Hmmmm....

Dear Fellow Twilighters,

I'm listening to my dad on hold with AT&T.

Sorry it's been so long since I last posted, but I have been really busy with exams for school and getting ready for my vacation to Florida where I will attend the Stringendo School for Strings summer camp!

Some recent Twilight activity- LICENSE PLATES! That's right folks; I know there are crazed fans out there but this one was a little to... close for me. Her (I hope it was a 'her') license plate read BELLA-2 which I thought was kinda awesome. (But you all know I'm Bella 2!) Ummm... When one of my vamp-a-be buddies went to the Twilight Convention: New Moon she arrived late! Yes, I can't believe it either but this is the truth. She arrived five minutes after Peter Facinelli left. You could not imagine how upset I was with her! Five minutes sooner and I could have had an autograph from Carlisle Cullen- the one and only. I've learned to let it go and forgive her for this regrettable mistake of tardiness.

In other news, my sister and cousin (both much older than I am) had a Twilight party in honor of the DVD release of New Moon. I was very excited to hear this news because I will soon be apart of their next event! Can anyone guess?.... Anyone? Well I'll give you a hint first; It arrives in theatres June 30th... Ok, You got me! We are going to see Eclipse together!!! (Cheer, applause, stare in awe) I know, it's not that big of a deal, but for me it is, so get over it.

In closing, (fancy huh?) I would like to mention that for the last day of school this year, I have decided to get a group of people together and make tie dye shirts for the awards ceremony. (I'll be sure to leave a Twilight mark some where on mine.) Ok, That's it. Time for bed!!!

Lots of Love-- Lell :)

p.s. New reading, good reading- Secrets of My Hollywood Life by Jen Calonita. I just finished the first book and am looking forward to getting the next book in this series Secrets of My Hollywood Life: On Location. Nothing 'bout vamps though. :)

More Links

Happy birthday Kristen Stewart!!!!! How old are you now? Well that doesn't matter because as Bella you will be forever 18. Ok, so this isn't actually a post but I wanted to tell you guys about an experience you don't want to miss. I'll post the link bellow. Oprah is having a Twilight thing on her show. So if you're willing to go and see her live, fill out the application with your story.

--Lell

https://www.oprah.com/ownshow/plug_form.html?plug_id=3932628 (for the Oprah Twilight thing)

http://twilight-review.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/kristen-stewart.jpg (for the picture of Kristen Stewart)

Hello, My Name Is Schuyler Van Alen

Dear Fellow Twilighters,

Listening to Major Tom by Shiny Toy Guns. By the way, I found this band called Never Shout Never and I'm really into it right now. I'll post a link to their Youtube page.

Yesterday was a strange day. We had the math state testing and I decided to basically dress in all black. I had my lucky, comfortable, black jacket, a black tank, black leggings, and a skirt. I don't know what came over me but I felt like being her today- Schuyler. I also finished the second book of The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod, Ninth Grade Slays by Heather Brewer. And the last paragraph of page 237 (chapter 20), my two favorite things were combined. The Killers and Vampires! The Paragraph is below:

"Greg turned on the radio. The Killers were on, singing a slow tune about how everything would be alright. Vlad leaned against the door and stared up at the stars, wishing against all odds that they were right." (Brewer, 237)

It just made my day! Ok, so the reason I like this series so much is because the author is a girl, but is writing from a boy's point of view. I have no clue why I'm so interested in that, but it really got to me. In the book, Vlad cries often and that also hits me hard (in a good way). So I'm off to bed. Testing is over! Good night.

--Lell

http://www.youtube.com/user/NeverShoutNever (Youtube page for Never Shout Never)
http://www.heatherbrewer.com (Heathe Brewer's webpage)

Eighth Grade Bites- Summary or No Summary?

Dear Fellow Twilighters,

I have decided to stop my summaries of the Blue Bloods series so you'll have to read the books by your self.

I have recently finished the first book, Eighth Grade Bites by Heather Brewer, in The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod. It was a good book that I would recommend to any young reader who likes vampire novels. It is told in third person, telling the views of others at times, just like Blue Bloods. I will not be posting a summary on this (at the moment) because I have to write a two page, in depth, English essay on this book; unless I change my mind in the future (and there is a good chance of that).

My mom surprised me when I got home from school today with a new book! The second instalment of the series above- Ninth Grade Slays. Also, to make my very joyful, I have received my invitation to the eighth grade dance! It is masquerade themed just like the after party in Masquerade by Melissa De La Cruz. I love the whole idea of everyone not knowing who is who which will be a pain for the chaperons. It's very romantic and it makes me think of the scene in Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare where Beatrice knows it is Benedick behind his mask and is insulting him (making fun of him, not being mean.) and he doesn't have a clue who is behind her mask. I laugh every time I think about it!

To get to the Twilight part of my post- my sister and cousin had a New Moon party the other night where she watched Twilight and New Moon back to back with a whole bunch of junk food. The perfect girls night. My cousin was very upset at the fact that Bella took so long to get to Edward when he was about to reveal himself to everyone in Voltera. She was like, "I would've been screaming and pushing everyone out of the way. I'd say 'GET OUT OF THE WAY! i NEED TO SAVE MY MAN", and I kinda agree that the scene took a little longer than it should've.

Ok, I've got homework so I'm out. -- Lell

Catching Up on Every Day Twi-References

Dear Fellow Twilighters,

As you know I like to compare my life to the world of Twilight very often and have been neglecting to post here. I'm so sorry. Let's catch up on some things.

Last month: Teachers have been freaking me out with their knowledge about Twilight and how much my friends are picking up on this also. One of my friends made a joke about what my history teacher had said. It was pretty funny but I guess you had to be there. Here it goes any way! "Bella can stare a a wall for four months crying while you can stare at a wall for four seconds and start laughing!" It's not that funny but then again it was to me. A compliment on my good natured disposition. After that she made me a semi-poster of all things vampire (which I will post later.) .

Recently: I have finished The Van Alen Legacy and will be posting my summary on Revelations as well as the other book. Also, my English teach gave our class an assignment where we have to keep track of the books we read and why we read them. (See paragraph below.)

I have found a great new-ish series by heather Brewer called The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod. Book one is called Eighth Grade Bites. As you can tell by the title, the main character is Vladimir Tod. An eighth grade vampire discovering his powers and how to control his thirst. He has been living with his Aunt Nelly for three years just after his parents combusted into ashes. He is half vampire though. His mother was human and his father a creature of the night. Vlad does not drink human blood directly (Aunt Nelly is a nurse and is very handy when Vlad needs some blood. He only takes donations from the hospital.) The only human he as ever bitten was his best friend Henry, when he was eight, and from then on he has been the only person's thought Vlad could read.

And that's just the begging. Pick up the book for yourself if you wish- it's a very good find. I'll post more often; as often as I can. -- Lell

Eclipse Trailer

Dear Fellow Twilighters,

YAY!!!!! The new full length Eclipse trail was released this morning!!!!! My excitement has been rejuvenated after seeing this clip. It's posted on the Official New Moon Widget above. I hope everyone is as excited as I am for spring break, if your already on break then good for you. I have good news to all; the fifth Blue Bloods book Misguided Angle is on it's way- October 5, 2010 is the official release date, plus, I finished The Van Allen Legacy! (I still have to put up the summary on Revelations so be patient!) So, be on the look out for anything pertaining to Blue Bloods/ Eclipse. I've attached a few links bellow and if you like them or think you might like them, click on them. I get no money for it so feel free to click. Ok, I'm signing off now..... Lell

p.s. I can't believe Summit Entertainment replaced Rachelle Lefevre (Victoria) with Bryce Dallas Howard, although I am impressed on how close they made the new Victoria look like the old one. It's like spooky good! And thanks to http://www.daemonsmovies.com for the comparison picture of Rachelle and Bryce, and to http://eclipsemovie.org for the other picture of the two Victorias from the films. Can you tell which Victoria is which?

http://eclipsethemovie.com (The official website for Eclipse the movie.)

Masquerade Summary Part 2

Dear Fellow Twilighters,

Most of you are aware that Jimmy Falon is a great talk show host for MSNBC and does a spoof of Robert Pattinson called Bothered. Here's the link to his newest video. Robert is Bothered by Valentine's Day- http://robertisbothered.com . And now back to my summary of Masquerade by Melissa De La Cruz.
We left off with Schuyler and her dilemma of having Oliver as her familiar or not. She does. He becomes attached to her and now she's thinking she made a mistake. Schuyler becomes more involved with Jack which is really bugging Mimi. (Jack's immortal bonding partner; born as twins in this cycle.) She starts to get involved with the dark matter and summons a Silver Blood to take Schuyler. It fails and attacks Bliss and a few other Blue Bloods in the Repository. Mimi was found guilty for conjuring up the Silver Blood and gets sentenced to being burned with back fire- the only thing that can actually 'Kill' a Blue Blood.

Since Schyuler is the daughter if Allegra Van Allen (aka Archangel Gabriel) she should be able to do the blood trial and prove if Mimi is guilty or innocent. (The blood trial is where Allegra- in this case Schulyer- would drink the blood of the accused- Mimi Force- to find out the truth of the situation.) Schuyler goes to Italy with Lawerence (her grandfather) to do the blood trial and she turns out to prove Mimi innocent and that Kingsly was the one to actually summon the Silver Blood. Mimi had fainted from the incident and was unable to complete the ritual. We later find out that Kingsley is a reformed Silver Blood and was only acting on orders from the Regis (which is the leader of the Conclave- Charles Force.)

And that's it for Masquerade! Hope you enjoyed my summary even though it was quite bland. Sorry it took so long this time but I've been very distracted. --Lell

Masquerade Summary Part I

Dear Fellow Twilighters,

Listening to Into the Ocean by Blue October..... wait, it's The Great Escape now, by Boys Like Girls.
My school's full orchestra (The Cinco Symphony) has been named 2010 Texas Music Educator's Association Honor Full Orchestra (T.M.E.A. for short)! This is a big event for us. It means that we are the BEST OF THE BEST full orchestra out of all of Texas. This is even bigger than the time our symphony visited Chicago for the Midwest Clinic last year. Also, my pre-AP English teacher told our class about this website called Shelfari. It's like the 'Facebook' of avid readers. I have my Shelfari bookshelf on My Vampire Venom now; just before the quotes.

To get to my main point now- VAMPIRES! I finished Masquerade by Melissa De La Cruz last week and I'm ready to write my summary! ***SPOILER ALERT***

We left off in Venice, Italy, where Schuyler and Oliver are on the hunt for Lawrence Van Allen; Schuyler's grandfather. They eventually find him and convince him to help in the search for the Silver Bloods- Croatan. In the mean while between school and life, Schuyler is going to meetings about the 400 Ball (the induction ceremony for Blue Bloods, no humans aloud!) and Mimi Force (the antagonist) is planning the after party. A masquerade ball! Schuyler steals a secret kiss from who know which boy in her love triangle at the party and quickly returns home. Dylan starts acting up and suspicions arise as to if he's a Silver Blood or not. He ends up disappearing.

Bliss (Mimi's right hand girl, and Schuyler's new found friend) a Blue Blood from Texas, is experiencing difficulties in her transformation. Her Black outs are getting worse; on one occasion she ends up on the bottom of a lake and a mysterious new Blue Blood boy saves her. Is he Dylan? Anyone? Well we're getting there. He ends up to be Kingsly Martin, a reformed Silver Boll and venator (truth seeker in Italian). Mimi is taking an interest in dark matter and spells, with Kingsly as her guide, and Schuyler taking an interest in Jack Force, Mimi's human 'twin' and immortal bond partner. Mimi doesn't like this.

Schuyler goes into hibernation, not good, and Oliver takes her to Dr. Pat, the Blue Blood specialist (and his aunt), and she says that Schuyler's human bloods cells were being taking over by the Blue Blood cells and that she should take a human familiar soon. (A human familiar is the human a Blue Blood chooses as their main source to suck the blood out of; she picks Ollie.) The only problem, she thinks, is that her relationship with him will be ruined because preforming the 'Sacred Kiss' (the sucking of blood) makes a deep connection between vamp. and human familiar.

More next time; I'll keep you in suspence! --- Lell

p.s. Sources: http://melissa-delacruz.com/index.php/books/title/masquerade (for the cover of Masquerade)

Blue Bloods (and sorry)

Dear Fellow Twilighters,

Let me start out by saying I'm so very sorry for skipping out on the posts the last two months! I've been very busy (as most of you are) due to school, church, and home activities. (I'll be moving soon; just around the corner from where we're renting now). I'm glad for your patience! I've got a good review on a relatively new series by Melissa De La Cruz, an award winning author, called Blue Bloods. ***SPOILER ALERT*** I've attached a link bellow for more information on Melissa's books, awards, and facts about her.

Basically this is another vampire book, but just like every other one you wonder across, this one has it's own little twists. These vampires are 'born' as vampires but do not discover it until they are about 15 or 16 years old. They go through cycles of life when ever they are needed; only 400 of them 'live' at once.

So Schuyler (pronounced sky-ler) is one of the main characters. She's discovering her awesome vampire powers as well as her true ancestry. When a Blue Blood from her high school shows up dead , which can never happen to one of them, Schuyler turns to her grand mother Cordelia for advice. She later finds out that there is a fallen hybrid race of vampires called Silver Bloods. Because they feast on the Blue Bloods, they are cursed forever with insanity. (Blue Bloods are one being, with the memories of their past lives, because the Silver Bloods consume them, they live as many people all at one time.) Croatan; abomination. This is the name given to the leader.

Cordelia is the only survivor (Blue Blood) of Plymouth and the colony Roanoke. She knows the truth because of her memories of her past life. Now Schuyler is the only person (with Oliver, her best friend) who can seek out the truth that no one else will believe. That Croatan exists.

Of course (and this should go with out saying) that all my reviews are in depth BUT I do leave out details because I want my readers to enjoy the book themselves. Thank you for your patience. --- Lell

http://melissa-delacruz.com/index.php/books/title/blue_bloods (Melissa De La Cruz's website, and it's were I got the pic.of the book cover)

http://bluebloodsbooks.com (The Blue Bloods Saga website)

Motives of Madness

Dear Fellow Twilighters,

I was just having a chat with my father and he was asking me why I would rather read about vampires instead of Frankenstein or other mythological creatures. To tell you the truth, I get scared easily and thought in the beginning that Twilight would scare my socks off. I just walked out on him when he asked that ridiculous question.

I figured that those of you who are insane enough to follow my blog deserve to know my motives behind my Twilight obsession. My mother was the first to fall under Stephenie Meyer's spell. We were moving to Texas from Florida (a few months after Breaking Dawn came out) and she was almost through with Twilight. I almost hated the whole phenomenon when I first heard about it. Hard to believe right? I can't explain why; my story is that I didn't want to be part of the hoopla. You know? I didn't want to be like everyone else.

That winter, 2008, my aunt came down for the holidays and as a treat, we went to the movies. Not to my surprise we bought tickets for the matinee showing of Twilight. I was immediately hooked.

The following summer, 2009, I was planning a trip to Greece. I always do my best when procrastinating. So two weeks before my trip I started the series. I was up till 3:00 am almost every night finishing page after chapter after book. I was non stop, lost almost ten lbs. and I basically fell off the face of the Earth. And I give thanks to Stephenie for driving me into Cullen insanity. (p.s. Thant's a good thing!)

My birthday was on the 29th! Just thought I'd mention that. And that was the same day (night actually, 10:56pm) I finished the last book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan. The Last Olympian is the title if you're interested. There is a movie comming out on the first book in Riordan's series, The Lightning Thief. I've attached the link to his website bellow as well as a picture of what I think is the best poster of Bella and Edward from this whole year. It's from Twist Magazine (but I took a picture of it with my camera since I couldn't find it online).

Ok, I'm signing off now! Happy New Year's Eve. -- Lell

p.s Sources: http://www.percyjacksonbooks.com (For Percy Jackson and the Olympians series)
http://www.rickriordan.com (For Rick Riordan in general)

Happy Birthday! (s)

Dear Fellow Twilighters,

Today is Stephenie Meyer's 36th birthday! Two days ago, sorry for being late, was Jackson Rathbone's 24th birthday, and tomorrow is Christmas! Wow, we're just having birthdays left and right now, aren't we? (I saw Avatar today and the main character, Jake Sully, had his birthday as well.) Well, if you're wondering how I'm getting all of this wonderful information then you're in luck! I have a super top secret (not) website full with accurate information on our most loved stars/vampires. The link follows this post. It's one of the "official" (I think) websites for each movie, up until a few months ago it was all about New Moon, and now, the site is all about Eclipse. The countdown/ new gadget is actually from this site. It offers a few accurate apps to post almost any where you want on the web, as well as tributes to fans and their creative sides. They have links to other fan sites and they also post fan made trailers and posters.

I'm off to celebrate the rest of Christmas Eve with my family. Happy Holidays! --Lell

Sources: http://www.eclipsemovie.org

Cool People Continued

Dear Fellow Twilighters,

As I'm rewatching SNL from last night I remembered some very serious details from the biology skit that needed to be pointed out. Planaria, the same subject in the movie, not the book, that Edward and Bella were studying, was on the board, Taylor was wearing a skirt and lip gloss, and that chocolate raspberry is a great flavor. (How do these actors stay still for so long?) I also agree to a certain extent that Bella's a little bit of a "whiny-do-nothing" (not Kristen) and that she doesn't deserve either of them, I do! (Not really though.)

For those reasons I nominate the writers of SNL for a Cool People Award presented by My Vampire Venom. (AHHHH! The crowd goes wild for SNL!) I thank all who support this decision!

Ok, I'm out. But before I sign off I would also like to nominate the director of the new Star Trek movie for the director of Breaking Dawn. That's my choice.

--Lell

Cool People Where You Least Expect Them

Dear Fellow Twilighters,


Tonight on SNL, Taylor Lautner hosts! Finally, I was about to write MSNBC a letter about why they haven't had a Twilight star on yet to host! (True, ask my friends.)

It's been a while since my last post and I apologize for that. I go by Stephenie's beliefs, where you have to be in that writing state of mind and all. So, I've had recent chat *Cough, Cough* (email) with a very famous author. (I let you sweat this one out for a while before I tell you!)

Next week we have exams/mid terms. For reasons unknown (get it, For Reasons Unknown by The Killers!), well any way, my teachers have been absent for periodical days out of the week, and that's not cool for me. The upside of this was that I met a really awesome substitute teacher in English class. She is a Killers fan as well as a Twilight fan to my surprise. And that special author I was talking about, did you figure out his name yet? Well, he's a fan of both also!

His name is Chris D'Lacey and he writes children to teen books about dragons, football (soccer), global warming, and polar bears. I'll attach a link to his website and his blog. Actually, now that I think about it, his blog is what inspired me to make my blog! So, he went to go see New Moon with his wife (and the dragons, Chris will get this part) and he relatively liked the movie. I think, and I might be mistaken, but his wife has read the books, and although they are fans, Mr. D'Lacey isn't as in love with Edward and Bella as the rest of the world. Hrrr to Zookie (Gadzooks), Grettle, and David (I haven't read Dark Fire yet, but I know he's out there) and have a happy holiday season.

Zookie's notepad (his blog) - http://zookiesnotepad.blogspot.com/
Chris D'Lacey's website- http://www.icefire.co.uk

Seeing Stars

Dear Fellow Twilighters,

Now it might be crazy, but the other night was the first time I've ever had a dream about anything to do with my little escape called Twilight. You'd think that being myself, an obsessed Twilighter, that this wouldn't be so bazaar. Wrong. I was freaked out! I'm not going to go into details so you can forget that.

Stephenie Meyer has worked her series of engrossing, unfathomably beautiful, vampire books into our subconscious! It is in no way a bad experience; It makes you think. We are so enveloped in a make believe place with fantastic characters: it's just how we escape into another person's world for a while. I get a warm feeling inside when I hear about anything even slightly related to Mrs. Meyer's fantasy world. It seems that all of the actors from the Twilght cast are popping up on talk shows every where! Watching the cast on Jimmy Kimmel was like wow. They keep me in a daze, and my parents literally have to pry the remote out of my hand if they had the not-so-clever idea of changing the channel when I'm in a Twi-Trance.

So I'm very thankful for the DVR we've got for all the shows I miss because of school or extracurricular activities. On that note, I'll go and eat some baklava. Good Greek girls deserve good Greek desserts!
--Lell

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate. Eat some extra turkey for me because I can't fit any more in my stomach! Keep your family at heart and a good book close by. I'm out for the night; going to see a movie with my family.
--Lell

p.s Sources: britanica.com (for the Turkey photo)

Twilight Spottings

(Mine, inspired by the letters on the cover of New Moon)

(My sister's, inspired by a vintage feel)

Dear Fellow Twilighters,

Here it is! Cullen Blvd. My family and I went down to Galveston to do some sight seeing. See, my sister came down for a visit and we wanted her to get a great experience before she went back to Florida. My dad had this crazy idea to pack five people (I was sick at the time) in a small car and drive an hour or so to go eat in a grungy little burger joint and walk the beach in fifty degree weather! Thanks to my wonderful, loving, and totally Twi-obsessed mother, we have this perfect picture of Cullen Blvd! Apparently Exit 44c.

Also, I posted the shirts my sister and I made for the premiere of New Moon. Mine starts with ...The Twilight Saga... and my sister's is just New Moon in curvy letters. If you look closely you'll see our hidden Team Edward logo! I know, they're totally awesome, but not for sale! Just fan made.

On that note, New Moon made $274.9 mill. world wide in the box office this week end, and $142.9 mill. in the US alone I believe. Ok, I just heard All These Things That I've Done by The Killers for a National Geographic commercial. How ironic, go figure!

That's it for today, have a great Sunday, and keep on reading. --Lell

New Moon Premire Pains

Dear Fellow Twilighters,

Yesterday morning at 12:05 am, I went to see New Moon! My sister and I got to the theatre at 7:30pm and camped out in the 12:15am line for the 3rd screening of New Moon. I know what you're thinking, 12:15, I thought you went to the 12:05 one! Well, I'm getting to that. So any way, we were in line till about 9:00pm when this lady came up to us and asked if we would want to swap tickets with her because she bought two of the same tickets and one for a different showing and didn't want her family to be split apart. So being the nice and naive people we were, said sure, why not? So we switch spots, we were like, thirty people from the door for the 12:15 screening and inside the theatre. When we get to the other spot for the 12:05 screening we end up, like, 60th in line and outside in the cold!

My sister got really mad, like she was almost-turning-red mad, went up to the manager and said something like, my sister is sick and we're out side in the cold. Some lady conned us out of good spots in line and I don't want to start a fight! Is there anything you can do?, So I guess the manager got scared and didn't want a fight to break out, so he let us up closer in line to about the same spots we were before the switch. I felt mush better!

Ok, now time for the movie review. New Moon was really fantastic! I liked it very much even though I didn't appreciated that book in the saga as much as the rest. The action was great and the lovey parts were oh so cute! I cried once after Edward left Bella. I was torn apart! The CGI was great, but I thought the wolves looked a little thick around the mid section. As you all know, I'm a die hard Team Edward fan. That goes the same for my sis, she hasn't read the books yet. But, as hard as it is to admit, my sister and I, for like a split second, were rutting for Jacob.

What upset me the most was that A White Demon Love Song by The Killers was not in the movie! And if it was, I didn't catch it! I was singing along with all the other songs from the soundtrack except for that one! How disappointing.

Got to go,
Lell -xoxo- hope you enjoy the movie.

(Misc. Writing) With Old Age Comes...

Dear Fellow Twilighters,

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/vampires/index.html There are some great vids. from E online about the actors. This is the link.
Listening to Regina Spektor right now, Eet.

As the days go by we all get older. It's just a fact of life no body can avoid (except maybe the Cullens and the pack), so why even try? For children this is one of the best parts of life, getting older. For adults, it's the worst part of life, wrinkles and grays and all. I have no idea why! From a teen's point of view, with a greater age comes greater responsibilities, but more privileges (sorry Spidey, I didn't mean to steal your thunder). If every breath you take kills you, (oxidising cells and all), than no amount of tonic or cream can stop that! That's the beauty of life! You cannot stop what's ment to be.

New Moon is 12 days, 5hrs. away and I'm still as giddy as I was when I bought my tickets. It's just that I think my view on Twilight is getting hazy. I know it's not because it's been a few months since I've read the saga. I don't feel as connected as I used to be to my fantasy world of vampire and werewolves. Hopefully I'll get over my little slump after the 20th: New Moon.

So, after me ranting about all this about how death is inevitable, are you ready to put up that $50 bottle of "Wrinkle Away" or hair dye? Probably not. Remember though, Edward loves girls that don't wear make up! So join the club. The beauty industry is already rich enough with out my help. Don't get me wrong though, I do wear make-up, but only for special occasions.

Tomorrow is my brother's birthday party. We're going to go bowling and lazer tagging and stuff like that with a few close friends.

WHOA! I just saw a VOLVO commercial with Edward in it! There is a site called http://whatdrivesedward.com! Wow, what a sell out. Seriously?!?!?!?

Wow... you think about that one. I'm out. Luv ya. Lell

The New Moon Content Widget Works!!!

Dear Fellow Twilighters, (Nov. 3, 09 at 6:18 pm)

I'm taking down the Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant trailer now since it has been out in theatre's since the 23rd of Oct. If you haven't seen it by now, then you're really missing out. Read the summary I wrote just a few days ago on it and you'll be hooked, although, I didn't do the movie or series any justice.

Just giving you guys a heads up. Lellabella
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Dear Fellow Twilighters,

It works!!! I'm soooooooo happy! The trailer is working and there is a whole bunch of cool pics and other clips and info for you to explore on this gadget. Hope you enjoy!!!

And if you haven't noticed, I uploaded a trailer for Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant. Don't you think the music sounds like something by the artist Likke Li? They are on the New Moon Soundtrack.

The trailers both start automatically. I can't get the Cirque du Freak to pause, so you'll have to pause the New Moon one and wait for the Cirque to finish.

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Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant- Summary

(Cirque du Freak: The Vampires Assistant, based on a saga by Darren Shan)

Dear Fellow Twilighters,

(Listening to Brains by Voltaire right now; great for Halloween.)

***SPOILER ALERT***

Last night around 8pm-ish I went with my family to see the new movie Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant.

Wow! Where to start? This movie was super awesome and totally worthy of Stephenie's attention. This is sort of a more-fantasy-and-every-thing-goes type of movie. It didn't look fake at all (besides all the creatures and stuff, they could've been real), and if they did use CGI, than you could've fooled me because it looked as real as possible!

Ok, so the main character is this kid named Darren Shan (Chriss Massogila) who is obsessed with spiders, and his best friend is Steve (Josh Hutcherson) who is obsessed with vampires. They are complete opposites: goody-goody and bad boy. They find this flyer for a freak show that's coming to town, so they sneak out and pay them a visit. The last act happens to be a vampire and a deadly spider. Being the obsessed people they are, Darren goes to "borrow" the spider, Madam Octa, and Steve goes to confront Mr. Crepsly (John C. Rielly) , the vampire. Darren hides when Crepsly comes into his dressing room. Then Steve comes in and says that his life is so suckish and he wants to become a vampire.

Now, before we get any further, in this story there are two types of vamps. They follow all the tradition vamp. rules like, you can't go out in the sun, and you need human blood, etc. Actual Vampires (they don't kill their victims, just sedate them), and then the Vampinese (who kill the victims). There used to be this war between them and they made a treaty, but you know how that goes.

So, Steve gets out with his life, barely, and Darren finds a secret passage and gets picked up by Mr. Tiny (Michael Creveris)- Stranger Danger! He's the guy that wants a war to break out between the two groups of blood suckers, and gets a ride home. Darren barley escapes with his life as well.

The next day Darren takes Octa to school and Steve find out. Steve HATES spiders. Octa gets loose and scurries away to find an escape (or tries to at least) when the bell rigs and all the kids come running out of their class to get to their next period. Octa has like five near death encounters. Steve gets a broom and tries to kill her, but Octa bites him and Steve collapses.

So, by this time Steve is in the hospital and is dying. Darren gets up the courage and goes to see Crepsly for and antidote of some kind to save Steve. Crepsly agrees to give Darren the anti venom on one condition; Darren had to become his assistant as half vampire. Darren gives up his life and becomes immortal.

They get to the hospital, Crepsly gives Steve the cure, and then they think up of a way to fake Darren's funeral. After a farewell to his parents, Darren goes to Cirque du Freak and becomes part of the show, working backstage as a erring boy for Crepsly since he can't go out in the sun.

The Vampinese are always trying to turn Darren into one of them, but meanwhile, Steve found out somehow about Darren, and turns bad. Real bad. Vampinese bad in fact. There is a whole fight back at the theatre where the Freaks preform. Steve give an ultimatum to Darren about he can either turn Vampinese or die fighting Steve and the rest of the their Vampinese.

Of course, Darren stays solid 1/2 Vamp. and returns to Cirque du Freak. Oh, and there is this monkey girl (she only has a tail, and that's her monkey-ness) that Darren fall for, and they kiss. Awe! So cute!

The end... for now. Since this is a saga there probably will be more movies out of the books. I personally haven't read them since I only just found out about the movie and am in another series (Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan; I'm on book three, The Titan's Curse) at the moment. I encourage you to go and see for yourself. I gave the movie/book no justice in this summary.

Finally, I give the movie 4 out of 5 fangs just because it was a little dark for me and there was scary images, so it might not be appropriate for younger children (but neither is Twilight so yeah...). I loved this movie and I definitely want to get it when they release it on DVD. I can honestly say it is one of my favorites.

Happy Halloween, and be safe if you go Trick-orTreating tonight.

p.s Sources: http://us.imbd.com/media (for the image and actors' names/roles)

and here is the link to the site for the movie http://www.thevampiresassistant.net