Back to the Beach: Global Fan Day - Part 1 - Catching Fire

Aye, lads and lassies, missed out on getting up-close (over the computer) and personal with our favorite stars of the Catching Fire movie? Fear not, for I have docked our ship and gather you all to this glorious bonfire for...story time! Specifically, the story of what happened on Global Fan Day. If you haven't figured it out yet, Back to the Beach is when I take a break from sailing and regale the people on shore with tales of my adventures. And yesterday's adventure was Global Fan Day! This is only part one, though, look forward to more in the next post dearies. Oh and we're also making s'mores. Are you ready? Here I go.

It was such a blessed day, where the fans on each social network were treated to the company of the cast of Catching Fire. First of was Google + at 2 pm EST, where Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth and director Francis Lawrence participated in a Q&A session. Granted only 6 veeeeery lucky people were able to show there faces and interact directly with the cast and director, but everyone was able to send their questions in via a Google + account or YouTube.

Next, Josh and Liam headed over to Twitter to answer some MORE questions by us insatiable fans.

  

At this same time, Jennifer and Mr. Lawrence were over to Yahoo for a little Fireside Q&A with Marissa Mayer. Because the video isn't up on YouTube and I am limited by the technology of blogger, CLICK HERE to go to the video.

Now, lastly but not the least, oh no, not at ALL the least, is the Facebook Live Chat with all four once more. Here is the frustrating start of the adventure:

         

 

Soooooo basically, the broadcast started later, but not when most people were expecting it to. We were all confused, refreshing the page, blaming the Capitol, fishing for likes, and then I gave up after 30 minutes as I had an early adventure in the morning. Buuuuuut here is the video of the broadcast ^^ I was so excited to find out it still occurred. CLICK HERE for that ^^

And here is the FIRST EXCLUSIVE CLIP once more, if you missed it.

I hope you've enjoyed this dearies, because their is a Part Two coming tomorrow...*hint* Lucy Fry *hint*

- Captain Kaelyn

Storm's A Comin' - First "Catching Fire" Clip

And here we have it lads and lassies, the first of hopefully many little tidbits from the movie that'll both give us momentary satisfaction (37 sec worth of it!) and yet make us yearn for the movie all that much more. Well played, Lionsgate, well played. Here dearies, enjoy the torture. 

    My thoughts on the trailer:

"Sqeeeeeeeeeeee ><" and "That's it?!?!?!?!" After y'all watched it, you
know how I feel. THAT 37 SECOND TORTURE!!! 37 SECONDS?! We need more. But onwards! I'm a full-on team Peeta but Gale is too interesting of a character to be ignored. He basically propels Katniss to accept this new responsibility of hers: a symbol for hope. And here is a tiny snippet of his great wisdom. In the mean time, i'll leave you a beautiful man to stare at and be at complete peace.

-Captain Kaelyn

Movie.Music.Monday (MMM #1)

MOVIE
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Aye lads and lassies, just 18 days left till November 22. What is the importance of November 22nd, you ask? Wait, of course you don't ask because YOU KNOW. We all have this engraved in our minds, the importance of this day. It is when the long-awaited sequel to the Hunger Games movie comes out: Catching Fire! It is, perhaps, one of the greatest book to movie adaptations I've seen since the Harry Potter series. The trailers and screenshots have me anticipating the movie and it's story line. Yes, yes I understand an author has no rights, unless given, to order about the movie set. It's like when a pirate create a map to treasure. We may have created it but the adventure others undertake on its instructions are purely there own. The journey at most will not differ, yet it also will not be the exact same one. It is always unique to see another's take on a book. See how far they fall into the world of the book, how much they actually understand it. Gary Ross had quite a task ahead of him when he took the Hunger Games movie as his project but he accomplished it with grace and elegance beyond words. Judging by the teasers, I suspect Mr. Francis Lawrence is up to par, if not better, than the first movie. I've seen his others works "I am Legend" and "Water for Elephant" (Both excellent movies, and I can't judge the book-adaptation for "Water for Elephants" for I haven't YET read the book, but I will soon. The movies have made this Captain cry  up a storm to rival that of Neptune, though.) I look forward to Catching Fire. I will be docking the Jolly Anne for a midnight screening of the movie. Be sure to expect my review of it as well as a Book vs. Movie post, dearies.

MUSIC
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As you mates know, your Captain has a certain taste in music, namely kpop. Today, I'll be introducing you to my latest ear worm: "Just Another Girl" by Kim Jaejoong. Jaejoong is the reason I've founded the category of This. This is for the people that are not only good singers AND rappers, but good actors, good looking, good-natured, etc. All you can do is point at them and say "This"; ie, This is perfection. And Jaejoong is This. He's acted and won awards for his roles. He's swept the charts with his releases, including this one. And the man has to be THE MOST GORGEOUS man ever. He's a god. He has to be. Or a siren, leading us to our doom of being super addicted to him, with his beautiful voice. I doubt any of us care. Now anyways, I present to you "Just Another Girl" by Kim Jaejoong.

Sleep tight mates. I'll be staying up finishing my book to review and add to my loot, hopefully, tomorrow. Look forward to it. Aye aye? AYE AYE!

-Captain Kaelyn