DPC Vlog: The Positive Fans

DPC Vlog: Great Scene, Bad Movie

YouTube is playing funny and won't let me embed this week's Dear Pop Culture Vlog, which is Great Scenes, Bad Movies - click here to watch.

Feel free to let me know your own favourite great scene, bad movie suggestions.

Random Pop Culture Thoughts for the Week:

- Heidi Klum and Seal - that's sad, I thought they had legs.
- Vanessa Hudgens needs to stop the over the top PDA with the boyfriend. It's making everyone REALLY uncomfortable.
- Josh Hutcherson is a cutie but needs to comb the fringe up to be cuter.

Dear Golden Globes Red Carpet

I love Award Shows, LOVE THEM! From the local Logies, Brownlow and others to the Emmy's, Globes and big daddy of them all The Oscars. I love over-analysing people's reactions to winners, I love trying to lip read celebrities on the red carpet and I love the assured shameless C grade star who will no doubt over dress in an effort to be noticed (I'm looking squarely at you Bryn!).

In past online life, I ran a little celebrity fashion blog and the spirit of Harsh Light of Day is with me tonight as I dust off the old judgemental fingers and take a peek at those on red carpets today.

Alexander Skarsgaard

Damn! You can thank me later.

Will Arnett & Amy Poehler

The couple that photo bombs together, stays together

Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt

Welcome Mr and Mrs Ambassador's to Canada or Denmark or Japan or any other country that is red and white.

Anne Heche

Do you think everyone at the after parties just stares at her and whispers behind their Sav Blancs 'there is the crazy, pretended for a bit lesbian that broke Ellen's heart?'

Claire Danes

The more I saw, the more I liked. I was far more concerned with the lack of Dancy by her side but when she thanked him in her acceptance speech, I was put at ease - thanks Claire. PS Homeland = awesome.

Clive Owen

Damn! You can thank me later.

Colin Firth

Damn Mr Darcy! You can thank me later.

Emma Stone

I LOVE YOU! It's now reaching in-appropriate levels of girl-crush with Emma and I think she may re-think a visit to this country based on my love alone. Sorry everyone for ruining it for us.

Erin Wasson

And here is the C grade wannabe desperate for the limelight. This dress won't attract any attention at all.

Ewan McGregor

Damn! You can thank me later.

George Clooney

Oh George you hilarious man you! You are a block of charm, air quotes and raised eyes Bachelor-hood delight.

Jon Hamm

Damn Hamm! You can thank me later.

John Stamos

Damn Uncle Jesse! You can thank me later.

Lea Michele & Cory Montieth

And now begin discussing are they now dating? Is the hand too loose and therefore not affectionate enough or is it a decoy limp hand? Is her demure face being coy with a secret or HEY REPORTERS I HAVE A SECRET!

Linday Lohan

See, look everyone, I'm totally fine, all good, very normal now. Life is A-OK and I am back on track, seriously, everyone I am. Please hire me, I promise, I'll be good, I won't steal anything and I totally come to work, I swear. I am on the complete straight and narrow, the up and up. I am good to go! Please, insurance companies will come around, they will and remember how WAY back when I was a good actress, like WAY back when. Wait, don't go, please listen, Robert Downey Jnr, you like him now, come on!

Michael Fassbender

You know you're the hottest fella in the room when Clooney is congratulating you in an acceptance speech and letting the world know you're rocking a big penis. Also - DAMN MAGNETO! You can totally thank me later.

Mirand Kerr & Orlando Bloom

The dress is awful but Miranda, you bought along Legolas so I'll give you a pass.

Nicole Richie

Love it. She has totally sorted herself out and made having a jewellery line not a just a celebrity tax evasion scheme but an actually thing.

Reese Witherspoon

I don't think she'll ever recover from the show stopping, amazing, eff you Ryan Phillippe canary yellow cocktail dress of awesome a few years ago. This certainly isn't helping.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

This is going to shock the hell out of some people but I really like this. Especially after the SEA of nudes, bieges and tan dresses that were all identical. And SMG is looking happy and smiling and just pleased to be out and about as opposed to sad sack Dicaprio or Wiig or the many other poutters who looked as if they were being dragged to a slaughter house and not a fully catered for, industry piss up with gift bags and limos.

Most Anticipated Books of 2012

The banging sound is not a kidnap victim trying to escape, it's my broken window slamming in the breeze. How fun is that at 3am in the morning? God bless being a renter who has been ignored by her landlord for a few months on this issue!

DPC Vlog: Most Anticipated TV Shows of 2012

Dear Pop Culture Vlog: Most Anticipated 2012 Movies

Dear Word Count Wednesday

And you thought I never write a post again and just vlog my days away. Well, truth be told, it was tempting but I need to keep at the keyboard, keep the fingers flowing and hope the juices spill into the story world.

Word Count Wednesday is going to be my weekly word count review on all fronts - a ledger of truth and honesty and maybe a tad more serious than the Vlog's. (Because people, I'm layered!).

The Proclaimed: 76,704 (Finished, pitching to agents)
The Proclaimed 2: 18,532 (one third into first draft, dragging my heels)
Tethered: 0 (ideas circling and desperate to get out, scribbled notes)
That Girl: 0 (early ideas, not sure if it's a full story yet)

Have I missed the boat? That's what is haunting my writing dreams at the moment. Because as the tables in the publishing world are tipping in all unknown directions and more and more people are offered alternative ways to publish and reach audience via quick methods, is my old school traditional approach holding me back or helping me get the best version of my book out there? And more so, am I just late to the party, one of the many also rans in a crowded field of excellent writers?

My books are firmly placed in the young adult genre and I know that's where I'm supposed to be, no doubt about it. I have supernatural elements in them, and a main girl who realises her destiny after living a normal life. So, what I'm facing right now is an extremely crowded market with more and more authors of note joining the ranks. I face derision because as I go out into the world hoping people will want to read my stuff, it's a big fat case of 'oh this type of stuff is so last year.'

Also, at the end of the day, at what point do you realise, like an auditioning American Idol contestant, while you're okay at what you do, you're not next level good. You're not fighting hard for the deal that you've told people about, that people now ask about good. You're not published good, just post a few fan fictions stories online and have good feedback from characters you never created.

What's annoying is all these thoughts roll around up top as I try to write Book 2 and my new book, and it's slowing me down but also stifling my writing a bit. The freedom with which I wrote last year was amazing, I wrote the story from my head to the page, no thoughts of people and audience and it spilled forth and in less than two months I had a finished first draft (sure, it needed work). Now, I as try to write the without wings first draft of Book 2, I find myself analysing and self-editing and basically stalling in the process when I know the thoughts are there to be written - ready to go.

So these are my messy, scatter brained thoughts on Word Count Wednesday - I'd love to know if anyone else is writing, how they're going, what challenges they're facing?

Dear Pop Culture Vlog: The Scale and Celebrities I'm Worried About

I'm partially distracted by George Clooney in Ocean's Thirteen on the TV. Sorry but it's George, in a tux: he draws the eye people!

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Dear Pop Culture Vlog: The Walking Dead, Glee and more

And here is, as noted in my music wise love ramble, Ron Pope's Fireflies, which is my new favourite song to belt out loudly in the car and sing along to as I pretend to audition for X-Factor. This version below is the one that appears on the album and I encourage you to BUY it! Smaller artists like this guy need our support.