Archives for June 2009

Michael Welch in Interview Magazine

Mike Welch sat down with Interview Magazine and chatted about his current work and New Moon:

LM: What about the paparazzi? Did you guys have to deal with that a lot?

MW: [LAUGHS] It’s funny you ask; we did, actually. It was my first experience with the paparazzi. They even got us when we were coming off the plane. I learned that they can just take a situation and put it into any context. There was one point when Taylor was talking to some people and the paparazzi took a picture and then I saw it online with a caption underneath that was like, “Taylor Lautner takes the time to talk to his fans, while Michael Welch is a jerk and just sits in his trailer …” It was just so weird. It’s a fascinating process to be a part of something this big, and this popular, ‘cause it’s sort of a double-edged sword. But I mean, I certainly have nothing to complain about; I’m very grateful to be involved.

LM: What’s happening with your character this time around?

MW: Well, you know, Mike Newton doesn’t go through too much of a journey, I’ll be honest. He sort of has his role to play in Bella’s life. In the movie it’s pretty much all about Bella, and how he relates with her, and him just being hopelessly in love—the character that is just really empathetic, and a little bit tragic in a lot of ways.

Read it all here.

Pel Interviews Kaleb Nation

During Book Expo America, Pel had the chance to interview Kaleb Nation (AKA The Twilight Guy) for Borders Media. As many of you know, Kaleb is also an author with his debut novel coming out on September 9, 2009. The book is called Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse.

Kaleb’s answer were informative and funny. (Pel wants to crawl under a rock for possibly having the worst bad hair day in her life. She has also made a vow to remove the word “awesome” from her vocabulary. Note to self: there are other exclamations than awesome.)

You can pre-order Kaleb’s book here.

New Moon Is A Piece of Cake

Kim at the Twilight Parents Examiner intervied the cake designer who made the cake seen in the New Moon trailer footage.

“In Style Magazine asked Lisa for step by step instructions on recreating the cake:
1. Cover each cake tier with a “mask” of white fondant [a thick, malleable icing]. Stack tiers from largest to smallest.
2. Separate one package of fondant into 5 batches. Use food coloring to tint each batch a different shade of green.
3. Roll each batch of fondant into a thin sheet and cut into strips of varying width.
4. Attach the strips around each tier using stiff royal icing as glue.
5. Place red, yellow and green Gerbera daisies around the bottom of each tier.”

See it all on Parents Examiner.

Forks Day 2

Alphie and Pel are about to explore Forks for the day on foot. We’ve been here before but it was a whirlwind tour. We’ll be Tweeting with photos and doing video later.

Nylon Gets Catty

Nylon Magazine, that has featured photoshoots with Kristen Stewart, Jackson Rathbone,  and Ashley Greene among others,  is helping Hello Kitty to celebrate their 35th anniversary. The have decided to put Hello Kitty ears on some of thie rfavorite subjects including Kristen Stewart.

The are also giving out a hefty discount code for Hello Kitty merchandise. Get the details on Nylon.

Meet & Greet With Ashley Greene

Saturday Night Magazine is sponsoring a one-week contest (so act fast) with the prize being a meet and greet with Ashley Greene.

Full details are found on Saturday Night.

Beckett Teen Sensations Twilight Issue

A couple of months ago Beckett Teen Sensations magazine contacted us because they were putting out a Twilight issue and they wanted to hear from really involved fans. Well they just got back to us and the issue comes out.

According to Beckett Teen Sensations:

“Twilight issue hits next week on newsstands everywhere. It will be available at Walmart, Barnes & Noble, Border Books, Target and many other locations…I was able to include 11 different fans from your website.”

They also tell us that they are planning other Twilight focused issues and may come back to us for more fan participation.


Peter Facinelli: Riddle Me This

Peter Facinelli has been keeping his Twitter followers entertained by putting up riddles every week or so. Some are cheesy, but it’s a lot of fun guessing.

Peter also spoke about what’s going on with the infamous bet and the back of his chair. It seems he did hit the margin of users needed (the numbers were all over the place) but Twitter recently put on some type of controls where only so may people could follow your account in a short time as a spam prevention. So long story short, even though it only looks like Peter has roughly 300,000 (at this writing) users, he actually did hit the 500,000 mark.

So, Rob (Peter’s IPhone app designer, not Pattinson) will be doing the bikini shuffle on June 30th. Peter has promised to take photos.

To thank his fans for their support, Peter is going to give his Twilight chair seat back to on of his followers on Twitter. Additionally, Rob (who is really being an incredibly good sport in all of this) is giving away several free Peter Facinelli IPhone apps.

Peter is going to the Affliction clothing store to pick out Rob’s bikini and Affliction has agreed to donate $10,000 to the Christopher Reeve Foundation in honor of Peter’s followers. Additionally, Peter will be doing a signing at Affliction on TUESDAY JUNE 30th 4-7 pm. Affliction-Los Angeles Store 7811 Melrose Avenue Los Angeles. He’ll be announcing who wins his chairback and the IPhone apps there. The winners do not need to be present to win. Information on how to enter all contests will be posted here (the site is currently down, we’re sure that they will shortly have it fixed.)

Alphie and Pel Are Forks Bound


Alphie and Pel are headed to Forks as part of the Summer School in Forks Symposium. We’re looking forward to meeting folks face-to-face like Kaleb Nation (Alphie has never met Kaleb), the Mitch Hansen Band, The Bella Cullen Project, Larry Carrol and more. We are going to be Twittering our adventures. If you don’t have a Twitter, no worries, you can follow along below.

If you are attending SSIF give us a shout out so that we know to look for you!

Sue Bird of the WNBA Seattle Storm Twilight Fan

According to a recent ESPN interview, Sue Bird of the WNBA Seattle Storm is a fan of the Twilight books. The movies haven’t exactly won her over, but she is definitely a die-hard book fan.

So what have you read recently?

I read “Twilight” when I was overseas. I actually liked it. I didn’t expect to, because I generally don’t like fantasy like that because it’s far-fetched but I liked it. It’s pretty good.

My niece loves it. And there is a whole group of women aged 30-50 called Twi-Moms. A friend of ours saw it seven times in the theater. She couldn’t get enough of it.

I read the book and I thought it was amazing. So you read a book and you have this whole mental image of what people look like and the place they are and then I watched the movie, and I know women go gaga over Edward but I could have picked 10 better Edwards.”

Get the whole interview on ESPN.