Searching for the Perfect Vampire Anthem

I was also at this Charlaine Harris event and I'm sorry I didn't get to meet "Jeff with one fin" but i did enjoy his post

Recently, my wife and I made our way down to the Houston Public Library to hear a talk with Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels. Now, I am admittedly a bad Goth in that I am as sick of modern vampire fiction as I am of modern vampires. I prefer my nosferatu as blood-bloated corpses mouth-hugging and dry-humping virgins, not as angsty Tolkien elves trying to make friends by looking sad in the corner.

Still, I thoroughly enjoyed Harris' Dead Until Dark and True Blood, the HBO series loosely based upon her books and starring the occasionally naked Anna Paquin. (The amazing music selection by creator Alan Ball is another plus, to be discussed at another time.) The show lacks one aspect of the books, thus far, that I had to ask Harris about: Where, oh where, is her cat-eating vampified version of the King of Rock and Roll, referred to in the novel only as Bubba?

With Elvis Aron Presley turning 72 this month, wherever he really is, I just felt that his noble, if somewhat brain-damaged, fictional counterpart deserved a little advocacy. Well, said Harris point blank, "I can't comment on Bubba showing up on the show," which tells my spider-sense that an appearance may be in the works. Even better, when I followed up the question by asking who she would choose to play Elvis, she answered, without hesitation, "Bruce Campbell, of course."

All I can say is if I can see Bruce Campbell play Vampire Elvis - Bubba Ho-Tep, holla! - I will blow my cable box. Which transitions, however awkwardly, into the subject of vampire music and what is the best vampire anthem?

Skipping the painfully obvious choices, like Concrete Blonde's "Bloodletting" and Bauhaus's "Bela Lugosi's Dead," we consider Sting's ode to Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, "Moon Over Bourbon Street." Or how about a great vampire movie theme song like "Cry Little Sister" from The Lost Boys, or perhaps Rasputina's "Transylvanian Concubine" from the second season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

Read on

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