November Already?!

Quick update post. I know I've been MIA for a loooong time, sorry. There seems to be new Breaking Dawn casting news all the time and I'm reading up on all of them and compiling some dossiers on them (I'm single-mindedly autistic like that). 

Mostly I've been working on my new project The Lit of Twi website and podcast (check it out on iTunes). Check it out! It's all about Twilight Fan Fiction that I'm hopelessly addicted to. 

I'm also planning a trip to Vancouver at the end of February to commemorate my birthday and if we happen to stop by the Breaking Dawn set and stalk 'em... well that's not completely out of the realm of possibility. 

I'll post my findings on the new BD cast when I get it all collected but don't hold your breath. The Lit of Twi is taking a lot of my time! =D

Fan Fictions, DVD, and Twi-dar

I love to read. A lot. That's probably an understatement but my vocabulary is failing me right now.


I've been reading fan fiction like crazy as evidence when you check out my fan fiction blog post. I'm updating it almost every other day with a new story that I've read. I was in a slump for new stories but then I got active in Facebook and there is a group called Twilight Fanfiction Recommendations. My dry spell is no more. Lots of good stuff there.

Also, I found an really easy program to download entire stories from fanfiction.net. I have a Mac so I use DownloadedStory that I got for free from cnet.com :-D There's a similar program that you can download for PCs too.

Summit has just official announced that the Special 2 Disc Edition of New Moon will be on DVD and Blu-Ray on March 22nd!

Pre-order the Target Exclusive 3 Disc DVD here.

AWWWESOME! I look forward to deleted scene, awesome commentary by Rob, Kristen and Chris, and lots of behind the scenes stuff. I love special features.


In the January 22, 2010 issue of Entertainment Weekly, Stephen King mentioned New Moon in his bit to explain the Movie Blurb. You know when they say "The best comedy of the year!" "Magnificent!" etc.


Well, he had this to say which caught my Twilight radar (Twi-dar)
"The most romantic movie of the year!" (New Moon) TRANSLATION: "No sex. No nudity. Many smoldering glances."

If you didn't know, tonight is the Critic's Choice Awards on VH1. I had it on my calendar so it's Twilight related somehow.

Wide Awake

The best (in my opinion) and brightest Twilight fan fiction, Wide Awake by angstgoddess003, if finally finished.

It's a master piece. I've loved every word and chapter of this epic story.

Thank you Sam for writing this amazing, wonderful, and sleep depriving story.

See you in 2010!

Happy Holidays Everyone!

Lots of stuff I haven't added my two cents on (Taytay on SNL, Rob and Emily going Vogue, etc.) and probably will be to lazy to write something up. The holidays are here which means Twi merch! I've already received the New Moon Game board and it's pretty good except for two Trivia Cards which are absolutely wrong and ridiculous and my piece only came with 6 game pieces instead of 8, but it's pretty fun and engaging.

You probably won't hear from me until January, or if Rob's secret photo shoots leaks, so until then, have a safe and happy holiday season.

:0)

Camping out for wristbands

Because I don't want to take away from Rob's glory in my previous post, click on "Read more..." to read this entire post.

Must Resist Spoilers!

28 fucking days to go! (27 by the time you read this)

There are major spoilers floating out there today. Mostly from Rome where they showed 20 fucking full minutes of the movie. Then there's the TV spots, behind the scenes stuff, etc.

Already I feel like I've seen way too much of the movie. Are there any more gasp moments left in the movie? I really want to fan girl hard at the midnight showing and I feel like if I see the tiny-bad-quality-shaky-camera clips then I'm just going to totally ruin the experience for myself.

I quickly glanced at my blog roll and facebook wall and pretty much everyone is sharing the clips or their reactions to them. I will prevail though! I will resist! I tried downloading them so that I can watch them after I see the movie but for some reason my MacTubes is not cooperating with me which is the universe telling me to resist as well. It's a sign!

If you're resisting the temptation as well, I leave you with this slice of heaven:

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The Twilight Saga Music

New Moon soundtrack is coming out tomorrow (for those of you who live under a rock).
So it's out today, get it! The album booklet opens up into a poster. (pic on the left) I have the iTunes order and you're not really missing much if you don't get it. Here is the album artwork that came with the download.

MUSE talking with MTV about possibly showing up on the Eclipse soundtrack. New Moon isn't even out yet and we're already talking about Eclipse and rumors are going around about Breaking Dawn.

MTV also interviews Lykke Li about her track on the soundtrack and her feelings about life, love, death and Rob.
"So Li sat down at her piano and wrote "Possibility," a very maudlin song about love and pain and, ultimately, death. Lots of death. Like we said, she doesn't operate like most of her pop contemporaries."
Read more about the interview here.

Film and TV Music Conference. October 29-30th.

The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard join forces to deliver a cutting-edge, two-day seminar on the role of music in film and television. The 8th annual event provides a dynamic forum for the exchange of ideas among film, TV and music professionals. Also featured will be live artist performances, roundtable discussions, and networking cocktail parties.

On Thursday, there will be a panel with Chris Weitz, Alexandre Desplat and the people behind the Twilight and New Moon Soundtracks. More info on tickets and the event here. They're offering a special discounted price for Twilight fans who order with promo code MOON, with the code the tickets are only $199. (I'd rather buy $200 worth of Twilight t-shirts)

Update 10/30: You can read a bit of what happened at the Conference yesterday here. More in-depth details of each panel to follow.

Twi News

The bad thing about working a 10 hour day is that it takes me 2 hours to check my blog roll and when I hear something amazing, it's usually 8-11 hours after the fact and most of the excitement is gone. I love being there to comment on an awesome post and comment-chat about it.

Anyway, here's the latest in the Twi-fandom:

The Twilight Saga: New Moon Original Soundtrack will be released this Friday, October 16th. This comes from Summit's Twitter account so you know it's official. I'm pretty sure that this was due to it leaking two days ago. They say it's because of the "high demand". Now if only the movie will get leaked, then they'll have to release it now!

You can vote now for Twilight's Soundtrack to win an American Music Award (AMA) which will air Sunday, November 22 8/7c.

It looks like there are more magazines heading my our way. In addition to Kristen Stewart's November issue of Allure, Harper's Bazaar December issue with Rob and Kristen, Taylor's Rolling Stone issue, Gossip Cop says that all three will be doing an Entertainment Weekly cover. I don't need to go out and buy that one, I have a subscription! Woot! [Update: Looks like even more magazines are already out there, check out my October is Magazine Month for the new covers].

This Saturday I will be attending Spike's SCREAM 2009 Awards where Taytay will show new footage from New Moon. AWESOME!!

Update: Two new upcoming events.

Special event. Borders in LA (Westwood) is holding a "New Moon Live" Podcast with people from various Twilight fan sites. More info here.

Yet another Convention cashing in on the Twilight band wagon. They call themselves New Con. It's headliners are 100 Monkeys (Jackson's band). It takes place Nov. 6-8 in Nashville. More info here.

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.

Comic Con Project Update

UPDATE: It's done (10/15 it got burned)! Hurray! It's so freakin' cool. =D

If you don't know, I went to this year's Comic Con in San Diego. I only went for one day, Thursday, but that was the only important day to go since that was the day of the New Moon panel.

You can read about my day here but what I want to update you on is the status of my DVD that I'm making of the New Moon panel. I filmed the entire thing (with pauses for batteries changes) and edited it together into a little movie. It's just shy of an hour long running time but it has the Q&As, two sneak peak clips, and lots of awkward Rob.

Now, I finished with the making of the actual movie about 2 months ago. I had burned a prototype for a friend who was moving away but I wanted it to be more of an overall experience. Here is what I have planned so far for my project:

1. Edit film together with added chapters and background music (done)
2. Add a subtitle track because sometimes it's hard to hear them through all the screaming. (I just finished this tonight!)
Special Features to include:
3. A slide show of all the pictures that came out that day and set to music. I need music ideas!
4. The press conference panel (Fandango)
5. The various interviews by Entertainment Weekly, MTV, etc.
6. The small bit when Kevin Smith mentions New Moon in his panel

I can't think of anything more to add but I'd love suggestions.

New Moon Soundtrack Update

Most is copied from my Random, Awesome & Funny post but with more info and updates.

You can now pre-order New Moon: The Official Soundtrack on iTunes here. It features 4 bonus tracks along with the others. When you pre-order, you'll automatcally download Anya Marina's song Satellite Heart.

Entertainment Weekly reviewed the soundtrack and gave it an A! Read their article here.

Listen to a piece of each track here!

1. Death Cab for Cutie - Meet Me On The Equinox (watch video)

2. Band Of Skulls - Friends

3. Thom Yorke - Hearing Damage

4. Lykke Li - Possibility

5. The Killers - A White Demon Love Song

6. Anya Marina - Satellite Heart

7. Muse - I Belong To You (New Moon Remix)

8. Bon Iver & St. Vincent - Rosyln

9. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Done All Wrong

10. Hurricane Bells- Monsters

11. Sea Wolf - The Violet Hour

12. OK Go - Shooting The Moon (additional info here)

13. Grizzly Bear (with Victoria Legrand) - Slow Life

14. Editors - No Sound But The Wind

15. Alexandre Desplat - New Moon (The Meadow)

16. Lupe Fiasco - Solar Midnite (Exclusive)

17. Amadou & Mariam - The Magic Numbers (Exclusive)

18. The APM Orchestra - Die Fledermaus - Duettino: Ach, ich darf nicht hin zu dir [Exclusive]

19. Death Cab For Cutie - Meet Me On The Equinox (Video)

20. Ulf Bastlein - Wandrers Nachtlied II, Op. 96, No. 3, D.768 [Exclusive] (pre-order only)

Commentary:
I thought the Death Cab song was good but now that they have a music video with new scenes, I love it! Great editing!

The Band of Skulls track is very "them". It sounds like it could be from their album. I have no idea where it's going to show up in the movie though.

Thom Yorke's track is techno-y and energy enthused.

Lykke Li's haunting voice is dreamlike.

The Killers sound like they're channeling Johnny Cash.

Anya's song is cute and melodic. Her accent is a bit.... =/

I love MUSE. I want to hear the part where they sing in French. It's a strong song.

Bon Iver and St. Vincent have such distinct and unique voices on their own and this duet is simply sublime. It's filled with love and sorrow.

I really really like Done All Wrong. I love the 'heart beat' percussion.

Monsters is very alternative and rocky-er from his usual stuff.

Sea Wolf is channeling 80s David Bowie but in a good way with maybe a hint or Morrissey?

Ok Go's track is different. You can't ignore that base drum.

Slow Life is beautiful. I'm going to see them in concert with Beach House and they're playing this song! So excited.

Editors have been listening to too much Meatloaf me thinks. =D

Alexandre Desplat's "The Meadow" track will be one of the first songs to be put on repeat in my car and at work. It's perfection. All I think of when I hear it are Edward's eyes looking at me with the deepest love in them.

Up 'till now..

There's been a lot of Twi-crack out there, pretty much everyday, for me to drool/squee/swoon to. If you don't know what I'm talking about... well go troll the blogs and find out. There's just too much to link it all!

What I'm most excited about is (in no particular order):
1. My "Bella's charm bracelet" came in the mail today! And of course, I'm wearing it right now. It's cute. I try to keep the charms in full view to flash to other possible Twilighters that 'I am one of you. Talk to me.'

2. The track listings for the New Moon soundtrack was announced today. Excited that MUSE will do a rendition of I Belong To You just for the movie! I was reading the lyrics and some of them are in French! How cool. Then there's The Killers, Bon Iver, Grizzly Bear etc. on the soundtrack too. I can't wait for Oct 22. I pre-ordered it through Amazon but it wouldn't be delivered until the 22nd! As if! I cancelled that and I'll probably download the whole album from iTunes on that Tuesday.

3. The second MeetUp for the Pasadena Twilighters Meeting is next Sunday. I'm looking forward to meeting women obsessed passionate of the series as I am.

4. From the people who brought you The Sexy Stars Of Twilight, they're coming out with a second installment this Friday! mmm... Robert =D~

Oh and I stumbled on this nifty site where you can get info on the clothes worn in the movies and try to 'dress like ___'. I'm going to dress up like Bella for Halloween (New Moon Italy scenes). I've got a green shirt, skinny blue jeans, and I just ordered my KEDS. =D I could totally wear these clothes everyday so it's not really a "costume". Maybe I'll wear it to the midnight show? Possible.

Oh and another thing, it was all over the blogs this morning that they cancelled the London premier of New Moon and will only do a WORLD Premier in LA on Monday, Nov. 16th.

I love the universe and it looks like the universe loves me because I have that Monday off. I am totally going to drive to LA early in the morning... probably by myself, and watch the whole red carpet thing LIVE! I really want to find someone to fan girl with me... =/ Anyone? Anyone?

Right now I'm working on the timing to the subtitles of my Comic Con DVD. They're a bitch to do but I'm determined to have them. Also on the DVD will be the Entertainment Weekly interviews, the press conference panel, a slide show of pictures taken that day, and much more!

Don't worry Lili, I know I promised you a copy. I hope you're patient 'cuz this is taking a long time to do.