Alexander Sakrsgard Interview with Interview Magazine

Out of the Swedish mist came Alexander Skarsgard, the evil, increasingly nuanced vampire leader Eric Northman of True Blood. He sucks blood; he stars in Lady Gaga's video for "Paparazzi" as an abusive, ill-fated boyfriend; he gets recognized by fans on the street over the course of our interview.


MIGUEL ENAMORADO: Hi Alex, how are you?

ALEXANDER SKARSGÅRD: Hey Miguel, I'm good, how are you doing?

REBECCA SINN: Where are you?

SKARSGÅRD: I'm in Veras, California. Are you guys in New York?

ENAMORADO: We're in the office while you're probably outside on a beautiful day.

SKARSGÅRD: It's a beautiful day. I'm standing underneath a palm tree.

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Repeat of Stephen Moyer on Tonight Show with Conan Aug 18th

Tuesday, August 18:

Bruno, Stephen Moyer and Cirque Soleil: Zumanity

Wait, repeat ! Enjoy again !

'True Blood' fame propels Everett into spotlight

Our friend, the wonderful Jace Everett will be in Iowa this Friday!

Nashville has a tradition of producing musicians who are, well, not traditional, and yet they find success in the music industry. The names Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Steve Earle come to mind. Jace Everett, 37, hopes that he can become one of them, but if not, he can live with that too.

"I spent most of my life burning bridges," Everett said via phone from his home in Texas. "I am just not interested in trying to be part of the mainstream by changing who I am to fit into it."

Everett feels a special kinship with Nelson, whose album "Red-headed Stranger" was what turned him on to music. "He crosses all the musical borders and unwittingly I have followed that track."

Everett did brush shoulders with the mainstream in 2005 with the recording of his eponymous solo effort, but it left a bad taste in his mouth. "There was a lot of compromise on that album," Everett said.

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Vampire-Con, a zombie soiree and a Serendipity garden party aimed at L.A.'s night creatures

From L.A. Times

Los Angeles, like the rest of the country, may be infested with vampire culture, as evidenced by the "Twilight" juggernaut, "True Blood" and its TV spinoffs, and lots of clubs and societies for bloodsuckers, but it shows no sign of stopping. Angelenos ruing the departure of this year's high-profile Comic-Con will find this weekend ripe for a fantasy fix, with no fewer than four major opportunities welcoming woodland nymphs, drooling zombies and sexy vampires. Between Serendipity's secret garden party, two zombie walks and Vampire-Con, Los Angeles will be crawling with creatures . . . even more than usual, that is.

Friday's Serendipity party focuses on the sweet and sumptuous. At downtown's Madera Design House, a 3,600-square-foot art and design installation, Leila Fakouri and partner Alison Segura premiere a two-day performance-party where patrons are encouraged to interact with a menagerie of characters like the Stilt Circus' Winged Beast and other animal-human hybrids. Set in the whimsical, garden-like décor of the Design House, Fakouri says, "We want people to feel like they are stepping into another world, like Alice in Wonderland." Leaving no sense underwhelmed, the evening includes decadent desserts and drinks (plus vegan creations by Stephen Hauptfuhr), while Dublab's Carlos Niño provides an alter-dimensional soundtrack.

For those who prefer rotting flesh and guttural grunts, the Hollywood Outdoor Cinema (in the old Circuit City parking lot on Sunset Boulevard) kicks off a zombie soiree and screening of the Brit comedy "Shaun of the Dead" at 7 p.m. Saturday. A zombie makeup workshop and fashion show is open to anyone who wants to strut, shuffle and moan-for-brains down the runway. Seth Grahame-Smith, author of "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," will be on site to sign his book, as will S.G. Browne, author of "Breathers." After a group zombie jaunt around the area, the moldy masses will settle down for the screening at 9 p.m. Remarkably, this coincides with another unaffiliated zombie walk in West Hollywood, though organizers listed on the event website ( www.socalzombiewalk.com) have not responded to Times e-mails. Hollywood Outdoor Cinema organizer Ryan Reiter says he hopes the zombie nation can combine forces.

Vampire-Con is the weekend's most sprawling event, a three-day bloodletting that is said to be the first convention of its kind devoted to "vam-pop culture." The brainchild of events producer Wendi Mirabella, (Moondance Events), Vampire-Con starts Friday with a two-day film festival at the New Beverly Cinema, screening classics that include "The Velvet Vampire" and "The Lost Boys" as well as a sneak preview of "Midnight Son," forthcoming from the production team behind "The Blair Witch Project."

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Sookie will be planting her luscious lips all over Eric’s hard body in Sunday’s episode

From Ask Ausiello

Question: How about a hot and juicy True Blood scoop on Sookie and Eric. —Dana
Ausiello: Sookie will be planting her luscious lips all over Eric’s hard body in Sunday’s episode. Hot any juicy enough for you?

True Blood and Personhood

Ben at the 'Institute of Ethics and Emerging Technology' ( not kidding) has written before about True Blood ( read past articles here )

[Contains spoilers.] How far does personhood and the rights associated with it reach across species? True Blood gives us an intelligent exploration of some aspects of this issue, specifically when that other species is perceived as dangerous, cruel, unnatural, and unholy. Unfortunately though, too often even those who support vampire rights refer to them as not being persons, instead emphasizing that they are essentially human or that vampires are a second species deserving of rights. A much more adaptable framework of rights could be built based on emphasizing the characteristics of personhood, such as intelligence and capacity to feel.

The most blatant example of this poor framing is an American Vampire League poster that reads “Vampires were people too.” While it may be reading too much into a humorous promotional poster from HBO to take this as representative of the American Vampire League’s arguments, as elsewhere the AVL site mentions “guaranteeing a basic set of rights for all sentient beings,” there is little emphasis on nonhumans being persons throughout the show. There is much more discussion, for instance, of the extent to which Bill Compton has the characteristics of a human, than the extent to which he has the characteristics of a person. Sookie Stackhouse and Bill joke about the extent to which he has mastered the line between vampire and human, not abomination and person. At least the vampire-hating Fellowship of the Sun understands the importance of personhood when they deny vampires it.

The Darker Side of Personhood

When Sarah Newlin tells Jason Stackhouse that the vampire he watched die wasn’t a person because a person wouldn’t do things such as feed on a human, Jason responds that “my gran and my girlfriend were killed by my best friend, just because he hated vampires, and he was a person.” Jason is correct that his human friend was a person, and the uncomfortable reality is regardless of whether a system of rights is based on species or personhood, some of the people and some of the humans will engage in deplorable acts. Perhaps virtuous individuals are “more” of a person or have more “humanity” than wicked individuals, but they are still people deserving of basic rights. It may be that there are vampires whom we haven’t seen on the series who have grown so twisted in their nests that we would not recognize their warped minds as thinking, but we should be hesitant to make that judgment. The flashbacks of the brutality that Bill was once capable of compared to his current relationship with Sookie serve as a powerful illustration of just how much one can change when given the opportunity of agelessness.

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True Blood Music Video of the Day: Into the fire by Thirteen Senses

'Into The fire' by Thirteen senses
Thanks, stargatergal

Coming soon to True Blood: Sookie and Eric in bed ...

Spoiler ? really don't we know that ???

From TV Guide

Any scoop on True Blood? The season is dragging for me. — Danny
MICKEY: Well, would Sookie and Eric naked in bed together spice things up for you, Danny? You'll see that, and the death — yes, death — of two prominent vampires, before the end of the season.

True Blood's Kristin Bauer and The Lemmings Abri van Straten Are Married in Racine, Wisconsin

Here is Kristin's official wedding press release
I posted it here last week

True Blood's Kristin Bauer and The Lemmings Abri van Straten Are Married in Racine, Wisconsin

Kristin Bauer (HBO's "True Blood," "Seinfeld") and Abri van Straten (guitarist and vocalist with the South African band The Lemmings) were married on August 1 in Racine, Wisconsin on her mother's 45 acre farm. A selection of photos are available upon request.

Racine, Wisconsin (PRWEB) August 12, 2009 -- Kristin Bauer (HBO's "True Blood," "Seinfeld") and Abri van Straten (guitarist and vocalist with the South African band The Lemmings) were married on August 1 in Racine, Wisconsin on her mother's 45 acre farm. The couple, who met in January 2009, honeymooned at Ross' Teal Lake Lodge in a log cabin in the North woods of Wisconsin. The celebrity wedding was photographed by Ari David Rosenthal (www.­arirosenthalphot­ography.com). Additional photos are available upon request.

Bauer grew up in Wisconsin, and moved to Los Angeles and began acting in 1994. In addition to starring in HBO's "True Blood," Bauer has also had roles on "Seinfeld," "Just Shoot Me," "Desperate Housewives," "Everybody Loves Raymond" and "George Lopez," among others. van Straten is a singer, songwriter and classical guitar player of the South African band The Lemmings, who is also releasing a solo record this year.

Additional information about Kristin Bauer can be found at www.kristinbauer.com. Additional information about Abri van Straten can be found at www.abrivanstraten.com.

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Tru: Blood Mixology and cocktail recipes

Everyone loves the vampire series, True Blood, on HBO. It is based on the “Sookie Stackhouse Chronicles” by Charlaine Harris and created for television by Alan Ball. If you haven’t heard, Ball announced at the San Diego Comic Con that HBO will be releasing Tru Blood Beverage, on September 10^th – just in time for the final episode of this season. Tru Blood is a blood orange carbonated drink designed to be bottled like the fictional bloody beverage. According to HBO’s web site, “This blood orange flavored soda is slightly tart, lightly sweet and subtly carbonated. Designed to taste great while matching the appearance of Bill’s favorite drink, the drink pours like a regular soda, but with the standing appearance in a glass is stormy and mysterious.”

The beverage sells for $4/bottle and comes in a 4 pack. Cases may also be purchased from the web site. Already, people are coming up with drink mixes to combine with Tru Blood. Below are five examples of these “special” drinks.

The Fangbanger: ½ ounce of Galliano, 1 ½ ounces of Vodka, 2 ounces of Tru Blood.
Mix vodka and orange juice in a collins glass with ice cubes. Stir well, and float the Galliano on top. Garnish with an orange slice and a maraschino cherry.

Death On The Beach: 1 ½ ounces of Peach Schnapps, 1 ½ ounces of Vodka, 2 ounces of orange juice, 2 ounces of pineapple juice, 2 ounces of Tru Blood.
Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a highball glass filled with ice.

Plasmapolitan: 1 ounce Cointreau, 1 ounce Vodka, 1 dash of fresh lime juice, fill with Tru Blood.
Shake ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with an orange twist.

Dutch Blood: 1 ¼ of Absinthe, fill with Tru Blood. (care of www.slashfood.com)
Just add absinthe to an absinthe cup and top with Tru Blood. Just the right bite to mask the caffeine that powers you through until the first light of dawn.

Undead Experience: 1 part Jagermeister, 1 part Triple Sec, 2 parts Vodka, 1 dash Bitters (Angostura), and fill with Tru Blood.
Shake ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into glass. Very potent.

These are the recipes from the HBO web page :


Meticulously crafted, the Tru Blood Drink is an exact replica of the bottle design as seen on True Blood. The 14oz glass Tru Blood bottle is stained in a rich red, with raised Tru Blood English lettering and matching Japanese Kanji.
This blood orange flavored soda is slightly tart, lightly sweet and subtly carbonated. Designed to taste great while matching the appearance of Bill’s favorite drink, the drink pours like a regular soda, but with the standing appearance in a glass is stormy and mysterious.

Drink Menu:
The Fangbanger - Tru Blood, Vodka
Death on the Beach - Tru Blood, Peach Schnapps, Pineapple Juice, Vodka
Plasmapolitan - Tru Blood

Here are Brian and Andy from Camp Blood doing their taste test and a little mixology ...

Blood Work! "True Blood" video blog 2.7: Taste the rainbow!
by campbloodbuzz

Book Series with Continuing Protagonists

Fromt he blog 'On Writing and Publishing' The author talks about the the Sookie Stackhouse and 'In death " series

These are hard to do. Mostly because the author gets tired of them or the reader does, and they are hard to keep fresh.

1) Sympathetic characters with enough depth in their pasts and personal problems in the present.

2) The characters clashes with each other, what underlying opposite philosophies will continue to clash and be explored.

3) A continuing arc (either personal in the Robb books or personal/plot in the Harris books).

4) Keeping the time period short.

5) Excellent secondary characters (though that might fall under number 1).

6) Heroes (male) that women want in their own lives.

7) The author still likes her characters and world.

Five reasons why I can't get enough True Blood

From the Guardian UK- post your own 5 reasons ! ( remember the UK is not just seeing Season 1)

I thought I didn't like vampire shows – but one bite of True Blood and I was hooked …

Just another pleasant evening in Bon Temps, Louisiana … True Blood

1 I love it because I'm not supposed to

I'm not a vampire person. Lord, no. Vampires are the hobby thing of a specific type of odd-bod. Emo sorts into Buffy box-sets, body-art, Anne Rice conventions and striding about Whitby in flappy coats hoping to see the shipwreck of the Demeter. THESE are Vampire people. People who carve stuff on their person then put pics of it on Bebo – THESE are vampire people. Not me. I tried True Blood because it was created by Alan Ball (Six Feet Under, American Beauty). And by the close of episode one, I was haranguing everyone I could find to watch it, particularly the scene where Sookie Stackhouse and Bill Compton's eyes first meet (lights dim, earth spins on axis, mournful cello score accompaniment, etc.)

By episode four, I was so preoccupied by the idea of vampires "mainstreaming" in the modern world that, when I spotted an insect bite bleeding on my leg one afternoon, my gut reaction was: "Ooh, has someone bled me? … oh, hang on, that's telly." Vampire fans, like the ones I've mocked cruelly above, are welcome to take my churlish words and shove them sideways down my trap.

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True Blood Hunk Alexander Skarsgard in day light

Tons of Alex Skarsgard stuff from Ohlalamag

It does give me a chance to run the 'Gratuitous Alex in shower scene animated gif' again

Alexander Skarsgård is one of my favorite vampires in True Blood. This show is so good that you almost forget that Alexander is an actor and not only he can actually walk in the day light but he also has done several movies and series before True Blood.

First even if I saw the mini series Generation Kill, I did not remember him playing one of the soldiers [source] In fact we even made a post about the show but mostly focusing on real life retired Marine Sergeant Rudy Reyes naked [OhLaLa Rudy Reyes Naked in Generation Kill] Kellan Lutz was also in this series ...

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‘Being Human,’ Where Fashion is Undead

The Moment - NY Times Blog

Much has been made lately of the bloodless rise of vampire chic. “Rarely have monsters looked so sultry — or so camera-ready,” writes Ruth La Ferla, picking up on the generally attractive and well-clad undead of “Twilight,” “True Blood” and “Vampire Diaries.” To wit, a fair number of male models seen in Paris and Milan this season mimicked a pale epicene vampire. But vampires aren’t the only supernatural beings who contend with an eternity of sartorial choices. Witness “Being Human,” a new BBC America series about a vampire, a ghost and a werewolf sharing a flat in Bristol, England. What of the other creatures in this monster mash — what do ghosts and werewolves choose to wear forever? The style conundrums of the undead may be a new field of study, but let’s sinks our teeth into it, shall we?

Touchpaper TV and BBC Mitchell, the vampire, is the hot one. Of course.

In the series, which premiered on July 25, the vampire Mitchell, played by Aidan Turner, is predictably the most handsome of the trio. He favors leather overcoats and fingerless gloves when he’s not wearing the baby-blue scrubs of the hospital where he works. His long thick hair — luscious even — is perpetually slicked back with some sort of gel or perhaps pomade. Happily, undercutting this strangely “Blade”-inspired ensemble is Mitchell’s comforting proclivity for T-shirts over long-sleeved shirts, à la University of Michigan 1999. It’s really George, his werewolf friend, and Annie, his ghostly roomie, who offer a glimpse into the eternal closets of the undead.

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Barbie Goes Vampire

So if we can have Twilight Barbies why not a Eric/Ken Doll ? Someone call Mattel !

Barbie has reached a new level. It was considered a milestone to develop an African-American Barbie doll...well, now they've gone inter-species on us by developing a vampire Barbie! Mattel announced they're coming out with Twilight Barbie dolls. Joy. They've got "Barbie" Bella and "Ken" Edward. Photos of the dolls have been revealed already, and I'm disappointed to not see any pics of them in ski wear. I specifically asked Stephanie Meyer

(Twilight author and doll designer) to dress them in some of those new hemp ski jackets I'm excited about. She sounded super stoked on the idea, but I guess she was just jerkin my chain. So what does a vampire Barbie doll offer? I don't really see how these dolls will be any different from other Barbies, except for the fact that when you rip off the vampire Barbie's head, it grows back. And then it eats you. Have fun kids!

Pre-order 29.95 HERE ( November 1, 2009)

True Blood breaking it's own record with 4.43 million viewers

From TV by the Numbers

Sunday’s episode of True Blood notched 4.43 million viewers, up versus the previous week (and previous series high) when it had 4.27 million. It also had a 2.3/6 (rating/share) with adults 18-49, up a tenth from last week’s 2.2 rating. Note: these numbers are only for the initial airing and don’t include the encore airing.

Will it hit 5 million by the season finale? The show keeps growing, and even its DVD sales are going strong after 11 weeks, and has pushed past 1.2 million units and $42 million in DVD sales in the USA. It’s a pretty phenomenal story for HBO, and the show just keeps getting better. The last couple of weeks were great.

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True Blood Music Video of the Day: Timebomb by Beck

Timebomb by Beck

Thanks SMVGrey