If I Could Have Anything in the World For Valentine’s Day, It Would Be Alexander Skarsgard…

Ah, the day of love and romance is upon us again. But Valentine’s Day isn’t all about candlelit dinners with your BF – it’s about celebrating yourself – and your girlfriends – as well. So be good to your besties this V-Day, especially if they’re flying solo on Feb. 14. Yeah, your girls are single and ready to mingle – but still, essentially, alone – which is why they deserve presents more than most! But before you start feeling morose that you’re unattached this year, check out the gift that keeps on giving: True Blood’s Alexander Skarsgard naked in a bathtub. Just TRY and feel gloomy about not having a valentine after checking out this photo (above) – it’s impossible!

• What to Get Your Inner Freak. Download some Sade or Robin Thicke onto this bad boy and get yourself in the mood. Did I say for love? No I didn’t.

• What to Get Your Type-A BFF. A perfect way to make sure your bestie is always available when you need her to be. And look – it’s pink!

• What to Get A Closet Jersey Girl. Try THIS tan on for size. Healthy, natural and will get you looking way more natural that Snooki and her girl J-Woww.

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True Blood to Feature Random Pair of Roommates

When True Blood returns for season three, spoilers have revealed that Jason Stackhouse will fall in love.

But it sounds like he may have difficulty taking this werewolf woman home. After all, Jason won't be living alone this summer.

The character will be paired with a new roommate: Hoyt Fortenberry.

“Jason lets me sleep on the couch,” says Jim Parrack told TV Guide Magazine. “We’re definitely the Odd Couple.”

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True Blood Music Video of the Day:Dark Waltz

Dark Waltz

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True Blood Music Video of the Day: After dark

After dark (version 2)
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'True Blood' Casting Update: Daddy For Alexander Skarsgard Still Needed + Brit Morgan Is Debbie Pelt

Big things are in store for "True Blood" baddie Eric Northman, the sinister vampire with a hidden soft side played by Alexander Skarsgård. Not only is the Fangtasia owner getting a new love interest in the upcoming third season, he's also getting a visit from dear old dad.

According to E! Online, "True Blood" producers are looking to cast the role of Ulfrick, a Swedish Viking king and father to Eric Northman. The desired actor must be able to speak fluent Swedish and should be in his 40s to 50s. Additionally, the character will appear in flashbacks to Eric's days as a Viking warrior, but there is tension between the two — Ulfrick doesn't think that Eric's behavior is befitting of royalty.

While Alexander's real life father Stellan Skarsgård (who you'll best remember as one of Meryl Streep's past lovers in the film version of "Mamma Mia!") fits all of the above requirements for Ulfrick, representatives for the actor told E! News that he "will not" be joining the "True Blood" cast. As of now, the role remains open.

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Vampires among us

Met any vampires lately? They are unavoidable in popular culture, from Stephanie Meyer's books Twilight and New Moon (both made into films) to television fare such as True Blood and The Vampire Diaries. And though Buffy the Vampire Slayer may have gone off the air years ago, she lives (and slays) on in DVDs and comic books.

Vampire and other monster stories have long held an appeal for adolescents, an appeal the Twilight Saga movies exploit with hot young stars. Adolescence is a period of strange, new, powerful feelings. As sexual maturation and awakening occurs, menstruation begins for girls. Boys, like werewolves, grow more hair and experience their own hormonal turbulence. Amid these disturbing changes, teens often feel alienated and freakish, alone in the world.

Monster stories allow them to approach their sense of monstrosity sidewise. In many tales the monsters are vanquished, suggesting that the disconcerting bodies and disturbing urges of adolescents can be mastered. In more recent narratives, the monsters are domesticated—a sign that the adolescent can mature and tame his or her sexuality. The vampires in Twilight and True Blood aren't all evil. Some have learned to subsist on animal or synthetic blood rather than human blood.

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Sucking the Quileute Dry

Interesting article about the real-life situation of the Quileute Nation of fictional vampire book fame.
ALL the world, it seems, has been bitten by “Twilight.” Conservative estimates place revenue generated from Stephenie Meyer’s vampire chronicles — the books, movies and merchandise — in the billion-dollar range. Scarcely mentioned, however, is the effect that “Twilight” has had on the tiny Quileute Nation, situated on a postage stamp of a reservation, just one square mile, in remote La Push, Wash.

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True Blood Music Video of the Day: Love Song Requiem by Trading Yesterday.

Love Song Requiem by Trading Yesterday.

True Blood Music Video of the Day: "O Death" by Jen Titus

"O Death" by Jen Titus
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Helen Baxendale on filming Beyond the Pole

From Times UK

The Friends and Cold Feet actress has produced a film about a duo, starring Stephen Mangan, on mission to the North Pole

Perhaps inevitably, climate change has been slow to creep into the creative arts, despite its 30 years at the heart of the environmental debate. One or two disaster movies have given a careful nod towards the more apocalyptic scenarios, having exhausted aliens from space, tidal waves, asteroids and sea monsters in their bid to destroy New York on camera — but it’s kind of hard to deliver a narrative arc based on the interaction of greenhouse gases with fluid dynamics and radiative transfer, although Thom Yorke has obviously had a go.

Since the fudge of last year’s Copenhagen summit, however, it’s as if exasperated artists have decided to wedge climate change into their work by any means necessary. Banksy, of course, was the cutest. A few weeks ago, the Bristol graffiti artist scrawled I Don’t Believe in Global Warming along the side of a canal, with the words half submerged, as if by rising water. Not his subtlest work, but points for the retro use of the original 1970s term. Ian McEwan, meanwhile, has based his next novel, Solar — out on March 18 — on a devious, woman-chasing physicist called Michael Beard, who discovers a way to derive power from a form of artificial photosynthesis, but seems happier lurching around ice-bound ships while wildly drunk. Beard faces violent attacks from the media as he staggers across the planet.

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William T. Compton and the 28th Louisiana Regiment

Now this is an excellent article and excellent research - thanks to allstephenmoyer !

Thanks to Billsbabe “lisafemmeacadienne” for this wonderful article about the 28th Regiment.

The 28th Louisiana Regiment is not mentioned in the history texts, but it had a very important role in Civil War in Louisiana, thanks to Colonel Henry Gray of Bienville Parish, and Lieutenant General Richard Taylor (son of President Zachary Taylor).

In the True Blood storyline, the character William T. Compton served in this particular regiment, so I put together some information for the fans. The history of these volunteers has been reconstructed through journal entries and the few military documents that survived the chaos of the final days of the war.

The 28th consisted of ten independent companies from different parishes, which were organized and trained in Monroe by Colonel Gray

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BBC 3 Vampires: why they bite with Charlaine Harris

Yes, even the BBC makes mistakes -that's how they spelled Charlaine's name (see below)

Vampires are currently topping the bestselling lists and raking in millions at the box office. Historian Lisa Hilton explores our enduring fascination and traces the origins of our favourite bogeyman, charting the transformation of the vampire from monster to heartthrob. With contributions from Charlene Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels, and Toby Whithouse, creator of Being Human.


Broadcasts

1.
Wed 10 Feb 2010
21:00
BBC Three
2.
Thu 11 Feb 2010
02:15
BBC Three
3.
Sun 14 Feb 2010
01:45
BBC Three

Deborah Ann Woll & E.J. Scott in Elle Video

How cute are they ...???watch video here

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1885433872?bctid=64409205001

Joe Manganiello: True Blood Werewolf! there by the grace of the internets

Well, well MAYBE we have more power than we thought

HBO’s more adult spin on the Vampire Madness has really taken off. With a growing fan base and a third season in the works, it’s fair to say it’s catching on. As can be expected, we will be seeing some new faces as the story line twists and turns.

One of the new actors that has signed on to the cast is Joe Manganiello, whom you may recognize from his guest starring roles on One Tree Hill. He will play the werewolf Alcide Herveaux, which is definitely a step up from his past work on the CW.

MTV News caught up with the actor to get some inside info on his new role what fans can expect. He dished that he’ll pay the new love interest of Sookie, and sounds very excited about the chance to get involved in filming some action scenes.

The three words that came to his mind when describing the role were ‘action, fun, and facial hair.’ That sounds about right.

The story behind how he landed the role is further affirmation that social media is taking over the world. It wasn’t through the tired process of having your agent fish for acting gigs, or going to casting calls hoping to get snagged. Joe actually feels that Facebook was a huge catalyst in his recent turn of luck.

“Facebook and the internet were integral to me getting this part. There are ‘True Blood’ bloggers that were fans of the books…They would blog about who should play the character, and some of these bloggers put up pictures of me.”

Smartly, he decided to ride the wave and linked up the blog posts about him on his own Facebook page. Then, with the help of all the fan-hype (and an inside connection) he worked his way in. That is so 2010.

True Blood Music Video of the Day:Mary by Patty Griffin

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Mary by Patty Griffin

Watched any good books lately?

What are they reading in Mad Men, The Sopranos, True Blood and Skins - and what does it mean? We read between the lines

In the same way that Captain Kirk never took a loo break, the depiction of reading on TV has traditionally been considered anathema. Who turns on their telly to watch someone buried in a book? Remember that moment in Seinfeld when the characters pitch "Jerry", their (anti)-sitcom-within-a-sitcom to NBC? George stresses that one thing the characters will be doing a lot of is reading. "Reading?" shoots back the network exec in disbelief, as shocked as if George had suggested masturbating; reading is, after all, the very antithesis of drama, of getting out and doing stuff. It's an almost morbidly introspective thing for telly folk to be doing and not terribly exciting for the viewer, either, who might be tempted to switch over to the ten pin bowling.

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Back to basics, as the werewolf howls again

Back to basics, as the werewolf howls again

Forget vampires and zombies – they're just corpses. Werewolves are alive and howling

Vampires and zombies have been hogging our attention so much of late that we could be forgiven for having overlooked the other class-A monster lurking on the sidelines. But now it's getting ready to reclaim its rightful place in the horror pantheon, shoulder to shoulder with the walking undead. Werewolves are go!

Although they may not have taken top billing for a while, werewolves have never been entirely absent from our screens and pages. Who is Harry Potter's favourite professor of defence against the dark arts? The werewolf Remus Lupin! Who plugs that gap in Bella's heart when her beloved vampire Edward goes awol in the second episode of the Twilight saga? Step forward Jacob Black, who shapeshifts into a wolf! The Underworld films are nominally about vampires, but who are the vampires fighting? Lycans! Which is just a fancy name for werewolves, also known as loups-garous, lycanthropes, skinwalkers or plain old wolfmen.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/feb/04/werewolves-cinema