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Dead and Gone
Chapter One
Charlaine Harris
“Caucasian vampires should never wear white,” the television announcer intoned. “We’ve been secretly filming Devon Dawn, who’s been a vampire only for a decade, as she gets dressed for a night on the town. Look at that outfit! It’s all wrong for her!”
“What was she thinking?” said an acidic female voice. “Talk about stuck in the nineties! Look at that blouse, if that’s what you call it. Her skin just cries out for contrasting color, and what is she putting on? Ivory! It makes her skin look like a Hefty bag.”
I paused in the act of tying my shoe to watch what happened next as the two vampire fashionistas burst in the on the hapless victim – oh, excuse me, the lucky vampire who was about to get an unsolicited makeover. She’d have the additional pleasure of realizing her friends had turned her in to the fashion police.
“I don’t think this is going to end well,” Octavia Fant said. Though my housemate Amelia Broadway had sort of slid Octavia into my house -- based on a casual invitation I’d issued in a weak moment – the arrangement was working out okay.
“Devon Dawn, here’s Marla Cranshaw from The Best Dressed Vamp, and I’m Todd Seabrook. Your friend Tessa called to tell us you needed fashion help! We’ve been secretly filming you for the past two nights, and . . . AAACCCKK!” A white hand flashed at Todd’s throat, which vanished, leaving a gaping reddish hole. The camera lingered, fascinated, as Todd crumpled to the floor, before it rose to follow the fight between Devon Dawn and Marla.
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Thursday, December 4, 2008
Dead and Gone ( bk 9) Chapter One - it's up !!!!
Music from True Blood episode 7 Burning House of Love
Episode 1.07 - Burning House of Love
“Just Like Heaven” by The Watson Twins (thanks to everyone who wrote in to tell us that this version was not sung by Katie Melua as previously posted)
“Whiskey in My Whiskey” by The Felice Brothers
“Burning House of Love” by The Knitters
“Let It All Come Down” by G. DaPonte
“Sweet Jane” by Cowboy Junkies
“Play With Fire” by Cobra Verde
Charlaine Harris forum and tour hints from Dead to Worse tour
Cryssforeric posted this about what Charlaine Harris has said on her website forum and questions she answered from her 2008 From Dead to Worse tour.
1. Sookie will not become pregnant with a vampire - neither by magical nor chemical means.
2. Sookie's readings of vampire minds is entirely random.
3. She won't answer whether or not the blood bond with Eric will be weakened or destroyed.
4. Eric will not be killed off.
5. Although it is possible for Sookie to have a longer life-span with magic, it's not going to happen.
6. Eric did start out as a minor character, and she decided to change that when she realized he was fun to write.
7. She decided the exact character with whom Sookie would end up before she wrote LDID.
8. Sookie exhibits "typical behavior" in wanting to work out painful things herself before sharing them with close friends, or at work.
9. She doesn't know if Quinn's mother and sister will come back in later books - may even show up in Book 9.
10. She hasn't decided how many books to write in the series.
11. She hasn't decided yet at what point in the series Sookie will end up with The One.
12. Not very much of Sookie's behavior in FDTW was the result of the blood bond. The clumsy break-up with Quinn was due to Sookie's inexperience in relationships.
13. A sense of humor is very important.
14. Lily might have another cameo.
Give me a vampire with bite!
I MISS Dracula.
I've been spending the last couple of weeks watching, and enjoying, vampires seeking equal rights on HBO's "True Blood," a James Dean-ish heartthrob fighting his lethal lust for a high school classmate in "Twilight," and a 12-year-old girl sucking her town dry in the Swedish film "Let the Right One In."
As good as these films are, I still yearn for the day when men were men and vampires were vampires. Until late into the 20th century, the undead were the devil's brood, not just metaphors for forbidden fruit or for the desirability of being an outsider.
Now, I realize that every generation is going to create its own pop culture mythology and I applaud the makers of all these new films. (How come it couldn't have been cool to be pale and weird when I was in high school?)
Anne Rice popularized the idea that vampires weren't Satan's spawn in "Interview with the Vampire" and "The Vampire Lestat," before her talent turned to pulp. Vampires weren't necessarily evil, anymore, but lonely, lustful types - Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise were cast in the film. Gay men saw the first book in 1976 as something of a metaphor for their ostracism; alienated youth took to them as well.
Today's vampires are similar. As in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," there are good vampires and bad. Robert Pattinson's Edward Cullen is obviously modeled after James Dean - talk about brooding alienation - in "Twilight" and refers to his family as vegetarians (they don't suck on humans). Stephen Moyer's Bill in "True Blood" is the adult version, the James Bond of vampires. And even if Lina Leandersson's 12-year-old Eli satisfies her blood-lust on innocent humans, her utter loneliness puts you on her side. All three are devoted to humans of the opposite sex, in her case fellow misfit Oskar.
Such moral relativism is all very well and good. It's admirable to find nuance and shades of gray in human behavior - "Dexter" is better than "Law & Order"; Roman Polanski's "The Pianist" is deeper than Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List."
But I'm not all that happy about applying those standards to vampires. There is good and evil in the world - look at Mumbai - and the vampire myth is one of the most powerful representations of that. There was something simultaneously frightening and comforting, for example, in the "Horror of Dracula," to borrow the title of the first Christopher Lee Hammer film from 1958. The horror came in knowing that pure evil existed, the comfort in thinking that if one were strong enough, that evil could be resisted and that there were gurus in the world like Professor Van Helsing to help us.
Tod Browning's earlier 1931 adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel with Bela Lugosi was an even more artful contrast - in glorious black and white - between the creepy soullessness of a life turned in on itself and the selflessness of the wise Van Helsing.
Sometimes you have to cast irony, detachment, and relativism aside and take a stand. The trick is in knowing when. In Polanski's excellent 1967 spoof, "Dance of the Vampires" (aka "The Fearless Vampire Killers"), a Van Helsing-like character and his assistant journey to Transylvania to take on vampires.
Polanski knew a thing or two about evil. As a boy he had to hide from the Nazis in Poland. While making the vampire movie he fell in love with Sharon Tate, who would soon fall victim to a real-life embodiment of pure evil, Charles Manson. In the movie, the two vampire killers end up spreading the scourge instead of eradicating it, but that doesn't detract from Polanski's ongoing ability to dissect evil as perhaps no other living director can.
So carry on, all you nouveau vampires. I wish you all the best in your quest for equal rights, I feel the pain of your alienation, and you've got my vote when it comes to interspecies marriages with humans. But I can't help thinking that when you weren't all so darn likable, there was more in the vampire myth to sink your teeth into.
Ed Siegel is a former television and theater critic for the Globe. 
Season 2 Episode 1 leaked scripts ....
SpoilerTV has some sides from Episode 2
here:
http://spoilertv.blogspot.com/2008/12/true-blood-episode-201-nothing-but_02.html
Click on the grey blue " click to view slides box" to see the sides ( script pages)
Favorite True Blood Music Video - what's your favorite ?
Sookie and Bill - Mad World
This is Mad World by Gary Jules
send me the link to your favorite one ....
truebloodindallas@gmail.com
Sookie floral dress from episode 6 ( Sam date and finding Gran)
There are a couple of these America Eagle Floral dresses available on eBay.
Described as : Price $50
New without tags American Eagle Floral Dress Size: 2 True Blood anyone? This dress was featured on Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) in Episode 5 & 6. She had pie with Sam & found her grandmother in this dress.
Features Include:
Beautiful sheer floral with a v neckline Fabric covered buttons close up the back Empire waist with side zip closure Includes white sheath slipdress--loops with snaps to hold slip straps in place.
Beautiful gathered shoulder cap sleeves.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Bill may have been sent by the Queen to seduce Sookie but instead Bill is trapped by love
I think in the True Blood series Alan Ball makes it very clear in this scene that Bill is NO longer motivated by edicts, duty, lust or blood. He truly loves Sookie ....
I think it's important that this follows his memories of his human family, his loss of them as well as the memories of his "turning" and relationship to Lorena.
In the books, Bill tells Sookie he did NOT want to even pretend to have a relationship with a human woman because he thought that it degraded him. The moment Bill's motivation changed is NOT as clear in the books as it seems to be in the series.
But his love for Sookie has become a trap for him as he later says to her on bk 8 " I did what I had been told to do by my queen. In so doing, I fell into a trap I couldn’t escape. I still can’t.”
I think Tara and Lafayette discussion cinches the scene.
T-Do you think they are capable of loving a person?
L- Who knows what they are capable of ?
Music from True Blood Episode 8 -The Fourth Man in the Fire
Episode 1.08 - The Fourth Man in the Fire
“Comes and Goes (In Waves) by Greg Laswell
“Eternal Flame” by The Bangles
“Everybody’s Got Somebody But Me” by Mildred Anderson
“Fourth Man in the Fire” by Johnny Cash
“I Want You So Hard (Boys Bad News)” by Eagles of Death Metal
Sancto Erico sung in Old Swedish by Nathan Barr and Lisbeth Scott
The Top 10 Male Nude Scenes of 2008- Stephen Moyer #3
Stephen Moyer from “True Blood”
True Blood gives us an eyeful every episode thanks to its genius pervy creator Alan Ball. While we never tire of ogling the buff sex machine Jason Stackhouse (Ryan Kwanten), there’s something about Stephen Moyer’s booty that makes us want to … blog. In our favorite scene, he crawls out of the ground, naked, covered in soil, and then gets some nookie from Sookie. What can we say, we like it dirty!
from Friskys http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-the-top-10-male-nude-scenes-from-2008/
One of these things is just like the other - oink!
I think the butler for Maryann maybe a shapeshifter ( like Sam) and the pig is his non-human look...oink oink bk 2
A woman stepped out of the woods. With her was a razorback, a feral hog. Its tusks gleamed from the shadows. In her left hand she carried a sort of stick or wand, with a tuft of something on its end.
"Great," I whispered to myself. "Just great." The woman was as scary as the razorback. I was sure she wasn't a vampire, because I could feel the activity in her mind; but she was sure some supernatural being, so she didn't send a clear signal. I could snatch the tenor of her thoughts anyway. She was amused.
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"What has happened to you?" he asked.
I glared at him, so incensed I could hardly speak. "Iam a message to you," I said, almost in a whisper.
"This woman in the woods made Bill's car stop, and maybe even made us argue, and then she came up to me with this hog."
"A pig ?" Eric could not have been more astonished if I'd said she had a canary up her nose.
"Oink, oink. Razorback. Wild pig. And she said she wanted to send you a message, and I turned in time to keep her from getting my face, but she got my back, and then she left."
"Your face. She would have gotten your face," Bill said. I saw his hands clenching by his thighs, and the back of him as he began pacing around the office. "Eric, her cuts are not so deep. What's wrong with her?"
"Sookie," Eric said gently, "what did this woman look like?"
His face was right by mine, his thick golden hair almost touching my face.
"She looked nuts, I'll tell you how she looked. And she called you Eric Northman."
'True Blood' vs. 'Twilight': Who's the Better Leading Lady?
It's a good time to be a vampire fan. HBO's True Blood recently wrapped its first season with a suspenseful, gut-wrenching episode that left fans anxiously waiting for the show's return next summer. On the big screen, the teen vampire love story Twilight has been raking in so much cash that a sequel is already in the works. On the surface these stories appear to have a lot in common, but fans know that they present two very different takes on the vampire mythos.Both True Blood and Twilight revolve around young girls in small towns who find themselves falling for creatures of the night. However, these two girls couldn't possibly be more different. Who is the better character, and who is the heroine young girls should be idolizing?
To figure out which leading lady is worthy of being a pop culture icon, let's look at some facts.
She Fell for Her Vampire Boyfriend After:
True Blood's Sookie Stackhouse: She saved him from a couple of evil vampire haters.
Twilight's Bella Swan: He saved her from being crushed by an out of control van.
How's Her Love Life?
Sookie: Bill, her vampire boyfriend, may be hundreds of years old, but Sookie treats him like an equal. She refuses to be afraid of him or his lifestyle.
Bella: Edward, her vampire boyfriend, may be hundreds of years old, but that doesn't stop Bella from going on and on about how gorgeous he is. She's even been known to swoon when he kisses her! This might be perfectly acceptable if Edward treated Bella decently, but he spends the entire book either chuckling condescendingly at every comment she makes, or treating her like crap so she won't fall for his dangerous charisma.
Special Ability?
Sookie: She can read minds.
Bella: She falls down a lot.
Is She Close With Her Family?
Sookie: Her grandmother is the most important person in her life, though she doesn't always get along with her sex-crazed brother, Jason.
Bella: Her dad is the most important person in her life, and she also keeps in close contact with her mother.
Best Qualities?
Sookie: She's fiercely independent and capable of standing up for herself.
Bella: She's intelligent and down-to-earth.
Worst Qualities?
Sookie: A tendency to run into dangerous situations without thinking.
Bella: A tendency to run into dangerous situations without thinking; low self-esteem; an inability to walk without falling; a constant need to be rescued; a habit of forgetting her friends exist when she has boy trouble; neither independent or able to stand up for herself.
If Her Man Left Her, She Would:
Sookie: Stress over it for a while, then make out with the hot bartender.
Bella: Mope for months, then fling herself off a cliff.
Will She Have Sex Before Marriage?
Sookie: Yes, she indulges in some wild nights with Bill that leave her with fang marks.
Bella: No, Edward refuses to have sex with her for fear of hurting her. Bella wants him to turn her into a vampire to solve this problem, because living isn't particularly important to her.
Can She Protect Herself?
Sookie: She can if she has to, but the men in her life are very protective of her.
Bella: In the movie, she actually maces someone and knees a guy in the crotch. In the book, she's a useless damsel who always waits for Edward to save her. He also constantly reminds her that she's incapable of taking care of herself, squashing her already miniscule amount of self-esteem.
Should Young Girls Idolize Her?
Sookie: Yes. Sookie is strong, independent, always willing to speak her mind, and able to balance friends, family, work and romance.
Bella: No. Bella is weak, klutzy, inconsiderate, whiny, and ditches her friends the instant she has man trouble. She's the last person a young girl should look up to.
True Blood Hotties Top List of TV's Best Nude Scenes
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"Dead to the World" Audiobook ordering info ( ship date Dec 8 2008)
You can now order the 10 cd set from
Recorded Books for $34.99
Release date December 8, 2008
Order here
Sookie's favorite Gin and Tonic recipe
Ep 4 Fangtasia
Bill says "How's your drink?"
Sookie : "A gin and tonic's pretty much
a gin and tonic no matter where you drink it."
Bil : :"I know exactly what you mean."
You need:
1. Some Collin/Highball glasses or just tall glasses for water
2. some lemons [well washed]
3. ice-cubes [a lot :-)]
4. Gin [I prefer Bombay Sapphire but if you want strong taste you can try Tangueray]
4. Some Tonic cans [I prefer Tuborg]
and now the recipe [with its secrets...]
1. Cut a lemon slice and squeeze it into the glass, to get out all its oil and juice and after this put it at the bottom of the glass
2. Full with ice cubes till the edges of the glass [i repeat: till the edges!]
3. Squeeze a half lemon above of the ice cubes. Wait for 30 secs.
4. Fill the 1/3 of the glass with Gin [how much strong do you want your cocktail?]
5. Fill the rest of glass with Tonic
6. Gently stir the mixture with the knife you have cut the lemon
Now You Too Can Be A Self-Loathing, Vampire-Loving Waitress
By Meredith Woerner, 7:00 AM on Wed Dec 3 2008, 632 views
Too late for Halloween but just in time for naughty cosplay, HBO is selling the slutty uniform of choice for Merlotte's servers. Get your perky-breasted see-through ensembles now, before you're picked off one by one by local murderers, vamps or the self-respect police because you know that thing really is see through. In other vampy news, there's a veritable nest of vampire goodies over at True Blood headquarters, including DVD goodies, behind the scenes videos, and details on just how long Anna Paquin plans to be a vampire lover.
HBO is selling all sorts of Vampy wares, from Merlottes' mugs to Fangtasia t-shirts.
But the best news is, come May HBO is releasing the entire DVD box set of the first season of True Blood for $60. So until then we'll have to amuse ourselves by watching behind-the-scenes videos, and dressing up in the tiny Merlotte's waitress uniform while reenacting the infamous Rattree fight.
Until the the video of said reenactment is up, you'll have to hang tight and watch this behind the scenes make up video, where the artist explains how she gives Bill that just rolled out of the grave look.
And if you're fearful that the next season (which starts filming in January) may be the last, take heed, an old interview with the National Post where Sookie Stackhouse herself (Ana Paquin) says she's signed on for seven years of True Blood madness, so barring HBO's decision to cancel the series, we could be watching True Blood well into the year 2115.
http://io9.com/5101227/now-you-too-can-be-a-self+loathing-vampire+loving-waitress** i do not write them i only post them !
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