This is contrast to this mash-up of Jodelle Ferland's blood-curdling screams during The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (hit the play button at your own risk!):
When the Rob Pattinson "Never Think" graphic was used during Twilidiot's Tuesday Twilight Trivia on Twitter, players were asked to comment first in a clever way and then to as it what might be. One of my favorites was by @JonasEclipse:
Bella's heartbeat when she thought Edward was almost giving in during Eclipse.
I've always thought Bella had an undiagnosed heart condition the way it skips beats and splutters, but in reality it's probably just a sinus arrhythmia which is common in young people when their breathing rapidly changes. That would like this:
Every Tuesday is Twilidiot's Twilight Trivia on Twitter! Usually, questions are tweeted and correct replies are given points in the order received. There's a grand prize for the highest cumulative points from 7-9p MT and PIRATE RULES founds for crazy instant wins.
For May 3, I did something a little different. Players listened to a mash-up of The Twilight Saga film scores and soundtracks and tried to identify them. Here's the video in case you would like to test your knowledge. Answers are below.
Pretty pictures in the video are from my trip to Portland including Twilight filming locations Oxbow Park, The Viewpoint Inn and vistas of the Columbia River Gorge.
READY FOR THE ANSWERS?
1. Eclipse, final scene in the meadow and into the credits, Metric, "Eclipse (All Yours)"
2. Eclipse, cafeteria scene where Jessica is writing her speech, Bombay Bicycle Club, "How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep"
3. Eclipse, Edward and Bella on her bed: "You'll always be my Bella," Band of Horses, "Life on Earth"
4. Twilight, inside The Bloated Toad restaurant in Port Angeles, Rob Pattinson, "Never Think"
5. New Moon, pre break-up scene, Bon Iver & St. Vincent, "Roslyn"
6. New Moon, English class, Alexandre Desplat (composer), "Romeo and Juliet"
7. Eclipse, Jasper's flashback, Howard Shore (composer), "Jasper"
8. Twilight, Bella confronts Edward, Carter Burwell (composer), "I Know What You Are"
9. Twilight, Edward's grand entrance into the cafeteria, Carter Burwell (composer), vocals by Lizzie Pattinson, "Who are They?"
10. Twilight, Edward stops the van, Collective Soul, "Tremble for my Beloved"
11. Eclipse, end of opening scene into title of Riley on the dock, Howard Shore (composer), "Riley"
How did you do? Please comment below and invite your friends to give it a try.
Twilidiot's Tuesday Twilight Trivia this week is a little different. You have until 11:00p.m. MT (1:00 a.m. ET) to submit your answers.
To play:
1. Listen to the YouTube video below with music clips from the three The Twlight Saga films.
2. Identify them and fill in the form with your answers.
3. Click submit and you're entered to win a drawing for the grand prize of a The Twilight Saga: SceneIt? Deluxe DVD Game with clips and images from all three movies.
Also included is a PIRATES RULES question. My favorite comment wins a "I don't have the strength to stay way from you" Hallmark Twilight Edward and Bella birthday card. It's my favorite one. I have plenty, though.
Listen to the music clips in the YouTube video and use the form below to enter your guesses:
Also, here is the picture on which to comment for the PIRATE RULES question. Also, identify correctly what it is to be entered to win a May 6, 2011 Entertainment Weekly (your choice of Breaking Dawn covers). Click on picture for a bigger image.
@spritegirl24_7 @JonasEclipse and @OneWarmMomma all correctly identified all 11 clips. I put the three names in a hat and drew out: @spritegirl24_7 to win the SceneIt? game.
It's almost Tuesday! Time again for Twilight Trivia on Twitter from 7-9pm MT (9-11pm ET). This week there will be two lightning questions in the game just for those who have not made it on the scoreboard. This contest is open to anyone worldwide!
This week's prize is a fabulous Jacob and Edward Twilight Hallmark birthday card collection. Each card as something extra: a poster, sound or wolfpack tattoo. Watch slide show below for all four!
This week's topic is the wolfpack, both from the films and books. Since it's the film score-obsessed Twilidiot, you also know there will be at least one music question thrown in.
Questions will be tweeted over the two hour period.
Be one of the first three correct replies to score points: 1st: 10 points, 2nd 6 points, 3rd 4 points.
The player with the most points at 9:00p.m. Mountain time wins the Jacob and Edward Hallmark card collection!
There will be two lightning rounds. At a random time, I'll tweet a question that is just for anybody who has not made it onto the score board. Answer that one question correctly and win a card!
The winner e-mails his/her mailing address to twilidiot@twilidiot.com and the cards will be mailed out via first class or international mail.
Even if you don't win, the game is fun to play! Here's what players said about last week's game:
@VanillaOrchidsI clearly need to brush up on my trivia. LOL But it was fun! Thanks!
@MonicaM09 thanks for making Tuesday's enjoyable :)
@FourKicks101 I'm playing next week for sure...although I'm up against some amazing twilight fans! Thanks for a fun evening! :)
@CherylSab thanks for the game sweetie...had fun again!!
@twisurfergirl it was fun! had a great time playing. thanks!
@DebbieCDCWell I think it's great fun, altho I don't usually have time to play the full 2 hrs, it's a blast
@mzchandlaWell that was fun next wk I will be on my game and be sure to prep my fingers to type a little quicker!! :) THANKS FOR THE FUN but I'm pretty happy I got on the board LMAO!!
It's almost Tuesday! Time again for Twilight Trivia on Twitter from 7-9pm MT (9-11pm ET). This week there will be a lightning question later in the game just for those who have not made it on the scoreboard. This contest is open to anyone worldwide!
This week's prize is a fabulous Edward Cullen Twilight Hallmark birthday card collection. Included is the brand new, U.S. postage included Eclipse card. Watch slide show below for all five!
This week's topic is Edward, both from the films and books. Since it's the film score-obsessed Twilidiot, you also know there will be at least one music question thrown in.
Questions will be Tweeted over the two hour period.
Be one of the first three correct replies to score points: 1st: 10 points, 2nd 6 points, 3rd 4 points.
The player with the most points at 9:00p.m. Mountain time wins the Edward Hallmark card collection!
The winner e-mails his/her mailing address to twilidiot@twilidiot.com and the cards will be mailed via Priority Mail (or international letter) on Friday.
In honor of Dakota Fanning's birthday on February 23, the grand prize for Tuesday Twilight Trivia on Twitter on 2/22, 7-9pm MT (9-11pm ET) will be a Volturi Jane Barbie Doll! The doll releases on March 1 and I will send it after that.
This week's topic is the Volturi, both from films and books. Since it's the film score-obsessed Twilidiot, you also know there will be at least one music question thrown in.
2. Questions will be Tweeted over the two hour period.
3. Be one of the first three correct replies to score points: 1st: 10 points, 2nd 6 points, 3rd 4 points.
4. The player with the most points at 9:00p.m. wins the doll!
Tuesday Twilight Trivia on Twitter Cures Headaches!
Last week, I had a severe headache from downing a Diet Coke (I don't usually consume aspartame) but at the end of the two hours, it was gone.
Tuesday Twilight Trivia on Twitter is Just Plain Fun!
@MiChiamoElle: I had to eat dinner at the computer tonight @twilidiot. Worth it tho! I swear I will never forget the answers to these q's.
@jmarcinikgld @twilidiot THat was fun!! :) :D Thanks!
@jmarcinikglsd: G'night, twitter! *had a blast with @twilidiot's trivia* <---- follow her btw!
@MonicaM09: My Tuesdays just got better all cause of @twilidiot!
@InigiTeamRobsten had a lot of fun in the trivia today and it was my 1st time
You can win a really nice collector's doll! I really liked the Victoria Barbie Doll (Tasteful Twilight Gift #4 ). I'm hoping that when the doll releases on March 1 it drops to $25 and I can ship direct via Amazon Prime 2-day. If not, you're winning a $50 doll. I'm a woman of my word.
I must still be high from seeing both James Franco and Aron Ralston in-person last night. :-)
The new SyFy show Being Human is about a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost as roommates trying to be good and interact with the human world as best they can, with an amazing Indie soundtrack underscoring the scenes. Sound vaguely familiar? Thought so. Here is a complete Being Human playlist all in one place with an .mp3 clips preview and links to Amazon, which has more of the tracks than iTunes and some at a lesser price. It's the best music you've never heard. A few of the songs are not available anywhere so I suggest a couple of substitutions for those who like the original tracks used in the show or where you can find it on MySpace Music.
BREAKING NEWS (2/8/11) FOR EPISODE 4 FROM ADRIAN GLYNN:
The very first song in Episode 4 is "7 or 8 days" by Canadian artist Adrian Glynn. The track is off the album Bruise, which won't be released until April. A couple of us fans, myself and @BeingHuman3, asked Adrian Glynn on Twitter this morning if he was planning to release "7 or 8 days" as a single on iTunes. You can now listen on YouTube:
Visit Adrian Glynn's official site at http://www.adrianglynn.com for the "7 or 8 days" lyrics, tour schedule, to order his EP Adrian Glynn and to watch a satirical music video (the voice is still lovely, though). THANK YOU, ADRIAN!
Here is a preview of all the music from episodes 1-4. I made substitutions in a couple of places for songs that are not yet available. Please see notes below the widget for where to get music for a couple of the artists not on Amazon.
Notes on episode 2: If you can find "The Beat Stuff" by Hannah Georgas or "Shinsy" by Catlow, please let me know!
Notes on episode 3:
"Mind and Soul" by The Plains: Unfortunately, the band The Plains has dissolved according to their MySpace music page. Their two album are still available on iTunes, however: The Boy in the Mansuitand On Earth as it is in Heaven.
"The Ghost in You" by Matthew Puckett: You can listen for free to this hauntingly beautiful cover on iLike and then purchase through the buy button. It also available on iTunes.
SOME THOUGHTS ON INDIE MUSIC FROM A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO:
These are the days when I miss Napster, or even Kaazaa before it installed a ton of spyware. You could get your hands on absolutely anything, even the original world music tracks used in Moulin Rouge.
Fortunately, there are music producers like Alexandra Patsavas of Chop Shop Records (who brought us the Twilight soundtracks) and Alicen Schneider at NBC Universal who also works with SyFy's Caprica and Warehouse 13, as well as Crossing Jordan and Heroes. It is ironic that one of the best places to discover Indie music is on the soundtracks of film and television about the parnormal. Vampires, werewolves and ghosts are outsiders and so are the artists on the soundtracks. Everybody just wants to be heard.
With Amazon .mp3's and Kindle, Facebook and Twitter, there is a revolution underway, though. As Sean Parker of Napster and Facebook fame remarks, recording artists may not longer be able to afford yachts but the best music you've never heard is going to make it to your ears. Check out this great informal panel discussion with author Paulo Coehlo (The Alchemist) from this past Sunday, January 23, 2011 at the DLD11 Conference in Munich:
Parker mentions manufactured bands such as The Backstreet Boys at 2:30. I would have died laughing if he had said 'N Sync. At 4:25 is his comments on The Social Network as a great piece of filmmaking that is "a complete work of fiction," how there are no Victoria's Secret models in Silicon Valley and how he would never be that horrible to Eduardo Savrin. Now watch the rest of it for the really important parts of the conversation. ;-)
In the meantime, enjoy the music. Did you miss the first two episodes of Being Human? They are killer (bad pun intended)! Watch online with SyFy rewind, on iTunes or Amazon Video on Demand. For all the many crazy fun things you can do online and via apps with Being Human, please see my Denver iPad Examiner review. New episodes of Being Human are on Mondays at 9:00p.m. ET on the SyFy channel.
Here's a video preview. "You two going to go all Twilight on me?"
Last night was "super fun!" (I do love Reese Witherspoon's Elle Woods in Legally Blonde.) So we'll play again next Tuesday night but for a shorter time. Stay tuned for more info. Here are the details on what went on this week:
No one wants to play Scene It? The Twilight Saga with me around here. I also fell victim to my OCD* and bought way too many Twilight Eclipse boxed Valentines, Hallmark cards and Valentine candies. So let's play Twilight Trivia on Twitter! This Tuesday, February 8, 5-9p.m. MT (7-11 ET). Here's how to play:
I'll Tweet a trivia question. Some may include a link to a photo or very short audio or video clip.
Hit "reply" and type your answer.
First person to reply with the correct answer wins the prize.
This Tuesday's theme is "Everything Eclipse:" The books (The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: an Eclipse Novella is included), the movie and the music.
SyFy's Being Human is my new addiction. After just three episodes, I'm completely hooked. It's a show that I think Twilight fans will definitely like. Since it's new, you can get all sorts of freebies just for watching. DISH Network subscribers can again this week win one of 50 iPod nanos for answering a simple trivia question. Read how after the jump.
Want a quick and somewhat humorous recap of last week? Here's episode 3 in :60:
Three ways to win swag by watching Being Human:
DISH Network trivia contest: Immediately following the broadcast of each episode (8:00 p.m. MST/10 pm. EST), be one of the 50 first DISH Network subscribers to correctly answer the following trivia question on the DISH Network trivia Web site to win an iPod nano.
This week's question is:
What does Sally break in Danny's apartment?
a picture frame
a wine glass
a lamp
I'll Tweet the answer on @twilidiot when I hear it. All eligible entries in the weekly contest will also be considered for the Grand Prize drawing “on or about” February 9 for a $20,000 home theater system. DISH network employees and households aren’t eligible which does exclude several thousand people in Colorado, including me. :-(
Also, as soon as I can track down the music from the show, I'll add it to the running .mp3 clip playlist in the Music from SyFy's Being Human Season 1 post. Follow @twilidiot to learn when that updates.
'Tis the season of Top 10 lists! I don't always agree but these lists do sift through the media overload. My favorite is Matt Goldberg's Top 10 Movie Posters and the least is the silly MTV's playlist of Top Twilight Moments of 2010. Both inspired me to come up with my own list of Twilight Highlights of the year in the media, music and literature which I hope you find unique, thoughtful, and varied. Bella's birthday is September 13 and so is mine, therefore, my list has 13 items. Please enjoy and comment with your top moments!
13. Eclipse Press Junket as reported on Collider.com: There was a lot of press on June 12 at the Twi-Convention in L.A. and one site let us see the complete video of the interviews, with transcript. In a year when several well-established media outlets constantly misquoted and took out of context the words of the big three, I was delighted to find a site that didn't value slick over truth.
Q: Do you believe in having a soul, like Edward does?
Robert: Yeah, definitely. I can’t remember who said it, but a soul and a heaven must exist because good people aren’t rewarded enough on Earth. I always liked that idea, if that makes sense.
Watch Taylor Lautner interview: Always such an exemplary young man. He won't speak ill of anyone, not even the paparazzi. Why they keep boxing him in on the highway is beyond me because Taylor doesn't do anything even remotely scandalous.
Enjoy Collider.com's content while you're there. It's a unique site that's truly about all aspects of filmmaking and marketing that avoids glib gossip but doesn't take itself too seriously. Steve Weintraub ( @colliderfrosty) and Matt Goldberg ( @mattgoldberg) are interesting follows on Twitter, too, being film critics/reporters that still actually 'go to the movies.' Go figure.
12. Giveaway Contests on KalebNation and TwiFans: Kaleb Nation (twilightguy.com) was the first of 14 fan sites to give away a pretty extensive Twilight prize pack from Summit Entertainment. It was a random, enter as many times as you like contest on YouTube that turned into a Twilighters lightning chatroom. It was pretty darn fun with a total 31,590 comments. TwiFans celebrated their second birthday by giving away an Eclipse Blu-ray signed by Director David Slade. Entrants took pictures of themselves with TwiFans.com on their computer in the background. The photos were cute and I finally got to see what my FanFiction.net pen pal Mrs. Cope looks like. By the way, Mrs. Cope and LauraEmily 18 are frequent entrants and winners in the Twilight Novel Novice challenges. Voting is open now for the "We're Not Vegetarians" challenge.
11. The Oprah Winfrey Show: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner and Dakota Fanning all on one show! For the most part, Oprah shows why she's the queen of talk and puts her young guests at ease. Rob and Taylor surprise fans at home and Kristen gives Bella's moonstone ring to a fan who was inspired by Bella to just be who she is. My favorite moment, though, is when Oprah crosses over the pre-arranged boundary and asks Rob about the rumors of him and Kristen dating. For just a second, he gets that twinkle in his eye my grandmother and uncle have when they're about to say something clever. I can't find the video for this segment on Oprah so here's YouTube:
Ask a goofy question, get a goofy answer seems to have become Rob's new strategy. Am I crazy but did Rob seem to 'suddenly' relax and get really good at interviews sometime around February this year? Tell me if you noticed the same.
10. Moviefone Twilight Night: Coinciding with the June lunar eclipse, 12 cities had showings of Twlight and/or New Moon in area parks with live appearances by the cast of Eclipse. More and more municipalities (Denver and Portland, to name two) are having free outdoor movie showings of family-friendly fare all summer long. With the disappearance of drive-ins, it's a new outdoor venue, a great evening picnic with your entire neighborhood. The Moviefone Twilight Night coverage video is an interesting view, with interviews from several sources and behind-the-scenes footage.
9. Stephenie Meyer Fan Mini-Junket: Instead of doing the normal press for the film release of Eclipse and answering the same broad questions, Ms. Meyer chose four fan sites out of a hat and met with them. Finally, the readers get to hear intelligent, in-depth questions that we've all been dying to ask. Here are the links to the four fan sites:
Photo is courtesy of Twilight Series Theories which included the Stephenie Meyer interviews in their podcast, which is great to listen to when you're driving across Nebraska. Listen on Mevio or subscribe on iTunes.
8. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: Stephenie Meyer gives us a world that's very different than the one that Bella is in from the perspective of newborn vampire. I hoped she had as much fun writing about the newborn army ripping apart a ferrie as I did reading it. The final wordless exchange between Bree and Edward is priceless. It's definitely a must read for understanding all that's going in the Eclipse film. The book also raised $1.5 million for the American Red Cross International Relief Fund. Read more and see the Bree Tanner playlist on StephenieMeyer.com.
7. "A Twilight Seduction: What Men Can Learn from Edward": Devra Maza's exquisite essay in The Huffington Post explains why Twilight has "so strongly tapped into the sexual psyche of so many women" and any man hoping to inspire that kind "rapacious passion" ought to be studying the novels like a textbook. The comments below the essay from Maza and others are also worth reading.
6. Robert Pattinson brings his parents to The Tonight Show: I am Team Coco but this appearance is one of the cutest, classiest things I have ever seen. In usual anachronistic, Rob looks smart in a suit that hints at a different era but reads e-mails from his dad on his smartphone. Of course he was destined to play a character that is somehow 1918 and 2010, 17 and 109 at the same time. Johnny Carson's philosophy was that you make your guests look good. David Letterman proved this year in his interview with Kristen Stewart that he is not Carson's heir.
5. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse soundtrack: This will be a future blog post unto itself. This is the best of the three outstanding Twilight soundtracks, all produced by the genius Alexandra Patsavas and Chop Shop Records. My iTunes playlist is in movie order. I love starting with those first few pounding downbeats of "Chop 'n Change" by the Black Keys. The simple piano of "Bella's Theme" in Howard Shore's score morphs into Emily Haine's lovely vocals in Metric's "Eclipse I'm Yours." Other standouts for me are Muse's Edward/Mormon love anthem "Love is Forever" and Sia's ethereal "My Love." I'll be giving away all three soundtracks later this month in honor of the soundtrack's Grammy nomination. Follow this blog or @twilidiot for details to come.
4. Bella Bracelet from Bella Twilight Shop: The minute I read about the bracelet in Eclipse, I wanted one. I had to wait a while for one with just the right wolf to finally appear. Heather's Twilight and Hunger Games inspired jewelry is representative of how Twilight has inspired so much creativity in the fans in terms of art, crafts, music and writing. Read more on what this bracelet means to me.
When I first picked up "twilight & history" by Nancy R. Reagin, I knew that it followed the story of Twilight and delved into the histories of the different characters. That was about all I knew, and I hoped that I wasn't about to embark on a dry and dreary tale. I mean really, there's been so much written about Twilight already, I hoped that this book would put a new spin on the saga I love so much. And boy did it ever!
So many of the academic books written about The Twilight Saga seem to be really reaching, as if the contributors hadn't read Twilight before they were asked to write a chapter. Some are just full of jargon and unreadable. The authors of Twilight and History, though, are thoughtful and passionate. To see what I mean, you can read the introduction, "Frozen in Time" and first chapter, "An Old-Fashioned Gentleman"? Edward's Imaginary History" and peruse the Table of Contents for free on Amazon. Use the "Click to Look Inside" feature.
"There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major." - Sergei Prokofiev
It is rare to find a film score piano reduction that sounds like the original and doesn't require you to have a Rachmaninoffian hand span. This songbook is a notable exception. "Compromise/Bella's Theme" and "Jacob's Theme," both in the key of C, sound just like the piano originals in the score and can be played by an early intermediate pianist, but have enough syncopation to keep more advanced players on their toes. I'm currently working on Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" (not key of C, dang B-sharps!) and this makes a nice warm-up. To order online, try sheetmusicplus.com. Flat $2.99 shipping and they always send you a coupon for your next order. Click on the scan above for a larger image.
1. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse movie in IMAX and then on Blu-ray: Duh! I saw it five times in the theaters and then Steve Weintraub at Collider selected me to write the "Twilight Super Fan The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Blu-ray Review." Definitely the highlight of my year.
BTW, I'm giving away some of my Eclipse stuff in a "name the PIP documentary" contest here.
What are your Twilight Highlights of 2010? Please comment below.
