' You'll be the death of me' the title song for True Blood Season One Episode twelve

I recently did a Season 2 Spoiler show for my Blogtalk radio show, where we looked at what we might know about the upcoming episode by knowing and examining the title song for that episode.

I can't tell you how many emails I received from folks saying they felt so stupid for not realizing that the True Blood episodes were named for songs. It's OK but I thought it might be a good idea to look back at the song, the artist and the lyrics for each of last season's episode title songs.

So let's look back to Season 1, Ep 12 ' You'll be the death of me' which originally aired November 23, 2008.

'You'll be the death of me' is from his 2006 album Introduction to Johnny Winter.

Album description: Before guitarist Johnny Winter stormed onto the American blues scene in the late 1960s, the lanky, hot-shot Texan cut a number of sides for small labels, and many of those tunes are compiled on this well-selected Fuel 2000 disc. In addition ... Full Descriptionto tearing into originals such as the charmingly youthful "School Day Blues" and the fiery "You'll Be the Death of Me," Winter offers up a number of excellent cover tunes, including Johnny "Guitar" Watson's caddish classic "Gangster of Love." Although it's clear that the renowned six-stringer was just warming up at this early stage in his career, there are enough gems here to make AN INTRODUCTION TO JOHNNY WINTER more than just a diehards-only collection.

Johnny Winter (born John Dawson Winter III on 23 February 1944 in Beaumont, Texas) is an American blues guitarist and singer. He is the first son of John and Edwina Winter who were very much responsible for Johnny and his younger brother Edgar Winter’s early musical awareness.

He began performing at a young age with Edgar, who is also affected with albinism. His recording career began at the age of 15, when their band “Johnny and the Jammers” released “School Day Blues” on a Houston record label. During this same period, he was able to see performances by classic blues artists such as Muddy Waters, B. B. King and Bobby Bland.
From his bio on his web page http://johnnywinter.net/bio/

Winter remains a native Texan, born and bred in Beaumont, the town where the famous Spindletop gusher came in to kick off the "black gold" rush in 1901. Growing up in rough-and-tumble town populated by oilfield wildcatters and shipyard workers, .....

Racial tensions in Beaumont were still high in those days. The town had been side to one of the worst race riots in Texas history just nine months before Johnny's birth. Mobs wandered the streets, businesses burned, martial law went into effect, and more than 2,000 uniformed National Guardsmen and Texas Rangers sealed off the town from the rest of the world until tempers cooled. Despite the brutal legacy, Johnny remembers never hesitating as a kid to venture into black neighborhoods to hear and play music.

I can't find lyrics or a video of Johnny performing this, let me know if you know of any!
This is Johnny performing Mississippi Blues

True Blood Episode Twelve : 'You'll be the death of me ' recap from HBO site

** you should now have all 12 episodes, you can find them all here

Rene visits Jason in jail, the two of them talking through the bars of his cell. Jason still can't figure out how he could have done all this, but he sure feels guilty enough for it. "They were all fangbangers," Rene tells him. "If you hadn't done it, it was just a matter of time ..." Jason immediately cuts him off, insisting that his Gran was not a fangbanger. Rene backs off, just as Sookie bursts in, forcing herself past the deputy to Jason's cell. She reaches through the bars, holding Jason's hand as she tells him the story of Drew Marshall, with Rene listening intently. Andy comes over to ask what's going on, and she asks him about the fax that came from the police department in Bunkie, which he's heard nothing about.

Tara wakes up to a royal breakfast at Maryann's house, and when she puts on a robe and explores her temporary home, realizes it's more like an estate.
On the patio, she meets Maryann, who tells her that she should take this time to figure out what she wants in life - not to mourn what she's already lost. "Maybe your life has been cleared of all the things that weren't working for your," Maryann suggests. She says she wants to help Tara simply because the young woman deserves it. Upstairs, as the servant Karl makes Tara's bed, he notices her phone ringing with a call from Sam, turns off the ringer and slips the phone into his pocket.

Jason receives another visitor in jail, this time a representative from the human-purity movement Fellowship of the Sun, who tells him that a legal defense fund has been set up for him. Not that the Fellowship can condone murder as a means of ending human fraternization with vampires, but Jason's actions were still "a service to your race and to Jesus." The man, Orry Dawson, leaves Jason with a pamphlet and tells him the church will save him.

Read on here:

Episode Twelve ( S1) HBO Recap

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Music from True Blood Episode 12 - You’ll Be The Death Of Me “

“Prelude a L'apres - Midi D'un Faun” by Claude Debussy

“Fantasy Pieces - Why?” by Robert Schumann

“Christine’s Tune (Devil in Disguise)” by The Flying Burrito Brothers

“Trouble” by Ray LaMontague

“You’ll Be The Death of Me” by Johnny Winter

“Cut & Run” by Madison Smartt Bell and Wyn Cooper
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“Ain’t No Grave” by Crooked Still

Rene attack in graveyard -is Sookie laying in the grave of one of Bill's descendents ? Ep 12

Really good catch by vstargirl

Sookie is in the Bellefluer section of Bon Temp cemetery and is actually laying on the grave of Sophie Gibbons Bellefluer

Now we don't know for sure how she is connected but she may be laying on the grave of one of Bill's descendants.
His family history ( and other Bon Temp families ) are here
http://lovingtruebloodindallas.blogspot.com/search/label/family%20history

We will find out much more about this is season 2 !

More great documents- scripts and texts from True Blood episodes

Are you trying to figure out what they say in a particular scene ? I know we do all the time on the wiki chat thread so I've created and posted word docs of the "closed captioning " text for the episodes 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12.
I also have episode 7 for those wiki-folks who are in honor of Eric learning to speak Swedish during the show hiatus. ha!

You can find them as well as a full transcript of episode 1.

Go here

Closed Captioning Ep 12

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Closed Captioning Ep 7 in Swedish

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`What was that great painting over Tara's bed at Maryann's ?

It's "The Great Odalisque" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1814) and it's in the Louvre (Paris). Gee...that art appreciation class paid off!

thanks to Rochellean on the blog !

This little piggy went to market ..this little piggy stayed home

you be the judge ..
Lafayettes painting his toes on the bar











The foot in andy's car in the parking lot

Did "True Blood's" Finale Leave You Hungry For More?

Posted by Jarett Wieselman at 11:55 AM on November 24, 2008

The season finale is a funny thing. On the one hand, it's great getting closure to a story you've been following for 13 weeks while also being plied with tantalizing new treats, sprinkled throughout. On the other hand, if waiting one week for new installments was tough, hanging on for months until you can get another taste will be murder.

Luckily there was a lot of murder last night to quench our thirst for "Blood." Spoilers and speculation after the jump!

Let's start by getting closure: Rene was the killer. Sookie's telepathy outed the fake-Cajun when he couldn't stop himself from thinking about murdering grandma Stackhouse. The ensuing chase led them to a cemetery -- natch -- where Sookie decapitated Rene, but not before Bill sensed she was in danger and darted out in the daytime to be her hero. He failed and slowly cooked in the sunlight, leaving Sam to save Sookie and then to save Bill by burying him six feet under so he could heal.

Then we jumped two weeks ahead where Sookie and Bill were once again in love, which resurrected resentful Sam. We also got to see a much more at ease Tara, since she has fallen under the spell of Maryann -- what with her clean sheets and endless fruit buffets. Then, in the first teasings of what's to come next year, Sam and Maryann came face to face and revealed a mysterious history with one another.

Sam: What are you doing here?
Maryann: What, did you think I wouldn't find you?

Me thinks he did. I have been wary of Maryann since, well, she was spotted nekkid in the road two episodes back. Also, there was that telling line reading when Tara asked if she was a Jesus person. "No," she replied with a mile-wide grin, implying she might support a more Satanic stance. Then last night she did a weird reverberation thing in the garden, which I think meant she was manifesting that boy Tara was talking to out of thin air.

There is also the two-week disappearance of Lafayette at hand. Something attacked him outside Merlotte's -- the show wants us to think it was Bill reconstituting his body after being burned almost to re-death. "I fed," he told Sookie, but HBO's choice to reshow the scene where Lafayette threatened the god-fearing senator from a few weeks back in this episode's "previously on" portion makes me think that closet-case is behind his disappearance.

Then there's the small matter of the dead body found in Andy's, er, I mean Officer Bellefleur's, car. All we saw were the feet of a caucasian woman -- based on the toenail polish. And based on Sookie and Tara's reaction, they either know the victim or the death was so horrifyingly disfiguring that they couldn't think of any other option but to scream from the depths of their souls.

Thoughts? Reactions? Support group info since it's easily going to be six months until our next fresh episode of "True Blood?"

'True Blood' finale: Things got kinda awesome

Nov 24, 2008, 03:21 PM | by Jean Bentley

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After a sloooooooooow start, True Blood finally became interesting. I started watching out of curiosity (sweet ad campaign, HBO), kept watching out of loyalty (Six Feet Under is just so great), and finished watching because it got kind of awesome. Most of my friends stopped after the first couple of episodes, but that's when it finally got good. I was bummed when the first season ended last night, and not just 'cause I won't get to see a shirtless Ryan Kwanten until next summer (well, there's always On Demand). Some finale musings (with spoilers):

* It was pretty clear that Sookie would finally figure out who was terrorizing Bon Temps, but did anyone else think the reveal of Rene as the killer was a little abrupt? I guess I'd have to re-watch, but I didn't notice any clues about his true identity until the beginning of last night's episode when it became glaringly obvious. (I didn't recognize him in the photo sent to the sheriff's department last week.) Seeing as the writers hit us over the head with the Sam/shape-shifter thing from episode 1, it just felt rushed.

More musings, after the jump...

* I don't know how Bill thought he would help by slowly lurching toward Sookie and Sam in broad daylight, seeing has he gets explode-y in the sunlight. It's the thought that counts, I guess?
* Please take a minute with me to appreciate the badassness that is Rutina Wesley. (Did you see her in the pool scene? Damn, she is ripped.) Let's hope the writers will be able to even out her character's ridiculous mood swings next season.
* A final thought: Lafayette, noooo! The chef/drug dealer could always be counted on for humor, sage advice, or vampire blood. The most obvious tie to the vampire-gay allegory, Lafayette helped keep the other characters from getting too annoying (everyone else is too dumb, whiny, or both).

It was a pretty satisfying ending for a first season. The big storylines all wrapped up nicely, in case the show doesn't get picked up for round two, but the unsolved loose ends have me curious enough to start watching once it comes back next summer. Did anyone else watch the finale last night? What do you think about the plot developments? Will you watch season 2?

Bill and Sookie Episode 12 - "You're Alive "

'True Blood:' Season finale has real bite

"YOU'LL BE THE DEATH OF ME" (Episode 1.12): In the first season's finale, Sookie announces the link to the murders in front of the wrong person. Tara dives into her fresh start with a little help from Maryann. Jason finds a new calling. Vampire Bill gets hot under the collar during an attempt to save Sookie. An old friend visits Sam. Lafayette goes missing.


THE BON TEMPS EXAMINER: The cat and mouse game between the killer and Sookie is indeed edge-of-your-seat, nerve-wracking excitement. Sam's bravery kicks into hyperdrive when he sniffs the work vest left behind at the bar and recognizes the scent from Dawn's bed. (So that's what he was doing there, rolling around in the sheets of a dead girl! Color me slow, but it didn't dawn on me that Sam Dog was trying to pick up the killer's scent at the crime scene. Duh.) Sam Dog tackling the killer, as he stands poised to murder Sookie, is great. Vampire Bill's bravery is equally thrilling. Romantic tangent: It might be an odd public display of affection, but a vampire walking into the sunlight to save a human is the ultimate sacrifice and illustrates how much Bill truly loves Sookie. Here's hoping they get their happily ever after.

Does Rene (or Drew) have issues or what? Sookie's peek into his mind allows a series of memories to play out like flashbacks that provide a lot of answers. Gran was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time and Drew's sister, his first victim, got a little too cozy with a vamp. The shovel to his head is a triumphant moment for Sookie; the shovel through his neck is a triumphant moment for all. Goodbye, Rene/Drew. Say hello to the devil for us.

Other developments:

>> Vampire Eric returns Jessica to Bill because she's a pain in the neck. My guess is Sookie won't be happy with the new living arrangements.

>> The other young Stackhouse finds Jesus, sort of. Good for you, Jason, just don't drink the Kool-Aid.

>> Tara enjoys her new digs and chomps at the bit to start her life over. But that Maryann plays with wild pigs in the yard ... oh and has wicked tremors ... oh and knows Sam's secret. This can only mean trouble in season two.

>> Andy enjoys his moment in the sun after he believes he has the killer locked behind bars, but can't handle being wrong when the true killer is revealed. Final conclusion on the Bon Temps authorities: They make Mayberry look like Scotland Yard. Case closed.

(By the way, Andy makes a drunken reference to his family once owning the town. Jump back to one of the first few episodes when he's introduced to Vampire Bill. Bill pauses, repeats Andy's last name, Bellefleur, and clearly has history with the family.)

THIS WEEK'S CLIFFHANGER: OK, there were lots of little cliffhanger moments in the finale's last 20 minutes. But the big one: Lafayette's dead. At least that's where the evidence is pointing (the vamp-like attack behind Merlotte's; his disappearance; the perfectly pedicured man foot hanging from Andy's car). Hopefully, Lafayette's just passed out in the backseat and will be back next season because Nelsan Ellis is one of the brightest points of the ensemble cast.

After the episode, HBO assures its "True Blood" audience that it's already hard at work on season two, which will premiere in Summer 2009. It can't get here fast enough. The break does, however, give folks time to catch up on the books.

"True Blood" airs on HBO. You can catch up on episodes on your HBO OnDemand service or rent the DVDs when they hit the shelf (sign up be notified when the DVD release date is announced). You won't be sorry.

Read last week's "True Blood" recap here.

Read Mary Colurso's featured story on the music of "True Blood" here.
http://blog.al.com/scene/2008/11/true_blood_season_finale_has_r.html

Finale wrap-up: "True Blood" The first season of HBO's "True Blood" ends with fried vampires, Bible thumpers, and -- of course! -- even more unsolved

The first season of HBO's "True Blood" ends with fried vampires, Bible thumpers, and -- of course! -- even more unsolved mysteries.

By Heather Havrilesky- Salon Magazine

Nov. 22, 2008 |

Now at least we know what happens to a vampire when he ventures out into broad daylight: He starts to fry like bacon! His head turns red and black and oozes and smokes! But could Bill (Stephen Moyer) end up disfigured forever, thanks to his efforts to save Sookie (Anna Paquin) from that vampire-hater Rene (Michael Raymond James)? Would Sookie merely pity poor charred Bill, then set her sights on Sam (Sam Trammell) -- who actually saved her life, after all, instead of falling to the ground, a smoking, crispy shadow of his former self?

Personally, if I had to choose between a nice guy who owns a bar and can turn himself into a really cute dog, and a guy who sucks my blood, talks in a creepy accent, has no sense of humor whatsoever, and looks pale and sickly most of the time, I think I'd stick to the dog-man.

But then, if we learned one thing by Sunday night's finale of HBO's vampire series "True Blood," it's that no one knows Sookie Stackhouse's mind except for Sookie Stackhouse herself. So when Bill returned from the grave yet again looking just like his usual ghoulish self, it was no surprise that Sookie embraced him and left poor Sam to lick his wounds -- literally and figuratively.

Put yourself in her shoes, though. If you could read the minds of mortals, like Sookie can, an immortal with a taste for human blood and no annoying thoughts in his head might just look like your dream man, fangs or no fangs.

And while we're at it, if you were a bitter, homeless, drunk woman who's alienated her mom, her best friend, and her lover like Tara has, you'd happily take shelter in a rich lady's house, snack on her fresh fruits, wear her pretty outfits and suspend your disbelief over her strange "I just like to help people" story.

The question is, what is newcomer Maryann's (Michelle Forbes) real story? Where did she come from, and why does Sam seem to know her already? Is she some other variety of magical being, a new species that's neither vampire nor shapeshifter?

And what does Sam plan to do with all that cash from his safe? Who attacked Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis) and are those his painted toenails in Andy Bellefleur's (Chris Bauer) car?

Yes, Sunday night's finale ended with just as many cliffhangers as there were resolutions to season-long mysteries. But what else would you expect from a series that's based on Charlaine Harris's “Southern Vampire” series of page turners? If the answers to the big questions felt a little predictable by the show's final episode, that was quickly solved by introducing a whole new set of questions.

Alan Ball's perverse, off-kilter series has leaned heavily on this formula from the start. Just when one plot point seemed exhausted, a new wrinkle arises, whether it's seemingly nice Sam sniffing a dead girl's sheets or Sookie's grandmother showing up dead on her kitchen floor. Sure, there's something a little dissatisfying about the mystery-around-every-corner format, but whatever "True Blood" lacks in substance, it makes up for in flair. From Jason Stackhouse's nefarious hippie girlfriend to Lafayette's colorful assortment of clients to Bill's good Christian girl turned impatient, blood-thirsty vampire-slut, "True Blood" has paved its own, sometimes rocky path as one part vampire mystery, two parts campy, foolish fun.

The only upcoming twist that looks a little less than promising is Jason Stackhouse's apparent transformation into a born-again Christian intent on snuffing out the evils of vampires from the face of the earth. Enduring the terrible Southern accents on this show is bad enough, without a cliché herd of Bible-thumping fundamentalists to drag us through every worn-out stereotype in the book. The nice thing about Sookie and Sam and Tara and Bill, after all, is that they're new to us. We're not sure what drives them or what they're capable of just yet. In contrast, those old familiar saccharine smiles and cries of "Praise Jesus!" are just a few clicks away on TBN at all times. To most of us in this country, evangelical Christian shenanigans are old news. When it comes to the second season of this sultry, suspenseful vampire tale, let's hope Alan Ball sticks to some fresh blood.

3 part video of Sookie and Rene scenes from last night

"Oh glorious freedom" Eric returns Jessica ! episode 12

Our favorite Viking vampire had another Swedish comment for us last night

Å du ljuvliga frihet!" which means "Oh -glorious freedom"

** according to Calilo a Swedish poster he says
Åh, du ljuva frihet -which means Oh, you sweet freedom...

True Blood Episode Recap: "You'll Be the Death of Me"

Well, True Blood's first season is over already — can you believe it? It's been a wild ride. Sunday's episode, titled "You'll Be the Death of Me," finally revealed the identity of Bon Temps' serial killer, which was good news for Jason, who had unwittingly confessed to the murders. Sam and Bill resumed their battle for Sookie's attention. We learned more about Tara's mysterious benefactor. Vampire marriage was legalized in Vermont. And at least one more — maybe two — of our beloved characters died. How did it all go down? Read more after the jump...

TARA
Tara enjoyed the generosity of a mysterious "good samaritan" named Mary Ann (Michelle Forbes), who bailed her out of jail when she was arrested for drunk driving in the wake of discovering that her exorcism was a sham. At Mary Ann's house, she met cute with the handsome musician Eggs (Mehcad Brooks), who is also staying at Mary Ann's house. Is this a future love interest for Tara?

MARY ANN
Well, as suspected, Mary Ann has a secret, and it's a doozy, but not one that we entirely understand just yet. In a perplexing scene, we saw her sitting in her backyard with a pot-bellied pig, with her eyes closed, vibrating. Yes, vibrating. What the heck was that all about? Also, when Tara introduced Mary Ann to Sam, Mary Ann pretended not to know him, but as soon as Tara wasn't looking, she snapped at him, "Did you think I wasn't going to find you? You silly, silly dog." Yikes!

JASON
Poor Jason spent most of this episode in jail, racking his tiny brain trying to figure out how he killed four women, including his grandmother and his girlfriend, Amy, without remembering any of it. He got a visit in the slammer from Orry Dawson (Michael Bofshever), a representative of an anti-vampire church called the Fellowship of the Sun. While Jason was initially resistant to Dawson's sales pitch, by the end of the episode, we saw him worshipping with the closed-minded faithful. It's a strange development considering his change of heart about both Bill and Eddie, and Jason is highly gullible, but surely he isn't that gullible, is he?

TERRY
Nothing much happened with PTSD-afflicted veteran Terry, but his presence in the finale made me wonder if Alan Ball isn't setting him up for a larger role in Season 2. "Nobody ever listens to me, but they should," he told Sookie, just as she was about to get in a car with Rene. Could he be some sort of unlikely soothsayer? It's always the village idiot, you know! He also told Arlene that her hair "is like a sunset after a bomb went off," which isn't really portentous, just funny.

SAM
Our favorite shapeshifter used his keen sense of smell to figure out who the killer was (hence all that rolling around in the sheets earlier in the season), and rescued Sookie when she got into hot water at the graveyard. By the end of the episode, he was taking huge quantities of money out of his safe for some reason. Was Sam going to run? And from whom?

RENE
Perhaps the most hilarious revelation of Sunday's True Blood finale is that the one character who was using the most relatively accurate-sounding Cajun accent was faking it. Yes, Rene (aka Drew Marshall) is the killer, and as the episode unfolded, we saw, through Sookie's thoughts, how he killed each of his victims for being vampire sympathizers. Arlene's kids conveniently found Rene's "box o' evidence" in the garage, which included videotapes of the murder victims and a "Cajun Accent for Actors" tape.

SOOKIE
Sookie knows that Jason isn't the killer, and spent the finale trying to figure out who is. When she finally zeroed in on Rene, mostly by getting inside his head and "witnessing" the murders, it was almost too late, as she had accepted a ride home from him and was in the process of pouring him a glass of sweet tea. After a short chase — through a cemetery, of course — and with an assist from Sam, in collie form, Sookie kills Rene with a shovel.

BILL
When Bill realized that Sookie was in trouble, he did the unthinkable and set out during daylight to save her. This, of course, isn't a sound idea for a vampire, and as he made his way toward the graveyard where Sookie and Rene tussled, he was burnt to a crisp by the sun. When Sam and Sookie discovered his ashy body, they buried him to get him out of the light. By the end of the finale, he was back to his old self, and let it slip that he fed on a human to regain his strength. (Who?) Bill also has a new woman in his life. Jessica, the young redhead he converted in the last episode (she's kind of the anti-Sookie), is such a handful that even Pam and Eric can't deal with her, so they unceremoniously dump her back in Bill's lap.

LAFAYETTE
Just when things seemed to calm down, Lafayette was attacked taking the garbage out to the Dumpster behind Merlotte's. Two weeks later, while his coworkers wonder aloud where he is, Andy Bellefleur — driven to drink by his shame for screwing up the investigation — found an African-American body with painted toenails in the back seat of his car. We don't get to see who it is that made Tara and Sookie scream, but technically it could be Lafayette, right?

What did you think of the finale? Which stories are you most looking forward to resolving?

http://www.tvguide.com/Episode-Recaps/true-blood/True-Blood-Episode-1000105.aspx

one of the scarier scenes from last night

This still sends shivers

Congrats to Alan Ball and team True Blood!

Congrats to everyone on team True Blood for such a wonderful season and final episode. We are on pins and needles until summer awaiting your return next summer !

and on pins and needles until Emmy nominations ...

Season Finale dinner menu

My menu for the finale dinner:

Shrimp and sausage Gumbo ( not boudin ..alas)
Maxine Fortenberry's Red Velvet Cake
Ice Tea

hahhaha
This what i hope from the finale :That the last words are .. "Soon we'll be back to normal," Bill said, "Right," I whispered. "Yeah. Back to normal." or some variation.
I think they are WONDERUL LAST LINES for a book in which nothing is normal and I hope Ball does too.

Bill-inspired True Blood Poetry

Bill-inspired True Blood Poetry
sunlight/bill’s sonnet (in progress)
[doubleconscious]
by Aurora Leigh

What less could one man want but to be human?
No earthly hindrance bars such pure desire
To see and feel and think — existence proven
In harsh sun boiling blood through widening gyre —
Illumination burns that which it feeds,
Itself an end and means proves its own proof
That bakes white bodies black to darken deeds
Which darkness bade do nobly for man’s truth.
A light loves less than both; denies the other
Enlightens naught but desperate misery
Denying selfless love its only lover
Denying all but agency to see
That he whose cursed manhood creeps by moonlight
By sacrificing sun enlightens night.

(November 22, 2008)

Please post your reactions and your own poetic responses to the Bill Compton character and/or True Blood.
Find more of my True Blood poetry at http://truebloodwiki.hbo.com/page/Aurora+Leigh%27s+True+Blood+Poetry

Episode 12 sneak from Geraldo last night from interview with Ryan