4 posts tagged “johnny depp”

I have a problem getting up in the morning. More so than a normal person. I just can't function in the morning, nothing wakes me up and really thing for the hell I feel is more sleep. Knowing this I drugged myself at 8pm so that I could get up at 8am on Sunday morning. And it worked. I got up and we picked up Belle and went up to Universal Citywalk. Unfortunately, there was a fire in the backlot and the entire place was shut down and we didn't have a clue as to where we were going. Belle found her friends and we did an excursion through Citywalk looking for where we might go to line up for entry to the bleachers. I had my book and I didn't care about the details. I was a bit anxious about things and it was nice to sit and ignore the world with my book. The day wore on and more people showed up, banners in hand, and we all lined up in front of the ampitheater entrance. Hours went by. The sun moved across the sky. Finally someone came over and was asking us about who we were and what we were doing and we told them and they were like 'what?'. Apparently the Twilight Lexicon never spoke to anyone before getting their information and told people to go out, when MTV uses a casted audience. They are now blaming it on the fire. It wasn't a big deal though, well not for me, I just went home and watched the awards on the TV.

I scoured the internet last night and this morning and found tons of pictures of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. KStew looked really pretty, and it hurts me to say that because I really do think I lean hard on the not liking her. They showed the sneak-peek clip of a finished scene of Twilight. It was just what I thought it would be. I think I've seen it before in the MTV Behind the Scenes. So, maybe, I was a little disappointed. I'm not as disappointed as some of the blog writers who, I've read today, saying it's the worst action  sequence they've seen and that it's TV-styled stunts. I'm not having a quarrel with the content, just the fact that I would rather something other. I don't know if I'm sold on Cam Gigandet either. I guess we will see how it all comes together.

The awards were interesting in a really boring way. I think I was only excited for the Johnny Depp parts. The man is just beautiful. It makes me wish Jump Street were on DVD. I would have hours of him to watch then. I asked David to grow his hair out like Johnny's. I really wish I could have been there to see him. I think next year we will just buy the tickets and go to the actual event. Not that that will help me see Johnny Depp but it will definitely make things easier all the way around.

They didn't show anything really that was terribly funny, with the exception being the Jack Black, Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr. Skit for their new movie. I hated all the Adam Sandler stuff, Tom Cruise is a whore. The Will Smith, Charlize Theron and Jason Bateman nominee announcement was just tedious and same went for the Get Smart one. Maybe I shouldn't go next year if this is how I feel.

So the day was a bit of a bust, but I wasn't as disappointed as I really could have been. I would like to have seen Ben Barnes, he looked really good on the carpet pictures and his interview with Christian from Project Runway.  Yummy. I haven't been able to find many to snag though.

Now onto the book. Oh my god it nearly destroyed me this morning. I loved it, but the ending left my romantic heart aching. I am talking about Ink Exchange . Great book, I wish Melissa Marr didn't make me feel like such a jerk for not liking the main character. She's a really strong female character and she is so rare in most of the books that I read. I didn't like her from the previous book and then I started liking her in this one and she goes through this terrible trial and she makes these choices, which in all rights are the right ones. Just I wanted her to do the impossible and it doesn't happen. It's probably one of the most realistic, healthy fantasy books. YA books. Books full-stop. My favorite character is Niall and I thought his path was pretty predictable, which should have told me how the book was going to end but I'm so stubborn. He's really fleshed out in this book, introduced in Wicked Lovely though, and he is clearly this tragic character. Someone really damned by his nature and his honor where Leslie is concerned. Easily the most seductive character of the Faerie-verse. His outcome, like Donia's is really the only course for him. But DAMMIT I wanted more for him. And then there was Irial who just about gave me an ulcer, but in the end I didn't hate him so much as I felt very compassionate towards him. I went kicking and screaming though. I have plans to reread my favorite parts before I go tonight.

Tonight is the book signing for Melissa Marr and I am hoping she talks a little about upcoming books. I would love for her to be coming out with another book in the nearish future. Although that won't be true, but I can lie to myself and think those thoughts. I am hoping, greedy-like, that not a lot of people will show, so that I can talk to her. We will have to wait and see how these things go.

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I think that the next book I read will be The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint. I have wanted to read this book for about two years, it found it through BookMooch, although it was never available. It's a little punk rock and it might be nice to leave the land of the squeaky clean Twilight Saga for something more my style. Well I guess I have been doing that with the Melissa Marr books, which have me thinking of repiercing my lip. Now I want to read Wicked Lovely again and immerse myself into some Seth. Back to the thought I was having though... The story is about a girl who wants to change herself and I can get behind that. And it will be fun to read a story about a girl, written from a man's perspective. I know the author is good when they can sell me on the other sex. Let's face it, most women do not portray men realistically. They really make fantastic beings and that isn't really the best character portrayal. I hope this book doesn't disappoint. I hope that I can get out of The Host and Wicked Lovely enough to read another book.

Mental note:  Look for Tantalize tonight at Vroman's.

Tonight I went out with the girls, Susan and Belle. I haven't been out with them both since the BE Blowout, and that is saying something. We went to the 101 Coffee Shop, where we failed to see Spunk Ransom and then went to the Arclight to see Iron Man. I know, I know, I have already seen it, but it was good enough to watch a second time and better in my opinion than seeing Sex in the City. Which might I add had all these women dressed up to go and see it. No one better make fun of Harry Potter fans or Twilight fans ever again. Back to the movie, I have to say that this time around I paid more attention to Robert Downey Jr.'s delivery and the man sold it. His lines are flawless. I love his disaffected cavalier attitude. And still, Dummy the robot is my favorite part of the movie. I laugh so hard that I cry when Tony is having him be on fire patrol. *sigh* Good times. I really liked being out with Susie and Belle. I think I was overly excited and ran on at the mouth some. The perks of me going out in the evening rather than the morning when I first get up. I am a lot more awake and I chatter in anxiety.

This week I quit school. I felt a load better when I made the decision not to go. I know it's not following through and being responsible, but I was so tired of pretending. I just couldn't try anymore. Of course I spent the whole week in bed feeling like a loser but it seems that we can't win all the battles.


Tomorrow I am going to the bookstore so I am pretty happy. I know the books that I want to get and I am hoping that they will be at Barnes and Noble. I want Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr, City of Bones by Cassandra Clare and I might get Eclipse SE but I'm leaning toward another book now. I don't know. So many books and so little time. Right now I am reading Sword-Dancer by Jennifer Roberson. I didn't like it so much in the beginning but it's started to grow on me. Tiger is sort of hard to like in the start and the book is told from his perspective. It seemed like nothing was happening for a really long time and then all the sudden every time you turned around they were in some new stew. I like the love interest Del, she's a really strong character. Sometimes a little stupid too but not as much as most modern books make the characters so that is a nice thing. I should be done with the book whenever I have an hour to sit down, undistracted. I already BookMooched the next one and there are 5 books total in the series. I must not be hating it too much to wonder what happens next. Of course my hopes ride on devouring Ink Exchange as quickly as possible this weekend. And I am looking forward to going to Melissa Marr's book signing in Pasadena on Monday. I want to get both books signed. I'd love to have Ink Exchange read by then so I can ask her questions about the next one. I want a lot more Seth and Aislinn. Although Irial intrigues me.

Sunday will be the MTV Movie Awards and Susan, Belle, David and I will be there bright and early, despite my inability to do early, to get places in the bleachers for the red carpet. I want to see Rob Pattinson and Belle got me hoping that Ben Barnes might be there too. Johnny Depp is supposed to walk the red carpet and I want a picture of him in the worst way. Sunday scares me to death though. I just don't know if I am built for this kind of event. Anxiety isn't kind to me and this is the sort of stress that I generally hide away from. But I will, somehow, wake up at 8:30 in the morning and I will make it through the day and I will take pictures galore of the red carpet and after the event I will have proved to myself that I can do this sort of thing and I will have emotional growth to show for it. mmmmmmm Rob Pattinson, Johnny Depp, Ben Barnes.

In the past 24 hours I have watched a ton of things. So much that I should be tapped for the rest of the week. Belle was over last night and we started watching Ring of the Nibelungs which was just poor. Funny, but poor. Robert Pattinson was good as the guy who stood in the background. We laughed out loud at it and I have to say that the effects were certainly worthy of note... No lizard could be that vicious and live.

After that we watched Stardust again as Belle had never seen it. I was excited to share Ben Barnes with her. I am trying to cultivate an obsession for him and it is only lukewarm and lending more toward admiration than fascination. But I did find a few pictures of him so I had to decorate this post in one.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl was next and I think the consensus was that Johnny Depp is a god.

Today, we watched The Bad Mother's Handbook. Another Robert Pattinson show. He was utterly adorable in this. I really liked his character and I hope that David will watch with me sometimes. I can honestly say that he was the best actor out of all of the cast.

Tonight after we took Belle home we watched Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. I am trying to get all refreshed before the new movie comes out. I don't have much expectation for the new one. I totally think Harrison Ford is too old to pull of Indy and Shia LaBouf isn't going to be able to distract me from Ford taking his Geritol. But I plan to rewatch all the old ones and they were really good even though they were formulaic and cheesy.

I got set straight by Belle that A Great and Terrible Beauty is being made into a movie. So my dream is someone else's dream too. The script is supposedly been bought by Mel Gibson's production company and that worries me to death, but, okay. There is much talk about who should play who but I know some of the suggestions confound me. No Kiera Knightley. I have managed to read 100 pages into A Sweet Far Thing and I am distraught for the lack of Kartik. It makes the first part of the book worthless to have him absent. If he doesn't show up soon I might start on the last page and read backward.

Lastly is a little comic of the Twilight movie that made me smile. Today was Twilight Tuesday and MTV had an article talking about the plan to shoot the sequels together should the movie see enough of a turn out in the theaters. It pretty much said what has already been said and I was looking for more concrete things than what-could-bes and might-bes. The other thing was a little clip on Peter Facinelli and Carlisle's car. What happened to interviews? I want more of what I was getting during filming.