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Episode 309: “Everything Is Broken”
Premieres August 15
With the ratification of the Vampire Rights Amendment at hand, Nan Flanagan detours to Fangtasia to confront Eric about the Magister’s disappearance. A grief-stricken Russell vows revenge against his foes, vampire and human. Awakening from a slumber, Bill uncovers the truth about Sookie’s true identity. Jason gets unexpected help as he goes up against Felton and Calvin. Sam is distressed by Tommy’s attitude; Tara encounters a new ally and an old tormentor; Hadley introduces Sookie to a new family member; Arlene despairs about her future; Hoyt confronts his true feelings. (Written by Alexander Woo; directed by Scott Winant.)
Remember too tonight we meet Hunter
Casting call:
[HUNTER] 6 years old to play 4. Hadley’s son and Sookie’s nephew. He’s a distressed, scared little boy who, amid tears and confusion, has a telepathic conversation with Sookie at the aquarium. 7 lines (Some in voice over), 1 scene.
[FAMOUS NEWSCASTER] Male, 40s – 50s. Seen on TV, “the most famous newscaster we can get”. 1 speech, 1 scene.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Talk Blood Radio : True Blood Season 3.09 "Everything is broken" LIVE TONIGHT!!!!
Sweet and Deadly by Charlaine Harris
..Sweet and Deadlywas the debut novel of Charlaine Harris, so I now feel like I have read her backwards. It is nice to find the starting point and to see how her writing has changed over the years. It is almost 30 years since this was first published, and it is vastly different from the Southern Vampire Mysteries for which she is best known.
Catherine Linton returned home after the death of both her parents in a car accident. Except, it wasn’t an accident as someone had tampered with their car, and, although she hasn’t realized it yet, Catherine won’t rest until the person responsible has had what is due to them.
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True Blood' Saturdays: 'You killed my Cooter!' LA Times
Wow.
Some of you REALLY disagreed with me that last week's "True Blood" episode was stuck in the mud and not going anywhere. I heard from you in comments, in e-mail and every other possible way. One of you even wrote a blog post about how stupid I was!
I'm not complaining; I love this kind of response. And it must be said that it's fun to argue like this about the show, about what it is and what it should be. Keep sending me those thoughts because you guys are smart and passionate fans of this show, and it's always fun to read just what it is that you think, even when you fiercely disagree with me. That said, let's toss it to you guys and see if you can change my mind on the ultimate worth of last week's episode.
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True Blood’s Marshall " Tommy" Allman on Alan Ball
As Tommy, the impoverished younger brother to Sam (Sam Trammell) on True Blood, Marshall Allman plays a shapeshifting character who’s still licking wounds from a family that forced him into dogfighting. Talking to Allman himself, however, is the furthest thing from a grim experience. The hilarious 26-year-old called up Movieline this week to chat about getting in shape, the tabloid treatment of his former Prison Break costar Wentworth Miller, and the lengths Mad Men showrunner Matthew Weiner went to during Allman’s guest appearance.
You’ve been done with shooting this season for a while now, right?
Oh yeah, man. I’ve got a beard and long hair and everything.
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True Blood Music Video of the Day: Body Control
Body Control - Sookie (True Blood)
Thanks, Lawliettte
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
Vampires: Once Bitten
This summer, how many times have you been asked: Are you Team Jacob or Team Edward? Team Bill or Team Eric? Honestly, I'm Team Dracula.
At the risk of alienating the female population of the world, I still think the original Dracula -- the broody, moody, mysterious titular character of Bram Stoker's literary classic -- is the quintessential vampire. He may be a distillation of European folklore and the sadistic 15th Century Romanian prince Vlad Tepes, but as pop culture anti-heroes go, Dracula set the standard. Think of Bella Lugosi in 1931's Dracula or Gary Oldman when he reprised the role in 1992.
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Ever wanted to go to Harvard and study vampire literature?: The Vampire in Literature and Film ENGL E-212 The Vampire in Literature and Film
The vampire is everywhere in popular culture—in novels such as the Anita Blake and Sookie Stackhouse series, young adult literature like The Twilight Saga, television series such as Buffy The Vampire Slayer, True Blood, Ultraviolet, and The Vampire Diaries, as well as short fiction, comic books, graphic novels, and films. Yet the vampire myth has existed for thousands of years, and has been widely used by writers as a vehicle for addressing a host of provocative topics. How can we account for the popularity, adaptability, and unique appeal of the vampire figure? With what fears and fantasies in the human psyche does it resonate? In terms of the literary genre, how do we classify these increasingly diverse works? The course explores the many aspects of this phenomenon, from its origins in the gothic tradition to its recent incarnation as urban fantasy and paranormal romance. Readings include the early vampire stories of John Polidori, Lord Byron, Bram Stoker, and Sheridan LeFanu; and the more recent fiction of Anne Rice, Charlaine Harris, Laurell K. Hamilton, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Elizabeth Kostova, Stephenie Meyer, and Seth Grahame-Smith. Films are viewed after class, and theoretical works by Freud, Auerbach, and others assist us in our investigations. (4 credits)
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True Blood vs the Sookie Stackhouse novels - NOT! according to Charlaine Harris !
Two people recently posted on Charlaines board
...I can't put down the Southern Vampire novels. I am addicted! I watched the first few episodes of True Blood at the urging of my best friend and mother, and let me tell ya, Sundays can't come quick enough!! I then realized there was a whole series of books as well! I love them all, I especially like how the TV show and books are just different enough to keep me interested in both. I am more a fan of reading, out of habit, I can pick a book up and get lost for hours. But the show is so good too! I am always a fan of mystery/supernatural/detective novels, and I look forward to picking up Ms. Harris's other novels as well!
Charlaine posted her response this morning :
That's my plan, it's easy to be a fan of both the tv show and the books, though sometimes it can be a bit confusing.
Charlaine Harris
The Vampire Chronicles: A Conversation With The Passage Author Justin Cronin
A few weeks ago I got on the phone with The Passage author Justin Cronin to talk about his 766 page (first of three volumes!) contribution to the vampire cannon. Despite the current obsession with blood suckers, Cronin insists the draw of the genre is old as bones. The Passage is no Twilight or True Blood. Cronin's vampires (or virals, as he calls them) don't sparkle in the sun or fall in love; they hide in the dark and rip their victims in half. Makes for a lively conversation.
One of the most haunting aspects of the book is how plausible the doomsday scenario is, from the military's involvement in creating the virals, to the way the civilian world collapses after the creatures escape from the compound and take over. What kind of research did you do?
Every writer needs a lawyer and a doctor, and I don't mean just to write your will and give you drugs when you have a cold. But as research, people you can ask questions to who can steer you even further down the road to get more help. I did every kind of research for this book, and I also traveled every mile of the book. I made sure that I physically occupied all the spaces that my characters occupied. I really made sure that it was all very authentic American landscape because that's the kind of writer I am, and because the book was also very much about the North American continent in this depopulated state that's being experienced by people for the first time -- in some ways like the first settlers almost. One of the great subjects of American literature is the initial encounter with the wild openness of the continent. And my characters were going to have that experience so I wanted to be as authentic with it as I could.
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Peru battles rabid vampire bats after 500 people bitten
Health workers have given rabies vaccine to more than 500 people who have also been attacked.
Some experts have linked mass vampire bat attacks on people in the Amazon to deforestation.
BBC-The rabies outbreak is focused on the community of Urakusa in the north-eastern Peruvian Amazon, close to the border with Ecuador. The indigenous community appealed for help after being unable to explain the illness that had killed the children.
The health ministry said it had sent three medical teams to treat and vaccinate people who had been bitten.
Most of the affected population had now been vaccinated, it said, although a few had refused treatment.
Vampire bats usually feed on wildlife or livestock, but are sometimes known to turn to humans for food, particularly in areas where their rainforest habitat has been destroyed.
Some local people have suggested this latest outbreak of attacks may be linked to the unusually low temperatures the Peruvian Amazon in recent years.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Alexander Skarsgård interview: True Blood lust
Sweden used to be known for peace, Abba and long hours of daylight. These days, from the novels of the late Stieg Larsson to the cult film Let the Right One in, its dark side appears to be taking over the world. And in Alexander Skarsgård, who stars as the 1,000-year-old Viking vampire Eric Northman in the American drama series True Blood – soon to start its second series on Channel 4 – it has an actor who has brought a new level of cool to the vampire genre. Tall, blond and beautiful, Skarsgård mixes sex, danger and laconic humour in a way that sets femoral pulses racing. read on
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