Things you shouldn’t say to a vampire

You look like death warmed over.

Let's do lunch.

Come on in and make yourself at home

I have Hepatitis D

I'd rather be dead than go out with you.

Have a nice day!

Did anyone ever tell you that you're a pain in the neck?

Fashion faux pas in Sookieville : Sookie's nightwear

This is not what Sookie is wearing in the book!
Anyone know what she's wearing according to Charlaine ?









From Book 1

I crawled into bed in my favorite Mickey Mouse sleep T-shirt, which came almost to my knees. I turned on my side, like I always do, and I relished the silence of the room. Almost everyone's brain is turned off in the wee hours of the night, and the vibrations are gone, the intrusions do not have to be repelled. With such peace, I only had time to think of the vampire's dark eyes, and then I fell into the deep sleep of exhaustion.

YouTube fights copyright battle with silence

If the video you're trying to watch on YouTube isn't playing any sound, chances are it isn't your speakers that are busted - it's more likely that copyright laws were broken.

In the latest chapter of YouTube's ongoing dispute with Warner Music Group over rights to its songs, the online video sharing site is allowing users to mute videos they've uploaded that violate copyright laws. Previously, the Google-owned company either yanked the videos or forced users to swap the soundtrack with its "pre-cleared music."

In response to media inquiries about the change, a YouTube spokesman pointed to a statement released Wednesday afternoon through its blog.

"We want you to have options when uploading videos with music in them. And if your video is subject to a copyright claim, you should have some choices too," said the statement signed, "the YouTube team."

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1180045

For the second season of "True Blood," MastersFX will continue to create the original characters and special makeup effects featured in the show

Creature & prosthetics makeup FX artist Dan Rebert and the team at Todd Masters' MastersFX -- considered by many film and TV producers to be Hollywood's leading "Creature and Monster Makers" -- have been signed to continue their work on HBO's "True Blood" for that hit TV series' second season.

In the afterlife of MastersFX's Emmy Award winning work during the entire run of an earlier HBO original series, "Six Feet Under," the company rejoined that show's creator / executive producer, Alan Ball, by producing creature and prosthetic FX for the first season of Ball's popular new series "True Blood." For the second season of "True Blood," MastersFX will continue to create the original characters and special makeup effects featured in the show.

Regarding MastersFX's work on the series, Rebert says," 'True Blood' is by far my favorite television project. I love the fact that the show's mythology goes much deeper than just the relationships between humans and vampires. In the world of 'True Blood,' many races of magical creatures exist right under our noses. It is dark fantasy mixed with drama and humor … what's not to love?"

"We are very fortunate to have the same core crew of artists for the show's second season," Rebert adds about his MastersFX team. "These guys have been with us for years and are the finest craftsmen I've ever worked with. We all look forward to the challenges ahead of us on a darker and scarier 'True Blood' season two."

The first season of "True Blood" premiered on HBO in September 2008. The series is based on the Southern Vampire Mysteries books by Charlaine Harris and has been adapted for television by Alan Ball. The series is produced by HBO in association with Ball's own production company, Your Face Goes Here Entertainment. The show details the fictional co-existence of vampires and humans in a small Louisiana town after Japanese-made synthetic blood – "Tru Blood" – becomes available for purchase. Anna Paquin stars as Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress at a diner who falls in love with one of the vampires, Bill Compton, portrayed by Stephen Moyer.

In other MastersFX company news:

-- MastersFX provided prosthetic FX for the feature film "Marley and Me" which has currently earned over $125-million at the box office.

-- MastersFX recently provided creature FX and makeup FX to Twentieth Century Fox's hit film "The Day the Earth Stood Still," the contemporary reinvention of Fox' 1951 classic, starring Keanu Reeves as "Klaatu." The film earned $ 31-million during its opening weekend.

-- For the original SCI FI series "Sanctuary," MastersFX continues to be responsible for creating each episode's "monster du jour."

-- The third season of the Emmy Award nominated series "Dexter" once again features the body parts and gruesome makeup effects that are designed, created and produced by MastersFX.

-- For the SCI FI Channel's series "Eureka," MastersFX continues to contribute various makeup FX, including the creation of the character "Snakeman Bob."

-- For the Summer 2009 feature film "Haunting in Connecticut," for Gold Circle Films and Lionsgate, MastersFX is contributing all of the character and make-up effects—along with a variety of "ghostly images."

-- And, MastersFX also continues to provide make-up special effects to the "Stargate Atlantis" television series airing on the SCI FI Channel, and produced by MGM Studios.

ABOUT MASTERSFX:
Founded in 1987 by Emmy Award winner Todd Masters, MastersFX is a full-service Character Effects company headquartered in Arleta, CA, with an additional studio in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The company has designed, created and produced prosthetics, animatronics, and character effects for hundreds of motion pictures, television programs, and commercials.

Among the company's credits are contributions to "Star Trek: First Contact," "Tales from the Crypt," "Nightmare on Elm Street 5," "The Horse Whisperer," "Slither," "Snakes on a Plane," "Six Feet Under," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Look Who's Talking," "Mortal Kombat," "Carnivale," and many more.

MastersFX won an Emmy Award in 2003 for its contributions to HBO's "Six Feet Under," and is also the winner of a 2006 "Saturn Award" for its work on the feature film "Slither." MastersFX's Arelta, CA office can be contacted by phone at 818/834-3000. The web address is www.mastersfx.com

If you don't like it you can just bite me ! ( 8)

Yep, this another Bill / Sookie Bite

This would be the bite she ( somehow recieved ) from the graveyard ummm, let's say "romp "

This is the bite marks from one of the characters in True Blood.

Do you know who this is ?

Do you know who the vampire was that did the biting ?


Post answer in comments !

you can always kind of tell what Alex is thinking ...

The books also always includes the word 'dead' in the title...

I had always heard that Charlaine worked the title of each book into the text of that book.
These are the ones I found, what I've missed ?

Pg 109 book 1
And I knew that now, while I lay here awake-listening to the birds chirping their morning sounds and the trucks beginning to rumble down the road while all over Bon Temps people were getting up and putting on the coffee and fetching their papers and planning their day-that the creature I loved was lying somewhere in a hole underground, to all intents and purposes dead until dark.

Pg 37 book 3
"The vamp that owns it calls it Josephine's," he said, just as quietly. "But Weres call it Club Dead." I thought about laughing, but the inner door opened just then. The doorman was a goblin.

Pg 35 book4
"Um-hum," he whispered. I was on my back, so comfortable I could not contemplate moving. He was on his side facing me, and he put an arm across my waist. But he didn't move another inch, and he relaxed completely. After a moment's tension, I did, too, and then I was dead to the world.

Pg 66 book 5
Andy beckoned to the woman in hospital scrubs who'd been waiting by her car-which made maybe five cars in my front yard, plus the fire truck. This new arrival glanced at me curiously as she walked past to the huddled form in the bushes. Pulling a stethoscope from a pocket, she knelt by the man and listened to various parts of his body. "Yep, dead as a doornail," she called.


Pg 92 book 6
"I thought at first," Amelia burbled on, "that it might be like when someone dies and their death notice is in the paper.... Why don't you try sending in a few lines about Hadley? But you know how vamps gossip, so I guess a few people heard she was definitely dead, dead for the second time. Especially after Waldo vanished from the court. Everyone knows he didn't care for Hadley. And then, too, vamps don't have funerals.

Pg ? bk 9
"But my grandmother had been dead for over a year now, and I’d never be able to ask her about it. Her husband had passed away years before. Niall had told me that my biological grandfather Fintan, too, was dead and gone." ( thanks Objectdesire)

True Blood Music Video of the Day

Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode

Charlaine has a new blog post

she is so funny and I love how freely she share her writer's thoughts ..

CH "I did some lightning plotting last week about a book I want to write. I’m fascinated by cemeteries, and I thought it would be interesting to write a book set in a cemetery. I imagined the protagonist, a girl raised by ghosts in a cemetery, and I began figuring out how she’d live, how she’d avoid being taken in by the state and put in a group home, and what she would do to pass her days in such a lifeless place.

Then I went on Amazon and clicked on Fiction, then on Cemetery, and found that Neil Gaiman has already written a book with a similar premise.

So, what do I do now? Let my lovely idea go? Buy the Gaiman book, and read it enviously? Purchase every copy on earth and burn it?

Can I salvage my own idea? I haven’t decided yet. I would have been happier if I hadn’t checked, I think."

Hahahah read on http://www.charlaineharris.com

she might be talking about" the Graveyard Book "

More here

True Blood Episode Nine : 'Plaisir D'Amour ' recap from HBO site

Longshadow pins Sookie to the table, preparing to tear into her throat. Eric and Pam look on almost curiously, but Bill springs to action, plunging a makeshift stake through Longshadow's back. Vomiting a torrent of blood onto Sookie, the vampire quickly dissolves into a puddle of gore. When Sookie leaves to clean herself up, Eric asks Bill why he'd commit such a serious crime - in front of vampire witnesses, no less - just to protect the girl.
"You're not in love with her," the amused vampire asks, "are you?"

In Jason's basement, he watches, anxious and sickened, as Amy taps a vein on Eddie, the vampire they kidnapped. At first, Jason balks at the idea of drinking the blood right in front of its owner, but once Amy downs a thimbleful and starts to descend into a V-trip, he follows suit. Before long, they're having sex right in front of Eddie, navigating together through a shared hallucination.

Tara, finally decided about exorcising the demon that may or may not be living inside her, pays a visit to Miss Jeanette, who actually manages to give her an explanation that she's willing to swallow. The price tag however
- nearly $800 - doesn't go down as easily. Miss Jeanette explains that different demons pose different risks, and Tara's is more dangerous than her mother's. The girl leaves with one more thing to be angry about.

Bill takes Sookie home, assuring her that he won't face any serious consequences for staking Longshadow, but Sookie's already worrying over some remarks that Pam made. The topic evaporates, however, when a splatter of blood falls from the ceiling and hits Sookie in the face. Looking up, they find her cat, Tina, decapitate and swinging from the ceiling fan.

Episode Nine ( S1) HBO Recap

Publish at Scribd or explore others: Humanities hobby nine

True Blood Star Stephen Moyer with a four legged friend

He may play a soulless bloodsucker in the HBO series True Blood, but actor Stephen Moyer is all heart when it comes to his dog, Splash. The British heartthrob recently revealed to People magazine that walking Splash at Hampstead Heath is one of his favorite activities.

The actor was recently spotted with a four-pawed pal, enjoying the sunshine in Beverly Hills.




http://www.dogtipper.com/celebrity-canines/2009/01/true-blood-star-stephen-moyer-with-dog.html

Welcome vampires to Dallas....?

(seen on the wall behind the bar in Fangtasia )

With all the discussion about Season two and the True Blood storyline coming to Dallas to assist Stan Davis the Sheriff of Area 6, The girls on the HBO wiki got talking about another famous person that is also moving to Dallas.

On Tuesday, George and Laura Bush return to Dallas after inhabiting the White House for the last 8 years ...not many folks in Dallas are too happy about this.

I did remind them that George Bush and Stan were at once neighbors. When Bush owned the Texas Rangers baseball team he lived in Highland Park and Stan Davis is said to live in University Park which is right next door.

From this morning's Dallas Morning News, the entire street is now being gated off .

Bush gate gets OK:

Daria Drive, a dead-end street that leads to Daria Place, where the president and first lady Laura Bush purchased an 8,500-square-foot ranch house, will be gated. Access will be limited to residents and their guests, according to a unanimous vote by the council.

Sookie meets Eric for the first time

Thanks to luvseric@totallyrandom for doing such a nice job of this

We recently did an entire radio show on this scene and contrasted it to the scene in the series, you can listen to it here: The Great One - Eric Northman

Review of Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris

By Fantasy girl

This is the second book in the wildly popular Southern Vampire Mystery urban fantasy books written by Charlaine Harris. This book opens with our heroine, the lovable, plucky, Sookie Stackhouse, finding the dead body of a friend in the backseat of the local police detective's car. Because the detective in question was at home at the time of the murder, it's obvious that the body was killed at a different location and placed in the car.

Sookie learns that her friend had recently attended a local sex party. She thinks the members of that group might know something about her friend's murder so she starts "snooping" by using her special mind reading talent. Since Sookie works at the local bar she's afforded lots of opportunities to hear what the locals are thinking.

In the meantime, Bill Compton, Sookie's vampire boyfriend, informs her that she's been summoned to Dallas to help the local vampire leader find his missing brother. Sookie doesn't really have a say in the matter since she'd promised to do the vampires a favor previously in exchange for the lives of several humans. Therefore she and Bill head to Dallas.

It's here that Charlaine Harris provides additional insight into the modern day vampire world she's created. In order to get to Dallas Bill must fly in his coffin on a special airline, Anubis Air, which specializes in transporting vampires across the country. Sookie is on the same flight but sits in the passenger area of course.

Once they arrive in Dallas she's approached by a human who attempts to abduct both she and Bill. Fortunately, this occurs after dusk and Bill is able to save them. This encounter proves to be more important later in the book.

Read on http://www.content4reprint.com/culture-and-society/books/reviews/review-of-living-dead-in-dallas-by-charlaine-harris.htm

True Blood Music Video of the Day

Slave to love by Bryan Ferry

' town vs. gown '

From Dead as a Doornail:

'Just as I was turning with my tray resting on my right hand, trouble erupted. A Louisiana Tech student from Ruston got into a one-on-one class war with Jeff LaBeff, a redneck who had many children and made a kind of living driving a garbage truck. Maybe it was just a case of two stubborn guys colliding and really didn't have much to do with town vs. gown (not that we were that close to Ruston).'


Town and Gown from Wikipedia

Town and gown are two distinct communities of a university town; "town" being the non-academic population and "gown" metonymically being the university community, especially in ancient seats of learning such as Oxford, Cambridge and St Andrews, though also in more modern university towns such as Durham. The metaphor is historical in its connotation but continues to be used in the literature on urban higher education and in common parlance.

Origin of the term

The gown and hood worn for BA graduation at Cambridge During the Middle Ages, students admitted to the European universities often held minor clerical status and donned garb similar to that worn by the clergy. These vestments evolved into the academic long black gown, worn along with hood and cap. The gown proved comfortable for studying in unheated and drafty buildings and thus became a tradition in the universities. The gown also served as a social symbol, as it was impractical for physical manual work (a comparison can be made with the gowns worn by Chinese officials). The hood was often adorned with the colours of the colleges and designated the young scholar's university affiliation. Thus by their distinctive clothing, the students were set apart and distinguished from the citizens of the town; hence the phrase "town and gown."

Read on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_and_gown

and the winner is .....

Well, actually the winners are ...

The grand prize winner who wins her choice of Dead until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas or Club Dead autographed by Charlaine Harris ..is

[drum roll]

MacyBlue

The runners- up win a very special prize donated by a fan of the blog and it's not a bad consolation gift at all...

They are :

LindsayJo and Vixenfae

Will these people please contact by email so I can arrange to mail you your items - if you know one of these people please contact and let them know they won.

Thanks to everyone who entered and thanks to Abizzygirl for choosing the winning numbers for me. I have more contests planned the next one you will have to actually work for !

Email: "Dallas"