3 posts tagged “james”

Last night I went to see Twilight for the tenth time. It was still awesome. I did notice a flaw in the screenplay. It's small but now that I noticed it it will bother. When the nomads come to the field and James does his, "You've brought a snack" Rosalie jumps to defend Bella but then in the scene in the garage she asks why she should help. My answer would be, because you did in the last scene. And how does Edward and the Cullens follow her to Mimi's when she never tells Alice and Jasper where it is located? Another plot flaw. But despite those things I still love it. I would like to go and see it with Belle and Susan. And now New Moon officially has it's new director. Chris Weitz will be at the helm. I don't know if I have much faith in the guy who accepted the screenplay for Golden Compass with it missing the last chapter of the book. I hope we don't miss the last chapter of New Moon. I'm eager to hear what will happen with casting for NM. D has been keeping an eye out for sides but nothing yet. I am seriously leaning towards our Spring trip being Portland. I know it doesn't have the pizazz or sunniness of Hawaii but I would love to see Shanny and to get to play fungirl and go to some of the locations that the movie was shot at. It sounds like such fun and Hawaii isn't going anywhere. It will still be there the next year. So yeah I'm at 75% sure of going to the Pacific Northwest.

Today was a really busy day. We had to get me shoes for D's work Christmas party and I chose shoes that I don't believe I will wear that often over the ones I loved. I really regret getting them. The other ones were even on sale. I love shoes but why do they have to be such a labour when choosing them? Then we had to go to the comic book store and now we are up to date on Spike, Buffy and Angel. Our next mission is to actually read them. We are about five issues behind on Angel. Appalling. Then we went to Petco and got a friend for Nate. I haven't named him yet because I'm leaning towards either Jace or Seth, after Jace Wayland from The Mortal Instruments or Seth from Wicked Lovely and I would be heartbroken if I had to say either of them had died. So for now my little black moor goldfish is Little Fish. Then we went grocery shopping which was an ordeal because I was there. It had to be twice as expensive because I like to shop off the shopping list. It's like I'm the bane of D's life at times. I did get pickles, silk nog and raspberry sherbet. Score! Then we had to go to the boss's Christmas party. I was not excited about it because I have the social graces of a rock. He did have a nice house and the fresh pineapple was yummy. I even had a glass of bubbly and reminded myself that I find champagne god awful. We came home and made french toast with cinnabon bread. D's a master chef and it was so good. Oh and in between the grocery store and the party I wrapped D's Christmas gifts and I love Christmas. I keep wanting to talk to him about them and that would just be bad. I'm so excited for Christmas when he will open them and hopefully like them. I know three things that he will love. The rest is all up to the gods.

I have been reading some the last few days. I read both Novel of the Darkyn books I had and they were sort of disappointing. I will read the others in the series but these books were highly recommended for being good vampire books and they just aren't. I also read the first Others book, Wolf at the Door by Christine Warren and it was a good fantasy romance. The writing is sort of mediocre and the story isn't what I would call original but it had something to offer. Last night I started Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning and I was sort of blown away. I only got 70 pages in but the style and tone is incredible. It's categorized as romance but there isn't any romance in it so far and I would classify it as fantasy/suspense. It reminds me if you were to take Sookie Stackhouse books and Dante Valentine books and then threw in faeries, but better written then the two, then that is how I would describe it. I plan to read Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind this week. I don't know if I am ready for it but I don't think I ever will be. I'm just going to have to jump in.

Tomorrow I'm meeting Team Logan at Mo's in Burbank at lunch. Tam will be there and I haven't seen her since last Christmas. I'll get to show Belle my new silver nail polish. She will love it. I hope to make plans with Susan and Belle to get lunch or dinner this week sometime. I don't see the group, well hardly ever. It'll be good to touch bases.

I have to sleep sometime soon. I am not tired. It's 3:30 in the morning. My sleep is a mess. Stupid red eye. I haven't been the same since. I doubt sitting here listening to music and updating my last.fm helps.

So You Think You Can Dance proved interesting for it's first week. I actually voted for the first time ever and of course the couple I voted most for were in the bottom three. But I'm getting negative and ahead of myself... The routines that stood out last night were Matt and Kourtni's, Katee and Joshua's--I know, but I hate Katee, right?--Kherington and Twitch and
Chelsea T. and Thayne. I voted the most for Matt and Kourtni and they were the first couple in the bottom three. And I feel bad because they keep telling Matt that he has no personality. I think he's conservative but I don't really think he's boring. I like him more than Chris and Gev. So week one is done and Jamie and Rayven found themselves going home. I wasn't too surprised with Jamie but I thought Jessica should have been cut before Rayven. I just can't stand her face and her dancing bores me, when it's not stunning me with it's badness. Let's hope for next week that she will go home. I want her to go home more than I want Susie to go home and I think Susie is some lame gimmick. So in short... YAY that Kourtni and Matt stayed, Twitch Rules, Jessica is heinous and Katee can dance even if I don't respect her after auditions.


Tomorrow is movie day and I'm going to see a double feature of sorts... The Happening, because M. Night is going down hill but I don't ever learn from my mistakes and The Hulk, for some Edward Norton love. I'm hoping that in going to see The Happening first I will get the bad out of the way and then mend my fences with my sense of movie pride by seeing Ed second. I hope that the CGI effects in The Hulk aren't so ridiculous that it ruins the movie for me. I already am holding a 15' Hulk against them. I don't think he grows a whole other man in height bigger. These superhero comic book movies need to hold a bit more with the comics in my mind. Just because it can be done doesn't mean that it should be done. Both the movies have a good female lead. The Happening has Zooey Deschanel and The Hulk of course has Liv Tyler. I like them both and I hope that they live up to their past performances. It's been a while since I came home from a movie with a girl crush... maybe tomorrow is the day.

I've been reading at a fairly good clip the last few days and I managed to read Just Listen by Sarah Dessen yesterday and A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb today. Just Listen was really good, it had some dark themes in it, anorexia and sexual assault, but it still managed to maintain a certain level of innocence. I loved the main character Annabel Greene, she is a world class avoider of confrontations but I didn't find it annoying. I liked the love interest, Owen Armstrong and his little sister. I didn't fall in love with the love interest and that is a bit odd for me but I didn't fall in love with Dexter Jones in the last book either. I think she makes the guys realistically flawed and that makes them less crushable. The one plot point she had in this book was Owen is going through Anger Management classes and she uses his lingo throughout the book which is a lot of fun. I will read this book again. I'm planning to keep this and This Lullaby for future pleasure. Sarah Dessen is a hit.

A Certain Slant of Light was an interesting book. Another one with dark themes... the love interest, a ghost, is in the body of a junkie, the main character, another ghost possesses the body of a girl whose parents are heavy bible thumpers, abusively heavy and suicide plays it's hand in the book. It's not your run of the mill ghost love story. I liked it, I think but to be really honest I'm not all that sure. I did like James and Helen, although they fall in love and into bed awfully quick. The problems they face are piled on so heavy that you feel exhausted by the end of the book. I know I didn't not like it... I think it just left me with a lot of conflicted thoughts and ideas. I'd like for there to be a less chaotic end, but that might have been the point. The one thing I was left wondering through out the book which is never answered because the story ends before it would questioned is whether or not Jenny is pregnant. I'll never know.

I never read any further in Fragile Things. I think I'm really pissed at Neil Gaiman because I would rather read nutritional facts than read another sentence of the short story I was reading, October In the Chair. I keep saying that I will read a bit farther but I keep reading other books. Maybe I will take D's suggestion and read Anansi Boys instead. I'd rather read Sandman comics... but that would be an expensive habit to get into now.

Speaking of comics... The new Angel: After the Fall comic came out yesterday. It's #8 and it is about Gwen, a little, and about a civilian and about Gunn. There are a host of artists on this issue and to be honest I'm not the biggest fan of this months feature, neither in content or art. The citizens story is just silly and the art on it really bothered me. I am just not into Gunn as a vampire and I know I keep saying that but I still don't think the right people are hearing me. Gwen's story is such a short that it kind of feels like when you walk into a weird conversation, you don't know where they're coming from or where it's going. I miss the story that has been interrupted for all these back stories. Human Angel fighting all the monsters. Why can't we go back to that already? I'd like to know how Joss plans to save him. I know it's weird amidst all this bitching and moaning to mention that I can't wait for the Spike: After the Fall comic, but I really am excited. I hope that it has a lot of Illyria and Spike in it. I miss me some Illyria. It's really strange and incongruent because I was a huge Buffy fan and not so hott on the Angel side. I mean we cancelled cable the day after the Buffy finale. And now I can't be bothered to read the Buffy comics and I am addicted to the Angel ones. It's unnatural. Back to Illyria, we never did get resolution to her turning into Fred during the middle of the fight in #5 or #6. I won't even remember the fight by the time they cover all the back story.

In the LA Times for tomorrow is an article with pictures about Twilight. I scanned them because they were pretty and should be shared. The first one shows Catherine Hardwicke and the production team getting a shot. The second one shows the Nomads and the third is a gorgeous picture of Bella and Edward.

Also I went to get my tickets today for the Stephenie Meyer book signing in two weeks. And low and behold I find out the signing is at Torrance High School, aka Buffy's High School. We drove by it today while we were down there. It was all closed up but I still have all my photos from when I went there and re-enacted scenes from Graduation. I haven't watched Buffy in months. I miss it. But I have my tickets and I know where I'm going and I have three copies of The Host now too. We have to go and return them. I think more than having my copy of The Host personalized, I want my Twilight copy signed. Although that means I will have to buy another copy of that so I will have a reading copy and a special copy.

While at the book store I got a copy of C.S. Lewis' Prince Caspian. I can't see the movie until I've read the book and I kind of want to see the movie. It was a cheap book. It will be painless to read. I hope. Of course I still have to finish Stardust. And to complicate things further I need to read chapter 7: Nightmare, from Twilight, in my reading circle with Jason. I have to do my thought summary sometime tonight. And in the car, David and I are on chapter 11: Cult, in New Moon. I am a little torn in too many directions with books. But it's okay, I will deal with it. Soon I'll be like new again and I'll be back to reading a book a day.

Going back to my Stephenie Meyer obsession, there is an excellent NPR story on her here. I love how much attention she is getting. I really do hope that this gets the fires burning so that when the movie comes out there is a real buzz going and it succeeds. I worried when I read the production budget went from 35 million to 60 million. That made it all that many more seats that have to be filled. And I don't want the movie to just break even, I want the franchise. I worry for it. I need to up my Geodon.