Spinning is so much cooler than not spinning.

So I'm watching Twilight on my compy after buying it at Wal-Mart. OMFG I didn't dare think that the crowd would be that big, half the time I thought I was going to get trampled by the time 12:01 came around). And while I was waiting for time to come before they bought out the displays I went looking around for "Let the right one in", which I didn't find...at first. Just when I was about to give up I noticed a vampire and werewolf DVD display. I thought it couldn't hurt to check it out I scanned the display quickly for LTROI and at first I didn't see it because I was looking for a regular keep case.


I was about to turn around when something caught my eye. A 3-D cover for LTROI, I wasn't expecting that so I didn't look for it. Needless to say I'm happy I found it (what better way to rinse out the twilight flavor left in my skull? I know know as I type this that I won't have time enough to finish watching Twi AND LTROI before sunrise so I'm saving the better of the two (so I've heard) for tomorrow sometime (I think mom wants to watch Twilight *cackles* poor woman I pity her) the acting is terrible but I only really bought the DVD for the Awesome Alice Cullen anyway.

Anyway as I was looking for the LTROI DVD my Mom found me and we chatter for a while as we both decided to look for the movie and so she asked me what it was about and the title. So I told her about what little I did know of it all the while hoping none of the TwiFans got mouthy, thankfully despite the huge number of TwiGirls at Wal-mart they all behaved themselves but when the displays were dragged out the roar of their chatter was nearly too much for my hearing aid and they crowded around the display hoping to snag a 2-disc DVD. Fortunately for my one of the guys why was around there (slightly taller than me) and standing behind me and to the left snagged about 4 or 5 copies of the 2-disc edition and started handing them out (this was after I asked a girl a little in front of me if she could grab a 2-disc for me. The guy started handing out the DVD's and I was one of the lucky ones he gave them too (we kept accidentally bumping into each other so we were apologizing to each other *snickers*)

As for why I went there to the release party was really one good reason. I missed the thrill of Harry Potter release parties. I did my best while waiting, to be a bit of a minor fangirl chuckling in places where I thought was polite until I had the DVD and all but peeled away from the display (not that I wasn't polite afterwards but I could stop being phony at least) once I had my stuff paid for I had to wait about 15-20 minutes in line before I got to the register all in all it was a good night. Still hate twilight but the movie is somewhat amusing (was rooting for James and Tyler's Van of Death *giggles*) and whole lot better than that hard to read brick that SMeyer crapped out.

As for BSG? I'm still in denial that it's all over now except for "The Plan" *hugs her BSG DVD's tightly* Also thinking about picking up Battle for Seattle on DVD. Gotta support my other December 15 birthday baby in his directorial debut. (I wuv you Stuart, your way too good for Theron)

Been a busy day! Ever since I found out that Stuart was photographed at the Laker game yesterday I'm been on a mission to find as many unmarked pictures as possible I sent the first 2 I sent (in different sizes to the Mods of both StuartTownsend.org and Stuart-Online.com)

Then I find that WOW BeKay has 26(!) pictures of the game last night I few of them different sizes and or crops but a good chunk of them are one I had not seen 'til I visited her site. But then a while later I discovered a few that she didn't have in her cast allotment. So being the good contributer I am I sent her the Hi-Res versions of them. (2 of the 3 I sent her I had seen before, but they had been marked, ewww)

I don't mind sharing as long as I know my finds aren't being marked rudely near Stuarts face, black mark or tag at the bottom is cool because I know if someone wanted to make icons or graphics out of them, then they wouldn't have to worry about how they were going to get rid of the crude, non-elegant marks near the face, instead of a dapper black tag way at the bottom.

Dear CSI,

As much as as I love you. I will not watch any CSI unless it is on Spike TV. Because dear Friend when you go up against
"Night Stalker" you lose, and you lose big (although I am missing Greg and Grissom and the gang, I dream of a CSI / Night Stalker crossover).

Much love and no hard feelings
b_elle

I am completly floating on air!!!! I emailed Lara at stuarttownsend.org a link with my latest Stuart picture find and after much squeeing, she's not only putting said picture on the front page BUT also she's sending me a DVD with his television interviews!!!

Wow when they talk about no good deed goes unrewarded, they really mean it !

*is still floating on cloud 99!*

INTERVIEW WITH THE NEW VAMPIRE
by Dave White, The Advocate 3/5/02


Stuart Townsend, star of Queen of the Damned, talks about baring his
fangs-and his abs-as Anne Rice's vampire Lestat

"My first time in a nightclub with a gay friend, I walked into a room
full of men kissing each other, and I was shocked by the energy of the
place-the muscles! I had never been in that environment before, and I
freaked a little. The homophobia barrier closed in around me-I was
scared. But I've grown up a bit since then," laughs actor Stuart
Townsend.

The grown-up actor's next gay rite of passage is his star role as Lestat
in the film version of Anne Rice's hugely popular novel Queen of the
Damned, picking up the fake fangs originally worn by Tom Cruise in
Interview With the Vampire. This time out, Townsend transforms the
character, formerly an omnisexual 18th-century fop, into a ghoulish
glam/goth rock star, one who inspires his fans to hoist homemade Total
Request Live-like signs that read "Suck Me, Lestat!" He's a vampire
rocker gleefully perverse enough to make both David Bowie and Marilyn
Manson proud.

A veteran of independent cinema-having starred in the comedy About Adam,
with Kate Hudson, as well as director Michael Winterbottom's Wonderland
and the flat-out strange Judaic ghost stow Simon Magus-the 29-year-old
Irish actor was ready for this step into the Hollywood mainstream. What
he was not prepared for was its accompanying off-screen tragedy, as
Townsend's Queen of the Damned costar, pop singer Aaliyah, died in a
plane crash during postproduction.

"I have no catchphrase to say about her, there's no escaping it or
redeeming it," he says quietly. "You can say someone was wonderful after
they die, and people will say, 'Yeah, you're just saying that because
she's dead.' But the thing about her is that it's all tree. She was a
genuinely joyful person, gentle and respectful of everyone. I'm honored
to have known her."

Paired with Aaliyah's regal, murderous queen, Townsend's Lestat rules
over his fans by cutting the rock star swagger with an equal amount of
androgyny. "I never thought of this character as male or female, gay or
nongay, just as a seducer and as someone who craves to be known, to be
famous," explains Townsend. "I prepared by reading the Anne Rice novels
and watching lots of vampire movies, but also by watching lots of rock
performances and learning how they moved, especially Bowie."

This late-model Lestat, one who awakens in the modem world and decides
the time is right to exit the vampire closet, is also a cheekier ghoul
than the one who came before. In one scene, Lestat even taunts other
vampires, via MTV, to "come out, come out, wherever you are." As coded
messages go, it may not pack the punch of watching Tom Cruise linger
over Brad Pitt's neck, but it's something.

And the subtext suits him fine. "I'd say there's sexual tension between
my character and Vincent Perez's [who plays Marius], but there's nothing
explicit." Yet Townsend also feels that the very nature of vampire lore,
not to mention the glare rock and goth subcultures and their defiant
"difference," offer plenty of queer spirit for lesbian and gay audiences
to feed on. Queen doesn't show and tell like The Hunger, Townsend's
favorite vampire movie, "but if you're looking for it," he says, "it's
there."

Will that be enough for audiences looking for less metaphoric
representation? "Well, there was no one there saying, 'Stuart, could you
be little more homosexual here?' But I promise, he's no macho vampire. I
mean, look, they shaved my chest and put me in a velvet skirt," he
laughs. "What more do you want?"

White writes about film for E! Online.

For The Advocate's past coverage of Anne Rice and the vampire Lestat, go
to www.advocate.com