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I’m Seeing Breaking Dawn - Part 2 Tonight
In preparation for each new installment of the Twilight Saga, I like to read the film reviews by Roger Ebert. He is just that awesome.
An Excerpt:
I have now seen something like 10 hours about these vampires as they progress through immortality, and I’d rather see either version of “Nosferatu” that many times.
Check out these new “edgy” covers for classics like Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and Sense and Sensibility.
You may notice that Heathcliff, for example, looks like Edward Cullen from Twilight or that Elizabeth Bennet seems poised to drain you of blood if she only took off that careful bonnet.
This is no accident because, apparently, publishers are kowtowing to trends and revamping their look to give in to what’s selling. (aka The Hunger Games and all things vampire).
So, behold! The new covers of your time worn classics. I rather like these looks—it makes everything seem a little more, I dunno, sexy and dangerous? Like I might find Mr. Darcy scaling a cornucopia, or something?
2012 Bucket List Update
It’s that time of year where I revisit the Bucket List I made for myself in an effort to try and cross off more things.
Recently I crossed off #45—originally I pubbed it as “Zip Lining in Costa Rica” and, while it wasn’t in Costa Rica, I did go zipping in California.
It was over this past weekend when I went to the Navitat Canopy Adventures in Wrightwood, CA with a group of friends. Wrightwood is an adorable, quaint little town with bars called whimsical things like, “Grizzly Bear Point” and “Evergreen Lookout,” because that’s what small towns do to lure in suckers like myself.
We hiked up a mountain, went on 10 zip lines, repelled down the side of a tree three times and ended things with a free fall from a tree. It was a super fun 4 hours but also exhausting and I managed to get a cut on my leg. Which, according to the tour guide, “never happens.”
Now that I’ve crossed something off it’s time to plan for the next one. Here are the remaining possibilities:
1- Swim with sharks
2- Hike in Alaska
3- Host Saturday Night Live
4- Walk across the Great Wall of China
5- Perform standup
6- Write a book
7- Write a play
8- Visit Cinque Terre
9- Learn Italian
10- Learn how to make sushi
11- Go to a restaurant and buy dinner for a random family (anonymously)
12- Start a foundation
13- Volunteer in India
14- See the Taj Mahal
15- Meet my boyfriend (Josh Groban)
16- Feed a village in Africa
17- Sing a song with a live band in front of an audience
18- Party at the Playboy mansion
19- Write an article for The New Yorker
20- Be on NPR
21- Walk in a protest
22- Win an award for teaching
23- Go to Paris for a weekend. Tell no one.
24- Go to the Oscars
25- Be a guest on the Tonight Show
26- Get a PhD
27- Ring the bell at the NYSE
28- Help build a house
29- Go camping
30- Skinny dip
31- Sky dive
32- Travel through wine country
33- Go to the X Games
34- Go to the Olympics
35- Go to the Superbowl
36- Go to the World Series
37- Have a sketch on Funny or Die
38- Teach my mom how to swim (She refuses to learn. I am determined.)
39- Go apple picking
40- Have a sandwich named after me
41- Learn the thriller dance
42- Be on a float in a parade (I rode in a cop car during a parade as a prize for winning a slogan contest. Doesn’t count.)
43- Mardi Gras in New Orleans
44- Carnival in Brazil
45- Zip line in Costa Rica (I’m crossing this one out, as I recently zip lined in California!)
46- Go to Sundance
47- Build a successful website (this one!)
48- Go on a yoga retreat
49- Have/be on a billboard in Times Square
51- Ride in a car with a storm chaser
52- Visit and bet on the Kentucky Derby
53- Get a tattoo
54- Complete the Sunday New York Time’s crossword puzzle
55- Learn how to play chess
56- Take a photography class
57- Visit Forks with Gabby and Kristen, go on Twilight tour
58- Bike across America
59- See a moose in the wild
60- Go to a speakeasy in NYC
61- Make dinner for friends once a month (STARTED)
62- Make Thanksgiving dinner
63- Be backstage at the Hollywood Bowl
Anyone want to help me accomplish one of these things and cross off something of their own in the process?
I wrote this…
“9 Horrifying Examples of ‘Twilight’ Fandom”
I may also be a closeted Twihard. Shhh…
Okay, so I just got a job on this amazing new CW show Secret Circle, which means that my days of writing in my pajamas until 6 p.m. are over.
But it’s fantastic!! I love the pilot and the show idea, which is all about a circle of witches who find each other. It’s Twilight meets True Blood but with WITCHES.
My first day working with the staff is tomorrow, and I’ll be assisting two of the producers.
Check out the trailer above and let me know what you think!
(via fauxxx)
Troofs!