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Weekend Highlights: New Moon

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As all of you know by now, I got a group of my girlfriends together on Saturday at Cinebistro to watch New Moon, the second installment of the Twilight Saga. Before discussing the movie, I have to gush about Cinebistro! I had never been there before and was blown away! First off, it’s only open to a 21+ crowd, which immediately makes it attractive. I’ve gotten to the age where I just cannot stand screaming little tweens or really any interruptions of any kind while I am watching a movie – it drives me insane, so the thought of watching a movie with only adults really appealed to me. It was absolutely silent in there and the seats were so so so comfy and huge! The food was also really delicious, but very expensive. Also, FYI: do not order a bucket of beer before the movie. I had to use the bathroom twice throughout the movie! Not the best decision, in  hindsight! Cinebistro is great, but definitely something to save for a special movie (which this was). We already have plans to visit again when Eclipse is released in June!

If you have not yet seen the movie and do not want to be spoiled, please do not continue reading!

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Happy Hump Day: Twilight Edition!

Better late than never, right girls?

In honor of this weekend’s huge release of the second chapter of the Twilight Saga, New Moon, I’m going to treat you to some vampire and werewolf eye candy! What can I say? I’m an equal opportunity humper. Heh. How many of you are seeing the movie sometime this opening weekend? I bought my tickets over a month ago along with a big group of girlfriends and are holding a themed party back at my place after the movie later that night. I am so excited, guys. It’s kind of ridiculous. You know, the thing I like the most about this whole Twilight phenomenon is that it has allowed all us “big girls” to reconnect with our silly youth. We are not afraid to squeal and let ourselves become giddy over cute boys – it reminds me of when things were so much simpler. And that’s nice.

So without further ado, here are our beautiful monsters:

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New Moon Soundtrack

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I realize that this poster is fan made, but I think it’s lovely and really sets the tone for the film. In this case, I think Twilight fans should be hired on as art directors! Anyways, the release of New Moon is almost a month away but to help us Twihards make it through until then, they were generous enough to release the soundtrack tomorrow! To wet our appetite even further, Myspace released the album on Twilight’s official page yesterday. However, not all songs were available in their entirety, but I was able to get a gist of what we can expect to hear. Here is the tracklisting:

Meet Me On The Equinox – Death Cab for Cutie
Friends – Band of Skulls
Hearing Damage – Thom Yorke
Possibility – Lykke Li
A White Demon Love Song – The Killers
Satellite Heart – Anya Marina
I Belong to You (New Moon Remix) – Muse
Roslyn – Bon Iver & St. Vincent
Done All Wrong – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Monsters – Hurricane Bells
The Violet Hour – Sea Wolf
Shooting the Moon – OK Go
Slow Life – Grizzly Bear
No Sound But The Wind – Editors
New Moon (The Meadow) – Alexandre Desplat

For those of you not familiar with the books, New Moon is the darkest of the four. Edward leaves Bella for what he believes is her own good, rendering her comatose. That’s when Jacob Black swoops in for the kill, so to speak. That is, until he discovers a secret of his own which causes him to pull away from Bella as well. This leaves Bella feeling ultimately abandoned by both the love of her life and her best friend. Basically, not fun stuff. So I was expecting music that set that kind of mood: dark and emo. I’m really happy to say that they did a pretty good job. The Thom Yorke track is spectacular and really lends the album some sort of music credibility. Slow Life by Grizzly Bear also seemed perfect to me along with The Editors’ slow & haunting track. But something that got me really horribly upset? Muse’s remixed I Belong To You. First off, this is one of my favorite tracks off their new album, The Resistance, so I was already weary when I heard it was getting remixed for this movie. Ugh, I just think it’s terrible. It honestly sounds like I opened Garage Band and put random sounds at random moments throughout the song not even bothering to make it flow in any way, shape or form. They totally massacred it!

However, I’m still really excited for this one because I truly believe it is going to be light years better than the first film. I’ve decided to re-read the book in preparation because it’s been some time since I read the entire saga and some details are a bit hazy. I want to make sure I can be annoying enough to spot all the little differences as well as appreciative of the moments they get dead on.

What do you guys think of the soundtrack?
Are you excited for the premiere of New Moon or am I the only nerdly fangirl?