Twilight lessons

Hey, I don't know if anyone still ever looks at this blog, but I thought I would just inform you that a new book has been published that might interest you. My uncle helped publish it, so don't buy it if you think I'm braking some kind of code that says we shouldn't advertise on this blog to help someone we know make money. Anyway, you can read more about it here. The book is titled, Everything I needed to know about women, I learned by reading Twilight: A vampire's guide to eternal love. If nothing else, you might like my uncle's review of it and the excerpt from the first chapter. Both are available at Amazon.

P.S. I still haven't seen the movie. But I'm excited that Dakota Fanning will be in the NM movie!

Twilight International

I just got back from Barcelona last night. And guess what poster was all over the city! I still haven't seen the movie since it doesn't come out in the UK until Dec 19. But I fly back to UT on Dec 20 so maybe I can get Esmessence to go with me.

Essence of Twilight

Where have we been? Many of you have heard, but Runswithvampires and I have been overwhelmed with a business that is so close to our hearts. We now make the only Twilight scented lotions available anywhere. That's right. We took SM's descriptions and created Edward, Bella, Jacob, and Alice fragrances in lotions, body sprays and lip balms.

You have got to try them! We are so excited and doing rather well for and idea that started 6 weeks ago.

Our business blog is: essenceoftwilight.com. Check us out. We give great deals to blog members, right RWV?

Love you all, even you sneaky people who I don't know and won't admit your obsession. Give in girls!

H-Y-P-E-R V-E-N-T-I-L-A-T-I-N-G-! ! ! !

Paramore - New Music - More Music Videos

Twilight New TV Spot #7

Really I won't post many more of these, but the added line from Charlie is too precious to miss!

Video Fest and #1 Cafeteria scene

Oh my goodness, oh my goodness. This is the first of I think, 6, TV advertisement that are ridiculously good. Really I had my first movie stomach flips watching some of the last ones tonight (#5 and 6, hold on to your tummies).

Sigh . . . I think the next poll should be predicting how many times we see the movie in a 2 week period.
I am going to try and not watch to many more because really there is basically a shot of everything. So that is your warning if you don't want to be "spoiled".
Be good girls and leave a little comment after you watch.

Twilight New TV Spot #2

WHAT IS BELLA WEARING!!!

Twilight TV Spot 3!

Only one new line as far as I can tell.

4th TV Spot for Twilight

This one has Renee, and Bella is actually smiling!

Twilight TV Spot #5

AHHHHH!!!!!!!

Twilight TV Spot #6

Unpardonable Sins

So Edward takes Bella up in a tree. It is actually kind of visually stunning. So he rescues an apple in the lunch room. He looks gorgeous in that scene. But in all my fishing through trivia of late, none worth sharing by the way, I have discovered several UNPARDONABLE SINS in the movie. I thought it my duty to warn you all.

#3 - It appears that Edward/aka Robert Pattinson very well may expose his torso during a hike scene. And well, its not very buff and its a little hairy, particularly around the naval.

Uh-hum. Personally, I could "stomach" it (get it, ha, ha) but others have been alarmingly turned off by the photo. And sorry but I don't have these photos and not sure if I can get them right now because they were removed from the site. They are from the movie companion book, which is being released before the movie. Dumb. So I have stopped looking at posted movie shots because I want a few surprises. And honestly I can't imagine any worse crimes than the ones I am listing here. But be prepared for a very different visual on that open shirt scene than previously imagined.

#2 - The piano in the Cullen home is BLACK. This could be incorrect, maybe there are two piano scenes in the movie? But the pictures I saw had a very black baby grand. Grrrr.

#1 - Bella is wearing a tennis shoe to the prom. Yep! UNBELIEVABLE. I mean really people come one. She wasn't a tom boy. A cast on the other, well of course, but a tennis shoe!!!!!!!!! Crap! When I first saw it I thought it must just be for the practice scenes. But nope, over and over in the prom shots, a color coordinated blue ked! FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE!

Other than that, the movie should be fabulous.

I miss you all. I should be posting very shortly the exciting news of where I have been these last weeks.

The Final Trailer

Let's hear it!

Watch the trailer here.

Holy Smokes! These Pictures are HOT! (HAWT?)

You want to get even more excited for the movie? Throw out all doubts one more time? These pictures are just a few, of many new ones at this link. I couldn't post them all. Wow. Wow. It just has to be good. And how did this prom picture not end up in the Calendar?

Movie Soundtrack is Here!

I have posted it on the playlist. Some of the songs aren't available so I just added the artist.

What do you think?

Muse — Supermassive Black Hole
Paramore — Decode
The Black Ghosts — Full Moon
Linkin Park — Leave Out All The Rest

MuteMath — Spotlight (Twilight Mix)

Perry Farrell — Going All The Way (Into The Twilight)
Collective Soul — Tremble For My Beloved
Paramore — I Caught Myself
Blue Foundation — Eyes On Fire
Rob Pattinson — Never Think
Iron & Wine — Flightless Bird, American Mouth
Carter Burwell — Bella's Lullaby

Oh YEAH! New movie trailer

Is anybody out there? Just checking in. My plan is to post weekly but this has been QUITE a week. I miss you all when you don't stop by, or say you've stopped by. Here is a bit of big and little news: (and sorry the picture is so big. Sometimes I am a dunce at these things.)

1. MOVIE TRAILER - available online Thursday night. I will add a link when it is ready. I am going to attempt to wait until Friday and watch it for the first time on the big screen. EEE! I am going to have to chain up my computer all day Friday I think.

2. Here is a website advertising the Twilight trading cards. There are a few images I have never seen.

3. The first official sound-track song, Decode, by Paramore is here. I think I'll end up liking it quite a bit. The rest of the sound track will be released soon. Watch for it here.

4. And the Kansas City Star is keeping up there vigil for news about Midnight Sun:

The link to a very recent article discussing it is here. And then this little blurb was published yesterday:

"Is anyone listening?
We have pages and pages of readers’ comments urging Stephenie Meyer to please complete Midnight Sun.
A spokeswoman for her publisher, Little, Brown, said she has read our story about the leak (we’re honored!). Meyer’s agent has it, too, she said, and will forward it to her “if she feels it would be appropriate” (cross your fingers).
Officially, the publisher won’t really comment on Midnight Sun except to say:
“While no decisions have been made at this time regarding the publication of Midnight Sun, Stephenie Meyer is currently at work on other writing projects. Little, Brown looks forward to our continued publishing relationship with Stephenie Meyer and, like her many fans, we are eager to experience her next literary creation.”
In the meantime, keep those comments coming!"

I say lets add our comments.

5. If your interested in Twicon - well Dallas is the location. Twicon.org for details. I wonder if it would be as fun and groupy as the signing and Forks, or cheesy and lame. Will we ever know?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JILLIKE!!

When I gave Jill a copy of Twilight she really did not want to read the book, had no intention of liking it, and didn't care for it much the first time through. But because her life-long friend loved it she kept an open mind. And as thrilled as I am that she gave in and loved it, she would be the first to admit she has had a very happy year, due in a little part to the Cullens and associates.

And then the girl that came to Twilight dragging her feet has set a precedence by reading all of the books WITH her husband. Yes her own, better-than-Edward, Paul, has thoroughly enjoyed the joint-reading experience. I even get a little jealous that he has taken my place as her "Twilight Buddy, although he didn't go to Forks. (maybe that will be their anniversary trip? hee, hee.)

I think she also holds the record for hosting Twilight get-togethers. Yay.
Is that real friendship or what?

Of people I admire in the world, Jill is at the top of the list. This may not be the place to elaborate on why and how. Just trust me. She is amazing and I am blessed to have her as my friend.

Not much new . . .

So much of the updates on other websites are not worth any one's time.
Here 's a few items that are.

Didn't want anyone to miss these Forks articles (thanks others for posting them in the comments.) The CNN article is here. MSNBC article is here. And a Yahoo news article is here.
Kind of a cute article about the popularity of Twilight with older than teeny-boppers, is here.

For actors - I thought these quotes were fairly quotable.

From Peter Facinelli:Your next movie "Twilight" has a lot of devout fans - did that make you nervous?Peter: When we first started filming, absolutely. But I think they'll all be really happy with the finished result. I saw some of it the other day and it's so beautiful. I love the look of the film and Catherine [Hardwicke, the director] has the most amazing vision. She's made a very artistic film and combined it with a very commercial piece.

From the eloquent Rob on the occasion of Harry Potter 10th anniversary: Robert Pattinson (Cedric in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," Edward in "Twilight"): "Does it make me a traitor? 'Harry Potter' was what made me become an actor. I credit 'Harry Potter' with everything else that's come since for me. I didn't know what I was doing before that. I hadn't read the books before doing the movie, so at first I read it just as an acting exercise. But I really enjoyed it! But I think Edward would kick Cedric's ass, to be honest."

And if you are really, really desperate, there is a quirky, trendy article about Robert here, with an unusual picture that fan girls are drooling over. And all things considered, he looks better here than in most places. Which reminds me, I can't find the source now, but Entertainment Weekly is supposed to give Robert another cover, since the original was so bizarre looking.

SM on Ellen! and other Updates for the Week

Just a reminder for anyone who is interested, that Stephenie Meyer will be on the Ellen Show on Wednesday (Sept. 17th) at 4:00 on channel 4. Will we finally, after 2 1/2 weeks of nothing, hear something about Midnight Sun? I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I will put some things that Ellen said about the interview in the comments of this post. 9/16 - MTV Tuesday has Robert explaining why his lullaby wont be used in the movie. Here. Robert has really grown on me. Not that I think he is anything like Edward, for Heaven's Sake! But I like him. He seems like a genuinely nice guy. Too bad about his song.

And here is a very painful explanation of the "Spider Monkey" controversy. I thought some of you girls would get a kick out of this: (bear in mind the teenage fan-base thought Spider Monkey is drool worthy. Gag-worthy was my reaction, but oh-well, no-one asked me to write or cast the movie. Darn it.)

MTV: Are there any lines of dialogue that make you particularly proud?
Rosenberg: Well, I can tell you this: "Spider monkey," I believe, comes from Rob Pattinson. I didn't actually write "spider monkey."
MTV: Really? Because the fans already love that line in the clips we've seen when Edward tells Bella, "You better hold on tight, spider monkey!"
Rosenberg: That was an improv.
MTV: So is that one of the things where a screenwriter sees the movie and says, "Sweet improv!" Or do you go, "He ruined my script! 'Spider monkey' is not accurate!"
Rosenberg: [Laughs.] Well, what I should say is, "I came up with spider monkey on my own. I wrote that."
MTV: Someday that could be the new "This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" — or something like that.
Rosenberg: Exactly.

Twilight Moments

Midnight Sun has given me back a little bit of the old "Twilight Obsession" where thoughts and moments throughout my day center around a universe that includes vampires. Ahhh it feels good to be back to my best self. Ha ha. So here are a few of my best recent TW moment.

1. On the same day both RWV and I noticed a silver Volvo FOR SALE, on 700 East between 10600 and 11000. It is perfect. She called me about it and I had meant to point it out to her the next time it entered my mind. By sight now, we can both identify that it is the s60. We haven't been able to tell if it has the "R" or not. If it does well you know what that mean right? We HAVE to buy it. It is only 10,000 so if 5 of us chip in that's only $2000 each. We could drive it every 5th week. Think how happy those weeks would be, and the week before our turn, and several days after. Oooh we'd have to find an air-freshener that smells like "honey, lilac and sunshine."

2. Also like my former heavy Twilight using days, I am dreaming again about Twilight, or having Twilight themed dreams. The dream I am about to tell you is very embarrassing.

Before MS came out, I was slowly trying to get through Breaking Dawn again. I survived the Jacob book without as much skimming as the first time. Then I got to one of my favorite 2 moments in the entire book, Bella' change. Thank heaven for the glorious description of her new vampire self, because the birth just prior still makes me a little queasy. But minds do funny things. I thought my mind would be focusing on the part I liked, the vampire change. My subconscious, however. drummed up a Twilight dream last night that had ME giving birth, gratefully in a very naively undetailed version (but quite a big surprise, since my children are adopted) and then that baby is A GIRL (even bigger surprise!) and she is smiling at me, right after deliver in a bedroom somewhere. Well lets just say it was easy for my conscious mind to connect the dots for the inspiration on that one. Good Heavens! that book is really getting to me in all the wrong ways. Top that dream girls.