Vanity Fair’s 2009 Oscar Party- Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer arrive

You can probably find more on Yahoo , New York Post or Vanity Fair

True Blood - Episode 2.05 - Never Let Me Go - Casting Call

This episode begins filming on the 5th March.

[STAN] In his 40s, metro sexual. Godric's lieutenant in Texas, he's a vampire dressed in expensive Western wear. A volatile troublemaker...1 speech & 12 lines, 2 scenes (31)

[ISABEL] In her 30s, an elegant Hispanic vampire, Isabel is Godric's other lieutenant...1 speech & 13 lines, 2 scenes (31)

[GUNNAR] 20's, Viking seen in a flashback to the tenth Century AD, Gunnar is badly wounded and bleeding. Speaking in Old Norse...5 lines, 2 scenes (43)

[HROLF] 20's, Viking seen in a flashback to the tenth Century AD, Hrolf is badly wounded and bleeding. Speaking in Old Norse...4 lines, 2 scenes (43)

[WELL-DRESSED WOMAN] A well-dressed woman with fang scars all over her chest and neck, she comes to the Hotel Carmilla, looking for work. She has no idea that Sookie and Barry can read her every thought...1 speech & 2 lines, 1 scene (16)

[GUY] Another guy at the training camp for vampire hunters, probably overweight and definitely not in good shape, he is a bank teller who can't make it through Boot Camp without collapsing in near tears...1 line, 1 scene (24)

[MAN] 30s to 40s, a patron at Merlotte's, possibly overweight, he's a husband who's busily arguing with his wife, and gripes to Arlene about the poor service.sptv050769..2 lines, 1 scene (37)

[WOMAN] 30s to 40s, a patron at Merlotte's, possibly overweight, she's busily arguing with her husband, and gripes to Arlene about the poor service...2 lines, 1 scene (37)

Source: SpoilerTV

No more Mama and Daddy? No more little sister?

The Sookie, Jessica , Eden photo that surfaced yesterday does seem to be set in the Hamby family living room.

It appears that photo over the fireplace is of Jessica and Eden - this is the best I can do to blow it up behind sookies head ...

Whedon’s World

A new show from the creator of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”

From the New Yorker

Joss Whedon, the creator of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” its spinoff “Angel” (which was co-created with David Greenwalt), “Firefly,” and a new Friday-night show on Fox called “Dollhouse,” has a fan following that is probably more clamorously devoted than that of anyone else in the business. In interviews, he freely discusses his creative process and his frustrations with certain aspects of the entertainment industry, and acknowledges the give-and-take he has with his fans, with whom he communicates far more than famous TV figures usually do. When you look into Whedon’s world—Whedonians have a large footprint on the Web, and there is much information and analysis to take in—the image that comes to mind isn’t of worshippers before an idol but of a chatty gathering of like-minded souls, who have come together to form a community. Which isn’t to say that he isn’t duly idolized: he is, after all, often referred to on Web sites as a god, and there are those who wear T-shirts to comics conventions that say “Joss Whedon Is My Master Now.” Paradoxically—for Whedon is an avowed atheist—what they worship is his questing humanism.

Read on

True Blood Music Video of the Day: Circus by Britney Spears

Circus by Britney Spears [LYRICS]

thanks Rknight09

True Blood Season 2 Ep 2 'Keep This Party Going' on IMDb

True Blood Season 2 on IMDb so far this is what they have on this True Blood Season Two: Episode Two "Keep This Party Going "

I was tickled pink to read in a recent interview with Alan Ball that they are on purpose planting misinformation about True Blood Season 2.

I think that is terrific and it will keep us all on our toes and NONE of us will ever for sure know until we are seeing that episode with our own eyes ...

This is what I have on Episode two who knows if any of it is correct or maybe just part of it is corrrect! Either way it sure is fun.

* Note Michael Lehmann also directed these 2 episode from Season One of TB.
The Fourth Man in the Fire (2008) TV episode
Escape from Dragon House (2008) TV episode

and Brian Buckner wrote the episodes below for TB Season One; so this writer and director worked together on last season's Escape from Dragon House, Episode 4.

Plaisir d'amour (2008) TV episode (written by)
Escape from Dragon House (2008) TV episode (written by)

Full cast and crew for: "True Blood" Keep This Party Going (2009)

Directed by Michael Lehmann

Writing credits Alan Ball(creator)

Charlaine Harris (novels)

Brian Buckner written by

Episode Cast (in credits order)

Stephen Moyer... Bill Compton

Sam Trammell... Sam Merlotte

Ryan Kwanten... Jason Stackhouse

Rutina Wesley ... Tara Thornton

rest of cast listed alphabetically:

Annalise Basso...Eden ( pictured at right with Anna )

Ashley Jones... Daphne

Anna Paquin... Sookie Stackhouse

Cheryl White... Mrs. Hamby

Episode Crew

Produced byAlan Ball.... executive producer

Stunts
A.J. Dunn.... stunts
Heidi Pascoe.... stunt double: Anna Paquin

Costume and Wardrobe
Department Lorie Shew... costumer

Series Cast

Brendan Patrick Connor... Man with Beer

Ken Kobus... Man at Bar

David Lewis... Teenage Boy

Jessica Stroup... Sorority Girl

Series Crew

Alan Ball creator

Production Management Bill Johnson.... production manager (2007)

Visual Effects byKristen Branan.. head of production: Zoic Studios (2007)

Steven Meyer... compositing supervisor (2007-2009)

Casting Department Anne Massey .... casting: New Orleans (2007)

Music Department Alyson Vidoli .... music coordinator (2007)

Transportation Department Beverly Reeves.... driver (2007) (uncredited)

True Blood goes to the Academy Awards: where does Anna Paquin keep her Oscar ?

Tonight is the Academy Awards and I've seen a number of articles where they have asked previous winners where they keep their statues ( I don't know why ??) but here is Anna's answer.

Academy Award tonight 5pt/8et more info here a score card below. Enjoy!

Another thing, where do they stick their statuettes? Angelina's mom has her Supporting for "Girl, Interrupted" . . . Willem Dafoe's Supporting for "Platoon" stays in his office: "I don't even keep autographed photos of myself with celebrities at home. I want to forget that aspect of my work" . . . Russell Crowe's got his in his Australian chicken barn. He says "it increases the size of the eggs my hens lay" . . . Dame Maggie Smith stashes hers "on a fireplace in my sitting room so I can see them" . . . Anna Paquin keeps hers in back of a closet near her boots: "I don't want people to see it. It embarrasses me."

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Ask Dallas: Why is Jessica wearing the 'Sookie sex with Bill in the graveyard' dress in this photo ?

The mystery of the yellow sun dress...

Now that is a very good question.
Thanks Object Desire for noticing that ...maybe she isn't in costume and wardrobe just had that laying around ...???

Yes, it is a little creepy.

Sookie in Episode 8 ( above left) and Jessica in S2 Ep 2 set photo ( above right ).

Well, well Sookie and the Hamby girls ( Jessica and Eden)

Yes, this would be Sookie ( still with that Rene black eye, curly hair and wearing the outfit we saw her in in those other leaked set photos) and Jessica with her human little sister, Eden.

I'm guessing that is the Hamby home behind them ...very interesting. Must be filming a flashback.

Thanks RJ!

From IMDb for Annalise Basso ( Eden)

Photo date: 28 January 2009 Annalise Basso, Debra Ann Woll and Anna Paquin on the set of "True Blood"

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1647348224/nm2399383

True Blood Music Video of the Day

Addicted by Saving Abel [lyrics]
Thanks thellou

("Goodness" * Dallas fans herself *)

Ask Dallas : what language is Eric speaking ?

I like that people feel comfortable enough with me to ask questions that they think are stupid -even though the truth is they aren't stupid questions at all....

Question : "I want to ask you what exactly is the language that Eric's uses?"

This was my answer ...

From Vikings wikia.com

Old Norse is the North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300.

It evolved from the older Proto-Norse in the 8th century and evolved into the modern North Germanic languages after the Viking Age.

Most speakers of Old Norse dialects spoke the Old East Norse dialect in what are present-date Denmark and Sweden. In texts which date from Medieval Icelandic time, writers wrote with Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian dialects. These dialects derive from the Old West Norse dialect.

No clear geographical boundary exists between the two dialects. Old East Norse traits were found in eastern Norway and Old West Norse traits were found in western Sweden.

Some consider Old Gutnish, sometimes included in Old East Norse because it is the least known, a third dialect since it shares traits with both Old West Norse and Old East Norse and also has developed its own.

The Icelandic Gray Goose Laws states that Swedes, Norwegians, Icelanders and Danes spoke the same language, dǫnsk tunga. Speakers of the eastern dialect, spoken in Sweden and Denmark, would have said dansk tunga (Danish tongue) or norrønt mál (Nordic language) to name their language.

Gradually, Old Norse splintered into the modern North Germanic languages: Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish.

Modern Icelandic is closest to Old Norse. Written modern Icelandic derives from Old Norse/modern Icelandic phoneme system. Contemporary Icelandic-speakers can understand written Old Norse, which differs slightly in spelling as well as semantics and word order.

In the True Blood TV show Alex Skarsgard is just speaking his native Swedish but in the books Charlaine Harris describes Eric's language as being a very old Viking language that probably would have been spoken over 1,000 years ago.

Alexander speaks Swedish( his own native language) as Eric in True Blood

Examples from episode 4 and episode 12

Eric speaks in Sookie Books

"Eric cursed in a language that probably hadn’t been spoken out loud in centuries" bk8

"He shouted something in a language I'd never heard, and he closed his own eyes" bk4

"Eric said, smiling. He had a slight accent. English was not his second language, of course; it was maybe his twenty-fifth." bk 5

Updates Sookie book and short story timeline

Special thanks to Rflatstone and the wiki girls for sticking with me this week as we refined and updated the books and short story timeline. This may not look like much, but it took hours and hours. I will post the list and my notes from the research.

Let me know if you see anything we missed ...

Book Timeline
(this is the Sookieverse timeline for all 9 books and short stories with Sookie)

1. Dead until Dark- between April 4th and June 21st 2004
2. Living Dead in Dallas - Early September 2004
3. Club Dead -December 1-13th 2004
4. Dead to the World -First weeks of January 2005
* "Fairy Dust" from Powers of Detection - Late January 2005
5. Dead as a Doornail - End of January 2005
* "Dracula Night" from Many Bloody Returns -February 8th 2005
* "One Word Answer" from Bite- Late February 2005
6. Definitely Dead - the week of March 20th 2005
* "Lucky" from Unusual Suspects - late April early May 2005
7. All Together Dead- week of September 19th 21- 2005 (Shortly after Hurricane Katrina)
8. From Dead to Worse - very last weeks of October 2005
* "Gift Wrap" from Wolfsbane and Mistletoe -Christmas Day, December 25th 2005.
9. Dead and Gone - Charlaine has said it takes place in January 2006

Book Time Line Notes

1. Dead until Dark- between April 4th and June 21st 2004
Spring is mentioned and Gran says they are on Daylight savings time. The first day of daylight saving time was April 4 that year and the first day of summer was 22nd of June.

2. Living Dead in Dallas - September 2004
Sookie says it's almost fall pg 5 and it's was unbearably hot in Dallas --sounds like early September in TX.

3. Club Dead -December 1-13th 2004
We know the book opens on that night in December and then there are a certain number of days that Bill is missing. When Alcide shops for Christmas presents, it is 2 Saturdays (2 weeks) until Christmas.

4. Dead to the World -First weeks of January 2005
Sookie finds Eric on New Year's Day and he's at her house a couple of weeks.

* "Fairy Dust" from Powers of Detection - Late January 2005
Spring night, we know she meets Claude before Dead as a Doornail

5. Dead as a Doornail - End of January 2005
Book opens on January 25th , the first full moon because Jason turns for the first time. Sookie says it's the end of January on pg 3, 5 and 51. Eric says to Sookie 4 pages from the end of the book that he needs to hire her in early March.

* "Dracula Night" from Many Bloody Returns -February 8th 2005
Dracula Night is February 8th and the Fangtasia invitation Sookie receives has that date for the party. I don't know why according to the CH bibliography the story is listed in October.

* "One Word Answer" from Bite- Late February 2005
Trimming bushes with Bubba at night, it's 62 degrees at night and it's been 4 weeks since Hadley's murder ( Quinn did the hierarchical wedding in January)

6. Definitely Dead - March 21st - March 31st 2005
It's been about 6 weeks since Hadley's murder. Spring begins on March 21st and Claudine says it's March. Sookie attends Queen's Spring Ball.

* "Lucky" from Unusual Suspects - late April -early May 2005
Sookie says Amelia has been living with her for about a month

7. All Together Dead- week of September 19th 21- 2005 (Shortly after Hurricane Katrina)
Sookie says it's the 3rd week of September on pg 5.

8. From Dead to Worse - very last weeks of October 2005
Sookie says its October on page 32/ Portia's wedding was moved from the 2nd Saturday in April until late October because of Caroline's illness/ Sookie talks about Halloween.

* "Gift Wrap" from Wolfsbane and Mistletoe -Christmas Day, December 25th 2005
Preston comes to Sookie on Christmas Day.

9. Dead and Gone - January 2006
Charlaine has said it takes place in January 2006

Charlaine Harris interview Pt 5 & 6 of the Arizona Poisoned Pen Bookstore Interview

I have posted part one ( videos one and two ) and part two ( videos three and four) of the series of Youtube videos from an interview with Charlaine Harris by Barbara Peters of Poisoned Pen Press and Bookstore, Arizona.

I believe this interview took place in May of 2008.

Part 5 and 6

Alexander Skarsgard Vman interview

Very nice interview with Alex Skarsgard in Vman magazine
http://www.vman.com/

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Laissez les bons temps rouler ( Let the good times roll) it's Mardi Gras !

The terms "Mardi Gras" (mär`dē grä) and "Mardi Gras season" in English, refer to events of the Carnival celebrations, ending on the day before Ash Wednesday. From the French term "Mardi Gras" (literally "Fat Tuesday"), the term has come to mean the whole period of activity related to those events, beyond just the single day, often called Mardi Gras Day or Fat Tuesday.

Yes, the town Sookie lives means 'good times' in French (Good Times = Bon temps)

You can watch a Mardi Gras parade live in a few minutes !

Tune in live and catch all the Uptown Mardi Gras krewes as they roll down St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans.

Next webcast: Catch the Krewes of Iris and Tucks Saturday, February 21. First parade rolls at 11 a.m.

Launch live parade webcam: Tune in now!
Full Schedule of events HERE

http://www.mardigras.com/

To learn more about Mardi Gras in Louisiana :

http://www.nola.com/
http://louisianatravel.com/

Also a great site with history, recipes etc http://www.louisianacajun.com/index.asp

Dialectically (French or Cajun) : "lay-say lay bawn tawmp ru-lay" or "less-say lay bawn tawmp ru-lay"

Vrykolakas The Bloodless Vampire

UFO digest writes about the Greek Vampire!

The Vrykolakas, the Greek version of the Vampire

In the west, we tend to categorize everything. We try to come up with rules and regulations that define what something is, sometimes to desperate lengths and great frustration when something just doesn’t fit.

Mythical creatures are no exception. We view the vampire as a blood drinking undead human, and a werewolf as a living human that can take a wolf-like form and ravage the population like an animal. In Eastern Europe, the homeland of most folklore relating to the vampire and werewolf, these lines can become hopelessly blurred, and the creatures can become almost the same.

Take the vrykolakas, the Greek version of the Vampire. While most vampire legends tend to involve drinking human blood as part of the mythos, in this case, it does not. The vrykolakas comes into being simply after living a sacrilegious life, or after an excommunication or burial in ground that was not consecrated, or most ominously eating mutton that had been previously tasted by a werewolf.

Read on http://www.ufodigest.com/news/0209/vrykolakas.php

True Blood Music Video of the Day

Make U Move" by Danielia Cotton. ( Danielia is pretty cool, NPR interview here )
Thanks to Thellou