Inception Premiere Signing Report, Vid + Pics!

I’m late… I’m always running late it seems these days… sigh… M’Lou is standing on Hollywood Blvd by her little old lonesome holding her Inception poster.  Clutching it if you will.   Holding it gently by her bosom hoping, nay praying, that Leo will come by and sign it for her… I am in my car stuck in traffic trying to get to Hollywood Blvd, to hold my Inception poster gently by my… well you get the picture…

2:38 p.m. – Dammit!  The traffic is horrible!  I know I know, there’s Mike bitching about traffic once again… what will he complain about next the weather… well guess what… yes he will… He will complain about the weather, cause it’s hot… and damn hot!  There… Harrumph!

2:45 p.m. – I finally found M’Lou… she has nestled herself onto the barricade.  I’m a tad shocked at how many people are here already.

2:49 p.m. – It’s the summer that’s why… all the tourists are out and looking around… sigh… And every time we’ll get asked, “What’s gong on?”  And it’s like… Can you not see the giant Inception poster?  The words INCEPTION written on a giant carpet?  No?  Crazy times…

2:58 p.m. – When people ask  now, I say… “Mariachi band.”  Or “Billy Dee Williams is doing a rare public appearance…”  Does that make me a bad person?  I just don’t know…

3:07 p.m. – M’Lou brought her Inception mini poster; I have my mini poster… well… I’m going to tell this story… My mother, my friend Scott, M’Lou and I all went out to a double feature for M’Lou’s birthday.  I bought her dinner, movie, and all that good stuff… Well… I share with M’Lou valuable info about some of the places I get my mini posters from, and we do a round… M’Lou finds these two… IDENTICAL mini posters for… INCEPTION… So, I figure I’ll be getting one, and M’Lou will get one… oh no… M’Lou didn’t want to share her IDENTICAL poster with me… Like she was going to get two signed… Harrumph… I already had one on order, but it was different cause there are many poster images out there for Inception, but that’s not the point… Anyway, I digress… I did get the extra poster, but not without getting shit from the infamous M’Lou…

[Editor's Note: I'm going to tell this story…about the time M'Lou asked Mike if he already had an Inception poster or would he have 2 at the premiere if she gave him one and he said, "No, I have nothing!" Then M'Lou gave him one of those 2 posters and he slyly said, "I have one coming in the mail."]

3:13 p.m. – M’Lou knows I love her so I have no problem telling that story.  And yes like I said I had an Inception poster on order but still I like the originals… Anyway… back to the barricade… lol… and don’t you give me crap Elkins, I still have that Salt mini poster for you!

3:23 p.m. – There are more and more people arriving by the second… sigh…

3:28 p.m. – M’Lou really has become like a sister to me, my Get Around Girls are kick ass… I’ll tell you, every man should have kick ass women in his life.  It’s just the truth!

3:31 p.m. – I also have my Whip It poster for Ellen Page, and a Shutter Island poster for Leo… This just might be a disaster, I dunno…

3:51 p.m. – There is a very nice young lady standing next to M’Lou who said I could stand up front with her, and it turns out she’s an avid reader of Mike Gets Around.  Clearly someone with good taste!  Thanks again!

4:01 p.m. – and I have to tell you I’m so bad with names, I want to say her name was Jenny, but I just know that’s not right.  Sigh… Anyway, she’s a big fan of Jason Schwartzman from Rushmore… I can remember that but not a name… dammit!

4:15 p.m. – It is so hot… I think M’Lou is going to melt.  Megan arrived.  She brought a stool, and has two full one sheets… lol… we are armed baby.  It’s too bad Leo’s signature is just a tiny squiggle.

4:21 p.m. – I did meet Leo a few years back one on one, and got a really nice signature first and last name.  He was really cool; I was kind of shocked actually.  I don’t know why, it just seems like there are some celebs that look like they could be jerks.  I was telling my friend how nice Kate Beckinsale was, and she was shocked.  I can see why, because some people can seem kind of off put… Ah well….

4:34 p.m. – I just realized how random that last thought was…. It’s the heat….

4:46 p.m. – It is damn hot.  Megan just made a comment about needing to bring another shirt to the Salt premiere, and I’m beginning to think she’s right!

4:51 p.m. – wow, the barricade is about three people deep!  Oh God, this is going to be a nightmare!

5:03 p.m. – Annette wisely decided to opt out of this premiere!  Lol…

5:09 p.m. – Tourists are stopping in the middle of the street to take pictures of the carpet, too funny.  These are the same people who are going to walk over here and ask… “What’s going on?”  Ugh… it kills me!

5:15 p.m. – Everyone is getting a tad anxious.  I’m a littler nervous for Megan standing on that stool…

5:24 p.m. – All the security are lined up across the street… Every time I see that I want to sing… “here come the men in black…”  Oh god, I just sang a Will Smith song in my head… I need water, and a brain cleanse!

5:39 p.m. – Shouldn’t be too much longer.  A lot of people have signs I’m noticing this time.  Huh… the sign craze is catching on!

5:48 p.m. – The painting dude from the Jonah Hex premiere is back.  He’s holding up his Leo painting like Leo’s standing in front of him… but he’s not… That’s a tad strange…. Lol…

6:01 p.m. – finally!  It’s about to start… Whew… What a long day… They are letting people stand on the other side of the street…. Grumble… That sucks, cause if people go there to sign and not here we could be screwed!  Grrrrrrrr

6:11 p.m. – The press are filing into their pens, that mean’s it’s getting closer!  Whoo hoo!  Closer to the insanity and chaos!

6:22 p.m. – At least people are starting to arrive!

6:25 p.m. – There’s someone… oh it’s Kellan Lutz from Twilight… All the girls are going nuts over him.

6:29 p.m. – Oh my God, there are signs for KELLAN LUTZ!  LOL… Wow, it’s not even his premiere!

6:32 p.m. – Kellan waves but goes right on the carpet.

6:33 p.m. – There’s the first car… it’s… it’s… Who is it?  Oh it’s Ken Watanabe!  Everyone is calling for him.  He looks over and it doesn’t look like he’s going to come over…

6:35 p.m. – Oh wait, here he comes.  He comes just to the side of us…

6:37 p.m. – This crowd is crazy, I have never seen so much pushing for someone like Ken in all my life.  I mean he’s not Angelina Jolie!  Lol…

6:41 p.m. – M’Lou gets him on her poster and I get him on my poster as well.  Very cool.

6:43 p.m. – Whose car is this… this, is Cillian Murphy!  I have a Red Eye poster for him too… He comes over… wow, so far so good!

6:47 p.m. – He’s signing a bit, not a whole lot… oh crap they told him to go Back… Megan got him, M’Lou got him, and… My poster was the last thing he signed… although his pen is dry as a bone… ugh… I hate it when they have their own pens… sigh…

6:51 p.m. – Joseph Gordon-Levitt just pulled up.  I really want him.  I brought my 3rd Rock From The Sun script for him as well.  I love that show.  He’s not doing too much signing, wait… he’s stopping… Oh My God, he signed like 10 things and is leaving…

6:52 p.m. – Oh, he’s stopping in the street to bow to us now… dude, what’s up with that crack rock… that bums me out…

6:53 p.m. – Not getting Joseph really is ticking me off… sigh…

6:55 p.m. – Another car… it’s Ellen Page… Now Robert, one of the other collectors and I have a bet about her.  I say she’ll come over he says no…

6:56 p.m. – She’s coming right on over… HEH HEH HEH… lol… She’s signing for a bit.  She gets to us, and I just noticed she has the fattest marker in the world!

7:01 p.m. – M’Lou and Megan both get her, I got her on Inception, and then flip the board over and ask her to sign Whip It.  She stops and reaches back to get my Whip It poster!  Whoo hoo!

7:03 p.m. – Another couple cars passed… but… oh crap it’s Leo!

7:05 p.m. – Everyone is going insane… People are pushing and he’s not even here yet…

7:09 p.m. – He comes over to sign, and everyone is getting slammed around…

7:15 p.m. – Oh crap Tom Hardy just got here and is coming over… sigh…

7:18 p.m. – I just got Tom on my poster, and he’s walking up and down the barricade signing and taking pics with people…

7:21 p.m. – everyone in the Get Around Gang got him…

7:25 p.m. – Leo is in front of us now… Oh my God… I’m going over… I can feel it… I yell to the security, “We’re going over…”  He grabs the barricade.  Leo actually grabs the barricade on top of M’Lou’s poster and kind of smooshes it.  Ugh…Leo says to everyone, “You have to calm down.”  He continues signing, and gets my poster and M’Lou’s but some dick behind me tosses a laserdisc at him… he still signed it, but that was just rude… sigh… what the hell man… I tried to get my Shutter island poster signed as well, but alas… that didn’t happen.

7:30 p.m. – Leo is still signing and people are still pushing for no reason!  Ugh… Christopher Nolan arrived, didn’t do squat… Marion Cotillard also arrived and even though people yelled for her, she wouldn’t come over either… sigh…

7:41 p.m. – Leo is still signing away.  Normally I would run down there, but there’s just no way.  The barricade is like seven people deep.  Blech!

7:51 p.m. – And that would be it… sigh… M’Lou and I are going to Mel’s because she isn’t in the mood for salsa, which confuses and befuddles me, but hey what can you do?  Megan is going to join us.  Not sure if we are going to check out the after party or not…

8:34 p.m. – Oh my God, I just drank like 15 glasses of water… It’s official I am a camel.

9:23 p.m. – M’Lou is taking pics of us at Mel’s she’s silly.

9:43 p.m. – We are checking out the after party.  It really doesn’t look accessible… There is a walkway to try and get people to stop… I doubt they will…

10:22 p.m. – no one yet… Oh wait there’s Christopher Nolan… He ignores us, and finally after our pleading waves… sigh… Kellan Lutz does some photos with people though…

10:31 p.m. – Tom Berenger disses us… dammit.  I’m packing it in… Oh well… at least we got some.  The signatures are crap, but what can you do.  Sigh… one long motherfuc*ing day!
Check out the full set of photos from the INCEPTION premiere!