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[ Posted by UPDATENAME on August 17th, 2007 @ 9:05pm ] ONE I have been roleplaying for over ten years in various forms so the concept of character development and story is important to me. I prefer long term storylines, I prefer that my storyline partners also share this view. TWO THREE I will write out sex scenes, I however don't want just sex scenes because I get tired of it quickly - see ONE for reasons. Fading to black is more than acceptable as well. Sexuality wise any male I play is straight (slash doesn't appeal to me), the females that I have play are primarily straight. I do at the current time have a minor interest in trying a developing femme line - see lines I would like to try. FOUR WHO I PLAY Celebrity wise I play Emma Watson, Vanessa Hudgens, Brittany Snow, Danielle Panabaker, Kate Bosworth, Lily Allen & Kristen Bell. Harry Potter wise I play Luna Lovegood, Hermione Granger, Nymphodora Tonks-Lupin and a number of original characters (Daphne Greengrass, Megan Jones, etc). I will PB just about any female unless their name is Paris Hilton, I am sure the list is longer than that but at the moment I can only think of never playing someone with her face. reply | memories | edit

[ Posted by UPDATENAME on August 17th, 2007 @ 8:55pm ] brittany snow - one My first rollercoaster was one of the small kiddie ones at an amusement park in Ohio, my father and mother and I were visiting my brother and sister and they both eagerly began wearing him down to taking them to the park, after all it's an attempt at the happiest place on earth. And so I ventured onto the rollercoaster by myself my mother waited off to the side while everyone else went on the line ride for rides that I was much to short for. I am told I screamed nonstop my first triple trip around the tiny track, when the ride worker released me I ran, even if I was told to walk, towards my mom questioning if she had seen me when she smiled and said she had, I informed her that I wanted to go again and so I did, I probably went on the Tot Coaster five times, each time getting braver and braver by that last ride. By the end, my arms were fully extended through each rise and fall, like I had seen the older kids on other rides and giggling madly. This of course would not be my last run in with rollercoasters. Now I am on another type of rollercoaster, it's the ride that some people look at from the line and think 'that looks amazingly scary and to be honest I don't think I would like to be on that ride at all'. Others get in line and realize when they get to the rotating gate that it didn't look like this from the line and still others push through the metal counter and wait for the train to come and when it does they slip into their very own car and they try not to be scared, they try to keep their eyes open. But the truth about rollercoasters is you know that they are going to have their ups and their downs. There are going to be moments when you hearing clinging and are gripping metal bars waiting for the world to fall away and you barrel down at where it seems like you started. You think that if you expect it all to fall away that you won't scream like a seven year old girl... but you do anyway. There are people that laugh, there are people that piss on the seats, there are people so scared of the ride that they will walk a bit longer before they get on the death trap known as the ferris wheel. I know there is more to this rollercoaster because I have been on them before - this isn't my first time where I screamed my lungs out the first time, I know the person sitting next to me in the car has his eyes closed and is missing a bit of the ride most of the time but an important thing to remember is that he's still on the ride. He hasn't gotten scared enough that he's gotten off, we are still climbing those hills... We have been for over six months and screaming and fighting aside, I won't want to be sitting next to anyone else. After all the scariest and agueably best parts of rollercoasters are the sudden drops and climbs, the turns from out of know where and the loopy loops. The memorable bits are when you think it's going to fall out of your car, where you feel as though you are going to hurl and when the ride stops if you can look back and say 'you know that is a phenomenal ride'. Well then... you've ridden a rollercoaster properly. There hopefully that has appeased Steve & Dom. I will leave you with a few closing lyrics from my favorite song on this very subject. It's a secret no one tells; One day it's heaven, one day it's hell. It's no fairy tale; Take it from me, That's the way it's supposed to be. You will fly and you will crawl; God knows even angels fall. No such thing as you lost it all. God knows even angels fall. You laugh, you cry, no one knows why Behold the thrill of it all... You're on the ride You might as well Open your eyes reply | memories | edit

[ Posted by UPDATENAME on August 17th, 2007 @ 8:50pm ] brittany snow - two In my place in Toronto there is a coffee table, it's a piece of furniture that looks as though it has seen better days. I was laying on the couch one day when I first began staying here thinking dear god this coffee table is hideous. This coffee table isn't good enough to be called a coffee table. And so my feelings stayed until one night I had this urge to dance, because sometimes one just gets that urge, so I slipped on my iPod and acted like I was in one of their commercials, dancing and jamming out and seeing a recently cleaned off table, I slide on top of it. I have danced on tables and chairs before but never a coffee table. And so in the days following our fateful dance, my opinions of the dented stained wooden table have changed. I no longer see it as this thing undeserving of a name, but something much more than that. It's deserves a name and a story, so I have laid on my couch thinking of everything this coffee table have seen. It's seen lines of power inhaled through nostrils and probably assisted in a tawdry affair of a powerful woman and maybe the desk clerk. It's see it's share of coffee and probably a tantrum or two. In the time is has spent with me... it has seen a nervous young actress praying that the role she had taken wasn't too big for her... it has seen an adventurous duo leave with the sole intention of swimming in a freezing lake... it has seen my feet, my habits - good and bad, the dozens of magazines that I flip through hoping to get some bit of wisdom from a better body to how to make him purr, a meager attempt to show someone that you are more then a pretty face and a cute distraction in the form of a book, that meager attempt shoved into a drawer and replaced by tips on how to use bronzer... it has seen me laugh, me cry, my ups and downs for that last three and a half months. Someone has encouraged me to take this coffee table with me and yet another has offered to show me how to take it apart so the furniture-napping with be accomplished in an easier manner. The lesson of the coffee table. Just because something doesn't fit into what your definitions of something doesn't mean you are better of with out it. Doesn't even mean you should steal it... Just means everything no matter how flawed you think it is, is worthy of a second look. It's worthy of a chance... or a dance. I ♥ YOU, COFFEE TABLE NAMED STAN! ( third person aim samples - one ) reply | memories | edit

[ Posted by UPDATENAME on August 17th, 2007 @ 8:48pm ] emma watson It seems strange that it took something like browsing through pictures of Daniel, Rupert and I to think that the topic of friendship should be a topic of discussion for me in my upcoming update. I've known them since I was small, we all were small and so different, you can look at us and say we are still those three children we were seven years ago... but we know we are different. We've all grown up but we've grown up together, we've been thick as thieves well into the filming of the first movie. We've seen lost teeth, had first kisses, first dates, first break ups all within the sights of one another. And while we have very close friends from the other pieces of our lives, we have each other. They are the only people I have in my life that I talk to about this whole fame thing, we've had this one of a kind experience and really it makes it that much more important that we are close enough to talk about things that are bothering us, close enough to share things and ask things of the other that our other friends would just laugh at, get scared of or say that is so crazy it would never happen. I am the girl, the very lone girl in the trio, which is easy for everyone to see because the other two in the trio are rather boyish. There are times when it it infuriating when they gang up on me, they have their boys code to live by and frustratingly enough that means sometimes I get ganged up on. Of course, it also means that if I even mention that I fancy someone that they are on top of it and making themselves appear menacing and capable of acting out the silent threats that are looming over them if they make me cry or in anyway tarnish my happiness. And yes when you take a step back it is rather sweet that they do care enough and think enough of me that they would threaten someone else safety if they were to hurt me in any manner. Truly I perform the same service for them, I like to think of it as scening the loons from the choices. And trust me, there are girls that stand in towels, climb through car windows and hold up signs that say 'Future Mrs. Radcliffe or Grint is right here!" There are many many loony girls just as many creepy no good boys out there. Having to keep a sharp eye out for those blokes that are jealous of the relationship that I have with my costars and best friends, those are probably the ones that never make it through. We all have our own relationships with one another as well... Dan and Rupe have their boys club, they talk boy to one another... a very intricate series of grunts and groans that they only understand. I've picked up a little but for the most part it baffles me. They've even gotten better at girl talk, I would like to think that I've had an effect on them. And while yes they do have their own moments of nothing short of pure kindness and charm, that some of that would be missing without me. I've smirked and giggled on more than one occasion at the media and fans desire to translate that friendship into more than it is, they seem to like to slip in a question about romances that have been going on. Six years ago those questions applauded me, three years ago they were animately denied and this year I could finally admit that while since they are both attractive, have incredible qualities and that any girl would be lucky to have them in there lives but still no romances... my life isn't an episode of some daytime drama. Most of my other friends have learned to over look the 'fame' portion of my life, but it does get harder the older I get to keep said friends. One of my close girlfriends from primary school, set off to go to school elsewhere two years ago, she comes back for summers of course and holidays but we always seem to be out of sync when we try getting together and end up walking arm in arm around Oxford for hours early in the morning. She was the first person I called when I got the role of Hermione, I couldn't wait to call her. She's been to set countless times with me especially during the first three films, she can sit in a room with Rupe and Dan and not squeal and when we are out and I get asked for an autograph afterwards she giggles and says, "I completely forgot that you are famous." And if I am completely honest, I prefer to keep any normal bits of my life in tact that I can. I go to the same school that I planned on attending before I got the role, I stay away from people that want to be my friends that say "I am cool with the fame thing." If the mention that within the first few hours of conversation, I react poorly and avoid them, because it's the call to attention that I am Hermione Granger in five Harry Potter films. At it's moments like those that I turn to the boys and just really talk with them. At the moment, I am making a few new friends on the set of Ballet Shoes playing the role of Pauline Fossil. I've been working on this project for the BBC for a short time, between ballet lessons, readings and a few days of filming and I will be finished up in less than twenty four hours. It's all gone by rather quickly, and it has been so different compared to working on the Harry Potter films. I was going to take August off, that was the plan anyway, since July literally had me booked solid and flying all over the world, but I feel in love with Pauline she is flawed and strong so that off month didn't happen. But this is an amazing project and it's allowing me the chance to show myself and the rest of the planet that I can be more than Hermione. Plus I wanted to be like Dan and be in a BBC movie, not to mention with Richard in something other than Harry Potter, since I sadly never got to work closely with him and he's nice to my orphan character. In nine days, I will be moving into my own flat in London for Harry Potter filming. This will be a change for me, at least a change from what I am use to though the last weeks have helped quite a lot as I have been on my own in London. My mum, dad, aunties and uncles have all checked in on me and I had a bodygaurd most days... not to mention a few of my mum's friends and I've seen Dan & Rupe a few times. My definition of on my own is very strange. Because I know that everyone is going to checking in and I know that there are going to be visits from family and friend making sure I am well. I've already got a sleep over arrange with a few of my friends the following weekend. My that has turned into a lengthy update. ( third person aim samples - one ) ( third person aim samples - two ) reply | memories | edit

[ Posted by UPDATENAME on August 17th, 2007 @ 8:45pm ] kristen bell There are perks to being an actress, the free stuff use to be enough and now we have to claim it on our taxes... at least Americans do. So I did that, I was a good little tax paying citizen and claimed all the nice sunglasses and shoes I've received for free as part of my earnings (but not the ones I stole from set because Uncle Sam isn't getting a nickel of those puppies - plus I am operating under the assumption that one doesn't leave a paper trail of their crimes to wardrobe trailer, I may be a trailblazer but I don't want to get labeled as a snitch... even of my own crimes). Though free stuff wasn't really what I was trying to get at, I was talking about the incredible sunset I am watching from a swanky hotel room with a view of the ocean overlooking a beach in Oahu. There's even that mix of pretty colors in the water that sort of looks like a really nice painting that would hang in some museum. And completing this entire experience is a nice cup of tea and a big bowl of fresh fruit which just arrived at my door... straight from the beloved hotel staff. They are beloved because the feed me and clean up after me every single day. And yes I realize that it is their job, and I give them nice tips so they do change my sheets and don't spit in my food. I like spit free food. Why you may be pondering am I in Hawaii (Oahu is in Hawaii for those that didn't know)... I am filming a romantic comedy called Forgetting Sarah Marshall and I am playing Sarah Marshall. We shall see if there will be any luck in forgetting me or my character. And of course it's Friday evening, so I will forgive the day solely based on it being pretty outside, a nice cup of pee free tea and a spit free bowl of fruit. I am having mixed feelings about the end of Veronica Mars, I know fans are crushed. First there were reports that we would make it, then we were just on edge and finally we are not on the schedule which the media sees that and announces that we are officially canceled and now in the pass few days a glimmering ray of hope for fans, cast and crew a like... rumors that Rob will be submitting a script for review of Veronica Mars either as an FBI intern or a few years into the future. I've only had a brief phone call with Rob in the week since the upfronts were announced and I am still employed on a CW show, I will be the narrator of Gossip Girl. The mixed part comes in that I want to look at this as a positive experience, I don't want to taint the end with anger or hatred for being canceled. I want to remember it, as the family that adopted me and I them, the fans that were amazing and will continue to be a force not to be toiled with I am sure. I am going to stop while the sentimentality hasn't led to anything too touchy and/or feely. reply | memories | edit

[ Posted by UPDATENAME on August 17th, 2007 @ 8:40pm ] lily allen I can't promise that this is going to be a particularly interesting read or cause anything other than you getting cross eyed and maybe wanting to never be like me. But who knows, I could cause you to have an epiphany and realize that the direction I have gone is the complete and opposite direction you want to go. Which I won't say is a bad thing for you. Some say that I am a privileged uppercrust twat who is only where she is because she is the daughter of her father, I won't say that is hasn't helped a bit. I can say that I don't think I would be where I am at today with out my dad's support, he told me to get myself out there and when I fell flat on my face the first few times and wanted to give it all up and got back to arranging flowers, he told me not to quit that the very same thing happened to him. Then he imparted onto me a story from his youth before he had met my mum and spawned me and my little brother, when he was a struggling actor and he too faced rejection. It probably should have been taken as a cautionary tale about the times I had to look forward to, but instead I took it as it was offered a keep your chin up go get them story. Interesting tidbit about myself, I have been kicked out of more schools than I have fingers. School wasn't for me, at least during my youth, come to think of it it still isn't for me at least not at the moment. That would be that privileged bit you just read about - there were some posh schools that were daft enough to think I stood a chance at staying in their restrictive halls completely with matchy matchy uniforms. Needless to say, I didn't fair well and ended up dropping out much to my mum's protests at the time - though I am quite sure she was happy to know that I was done wasting tuition like I had been. I traveled for a time and ended up learning to arrange flowers and being a florist. I enjoyed it, I got quite good, it was creative and it certainly paid all of my bills. But I was writing by then and eventually songwriting and singing called my name. I wasn't discovered so much as held onto for a good amount of time before I started my own MySpace page, which is where this life took a wild turn. I got friends and people enjoyed the music that I posted, it proved to my second record company that my niche was large and that I wasn't just a unique sounding girl with no marketability. So thank you MySpace. My tongue has a way of getting me into quite a lot of trouble, as does my brain as I blame it for many of the things my tongue says. My dad theorizes that I lack a permanent editor between my brain and mouth. I can't really determine if this is a bad thing or a good thing. On one hand I say very media friezing things, on the other hand I say things that draw a lot of attention to me and my words. One of the more problematic things that seem to occur is that people take things I have said far far far out of context or misquote me completely. I've learned not to be vague about who you are lashing out at, otherwise you say something about fifteen people and my publicist literally wants to explode at me from all the inquires she gets. And I have been told that making your publicist actually explode isn't good. What other things can I tell you about myself? I love my mum's cooking and walking my dog. Those are the two things I miss the most when I was away from home. I actually have my own home now, bought a house towards the end of last month, the press is calling it a lovenest in East London. Got to love the media and their love of blowing my male roommate far far out of the realm of reality. He pays me to stay there and he takes care of the place when I am off doing whatever the fuck I do. Well, this being said I am going to go bathing suit shopping since I will be in Fort Lauderdale and I don't want to resemble a whale in a string bikini because that is all they have in Florida... those or the suit Nan would wear to the beach. Neither is an acceptable option. reply | memories | edit

[ Posted by UPDATENAME on August 17th, 2007 @ 8:35pm ] vanessa hudgens I am a trend follower sometimes and I should follow the mini biography trend - you know for all those that don't know anything or not much about me. I promise it wouldn't be terribly boring, there will be plenty of V flavor in there. In 1988 on the 14th evening of December, I busted out of my uterine prison ready to make my mark on the world, alright I admit that was a little overdramatic. Gina and Greg Hudgens where overjoyed to finally meet their adorable and overdramatic daughter, whom they named Vanessa Anne Hudgens. For seven and a half blissful years I was an only child and the center of my parents world, it was then that I found out that I would be a big sister in a few short months and this news was received with mixed reviews at the time. Less attention but the lure of a living doll won me over in the end and I joined my friend and her mom while my little sister, Stella was born. Much to my dismay, she wasn't nearly as fun as I thought she would be the first few months. Legend has it in my household that I asked at one point if we could give Stella back, now I fully enjoy my membership to the big sister club at the time I obviously didn't see the benefits. For a short time, we all moved to Oregon. This was short lived as eventually we returned to California, mostly do to my desire to be an actress and the lack of opportunity in Oregon for real career growth. Stella has followed in my footsteps, enough to get some gigs and having her very own projects - which I honestly can say I am so proud of her and happy that she is doing something she loves and enjoys. Career wise, I am only in the infancy of doing anything of real note - as some would say my star is just starting to rise and my future is bright. And much of that bright future I owe to The Disney Channel and High School Musical, as they and it are what have launched me into a place I honestly only dreamed of reaching one day. Gosh - I begun singing and dancing at three, though it wasn't until I was eight that I had throughly annoyed my parents enough for them to put me into community theater, which was around the same time Stella was born. Now, I think it was my parents way of letting me gain attention while they were being excitable about Stella's arrival. After graduating from sixth grade, my mother and father made the choice to home school me. It made auditioning and working easier with the flexible schedule that home school offered and I continued working in ads and theater developing into what is called a triple threat. At fifteen, I had a small role in the film Thirteen. Only two things on my reel were guest spots on Still Standing and Robbery Homicide Division. From there it was hit or miss with film and television and I held small roles in Thunderbirds (film), The Brothers Garcia and Quintuplets. If this were my E! or A&E channel biography this would be a cue for a musical change as this is the point in the story that I say I went on the audition that changed my life. Essentially, I had decided if my Disney audition for High School Musical didn't work out for me, I would be attempting to try out for American Idol. And see if I could get anywhere with that. As luck would have it, I battled dance moves, singing and acting with hundreds of other girls to be the girl left standing for the role of Gabriella in HSM which set me heading in a place even I wasn't aware of until it hit. I thought this movie was going to be good but honestly none of us expected it to be, as one interviewer compared it, this generations Grease. That was a little over a year ago and my life and career have been on a chaotic journey ever since. Disney was very influential in getting me a reoccurring role on The Suite Life as a Catholic school girl. Not to mention getting me, my own record deal with Hollywood Records and essentially giving me full backing for my first album called V. I've been on tour for most of the past year for HSM or my album, we've filmed HSM2 (which will premiere in August & following that will be a turn of promotional events as well as a HSM2 tour) and just recently finished the Latin America portion of our tour, which I can say I am attempting to recover from - sleep is a gift from the gods. I also was selected by Neutrogena as their newest spokesperson and can honestly say I realize I am incredibly blessed. I hope that wasn't too boring. reply | memories | edit

[ Posted by UPDATENAME on August 17th, 2007 @ 8:30pm ] william moseley What does one exactly put into an introduction post? This is the very question I have been pondering for the last thirty minutes while staring at the blank white box while I sit in my rather sparse flat. I should be looking at the shooting schedule for Monday but I really rather stare at my computer monitor and think about all those things I could be doing instead of attempting to introduce myself to all of you, you out there in LiveJournal land. You may be inquiry as to why my flat is sparse, well you see in less than two weeks I will be flying to a rented house in Prague and all of my belongs are making their way there at the moment. I have boxes lining my living room wall and am not looking forward to the third large move in the last two months that I have gone through. The first being from New York to Auckland and the second being from Auckland to Dunedin, to be honest I looked forward to our [The Chronicles of Narnia “family”] return to New Zealand. Speaking of the Narnia family, it’s amazing how much two and a half years can cause us all to grow up so much. While we’ve seen each other quite a bit when we were doing promotion for The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, I hadn’t seen anyone from the filming for a few month stretch. An example of how much I have changed since beginning filming the first movie, I was seventeen and looking forward to being off on my own when my father left after making sure I had settled into Auckland well. Having the house I was staying in to myself was a very weird feeling, I went from a full house with my brother, my sister, my mum and dad to just me. I was rather overwhelmed at the time and turned nearly everything on that made noise so that I wouldn’t feel so alone. And looking at myself now, I live on my own in a foreign city just so that I can have the actual full experience of being on my own. While London would have been an acceptable choice, it is just an hour and a half train ride from my parents, which would have tarnished the whole intention of moving out on my own. I’ve grown to enjoy the quiet and no longer obsessively turn everything on so I don’t feel all alone. Anna doesn’t seem to have changed drastically, Skandar and Georgie have both grown height wise and they’ve changed in slight ways, both have picked up new slang and demonstrate a bit of those tell tale fads. In truth, I’ve picked up a few American habits from living there and quite a lot of slang myself. Filming is going well on Prince Caspian, as you can assume we are closing in on the end of filming in New Zealand. We’ve been working for nearly a month and a half and still have four months worth of filming in studio in Prague and location filming in Slovenia for the rest of the film. More training and working with swords, which I have been keeping up with in the time between finishing the first film and the beginning of this film. Work wise, filming is what I have been working on. Though there is a different feel on set, there are holes in the fabric so to speak. We had all grown so close and some of the people are missing and new people have come in, in jokes that would leave us in stitches just don’t carry the same about of laughter. Though I guess that is understandable with the series moving on again. They’ve greenlighted the third movie as well, which is more than a little crazy to think about since we’ve only just started shooting the second. I’m unsure where or not Anna and I will be in the third, as our characters are only mentioned in passing in The Voyage of the Dawn Trader. But that is enough about work, even though that is exactly what will be consuming my life well into August. Then I am unsure where I will end up, I am torn between going back to New York City or moving to London. While I have proved my point of living on my own, I do miss certain things only the English soil can provide. A pint at a pub with some chips – that is something that I greatly missed while living in New York. Though to be honest I think that I will save that comparison for a later entry. As introduction posts go, I hope I have accomplished my rather difficult task. I am always open to constructive criticism that is if you feel it is warranted. reply | memories | edit

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