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Friday, February 13, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
You know you've watched too much True Blood when...
When running around naked in the early morning doesn't seem like such a bad idea.
When you are afraid that if you make Jell-O again you'll just be another crazy white person with an unhealthy obsession.
When you try fitting in at a new job you're afraid you're just trying to mainstream and we all know that's for pussies.
When you want your husband to grow his hair out and start wearing henley shirts.
When you rewind Eric's bathtub scene to see the rumored full monty.
From Flavia today :
When you walk by an audio book “Learn to Speak Swedish” and you actually consider borrowing that from the library. But then you shake your head and realize you really need to put down that remote and get out more.
Send me one and I'll post it next week Email: True Blood in Dallas
Loving True Blood in Dallas book suggestion: The Girl's Guide to Vampires: all you need to know about the original bad boys...
The good news is: He's tall, dark, and handsome.
The bad news is: He's a bloodsucking creature of the night. Not to mention arrogant, predatory, and immortal.
What's a girl to do? No worries-in this guide, girls learn everything they need to know about these romantic rogues, including how to:
- Know when they've met a vampire
- Avoid falling prey to a nightstalker's charms
- Resist even the most aggressive advances
- Protect themselves against the undead
- Destroy a vampire-using everything from holy water to decapitation
There is a mention of True Blood - you can buy a copy for $8 HERE
Best And Worst TV Couples: Sookie and Bill
In honor of Valentine's Day, we declare our love for True Blood's Sookie and Bill.
Valentine's Day is upon us, and it's a holiday about which we feel conflicted. On one hand, it's grossly over-commercialized and filled with pressure. But on the other, it is nice to celebrate your significant other -- and we have no complaints about flowers and candy, even if they are a little cliche.
So to celebrate our wishy-washy feelings about Cupid's big day, we picked five TV relationships from current shows that seem destined for success (or that are, in the words of Flavor Flav, "romantical"), and five that give love a bad name.
Sookie and Bill, True Blood
From the first time they met, you could sense the connection between telepathic Sookie and vampire Bill. Yes, he's robbing the cradle, he bites Sookie during sex and isn't readily available for brunch dates. But he also regularly saves her life and appears to be pretty good in the sack. This is the ultimate bad boy/good girl coupling.
Read them all good and bad here :http://www.film.com/tv/true-blood/story/best-and-worst-tv-couples/26004485
Jesus Christ, Shepherd of Judea Part I : Sookie and faith
"Jesus Christ, Shepherd of Judea " , that's a very familiar exclamation to readers of the Sookie Stackhouse books and I decided to take a closer look at churches, religion, the Bible and prayer in the Sookie books.
Sookie is most definitely a Christian believer and regularly attends the Methodist church in Bon Temps. She frequently talks of her faith , the Bible, prayer and attending church. She enjoys going to church, even if she doesn't always listen to the sermon but spend the time quietly reflecting.
Frankly, I don't always listen to the sermon. Sometimes the hour in church is just a time to think, a time to consider where my life is going. But at least those thoughts are in a context
She and Gran are regular members of the Methodist Church and she continues to attend alone after Gran dies and when her work schedule permits. In future posts, we'll look at mentions of the Bible, prayer and more.
What have I missed, are there other churches mentioned that I missed ?
The various churches mentioned in the books, their minister's and any known members are:
Bon Temps Methodist Church
o Location: Bon Temps
o Reverend: Rev Collins
o Members: Sookie, Gran , Hoyt and Maxine Fortenberry
Tabernacle Holiness Church (bk 9)
o Location: Bon Temps ( near Hotshot)
o Reverend: Rev. Marvin Norris
o Members: Norris family members have funeral there
Free Will Church of God's Anointed (Bk4)
o Location: Bon Temps?
o Reverend:
o Members: Danielle and Holly
Bon Temp Catholic Church ( bk6)
o Location: Bon Temps
o Reverend: Father Dan Riordan
o Members: Tara Thornton
Fellowship of the Sun (bk 7)
o Location: Minden
o Reverend:
o Members: Arlene, Rafe Prudhomme
Gethsemane Baptist Church (bk3)
o Location: Bon Temps
o Reverend:
o Members: Maxine Fortenberry (early books)
Good Faith Baptist (bk1)
o Location: Bon Temps (Gran mentions it as a possible meeting place for Descendants of the Glorious Dead in Bk1)
o Reverend:
o Members:
Greater Love Baptist Church (bk4)
o Location: Bon Temps
o Reverend: Jimmy Fullenwilder
o Members:
Bon Temp Episcopal church ( bk6)
o Location: Clarice
o Reverend: Father Kempton Littrell
o Members:
Grace Episcopal ( bk5)
o Location: Shreveport
o Reverend:
o Members: Colonel John Flood
Glen Cragie Methodist Church (bk2)
o Location: Dallas
o Reverend:
o Members: Hugo Ayers
True Blood goes to the movies: Alexander Skarsgard stars in Leende guldbruna ögon
I think the title is something brown eyes ? -help someone ?
Thanks !!
Leende guldbruna ogon translation is "smiling brown eyes"
Lennart Johansson grows up with one dream - to lead a Swedish dance band in the spirit of the Swedish legends "Vikingarna". He is a Swedish at heart, however he finds prejudice from all the bands he wants to be part of on his journey, all for one reason - he is black. After spending time and renting a kitchen from Roshan, a dedicated hip hop singer and creator, played brilliant by Fares Fares. A unique journey and an odds friendship starts. Lennart is dedicated to make it as a dance band singer, and starts his own band of misfits. An entertaining miniseries in 3 parts made by Swedish Television in collaboration with Nrk, Norway. Written by Bård Hansen
Alex sings ......
True Blood behind the scenes: Eddie's burns
More great special effects from True Blood from Masters FX
http://mastersfx.com/
Poor Eddie after the silver chainmail hood
Man, I had forgotten what a big bag of crazy Amy was ...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
The gift that was really needed .....
Thanks to everyone who guessed today about who gave the gift of the nice new gravel driveway.
Everyone guessed correct- it was Eric who gifted this to Sookie.
From Book 3
Not only was the driveway done, but also there was a new parking area in front of the house. It was outlined with landscaping timbers. The gravel was the very expensive kind, the kind that's supposed to interlock so it doesn't roll out of the desired area.....
Sorry, I was going to hand that to you before I noticed your face." I unrolled the yellow sheet and read the note scribbled across it. "Sookie—Mr. Northman said not to knock on your door, so I'm sticking this to it.
Thanks to:Arianwyn,Melissa,TES,Louisianagirl29,True_2_blood,Maureen,Artemis,Flavia,ToriG,
Rita,Kristie,Shannon,Luvtrublood, PolarVamp,Jamie,Beatriz,Vixenfae,vamp-a-holic,devera4,Molly,Kathy,Mary Ann
'Strange Love': the song title song for True Blood Season One Episode one
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 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 Episode one: Season one Strange Love' first aired 9/7/2008
Strange Love - by Slim Harpo ( we have another Slim Harpo song for Season 2 I think HERE)
Sometimes called electric swamp blues written by James Moore, aka Slim Harpo. Crowley, 
Louisiana, October 1965 Excello Records.
James Moore AKA Slim Harpo Born: January 11, 1924 in the parish of West Baton Rouge, Louisiana. As a figure in the post-war rural blues, his music is often described as Louisiana swamp blues. As a teenager, his parents died, leaving him to raise one brother and three young sisters.
Strange Love
Strange love, cutest thing I ever seen
Strange love, cutest thing I ever seen
You remind me of somethin' that I have seen in a dream
Can I take you out to dinner, some place where we can be alone
Can I take you out to dinner, some place where we can be alone
Tell you how much I love you, then let me hold you in my arm
(Harp solo here)
You asked me there's honey, love to be your honeycomb
You asked me there's any honey, I love to be your honeycomb
Then when the time is right darling there'll be some lovin' goin' on
You can hear a little sample of it here at Amazon or buy a copy for 99c
Anna Paquin stars in Hallmark Hall of Fame "The Courageous Heart of Irene Sendler" airs Sunday April 19th.
ACADEMY AWARD(R) AND RECENT GOLDEN GLOBE(R) AWARD WINNER ANNA PAQUIN STARS IN "THE COURAGEOUS HEART OF IRENA SENDLER," A NEW "HALLMARK HALL OF FAME" PRESENTATION TO BE BROADCAST SUNDAY, APRIL 19 ON THE CBS TELEVISION NETWORK
Based on the Courageous True Story of 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Irena Sendler, Who Is Credited with Saving the Lives of 2,500 Jewish Children during World War II
Academy Award Winner and Nominee Marcia Gay Harden ("Pollock," "Mystic River"), Nathaniel Parker ("The Inspector Lynley Mysteries") and Goran Visnjic ("ER") Also Star
Academy Award and Golden Globe Award winner Anna Paquin ("The Piano," "True Blood") stars in THE COURAGEOUS HEART OF IRENA SENDLER, a new "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentation to be broadcast Sunday, April 19 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. The drama is based on the courageous true story of Nobel Peace Prize nominee Irena Sendler (Paquin), who is credited with saving the lives of 2,500 Jewish children during World War II. Academy Award winner and nominee Marcia Gay Harden ("Pollock," "Mystic River"), Nathaniel Parker ("The Inspector Lynley Mysteries") and Goran Visnjic ("ER") also star. Harden plays Sendler's mother, Janina, and Parker portrays Dr. Majkowski, the head of Warsaw's Department of Health who helped Sendler obtain important resources for her mission. Visnjic plays Stefan, a former university friend of Sendler who was Jewish and with whom she fell in love when she started her clandestine work in the Warsaw ghetto.
As a Polish Catholic social worker in the early 1940s, Irena Sendler created and led a conspiracy of women who moved in and out of Warsaw's Jewish Ghetto disguised as nurses employed by Warsaw's Health Department. Though they worked under the guise of merely attempting to prevent and contain the spread of Typhus and Spotted Fever, Sendler and her brave cohorts emerged each time with the children of consenting Jewish parents. The children were sometimes sedated and hidden inside boxes, suitcases and coffins as a means of rescuing them from their imminent deportation to death camps. They were given new identities and placed with Polish families and in convents. Sendler kept a hidden record of their birth names and where they were placed with the hope that they would some day be reunited with their own families.
In 1943, the Nazis discovered Sendler's daring and dangerous ruse and arrested her. She was tortured by Gestapo agents and suffered broken feet. On the day of her scheduled execution she was rescued by "Zegota," the underground network with which she worked to save the Jewish children.
As a result of Sendler's efforts, approximately 2,500 children were smuggled to safety. Not a single child she rescued was ever betrayed or discovered by the Nazis.
The movie is based on the authorized biography of the heroine, Mother of the Children of the Holocaust: The Irena Sendler Story, by Anna Mieszkowska, published in 2005.
In 2007 Sendler was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. That same year, Hallmark Hall of Fame acquired exclusive movie rights to the book and negotiated life-rights with Sendler and her family members. Sendler died on May 12, 2008 at the age of 98.
Anna Paquin won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 11 for her role in "The Piano." Her additional film credits include her recurring role as Rogue in "X-Men" and its two sequels, as well as roles in "The Squid and the Whale," "25th Hour," "Buffalo Soldiers," "Finding Forester," "Almost Famous," "Hurlyburly," "She's All That," "A Walk on the Moon," "Amistad," "All the Rage," "Fly Away Home," Franco Zeffirelli's "Jane Eyre" and "Blue State." Paquin's television credits include a lead role in the series "True Blood," for which she recently won a Golden Globe Award, and an Emmy nominated role in the movie "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee." Among her theater credits are her stage debut in "The Glory of Living" at New York's MCC Theater, for which she received a Drama Desk nomination as Best Lead Actress. She was also in the first West End production of "This Is Our Youth."
Marcia Gay Harden won an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress for her role in "Pollock." Among her additional film credits are "Mystic River," for which she earned an Academy Award nomination, "Miller's Crossing," "The First Wives Club," "Meet Joe Black," "Mona Lisa Smile," "The Hoax," "Into the Wild," "American Gun" and "Used People." Harden's television credits include her current lead role in the series "Damages," a lead role in the Network series "The Education of Max Bickford," an Emmy nominated guest-starring role on "Law & Order: SVU," a role as Ava Gardner in the CBS mini-series "Sinatra" and a role in the "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentation "In From the Night," also on the Network. Her theater credits include "Angels in America," for which she earned a Tony Award nomination and won the Drama Desk Award.
Nathaniel Parker's television credits include the title role in the BBC series "The Inspector Lynley Mysteries," which has had a 23 episode run between 2002 and 2007, the title role in the mini-series "David" and a starring role in the BBC mini-series "Bleak House." Among his film credits are "Hamlet," "The Bodyguard," "Stardust," "Beverly Hills Ninja," "The Haunted Mansion," "Flawless" and "War Requiem." Parker joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986 and appeared in several of their productions, including "Richard II" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Subsequent West End stage credits include David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow" as well as a recent U.K. touring production of Simon Gray's "Quartermaine's Terms."
Goran Visnjic is well-known for his role as Dr. Luka Kovac on the series "ER." He also starred in the mini-series "Spartacus." His film credits include "Elektra," "The Deep End," "Committed," "Practical Magic," "Welcome to Sarajevo" and "Rounders." His upcoming films include "Helen," which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, and the anthology film "New York, I Love You."
THE COURAGEOUS HEART OF IRENA SENDLER is a Hallmark Hall of Fame production. Brent Shields ("Hallmark Hall of Fame" productions "Front of the Class" and "The Russell Girl") and Jeff Most ("The Specialist") are executive producers. John Kent Harrison ("Hallmark Hall of Fame" productions "The Water Is Wide" and "What the Deaf Man Heard") is the writer/director.
Darn, did you think you had missed Sam Trammell on Medium the other night?
No, you didn't you can watch past episodes on the NBC Medium web page
Medium http://www.nbc.com/Medium/
Just go here : http://www.nbc.com/Medium/video/episodes/#vid=1002801
True Blood behind the scenes: Gary Calamar, music supervisor
You love what Gary does with the music from True Blood.
Did you know you can hear Gary Calamar every Sunday night on his radio show?
Gary Calamar's Open Road takes listeners for a moonlight ride accompanied the sounds of adventurous pop music, both timely and timeless. He is a Grammy-nominated producer and music supervisor for his work on HBO's Six Feet Under and is now overseeing the music on three of the most acclaimed shows on television, House, Weeds and Dexter.
Schedule: Live
SUN 9:00P-12:00A
There is an archive of past shows where you can listen or podcast past shows include: Girls Group of the 60s, Jack Black, Danny Elfman George Harrison Remembered and tributes to John Entwistles and Warren Zevon and soo much more
KCRW at a Glance
KCRW, a community service of Santa Monica College, is Southern California's leading National Public Radio affiliate, featuring an eclectic mix of music, news, information and cultural programming. The terrestrial station serves Los Angeles and Orange Counties at 89.9 FM
http://www.kcrw.com ( You can listen online if you do not live in Southern California )
http://www.garycalamar.com/
The gift that keeps on giving ..? ( 4)
Who gave this gift?
Send me an email if you know the answer ...
(thanks, keep sending answers , I'll mention everyone. So many folks don't get to read the blog until they get home at night and they never get to guess ...this way everyone can guess.)
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