10 posts tagged “kellan lutz”
With the holiday being so close at hand Erin had errands to run so we got to see a bit of Fairbanks but before we got to that point we had to make a stop at the dump. They don't have
But intersperesed with my day was time spent on Lion & Lamb and there were so many Twilight/Rob/Kellan related pics posted that it gave me something to be thankful for today. And that is what has to be tagged to the end of this post.
And despite all this I still love Jace and Clary more. I will be reading City of Bones while up in Alaska. After Wizard's First Rule, of course.
Jackson was incredible. I haven't been a big Jackson fan because some of the the MTV interviews with him just turned me off. But he was just so nice. He came to our section on three separate occassions to get everyone. He took his time and seemed genuinely appreciative. I was really impressed and I totally have had my mind changed. I would say that I am now a fan.
Sol came through and people behind me were surprised that he was even in the movie because he had such a small part and they were disappointed in the fact that he's this thin wirery guy. He
Peter Facinelli was there with Jennie Garth who just looks beyond beautiful althought I hated the dress she wore. It looked like a Grecian looking garbage bag. Both took time to sign. I thought it was awesome that Jennie signed autographes as it wasn't her event. They looked really good together. He's a handsome devil.
Cam was a freaking lunatic. He was a ham and cheeseball. Belle maintains that he is d-bag and I have to agree because he is, but I love him to death. I was hoping to get close enough to him to tell him that I know where he shops. I want to see if I can unnerve him if I tell him we live near one another.
A couple of others that I didn't get too excited about were Billy Burke, Elizabeth Reaser, Gil Birmingham--who teased fans with his attentions. It seemed cruel. Sarah Clarke was there too. Oh! Edi was there and he was so cute. He was dressed real nice and he seemed to be caught between being a ball of energy and very serious. Again another interview I would have likd to have heard. Christian was gorgeous. Anna Kendrick was there and sort of flew below my radar. Melissa Rosenberg was there and she looked about 20 foot tall and really elegant but I wanted actors.
More pictures when Bell sends hers. In this video you can see Belle in the crowd, she's in the pink.
On another note, things in which caught my attention and have me tingling from head to toe. Today I was at DSW and I found two pairs of shoes for the fall. I got one pair that is a brown slip-on and one pair that is black with a cute little buckle. I love shopping for shoes. Although I admit I'm not at all interested in serious shoes. I like my cheap Mudds. I don't need more than that. Of course I still haven't found a pair of gold sandals to go with my green and gold dress though. I would love to be able to wear the dress for my birthday but it's not looking good.
Speaking of disappointments... and weirdly enough not mine. I finally got around to watching the new 90210 and I am the only person on the earth who did not hate it. I found it to be nothing more or less than the original. I remember watching the premiere of the original and it being bad. I liked it but it really wasn't anything good and at 17 I knew that. The new one is no worse and those who cry foul aren't being honest. I do have to say that Kellan-I-Am-A-Babe-Lutz is a mega asshole in it. I find the main character, Annie, played by Shenae Grimes is so unnattractive that I cringe as I watch all these 'hott' boys supposedly are into her. I just can't buy it. I do like Ethan The Blow Job Boy. I like the conflicted but good guys. I can't stand Naomi. I hope something truly evil befalls her. But, unlike all my friends I will be watching the second episode. I will watch the third too if it isn't cancelled by then.
Today was my 2nd year anniversary. D took me out for lunch, to Taco Bell.:) And I had a minor heart attack from a phone call from Dr. Moore while on my way to see Dr. Scott. My appointment went well and I don't have to go back for a month. I went back to D's office with him and read while he went about his duties. Then came home late and I just put turkey breasts in the oven for him while he went to the gym. My one disappointment was that I really had wanted flowers for my anniversary but it's okay. I got San Diego so what am I disappointed about?
I did finish You Suck: A Love Story and I didn't find the last 150 pages as hard to read as I had feared. I loved the part with the Animals, a group of guys who were Tommy's friends from the Safeway he had worked at. And Abby and Foo Dog had some parts that made me laugh. So I've read 2 of my 20 in 20 and I am feeling good about it so far. I am feeling a bit leery about what I'm going to read next week. It's a shame that Tithe hadn't been one of the books on my list since it left me with a good feeling about reading and this book a not so good feeling. I'm scared I'm going to pick the smallest book on the list just so I can read it fast and be done with it. I will come to that bridge on Sunday.
I think in my future is some tv watching and I am so shamefully resistant to it. I, unlike the world, did not watch 90210 last night and I have not yet tasted it's badness. I did here from Erin Whipple that Kellan is in it so I am determined to was the horribleness no matter what. What I will do for my Kellan Lutz love. And we just got The Outsiders from Netflix today. D has never seen it, to which I am appalled. So we are going to educate him. The TV season starting is just going to mean more hours I won't be reading and that might balance me some but I declare now that I will resent it. Especially since there are more shows that I want to watch this year. Maybe I will make Saturday TV day. It shouldn't interfere that much with hockey. I shouldn't die if one day I don't read. If it flows into more than one day I'm bound to be pissy and some episodes will just be culled for the better good. It would all be easier if TV season and hockey season didn't occur at the same time.
But in my immediate future is the cooking of turkey breasts and the reading of a book I've already read once and may not need reading again, but is being read for an indulgence. I don't indulge in reading books I've read so much anymore with all the unread books I have. But this week's plan was already shot to hell by me reading all the Holly Black books and not the ones I picked out. Maybe the planning of books is just a fool's thought. Anyway... I'm thinking it's time to bring tonight to it's end soon.
Decompressing turned to avoidance and now I have 3 days worth of things to write about and that is just daunting.
I have to start with Sunday when we went to the San Diego Zoo. We got a really early start too, we got there around 10AM and it was really nice to be there without the crowds. Though they showed up as the day wore on. I have to say the highlight of the day for me was the mating orangutans. I was fascinated but those around me were really a.) freaked out or b.) appalled. Me, I was all crazy apes. For other reasons than the call of nature, I do love me the orangutans and I got to spend some time just watching them. They are my favorites by far. I usually want to go check out the chimps too but the SD Zoo doesn't have any. I know that is blasphemy but it is the true. I also was rather into the polar bears. I think they were tons of fun. The male was just huge and he was making love to frond and that didn't freak that many people out. Oh and the baby meerkats. They rocked the house. The young hippo who was smushed up against the glass was rad. The cats are always favs. I'm distressed by the animals that pace. I empathize with them and imagine that they would be worlds happier in the wild. Of course that will get me on a jag about how some of these animals don't have a habitat anymore and that leads to an unhappy place so I will desist and post a caboodle of pictures.
On the way home I started reading Charlaine Harris's Dead Until Dark and I finished it very quickly. I like Bill Compton
Speaking of The Cullens, Breaking Dawn comes out on Saturday and D, Belle and I are heading to a release party in Corona. I am excited to read the 4th book, but really scared. I will be fine once I've read it but getting through it will be hard. I want too much from this book. Too much and there is no way it will live up to my expectations. *sigh*
The last few weeks I have indulged in a ridiculous amount of bookmooching and I requested something like 70 books. All popcorn books and they are arriving these days in quantities in which I can't possibly store. Nine new titles arrived today and I have the Harris books to read and I still haven't read Tithe or City of Bones or Coraline for that matter. I've been out of control. I need to learn to curb that impulse until I've read about 60 or so books. It will tide me over for the month atleast. I should give myself a goal of getting back to 120 points and then not letting myself go below 100. Self control, I need some.
As for Twilight happenings, it is Twilight Tuesday, there are a ton of tabs open on my computer. Yahoo has an article about Comic Con. I may have posted this earlier but hey. Jo Blo had they best retelling of what it was like
Shit.
The time has gotten away with me with the help of the new anti-psychotic that Dr. Scott prescribed for me. It makes me sleep 10-16 hours a day and when I am up I am curled up in bed wanting to sleep. It's not been kind to me. I have taken up with reading romance novels again. Self medicating with happily-ever-afters. So today I met with Dr. Scott again and he was disappointing but agreed that I am overly sedated and that I need to go back to the Lithium and Geodon. I am hoping that I shake the feeling of dysphoria and over-eating, soon. I definitely felt better before this change. But that is the reason why I have been shit with emails and writing in here. I have no get up and go other than to blow through books.
Speaking of which.... I have read too many in the last two weeks. I got a bit overly enthused with Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen and typically bleed almost tears at the great reveal because it was only an ever after and far from happy. I really liked Nate Cross though and Ruby Cooper didn't make me want to bite tacks either. I also read the second in the duology of Ephemera, Belladonna. I liked the second book much more than I liked the first, but having said that I thought that Sebastian was a better character in the second book than Michael was. I liked Belladonna and Lee... I really wished that Lee or Teaser would get their own books.
I read the graphic novel for Wanted last weekend. It is so vastly different from the screenplay adaptation... I don't think I could be so bold as to compare them. I will say that the graphic novel is very controversial. I don't like the comic book rendering or characterization of anyone. It is an antihero story where Wesley is pretty much a base character who does what he pleases, murder rape and anything in between. In the movie he is more of a victim of circumstances, very much untrue in the comic. The novel also is rather racist and misogynistic. It's a lot to swallow. I really didn't like it. I think I actually like the movie more, having read it.
Another CD that I have got my hands on is the new Alkaline Trio CD. I have had it on my desktop for a week now and haven't even listened to it. I am trying to push myself into the commitment to do so tomorrow. I have been a little on the fence about their last two releases. But to be honest, I think I am just a neophobe and everything new falls short of the old tried and true. I mean to play it a few times and see if I can't give it a bit more of a fair trial. To be really honest I am too unmotivated by new music these days. I keep playing my old favorites and shutting myself down to new stuff. It's a real ugly thing to do.
Now with being on the Lithium and Geodon again, I am hoping that I will have some sort of a drive again. I have felt really crumby about not collecting myself and putting thought down. I mustn't forget that I promised to do no fewer than three entries a week.
Oh and before I forget to mention it, Borders has released a date when they will market a Twilight 16-month calendar for 2009. This is a hint of the marketing blitz for the movie. It makes me a bit weary and it's still early. There is a 13 year old in me that wants the calendar and then a 34 year old that rolls her eyes. Why don't they market theme park rides? The Kellan Lutz amusement park ride and the Rob Pattinson adventure ride? I would pay good money for that kind of experience.
Speaking of experiences, no connection other than another afterthought, Evgeni Malkin! The man, the myth, the other white meat signed to a multi-year contract with the Pens. I was over the moon to hear it. I was worried with them letting Malone and Roberts go. I am a bit of purest and I hate change but I was singing my prayers when the news came across that my boy would be going no where. It almost makes it painful to have all these weeks before training camp and pre-season games start. I think that the Pens will be playing the Kings this year in LA too. It is definitely something to inspire one to have hockey thoughts.
I am a creature of habit and those habits sometimes are bad. I picked up a book to read today and because it's a romance, I've been self loathing all day. I am talking myself up to admitting it on my Facebook, but I feel so shameful when I read romances. Like it makes me a second class citizen. It's not enough that I read, I feel I should always read more substantial things then I do. I can never read something for the fun of it without this self ridicule. It's such a little thing but it drives me crazy. No one cares what I read. I shouldn't let such things bring me down. Right? *sigh*
Tonight was a movie night and I saw two movies, The Happening and The Incredible Hulk. I had really low expectations for The Happening and that turned out to work in my favor. The last M. Night Shyamalan movie that I liked was Signs and since then he has failed me, but not so much tonight. I really liked Mark Wahlberg, I think he made the movie. Zooey Deschanel was rather one note and I got over her making faces in the first scene and the rest sort of sat on me wrong. I liked the story as much as I could as I found it to be a little monotonous, like Zooey, I kept wanting a climax or a twist and this movie doesn't have one. The one thing with impact is the death scenes. Gruesome and some are sheer nightmare-esque. Some of the cinematography is impressive but they didn't take it far enough to really wow. But I wouldn't have minded reading the book, if this had been one, which it's not, but that is one of the better compliments that I could pay a story.
I have nicer things to say about The Incredible Hulk. I really enjoyed this movie. I loved Ed Norton as Bruce Banner. I don't care if people think he's pretentious, I will go out of my way to see him in a movie anytime. I liked the storyline and the locations were nicely done. I think that William Hurt played the asshole military guy perfectly. Tim Roth was exceptional, if not a little overtly near naked. I don't mind that from Edward but on Tim it didn't fit as well. He looks as if he has the world's shortest neck, it weirds me out. He needs to keep his clothes on. Back to the point... Liv Tyler, who cries so very prettily, did a good job as Betty Ross. I thought she acted very well and she had excellent chemistry with Edward Norton. The one almost love scene is just hot even though it fizzles out into comedy. I loved the Tony Stark cameo and the wrap up that opens The Avengers movie. I am really looking forward to it, I just hope that they will be able to keep all these big name actors, Robert Downey Jr. and Edward Norton on the bill. Actors sometimes get temperamental with these multimovie deals. The one thing I did not like was the CGI... it was really cheesy and the monsters were ugly. I like my comic book movies to look a little less like they are comics and more like the effects are natural. But it made me excited for Iron Man 2 and The Avengers so I consider it a success.
Tonight was also the last episode of Battlestar before their haitus. I am not a fan of the final four storyline... I find it tedious and convoluted. I got my hopes up when Lee was going to offer cylons some airlock love because it would have ended that arc and made me a happier fan. I do love Deanna, no matter how hardassed she is. I love that she came back and took charge of the cylons. I just wish she had airlocked the president. I find that a lot of the characters that I used to like have been polluted in the last season. It makes me sad because the only 4 characters I really can say that I've liked no matter what are Lee, Kara, Helo and Sharon. And to be honest there isn't enough of them on the show lately. I want more than I've been getting. And tonight... Kara figures out that the viper has the navs to Earth and when everyone is celebrating, they only show a brief second of her. Augh... Someone should have been thanking her, congratulating her. I did think the punchline was good though. I love what they find on earth. Ba-dum-bum.
Oh, I forgot to mention it on here last night but I am so happy that I
have completed a little goal I had for myself. Kelmett-Happens is
having a bear drive for the LA Children's Hospital and yesterday I
finally went out and bought 4 bears to donate. The bears will be donated in the name of Kellan Lutz. And for the 'why bears?' it's because Emmett has an affinity for grizzly. It's really a cute idea and it's for kids.
I used to be more clever than I am these days. I used to write very interesting entries and these days I am living through my interests. This post won't be different. I just have to marvel at my former wit and wonder where it all went. It's like I've had a lobotomy. I was more fun before. I had edges. *sigh*
Today was Twilight Tuesday and Stephenie Meyer announced that she would be doing the Breaking Dawn Tour in conjunction with Justin Furstenfeld of Blue October. She will be in LA at UCLA's Royce Hall, 7 August. I am just one who doesn't learn, I wasn't so blown away with the last signing and yet I am bound and determined to go to this one. And it's more expensive too. She's really not worth it but I am compelled to go. It's like I'm a domestic violence victim and I keep going back.
I had hoped that we would get more about Twilight the movie on Twilight Tuesday. I really don't think Breaking Dawn touring dates count. I don't think I can be convinced that that was worth my full attention. You could give me Taylor Lautner and it would be better. Oh hell, I'm rarely happy on Twilight Tuesday. I like them beefy with Rob and Kristen. I have yet to have one that gave me a Kellan fix. That would be awesome. There are many Tuesdays between now and 12 Decemeber though. There is still hope. C'mon MTV, give me a Kellan Tuesday.
Last night D got me to watch some season 1 Veronica Mars. Jason Dohring is so perfect as Logan Echolls. We watched the Pilot and Credit Where Credit's Due and it was as good as I remember. We found a map with all the locations on it and there are a few that we have never seen. Maybe if we are down there in SD for Comic Con we can scope out some of the new places. New to me. I guess the fangirl in me is still die-hard. Atleast I'm not staying up all night reading Logan fanfic and stalking Jason Dohring. Although that experience made me really deluded about how celebrities react to fans. He was way too nice to us. It is too bad Moonlight got cancelled. I'm sure he'd have been at Comic Con otherwise. Okay I'm scaring myseld with where this line of thinking is going. I can only fixate on one celebrity at a time and I have to choose Rob for the time being. I say that after mooning over Kellan.
Books... they don't usually petition for restraining orders. I finished This Lullaby last night and I really liked it. I did have some minor issues with it like the time frame, it felt like things were a little rushed and that the time period given wasn't enough for the events that take place. Of course I was put out by the main character, it's not a book if I don't like the main character. The girls always drive me crazy and Remy Starr was no different. She's inflexible and pigheaded and a little too know-it-all for me. Dexter, the love interest, on the contrary, is quirky, bumbling and adorable. I don't think there was a line by his character that I didn't like. He's easily relatable and his faults aren't annoying to anyone other than Remy. I really found the pacing good up until nearing the end when there are long periods of Remy with everyone but Dexter and this was tedious. The pay off was a drop in the bucket when I wanted a deluge. It felt a bit like an afterthought. But in the end for all my complaints I did like it. It was a quick read and I really want to read Dessen's new book now. I also BookMooched How to Deal which is Someone Like you and That Summer together. I hope to read a lot more Dessen. I approve.
So after I finshed This Lullaby I started Fragile Things and so far I'm barely into it and already remembering that I hate Neil Gaiman's short stories. I just never like these compilations. I am going to try to read to page 50 and see if I don't enjoy it more but as of now I am really in hell. I like Neil Gaiman, I really do. His short stories always bore me though. I don't find them a draw like I did with Neverwhere, Good Omens, Stardust or American Gods. A part of me just thinks that there is a good reason why none of these are full books. These are the cast offs that he couldn't make work. Someone is going to be a huge Gaiman fan and feel really insulted by that, but it's how I feel and I won't apologize for not liking crappy stories. When I get a Gaiman craving I would be better off reading something I've already read than to read Smoke and Mirrors or Fragile Things.
Heather emailed me last night and she expressed a touch of insanity that struck a chord in me. Did I want to drive up into the canyons north of LA and look for the film set for Twilight on it's last night of shooting? Damn right, I did. Traffic was immediately a problem and we left the apartment at 9PM and we didn't even get to Santa Clarita until 11PM. We drove all over Bouquet Canyon Rd and never saw anything. It was 12:15PM when we started back. We found a Paramount set in Newhall, but no Twilight. And I had wished and prayed. I came to the conclusion that God hates me. It's okay though because I don't believe in him until I want something. So we didn't find anything and then on the TwilightsMoms site they have girls who did find it being bit by Emmett. I would have let Kellan Lutz bite me. I just wish I knew what they were filming.
But yesterday was a good day in that there was a new G4 video out with Rob. I can't say that I'm crazy about the flannel but I enjoyed the video all the same. I love the part where he says he just wants to kill someone. 'Just one little casualty.' He really doesn't get to do a lot of vampire stuff. Well later in the books he does but not so much in Twilight. He gets to run and drive fast. Poor Rob he is a vampire that is just too human.
