> Episode 009 "Just a Movie"

I: Hi everyone, welcome back to the Pattycast. I’m Isabel.

J: And I’m Joy.

I: We miss Tara, she can’t be here right now. We’re sorry for our long absence, but we’ve had a lot of scheduling conflicts and real life issues; plus the site’s huge and we’ve just been trying to keep on top of all the technical issues and all that. But, some good news for everyone who listens to the Pattycast. In the last month alone, all of our Pattycasts have been downloaded about 20,000 times according to the stats and according to Joy. And is that--are those the right numbers Joy?

J: Yeah, yeah, and I mean, that’s just for February and March, you know? I mean, part of March. Yeah 20,000. That’s a lot of people downloading. So, we’re really grateful that you guys are listening and spreading the word cuz we have fun doing this. We have missed it in the past month or so. We’ve been trying to find time but we’re glad to be back!

I: Yes, we’re glad to be back. Let’s jump into the news. We’ve got some general news about Rob at the Oscars. That was great. Do you have any--

J: Yeah, I really liked watching it. I think he did a great job, he seemed really nervous but I think that was great exposure for him--like he needs it…

I: Exactly.

J: But I think that was really good, and even in his interviews he seemed kinda shocked that he was even asked to present, cuz you know, the Oscars, I mean, that’s a pretty big deal, so, I dunno, it was just kinda good to see him do that. And then right after that, he was off to Tokyo with Kristen and Taylor for the Twilight premiere there, which was great. We got some really good pictures.

I: Well he did--he was nervous at the Oscars, but I think he’s nervous at a lot of things. Even in interviews he says he’s nervous. We’ll get to more interviews later, but yeah, they jetted right off to Tokyo after that and that was a pretty quick trip, and then it was back to LA quickly, and then up to Vancouver for filming, yeah?

J: Yeah. But he still managed to find time to do karaoke with Hugh Jackman.

I: Who doesn’t? Who doesn’t have time to do Karaoke with Hugh Jackman?

J: I mean seriously, seriously.

I: I would have time.

J: I have to admit though, when we first started hearing those rumors, though, I was like, “What? You’re kidding me! Like they’d have time to do karaoke with each other.” But apparently they did, and I thought that was so hilarious that it was actually true.

I: But did you know he’s a really good actor and dancer, Hugh Jackman?

J: Oh, yeah. He is.

I: Actor and dancer? Singer and dancer.

J: I looooooove Hugh Jackman.

I: More exciting news: Rob’s nominated for the Empire award. For an Empire award. Yeah?

J: Yeah, that was exciting, I mean, he was short-listed first, and they were asking for people to nominate and do all that stuff, so apparently people came out in droves and nominated him, which is great. So, now he’s an official nominee. The actual awards will take place on March 29th and they’ll have it online, and I’m pretty sure they’ll have it on television, but probably just in the U.K. We’ll find out march 29th which is not that far away. That would be exciting if he won the award. He’s up against some really good competition but that’d be awesome if he won. So, yeah.

I: Anyway, Kellan. Kellan Lutz does an impression of--

J: Yes, can we talk about this? Did you watch this? This is the funniest video.

I: I did. This is one of them that I did watch, surprisingly, cuz I watch so many.

Laughter

J: I laughed so hard.

I: I laughed so hard, too. Is that really how he runs?

J: Apparently, apparently.

I: Wow.

J: Yeah, if anyone has not seen that video, watch it, of Kellan Lutz doing an impression of Rob’s run. It is so hilarious.

I: Especially if you’re in a bad mood or something.

J: It’s a short video, but it’s worth it.

I: It’ll cheer you up, definitely.

J: It really will cheer you up. It’s funny.

I: I dunno if it’s on the front page anymore, but if you look back in the archive it’s recently--it’s been in the archives this week, I think.

J: Yeah, you can search for Kellan’s name and you’ll find the video.

I: Well, let’s talk about Twilight and New Moon, my favorite thing. Can I have an aside? We have a listener e-mail that she sent in a question that is only directed to you, by the way, because it has to do with Breaking Dawn.

Laughter

I: Did you see that? That cracked me up.

J: I did see that. I got my own little--

I: People aren’t even asking us, anymore, Tara and I, cuz we just don’t care.

J: Cuz you don’t care. I will always care about Twilight, people. Always.

I: I will always care about….not Twilight. Always.

J: Yes. But to answer her question, I have never been to Forks. That was her question, and I would like to go--

I: Forks, Washington?

J: Yeah.

I: I was in Vancouver, Washington this summer.

J: That doesn’t count.

Laughter

I: It does count! That’s where they filmed--

J: I’ve actually never been to Washington State, believe it or not.

I: Really?

J: Nope.

I: Anyway, the DVD. Let’s talk about the DVD. I didn’t preorder anything. I don’t think you preordered anything either.

J: Well, no because I’m in Thailand because even if I preordered it, I wouldn’t be able to see it until this summer. Although, I did see a pirated version of it on the street and I was really tempted to buy it.

Laughter

J: It was like 90 baht, I was like, “Oh, I really want it!” But I held back. I will admit that I have watched some of the deleted scenes and stuff online. I know some people are like purists and they wanna wait 'til the DVD comes, but I was like, “I have to wait all the way ‘til June before I can see it!” So I watched some of it online and they’re really, really good. I’m really excited to see the whole DVD.

I: Yeah, I really like it, the only reason why I would buy it--and I wanna go to a store to buy it, I don’t wanna buy it online--and I wanna wait 'til I go to the States because when you buy DVD’s in Canada, they’ve got them in French and in English. I speak French, and that’s fine, but I don’t want my DVD’s having French and English on them. But I really want to watch the commentary more than anything.

J: You know, people are saying that it’s hilarious. Even reviews are saying that it’s the best part of the DVD. I can’t wait. I really, really, really, wanna see that.

I: I cannot wait. Yeah. Like, the extras, whatever, I really enjoyed them in the Goblet of Fire, but I enjoyed it the most when they interviewed him, but this is him just talking about the movie the entire time. I can’t wait.

J: It’s gonna be hilarious. Cuz you know his sense of humor is so dry--

I: Well I already heard he’s making fun of himself the entire time--

J: --It’s gonna be like a mystery science theater kinda thing.

I: Oh yeah! That’s what it would be. Perfect.

J: It’s gonna be great, I’m really excited. But yeah, they were saying that there were three million copies sold in just the first day--that’s amazing.

I: That’s awesome.

J: That’s really, really good for a DVD, I have to say. And even Summit made a press release saying “Thank you.” I mean this is like--it’s a really big deal.

I: Summit hit gold. I can’t impress enough how lucky Summit got.

J: Yeah, seriously.

I: Anyway, what’s next? DVD release parties. Rob didn’t even go! I wonder why?

J: Yeah

Laughter

J: He probably was just like, “You know what? Where would I rather be? At my friend’s gig or being mobbed by thousands of crazy fan girls?”

I: Hmmmm. That’s a tough decision. If I was Rob, I would have to sit long and hard thinking about that.

J: Poor Rob.

I: Poor Rob.

J: People were emailing us like, “Where’s he gonna be?” And of course, we didn’t know--

I: You know what? I didn’t think he was going to go anywhere, to be honest. I knew where he was going to be, sort of. But I didn’t think he was going to be at any of the Twilight things to be honest, because--

J: I think a lot of people did.

I:--the first reports that came out were Ashley. And they were all--none say minor cast members, and even Kristen wasn’t there, was she?

J: No, I don’t think she did. I could be wrong but I don’t think she did. And, I mean, that’s fine. I kinda feel like the way that they handled it was kind of, I dunno, just to be like--

I: It was lame!

J: -- “Surprise cast appearances--

I: It was lame!

J: Cuz you know, a lotta people are buying tickets to like fly to these things just on the off-chance that Rob or Kristen or whatever, and then to get there and most of the places didn’t even have any cast appearance at all, and they didn’t even release any---cuz they did say, “The cast will be at these places,” but they did that the day of, and so of course, you know, these little girls who’ve bought plane tickets to fly out, and who’re doing all these--I mean like, I’d be really pissed.

I: Well, when I first heard about it, cuz I think it was one of those gossip news programs that--

J: Yeah

I: That broke the story, I knew that they were just trying to get people to come and not say that Rob wasn’t going to be there cuz imagine how many people would actually turn up if they specifically said, “Oh, these people are gonna be there, but not Rob.” So, I mean, you know that they were doing it intentionally.

J: Oh, I’m sure. I just think it’s kinda mean.

Laughter

I: Well that’s stupid, yes, of course, but that’s capitalism for you. Anyway--

J: Oh gosh

Laughter

I: Yeah, I’m not gonna go there.

J: Save that for the soapbox!

Laughter

I: Anyway, let’s talk about New Moon. Like, a darker Edward? What do you think?

J: Yeah, Rob had this quote, talking about going to Canada where it’s dark, apparently--

I: That’s not true! I’m looking outside right now, it’s not dark!

Laughter

J: Well it’s dark here in Bangkok at four o’clock in the morning. Anyway, he talked to the Insider and he said that his character goes “fifty times darker than it did in the first movie,” which kinda to me says that they’re giving us a little bit more Edward in this movie, because honestly in New Moon, in the book (for those of you who haven’t read it, SPOILER ALERT!) Edward is absent from the majority of the book, and you don’t see that darkness. I mean, you kind of assume it, and you hear a little bit towards the end where he kinda recaps for Bella what he’s been through, but if Rob is really talking about how dark he’s gonna be and all these things, then that’s telling me that they’re gonna put more Edward in it, which is good, I’m glad. We’ve had e-mails saying, “Do you think that there’s gonna be more Edward,” and--

I: We definitely think there will. That’s how they’re gonna sell the movie. Who wants to see Jacob? But then again, I’m probably gonna get nasty e-mails from all those werewolf lovers out there.

J: You are. Taylor’s precious, we love Taylor.

I: We love Taylor. He’s so cute.

J: But Julie e-mailed in and was saying that Summit is actually changing some of the story in order to just have more Rob. I don’t know if I’m a fan of changing the story. I think, if anything, any changes that are made are gonna go through Stephenie. Melissa Rosenberg really knows the books well, and I think that if there are any changes, it’s gonna be good stuff, it’s not gonna be, you know, like Edward frolicking through flowers. It’s gonna be actual stuff that Edward probably would have done during that time when we didn’t see him. So--

I: --I think it’ll be appropriate. Like I don’t think there’s any cause to fear that they’re going to ruin the book in any way because they know there’s such a big fan base. And not only that but a fan base who wants it to be very accurate, and I think Stephenie Meyer would probably be true to that. She already wrote part of Midnight Sun, didn’t she? So she knows what Edward’s been doing.

J: Yeah, I really think it’ll be fine. I think there probably will be some changes. I mean, of course, there always are. Even in Twilight there were, and you know, people are gonna complain about it no matter what--

I: Bitch and moan about it.

J: Yeah. But I think it’ll be fine, I mean I think the majority of fans are gonna be happy with it and a lotta people are also anxious about the director, Chris Weitz, is coming in and everyone kinda got comfortable with Catherine--

I: I was just gonna ask about that. What do you think about that? I really love Catherine, she was fantastic. I can’t say that enough. Like after--I still say it like every Pattycast. Catherine Hardwicke is awesome! But she was great. I’m sure this guy’s gonna do a good job, too.

J: Yeah, yeah.

I: I don’t see why they would hire him if he was just gonna completely ruin it.

J: No, I totally agree. To be honest, I don’t really know much about Chris Weitz. I’ve only seen like one of his films, so--

I: Which one?

J: About a Boy. Didn’t he do that one?

I: Yeah.

J: Yeah, I’ve seen About a Boy and I love that movie. And it’s different because it’s obviously less fantasy, less special effects. But to be honest, Catherine’s other movies, Lords of Dogtown, Thirteen, very different than Twilight--and she still did an amazing job, so I think we’ve gotta give him the benefit of the doubt. There’s always that bit of anxiety that comes with it like, “Oooh what’s gonna happen?” And we’ve seen with the Harry Potter movies, there’s a different director every time, practically, and we’ve seen good things come out of it. So I think people are nervous, and I can understand that, but I think we’ve gotta just kinda calm down and wait to see. Cuz we haven’t seen any clips yet, we haven’t seen any promotional images, so everything that people are saying is just speculation at this point.

I: Twilight fandom, I mean, not just Twilight the books, I mean everything when I say Twilight fandom, but I find that a lot of hardcore Twilight fans are highly excitable about things. Like, they get really angry about lots of things, all the time off the bat, instead of just like, cooling down and waiting to see how things turn out. That’s the only advice I can give everyone, is don’t take it so seriously, it’s just a movie. Like, let them do what they’re doing.

J: Now you’re gonna get angry e-mails.

I: And you know what? Send ‘em.

Laughter

J: Anyway, still talking about Chris Weitz, Rob was talking with MTV about the New Moon, and he said, “I think there’s going to be some continuity, but it’s weird, because they are shooting it in a different city [than the first film]. I’ve talked to [Weitz] a bit, but we’ve only talked about my character; I haven’t really talked about the whole look of it. But Chris is great with visual stuff, so it should be pretty impressive.” That’s kind of comforting, because Twilight and New Moon, it is really visual. There’s a lot of, you know, big special effects, and a lot of it is just about the cinematography, especially because Catherine kinda set the bar really high with Twilight. There’s a lot of really beautiful camerawork in that. So I don’t think we’re gonna be seeing this totally brand new movie, you know what I mean? Like he said, I think there’s gonna be continuity. Chris Weitz has been directing for a while, he’s not an idiot. He’s not gonna say, “Let’s just change it up, and do whatever I want,” you know? He’s smart; he knows what he’s got. He’s gonna follow along with what Catherine started. He’ll make his own changes, he’ll put his own print on it, but I think if he’s smart then he’ll kinda continue on with what’s already been done.

I: Yeah and I’m not too worried, either. And if the movie is a bad movie, it’s fine, I’ll still go see it. I know a bunch of you’ll who’ll still go see it. But I don’t think he’s gonna ruin the movie just because you’re changing all of this stuff. I would just go into it with an open mind, really. I dunno what more we can say about it. There’s so many people who have so many opinions about this stuff. Just go into it with an open mind, and see what they have to offer. Twilight turned out pretty well, and there were a lot of haters in the beginning.

J: Kind of moving along through the series, we’ve got a tentative release date for Eclipse already. I mean, this is kind of getting out of hand.

I: That’s crazy!

J: But, June thirtieth of next year. I mean, that is what? Six, seven months after New Moon will be released? I mean that’s--I’m sorry, but that’s crazy. This makes me think, are they even gonna be doing any promotion for new Moon?

I: But it doesn’t matter. You remember Lord of the Rings? They filmed those all at the same time. I bet you they’re not just filming these one at a time.

J: No, what I’m saying is, they’re just starting filming New Moon right now, right? I mean, they’re starting this month, they’ve been doing like, preproduction and stuff, so how long is it gonna take to shoot this? Probably until at least August, I would imagine. Maybe through the summer? But you know, then they’ve gotta start doing all this promotion, right? Because the movie comes out in November, think about how much promotion they did for Twilight--it won’t be on the same scale but still, there’s a lot of promotion that’s gonna go on for this--and then they’ve gotta start filming again, so I don’t know…

I: But that was the first movie. So like, they had to do a lot of promotion for Twilight because they didn’t know how it was going to go. Now that they see that there’s an established, crazy fan base, they can just pump out the movies and be guaranteed that people will watch them. Like, I don’t think they really care about the publicity because there’s an established fan base that’s already there, and it’s not going to go anywhere.

J: Right, and that’s what I’m saying, like they’re not gonna have time for promotions, that’s why they’re like, “Oh, hey, let’s pump out another one by June.” So, I mean it’s still just kind of mind-blowing. When I saw that I was just like, “June 30th? Are you kidding me?” I mean, wow.

I: Yeah, it’s soon.

J: To be honest, I don’t know a lot about movie making, what time frames, how long it’ll take to make it, whatever, but that short amount of time just makes me nervous. I’m like “Oooh, are the sequels gonna get worse and worse?” And, I mean, I’m sure they’ll be fine. Preaching to the choir and all of that stuff, but it’s kind of like, “Oh, June 30th, it’s sooooo soon.” you know? For the movie, but whatever, anyway, and I’m sure Breaking Dawn will be like five months later, but whatever.

Laughter

J: It’s just crazy.

I: Oh, God. It’s gonna be a whirlwind because he said in that GQ interview that he’s just gonna be done with Twilight. Right?

J: Yeah, and you know, I think he’s gonna need a break. And I kinda hope he maybe disappears for a little while. Of course I don’t want him to disappear, but for his own sanity--if it was me, I would be like, “See you guys later,” and I’d be hiding out for like, a year before I made anymore appearances. I would go to Fiji or something.

Laughter

I: Well you know what? He’s a sneaky one, that one. I’m sure he can find a way to hide out somewhere.

J: Yeah.

I: Okay, let’s move on to Breaking Dawn. Rob’s confirmed that it’s being made, yeah?

J: Yeah he says breaking Dawn is gonna be made at some point, as well. And of course things could always change, but I think they’re assuming that, should New Moon and Eclipse go really well, they’ll continue on with Breaking Dawn. Which is to be expected, I mean, why stop at three when you can get money out of four? I just hope that it continues to be a good--like, they’re good quality movies, you know? I hope they’re not just like, “Oh, let’s pump out a sequel just so we can have one.” I hope they really continue to put forth the effort that they have been. Because with so many sequels, I mean, sequels are always kind of a dangerous thing. Usually they end up being crap. Thankfully, this is based on books, you know? So there’s not a lot of leeway for them to make it crappy.

Laughter

I: And the author’s alive, too. So she can actually read the screenplay. It’s not like they’re ruining a classic novel, or something.

J: Exactly. So I mean, I think it’s fine. We still are kind of like, whatever about Breaking Dawn. I don’t really care if they make it or not.

I: Yeah, I don’t care either. And, I mean, if it’s crap, I’ll probably still go see it. And so will a lot of people.

J: Of course we will. Of course we will.

I: yeah. And movies are movies. It’s not a big deal. It’s just a movie!

Laughter.

I: Sorry.

J: My ears.

I: Anyway, Little Ashes, we’ve got a few new video clips. Do you wanna talk about those?

J: Yeah, we did actually get, I think like four or five new clips. Mostly short things but, you know, actual scenes and not just trailer clips. The one that I was really impressed with is where Dali and Lorca, I think, were actually in a room and I think they hadn’t seen each other in a while and anyway, they’re just talking. It’s just like a talking scene, but as I was watching it, I was just totally floored with how good Rob’s performance was. You now? Because some of the stuff that we’ve seen from Little Ashes so far is more like the kind of quirky Dali, you know….you know about Dali, I mean, he’s crazy.

I: Yeah.

J: But more for the quirkiness of him, the craziness, but this one had the same feel of the scene with the painting. Do you remember that one where Dali was just painting and there was no talking in the scene?

I: Yeah.

J: It kind of had that same feel that like--that power to it. And as I was watching it, I was just totally enthralled, and I completely forgot that it was Rob. Like, I was totally into that character just in that short scene and I was just like, “Oh my gosh,” and the acting was so good, it wasn’t just like, over the top. And it wasn’t even like a super-dramatic scene, it was just them talking, and I was just like mesmerized. It was so, so good. I was very impressed.

I: Well you know what we’ve talked about with him? He’s like the chameleon. Like he goes from playing someone like Dali to playing someone like Edward, and we’ve seen him in the Bad Mother’s Handbook and even the Haunted Airman, and he’s just--he’s stunning sometimes, with his acting. Even if I wasn’t running his website or a big fan, if I just saw it, I feel like he really seems to bring a lot of himself. Or, just--I don’t understand how he can change himself so completely. It’s crazy to me.

J: Yeah, it’s just amazing. Like I said, I was totally blown away. Just that one scene. And there were others that were also really, really good. But that one I was just--I watched it like four times. I was just like, “This is amazing.” You know? And just from the things that he’s said and from what the other actors have said, I think this is gonna be a movie that he’s gonna be really proud of; and he’s said that he’s hasn’t even seen the whole thing yet. You know, he’s not a fan of watching his own stuff-- but I think if he did see it, I think he would be proud of it. And I haven’t even seen it but just from these clips I would be like--if it was me, I would be like, “Man, I’m good.”

Laughter

J: Because it was just really, really impressive.

I: All he can say is, “Ah, I’m awful.”

J: I know. I don’t think he really realizes just how good he is. I mean, he’s a very, very good actor. And I think a lot of times that can get lost in the whole heartthrob status. Because, I mean, there are plenty of heartthrobs who are just not that good acting-wise--not that they’re terrible, just not--I think that he really is an actor. You know? And we’ve said it before. Of course we’re big fans. And it’s not just because he’s so “beautiful.” But he really just is very, very talented and I hope that he gets more roles like this. And I hope he takes a break after Twilight. I hope he can kind of reclaim his actor status, instead of just, “Oh, he’s Edward Cullen.” I want people to say, “Yeah that’s Robert Pattinson, he’s such a great actor.” That’s what people should be saying instead of saying, “Oh, he’s Edward Cullen: he’s so beautiful!” You know?

Laughter

J: But there have been some really good quotes from his co-stars lately, Javier Beltran, who plays Lorca, he said, “We didn’t have any problems with the sexuality. On the set it was less important than the emotions. The sex scenes are beautiful—tragic and painful.” And from Rob’s GQ interview that we--we’re gonna talk about that a lot, by the way, so if anyone hasn’t read it, you should go read it cuz it’s amazing. But in that interview, apparently the scenes are very graphic? I guess is the word. Like, they don’t hide a lot. So I think that just to hear them described as tragic and painful I think this is gonna be a really emotional movie to watch.

I: Yeah, I can’t wait to see it. I think it’s gonna be beautiful. And even he says that no one was going to see it and now everyone’s going to see it just because of him. But I still think that the whole movie itself has a lot of merit.

J: Oh yeah, definitely, definitely. I thought it was interesting that Rob said that when he was gonna go film Little Ashes, he just wanted to have a vacation in Spain. And then he said, “But it became just—really, really hard. I’d never done a job that was so hard.” So I think he should be really proud of this. Because he’s even said himself that even at the beginning he didn’t take acting that seriously, it was just kinda something to do, but I think after stuff like this, he kinda started to see, “Oh, this is tough.” And I think he’s really investing more in it. Which is great; I think that it was probably a really good experience for him. The last bit about Little Ashes. They’ve moved the release date to May 8th, 2009. It was originally gonna be in April but they’ve moved it back, and it’s only gonna be shown in California and New York on that day. But they’ll be adding more locations later. So it’s not gonna be a nationwide release on May 8th, so there’s still a lotta people who’re gonna have to wait. But as far as I know, those will actually be in theaters and not just at film festivals, which is great, because the more theaters pick it up, it’ll be widespread, more people will want it. So that’s great. And if you go on the Little Ashes website, you can see a full list of coming locations where they’re showing it. Which is great. So. Spread the word. We had a little bit of How to Be news. Nothing very big, but the soundtrack is coming out on April 12th which is awesome, very soon, and Rob has four songs on it. That--I’m really excited about that, because I love the music that we already have, but I’m like, “I want more, I want more!” So four songs is gonna be great.

I: I’m just excited for it, I mean that’s more Rob songs and he’s, I dunno. I really want it now.

Laughter.

J: I know, I know, the 12th is soo far away. And it’ll be available for pre-order soon. I don’t think it’s available quite yet, but as soon as it is, we’ll let you know. And as far as I know, it’ll be--I don’t think it’s gonna be on Amazon yet, or sites like that. I think it’s gonna be just directly from the soundtrack’s website. But we’ll post more news about that when we get it. And kind of along with releases the Haunted Airman is gonna be getting a DVD release April 6th.

I: That’s a fantastic movie. We just can’t watch it like, not just TV, yeah.

J: Yeah, unfortunately it’s only gonna be released in the UK right now, and they have a specific DVD region version or whatever. So I guess unless you have e specific DVD player from the UK, you can’t watch it. Which is kinda sad, but hey, it’s a DVD release. Cuz that’s a great little movie. It’s a little made-for-TV movie, but I really liked it, it was really well done. And, one DVD, maybe people will say, “Hey, we want it in the U.S!" and, “We want it in other countries!” and it’ll get more widespread. So, yeah.

I: We only have one article now, but it’s a really long, fantastic article, it’s got great photos that you can see on the website. Hot pictures, Joy says. Hot pictures.

J: Mhm. Hot.

I: Well it’s GQ, so, there you go. I dunno. We’ve seen him candid like this before so--

J: Yeah, it kinda reminded me of--

I: It’s just like--a lot--

J: --That Variety interview that he did a while back--

I: --Yes, yes. Fantastic.

J: It was very, very honest and candid, which is great. Those are my favorite kinds instead of the, “How did you get your hair like that?” it wasn’t that kind of interview. It was really deep, and well-written, too. And funny. We were laughing out loud. So, he just had so many great quotes, and so we wanted to kind of focus on that with article today cuz it was just great. So much good stuff in it. Even at the very beginning they--I wanna read this paragraph because they give this great description of how he comes in, which is just totally Rob. The article says, “He slides into his chair, dressed all in black, with a weeks-old beard, hair crammed under a wool cap, looking like Justin Timberlake researching an off-Broadway turn as Terry Malloy. His clothes smell like he has recently purchased them off the back of someone less fortunate than he. He’s just come from a big-time meeting with a director and can’t wait to tell us how weird it was. Some guy offering him a part, maybe, in a movie so double top secret he couldn’t tell Pattinson what it was about. “He wouldn’t say anything,” Pattinson says, “and he also wouldn’t leave,” so Pattinson sat there and talked about himself for three hours and drank enough coffee to make a rhino’s heart explode. That just was so Rob. I can totally imagine him smelling like a homeless person. That’s kind of frightening. And drinking enough coffee to make a rhino’s heart explode. That’s great.

I: I can’t imagine that, though. I just--I mean, well yes I can. That’s him, basically, in a nutshell. And I can’t believe you only picked like six quotes, though. I mean like, we should just read the whole article. Seriously.

Laughter

J: I know, it was hard to choose. It was really hard cuz it’s such a good, good interview. He even has a really funny quote about Edward. I had to put it in there, where he says, “If you met a guy like that in real life, you’d think he was kind of dorky.” I think that’s really true. I was thinking about that. I was like, if I met a guy like Edward, actually in real life, I would be like, “What is wrong with you?” and I’m a huge Edward fan, we all know that, but yeah. I think I’d be like, “What a dork.” But I like dorks, so maybe that’s why. There was another quote that was actually really…interesting. Where he says, “There’s literally not a single [true] story that could be written about me, I never do anything.”

I: I love this.

J: They asked him to give an example of something that’s untrue that was written about him, and he says, “There’s this thing about my supposed girlfriend. There’s this one girl who’s consistently mentioned. It’s like, ‘He’s dating this Brazilian model. What’s her name—Annelyse. I’ve never met her.” Which I think was so funny--we still get--

I: We’ve gotten so many e-mails about that!

J:--E-mails about this girl. It’s like, just leave him alone.

I: And it’s not e-mail just asking about it, e-mails like, talking about how she has alien-eyes and how awful she looks. Like people do e-mail us those things, guys.

J: I know, people are hateful towards this poor girl who’s never even met him. Good gracious. It’s really, really frightening. So I thought that was funny that he actually brought it up. I mean, honestly, if I was in Hollywood, I wouldn’t hang out with anyone. I’d be like, “Just leave me alone!” I just thought that was really hilarious.

I: Well that’s what the does. He just sits in his apartment. Although, that’s not true--

J: That’s what he does. He just sits in his apartment, and he goes on the internet and he reads all this stuff about himself. He even admitted it. He reads all those fake Facebook accounts, which I think is hilarious.

I: That’s so funny. I just love the fact, too, that he probably goes on all the fansites and reads about himself.

J: It kinda makes me wanna put like a secret code. And like, leave random messages for him like, interspersed in our posts.

I: Yeah. “The stork flies at midnight, Rob!”

Laughter

I: That’d be so hilarious.

J: He also said, kind of along with that, about being in Hollywood, he says that, “The only way to establish any kind of mystique is to completely shut up and never talk to anyone. And I’m contractually obligated not to shut up.”

Laughter.

J: Poor guy, like, you know he totally would be a hermit, and--

I: Poor guy, all he wants to do is shut up.

J: --And he doesn’t want to talk to anybody. He would probably be fine not doing any of these interviews and just doing his acting, but yeah ,under contract, he’s gotta do all of this stuff and he’s like, “Arrrrrrrr.”

Laughter

J: That’s really funny. Oh my gosh, ,the next quote, where he talked about how, of course he hasn’t seen any of his movies like he hasn’t seen all of Twilight, he hasn’t seen all of Little Ashes, it says: “He took his mom to the American Twilight premiere, squirmed through the first ten minutes, then bolted. “I went out and sat in the car, having a full-blown panic attack.” Ten minutes in, he looked up and realized someone was videotaping him.” Poor thing, he’s like in a fishbowl, he can’t escape. I thought that was so funny. I could see him like running out of the theater, “Nooo! Don’t make me watch it!” So hilarious. Anyway, the last--well not the last thing, it goes on for like, 12 pages, but the last thing that we have listed was about his acting career, and he’s kind of like, “Whatever,” he doesn’t really care, he says, “I’m not massively concerned about doing lots of acting jobs,” he says. “If it all just went, right now, I’d be like, ‘All right. I don’t really care.’ That’s probably a stupid thing to say. But I don’t, really. I think it’d be much worse to do a load of stuff that’s really bad. Because then you can’t go into another career. If you’ve made an idiot out of yourself, you’re never going to be taken seriously, as a lawyer or something, if you’re, like, a joke actor. The only thing I want from anything is to not be embarrassed.”

I: Awww

J: I think that’s really wise. That’s a good perspective.

I: That is really wise.

J: This is part of the thing that kind of makes me think that he’s gonna kinda run away from Hollywood a little bit after Twilight is over. I don’t think he’ll disappear completely but I think he’s gonna kinda not do much for a while so that he can kind of shake the Edward Cullen, you know, whatever, and come back and do more serious stuff. Not that Twilight isn’t really serious.

I: It’s so serious.

J: Anyway, but we loved that article, it was really, really, good. If you haven’t read that article, it’s good. It’s more adult geared, so if you are not a fan of swearing and more graphic conversation then don’t read it. That’s really funny.

I: Yeah, don’t read it. Well, moving on, we’re not gonna do a song this week. We know you guys love it but we decided we’re gonna cut back because we have a lot of things to cover and not a lot of time to record in, so we’re going to skip that and continue again on our next recording, but we’re gonna go on to some network news. We actually have to talk about the network. We didn’t talk about it the last time. Well, we knew that Rob had friends who wrote some songs with him on the Twilight soundtrack and we were approached by Sanguina, from TwiilightNews.co.uk to publicize and help promote these guys, and while we were looking into the news, or looking into things--or ways--to publicize them, we decided to come up with this thing called the Pattinson Online Network where we would have websites for--well obviously, Rob--and then his other friends, Bobby Long, Marcus Foster, and Sam Bradley. So those are up and they’re all formatted like Robert-Pattinson.co.uk all are first name hyphen last name dot co dot UK for Sam Bradley, Bobby Long, and Marcus foster. So it’s kind of like our site we have video there’s news on there, images, everything, articles. So we have some network news that we’re gonna catch you up with right now. Do you wanna tell everyone what it is, Joy?

J: Sure. There are a couple upcoming shows for the guys, they’ve been booking a lot of shows, not just in the UK but even Bobby and Sam have been touring around the U.S. which is great, they’re getting a lot of exposure. Bobby’s gonna be playing in New York City in April and he’s actually doing a press junket, which is interesting, at the Waldorf Astoria on April 14th, and I’m assuming he’ll do a show before or after, I’m not sure but yeah. That’s kinda cool. So I’m hoping that he’ll get a lotta exposure that way. He’s also got a music video coming up and they’re making a DVD for his new single “Left to Lie” plus, Bobby and Sam are gonna be playing together back to back in Nashville at the end of April on April 22nd.

I: That is a show not to miss. That’s gonna be a fantastic show.

J: That’s gonna be really, really, good. If I remember correctly--and I’m probably gonna say this wrong-- but I think Sam comes first and then Bobby comes after? And it might be flip-flopped, but they’re playing back-to-back which is gonna be great; there’re gonna be a lot of fans there, we’ll have representation there, so make sure you show up, support the guys, it’s gonna be really good. Sam actually just finished recording in--

I: In Paris.

J: In Paris, yeah. Sam is great, I love following him on Twitter--

I: --Sam’s fantastic--

J: --He’s hilarious on his Twitter posts.--

I: --He’s so great. So great.

J: He’s really, really clever. So he’s just finished recording so his album will hopefully be coming out soon, I’m not sure time frame wise. Marcus is planning to record, according to his latest Myspace blog post, and he’s working on an American tour for the summer so more exposure, but yeah he’s playing a few shows around London this month and next. So yeah, if you’re in that area, check him out, I mean, all of these tour dates are listed on the sites

I: As always if you’re planning to go to the show, drop us an e-mail, we’re always looking for people who have videos or photos or wanna help us represent the site a little bit. So if you’re going to any of those shows, drop us an e-mail. Are we done with network news?

J: Yeah, except for your show news.

I: Oooooh! Tom-Sturridge-Reference-of-the-Day. It’s an actual Tom-Sturridge-Reference-of-the-Day…not that I saw him or anything…

Laughter

I: But news is, Tom and Rob were at Sam’s show in Vancouver, and I can pretty much verify that. Not that--news sources have also verified it, too, but they were there. They were backstage, hanging out and it was a great show. There were other acts there. Actually Sam’s mom sang. That was really interesting. But obviously the highlight of the night was seeing Sam live, and he has such great energy. We got an interview with Sam and I went to do it with my friend, Janna. We’d gone pretty early--not really early, we were just on time--and we met him in the stairwell of the venue, and we ended up interviewing him upstairs behind stage. But we had just one technical mishap after another, like our camera just didn’t have any battery and the recorder on my phone wasn’t working for some reason, and so it was hugely embarrassing, cuz then we would have to reschedule and so we had said to him, “Well we can just do it on the tenth of April instead,” and he said “No,” and he left the room and he found a digital camera to tape the interview with and it was pretty hilarious. I don’t wanna give too much away about the interview; I just wanna say he is really, really, personable and really funny without even trying. I swear these guys all have the same sense of humor., And I don’t wanna give too much away but this is something that we’ll probably have to edit out of the actual interview, but I asked him what sort of inanimate object he wanted to be and he said he wanted to be a chair, and without missing a beat, he was like, “Because I like to be sat on,” and my friend and I just cracked up. We couldn’t hold it in and we were laughing and laughing, and he was like, “We have to do it over, that’s not what I meant!” But it’s those kind of jokes and that kind of humor and he’s just a really funny guy, and after the—that was only at six and we didn’t take that long but the doors opened at 7:30 and there were a lot of starting acts but Sam wasn’t on stage until nine and he was playing with a band and I don’t know how many songs he played but it was a long time and he has high energy. His songs are fantastic. If you guys haven’t listened to them, go to his Myspace. And he does covers, too, which I was up front dancing with every body else, and it was a fun time, it wasn’t just like a concert where you sat down and listened to the music, I don’t know what else to say—high energy. He—it was kind of like he was making love to the crowd.

Laughter He’s a born entertainer, I would say. And I was there with a couple of other staff members, and we met him after the show again and we were just talking to them about lots of stuff. We got some pictures, we’ll probably have those online, and the videos we’ll probably have online, too, really soon for everyone. But that’s about it, it was a fantastic show. I would recommend seeing Sam Bradley, if he’s anywhere near you, at all. I’ll probably see him again on April tenth here on Vancouver Island, if anyone’s going and wants to connect with some Pattinson Online staff, drop us an e-mail, as well. But that’s about it about my report. It was a great show.

J: And Tom and Rob were there, so—

I: And Tom and Rob were there! No, but we didn’t--I like didn’t even think twice about it. They were backstage, obviously didn’t wanna be bothered by fans, so I didn’t even look for them. And it seemed like other fans, even though they—well there were a lot of fans that were suspecting that they were there. Sam was really interacting with someone offstage, trying to get them onstage and at first I thought it was his mom, but then I realized she was actually in the audience, too. Not really in the audience, but not backstage, and the other bandmates’ friends were all dancing in the crowd, so, Let’s do some Rob Quotes. Do you wanna do those so we can hop onto the Soapbox, which is our favorite part.

J: Oh yes, we love the soapbox. Yeah I only had two Rob quotes, there were so many, please, just the GQ interview alone had some amazing quotes, but I tried to narrow them down. The first one actually comes from the Costco Connection, which, I have to say I think it’s really funny that CostCo has their own magazine, or whatever—

I: Yeah, that disturbs me!

J: --And that they interviewed Rob. I just think it’s really weird.

I: Aw, man. Rob you –

J: Whatever. Anyway, in the Costco Connection, the interviewer said that Catherine Hardwicke mentioned that Rob has long, beautiful vampire fingers, and Rob says, “I think what she meant is: I have very weird hands. There’s a scene in the film where my character plays the piano, and I actually had to learn it myself because they couldn’t find a hand double that was convincing enough to match my weird fingers.”

Laughter

I: That’s so funny, a hand double.

J: I love it, he has beautiful hands.

I: He does have beautiful hands. What is he talking about?

J: Anyway, that’s for another day

Laughter

J: The next quote that I thought was really funny, was again, from the GQ interview because that’s just like a gold mine, right there, he said: “I just say the first thing that comes into my head, out of nervousness. During interviews I’m literally shitting my pants. I don’t want there to be a silence, because I’ll start crying.”

Laughter

I: So funny.

J: What?

I: Oh, I love him, too.

J: Anyway, now it is time for our favorite thing: The Soapbox!

I: Okay, so

J: I love the soapbox.

I: This time, it’s about something specific, it’s not just us going on about random shit, as usual—

J: Just as well, but—

I: It’s about Rob’s management, and the thing is, we formed this opinion on our own, but it’s also been corroborated by other fan sites, and staff members, basically, that we’ve had , who’ve talked to other people, and basically, a producer of one of—it’s been brought to my attention that a producer of one of Rob’s movies has said that Rob’s management is even giving them a hard time, and Rob’s the star of the movie. So, I kind of have to say—should he get new representation? I just feel that they’re completely hostile, they don’t give anyone the time of day, and they keep such a short leash on Rob. What do you think?

J: I totally agree, I mean, they’ve never been accommodating to anyone. From the beginning, I mean, even when Rob was, you know, much more accessible and everything, there’s just something about his management, it’s like they wanna keep him in a box, and they don’t want him to either talk to anyone other than who they let him talk to and I mean, you know, it’s just—granted, I don’t know a lot about how managers work, but I mean, seriously, just from what we’ve seen, and we’ve had some contact with them--

I: Yes, we have.

J: And they’re just--they’re not on top of things, and this is even aside from the fact of how Summit treated the stars, you know? I mean this is like his own, personal management.

I: We’re talking about his personal management, yeah. It’s got a ton better, but it’s just the—I honestly think that his management—I don’t know, see the thing is, we don’t wanna make judgments cuz we don’t know the full story, but we’ve had dealings with them, personally, so this is our opinion and the opinion of many other people, but we –

J: Yeah, we’re not alone in this.

I: No, we talked to many other people before we even decided to talk about it on the Pattycast, and it’s just something that disturbs us that, to be honest, the fans are the people that make—give the stars a job. You should give them somewhat of the time of day, and they don’t give anyone the time of day that isn’t a huge media outlet.

J: Seriously, I mean, okay, if it’s to the point that even a movie producer can’t even get a hold of him or can’t get him to do promotion for his own movie, I mean, hello! That should be a little warning sign to you, like “Oh, maybe we need to let—“ I mean, I can understand scheduling conflicts and whatever, but this person even said, “We can’t get him to do anything, his management has him on a tight leash,” and everything, and I’m like, this is ridiculous. He’s an adult. It’s not like he’s fifteen and his mom is saying, “You can’t do this, and you can’t do that.” That’s one thing, but I mean—gosh, I don't know. But it just frustrates me—and not just us. I mean, we’ve been trying to get interview for ages—

I: That’s all part of our listener e-mails is that every once in a while people e-mail us and think they have the most brilliant idea and they’re like, “Why don’t you try getting an interview with Rob?”

Laughter

I: And I know you guys have the best intentions at heart, and I’m just really a bitch, but I’m just so frustrated cuz people don’t understand that we’ve been trying for over a year to have some sort of interview. We talked about this, the fiasco of Comic-Con and the people we’ve talked to and the people that we’ve dealt with. Actually, my last conversation was basically Rob Palma, Nick Frenkle’s assistant, telling me in not very nice words, basically, that I would just have to call back in a couple months, because they just don’t have anything to say to me, or they don’t have the time of day for us, so--

J: Yeah, they just don’t realize what they have in fansites, and not just us, there are plenty of fansites out there who are doing a great job to promote Rob, and all we’re asking for is 15 minutes of his time? I mean how hard would that be? And it’s not like we’re saying, “Oh, Rob needs to fly out to meet us.” We’d go places, we’d do our best to get there to make it convenient for them and they can’t even give us fifteen minutes, I mean it’s just—it’s ludicrous.

I: And they give Costco five minutes of his time? Costco. Like it’s not—please. How ridiculous is that?

Laughter

I: This is just frustrating for us because it’s not like we just started this website—we’ve been doing this for a really long time, and it’s hard to not be given the time of day by some of his management and it’s not like-- notice how we always say his management, we don’t blame Rob for any of this.

J: No, because, you’ve met Rob, and Rob is just—

I: Oh yeah.

J: A great guy, he’s really appreciative, if it was up to him, he’d be like, “Yeah, let’s talk for an hour.” He’d totally give us that.

I: Yeah, he did that with us in Collector Mania when our staff members went up to him and said, “Hey can we have some of your time?”

J: Exactly

I: And he said, “Yeah, come back in an hour,” and they did an interview. But, I dunno if--times have changed obviously, cuz he can’t call his own shots anymore.

J: But, you know what? No one would even read the Costco Connection if it wasn’t for websites like us putting it out there.

I: Well that was my whole point! That was my whole point. Thank you for bringing that up. We may just be some piddling website to some people, but we—I don’t, I can’t impress on people—we get millions of hits every month. Millions. Not just thousands, millions of hits. Which means a lot of the world is paying attention to Robert Pattinson through our website. Like Joy said, most of these news outlets that they give the interviews to wouldn’t be seen if we didn’t link to them. Not we as in our site, but fansites in general

J: Exactly, because we’ve even got contacts from E!Online, we’ve got contacts from NBC Universal, who say, “Hey, we have this news about Rob will you put it on your site to get more exposure.”

I: And not only that, but they ask us if we can be partner—

J: If people like E!Online—yeah, exactly—we’re partnering with E!Online, if they realize the value of fansites, why can’t Rob’s management? I mean, hello. Plus, we’ve sent them dozens of e-mails, we’ve called them dozens of times, we’ve sent them a promotional packet with information about our site, basically a proposal saying, this is what we can offer you. And they can’t even give us fifteen minutes of his time.

I: We sent a lot of those packages out. We spent a lot of time putting that package together because we as a site feel that we have a service that’s valuable to promote Rob, because it’s been proven that that’s what we do, considering big media outlets come to us to ask us to put things on our website.

J: But, you know, we actually got a really good—

I: Oh, Justin Kelly!

J: Yeah, that’s what I was gonna say.

I: That’s what I was gonna say, is--wow creepy--I sent out the PR packages and I sent them—I don’t really wanna go into who I sent them to and where we sent them off to, but right away, not even days after, we received an e-mail and direct connection with Justin Kelly and people over at How to Be and they’re just fantastic, and I can’t say enough that it means a lot to us when those things happen because we do put a lot of work into this website, and it sucks that we can’t even get fifteen minutes of Rob’s time.

J: Yeah, I mean we’re not asking for much. We’re only asking for what they give to tons of other people. It’s just really frustrating, and we’re not trying to say, “We’re so awesome, we’re the best, we should get everything,” But really we’re not asking for much, we just want fifteen minutes of his time to ask him some questions, bring some more exposure, give the fans what they want, you know? We’re doing his management’s service. They wouldn’t—okay, they would not have a job if it wasn’t for fansites. I’m sorry. All they would be doing is saying, “Oh here’s a new movie!” but you know, no one would read the articles, you know?

I: Or the thing is like people, and I have to make a point here, because you and I were talking about Leonardo DiCaprio earlier, but do you remember the days when there weren’t any, there wasn’t that—we’re old--

J: Yeah.

I: But I remember the days when the internet and fansites weren’t a big deal, and no one really went online to look up information about people, they bought magazines and articles, and actually, one of our photographer friends who’s totally on our side and she just showed us that a newspaper went completely online because print media is now going down the tubes. No one is buying magazines anymore because they’re coming to websites. And this is crazy to me, how I just get so riled up about this, because—

Laughter

J: We love getting riled up. It’s what we do best.

I: Yeah, my favorite thing.

J: It’s true, though. I feel like the management is taking fansites for granted, I think they’re like, “Oh, well whatever, it’s there—“

I: “It’s just a bunch of girls.”

J: I don’t think they really understand—yeah. “It’s just a bunch of teenage girls who wanna look at cute little pretty pictures of Rob,” And you know, that’s part of it. We like the pretty pictures.

Laughter

J: But seriously, I mean, we’re not just—we are fans, but we’re fans with a purpose. You know? We want to promote him. We want to get him more exposure, and you know, they might say, “Oh well he doesn’t need any more exposure,” but you know what? If all the fansites disappeared, they would be up a creek without a paddle.

I: Like who would read the Costco Connection?

J: --no one would read their articles—

Laughter

J: No one would read the Costco Connection. I’m sorry.

I: I can’t help but pick on them.

J: But seriously, who would show up at these promotional events? I mean, I don’t think his management understands how the internet works—

I: No. I don’t think many people know how the internet works.

J:I mean, it’s all about sharing, it’s all about self—mutual promotion, it’s just, it’s a network, it’s a giant network, and that may sound obvious but I don’t think they realize exactly what the fansites are doing. And I think that’s a disservice to Rob. I think that there’s so much that we could do. Because you know what? I am sick of hearing questions about Rob’s damn hair. Who cares?

I: Yeah, and he’s sick of it, too. He’s so f-[censor noise] sick of it. Excuse me.

J: That’s why he makes crap up, you know, I mean, I would like to see more interviews like the GQ interview, that are honest, and they ask good questions, and they’re just natural feeling, instead of--I’m sick of how many times do we have to be linked to an article that says, “Oh, Rob was wearing a blue sweater today.” I mean, who effin' cares? I mean, they’re ridiculous.

I: And not only that, but it’s like recycling articles, too. They’re all talking about the same thing, and then one article that’s written just rips off another article. They just take quotes from another article. Everyone’s just recycling shit that Rob’s said already. And I don’t know, I just get really aggravated at how the world works, to be honest.

Laughter

J: It’s really, really, frustrating, and like we said, we’re not trying to say, “Oh we’re the best, we should have everything.” Cuz we’re not. Even if—

I: Because if we really did, we’d be more aggressive in our approach and we’re actually really tame in our approaches trying to get interviews.

J: Yeah, I mean, we’re not rude to the management, we’re very professional when we contact them, we’re just frustrated at the—it’s like we’re hitting a brick wall with them, and

I: And not only us, a lot of people are

J: And we just can’t get anything done. And yeah, it’s not just us, we’re all in it together--

I: I wouldn’t have said this if I wasn’t told about that producer of one of Rob’s movies saying that. I wouldn't’ve said anything, but that seems to be the ongoing trend here with his management, and you know us, we just like to speak up about everything.

J: Right. And you know, I don’t want people to start blaming Rob for being inaccessible--

I: No, it’s not Rob.

J: I mean, you know? He probably would like to hide away in his house a little bit more, and that’s fine, but I really think that if it wasn’t for his current management, he would be doing more quality interviews, he would be making more contact with fans, you know, I mean I can understand the need for privacy, we’ve talked about people stalking him, and that’s not what we’re asking for. We’re not asking for that level of accessibility, we’re just saying that they need to understand what the fansites have to offer. We’re not just a bunch of little teenyboppers wanting him to sign our underwear, you know? We want to give him a better outlet for what he needs to say, for what he wants to say, you know? So that he doesn’t have to talk about his hair every other interview, he doesn’t have to repeat himself, but he can have quality interviews like the GQ interview, like the Variety interview, that are just him being personal, and honest, and candid, that’s what we want, that’s what we would provide, we’re not saying that we want to ask him the same questions, cuz we wouldn’t, you know?

I: This is a revolutionary thought, but why not get his fans to ask him the questions directly? They’re the ones who are paying to see his movies, they’re the ones who want to get to know about him. It’s not these Costco Connection people that are interviewing him that have any real interesting him

J: I know, they don’t care, things that really frustrate me are like sites that like—MTV always has really good material,

I: Yeah, yeah!

J: But they ask the same damn questions, all the time it drives me crazy

I: Over and over again.

J: And event eh people who have interviewed him over and over again ask him the same things, and there are some good ones like--we love Laura Culpepper, she’s awesome because she’s a real fan, Ben Lyons, always does good interviews with him, and he doesn’t generally, you know, ask the same things, but how many times can MTV talk about his hair or his clothes or how he feels about Edward, and I mean, Aggggh. It’s driving me crazy.

I: Well, it’s all recycled questions cuz no one really knows him, and no one wants to get to know him, and they wanna just talk about Twilight, and that’s what it is.

J: Anyway, that was a good soapbox.

I: That was a good soapbox. Let’s go into listener e-mails. You’re good at the reading.

J: Okay, we do have some good listener e-mails, I’ve actually got quite a few, and some of them we’ve already addressed, but here are just some that we’ve chosen, but Chloe wrote in and she said, “I was doing a Google search on Robert Pattinson and I found alot of like these fanfiction stories about Twilight. Some are ok and decent, some are ridiculous and stupid, but most are smutty and inappropriate. What are your guys' feelings on these fan-fiction sites? That they would take their fan-dom and their obsession with Rob so far as to write a fictional story about him and the author is weird and creepy. However, I'm a writer myself so I can see why people would want to write something like that, but the false sex stories with the author and Robert Pattinson are riduclous and extremely awkward. Please, write me back and let me know what you guys think.” I actually e-mailed her back when she originally e-mailed this it was like last month that she e-mailed us-- sorry Chloe--but yeah, we are not in favor of these kinds of stories. I mean, you know.

I: We’ve actually banned them from our forums because it’s just not appropriate.

J: It’s not appropriate, it’s really not.

I: There are forums and we can say what we want on there and they’re pretty liberal with what you can do and there’s not that many rules, but this is one of them.

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J: Yeah. It’s you know, like she said, it’s creepy, I’m sorry but whatever, have your fantasies, ew. But you know, to write about them and post it for everyone to see? I just—it’s just creepy.

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J: I mean, like sometimes when I see stuff like this I don’t even know how to react to it in a tactful way because seriously it weirds me out, like she said it is inappropriate, I’m not a fan of censorship and all these things, I think that--creative license, whatever--but at the same time, you’re writing about a real person, and I think this kind of ties into the fact that a lot of these you know, fans don’t actually see him as a real person, they see him a this kind of like, entity, that is just you know, like a God, and they can do whatever they want with him, it’s like having a paper doll. They dress him up and they do what they want with him. It’s creepy.

I: It is creepy. Not just a bit.

J: When I wrote back to her, we said the same things, but like, I told her, there is a line between writing about fictional characters and writing about real people you know? I mean, seriously, can you imagine Rob’s horror if he read some of these things? Because we know that he goes online he reads about himself, he’s--

I: He’s already read about the, he said in the GQ thing that he’s read Fanfic.

J: I mean, I just can’t--seriously, like put yourself in his shoes. If you went online and you read a story that someone had written about you having sex with them, I would be like, “What the hell?” I would be so freaked out and horrified. It’s just really, really, inappropriate. It’s very distasteful, you know, and I mean, whatever if you feel like you need to write this stuff, more power to you, but don’t post it on the internet. I mean, ew, creepy. Or at least, you know, change the names or something. Ugh.

I: People are gonna email us and be like, “You guys are such prudes.” Lemme tell ya, we’re not prudes.

J: We are not prudes.

I: We just think writing sex stories about a real person is weird.

J: It is weird. And you might say, “It’s fictional, it’s fictional!” But it’s not, really, because he’s a real person. I just—put yourself in his shoes. How would you feel if you went online and started reading sex stories about yourself?

I: Yeah, I would be disturbed.

J: It’s just weird.

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I: Okay, let’s talk about the next person, then. I think we’ve said all there is to say: it’s creepy. That’s our opinion.

J: it is creepy. Yeah the next email was from Heather, and it kinda goes along with this, she said, “What's your take on his stability here (mentally) in America with all the personal violations that go on with stars?” I think that if the creepy fanfiction sex stories haven’t sent him over the edge, I think he’ll be fine.

I: Yeah.

J: I mean, I think—I can’t say officially what his mental stability is, but I think he handles it well. I think he knows himself, I think he knows when he needs personal time, I think that’s why we have periods where he kinda just isn’t doing anything and he’s kinda hiding away. I think that’s why he didn’t come onstage at Sam’s show, you know? He knew what would come, and I think he knows himself well, and he’s probably thought, “I can’t handle this, I just need to kind of be secretive, right now.” And so I think he’s fine, I know people worry about him, and that’s great, I’m glad that they’re sensible people who think about these things before they stalk him and whatever. I don’t think he’s like mentally unstable or anything, I think he’s fine--probably a little stressed, but you know, that’s to be expected. I think he’s probably enjoying filming right now because it’s more of the craft and less of the promotion, you know what I mean? I think that’s probably—cuz that’s why he does it. We know his personality, and he didn’t sign on to be an actor so that he could be mobbed by fans, obviously. He wants to be an actor because he wants to act, and I think he’s probably more comfortable being on set than he is being on promotion tours, so I think he’s okay, I think it’s great that people worry about him and that they’re being considerate of him, but I think he’s fine.

I: Ally wrote us, “Have you ever met Rob in person? What was he like?” I’ve met Rob in person, he was—we’ve talked about this before but he’s just really genuine, he’s a really nice guy, he listens to what you have to say, and he’s really attentive, and I dunno what else to say, he’s down to earth, funny, and he’s a great guy.

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J: Yeah.

I: I dunno what else to say about him. It’s all just good stuff.

J: I would love to meet him. I—

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I: You will

J: I’m always in the wrong place at the wrong time, but from everything that everyone’s said, he’s just really a genuine person, he’s just great. The last e-mail was from Stephanie, and she just wanted to know what plans we’re making for Rob’s birthday, and we don’t wanna go into too much detail; she’s not the only person who’s asked this, but we do have some plans in the works—

I: We’re always gonna do a birthday page.

J: We’ll always do a birthday page, so expect that, and we’ve got a little bit of time, but look for that coming, you know, in the next month or so, probably around April, we’ll get that started, but we do have some other things in the works, and we always take suggestions. If you’ve got some ideas, you’re welcome to send them our way. We love to hear peoples’ ideas, that’s totally great. But yeah, we don’t want you to think that we’ve forgotten, cuz we haven’t, but yeah, that’s coming up.

I: Okay, let’s do some wrap-up items, the first thing I wanna talk about is the sponsorship that we’ve already talked about on the Pattycast and on the website before. We’re doing a lot of initiatives to try and make the website some money so that we can stay around, and we’ve got this great skin care company that is going to be our sponsor, and they’ve got a fantastic product, it’s all natural, chemical-free, it’s a line that’s going to come out, so you have to buy the whole package through our sponsorship program with them. The good thing about being a member is that we’ve had an agreement with them, is that when you’re a member you get $25 off your first order, and you get a free travel-size of their cream that’s in the actual line. And anyone who signs up to be a member will get this discount, and from then on, all members will get 15% off from their orders in the future. So I would look out for that, I can’t tell—it’ll launch between a week and a half and two weeks, and we can’t really tell you the name of the company just yet. But we’ll be sure to let you all know once they go live with the website, and once we have that in our membership/sponsorship. So keep a look out for that, and if you’re thinking of becoming a member, this is one of the biggest perks we’ve got now, so go ahead and do it cuz like I said, all of the existing members will get that discount with our sponsor. So any other wrap-up items, Joy?

J: I don’t think so. There hasn’t been a lot of site news lately. Thankfully, things are going pretty smoothly right now.

I: Yes, definitely. We’ve worked out all of our kinks, there’s still some pages that might not be perfect on the website but we’re slowly working through them, and as you can see, it’s a really big website.

J: Yeah, we’re really busy, so we haven’t forgotten. We do appreciate if you find any technical errors, or any—

I: Email us!

J: Yeah, please e-mail us because a lot of times, literally we don’t have enough time to go through every single page every single day. You guys are on the site, probably even more than we are, cuz we’re just doing behind-the-scenes stuff at this point, cuz we’ve got such an awesome staff who keeps things running for us. Our work is mainly behind the scenes, but yeah, we don’t see everything that happens, so please, please, please e-mail us if you find any technical errors, get any missing files, broken links, please e-mail us so that we can get that taken care of. We really appreciate it. But other than that, we’re actually quite pleased everything’s running smoothly so far, we haven’t broken anything lately—

I: Luckily

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J: Yeah, so keep your fingers crossed, that everything will continue to go smoothly. I think that’s it.

I: Sorry for the long-overdue Pattycast. We’re happy to be back and we promise to be more regular because we’re gonna make it a priority, not that we didn’t before but there’s just lots of things going on for Joy, Tara, and I, and, as you’ve noticed, Tara’s not even here today. We miss her, and we love her, and we send her our love, and your love, and….everything.

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I: So you guys have a good afternoon, evening, morning, wherever you are when you listen to this. By f from Isabel!

J: And from Joy Back to the PattyCast