ScreenName: HollyJo123
Real Name: Holly Jo (LOL! I’m really creative aren’t I?)
Does your screen name mean something? It’s my name (duh! LOL!) and I have 1,2,3 kiddos
Where do you live in the world?: I live in Ypsilanti, Michigan
Age: 32
Favorite Color: Not to sound like Bella but it really does change from day to day Today it’s yellow but tomorrow it will probably be something else.
Favorite Animal: Well that changes too. Today I’m mad at my dog and my bird… so my cat is my favorite today
Favorite Ice Cream flavor: Ooh! Butter Pecan! MMM!
Favorite Place in the world: Hmm… that I’ve been to.. the Riviera Maya
Favorite Hobby: Surfing the net trying to find the latest news, videos, or fan fiction about all things Twilight
Thing that annoys you the most: I think the thing that irritates me the most would be rudeness. My grandmother used to always say “you can get more bees with honey than vinegar” and I wish more people would follow that quote
What are you good at?: I like to think that I’m a good mom, wife, daughter, and friend Nothing else really matters other than those.
Random Fact about you: My mom set me up with Harry (my husband) when I was 16 and he was 20 She came home and told me “Holly you have to meet this guy that I work with, he’d make a really good husband” LOL!! Well we got engaged when I was 17 and married just after I graduated. We have 3 children 8, 5, and 2 and will be celebrating our 14th anniversary this August
What’s the last NON Twilight thing you read?: Dead until Dark Even though it’s still about vampires it counts
What’s the last movie you saw?: At the theaters.. Gran Torino. Awesome movie!! At home.. I just finished watching my Twilight DVD
Date you joined TA: Dec. 9th 2008
Favorite Twilight Saga Book: Argh.. probably Eclipse, but I love all of them.
Favorite Twilight Character: Duh! Edward!
Favorite Quote: “But if you ever bring her back damaged again — and I don’t care whose fault it is; I don’t care if she merely trips, or if a meteor falls out of the sky and hits her in the head — if you return her to me in less than the perfect condition that I left her in, you will be running with three legs. Do you understand that, mongrel?”
Team?: Edward of course!
What do you like the most about TA?: The super awesome people that make me realize I’m not the only person out there with OCD
Have you gotten anyone to read the books? My friend Jen, my sister in law, my niece, and that’s only the beginning
Have you gotten anyone to join TA?: I’m pretty sure my buddy Jen joined

USA Today has a fantastic interview with Kristen Stewart. Kristen Stewart talks about Adventureland, Bella, and who she really is:

‘Everyone knows who you are’

“You’re so connected to people and they all know how to get to you, and everyone knows who you are, so explicitly. They think they know you. It’s like, ‘You really think you know me? I don’t know me! How do you know I’m not different around someone else?’ ” Her voice gets a little loud, and she slumps back in her chair.

“It almost makes the secrets more important, those few things you actually do choose to keep to yourself,” she says quietly.

Right now, Stewart may be Hollywood’s only real teenager playing girls who are moody, reckless, cautiously sexual but still awkward, and more self-reliant than many parents would like to acknowledge.

Other stars her age tend to fall either into the fantasy realm of the squeaky-clean Hannah Montana/Jonas Brothers variety, or play teens who seem more like they’re established jet-setters, as with the campy-fun Gossip Girl.

Stewart has earned both praise and criticism for being a kind of sulky girl on-screen — the kind you can see sleeping until noon, getting into a fight with her parents and running away, only to try sneaking back in just past curfew.

Stewart could be a case study. Feeling worthy of media attention appears to be a struggle. At the start of the interview, she says she’s bad at this — talking about her movies, and herself.

“Really, I’m incredibly disjointed and not candid,” she says. “Just in general, my thoughts tend to come out in little spurts that don’t necessarily connect. If you hang around long enough, you can find, like, the linear path. But it will take a second. That’s why these interviews never go well for me.”

It’s why she has been slammed by some reporters and why she had what some considered a disastrous interview with David Letterman for Twilight.

She has a reputation of being cranky, or a bit aloof. But over the course of about two hours, she reveals a kind of insecurity. She tries to say something, thinks it’s coming out wrong, stops and starts again, then finally gets frustrated — and clams up.

Another thing that makes her stop in mid-sentence: teenage girls. A group enters the restaurant, and Stewart abruptly shuts up until they pass. She apologizes, a little embarrassed, and whispers: “If those type of girls saw me talking about Twilight, you don’t understand. If I said ‘Jacob’ too loud, they’d be like —” She makes her eyes wide and sticks her hands out like claws.

“More than three girls of that certain age — run away,” she says, laughing as the threat settles in a distant part of the patio. “Girls are scary. Large groups of girls scare the (crap) out of me.”

She says Pattinson gets it worse. “They covet him. I think half of them are so jealous that they hate me,” she jokes.

It doesn’t help that many Twilight-ers want her and Pattinson to be a real-life couple. She’s actually dating Michael Angarano, 21, whom she co-starred with in the 2004 drama Speak.

“It doesn’t make my relationship harder. It’s not like, ‘Maybe I should be with (Pattinson) to make them happy and it’ll make me more popular!’ ” Stewart laughs, adding that her real boyfriend “is totally not a threatened guy. But, dude, it sucks.”

Why the adoration?

But Stewart is mostly grateful for Twilight — though she doesn’t think she did anything special.

“I’m really proud of Twilight. I think it’s a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don’t take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there’s literally like a thousand girls and they’re all screaming your name, you’re like, why? You don’t feel like you deserve it.”

One person who thinks Stewart did contribute a lot to Bella is Twilight author Stephenie Meyer. The character is regarded by some as overly passive, letting her vampire paramour take control, but Meyer says Stewart, currently shooting series sequel New Moon, gives the character an inner forcefulness.

“Kristin does a version of Bella that’s very strong. And you can see that what she’s doing is maturely thought out,” Meyer says. “In a lot of ways she’s a little bit impetuous, but you get the sense that she’s very adult about what she’s doing. She comes across as a girl who’s very serious and who happens to know what she wants.”

That also describes Stewart as she navigates her way to adulthood, on-screen and off. Unlike her Adventureland character, she’s not able to hide any of it.

To read the rest of the article, click here.

(Thanks to rustybabee, Shannon and Kaly)

I love this interview with Kristen. She really seems to be making an effort to show us who she really is. I can’t imagine how scary a huge group of screaming girls would really be.

Did you like this interview with Kristen? Do you like that she’s making a big effort to show us who she really is?

TA fan Kim compares watching the DVD to seeing the Twilight movie in theater:

As many of us have spent the past week watching our DVDs wearing out the first copy that we’d bought, I wonder about some of the ‘magic’ that the movie theaters possess. Does the big screen triumph over the DVD/Blu-ray no matter how much you love a movie? Trekking to different theaters eight times to see ‘Twilight’ trying to get the little fixes we all know we needed, I found something new and special each time. Although I questioned my sanity at times and asked myself, “Why am I doing this? Why am I paying these outrageous prices to see this movie over and over again?” And, I knew it wasn’t as great as the book, but with unknown actors, a small budget, a new studio company, and the BIG novel that could (excuse my Little Engine That Could reference), I felt Catherine Hardwicke did a fair job.

Read the complete article here

TA fan Kim compares watching the DVD to seeing the Twilight movie in theater:

As many of us have spent the past week watching our DVDs wearing out the first copy that we’d bought, I wonder about some of the ‘magic’ that the movie theaters possess. Does the big screen triumph over the DVD/Blu-ray no matter how much you love a movie? Trekking to different theaters eight times to see ‘Twilight’ trying to get the little fixes we all know we needed, I found something new and special each time. Although I questioned my sanity at times and asked myself, “Why am I doing this? Why am I paying these outrageous prices to see this movie over and over again?” And, I knew it wasn’t as great as the book, but with unknown actors, a small budget, a new studio company, and the BIG novel that could (excuse my Little Engine That Could reference), I felt Catherine Hardwicke did a fair job. Anyway, so I’ve been watching my DVD (only four times so far) and I feel like I’m missing something. Was the movie magic taken away with the extras and other clips I’ve seen on YouTube? I don’t know for sure because what I DO know is that I will continue to love this movie and watch it over and over again. Maybe that’s why we anticipate these movies coming to the big screen. What do you think? Is watching ‘Twilight’ on the big screen different than watching it at home? Do you think this is why we anticipate seeing the other movies this way? As much as I know that the coming movies will not play out exactly as they did as I was reading the books, I CAN NOT WAIT to see them!

Talk Back to us….what do you think?

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I’d like to introduce to you Pocket Edward, he is discovering the human world one pocket at a time.

His bio on Twitter looks like this:

Name: Pocket Edward
Location: Sparkling on the West Side
Bio: Bringing joy to pockets around the world.

Check out some of Pocket Edward’s adventures!

“My curiosity got me again. This is almost as embarrassing as the rubberband incident.”

“Going a little ZEN. Decided not to hide in the shadows today. Took my new umbrella and went for a stroll. No sparkle for me.”

“Keeping in Touch. Catching up on twits while my boo rests.”

See more of Pocket Edward’s adventures here.

(Thanks to Nicole!)

Edit: Apparently there are more Pocket Edwards out there than we knew of. To check out the originator of Pocket Edward, click here.

This is absolutely brilliant! I know I am easily amused, but I have been laughing and laughing all night. You really do have to go and check out the rest of Pocket Edward’s adventures. I’m going to be checking for updates on this one and following Pocket Edward on Twitter. Everyone can use a good laugh in their day! I think my absolute favorite has to be the bowling ball one right now.

Do you like Pocket Edward? Are you going to check out the rest of his adventures?

Just Jared Jr. has posted a great interview of Kristen Stewart talking about how her character is forced to grow up in ‘New Moon’:

Kristen Stewart recently sat down with the L.A. Times and dished on how much different New Moon is going to be from the first movie, Twilight.

The 18-year-old actress shared, “It’s a different movie, a lot happens. She [Bella] loses him [vampire Edward Cullen], which is certainly a crazy concept for me to accept because that’s the basis for the entire first movie. She grows up, quite a bit. She’s forced to, and she’s got strength and inner determination. A lot of people in her situation would be like, ‘OK, done.’”

SOURCE

(Thanks Rebecca!)

I’m truly convinced that Kristen understands Bella. I’m really liking the things she has said so far concerning how she sees the character take on everything in ‘New Moon’.

Did you like this interview? What do you think of Kristen’s thoughts on Bella?

By now, I hope you’ve all received, watched, and dissected your Twilight DVDs. Since there are several different versions of the DVDs, and unique extras/special features that are included only with some versions, our resident DVD extraordinaire and TA Staffer KrazyEm has brought us a special DVD related list this week.

10. The Adventure Begins: Journey From Page to Screen - The Vampires
(Disc 2 - special features)

9. Music: The Heartbeat of Twilight
(Disc 3 - bonus features)

8. The Adventure Begins: Journey From Page to Screen - Vampire Baseball
(Disc 2 - special features)

7. Becoming Edward
(Disc 3 - bonus features)

6. Deleted Scenes: Your Number Was Up the First Time I Met You
(Disc 2 - special features)

5. Catherine Hardwicke’s Vampire Kiss Montage
(Disc 3 - bonus features)

4. Deleted Scenes: She’s Brought Him to Life
(Disc 2 - special features)

3. Deleted Scenes: That’s the First Time I Dreamt of Edward Cullen
(Disc 2 - special features)

2. Edward’s Piano Concert
(Disc 3 - bonus features)

1. Audio Commentary with Catherine Hardwicke, Robert Pattinson, and Kristen Stewart
(Disc 1)