I Don't Want to Know' the title song for True Blood Season One Episode Ten

I recently did a Season 2 Spoiler show for my Blogtalk radio show, where we looked at what we might know about the upcoming episode by knowing and examining the title song for that episode.

I can't tell you how many emails I received from folks saying they felt so stupid for not realizing that the True Blood episodes were named for songs. It's OK but I thought it might be a good idea to look back at the song, the artist and the lyrics for each of last season's episode title songs.

So let's look back to Season 1, Ep 10 I Don't Want to Know which originally aired: November 9, 2008

"I Don't Want to Know" is from Dr John 1998 album entitled Anutha Zone.

Malcolm John "Mac" Rebennack, Jr. (born November 21, 1940), better known by the stage name Dr. John (also Dr. John Creaux), is an American singer/songwriter, pianist and guitarist whose music combines blues, boogie woogie and rock and roll.
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, his professional musical career began in New Orleans in the 1950s.

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Long before Mac Rebennack emerged as the king of good-times New Orleans grooves, he had crafted a far spookier persona. As Dr. John the Night Tripper on his 1968 debut album, Gris-Gris, he was an emissary from a demimonde of dank Louisiana swamps, mysterious spells and voodoo chicanery. Now, on his new album, Anutha Zone, Dr. John attempts to summon the twilit magic of that earlier era through a surprising collaboration with a host of contemporary British alchemists.

Rolling Stone biography HERE

You can hear the song here

And I don't want to know about evil
Only want to know about love
I don't want to know about evil
Only want to know about love.

Sometimes it gets so hard to listen
Hard for me to use my eyes
And all around the cold is glistening
Making sure it keeps me down to size.

And I don't want to know about evil
Only want to know about love
I don't want to know one thing about evil
Only want to know about love.

I'm waiting for the planes to tumble
Waiting for the towns to fall
I'm waiting for the cities to crumble
Waiting till I see you crawl.

Yes it's getting hard to listen
Hard for us to use our eyes
Cause all around that gold is glistening
Making sure it keeps us hypnotized.

And I don't want to know about evil
I only want to know about love
I don't want to know about evil
Only want to know about love.

I don't want to know anything about evil
Only want to know about love
I don't want to know about evil
Only want to know about love.

True Blood Writer : Chris Offutt

Interesting post about Chris Offutt ( who seems to be quite the accomplished author) and he actually chimes in himself in the thread and says this :

"Hey man. I wrote Episode 7 of True Blood.
Then quit the weird world of Holllywood.
A cool learning experience, but not the place for me.
I suppose going out there is another thing we Kentuckians do when we leave the hills."

You can see more books by Chris here
**He is listed for both episode 7 and 10 "Burning House of Love" and "I Don't Wanna Know"

I turned on HBO on Sunday night to catch the new episode of Entourage. The channel’s new vampire series, True Blood was wrapping up and the final credits rolled. And I was shocked — and thrilled — to see Chris Offutt’s name listed as executive story editor.

I’m not positive, but I think it is indeed that Chris Offutt, the writer from Kentucky who authored No Heroes, The Good Brother, The Same River Twice, and others. According to the Internet Movie Database, the Offutt associated the television show was born in Lexington, Kentucky and is listed as a novelist and short story writer. So it’s gotta be him.

Offutt lived in Rowan County Kentucky, just a few counties over from where I grew up. He signed my copy of Kentucky Straight with a note that “here’s what we Kentuckians do when we leave the hills.”

The opening pages of Offutt’s 2002 memoir, No Heroes, are about returning to those hills in Kentucky after a lengthy absence.

You can go ahead and forget all your preplanned responses to comments about wearing shoes, the movie Deliverance, indoor plumbing, and incest. You don’t have to work four times as hard because the boss expects so little. You don’t have to worry about waiting for the chance to intellectually ambush some nitwit who thinks you’re stupid because of where you’re from.

You won’t hear these words spoken anymore: redneck, hillbilly, cracker, stump-jumper, weed-sucker, ridge-runner. Never again will you have to fight people’s attempts to make you feel ashamed of where you grew up. You are no longer from somewhere. Here is where you are. This is home. This dirt is yours.

I didn’t get a chance to watch that new vampire show. But I have it set to DVR. If True Blood comes anywhere near the quality of Chris Offutt’s books, then it’ll be worth watching.

Read all the posts here :
"http://www.slushpile.net/index.php/2008/09/08/chris-offutt-and-hbo/"

True Blood Episode Ten : 'I don't want to know ' recap from HBO site

Sookie wakes up to find Sam at the foot of her bed - naked - and immediately starts kicking him. Convinced he's the murder after all, she flees to the bathroom, where a moment later, the familiar dog trots in ... then morphs into Sam. After Sookie gets over her astonishment, Sam explains that he's a shapeshifter and can transform into any animal he sees. At first she listens, interested, but as the depth of his lie dawns on her, she becomes angry and sends him away.

Tara, with Sam's $800 in her pocket, meets Miss Jeanette in the woods to have her demon exorcised. After drinking a vial of "snake juice" and rubbing the woman's spit across her face, Tara sees herself appear nearby as a young girl, but with black pupil-less eyes. Miss Jeanette tells her the demon can take any form and gives her a knife to stab the creature, which disappears when the blade touches it, leaving the knife covered in blood. Tara, overcome, falls to the ground weeping out of shock and relief.

In Jason's basement, Amy hooks an IV up to Eddie, who tells her he knows that she plans to kill him. Amy prefers not to accept moral judgment from a vampire, but when she finds the stash of Tru Blood that Jason has been feeding him, she realizes her relationship is at stake. Going upstairs, she tells Jason that she thinks they should be nicer to Eddie, treat him like a pet. The vampire could get Stockholm syndrome and maybe come to love them ...

At Merlotte's, Sam stands on a ladder to hang lanterns for Arlene's engagement party. As she corrects his work, his mind drifts back to his childhood, to the first time that he shifted forms - into the family dog - right in front of his adoptive parents. Terrified, he runs off into the night on all fours.

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Episode Ten ( S1) HBO Recap

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Behind the scenes with True Blood: Tara and Lettie Mae take a drive

Tara and Lettie Mae stop at the De Soto Pharmacy to buy some Pepto on their way back from Mamaw's Mudbugs in Keachi but some how they ended up Canoga Park, California ( note the palm trees )

Favorite quotes from True Blood Episode 10 - I don’t wanna know

Sookie: Shut the fuck up!


Amy: I'm an organic vegan and my carbonic footprint is miniscule.


Jason talking to the mirror: Oh my God, you are even better looking than you were yesterday.


Hoyt to his mother: You know, I plan on having about 6 more beers. And enough tequila to drown a Mexican sea captain, woman.
Magister to Bill:As the humans say, the humans you love more than your own kind, BACK YOUR SHIT DOWN.


Amy:You know what I love about Jason? Everything is just right there on the surface. You never have to wonder what he’s thinking.
Sookie:Yeah, ‘cause he ain’t thinking.

Music from True Blood Episode 10 - I Don't Wanna Know

Song: You Can't Be a Beacon (If Your Light Won't Shine)
Artist: Donna Fargo
Album: The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A.
Scene: Amy is draining Eddie and discovers the empty Tru Blood Bottles

Song: Jesus Rhapsody, Pt. 1
Artist: Preacher And The Saints
Album: Good God! A Gospel Funk Hymnal
Scene: Tara and Lettie Mae go out for crawfish

Song: Summer Memories
Artist: John Mazzei
Album:
Scene: Tara discovers Miss Jeannette working at the drugstore

Song: Hallowed Ground
Artist: I See Hawks in L.A.
Album: Hallowed Ground
Scene: Eddie warns Jason that Amy is a psychopath

Song: Maison Creole
Artist: C.C. Adcock and The Lafayette Marquis
Album:
Scene: Performed live at Arlene and Rene's engagement party

Song: Bleed to Feed
Artist: C.C. Adcock and The Lafayette Marquis
Album:
Scene: Performed live at Arlene and Rene's engagement party


Song: I'm Just A Fool To Care
Artist: C.C. Adcock and The Lafayette Marquis
Album:
Scene: Performed live at Arlene and Rene's engagement party


Song: I'm Ready
Artist: C.C. Adcock and The Lafayette Marquis
Album:
Scene: Performed live at Arlene and Rene's engagement party


Song: Let's Talk It Over
Artist: C.C. Adcock and The Lafayette Marquis
Album:
Scene: Performed live at Arlene and Rene's engagement party


Song: I don't Wanna Know
Artist: Dr. John
Album: The Best of the Parlophone Years
Scene: End Credits

Preview " I Don't Wanna Know" episode 10 aired Nov 9