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Plan Your Twilight Vacation Now

April 15, 2009

Let’s say conventions are not your thing. There are a ton of different options open to you for a Twilight vacation:

First, Beyond Boundaries, the company who counts the highly successful Harry Potter tours in their repertoire, sponsors Twilight Fan Trips. This summer they have three options for Twilight fans:

Now if cruising Twilight style floats your boat (literally), you have an entire year to save up for this next opportunity. The Examiner did a Q & A with the sponsors of the first ever Twilight Themed cruise.

“First of all, Twilight Fans can look forward to [a] Question and Answer Session, Autograph Session, Photo Shoot, Costume Ball and Contest, Original Game Shows like Twilight Jeopardy and Cullen Family Feud, Parties, Movie Viewings, Vendors room and meeting other Twilight Fans from all over the world. We will get to hang out every night and dance and sing Karaoke and just have fun.”

Now if you are traveling to Forks on your own, and want something on a smaller scale, there is the Dazzled By Twilight site that does tours in and around Forks and La Push. The operation is a local one that supports the local Forks economy.

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Bobby Long: Early Report

April 15, 2009

The Cullen Boys Anonymous has an article up abou their interview with Bobby Long at the famous Waldorf Astoria Hotel yesterday before his second round of NYC based shows.

“With his performance at the Lakeside Lounge on April 13th, Bobby Long officially launched his first US tour. Self-described as “shy” by nature, Long has found himself amidst an eager audience of Twilight devotees. However, having had the chance to meet this humble 22 year old, one can see that he has a wealth of talent which allows him to step out of the long shadow of friend Robert Pattinson and into his own well-deserved limelight.”

Check out the rest of their story here.

Be My Escape will be back later with video and her own story.

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Heidi and Spencer: The Latest Twannabes

April 14, 2009

According to Access Hollywood, Heidi and Spencer of The Hills fame are just the latest in Hollywood to name drop wanting to be in a Twilight Saga movie. Here’s what Spencer had to say.

“If Speidi are like angels who are killing vampires, I’m down,” Spencer said when asked about his “Twilight” aspirations. “Vampires are too demonic for me… I would rather be the big Speidi monster that would come eat the werewolves and the vampires!”

Credit to Lexiconer Heather for the Twannabe term.

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Spring Cleaning-Affiliates re-do

April 14, 2009

As part of our site overhaul we are now up to re-doing our affiliates page. If your site has been around for over a year and isn’t currently listed with us, respond on this post with a way to get in touch and we will link you up.

Current folks if you want a different banner, let us know.

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Bobby Long in NYC

April 14, 2009

Bobby Long performed his first show last night in NYC.  The turn out was large for the venue and his performance was great.  People arrived as earlier as 6:30pm for a 10pm show.  Some things people should know, Bobby is a fantastic musician in his own right.  He has an acoustic folk style that is appealing and his voice is truly beautiful.  If Bobby is playing in your city I highly suggest stopping by a show to enjoy his music.

For those of you in NYC he has 3 shows tonight at Arlene’s Grocery.  This is a 21+ plus.  For those of you who can’t attend check out Bobby’s myspace page and his single, Left to Lie, is available on Itunes.

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The Normal Mormon Husbands Solve Edward

April 14, 2009

Well, at least they think they have solved Edward. For those of you who don’t remember the Normal Mormon Husbands, they are a group of LDS guys who for lack of a better term are self-described Twilight-Widowers. You’ve heard of football-widows, this is the gender reversal equivalent.

They have their own blog and have talked about Twilight before putting their own tongue-in-cheek spin on it such as The Cold Hard Truth About Edward and their Breaking Dawn spoofs.

Well now they think they finally have Edward figured all out.(*shakes head* guys, guys, guys…)

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Robert Pattinson’s Music Roots Run Deep

April 14, 2009

It seems like you can’t turn around lately without hearing something else about Robert Pattinson, his taste in music, his fellow musician friends from the UK, and his music ambitions. Here’s the latest run down:

It seems that Robert gave an interview to a Czech publication where he states he likes the group Tokio Hotel, and wouldn’t mind seeing them on the soundtrack.

The LA Times ponders if Rob’s ambitions extend to Grammy or Oscar dreams.

The Examiner has dubbed Rob’s group of musician friends: Bobby Long (pictured left via EW), Marcus Foster, Sam Bradley ‘The Brit Pack”. Let Me Sign, sung by Rob in the Twilight movie was co-written by Bobby and Marcus. Rob also performs Never Think written by Sam Bradley in the Twilight movie. Entertainment Weekly just did a big article on Bobby Long who just played to a packed crowd in New York last night.

Now they certainly owe their exposure to Rob singing their material in a blockbuster movie, but the person who was actually instrumental in getting this all to happen in the first place was the seldom mentioned Nikki Reed. If Nikki hadn’t shown Catherine Hardwicke Rob’s music, and Catherine hadn’t insisted that it be put on the soundtrack, probably none of this new found exposure would be happening to the degree it is.

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Lexiconer Needs Research Help

April 14, 2009

Hello Twilight fan!  I am studying Twilight in my college Studies in Young Adult Literature class and I have a few questions to ask you about your experience with the series!  Your name/email address WILL remain anonymous when I present my findings to my professor and classmates!  Answer as many of the following questions as you would like—in as many sentences as you like.  If you have any other questions, please feel free to email me [email protected].  Thank you!

  • Why did you choose to read Twilight and its sequels?  Did someone recommend them to you?  Did you see Twilight at a bookstore and thought the cover was really great?  Did you read a review and decide to check it out?  Did you see the movie and think it was so excellent you just HAD to read the books?  Etc…
  • Why do you think the Twilight series is such a phenomenon, not only in the United States but across many cultures?
  • How many times have you read Twilight/New Moon/Eclipse/Breaking Dawn?
  • Which of the four (or five if you include Midnight Sun) was your favorite?  Why?
  • Are you a Jacob fan or an Edward fan?  Or maybe someone else?  Jasper, Emmett, Carlisle, etc…
  • If you’re a young adult reader, do you think you will continue reading Twilight and its sequels as you get older?  Will you still be able to relate to the story?
  • Have you seen the Twilight movie?  How many times?
  • Do you think the Twilight movie held up your expectations of the story?
  • Will you go see New Moon when it comes out later this year?
  • What are your other favorite books you have read that continue to be ones you read over and over again?  Did you read them before or after the Twilight series?

EDITED: Can we ask that you please email the responses and not put them here as very long posts with number triggest our spam filter and it’s making a lot of extra work for the admins.

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Site Update: Breaking Dawn Chapters 12-14

April 14, 2009

We have just updated our chapter summaries for Breaking Dawn:

Chapter 12 summary, Some People Just Don’t Grasp the Concept of Unwelcome, forum discussion

Chapter 13 summary, Good Thing I’ve Got a Strong Stomach, forum discussion

Chapter 14 summary, You Know Things Are bad When You Feel Guilty For Being Rude to Vampires, forum discussion

Thank you to Goodnight Elizabeth for the Chapter 12 & 14 summaries and to Una for the Chapter 13 summary.

EDITED: Links fixed

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MTV Movie Awards: Twilight Fans Take Control!

April 13, 2009

The nominations for the MTV movie awards are just starting. This year, there’s something different, and no we don’t mean that they had the very good sense to not to have Russel Brand host again. Mercifully, Andy Samberg of SNL fame will be doing that.

According to MTV the awards, for the first time in history, are now in your hands:

It’s time for some serious pop-culture studying because MTV is putting you — and your love of the year’s best movies — to work. For the first time in the 18-year history of the MTV Movie Awards, we’re opening up the nomination process to fans.

Here’s how it’ll happen: Starting Monday (April 13), head over to the official Movie Awards site to select the nominees in categories like Best Movie, Best Fight and Best Kiss. You’ll be able to pick from a list of more than 200 movies. MTV Mobile users can also make choices in the Best Movie category by texting VOTE to 66333. Voting for this round will close on April 20.

Twilight is among the nominees in these categories:

Best Movie: Twilight
Best Female Performance: Kristen Stewart
Best Male Performance: Robert Pattinson
Breakthrough Female Performance: Kristen Stewart (Dakota Fanning is also nominated for Push)
Breakthrough Male Performance: Both Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner are nominated
Best Villain: Cam Gigandent
Best Kiss: Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart
Best Fight: Robert Pattinson and Cam Gigandet

It’s ONLY GOOD TILL APRIL 20th, SO GET OVER THERE AND START NOMINATING!!!!!!

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