Today was pretty awesome too! I'm bring New Moon to school tomorrow because Nate wants to read it. Hahaha!

Wow. Today was kind of a full day. I have a lot to talk about. First of all, it's not only another Twilight Tuesday, but it is Election Day. WOOOO! Hah.

Of course, both my parents voted for Obama today. And even in school the teachers had all the kids vote. Sadly though, at the end of the day we found out that McCain got 250 votes while Obama only got 240. Only ten less! Aw, man! I really hope Obama is president. I really like the whole idea of a black president. I think the idea is really cool. We need some change. It's the same with me liking how they have a black guy playing Laurent in the Twilight movie. I like how they did that. It shows that African Americans can be bit by vampires too and become one. And oh boy is he good looking! WOOOO! Hahaha.

Anywho, it was also the second day of WKCE testing. Ack. Okay, I didn't like it today because we had to do math today. Ugh. I hate math. But on the bright side we got a cool Twilight Tuesday. Here's this wonderful interview with Kellan Lutz:
(By the way, there are two parts to this Twilight Tuesday.)

For this week's "Twilight" Tuesday, MTV News teamed with our friends at Soundtrack to exclusively join Kellan as he shot a video for Hinder's new single "Without You." He spoke to us about playing an evil boyfriend, his plan to surprise fans waiting in line for "Twilight," and even introduced us to his newest friend: Moo-Moo the cow.

 

"I play the bad boyfriend," the 23-year-old heartthrob said. "Aimee [Teegarden from 'Friday Night Lights'] is the sweet cheerleader girl ... who shouldn't be with me. I lead her life on the wrong track until she gets rid of me, and her life finally goes to where it should go. She graduates high school and gets a good job, while I am left in the dust."

"It's awesome to have people who are talented at acting, instead of ourselves," said Hinder frontman Austin Winkler, who helped select the actors for the video from the band's Take It to the Limit album. "We're all so excited to have Kellan Lutz. ... It's good to have someone like him in our video. He's done 'Twilight,' and he's on '90210' the series, so it's exciting to have some talented people in the video."

"My 'Twilight' world is, like, obsessive," laughed the 19-year-old Teegarden, a huge fan of Stephenie Meyer's best-selling novels. "I got the first book [because] everyone was like, 'Oh my God, you have to read "Twilight," ' and I'm like, 'All right, sure.' ... I picked it up on my way to the airport, and I was like, 'Whatever.' Then, literally, on the plane, I was crying and laughing! And the person next to me, I'm sure she thought I was on some sort of crazy drugs. ... I got off the plane, went to the store and bought the next two. Then I literally locked myself in my room for hours, just reading."

"This isn't my first music video. I did Hilary Duff's 'With Love' music video-slash-fragrance ad," Lutz recalled. "[Music videos] are different. It's quicker. Everything is all planned out. You don't really have time to do so many shots, because you don't have a month or two months or three months to do a music video. [And there is] no script at all."

That lack of script proved particularly interesting when Lutz and Teegarden — both of whom claim they've never gotten into a serious argument with a significant other — needed to improv an argument.

"There's a scene where Amy sees me talking to another girl, flirting around," he explained. "Then she starts to cry. And, bless her heart, I start yelling at her, and it's so weird, because I've never yelled at a girl before. It felt really out of character for me to be saying this stuff and act the way I did for that scene. Hopefully it looks great, but it felt funny."

With only 17 days to go until the "Twilight" release, Lutz can already see the hype swelling and said the Hinder video is just one of many signs that the Cullen clan is taking off.

" 'Twilight' is such an amazing project, and I think it opened up doors for all of us castmembers," he said. "From doing TV to movies to doing this, I think it really did help with having me onboard.

"When they told me that we took over Harry Potter's [release] date, I was like, 'Yes! It's about time!' " Lutz continued. "I am really excited for it to come out, and I'm really excited to hopefully do the other books, if we are allowed to.

"Just because," he added with a sly grin, "in the third book, there is a lot of Emmett in there."

Kellan also said he's been getting recognized more in public — and if he has his way, he might soon be making an appearance at a theater near you. "I went to a football game recently at a high school right by my house [and people came up to me], but to me, I don't think they're Kellan's rabid fans; I think they're Emmett's rabid fans," he laughed. "If fans were to spend the night and camp out to see our movie, that would mean so much to me. ... There's all those big movies like 'Star Wars,' 'Spider-Man' and 'Indiana Jones,' where people wait in line for days just to be able to see it first and be the first one to comment. I told my roommates this, because we were talking about it: I would love to dress up and pop in and out [of the lines] and scare them."

Something tells us, however, that fear would be the last thing those lucky fans would feel. Because in real life, the affable actor is every bit as big a teddy bear as Emmett is — and he insisted that he has no problem when fans blur the lines between the two.

"If I [get typecast], bring it on," he laughed. "Because Emmett is the coolest guy ever. ... He's someone who likes to have fun. He's not the typical jock, where he says mean stuff and beats his girlfriend up or anything like that. He's such a fun-loving guy, and with how he interacts with Bella, it's all out of love. He's just a big teddy bear, and he enjoys life to the fullest."

Here's part 2 of the Twilight Tuesday. I found this whole thing very interesting:

It had these upturned boulders and aged, old growth trees. Just stunning -- but it doesn’t really look like a meadow. So, I’m like, “Oh no!” But the clock was ticking. I had to shoot on a certain day. And it has to be accessible. So we shot a lot of the scene there. And it looks gorgeous, I mean it looks like a fairy tale location, covered with moss and green and very Olympic rainforest.

But when we wrapped the movie, I said there was one thing I still had to shoot. I was just begging and begging, “I’ve got to shoot a meadow. Something that looks like a meadow. Or people are going to stone me in the streets.” So we ended up shooting a piece of the scene in a magical place in the middle -- bizarrely enough -- in the Griffith Park golf course. There are these old growth Redwood trees and we brought in all this amazing grass and rocks and moss and made it into our meadow. So we finally got the meadow, but man, it was not easy.

Can you talk about how you got Edward to dazzle in that meadow?

That again was super challenging. We had probably 10 special effects companies trying out experimental ideas on some footage we had to see how we can make him dazzle and sparkle and shimmer. Most of it wasn’t good. We ended up going with ILM (Industrial Light and Magic, George Lucas’ company) and they, of course, are masters at creating amazing effects. We did a full body scan of Rob, which we turned into a 3-D model of him -- (laughs) there is a 3D model of Rob somewhere! -- and did all this very high-tech mapping of every surface of his face and body.

Besides reviewing zillions of versions of it, I wound up flying to ILM with the visual effects supervisor three different times and spending whole days working with the three-dimensional models and the geometry and the physics going, “How can we get this to be beautiful?”

You know, the description in the book is a tiny bit contradictory. On one level, he is supposed to look like cut diamonds, on another, he’s as smooth as marble. So you’re like OK, when you think of encrusted cut diamonds that’s faceted -- and when we first did that it almost looked like acne, like a skin condition. And you want it to be smooth.

So it’s been very intricate science to get something we felt looked beautiful. And kind of scary, too, you know.

Are there scenes or moments from the book didn’t make it into the movie?

Well it’s almost 500 pages -- you do have to do the sweetened condensed milk version of that. We really tried to have all the most crucial potent exciting stuff be in the movie. That goes without saying.

But there are some things, for example, a scene that I kind of liked in the biology room where they do the blood typing. That’s not in the movie. We already have two scenes in biology: the first time they’re in there and then the second time when they connect. For a film, when you condense, you don’t want to keep going back to the same setting over and over. So that’s not in there.

The meadow scene is 23 pages in the book and, actually, Bella reveals in the car, way before that, driving back from Port Angeles, that she knows Edward’s a vampire. So, we took all those 23 pages in the meadow and the reveal in the car and made a more dramatic scene out of it. So instead of two characters sitting in a car talking, it’s a more visually dynamic setting -- the meadow -- where she reveals her knowledge.

Now, the last thing I have to say is that I made this totally awesome video for Chelsea and I put it up on youtube! She thought it was hilarious and I did too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4SOU1kcKCk
(NO BARBIES WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS VIDEO.) Hee hee hee...

Ahhh, I had a wonderful day today! It was the first day of WKCE testing. Wonderful, I say! The first section in the test was reading, which was really easy. So easy. We took reading until 10:40 and then went to 3rd hour study hall. Then after that I went to L1, L2, and L3. Then I went to 4th hour musical theater. Then for the last two hours of the day I was in 2nd hour reading which was awesome because I love the teacher and the class. It was all good....yeah.

Wow. I just heard the version of Bella's lullaby that's on the soundtrack. Wow. I love it! It's so beautiful! *wipes tears away* You HAVE to listen to it!!! It's just so pretty!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nW8xUKvbD3g

I love it.

Anyway, today I woke up and it said 11:00am on the clock and I was like, "Yes! I missed church!" But then when I got on the computer I saw the REAL time which was 10:00am. Yesterday the clock were set back but I guess we didn't set the clock back on ALL of our clocks in our house. Oh well. Anyway, when Heidi woke up I was expecting her to tell me to get dressed and all that stuff but she didn't. I was just like, "Okay...weird." So we ended up not going to church. I was really happy because I don't like having to go to church. But, the happiness didn't last very long. My dad took me and Heidi to a show in Waowaotosa (wow, I actually spelled it right!). The show was at Sunset Playhouse. It was actually REALLY funny. I haven't laughed that hard in a while. It was great.

Gah! I'm so happy right now! Yesterday we found the cord for the camera so now we can put pictures on the computer! YEEEEE!!!! *does little dance in seat* So all day today I was drawing and taking pictures of the drawings and taking pictures of myself and putting them on my myspace. It was awesome! I drew a picture of me and Chelsea and she saw it so today she drew a picture of me and her! They're different in many ways. Her's is WAY better than mine. I suck at drawing compared to her.

Isn't it awesome?!?!? I love it! She is such an amazing artist! Okay, and then here's the one of us that I drew:


And yeah, I added a butt load of pictures on my myspace (http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewAlbums&friendID=207561039). So like...yeah. Go there. Check it out.

Anyway, you can do more than just take pictures with a digital camera though. *wicked grin* You can also make video! WOOOO! So I just put up two videos on my youtube account. Yay! I'm so proud! I feel like an official youtuber now! Check out my videos too (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=VampireLover132&view=videos).

So anyway, I had a VERY good day today. Too bad tomorrow is Sunday. Ack! I don't want to go back to school! Oh, crap. I just remembered that on Sundays I have to wake up early and go to church. Oh, crap. *whimpers* Well, oh well. Whatever. At least I know that I'll be able to make more videos tomorrow (it's kind of late now)! So I'm going to talk to Chelsea some more on msn now. Goodnight!

P.S. We turned the clocks back today!

WOOOOO! YEAH, BABY! It's Halloween! Hahaha, awesome. I love it. Too bad that this year I didn't go trick-or-treating at all. Kind of upsets me. Oh, well. We got enough candy here what with all the of the games.

Sadly though, I didn't do anything for Halloween. I watched the history channel and it was really cool because they talked about vampires! It was cool. But for the most part of the day I just sat at the computer. Fun, fun.

This is Caitlin, Kayla, and my new Presidential Election thingy. Caitlin is Caitlin Shadow, I'm Village Idiot, and Kayla is Miso Awesome. Who do you vote for?

Wednesday, October 30, 2008

Presidential Election Current mood: hyper Category: News and Politics Me and some of my friends are running for president! It's me, the Village Idiot, and Miso Awesome running. Miso Awesome(misoawesome) Stands for: 1. Chocolate and all other various candy-related items 2.More Hours in the day 3. Rights for magical creatures(i.e. vampires, werewolves) Her VP candidates are Gir and Kirby! I'm Miso Awesome, and I approve this Messge! Caitlin Shadow(edwardcullen925)stands for: 1.Mini-computers for everyone 13 and over 2.No subjects in school except what we want 3. Video Games and Systems for free!  My VP candidates are Edward Cullen and Colonel Jade Curtiss I'm Caitlin Shadow, and I approve this message. The Village Idiot(vampirelover132)stands for 1. No More Copyright laws 2. No Homework 3. Ability to change our names at age 13 Her VP candidates are Hoops and Yoyo I'm the Village Idiot and I approve this message! PLEASE NOTE: -We are NOT debating serious issues. -VP Elections May be Seperate -You may NOT vote more than ONCE -DO NOT SPAM, OR SEND HATE MAIL/ FLAMES TO CANIDATE ACCOUNTS!! And also, the accounts next to the names are our youtube accounts. To vote, please send a message to me, edwardcullen925, and I will be sure to count you vote. Remember, message, NOT comment. All votes will be tallied on November 9th(Sunday) I will put up here who won and I will also send a message to everybody who voted. You can also find this on my deviantart account(sasukeandhagifangirl) or my youtube page(edwardcullen925) You can also find it on Miso Awesome's and The Village Idiot's pages. ^^

Ah, I am so happy that I now have a four day weekend ahead of me! All day at school today we talked about the WKCE testing we're going to be doing next week. Ugh. Though, I actually kind of like it when we do the WKCE testing. It means the class times are all wrong (which makes the day interesting and confusing which is fun) and there's barely any homework and when there is we have a couple days to do it. It's wonderful. I don't think I have any homework this whole four day weekend. YEEEE!!!!

Heh, sorry about the spelling in the subject title. I didn't feel like putting just Twilight Tuesday so I Twahla Tuesdah instead which is Twilight Tuesday in my bad Italian accent. Haha. Dude, that just reminds me, do the Volturi have an Italian accent? Hmmm...Kayla says that they probably do. Hah.

Whoa! Today went so fast! It's like, "What just happened?" Hahaha. But seriously. I don't know why. Maybe it's the fact that this week is only Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Yay! So happy. So besides that, you know the drill. I went to school, I came home, I went on computer. The end. Hah. Wow, I'm boring.