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Saturday, March 28, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
Alpha Dog Round Four : Vote for Eric Northman !
I am terrible with other TV shows but come on ....these guys against a fabulous 1,000 year old Viking Vampire sheriff ? I just think NOT!
These last two rounds have been brutal! First we lost McSteamy, McDreamy, Peter Bishop, Jack Shephard and Michael Scofield, and this time around we had to say goodbye to Michael Westen, Coach, Sawyer and House. And that means your final four are a Viking vampire, two Winchester boys and Sayid Jarrah.
This is going to be quite a battle.
We'll be waiting out here in the safe zone with comfort, succor and an extremely well-stocked first-aid kit.
Ready? Grab the bracket to see what it took for your boys to get this far in the first place, and then jump into the last round before the big championship match...
Vampire Legends Linger for Centuries : ABC
Vampire Legends Linger for Centuries
Many Believe Vampires Serve as Powerful Metaphors for Our Psyches
By CLAIRE SHIPMAN
March 26, 2009 —
The legend of the vampire actually goes back centuries and exists in some form or another in almost every culture.
In fact, some people believe the first vampire story was in the Bible.
Why did people believe they had so much power and did they really exist?
Vampires move under the cloak of darkness, the undead rising from their graves to prey on the innocent by sucking their blood, according to the image of vampires that has captured our imaginations and been reinvented in stories, legends and films for centuries. Many imagine vampires lurking in the woods, preying on small towns and villages in the hours between dusk and sunrise.
Vampires are back again in "Twilight," but now they've been reinvented as lovesick, romantic and only slightly dangerous.
The "Twilight" series has created an almost cultish following among tweens.
"They want the vampire to be glamorous and romantic now," said Anne Rice, best-selling author of vampire novels. "They don't want a monster that they can't relate to. They want to see that human side of the vampire."
Rice said the notion of vampires is almost irresistable to the human psyche.
"The vampire is just a powerful metaphor for the outcast in all of us, for the monster in all of us, for the predator in all of us," she said.
Vampires often are equated with Romania and Count Dracula, but in fact, Bohemia, in today's Czech Republic, was critical to the rise of the vampire legend. Almost every cemetery in Prague is teeming with stories.
A favorite story is about the no-name vampire buried in one cemetery who lured victims with his music.
"He begins to gather a crowd and over time, people would notice neighbors were still disappearing and they never knew if the sounds were of the accordion or the victims' screams," said Ty McGee, a guide of ghost tours in Prague.
Small towns and villages struck by disease and death were breeding grounds for vampire lore.
"Everything from a crop failture to the plague to infant mortality would be explained away by one of these tales, something like, 'The vampire did it,'" said Thomas J. Garza, a professor at the University of Texas who teaches about Slavic and Eastern European cultures, among others.
While no empirical evidence exists, the legends live on in part to explain a subconscious fear of death.
"The vampire will always be a character with whom we identify in our own mortality and in his or her own immortality," Garza said.
Rice agrees.
"The vampire is never going to go away," she said. "There will be more and more revivals. We're going to have continued romance with the vampire."
It's that romance and fascination that also helps fuel tourism, and not just in the graveyard tours and the dark forests of Eastern Europe. The small town of Forks, Wash., the setting for the "Twilight" book series and movie now sees 100 tourists a day.
Copyright © 2009 ABC News Internet Ventures
Vampire slide show here
True Blood Goes to the Movies: Ryan Kwanten stars in Dead Silence
Dead Silence (originally titled Shhhh) with alternate title suggestions such as The Doll and Mary Shaw is a 2007 horror film from James Wan and Leigh Whannell, the creators of Saw.
The film stars Ryan Kwanten as the main protagonist, Jamie Ashen, Donnie Wahlberg as Detective Jim Lipton and Judith Roberts as Mary Shaw. It was released nationwide on March 16, 2007, and was released on DVD and HD DVD on June 26, 2007. Altogether, there are three versions of the movie: the edited, R rated movie, and an uncut version. The movie took 6 months and 17 days to film.
Plot summary : Every town has it's own ghost story, and a local folktale around Ravens Fair is about a ventriloquist named Mary Shaw. After she went mad in the 1940s, she was accused of kidnapping a young boy who yelled out in one of her performances that she was a fraud. Because of this she was hunted down by townspeople who in the ultimate act of revenge, cut out her tongue and then killed her. They buried her along with her "children," a handmade collection of vaudeville dolls, and assumed they had silenced her forever. However, Ravens Fair has been plagued by mysterious deaths around them after Mary Shaws collection has returned from their graves and have come to seek revenge on people that killed her and their families. Far from the pall of their cursed hometown, newlyweds Jamie and Lisa Ashen thought they had established a fresh start, until Jamie's wife is grotesquely killed in their apartment.
Jamie returns to Ravens Fair for the funeral, intent on unraveling the mystery of Lisa's death. Once reunited with his ill father, Edward, and his father's new young bride, Ella, Jamie must dig into the town's bloody past to find out who killed his wife and why. All the while, he is doggedly pursued by a detective who doesn't believe a word he says. As he uncovers the legend of Mary Shaw, he will unlock the story of her curse and the truth behind the threat from a rhyme in his childhood: if you see Mary Shaw and scream, she'll take your tongue. And the last thing you will hear before you die...is your own voice speaking back to you. Written by Christopher Hernandez
The IMDb site here
The Wikpedia entry here
Ryan interviewed here
Vampires Go Evil In "Elevator Men"
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Elevator Men," a screenplay that takes an unfashionably unromanticized look at vampires, is being scooped up by Summit Entertainment.
The dark thriller, by former DreamWorks executive Marc Haimes, approaches human-vampire interactions from a different angle than such recent movies and series as Summit's "Twilight" and HBO's "True Blood."
"It's a reaction to all of these stories now -- TV shows and movies -- that play this kind of romantic, fantastical, sexy aspect of getting involved with monsters," Haimes said. "This is the dark, sinister version of what really happens when you decide you're going to get close to really bad things."
The creatures in the script -- which likely will change titles -- play diabolical mind games with people, including one that involves an elevator.
Haimes was an executive at DreamWorks for more than 13 years until the studio split from parent Paramount last year. While there, he developed such thrillers as "Collateral," "Red Eye" and "Disturbia," as well as "Hotel for Dogs" and "Transformers."
The creatures in the script -- which likely will change titles -- play diabolical mind games with people, including one that involves an elevator.
Haimes was an executive at DreamWorks for more than 13 years until the studio split from parent Paramount last year. While there, he developed such thrillers as "Collateral," "Red Eye" and "Disturbia," as well as "Hotel for Dogs" and "Transformers."
When Stars Twitter, a Ghost Writer May Be Lurking
Fascinating article from the New York Times
In its short history, Twitter has become an important marketing tool for celebrities, politicians, and businesses, promising a level of intimacy never before approached online. But in many cases, celebrities and their handlers have turned to outside writers -- ghost Twitterers, if you will.
The rapper 50 Cent is among the legion of stars who have recently embraced Twitter to reach fans who crave near-continuous access to their lives and thoughts. On March 1, he shared this insight with the more than 200,000 people who follow him: “My ambition leads me through a tunnel that never ends.”
Read on HERE
Vampire rumors spur alert at Boston Latin
This is hard news from the Boston Globe !
Boston Latin School headmaster Lynne Mooney Teta issued a notice to parents and students yesterday quashing rumors of vampires at the school. An odd move for the head of a historic elite preparatory school, but Teta and Boston public school officials declined to elaborate on what triggered the unusual message.
They did, however, adamantly offer assurances that no one at the school has been hurt, arrested - or bitten.
"The headmaster believes that the outrageous rumors had reached a point where she had to say something to families to ensure that all students felt safe and respected," said Chris Horan, School Department spokesman.
While the episode sounds like something out of "Twilight," last year's hit film about a high school girl who falls in love with a vampire, it may be closer to the movie "Mean Girls."
Read onBaltimore Sun weighs in HERE
True Blood Tourism : Spotlight 3 shines on vampires in Northwest Louisiana : ABC Shreveport
**Sorry, KTBS seems to have the video linked incorrectly I saw it once last night -keep trying back !
Vampires have become the rage these days on the big screen and on TV. "True Blood" has become HBOs latest hit series. It's based on the books written by Magnolia, Arkansas author Charlaine Harris. It all takes place in a fictional community near Shreveport. The series has put Shreveport on the radar of "True Blood" fans. Arlena Acree heads up Shreveport's film department. She says interest in the show has pumped new blood into the area's tourism industry. KTBS 3's Ed Walsh has more in this Spotlight 3 report.
http://www.ktbs.com/news/Spotlight-3-shines-on-vampires-in-Northwest-Louisiana-28631/#
Thursday, March 26, 2009
True Blood Gives Us A Stake In Things
True Blood Gives Us A Stake In Things
by brian on March 26th, 2009
The marketing geniuses at HBO are well - marketing geniuses. I remember before the premiere of hit vampire drama True Blood, they sent out vials of the synthetic blood to TV reviewers.
OK, it wasn’t real fake blood, I mean, you know what I mean. It was a beverage made to look like fake blood. The point is it got my attention. Admittedly free stuff often does that, which is why companies do it.
But a New Zealand True Blood promotion is letting everyone get in on the act. The promo posters actually come with stakes you can break off in case of vampire attack. We’ve already been the victim of numerous jests from our Kiwi friends as to why they would never do this promo in the United States. C’mon, HBO, prove ‘em wrong! We survived Bat Day at Yankee Stadium, after all. Give us some fake stakes!
http://www.sfuniverse.com/2009/03/26/true-blood-gives-us-a-stake-in-things/
True Blood cast in blue
Two shots of the what I call the weird blue cast photo.
It was taken in California -that is NOT Louisiana behind them.
They all have on their Episode 5 , Descendents of the Glorious Dead meeting clothe
s so I'm guessing it was taken on the day of that shoot..boy, I'd love to know where that church they used is...
Have I said today how much I love HBO ?
Nice article in New York Observer about HBO lineup 
..Things start off this Sunday with the two-hour series premiere of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Based on the best selling books by Alexander McCall Smith, Ladies’ stars R&B singer Jill Scott as a recently divorced Botswanan woman who opens her own detective agency. (The title, in this case, is very literal.) Ladies’ appears to be the type of series that we see so little of on HBO—a light-hearted procedural that won’t be caked in Shakespearean tragedy; that the pilot was co-written by Love, Actually’s Richard Curtis and the late Anthony Minghella should tell you all you need to know about Ladies’ tone. Additionally, cinephiles should take note: Mr. Minghella directed Sunday’s pilot before passing away last spring, and it represents the last chance anyone will have to see new work from the Oscar-winner...
Of course, this is all a prelude to the summer, when Entourage and True Blood return with new seasons. This year they’ll be joined on the HBO roster by Hung, a new series from Sideways director Alexander Payne. Hung stars Anne Heche, Jane Adams and Thomas Jane, playing a high-school gym teacher with a really big … well, think about the ending of Boogie Nights and you can probably figure out where this series is going. As they say, “It’s not TV, it’s HBO.”
Read on
May I also note that they have had the guts recently to air (and in some cases produce) programs like :
They Killed Sister Dorothy
Death on a Factory Farm
The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306
Right America: Feeling Wronged - Some Voices from the Campaign Trail
Taxi to the Dark Side
and
Taking Chance
I'm not sure where we'd be without HBO and it's not always just fun and entertainment like our beloved True Blood -- but it's oh, so very important!
Because vampires get thirsty too
If you are thinking about having a True Blood Season 2 kick off party you might like to use these nifty printable labels , this idea is for a certain other vampire movie that will remain nameless but it rhymes with 'highlight ' ; >
But they are pretty neat HERE
Do you have a question for Alexander Skarsgard?
Quite a few little birdies this morning have told me to let everyone know you can post two questions at http://www.skarsgardnews.tk/ and you might get them answered by Alexander Skarsgard!
True Blood Season 2 Possible Title Song: Ep. 6 ' Friend is a four letter word'
This is exciting ! We now (might)know the titles of the first 6 episodes of True Blood for Season 2.
Now the one thing we know about True Blood is that the episode names come from the a song used in in the soundtrack of that episode and that it is somehow significant to that episode.
So far this year we have :
Episode 2.01 - Nothing but the Blood
Episode 2.02 - Keep this Party Going
Episode 2.03 - Changed to Scratches from Scratch My Back
Episode 2.04 - Changed to Shake and Fingerpop from Let's Take a Trip Together
Episode 2.05 - Never let me go
All we know about Season 2 spoilers, casting calls etc. can be found here
We know the amazing Gary Calamar puts great effort into musically curating True Blood !
Episode 2.06 - Friend is a Four Letter Word
Now, this is only my guess, I just research the various songs with the leaked title and come up with a song I think it might be.This one just absolutely HAS to be CAKE ! Well, it doesn't have to be , but what a great song. I always know it's a CAKE on the radio because aside from McCrea's voice , how many other rock bands have prominent trumpets ?
Four Letter Word from the album Fashion Nugget.
Cake (officially capitalized "CAKE") is an American alternative rock band from Sacramento, California which has had several hits throughout the 1990s and 2000s from six albums.Cake was formed in 1991 by vocalist/songwriter John McCrea, guitarist Greg Brown, trumpeter Vince DiFiore, bassist Shon Meckfessel and drummer Frank French. Shon Meckfessel soon left and was replaced by Gabe Nelson. In 1993, the band released its debut single, "Rock 'n' Roll Lifestyle." Although self-released, the single managed to hit number 31 on the US Modern Rock Tracks.
Cake's official web site
to me, coming from you,
friend is a four letter word.
end is the only part of the word
that i heard.
call me morbid or absurd.
but to me, coming from you,
friend is a four letter word.
to me, coming from you,
friend is a four letter word.
end is the only part of the word
that I heard.
call me morbid or absurd.
but to me, coming from you,
friend is a four letter word.
when I go fishing for the words
i am wishing you would say to me,
i'm really only praying
that the words you'll soon be saying
might betray the way you feel about me.
True Blood Carrie Preston promises more weird stuff—and vampires!"
Carrie Preston, who plays the man-crazy red-headed bar waitress Arlene Fowler in HBO's vampires series True Blood, told SCI FI Wire that the show will delve deeper into various supernatural phenomena when it returns in the summer with 12 new episodes.
"Things are going to get a little crazy on the show," Preston said in an exclusive interview. "There's going to be a bunch of new sort of supernatural things that are being introduced. Besides the ... the vampires. And, as far as Arlene goes, well, let's just say that Arlene's not the type of woman to be single for very long." Arlene's last fiance, Rene (Michael Raymond James), was revealed to be the serial killer in last season's finale and wound up with a shovel in the head.
The show's second season will also boast a bunch of new cast members, including Valerie Cruz, Anna Camp and Ashley Jones, as well as Battlestar Galactica's Michelle Forbes, Mehcad Brooks and Deborah Ann Woll.
"We just finished the fifth episode," Preston said. "Starting the sixth one today out of 12, so we're almost halfway through already."
Following is an edited Q&A based on our exclusive interview. (Some minor spoilers ahead!)
T
alk a little bit more about some of these supernatural elements we're going to see in the show.
Preston: I don't know if I'm at liberty to talk about it in detail, but, we are departing a bit from the books [the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris]. ... So the writers have really taken the groundwork that they set in the first season and kind of launched from that, and they're fleshing out characters that are minor in the books, and they're ... changing some plot things, and they've really made it their own. ...
You're going to see some characters doing things that you're surprised at, which will be fun. So I think the show is going to kind of keep you on your toes, and there's several different storylines that are spinning in the air. ...
I presume one of those would be Sookie (Anna Paquin) and Bill (Stephen Moyer).
Preston: Sookie and Bill, uh huh, and we're going to follow Jason [Ryan Kwanten]. He's going to kind of veer off the path a little bit. And so we'll be watching that. And then Tara [Rutina Wesley] has gotten herself involved with some questionable characters. And then, of course, you're always going to touch back down into the Merlotte's crowd. ...
Tara's now with Maryann, played by Michelle Forbes.
Preston: Oh, yes. She's going to figure quite prominently this season. ... It's very mysterious, and, I mean, we're still a little confused ... as to what her powers actually are. But, you know, she is a very powerful force.
Will there be deaths?
Preston: Some new characters have been introduced and, you know, it remains to be seen whether they will live or die. That's the thing with being on the show, you just never know: Are you going to make it? Are you going to make it through the season? Especially now that they've departed from the books. Because when I got the job, of course, I read all the books to see if Arlene lives, and she does in the books, but who knows?
http://scifiwire.com/2009/03/true-bloods-carrie-presto.php
True Blood Music Video of the Day: So Contagious by Acceptance
So Contagious by Acceptance LYRICS
thanks cindyds1
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