On Air with Ryan Seacrest 2009-11-11
New Moon reading
For today’s reading, Ryan headed out into the wilds of the courtyard at E! to read from a location scoped out yesterday …
video: youtube.com/ryanseacrest
As I lay there, I had a feeling that more time was passing than I realized. I couldn’t remember how long it had been since nightfall. Was it always so dark here at night? Surely, as a rule, some little bit of moonlight would filter down through the clouds, through the chinks in the canopy of trees and find the ground. Not tonight. Tonight the sky was utterly black. Perhaps there was no moon tonight—a lunar eclipise, a new moon. A new moon. I shivered, though I wasn’t cold. It was black for a long time before I heard them calling. Someone was shouting my name. It was muted, muffled by the wet growth that surrounded me, but it was definitely my name. I didn’t recognize the voice. I thought about answering, but I was dazed, and it took a long time to come to the conclusion that I should answer. By then, the calling had stopped. […] The rain bothered me a little. It was cold. I unwrapped my arms from around my legs to cover my face. It was then that I heard the calling again. It was farther away this time, and sometimes it sounded like several voices were calling at once. I tried to breathe deeply. I remembered that I should answer, but I didn’t think they would be able to hear me. Would I be able to shout loud enough?
Meyer, S. (2006) New Moon. Atom. p 74
Pushy parents
Ryan picked up on a discussion from last week. A girl had called in — she is an A grade student and captain of the soccer team, yet she feels that it’s never good enough for her mom. Ryan took calls from people at both sides, pushy parents who just want the best for their kids, people who wished their parents had pushed them into things.
Ellen asked if Ryan’s parents were pushy because he did so many different things. He’d just wanted to do everything (no surprise there!) but he talked about feeling sick going to class at university because he knew he wanted to go to LA and try to make it, and having the conversation with his parents saying he’d give it a year and come back if it didn’t work out. A bit of early Seacrest…
