not a pissed off one.

I mean what, really? He/they didn't THINK it was something that would be cool of them to do? Give fans that NEVER have the chance to even see them the opportunity to even *PAY* them to sign some shit, and say hey?
They don't need to, so they won't.

So, long story short - we're not going.
Sold the tickets for $20 more than we got them for.
...and tonight, I will be downloading Red State...

Disappointed, but I won't support this bullshit.