The Hunger Games Mall Tour - Los Angeles

Dear readers,
You might be interested in this and I'd thought I'd do a quick post. I'm a fan of The Hunger Games series and I'm really excited for the first movie to come out. If your only interested in video clips and pictures, they'll be after the jump.

Lionsgate is taking the stars of the movie out on tour to promote the movie. Today was the kick off of the mall tour that plans to also appear in various cities across the US. Today, Jennifer Lawrence (Katniss Everdeen), Josh Hutcherson (Peeta Mellark) and Liam Hemsworth (Gale Hawthorne) took to the stage to answer a few questions. Gary Ross, the director, was also in attendance but he didn't join the others on stage.

It seems that with all major fandom events where celebrities are present, people will disregard rules and get there as early as they want. Being part of the Twilight fandom, I've seen this first hand and now that The Hunger Games seems to be "the next big thing". So,  I wasn't surprised to hear that people were showing up and  "unofficially" lining up at midnight and 1am for an 8am start time. And of course, this caused a lot of angry comments on the Westfield Mall's facebook wall.

What they were doing was handing out wristbands to the first 100 people in line for a meet and greet with the cast. I believe by 5am, a lot more than 100 people were "lined" up. They area that we were corralled in was a fairly big area on the north east corner of the outdoor mall. Barricades were set up to pen us in. In the beginning to late afternoon, the only way to go out was to take a "hall pass" and return within 30 minutes. The "hall pass" was a nice plastic HG movie poster on a lanyard. I wish they were handing them out for us to keep. It would have been a sweet freebie. This was kind of lame and wasn't really enforced a whole lot. My friends and I arrived around noon, checked the area out then left for a few hours to eat and sit down.

During the whole afternoon, they were handing out half size movie poster, bookmarks, t-shirts and having a dance off for meet-and-greet wristbands. KIIS FM had a booth and were spinning remixed music. I was laughing from time to time when they would put on a old song. Songs that were released when most of the kids there were being born. It was funny and sad, The Hunger Games fan base is a lot younger than the Twilight fan base. If there happened to be a fire, I'd be inclined to say that it was a Girl Scouts jamboree.

What I thought was really nice of the organizers was that every so often, they'd give away more meet-and-greet wristbands. They must have given out an additional 50 wristbands to people with the best home made posters, best dancer, or best grovelers. My friends and I hung back. I'd feel bad about taking a wristband away from a crying 12 year old with "PEEEEETTTTAAAA!!" written with puffy paint on her shirt.

Before the celebrities came out, they showed the trailer for the movie. There was lot of screaming and lots of echoing the dialogue, word for word. I got to hand it to them, they're really passionate!

Here are some pictures and video clips I took. I thank my lucky stars at times like these that I was born with monkey long arms. :D



Pictures:

See more pictures here.

I took around 80-100 pictures total but I'm only uploading the clear and un-blurry ones. There are a few mediocre ones and if you all really really really want them, I'll post them up :)

Videos:

Thanks for visiting! I love comments :)

Sleeping at Last in concert

Last November and this last Thursday, I went to a Sleeping at Last concert. Ryan, the man behind the band, wrote and performed "Turning Page" that was featured on the Breaking Dawn part 1 soundtrack. 

Cover art for a 2011 EP

More after the break!

Videos that rock my socks

Twilight: New Moon improv rap




Japanese interview pt.1



Japanese interview pt.2 (he wants to be a young dad, I want to help him with that)

Rough translation:
0:02 How do you like Japan?
0:56 Do you have any hobbies?
1:34 How do you want to spend your 30s?
Y/N questions:
1) You're very good at memorizing scripts
2) You are very smooth with kissing (or kiss scenes)
3) You wish that there was no such thing as paparazzi
4) You'll freak out if you lose your cell phone
5) Your rival is Zac Efron
6) You want to be/the challenge to be James Bond some day
7) The Twilight Sensation is still unbelievable for you
8) You think it's hopeless to fall in love with a co-star



More Rob from the LA red carpet (some strong fan language)

I can see my camera! Our group with in the next barricade over.

LA New Moon Premier

or as I like to call it... The Best Day EVER!!

My YouTube channel for videos HERE. (Subscribe so you get e-mail alerts when I upload a new one)

Videos:
- Robert Pattinson
- Kristen Stewart
- Taylor Lautner
- Ashley Green with Kellan Lutz
- The Wolf Pack (Chaske Spencer "Sam", Alex Meraz "Paul", Bronson Pelletier "Jared", and Kiowa Gordon "Embry")
- The Cullens (Elizabeth Reaser "Esme", Peter Facinelli "Carlisle", Nikki Reed "Rosalie", and Jackson Rathbone "Jasper")
- The Volturi (Michael Sheen "Aro", Jamie Campbell Bower "Caius", Christopher Heyerdahl "Marcus", Dakota Fanning "Jane", Daniel Cudmore "Felix", Charlie Bewley "Demetri", and Noot Seear "Heidi")
- The Humans (Billy Burke "Charlie", Anna Kendrick "Jessica", Michael Welch "Mike", Justin Chon "Eric", Gil Birmingham "Billy", and Tinsel Korey "Emily")
- The makers of New Moon (Stephenie Meyer "Author", Chris Weitz "Director", and Melissa Rosenberg "Screen writer")
- Other vampires (Edi Gathegi "Laurent" and Kirsten Prout "Lucy")
- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson at the Planet 51 premier
- Kiowa and Cameron saying hello to fans in line
- Booboo Stewart at the Planet 51 premier
- Peter Facinelli driving by but blocked by the Team Pellan sign

Watch them all:


Pictures:
Note: I'm seeing multiples of some pics. I can't filter them all out but good luck. I'm naming each one according to their content. Hope this helps.

Download a .zip file of my pictures here.
 Download a .zip file of the second folder of my pictures here.
Download a .zip file of Pauline's FaceBook pictures here.
NEW! Download a .zip file of Cathryn's FaceBook pictures here.
NEW! Download a .zip file of Crystal's FaceBook pictures here.

If you've uploaded your photos to a photo sharing website, send me the link and I'll create a .zip file for all of your pictures so that we all don't have to "right click, save" every picture!

Media:
Two of my TwiFamily's posters made the top 10 best fan posters according to Tonic. We're number 10 and 9. Check out our skillz here.

TwiSis Pauline in the LA Times here (pictured).

Classic Taylor

Srsly, why am I now only seeing this?! 
ROTFLMFAO

New Moon Cast Tour Videos (LA)

Update I: All videos are now viewable in HD below.
It's now 3:06 am on 11/8/09.

Update II: When you click on the videos, you now have an option to view the Closed Captions if you can't make out what the cast is saying. I had some time on my hands today.


Update III: Hot Topic has posted video of their own. It's clear and you can see their faces and know what they're saying. Took 'em a while to edit it I guess. =P

I figure since I'm awake... I think I'll work on a treat for all yous guys. Jacksper fans anyone? Stay tuned to my YouTube channel.

I'm also trying to distract myself from a tiny spoiler that I read. I've been pretty good about not looking at anything other than Rob pictures but I (and I know I shouldn't have) went onto a blog to see what I'm missing and I caught the words Edward's and _____. [I'm not going to repeat it but lets just say that it's a very descriptive action word!] In the context of the _____ scene. So now I have possible scenes in my head and I'm so mad that that one tiny spoiler bit is infecting my brain like some radioactive cancer. It just grows and radiates outward until I'm consumed and it's the only thing I'm thinking of-

But back to our main topic...

Radar Online has video of the introductions here.
HQ Pictures here.
More Pics here.

So much screaming. So many people pushing. I hope you can see everyone!

Videos after the cut.

Ryan Seacrest Reads From New Moon

Below are some really funny clips of Ryan Seacrest reading from the Twilight and New Moon books.

I love how the female staff watching/listening are to so engrossed with what he's saying, they gasp occasionally. Also, check out their various Twilight and New Moon posters they have on the walls of the studio.

New Moon Soundtrack Uploaded!!!

OH MY GOD!
The universe loves me!

Francesca posted this about an hour ago. Someone has uploaded the ENTIRE New Moon Soundtrack to YouTube.

SQUEEEEEEE!!!!!!

Update: Download all the songs here.

Also...
The Twilight Saga: New Moon The Score looks to available Nov 24th.

Douche gave me caffeine

I specifically asked for decaf but the douche at Starbucks must have given me the supercharged stuff because it's 3:30 am and I'm still wide awake.

So what have I been up do?

Why I was making my very first fan video.
Disclaimer: I'm loopy from the caffeine and the late hour so if this sucks I blame the douche @ Starbucks and so should you.

Twilight Parody

Seriously funny