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The mystery of the yellow sun dress...
Now that is a very good question.
Thanks Object Desire for noticing that ...maybe she isn't in costume and wardrobe just had that laying around ...???
Yes, it is a little creepy.
Sookie in Episode 8 ( above left) and Jessica in S2 Ep 2 set photo ( above right ).
Yes, this would be Sookie ( still with that Rene black eye, curly hair and wearing the outfit we saw her in in those other leaked set photos) and Jessica with her human little sister, Eden.
I'm guessing that is the Hamby home behind them ...very interesting. Must be filming a flashback.
Thanks RJ!
From IMDb for Annalise Basso ( Eden)
Photo date: 28 January 2009 Annalise Basso, Debra Ann Woll and Anna Paquin on the set of "True Blood"
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1647348224/nm2399383
I like that people feel comfortable enough with me to ask questions that they think are stupid -even though the truth is they aren't stupid questions at all....
Question : "I want to ask you what exactly is the language that Eric's uses?"
This was my answer ...
From Vikings wikia.com
Old Norse is the North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300.
It evolved from the older Proto-Norse in the 8th century and evolved into the modern North Germanic languages after the Viking Age.
Most speakers of Old Norse dialects spoke the Old East Norse dialect in what are present-date Denmark and Sweden. In texts which date from Medieval Icelandic time, writers wrote with Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian dialects. These dialects derive from the Old West Norse dialect.
No clear geographical boundary exists between the two dialects. Old East Norse traits were found in eastern Norway and Old West Norse traits were found in western Sweden.
Some consider Old Gutnish, sometimes included in Old East Norse because it is the least known, a third dialect since it shares traits with both Old West Norse and Old East Norse and also has developed its own.
The Icelandic Gray Goose Laws states that Swedes, Norwegians, Icelanders and Danes spoke the same language, dǫnsk tunga. Speakers of the eastern dialect, spoken in Sweden and Denmark, would have said dansk tunga (Danish tongue) or norrønt mál (Nordic language) to name their language.
Gradually, Old Norse splintered into the modern North Germanic languages: Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish.Modern Icelandic is closest to Old Norse. Written modern Icelandic derives from Old Norse/modern Icelandic phoneme system. Contemporary Icelandic-speakers can understand written Old Norse, which differs slightly in spelling as well as semantics and word order.
In the True Blood TV show Alex Skarsgard is just speaking his native Swedish but in the books Charlaine Harris describes Eric's language as being a very old Viking language that probably would have been spoken over 1,000 years ago.
Special thanks to Rflatstone and the wiki girls for sticking with me this week as we refined and updated the books and short story timeline. This may not look like much, but it took hours and hours. I will post the list and my notes from the research.
Let me know if you see anything we missed ...
Book Timeline
(this is the Sookieverse timeline for all 9 books and short stories with Sookie)
1. Dead until Dark- between April 4th and June 21st 2004
2. Living Dead in Dallas - Early September 2004
3. Club Dead -December 1-13th 2004
4. Dead to the World -First weeks of January 2005
* "Fairy Dust" from Powers of Detection - Late January 2005
5. Dead as a Doornail - End of January 2005
* "Dracula Night" from Many Bloody Returns -February 8th 2005
* "One Word Answer" from Bite- Late February 2005
6. Definitely Dead - the week of March 20th 2005
* "Lucky" from Unusual Suspects - late April early May 2005
7. All Together Dead- week of September 19th 21- 2005 (Shortly after Hurricane Katrina)
8. From Dead to Worse - very last weeks of October 2005
* "Gift Wrap" from Wolfsbane and Mistletoe -Christmas Day, December 25th 2005.
9. Dead and Gone - Charlaine has said it takes place in January 2006
Book Time Line Notes
1. Dead until Dark- between April 4th and June 21st 2004
Spring is mentioned and Gran says they are on Daylight savings time. The first day of daylight saving time was April 4 that year and the first day of summer was 22nd of June.
2. Living Dead in Dallas - September 2004
Sookie says it's almost fall pg 5 and it's was unbearably hot in Dallas --sounds like early September in TX.
3. Club Dead -December 1-13th 2004
We know the book opens on that night in December and then there are a certain number of days that Bill is missing. When Alcide shops for Christmas presents, it is 2 Saturdays (2 weeks) until Christmas.
4. Dead to the World -First weeks of January 2005
Sookie finds Eric on New Year's Day and he's at her house a couple of weeks.
* "Fairy Dust" from Powers of Detection - Late January 2005
Spring night, we know she meets Claude before Dead as a Doornail
5. Dead as a Doornail - End of January 2005
Book opens on January 25th , the first full moon because Jason turns for the first time. Sookie says it's the end of January on pg 3, 5 and 51. Eric says to Sookie 4 pages from the end of the book that he needs to hire her in early March.
* "Dracula Night" from Many Bloody Returns -February 8th 2005
Dracula Night is February 8th and the Fangtasia invitation Sookie receives has that date for the party. I don't know why according to the CH bibliography the story is listed in October.
* "One Word Answer" from Bite- Late February 2005
Trimming bushes with Bubba at night, it's 62 degrees at night and it's been 4 weeks since Hadley's murder ( Quinn did the hierarchical wedding in January)
6. Definitely Dead - March 21st - March 31st 2005
It's been about 6 weeks since Hadley's murder. Spring begins on March 21st and Claudine says it's March. Sookie attends Queen's Spring Ball.
* "Lucky" from Unusual Suspects - late April -early May 2005
Sookie says Amelia has been living with her for about a month
7. All Together Dead- week of September 19th 21- 2005 (Shortly after Hurricane Katrina)
Sookie says it's the 3rd week of September on pg 5.
8. From Dead to Worse - very last weeks of October 2005
Sookie says its October on page 32/ Portia's wedding was moved from the 2nd Saturday in April until late October because of Caroline's illness/ Sookie talks about Halloween.
* "Gift Wrap" from Wolfsbane and Mistletoe -Christmas Day, December 25th 2005
Preston comes to Sookie on Christmas Day.
9. Dead and Gone - January 2006
Charlaine has said it takes place in January 2006
Very nice interview with Alex Skarsgard in Vman magazine
http://www.vman.com/
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The terms "Mardi Gras" (mär`dē grä) and "Mardi Gras season" in English, refer to events of the Carnival celebrations, ending on the day before Ash Wednesday. From the French term "Mardi Gras" (literally "Fat Tuesday"), the term has come to mean the whole period of activity related to those events, beyond just the single day, often called Mardi Gras Day or Fat Tuesday.
Yes, the town Sookie lives means 'good times' in French (Good Times = Bon temps)
You can watch a Mardi Gras parade live in a few minutes !
Tune in live and catch all the Uptown Mardi Gras krewes as they roll down St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans.
Next webcast: Catch the Krewes of Iris and Tucks Saturday, February 21. First p
arade rolls at 11 a.m.
UFO digest writes about the Greek Vampire!
In the west, we tend to categorize everything. We try to come up with rules and regulations that define what something is, sometimes to desperate lengths and great frustration when something just doesn’t fit. 
The Vrykolakas, the Greek version of the Vampire
Mythical creatures are no exception. We view the vampire as a blood drinking undead human, and a werewolf as a living human that can take a wolf-like form and ravage the population like an animal. In Eastern Europe, the homeland of most folklore relating to the vampire and werewolf, these lines can become hopelessly blurred, and the creatures can become almost the same.
Take the vrykolakas, the Greek version of the Vampire. While most vampire legends tend to involve drinking human blood as part of the mythos, in this case, it does not. The vrykolakas comes into being simply after living a sacrilegious life, or after an excommunication or burial in ground that was not consecrated, or most ominously eating mutton that had been previously tasted by a werewolf.
Make U Move" by Danielia Cotton. ( Danielia is pretty cool, NPR interview here )
Thanks to Thellou
Wait, this isn't fan art, this is Edvard Munch ( Yes, hes the one that painted "The Scream" ) and it was painted in the 19th century.
If you have created some True Blood/Sookie fan art that you'd like to share please email me !
I will be happy to feature your art ...thanks "D"
Email: True Blood in Dallas
Zoic Studios talks about the VFX challenges of pulling off an otherworldly vampire vibe in Alan Ball's True Blood series on HBO. ( from Oct. 2008)
To say that writer/director Alan Ball has a uniquely skewed vision of the world is quite the understatement. The Oscar-winning screenwriter's got a way of craft
ing stories that manage to unearth both the gorgeous simplicities of the mundane and the garishly grotesque secrets that lie just under the surface of our everyday lives. Whether it's capturing suburbia mid-life crisis in American Beauty or extreme family dysfunction in Six Feet Under, Ball's yarns demand a viewer's attention.
When it was revealed last year that Ball's next project would be adapting novelist Charlaine Harris' successful Southern gothic vampire stories into a television series for HBO called True Blood (airing Sundays at 9:00 pm)...
well, fans and critics alike went into a tizzy of excitement in anticipation for what he would do with the well worn vampire genre. And as expected, Ball hasn't disappointed.
True Blood follows the exploits of Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), a genteel Southern telepath that slings beers in a bayou bar in rural Louisiana. Vampires have recently "come out" to the world and humans are trying to figure out how to accept the pasty bloodsuckers into mainstream society. In the pilot, Sookie serves brooding vampire Bill Compton (Stephen
Moyer) at the bar and lusty sparks fly. While reaction to the series has been mixed, with critics and fans split down the middle on the success of Ball's wildly explicit take on love, sex and vampirism, True Blood is definitely generating buzz and a confirmed second season.
And that's good news for Zoic Studios, the renowned visual effects company enlisted by Ball to make the otherworldly aspects of his series come to life so realistically that you'd swear vampires could be lurking just outside our doors. Visual Effects Supervisor Jon Massey and In-House Visual Effects Supervisor Andrew Orloff talk to VFXWorld about the challenges of making Ball's vision of the supernatural world come to life like audiences have never quite seen before.
Zoic previously worked on vampire-themed shows but True Blood's take on the mythology is different. There are no heavy magic elements but instead a dramatic tension that comes from operating within a scope of "real."
Tara Bennett: When you first spoke to Alan about True Blood, what were his visual effects priorities for the series?
Andrew Orloff: One of the things that Alan said to us from the beginning is that True Blood is not an effects show. What that means is that the effects need to look as natural and organic as possible.
Jon Massey: He didn't want to do anything with the effects that would distract from the performance of the actor. He didn't want to have a vampire transition that included faces change or dramatic fangs popping out.
TB: Audiences have come to expect those cheesy vampire tropes, so how did you strip the expectations down in terms of the visual effects design?
Read on
True Blood is now showing in South America
Check it out ...
Chile http://www.hbo-la.tv/trueblood/
Brazil http://www.hbo-br.tv/trueblood/
True Blood Latin America : http://www.hbo-la.tv/pais.asp
True Blood Chile
True Blood Brazil
Yesterday, I posted part one ( videos one and two ) of the series of Youtube videos of and interview with Charlaine Harris being interviewed by Barbara Peters of Poisoned Pen Press and Bookstore,
I believe this interview took place in May of 2008. I will post the last two tomorrow !
Part 3 and 4
Very cool ( and funny ) guide written for vampires in NYC includes videos and lots of fun stuff.
In many ways, the shadowy metropolis of New York City is the perfect place to be a vampire; in other ways...isn't it always a pain in the neck? So many things to consider daily, including the daylight problem, the palor, relationship challenges, the constant need for fresh blood. This Guidespotter may be a mere mortal, but she feels your pain and is here to help. (And if you "guys" have anything similar to a Get Out of Jail Free card, I'd sincerely appreciate it! Just a thought...)
http://www.guidespot.com/guides/vampire_living_in_nyc
Cheryl White has been cast as Mrs. Hamby - Jessica’s mother
On the casting call Mrs. Hamby is described as:
40 - 50, Jessica’s grief-stricken and tearful mother, she appears on the news begging for information on Jessica’s whereabouts. Mrs. Hamby is an uncertain woman who completely submits to her husband’s decisions and can’t make a move without consulting him.
GUEST STAR / POSSIBLE RECURRING
Missy Doty has been cast for the role of Vonetta.
The casting call describes her as:
Coralee’s friend, this bar patron in her 30s gossips avidly about the recent murder — right up until Terry throws her off the premises.
1 speech & 2 lines, 1 scene
From spoiler TV http://spoilertv.blogspot.com/search/label/True%20Blood
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