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The Twitter craze and our exclusive interview with @SookieBonTemps: Loving True Blood in Dallas Blogtalk Radio show
TONIGHT : March 9, 2009 Monday 9pm central
You won't want to miss this interview with @SookieBonTemps who will be "lettin' down the ponytail" and talking about what it's really like to be a twitter star!
We will be broadcasting live from Sookie Stackhouse's kitchen table in Bon Temps Louisiana. "Dallas" from the blog Loving True Blood in Dallas talks to @SookieBonTemps both in and out of character!
We want your questions! You can call in (646) 929-0825 or you can post you questions here in the comment section. Please leave your wiki or other online name when you post your question because we are going to have a drawing for prizes.
To the grand prize winner, we will be giving away a Scrabble game! You folks that follow the True Blood twitters know all about that..*wink, wink* and a fantastic sheriff''s pin that we brought back from Louisiana!
We will also have some special guest's call- in, Arianwyn and Nocturnalnnc and Object Desire from the HBO True Blood FanWiki. Aria and NC just got 
back home after spending the weekend in Dallas and Louisiana and we'll talk to them about their impression, of spending Saturday in an around Bon Temps, in the not so fictional area of Northwestern Louisiana.
Chat room will open at 8:45 pm please come, chat and call- in with your questions and comments.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/True-Blood-in-Dallas
call in (646) 929-0825
Monday, March 9, 2009
The Twitter craze and our exclusive interview with @SookieBonTemps: Tonight Loving True Blood in Dallas Blogtalk Radio
In the Blood: Why do vampires still thrill?
Fascinating article on Vampires in literature in the New Yorker by Joan Acocella
“Unclean, unclean!” Mina Harker screams, gathering her bloodied nightgown around her. In Chapter 21 of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” Mina’s friend John Seward, a psychiatrist in Purfleet, near London, tells how he and a colleague, warned that Mina might be in danger, broke into her bedroom one night and found her kneeling on the edge of her bed. Bending over her was a tall figure, dressed in black. “His right hand gripped her by the back of the neck, forcing her face down on his bosom. Her white nightdress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man’s bare breast which was shown by his torn-open dress. The attitude of the two had a terrible resemblance to a child forcing a kitten’s nose into a saucer of milk to compel it to drink.” Mina’s husband, Jonathan, hypnotized by the intruder, lay on the bed, unconscious, a few inches from the scene of his wife’s violation...
In the summer of 1816, Lord Byron, fleeing marital difficulties, was holed up in a villa on Lake Geneva. With him was his personal physician, John Polidori, and nearby, in another house, his friend Percy Bysshe Shelley; Shelley’s mistress, Mary Godwin; and Mary’s stepsister Claire Clairmont, who was angling for Byron’s attention (with reason: she was pregnant by him). The weather that summer was cold and rainy. The friends spent hours in Byron’s drawing room, talking. One night, they read one another ghost stories, which were very popular at the time, and Byron suggested that they all write ghost stories of their own. Shelley and Clairmont produced nothing. Byron began a story and then laid it aside. But the remaining members of the summer party went to their desks and created the two most enduring figures of the modern horror genre. Mary Godwin, eighteen years old, began her novel “Frankenstein” (1818), and John Polidori, apparently following a sketch that Byron had written for his abandoned story, wrote “The Vampyre: A Tale” (1819). In Polidori’s narrative, the undead villain is a proud, handsome aristocrat, fatal to women. (Some say that Polidori based the character on Byron.) He’s interested only in virgins; he sucks their necks; they die; he lives. The modern vampire was born.
Read on here
Maybe we like Chick Lit that ‘Sucks’
This blog really caught my eye because I spent part of the weekend driving around Northeastern Texas and Northwestern Louisiana with a bunch of Sookie fans and this exact comment about escapism, the bad economy, rough electoral season and real life mainstream pressure was sited as a reason to love Sookie books. I sure think Boston Belle is expressing what others think here ...
Chick Lit that ‘Sucks’…in the literal sense (warning: title does not imply what you are thinking, read on…) by Boston Belle
I’m 26 years old. I was once a member of a book club. And though I enjoyed the chit chat and monthly gatherings, I found myself unsatisfied by the selections that were continuously voted in month after month. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate good literature and should state for the record that if you haven’t read the ‘classics’ you should, but (big fat BUT) I successfully survived high school and college English courses, so I feel like I’ve earned the right to unapologetically read my self-proclaimed ‘chick lit’ with no shame or duress. And with that, I introduce you to my latest batch of excitement: Sookie Stackhouse series ‘Dead and Gone.”
I understand and acknowledge that some people find my choice in literature to be a bit weak. There are not heartfelt stories (okay the occasional heartstrings here and there), or life-changing memoirs. You get what you pay for, and I for one find my $7.99 paperback novel to be WELL worth it’s price tag. :) I live in reality. Every single day. I’m dealing with this shitty economy, a stressful job load, and other every day horrors you read in the daily newspaper. So why the hell would I want to curl up with a book that doesn’t in any way displace me from reality? Yes, I find it silly to indulge in a world where vampires and werewolves not only exist, but are battling a never-ending war to save (or in some cases, destroy) the world. But it’s fun! It’s lighthearted and I know that no way in hell will it ever in a million years happen in reality. And I take comfort in that. Because no matter how badly my day sucks, I’d imagine it doesn’t compare to being sucked dry by a hungry vampire. Needless to say, I am beyond excited about the announcement of the release of the 9th Sookie in May 2009. Bring on the steamy love scenes with hot 1,000 year old Viking Eric. :) (and for those of you who are fans of HBO’s Trueblood—I’d like to state for the record that I was on this boat long before it became a Sunday night favorite.
Read more by Belle and the other Southern Fried bloggers here :
http://southernfriedblog.wordpress.com/
True Blood Music Video of the Day: Sex on Fire by King of Leon
Sex on Fire by King of Leon LYRICS
thanks gollonge
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Anna Paquin named as one of the Hottest On-Screen Comic Book Character from CBS sports ?
Following the success of Spider-Man in 2002, it was pretty obvious that fans of comic books were more than ready for their childhood heroes to appear on the silver screen.
Movies like X-Men, Iron Man and the newly released Watchmen, have millions of fan boys lining up for tickets and flooding internet message boards with "inside info" about the film.
At SPiN, we feel it's important to address the popularity of any such medium -- especially one with so many beautiful women.
Also being SPiN, it's important to address this month's biggest event. At CBSSports.com, home of March Madness, a bracket battle seems like a perfect match.
Therefore, we introduce Urbs' March Madness Bracket: Comic Book Hottie Edition.
In order to keep things from getting out of hand, we'll limit the field to eight.
Read on
Louisiana and our visit to Bon Temps was just wonderful !!!
We thoroughly enjoyed our day trip to North Western Louisiana. We visited many of the True Blood filming locations, some we had visited before and 3 new ones!
We went to the actual geographic location of Charlaine Harris's Bon Temps as well as the Alan Ball'S True Blood location...
If you follow me on Twitter, I am actually still there ( as "Dallas" role playing with the True Blood twitter gang) and staying at Sookie's house. When we got there late last night, we seemed to have disturbed Eric and Sookie's game of Scrabble. If you follow them on Twitter you know exactly what Scrabble is an euphemism for. :) When we felt like we were possibly disturbing them , we left and went to theBon Temp Sonic for milkshakes.
When we came back later, we were greeted by both Sookie and Eric. Eric was very gracious and even kissed us all on the cheek when we arrived. The ladies who accompanied me on the trip all swooned and vowed they would not wash that side of their faces in the morning.
We all spent the night @ SookieBonTemps house and the other girls headed back to Dallas this morning, I am staying to do some more interviews for the blog. We have more twitter goodies brewing, so stayed tuned to @trueblooddallas and @SookieBonTemps for more excitement.
Thanks (as always) to the wonderful ObjectDesire and our out-of-town guests this weekend
(who flew all the way in specially from North Carolina and Ohio) our friends from th
e HBO True Blood Fan Wiki, Arianwyn and Nocturnalnnc.
The weather was gorgeous, the company was so much fun and a great time was had by all...
More photos coming, as well as another one of Object Desire's hilarious road trip travelogues ...
If you don't twitter you need to ...I tweeted all along yesterday. You can set up a free twitter account here : http://twitter.com/
and find me here: http://twitter.com/trueblooddallas
(*note Sookie's house as it appears in True Blood is in California not in Bon Temps, LA but you can pretend ;D)
Louisiana Book News: Stackhouse releases paperback
Good new for Sookie Stackhouse lovers. The paperback version of From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris, the No. 8 book in the Southern Vampire Series and the literary origins of the HBO series True Blood, will be released in paperback at the end of March.
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Hot on its tail will be the hardback release of Dead and Gone, the ninth book of the series.
From Dead to Worse finds Sookie back in Bon Temps, Louisiana, after the terrorized attack on a vampire convention. The small town has its own problems, however, with a political split in the werewolf pack of Shreveport, the Louisiana vampires regrouping after Hurricane Katrina devastated the queen's home in New Orleans and an old and beautiful fairy with streaks of the frightening visiting Sookie. Jason, Sookie's brother, is up to his usual irresponsible antics, Sookie's boss Sam shifts into something besides a dog this time and another witch joins Sookie's roommate to add to the mix.
If this all sounds convoluted, you haven't read a Sookie Stackhouse book. Harris throws at this poor telepathic girl every paranormal being in mythology and fiction, placing us in her shoes and being equally astonished at what she sees, yet provides us with good laughs and endless entertaining suspense.
http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20090308/LIFESTYLE/903080325
HBO releases wonderful True Blood set photos!
We need to look carefully into some of these...
I can also tell you I was at Bill's house( the real one) yesterday...
Sheriff Bud Dearborn William Sanderson, The Actor, The Legend
** note and the second season begins airing in June!!
Catching up with an old friend is a popular thing to do. Recently, I caught up with actor William Sanderson, whom I am not only friends with, but a huge fan of his great career. Sanderson is unlike most stars in Hollywood. He’s a well-read, highly educated man who chose a career in acting after filling his life and mind with education and many amazing life experiences. That’s what makes him one of the best actors of all time. He’s filled with rich life experiences which he’s able to convey in his many varied roles over a long and distinguished career. One that, after decades, shows no signs of slowing down at all
His wife Sharon seems to be a grounding force in his life, which is probably why Bill is able to go from one incredible run on a series, like he did recently on “Deadwood,” to an amazing turn of a totally different type of show and character, which he now plays on HBO’s “True Blood.” That’s right, the man now is part of a vampire television series and he’s winning over critics and fans all over again. He seems incapable of getting anything in his career wrong. The prolific actor is the most versatile actor today.It requires a performer of tremendous ability to make an indelible impression in a supporting role, but actor William Sanderson has made a career out of creating characters who are seared in memory. From hit sitcoms to the hottest dramas on HBO, his work spans a wide variety of genres and styles in which he renders his often simple-minded, small-town characters with precision.
Currently Sanderson can be seen as Sheriff Bud Dearborne on the award-winning HBO series “True Blood,” created by Alan Ball, a part which critics say he performs as a “master of understated comic delivery.” The show’s award-winning first season will be released on DVD in May, and the second season begins airing in June. The role follows his three seasons as the skittery hotel proprietor E.B. Farnum on HBO’s epic “Deadwood,” which saw him starring opposite Ian McShane. Later this spring, Sanderson will also guest star in the blockbuster series “Lost,” playing a Hunter S. Thompson-type character. He can also be seen in the recently released DVD of the Emmy-Award winning 1997 miniseries “George Wallace,” sharing the screen with no less than Gary Sinise and Angelina Jolie.
Read on Canyon News
The 2009 Vampire Film Series & Festival returns home. New Orleans - Autumn 2009
Home is Where the HEART Is... The 2009 Vampire Film Series & Festival
Welcome to the official site of Vampire Film Series & Festival, an international film festival dedicated to advancing the vampire film genre and vampire culture.
Vampire movies have been part of the movie going experience since the era of Nickelodeons and the earliest days of silent films. From Nosferatu to the current Twilight series, vampire movies have an enduring place in popular culture that is as timeless as the vampire itself.
Whether the allure for generations of movie goers with the vampire is based on the universal fear of death or a sexual fascination with these suave creatures of the night, the vampire continues to be a dominant character on both the small and large screen. Great vampire films are immortal and like the vampire itself, will never die.
Our first two festivals were in the City of Angels, Los Angeles, but now Vampire Film Festival returns home to New Orleans and takes place this autumn in the city most attached to the American vampire myth, New Orleans, Louisiana.
New Orleans and all those those who love this magnificent city have suffered greatly. The producers of Vampire Film Festival have made it our mission to help rebuild this magical city, educate the world about vampire culture and present a movie experience with a real bite.
http://www.vampirefilmfestival.com/Home.htmlTrue Blood Music Video of the Day: Behind Blue Eyes by The Who
Behind blue eyes ( originally ) by The Who LYRICS
OK --correction: Oh goodness, you guys really keep me honest. Thanks Lou
OK, it's "Behind Blue Eyes" written by Pete Townshend of The Who for his Lifehouse project. It first appeared on The Who's 1971 Who's Next album.
This version is by the band Limp Bizkit."Behind Blue Eyes" is covered by Limp Bizkit on their album Results May Vary, released in 2003. The song was released for the film Gothika starring Halle Berry.
OK, here is live The Who in 1979- you tell me which is the best version!
Saturday, March 7, 2009
You know you've watched too much True Blood when...
You start calling all your friends "hooker!" and go about wondering if so and so has a demon...
You sign up and post on a message board for the first time in your life just so you can communicate with other people who are as obsessed as you are. ( dedicated today to new friends)
...someone at work points out that you dropped some of your lunch on your sweater, you immediately breathe a sigh of relief that it's veggie soup and not vampire in your cleavage.
...you consider getting a Wii just to see if you can beat Bill's score.
Please post yours....
Blood Copy Volume 3: A Vampire named Sampson
We are revisiting the Blood Copy videos which were part of the HBO true Blood viral marketing campaign that helped introduce the True Blood television series in the summer of 2008. We will be doing a radio show on this topic soon.
Previously we have see the mysterious packages were being received, the gatekeeper awakened on a mysterious website, .... HERE
The blog and videos not only were a marketing ploy but they also served as a prologue to the series ...
Here is the blog entry for that time period HERE ( June 23 2008)
Dallas is on special assignment today..
I will be on special assignment today in, as Malcolm would say, " the Great State of Loozianna " ( Louisiana)
I will be twittering and you can follow my tweets below (on the right) in the black box or here:
http://twitter.com/trueblooddallas
Dallasis accompanied by ObjectDesire, Arianwyn and Nocturnalnnc ....
We will be staying the night in Bon Temps with @SookieBonTemps and there should be some twitter fun to follow ..http://twitter.com/SookieBonTemps
What? They've finally dug up a vampire?
Oh, what would Buffy say to this? They've finally dug up a vampire.
A skeleton of a woman with a substantial brick wedged between her jaws has been exhumed by Italian scientists.
Matteo Borrini of the University of Florence came across this sad and lonely woman when he was digging up plague victims on the island of Lazzaretto Nuovo in Venice. The woman probably died in the Middle Ages, a time when it was believed that 'vampires' were the actual cause of the plague.
These so-called vampires did not sup on the blood of their fellow man and woman. They spread disease by gnawing at their shrouds after dying. The brick in the mouth was invented to create something of a disincentive.
Many scientists believe that the vampire myth came to life because blood emerges from the mouths of dead people. This blood causes the corpse's shroud to dip and tear.
Dr. Borrini unveiled his 'vampire' at a meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in Denver last week. He made the bold claim that this could be the first vampire ever examined so intimately.
However, Professor Peer Moore-Jansen of Wichita State University in Kansas seems ready to bite Dr. Borrini's head off. Or at least to take a chunk out of his neck. He insists he has found similar vampires in Poland (I have lived there and I find his claim to be entirely plausible).
Ah, countered Dr. Borrini, but this is the first time we have seen "exorcism evidence against vampires."
So there we have it. I blame the early Van Helsing family myself. I believe they performed a large number of these mouth-brickings for many centuries before they decided that a stake through the heart was far more commercial.
Chris Matyszczyk is an award-winning creative director who advises major corporations on content creation and marketing. He brings an irreverent, sarcastic, and sometimes ironic voice to the tech world. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126985.200-vampire-discovered-in-mass-grave.html
'Escape from the Dragon House' the title song for True Blood Season One Episode Four
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 Season 1, Ep 4: Escape From Dragon House Aired: 9/28/2008.
Escape from the Dragon House is a song featured on an album of the same name by the band, Dengue Fever.
Dengue Fever is a six-member band from Los Angeles who combine Cambodian pop music and lyrics with psychedelic rock. They were formed in 2001 by Ethan Holtzman and his brother Zac after Ethan was inspired by a trip to Cambodia. As Ethan and Zac were searching for a vocalist to sing in Khmer, lead singer Chhom Nimol was discovered in a nightclub in Little Phnom Penh area of Long Beach. She was already a well-known karaoke singer from Cambodia, but decided to move to US after visiting her sister, and thought it was a good chance to make more money to send to her family back home. [1] Zac performs vocals and guitar, while Ethan plays the Farfisa organ. Rounding out the band are bassist Senon Williams (who also plays in Radar Bros), drummer Paul Smith, and David Ralicke on brass.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengue_Fever_(band)
http://www.myspace.com/denguefevermusic
The scene from True Blood where we hear Dengue Fever
Pretty cool to see them performing live another song from the same album “ Escape from the Dragon house”
True Blood Music Video of the Day: Chosen Family by Loena Maess
Chosen family by Leona Naess LYRICS
Thanks Thellou
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