Intro

• Twilight Parody of the song, “Tubthumping” by Chumbawamba

Twilight news

• New Moon soundtrack is out. Released early due to demand. (Get more from MTV.com)
• Self Magazine spread with Kellan Lutz, Ashely Greene and Rachelle Lefevre (Read more at Self Magazine Online)
• People Magazine Collector’s Edition New Moon Issue is on sale now (Read more at People.com)
• New New Moon Merchandise at Hot Topic (See what they have at HotTopic.com)
• Official Twilight Twitter at twitter.com/twilight
• Summit announces New Moon run time as 2 hours and 10 minutes (Read more at NewMoonMovie.org)

Newborn news

• Winner of Team Essay Contest: Luxie
• Christen on Twitter at twitter.com/ChristenNewborn
• New Moon movie plans. Near Cincinnati? email us at twilightnewborns AT gmail dot com
• Poll: Who got the coolest New Moon character poster ?

Meat of the Discussion: The Cullens as hoarders

• See A&E’s Hoarders (a TV show about hoarding)
• Definition of compulsive hoarding (See Wikipedia)
• Is hoarding why the Cullens leave town?
• Is Esme getting help?

Outtakes

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It's all about the attitude: Rosalie's perfect pet companion

Obviously, the Cullens can’t have pets. The midnight snack craving would be too much. But that didn’t stop us from trying to figure out which animal would go with each Cullen.

Cullen pets: Who would have what and what would they name it?

• Emmett—A pit bull named tank with a stud collar
• Alice—An aquarium full of rare fish named Gucci, Coco, Versace
• Jasper—A ferret named Antietam
• Bella—A cat named Caroemaljaed
• Renasty—Menagerie where all the animals are named “mine!”
• Carlisle—A rat named Experiment 486
• Esme—A pair of love birds named Tristan and Isolde
• Rosalie—A purse dog named Sugar Pie
• Edward—A hamster named “Just In Case”

From episode 21.  Special thanks to Katy, our Fan of the Week Emeritus, for the question.

• 12 Days of Twilight sung by the Newborns

Twilight News

• Filming on New Moon starts Monday 3-16-09 (See Just Jared Jr. story)
  • Set photos from Spoiler TV
• Eclipse Director, Juan Antonio Bayona, announced and then denied. (See LA Times)
• Robert Pattinson in GQ Magazine (See story and photos here)
• Cool stuff releasing soon: Twilight Board Game (3/15/09), Twilight Director’s Notebook (3/17/09)  and Twilight DVD (3/21/09)

Newborn News

• Café Press Store is up (See our shop here)
• 2 Polls: What vampire super power would you like to have? and  Which RPattz mega-do do you prefer?
• Fan of the Week: Naomi via Facebook

Please talk on the podcast on how to explain rationally to fellow adults our current fixation with Twilight, 22 year old actors, 17 year old vampires and make it not sound like I’m having a mid life crisis?? I’m 32 and a wife and mother of 3. My daughter is a fellow fan but husband and colleagues think I’m nuts.

Meat of the Discussion – The Wedding of the Century

• Location
• Alice’s involvement
• Lack of Bella’s involvement
• Lack of showers or rehearsals
• Renee’s role

What gifts would the guests bring?

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Intro

• Local TV news from Forks, WA

Twilight News

• More Kristen Stewart interviews (KStew Apology-gate) (See E! Online Exclusive)
• Twilight board game is being released (See product details at Amazon)
• Need for a Twilight video game
• Twilight DVD update (See our post about DVD purchasing options)
• Find a Twilight DVD release party near you at Twilightthemovie.com
• Discussion of MSN’s “Real Life Vampires” story

Newborns News

• T-shirts to be available on Café Press – Jazz hands for Christen’s “The Boyfriend” for great design!
• Now on Skype. Leave us a voicemail for possible inclusion in the podcast. Skype ID: Twilightnewborns
• Drooling over fan’s New Moon Poster (see link here)
• Fan of the week: Lara from Denver, Colorado, via email

Meat of the Discussion – Bella’s Super Power and Usefulness of super powers in general

• Chris of Las Vegas, Nevada, writes:

I think Bella is a shield because she constantly cares for others and gladly sacrifies herself for her mother [twilight], and edward [eclipse].  Then why are her powers essentially for self-preservation?

• Discussion of Bella as shield
• Is it part of her personality?
• How does her being a mother affect her shield making abilities?
• The usefulness of super powers in general in Breaking Dawn
• Need for an encyclopedic listing of other vampires and super powers in BD (See Lion_Lamb Community’s post on Live Journal)

Cullens at the Oscars

• Surely, Alice has dragged the Cullens to an Oscar ceremony as some point.
• What stars would the Cullens be drawn to?

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Twilight News

• DVD editions: Borders in the top running for the Twilight Newborns (suggested by “Fan of the Week Emeritus” Chris)
• Entertainment Weekly—cover story featuring Twilight and director Catherine Hardwicke (See EW’s Twilight Central here)

Newborns News

• Origins of Déjeuner, our podcasting mascot and mountain goat
• Physical description of the goat
• Name meaning: Lunch in French
• Name inspiration: Robert Pattinson’s running abilities (see MTV interview)
• Poll update: Which Twilight Character do you want to spend Valentine’s Day with?
• Fan of the Week: Jolene for her website comment

Meat of the Discussion: The theme of courtly love in the Twilight Series

• Description of courtly love on Wikipedia (Wik it!)

Courtly love was a medieval European conception of nobly and chivalrously expressing love and admiration.[1] Generally, courtly love was secret and between members of the nobility.[2] It was also generally not practiced between husband and wife.

Source: Wikipedia

Stages of courtly love
•    Attraction to the lady, usually via eyes/glance
•    Worship of the lady from afar
•    Declaration of passionate devotion
•    Virtuous rejection by the lady
•    Renewed wooing with oaths of virtue and eternal fealty
•    Moans of approaching death from unsatisfied desire (and other physical manifestations of lovesickness)
•    Heroic deeds of valor which win the lady’s heart
•    Consummation of the secret love
•    Endless adventures and subterfuges avoiding detection

Source: Wikipedia

Valentine’s Day and Edward

• Sidetracked to “What chores do the Cullens do around the house?”

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We’re hoping the real answers are out there. Can you help?

Twilight News

• Rumors debunked of casting of Leah Clearwater and naming of an Eclipse director
• Twilight perfume hubbub
• Thoughts about Catherine Hardwick being replaced
• The aging of the actors
• MuthMath performing “Spotlight” on The Tonight Show

Newborns News

• Poll update
• Fan of the week: Twilighter76
• The newborns going to watch Joel McHale from E! The Soup (http://www.eonline.com/thesoup)

The Meat of the Discussion: The Cullens’ materialistic side

• Alice’s not allowing the Cullens to wear clothes twice
• What the Cullens would do if lost their wealth
• Why do they get all flashy in Forks?
• Donation habits

Edward’s bedroom update

• No progress on our mission of finding out what’s on Edward’s walls in the movie
• Use of beds by vampires

Bella & Edward’s relationship

• Question brought up by Twilight Series Theories (http://www.twilightseriestheories.com): Thoughts on Edward’s lack of truthfulness with Bella compared to Jacob.

The Boyfriend update

Twilight website of the week

• twitter.com/edcullen

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