Chanel Costume Institute Gala 2005

[chickenlegs-11.livejournal.com]

Just 'cos things are pretty quiet I thought I'd post this. I haven't seen it before and it's not been up at YouTube for that long. It's only a few seconds worth of Elijah but there is some lovely footage of gorgeous Chanel outfits. Others in the video are various designers, celebs and fashion writers.

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[lyrastar77.livejournal.com]

I'd like to be able to watch this, but my internet connection is really playing up right now! So what's the backstory here? How did Elijah become involved with all these fashionista types, do you know?

Thanks for the link, anyway.

~Lyra

[maddeningpadme.livejournal.com]

I converted the video to .avi (i have keeping things in .flv if i don't have to, cuz on VLC you can't forward/rewind! grr) so if you or anyone needs it uploaded i'd be happy to share.

this was from around Eii promo time i believe, late 2005. he was there w/Liev. i've no idea how they got involved but i don't think about it too much. he attends fashion-related events every so often - thank God not too often. I really don't think he cares for fashion or thinks too much about it but for this I figure maybe it was soemthing Liev had to attend & he invited lij maybe? no idea. there's a pic where they are on a couch backstage i think & he's hugging him. afterward lij was smoking when he left in a taxi with Ian Somerhalder.

[chickenlegs-11.livejournal.com]

I just found that pic where they are on a couch together but they are in different outfits from the Chanel event. I have it saved in a folder for the Toronto International Film Festival 2005 but I just put it there 'cos I didn't know where else to file it. So where was it taken I wonder. Here it is:



(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g227/chickenlegs_11/elijah20and20liev.jpg)

[maddeningpadme.livejournal.com]

yea that was prob diff event! thanks :D i do think the Ian S thing was indeed at the Chanel Gala..cuz i can't remember where else they could've been together. ive no idea how close Ian & Lij are - or if they were even at all close to begin with. or did you mean Dom? or course he & Lijee are still friends! friends till the end :D ♥

[chickenlegs-11.livejournal.com]

No I did mean Lij and Ian. Yeah "Sblommie and Doodle"! Very cute they are! Someone should put them in their own comic book.

[maddeningpadme.livejournal.com]

wait who are Sblommie & Doodle? :lol: ! Dommie & Sbloodle?

[chickenlegs-11.livejournal.com]

Sblommie and Doodle are Dom (Sblommie) and Elijah (Doodle). See my reply to Lyra below. :)

[lyrastar77.livejournal.com]

Yeah, do you know where this name "Sblomie" came from, cos I don't!

~Lyra

[chickenlegs-11.livejournal.com]

Yes, goodness knows how he ended up with the nickname Sblomie. I guess maybe it was just a fun name that evolved as a corrupton of Dom/Dommie/Sblommie. All I know is that in a public chat session on Billy Boyd's website some years ago, Elijah referred to Dom as Sblomie or Sblom and himself as Doodle. (That's if if my memory serves me.) You probably already knew about that, but I didn't find out about the chat session until I asked the question on my LJ: Is Elijah's fan-fic nickname of "Doodle" based in reality? Some lovely person told me about the chat session and gave me the transcript. I still have the transcript if you'd like it.

[lyrastar77.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah -- thanks for the explanation & please do gimme the transcript! :-)

I wonder if "Doodle" comes from Yankee Doodle? Or Elijah's habit of doodling?

Thanks!

~Lyra

[chickenlegs-11.livejournal.com]

Yep it comes from Yankee Doodle. Before I read the chat transcripts I thought maybe it was just cute little name for a cute little dude or "doodle"!

Actually I have two word documents. One is the chat transcript where Elijah, Billy, Dom and Hannah all join in with fans from Billy's site. Then there is a word document that has a couple of posts posted by Elijah and Dom on Billy's site. This is the part where they refer to themselves as Slbom and Doodle.


I've uploaded both to YouSendit.

Here's the link to download the Chat transcript:

http://download.yousendit.com/EA167BF87D455773

Here's the link to download the Slbom and Doodle posts:

http://download.yousendit.com/55E112FF69CC6DFE

Hope it works!! *fingers crossed* I've never uploaded word docs before, but I thought that might be the easiest way of giving them to you.

[lyrastar77.livejournal.com]

Thanx, chix! :-)

Have downloaded -- I've skim-read through some of the first doc, and it looked quite hilarious!

Dom :pour some sugar on meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Heehee! ;-D He said a lot more than that, too! Awwww, this is making my current nostalgia-fest even worse (or should that be better?), and I'm looking forward to being able to read through both docs properly.

Thanks so much again for these!

~Lyra

[chickenlegs-11.livejournal.com]

Dom is SO hysterical isn't he? And I love Elijah's open affection for Billy. I haven't re-read the transcript recently but I remember him telling Billy that he misses him so much. (very sweet)

Yeah it does make one nostalgic for the days gone by. I adore watching them grow and mature into beautiful young men but I do get all mushy thinking of them back in those days. I fell in the love with the cast first (via the Extended DVD doco's on FOTR) which made me fall in love with the movies. I think if I hadn't been so touched by the love they had for each other, the movies themselves wouldn't have meant as much to me. Ahhhhhhh... *sighs*

[mother2012.livejournal.com]

Would you mind terribly reloading these again, since they've expired? I used to have them, two computer crashes ago.

[chickenlegs-11.livejournal.com]

Here you go! Sorry it took me a few days. I haven't been online that much lately.

http://www.yousendit.com/download/WFJVZHl0R0Y5bEEwTVE9PQ

http://www.yousendit.com/download/WFJVZHl0R0ZLVlUwTVE9PQ

[lyrastar77.livejournal.com]

Thanks for offering the video conversion, but I've managed to watch a bit of it now! :-)

It's all a bit of a mystery I guess. Let's face it, we might like to think we know all about what goes on in Elijah's life or in his head, but we don't really!

~Lyra

[chickenlegs-11.livejournal.com]

Yeah I dunno how Elijah gets caught up in all this fashion stuff! The Chile one still has me perplexed! Maybe he's just on the "must-have" invitee list for high profile events, which is a nice thought. Also I'm guessing if you're promoting a movie the studio will make sure you get invites to big events happening around that time. When I was a full-on Brendan Fraser fan I used to notice the same trend. If he had a movie to promote he'd be showing up to a whole bunch of events all happening around the same time. Then he'd be off the radar for ages before another movie was coming out and it all started again. Anyway, that's just one theory! :) Hope your internet connection settles down soon.

[lyrastar77.livejournal.com]

I dunno how Elijah gets caught up in all this fashion stuff! The Chile one still has me perplexed! Maybe he's just on the "must-have" invitee list for high profile events

Yeah, who knows? I agree that the Chile affair was a little puzzling. And although I think Elijah is very famous (obviously) I somehow doubt that he's on the "must-have" list for celeb-type events. As you said, it might all be tied in with movie promotions etc.

Hmmm, thanks but until I've made a whole raft of changes, I don't think my surfing experience is going to improve that much! ;-)

~Lyra

[melyanna-65.livejournal.com]

It seems Elijah loves fashion, it may be another of his interests, just like photography, who knows? I'm curious, too!

*hugs*

[lyrastar77.livejournal.com]

We're *both* curiouser & curiouser! ;-)

*hugs you*

~Lyra

[melyanna-65.livejournal.com]

Yes, we are, precioussss!