Oh My Edward.

It's today. In less than seven hours I will be standing in front of a Barnes and Noble to get my ticket to get my book at midnight tonight. It's such an adrenaline rush, but it's bittersweet. I know that the end is coming. As I hope we all know, the anticipation is the best part. Once you've read it, there's no going back.

Just because it's been on my mind because it's so obvious, I have to say that I officially love Robert Pattinson. Not Edward, I'm pretty sure that's already established. I'm such a creeper, but listening to the actor's dry, ironic humor about the ridiculous Twilight phenomenon and listening to him sing and play is just too much. I can only hope I find a person as talented and funny (and not to mention attractive) for myself.

Whump, Bumble, and Gentileschi!

Hooray for nonsense words! Always a good way to start things off, I mean look at Dumbledore's welcoming speeches!

Now, I won't start with the Harry Potter thing since it's starting to get overused and it's not very exciting to begin with. I promise we'll get to it eventually, if only to check it off the list.

So last night Kelly and I spent a good amount of time making and remaking scenes for a mockumentary of the making of Twilight. What exactly is it, you ask? We are making fun of all the silly questions the actors get asked, the way the actors respond, the characters, the phenomenon, the fans, and anything else we find funny. It's not very good, but we find it very funny in theory.

Since the next book is coming out in less than six days and because Kelly and I probably never go a day without sortof thinking about the books or the movie, we've been trying to do things on our Twilight checklist recently. What I mean is, whenever we hang out, we try to work on our movie or blog. Two out of three times we just search on the Twilight imdb message boards because, really, where else do you get good up to date reliable fanatic information? Though I have to admit that the twilightmoms news page is definitely bookmarked on my browser.

Sometimes I'm embarassed by my level of obsession, and then I think about how bored I would be otherwise. That's about when I give up my dreams of reading all the classic literature this summer and going back to college as a suave classics expert. Not that they were realistic in any way; probably about as realistic as every fans' dream of Edward coming to life (and loving them of course) and mine to meet Robert Pattinson. Oops, I said it. Oh well, it's not much of a secret and it's not one I'm anxious to hide. Come on, wouldn't it be cool to be friends with famous people? And please don't lump me with crazy fans who want to rip his clothes off with their teeth without even knowing him. After all the interviews and all the videos, he's just my favorite cast member to listen to (and look at, but everyone knows that).

On that note, I'd also like to meet James Herriot, Jasper Fforde, Charlotte Bronte, and a very attractive British guy (I don't have a specific one in mind, I just have a very persistent dream of falling in love with a Brit). Wow this post is longer than I though it'd be, but it's just a preliminary, if you really care to get to know us before we start writing post. I'm sorry that it's taking so long for us to get our acts together and get this going. I feel bad, but since no one's reading, not too bad. (I absolutely love how this draft autosaves every two minutes, it's such a godsend)

So you can get a lovely picture of myself in your mind when I talk, I'll do a little glass bubble time and tell you about me. Hopefully it's not a conventional "About Me!" paragraph. The only normal thing I'll say-I have a very fickle, many sided personality that you will see different perspectives of. I love words too much, as you'll learn over and over again. Satire is one of the most beautiful things in the world, it makes me happy. I like the color green but wear the color blue most. I love little details on works of art, like sheep on a hill, or a bug on a rock. Robin Hood is my favorite Disney movie and hero. That's All I Ask of You is my favorite love song. I'd rather be at the beach, but it's a very tough decision. My favorite utensil is a spoon, the best foods are eaten with them-ice cream and baked potatoes! My guilty pleasures include manga, mystery books, kids books, and frozen fish sticks.

I love books, mostly fiction because they give you somewhere to go that isn't where you are. It lets you be someone else for a while, which is good for all of us since we are self-centered beings. And they use words, which are very strict and limited in meaning if you think about it, but we can take advantage of this because our imagination creates this wonderful version of these words. We are allowed to have our very own experience of Jane Eyre or Ender's Game or Twilight. My favorite thing is reading my favorite books for the first time. It's not possible more than once, and when you begin you don't know if you will enjoy it. But if you do like it, reading it the first time is the best experience. Reading Twilight the first time was an absolute rush-think of all the emotion you experienced! It gave you chills every time and you experienced all the surprises and revelations along with Bella. What can be better than that?

Aww, I love Twilight. It's made life so exciting for absolutely no reason. It's continued our consumer frenzy (but since it's a book frenzy, I'm 100% for it) from Harry Potter, it's given us another ideal "man" to slobber over ("man" because he's technically too young but sounds better than guy, not because he's a vampire), and it's given in a form that keeps giving. You can re-experience it again and again and you read it differently every time. Books, people, are the answer.

That's it for now, later days!

Dear Alisha,

No one will read our blog if no one writes in it. It's your turn. Do you check this?

Holy Kleenex, Batman! It was right under our nose's and we blew it!

In the spirit of the greatest movie I think I have ever seen, I'm all crazy about Batman currently, and the old movie/TV shows are possibly the most hilarious things ever. Especially Robin, and among his many "HOLY ___ BATMAN!" quotes, I have to say this is one of my favorites.

And now I realize this is a twilight blog, and soon enough, possibly, Alisha and I will have another blog open to talk about other things, (like how freaking awesome The Dark Knight was! Am I right?! Of course I am.) so I'll try and refrain from getting too off-topic while writing here.

Now I haven't read Twilight in awhile, and by awhile I think it's been since about the beginning of the summer. So I'll be sure to re-read it before we really get going.

I guess I'm going to first talk about things I would like to bring up in future blogs; things I would like to argue with Alisha about. However, I actually have no ideas right now. You know, besides the whole, she hates Jacob, I'm a little bit in love with him. So that will come, as well as other ideas once I've read the books again (hopefully).

So all in all, it looks like this was a pretty pointless post. I just really wanted to write something with that title. I guess this way you readers (are there any? I don't think so.) could see a little more about who I am? What better way to do this than a long unimportant list of random things about myself?

The Giver just might be the greatest book ever; everyone should read it many many times. I'm petrified of Oompa Loompas (from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, not Tim Burton's version). Beethoven's piano sonatas are absolute genius. I think I might be as scared of velociraptors as the guy who writes xkcd. If you've ever read Jurassic Park, you must feel the same way. (The movie makes them scary but they are just absolutely terrifying in the book.) I just stumbled across this and I really liked it. Stumble probably ruined any chance I had of doing well away at college this year, but I love it all the same. I don't think I can count the number of times I have read Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow (as well as the rest of the Shadow series), The Giver, any Harry Potter book, or Twilight. I have a Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time kite hanging up in my room that I stole from my brother years ago. My Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie the Pooh book recently came off my shelf and I remembered how amazing those stories are. Frankenstein was probably the first book I read for school that I really got into and thoroughly enjoyed, but I didn't read a lot of the books I was supposed to (like The Picture of Dorian Gray, which I will read soon). I think Oscar Wilde is a wonderful genius, even knowing that he seduced straight men and slept with teenage boys (but you shouldn't hate him, so did the Romans! and no one hates them).

I feel like I'm talking too much about books. Beethoven's 6th symphony can put anyone in an awesome mood (thanks Disney for making Fantasia and seeing to it that I grew up listening to that song). I usually hate shopping and after many failed attempts of finding a prom dress, I played the 4th movement of Resphigi's Pines of Rome on the way to our last stop and found the greatest dress ever. The only thing I've ever enjoyed studying is poetry translations I did in Latin last year and my Senior year of high school (Cicero's Pro Archia and the beginning of The Aneid, and as much as Cicero's "sentences" sucked to translate he had some brilliant things to say). This paragraph makes me feel like a huge nerd, but I swear I'm normal.

Everyone should watch the movie Amelie (and listen to the soundtrack). I'm sort of in love with Michael J. Fox from his Back to the Future days. Also with Gene Kelly, from all of his days. Singing in the Rain is an amazing movie and as much as I love Gene Kelly, the real stars of that movie were Donald O'Connor (just watch this and you'll see what I mean) and Jean Hagen. Oh also, I'm taking French next year instead of Latin and the only reason is so that when I go to France I can somehow meet Gaspard Ulliel (and speak French because it' just makes more sense that way). My iPod died recently and the warranty ran out only a few months before. I guess it's okay though because all of my music wouldn't fit on the old 30 gig one.

I have to go clean my room now because it's always messy and my mom is having company over tonight. Of course they won't even see my room, but what can I do.

Okay the end finally!

What the hell we're doing.

I suppose it could also be called who the hell we are, since you don't know that either. "We" are two highly intelligent, well-spoken, witty persons who decided to take on the very original "challenge" of discussing the book Twilight. Just kidding, that isn't entirely true. In reality, "we" are two college students (girls, of course) who are often bored and have some of our most interesting conversations about Twilight. I thought it would be great to have someone talk about Twilight-every up and down-without being completely one sided. It seems like people love it or hate it. I enjoyed reading all the books, but I haven't deluded myself into thinking that has all that much literary merit. So that's the main reason I'm doing this.

I guess I missed a few main points about this and jumped right into my story, but to clarify-we are going to discuss any aspect of Twilight-the book, the movie, the phenomenon, etc. We chose a discussion, because you'll get to read more than one opinion. Personally, one opinion can get boring. This way you get variety!

Just so yall are prepared (oh btw, we're from Texas)-one, I doubt that you will agree with everything we say (especially since Kelly and I have two different opinions, it would be hard for you to manage both) and two, it will probably be like a conversation and not a review. I promise I will make fun of Kelly for some of her opinions and you'll probably get to know our personalities well through this. So, please have your own opinions and feel free to comment or email with them. That's not an open invitation for bashing, but I do love a good debate. And comment away as if you were friends in on the conversation, it will help us feel like someone is actually reading this.

So now that I'm done blathering, I hope you get the gyst (is that spelled right? is that even a real word?) of our blog. Sooo enjoy and/or welcome!

Postscript: Right, I’m Alisha and my partner in crime is Kelly. (:

Postpostscript: I’m way cooler than Kelly.

Postpostpostscript: That’s definitely a joint email so you would be emailing both of us. None of this emailing her stuff.

Greetings Interweb!

Kelly's blagging! (any xkcd fans?)

These first two posts are to explain what the hell we are doing. If you haven't caught on, there are two people running this blog. Whhhhy you ask? Very good question, to which I will respond: "Why not?"

Anyways, it seems everyone's read Twilight, my dear friend Alisha and I wanted to talk about it on the internet. We feel we may have different views about the book from other crazed fangirls, and perhaps will be severely abused for certain comments. HOWEVER: let me assure we are just as fangirl-y as the rest of you, (perhaps more? but hopefully less of the "crazed") so hopefully you will take into consideration our thoughts. Well we're not trying to convince you of anything, we just wanted to write our ideas, continue arguments (Jacob: good or annoying?), and such that will hopefully entertain the masses.

I think that with the first two entries combined you should get a good idea of what we're about. I probably missed making some huge point, but hopefully Alisha did not.

Also, we (more me than Alisha) have been keeping up with the making of the movie (I would find things and tell her about them right away), and while the movie isn't so much "being made" anymore. I will do my best to pass on especially awesome new information, even though I'm pretty sure you all are just as skilled at finding new things (if not more), so if you have anything you feel should be shared with the world, leave a comment, or you can even email me! (I guess you could email Alisha, but as you can probably already tell, I'm quite a bit cooler than she is.)

So after our blogs send us an email, leave a nice comment (hell, you can leave a nasty one for all I care), or.. do something else? I feel like there should be more options, but I can't think of any, so whatever. This is already too long of an entry. I hope you enjoy our conversations! (which will come soon, I promise!)

OH PS! We're gonna write about other books, on a different account, so as soon as that gets going, we will be sure to let you know!

PPS: After reading my entry, Alisha has subtly hinted I should specify that it is a joint email, so it doesn't matter who you're emailing. We'll both get it. So send emails to twilightalk@gmail.com.