Part Deux

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Jonathan and I had to check in with our minders between 3 and 3:30. There were three different groups: those who would be in the pit, those in the bleachers on the red carpet, and seat-fillers. We were diffrentiated through the inventive use for colored wristbands. As a seat-filler, my wristband was green. We all had to wait behind the red carpet set, and we were there for something like three hours. That part was not very cool. My brother, who is writing a story for the local newspaper, acted like a reporter and asked various people why they were there, how they got their invite, and so on.

So we were brought into the Shrine around 6 or so. We did walk on to the red carpet via a rear/VIP entrance. The red carpet was kind of like a shag carpet. They checked my purse and scanned us with metal detecting wands. We went into a hallway and were put behind this black curtain. On the other side of the black curtain were a bunch of minders and what not for various stars. We weren't there for too long. After that, we walked through the auditorium and then were taken into a small side room, where we waited for an hour. Sway from MTV walked through with a bunch of MTV tech guys. They were taking a few of us at a time to fill seats or to stick us in the seat-filler section, and after the opening movie ended my brother was picked to be seated and I got to go with him, as we were together. From there we ended up being seated five times. Unfortunately, most of the time we ended up sitting at the end of a row so we always had to move whenever someone came back for their seats.

I'm really bad at recognizing celebrities, so I'm honestly not sure how many people I was sitting near. We sat in the same row as Brian Grazer, the producing partner of Ron Howard. Anyway, this is a list of people I saw roaming around or in the audience:

1. Samuel L. Jackson
2. Lindsay Lohan
3. Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey
4. Molly Ringwald
5. Darryl Hannah
6. The Plastics from Mean Girls, sans Rachel McAdams
7. Ryan Gosling
8. Napoleon Dynamite guy
9. The Rock
10. Nicole Kidman
11. Amanda Bynes
12. Eminem
13. The drummer from blink-182 and his wife
14. Johnny Knoxville
15. Seann William Scott
16. The fire guy from the Fantastic Four
17. Michael Chiklis
18. Justin Long, the geek from Galaxy Quest and who is also in a skit with Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn

And a lot of other people, whom I don't remember right now. Presenters included Ioan Gruffud RAWR who presented with the other Fantastic Four castmembers, Jessica Biel (ewanlover, she is flawless looking in person), and a bunch of other people you will see on TV, should you choose to watch the show. Hilary Duff introduced the Foo Fighters. I don't have to add a snarky comment to that, do I?

Lindsay Lohan won Best Female Performance. No one in the star section applauded. The announcer actually had to ask us to clap harder for her. She was drunk and rambling in her speech. She was really skinny, but it doesn't look so bad in person as it does in pictures. Also, her latest dye job was better than the last. When her name was announced Hilary immediately turned to her sister and whispered something.

So Katie Holmes had dialogue and what not from the teleprompter but everything about her body language screamed OMG OMG TOM CRUISE I <3 HIM OMG OMG OMG!!!!!RANDOMLETTERSRANDOMNUMBERS, so that's all I remember. During his montage she had her hands pressed to her head and she was doing this weird... orgasmic head toss thing. I seriously thought she was going to hyperventilate. Then as she was about to introduce him, she dropped down on one knee and then stood up and did this weird victory sign with her arms. That part should hopefully end up on TV. Then she was like, "Should I get him??" with this weird shiteating grin in her face. She went back, got him, and she's like a head taller than he is. He really is that short. Thankfully he didn't say anything about her in his speech, and they didn't kiss. They walked off, holding hands and that was that.

Mariah Carey received the only standing ovation. My brother thought she was lip synching, though. Jessica Simpson was totally rocking out during Mariah's song. Nick looked bored throughout the entire show. Yellowcard did a shitty cover of Don't You Forget About Me, prompting me to wonder why MTV couldn't have booked Billy Idol. Jimmy Fallon did a good job of hosting. Right as the last break was ending, he thanked everyone in the audience for keeping our energy up.

Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling re-enacted their kiss from The Notebook, complete with running towards each other from opposite ends of the stage. Speaking of the stage at the Shrine, it was tiny. The size of a school auditorium. Only the walkway from the pit made it a little bigger.

Oh, when Dustin Hoffman won... something, it may look like he's patting his balls on camera, but he wasn't. Just miming.

I'll probably add more after the show airs on Thursday.