Tonight’s Video Music Awards are going to be so huge that, without proper sustenance, we’re not sure you’ll make it through. Luckily we’ve prepared a survival kit — five essential items you simple cannot go without. You’ve got a few hours before the show kicks off at 9 p.m. ET/PT, so prepare accordingly.

1. The Ultimate Awards-Show Food

2. Popcorn

3. A Comfy Seat

4. A Sugar Rush

5. Your BFF

Gavin Alaoen

Iconic actor, film director, and producer Richard Attenborough has passed away, the BBC announced on Sunday evening via a confirmation from the actor’s son. The multi-Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA winner was 90-years-old.

Perhaps best known to the Millennial set as John Hammond from Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park,” the multi-hyphenate also played Kris Kringle in the 1994 remake of “Miracle on 34th Street.” Additionally, after his start as a stage actor, Attenborough was seen on-screen in a wide variety of films, including “Doctor Dolittle,” “The Great Escape,” “10 Rillington Place,” and “Elizabeth.”

As a director, Attenborough won two Academy Awards and two BAFTAs for his 1983 film “Gandhi.” His was a career so prolific and revered he was given the honorable and distinguished title of The Rt Hon. The Lord Attenborough, CBE since 1993.

The actor’s son confirmed that his father died around lunchtime on Sunday. The family is expected to make a full statement on the matter of his passing on Monday.

Alicia Lutes

Too much exuberance for one person. Follow her on Twitter @alicialutes.

OK, this selfie is downright bananas and I don’t mean that simply because of the two casual cool kids nomming on ‘naners at the beginning of the video. It’s because the whole thing takes place atop a Hong Kong skyscraper more than a thousand feet off the ground as if such a selfie experience were totally casual, NBD.

Except it’s so terrifying my stomach hurts just writing this.

According to YouTube uploader Frank Wu, photographer Daniel Lau utilized a “selfie stick” in order to procure the “dizzying footage of a rooftopping adventure 346m (1,135 feet) above the streets of Hong Kong.”

“Lau, fellow photographer Andrew Tso and A.S. are seen in the video snacking while perched dangerously on the spire of The Centre skyscraper, Hong Kong’s fifth-tallest skyscraper,” the video’s description reads.

If you felt particularly queasy while Lau’s selfie stick swirled about, it’s likely thanks to the wide-angle lens he used, ensuring many a lunch lost all across the Internet.

Personally, if we want our next selfie to look that extreme, we’ll use the background effects on Photobooth. But to each their own!

Alicia Lutes

Too much exuberance for one person. Follow her on Twitter @alicialutes.

As if there wasn’t enough to be excited about for tonight’s 2014 MTV Video Music Awards, Katy Perry just teased another surprise.

Apparently, we’re going to be treated to Perry’s very best impression on the red carpet, due to her being challenged by one Britney Jean Spears.

See, we were recently treated to Spears’ scarily spot-on Woody Woodpecker impression.

Perry, of course, loved it, as she should, tweeting that it was the best thing she’d seen all day.

In response, Spears challenged Perry to showcase an impression of her own, a challenge that Perry promptly accepted with a promise to debut her act on tonight’s red carpet.

So, what’ll it be? Might the “Dark Horse” singer do her best hungry big cat (Tony the Tiger, duh)? Could she possibly have a sweet Daffy Duck up her sleeve? Maybe she’ll go the non-cartoon route and pull out an impression of this year’s Video Vanguard Award recipient, Beyonce.

Whatever it is (but please let it be Beyonce), we can’t wait to see it.