True Blood Music Video of the Day: Glittering Cloud by Imogen Heap

Glittering Cloud by Imogen Heap

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Fringe, True Blood Snag Writer Kudos

By Hugh Hart December 08, 2008 | 8:05:00 PM

Fringe, True Blood and The Simpsons made the grade Monday as the Writers Guild of America announced its nominations for 2008's best-written TV shows.

The Writers Guild Awards nominees, voted on by WGA members, singled out Fox's weird science show Fringe (pictured), ABC's sci-fi police drama Life on Mars and HBO's sexy vampire series True Blood as candidates for Best New Series.

That's not the end of the sci-fi and science themes on the list: ABC's mind-bending Lost and Showtime's serial-killer thriller Dexter are among the shows in contention for Best Dramatic Series.

Top comedies include Fox's animated trailblazer The Simpsons, Showtime's Weeds, NBC's 30 Rock, HBO's Hollywood sendup Entourage and NBC's Brit remake The Office.

Read the full list of nominees on the writers guild website. Winners will be announced Feb. 7 by the WGA.

http://www.wga.org/

NEW SERIES

Breaking Bad, Written by Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Patty Lin, George Mastras; AMC

Fringe, Written by JJ Abrams, Jason Cahill, Julia Cho, David H. Goodman, Felicia Henderson, Brad Caleb Kane, Alex Kurtzman, Darin Morgan, J.R. Orci, Roberto Orci, Jeff Pinkner, Zack Whedon; Fox

In Treatment, Written by Rodrigo Garcia, Bryan Goluboff, Davey Holmes, William Meritt Johnson, Amy Lippman, Sarah Treem; HBO

Life on Mars, Written by Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec, Scott Rosenberg, Becky Hartman Edwards, David Wilcox, Adele Lim, Bryan Oh, Tracy McMillan, Sonny Postiglione, Phil M. Rosenberg, Meredith Averill; ABC

True Blood, Written by Alan Ball, Brian Buckner, Raelle Tucker, Alexander Woo, Nancy Oliver, Chris Offutt; HBO

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/12/fringe-true-blo.html

Loving True Blood in Dallas Blogtalk Radio: Dead and Gone, Book 9 Chapter one discussion. (Episode 3)

We are very excited about this weeks show, we will be discussing the release of Chapter One of Book 9 of the Sookie Stackhouse Mystery series entitled, Dead and Gone. Charlaine Harris released a sneak of the first chapter on her website this past week and we will be discussing that in detail.

Charlaine Harris http://www.charlaineharris.com/deadandgone.html

My co-host will be the lovely Objectdesire who is also a member of our own little North Texas Sookieverse fan/book group.

Go to the blog and click on "blogtalk" in topics and you will see how you can be involved, how to call-in # and how to access the chat room.

I want to hear what everyone thinks is going to happen in Dead and Gone and what does chapter one tell us ? Monday Night 9:00pm (central)

Thanks "D"

Wanna dress like Amy ?

This is the dress Amy wore in the Arlene/Rene party and the killing of Eddie scenes.

It is called the "Gabriella Dress" from Delia's.
http://store.delias.com

* I don't see it for sale there any more but maybe they''ll bring it back in the Spring.

Loving True Blood in Dallas Blogtalk Radio: The Great One, Eric Northman an Introduction (Episode 2)

Tonight on Loving True Blood in Dallas Blogtalk Radio it will be a little introduction to Eric Northman.

There is no way we could do just one show on him so we will look at just how he is portrayed and introduced in the Sookie book's and compare and contrast it to his introduction in the series.

We will also discuss the casting of Alexander Skarsgard as Eric Northman in the "True Blood" HBO television series.

True Blood Music Video of the Day: The Memory will never die by Default

The Memory will never die
by Default

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Who's license plate is this ?

post you answer in the comments ...

The answer is Eric

from bk 8
“A-hum,” I said, and Eric cursed in a language that probably hadn’t been
spoken out loud in centuries. But even the sheriff of Area Five has to obey
human laws these days, or at least he has to pretend to. Eric pulled over to
the shoulder.
“With a vanity plate like BLDSKR, what do you expect?” I asked, not so
secretly enjoying the moment. I saw the dark shape of the trooper
emerging from the car behind us, walking up with something in his hand—
clipboard, flashlight?

Carrie Preston ( Arlene) on acting in True Blood

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Nathan Barr - True Blood Composer

Visit Nathan Barr's myspace page to listen to his beautiful and haunting True Blood themes.

You can hear:
Bill and Sookie's Love Theme
Bills Entrance
Bill and Sookie Come Together

http://www.myspace.com/nathanbarrmusic

(from his page )
About Nathan Barr
Nathan Barr began studying music in Tokyo, Japan at the age of four. He grew up surrounded by eclectic music ranging from Kabuki Theater, to the sounds of his mother performing on the koto and piano, to his father playing the banjo, guitar, and shakuhachi. His interest in music was further influenced by extensive travels around the world, where he experienced music ranging from Bali's Kecak Orchestras to China's Beijing Opera. During the summer of 1993, he toured Italy and Switzerland with the Julliard Cello Ensemble. Upon graduating from college, he joined the industrial alternative rock group V.A.S.T. (Elektra Records) for a brief stint, playing guitar and electric cello. Looking to explore a career in film music, he moved to Los Angeles in 1996, where he met Academy Award-winning film composer Hans Zimmer, who invited him to join him as his assistant. After just eight months with Hans, Nathan landed his first feature and struck out on his own and has been working constantly ever since. He is currently writing the score for Hostel Part 2 and will be traveling to Prague and London to record and mix the score with an orchestra at the end of March.

A blast from Anna's past

Why More TV Viewers Love to Have the Life Scared Out of Them

By R. Thomas Umstead -- Multichannel News, 12/7/2008

As a young woman walks alone in the damp, dark woods, a hand suddenly comes up from the ground and grabs her ankles. She frantically tries to escape before realizing that the nemesis is actually her vampire love interest, who eventually seals the loving reunion by sinking his fangs into her shoulder.

Romantic, eh? The scene is straight from HBO’s hit drama series True Blood, one of several cable shows that is pushing its own twist on the horror genre to bring in the eyeballs.

Besides HBO’s True Blood series — a love story between a strong but vulnerable young woman and a 100-year-old vampire, which has averaged 7 million cumulative weekly viewers during its just-ended freshman run — even general-entertainment networks are finding that hair-raising shows can sell.

AMC posted double-digit viewership increases this year for its annual eight-day October “Fearfest” horror-movie marathon, formerly “Monsterfest.”

VH1 is currently airing Scream Queens, a reality-show competition in which 10 actresses vie for a role in next year’s Saw VI horror flick. And NBC Universal’s Chiller channel is gaining traction with more than 20 million subscribers.

Read on here

True Blood Music Video of the Day: Talking in your sleep by the Romantics

Recommended by anonymous
Talking in your sleep by the Romantics

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A Bit Long in the Tooth

Hollywood found new blood with 'Twilight,' but the vampire metaphor is positively deathless.

By Jennie Yabroff | NEWSWEEK
Published Dec 6, 2008
Midway through the HBO series "True Blood," a man returns home after being sexually humiliated by his vampire-preferring girlfriend. He turns on the TV—a classic vampire movie. He changes the channel—an evangelical chat show about the crusade against vampires. He hits the remote once more—a nature special on vampire bats. Disgusted, he switches off the set, and who can blame him? For creatures that supposedly crave the darkness, vampires seem to be getting more than their fair share of the spotlight.

In addition to "True Blood," which recently ended its first season, the film "Twilight," based on Stephenie Meyer's bestselling novel about a teen vampire and his chaste love for a human girl, topped the box office its first week out and is still going strong. "All I Want for Christmas Is a Vampire," by Kerrelyn Sparks, just entered the bestseller list, and the Swedish film "Let the Right One In," about a young vampire girl and the lonely boy who loves her, is a stealth hit among the indie crowd. "South Park" even spoofed the vampire craze in its season ender, in which the kids were initiated into a vampire cult by drinking Clamato.

read on HERE
Newsweek

The real Fangatsia - Alex's bar in Long Beach

, epiHave You Been to the Vampire Bar in Long Beach?

If you faithfully watched the first season of "True Blood" on HBO this Fall, then you'll remember Fangtasia, the vampire bar set in Shreveport, Louisiana. The true setting of the bar isn't too far off from reality, in alternative theme at least. It's actually Alex's Bar in Long Beach which is one of the top venues for punk music in the Los Angeles area. LAist has visited them a number of times for shows and is happy to see the great venue used for a great show (also a candy-crack easy-to-read addicting book series by Charlaine Harris).

True Blood Paley Center LA event was postponed

*** no date announced
Dec 9th
Dear Paley Center True Blood ticket holder,

Though we had anticipated we would be able to announce the rescheduled date for our True Blood seminar tomorrow, December 10 -- we unfortunately have not as of yet been able to secure a new date for this program. Please rest assured the event will indeed be rescheduled for the early months of 2009 and your current ticket will be honored on the new date.

We are working tirelessly to schedule the event at a time when the principle cast and creative team will all be available to participate; doing this is regrettably taking a little longer than we first anticipated.

Again, we sincerely apologize for any inconvenience you?re encountering due to this scheduling issue. We appreciate your continued understanding and look forward to announcing the new date to you via email in the very near future.

If you need further information, please don?t hesitate to contact me directly via email at rreyes@paleycenter.org

Appreciatively,

Rene Reyes
Producer

Public Programs & Festivals
The Paley Center for Media
P.S. Those of you who purchased Closed-Circuit Viewing Room tickets will get the opportunity to upgrade. -- Gary
Gary W. Browning

The Paley Center for Media

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True Blood
Thursday, December 4, 2008 ( rescheduled!!)
7:00 pm PT
Los Angeles

This event has been postponed. We regret any inconvenience. Ticket holders can redeem their tickets on the new date which will be announced shortly.
Ticket holders requesting a refund should contact then for further information. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Forsaking the suburban world of American Beauty and the mortuary of Six Feet Under, creator Alan Ball now reveals the presence of vampires in a small Louisiana town, the setting for his scary and sexy new HBO series, True Blood. Ball and his creative team will unveil a new episode of the series that he pitched as "popcorn for smart people."
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Vampire weakened- Guardian UK

No throat-ripping bogeymen, the blood-suckers of Twilight are, like, totally emo.
It's all meta-phwoar, says fang fiction expert Anne Billson

"What if I'm not the hero? What if I'm the bad guy?" asks Edward Cullen, the brooding vampire boyfriend in Twilight, the new film version of Stephenie Meyer's bestselling supernatural romance for young adults. Edward needn't worry; he's no bloodsucking fiend. Gone are the days when Bela Lugosi or Christopher Lee violated the quivering throats of their female victims. Now it's the females who are calling the shots. Instead of screaming, getting bitten and being turned into passive playthings, they're reaching out to their erstwhile ravishers and — horror of horrors! — having relationships with them.

It didn't happen overnight. Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Hotel Transylvania novels emphasised the Byronic romance of vampires, while films like Fright Night and The Lost Boys played up the teen angle. But it wasn't until 1997 — when Joss Whedon spun Buffy into a TV phenomenon — that girls really got to grips with the bloodsuckers. Whedon conceived his heroine as the revenge of every "little blonde girl who goes into a dark alley and gets killed in every horror movie. The point of Buffy was to subvert that idea, and create someone who was a hero where she'd always been a victim."

It wasn't just Buffy's vampire-slaying that made her so influential; it was her relationships with two of the vampires. Metaphors for the agonies of teenage love were bountiful: transgressive sex, forced abstinence, viruses, physical transformation and personality change were all part of the vampire subtext. And in Buffy's wake came a flood of fang fiction aimed at a female readership hungering for worthy successors to Heathcliff, Mr Rochester and Darcy. Typically, these stories are narrated by a plain Jane Eyre type — usually a virgin — who considers herself nothing special (though she may be gifted with paranormal abilities) but who, to her amazement, finds herself acting like catnip on a seductive male vampire who in centuries of existence has never encountered a young woman as beguiling as she. It's the love that lasts for ever. Wishful thinking, or what?

Early box office for Twilight, the movie, has been huge: a sequel has already been announced. Which suggests that Edward Cullen is indeed what an entire generation of young (and maybe not so young) women has been waiting for. As Bella, the lovestruck narrator of the books, sums him up, "He had the most beautiful soul, more beautiful than his brilliant mind or his incomparable face or his glorious body." In the film, it's British actor Robert Pattinson (who played Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter) who has the unenviable task of incarnating this indescribable paragon. But the hysterical screaming currently greeting his red-carpet appearances suggests he's successfully slotted into the boyband breach as prime object of tween desire, a good-looking blank slate on to which young fans can project their emo fantasies.

The film wisely sticks to the winning formula of Meyer's novel: 17-year-old Bella moves in with her divorced dad, sheriff of a sunless small town in Washington state, and starts at a new school where she notices a clique of extra-pale pupils who don't eat. In fact, they're a coven of vampires who are trying to blend into human society and drink the blood of animals rather than people. Bella and Edward fall in love, but their relationship never gets beyond first base because he's frightened of losing control and tucking into her. And maybe also because writer Meyer is a Mormon who attended Brigham Young University and is more into holding hands than anything hot'n'heavy. Time magazine has dubbed it "the erotics of abstinence".

Not all vamp fiction is this discreet. In Laurell K Hamilton's Anita Blake novels, the heroine enjoys six novels' worth of foreplay with a vampire called Jean-Claude until they finally get it on ("He plunged inside me faster, harder"). Cassie Palmer, clairvoyant heroine of Karen Chance's Touch The Dark, also gets plunged into by a sexy vampire, while in Charlaine Harris's Dead Until Dark, mind-reading cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse loses her virginity to an undead American civil war vet called Bill.

Alan Ball, creator of Six Feet Under, has adapted the Stackhouse novels into the HBO series True Blood. Since Ball is openly gay, some critics have concluded he is proposing vampirism as an allegory of homosexuality, but this would be to oversimplify matters. The reason vampires are so durable in zeitgeist terms is that they have always offered a multiplicity of metaphors, some of them overlapping and not all of them so obvious.

Which is also why there's no need to worry about vampires being defanged by swoony female fang fiction. Sure, women have responded to the traditional threat of metaphorical rape by refusing to play the victim; they've tamed the bogeyman, to a degree, by transforming him into an object of desire. But this in itself suggests there's something darker about that desire than perhaps they'd care to admit. Whether he's ripping throats out or limiting himself to chaste hand-holding, the vampire will always be mad, bad and dangerous to know

• Anne Billson's vampire novel Suckers is out now. Twilight is out Dec 19
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/dec/06/twilight-stephenie-meyer-vampires

True Blood Music Video of the Day: Je T'aime by Kelly Sweet

Je T'aime by Kelly Sweet
suggested by sunshineonmyshoulder
thanks sun!