Loving True Blood Blogtalk Radio talk to a Dead and Gone book reviewer & chat with fans from True Blood HBO forum and IMDb ( Episode 15)

OMG -what a show tonight !!

We will have on Tara Cantor, who is a book reviewer and she has already read and reviewed Book 9 , Dead and Gone. She will take you calls and answer your questions about the book . She maybe can't tell you everything but you can ask away ....

TONIGHT: 9:00 pm central time, chat room opens at 8:45pm

If you don't want spoilers don't listen to first 15 minutes!

Listen to last nights show



Then we will have a great discussion with the True Blood HBO forum and IMDb fan folks .... and we want to make them feel very , very welcome !

Special thanks to luvvampirebill, eileen, piperpals, beadrbop, lindsayjo, vikingvamplover, Selena and Hera !

Tonight we speak to folks from the forum and IMDB and you can find them here !

HBO True blood forum and IMDb True Blood

Vampires in the TV hit True Blood enjoy synthetic blood but ...

New Zealand Herald writes again about the invention of the new synthetic blood that is being reported in UK papers but they use this very interesting graphic for their article.

This is yet another shot from the 'Bill /Sookie in front of Bill's house' photo shoot that we've seen so many versions of in the past 6 months, BUT this one seems to have been photo- shopped onto an image of Gran's ( and Sookie's house) in the backgound.
Here is the NZ Herald article and here is the post where we looked at these photos.

Here are the many different photos weve seen http://lovingtruebloodindallas.blogspot.com/2009/01/say-cheese-and-say-cheese-again.html

Could the Great Revelation be just around the corner ?

Isn't this the precursor to the Sookie Stackhouse books and True Blood ? This is the event that the vampires use "to come out of the coffin."


via The Independent

A major research project is to be announced this week that will culminate in three years with the first transfusions into human volunteers of “synthetic” blood made from the stem cells of spare IVF embryos. It could help to save the lives of anyone from victims of traffic accidents to soldiers on a battlefield by revolutionising the vital blood transfusion services, which have to rely on a network of human donors to provide a constant supply of fresh blood.

The multimillion-pound deal involving NHS Blood and Transplant, the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service and the Wellcome Trust, the world’s biggest medical research charity, means Britain will take centre stage in the global race to develop blood made from embryonic stem cells. The researchers will test human embryos left over from IVF treatment to find those that are genetically programmed to develop into the “O-negative” blood group, which is the universal donor group whose blood can be transfused into anyone without fear of tissue rejection.

This blood group is relatively rare, applicable to about 7 per cent of the population, but it could be produced in unlimited quantities from embryonic stem cells because of their ability to multiply indefinitely in the laboratory.

Read on ( this is FOR REAL)

Thanks wparkhom!

Michelle Pfeiffer To Join True Blood?

Michelle Pfeiffer, who is starring in the soon-to-be-released Stephen Frears' film, Chéri, is rumored to be in talks to join the cast of the HBO vampire drama, True Blood.

Ask Ausiello at Entertainment Weekly revealed the following:

Alan Ball and Co. are currently talking to “name” actresses to appear in just one episode this season (and more in future ones). The character? No less than Sophie-Anne, the 500-year-old queen of the Louisiana vampires.

If everything goes according to plan, Michelle Pfeiffer could be landing that role, and man could that be awesome!

Thanks to http://furious-oracle.livejournal.com/

True Blood Music Video of the Day: Freaks onleash by Korn

Freaks on a leash by Korn LYRICS

Thanks NocturnaRaven

Things I've learned from True Blood (10)

New vampires don't like True Blood.

Lettie Mae owes Terra $445.

Maenads have nice cars and homes.

Andy is surrounded by assholes and morons.

I learned that while Sam is taller than Bill but that Bill's pants were too long on Sam.

'Dead and Gone' No, not that one, the one with Justin Timberlake!

T.I. - Dead And Gone ft. Justin Timberlake


Charlaine doesn't mind at all that she shares the " Dead and Gone " stage with Justin Timberlake !

She even says "Justin Timberlake and I have a deep mystical connection. "Charlaine Harris. I think we can surmise that Ms Harris is a JT fan....

Justin Timberlake and T.I. from the album Paper Trail

The Ten Best Vampire Movies of the Modern Era from Video Hounds

From Video Hound here are the top 5, I still need to see 'Near Dark' and it's sure amazing how 'Let the Right One in' has zoomed to the top of Vampire movie list.

With Underworld: Rise of the Lycans opening earlier this year, Let the Right One In winning awards right and left (but getting snubbed by the Oscars), and every casting rumor about the Twilight sequel, The Twilight Saga's New Moon, turning the internet into a message board-posting rampage, blood-sucking creatures of the night are the "in creature" for 2009. A few years ago it was all about zombies and maybe Benicio Del Toro can bring it back to werewolves with The Wolf Man, but we are undeniably in the year of the bat.

5. Cronos (Guillermo Del Toro, 1993)

If you're late to the Del Toro party, having learned about the great Mexican director from films like Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy II: The Golden Army, do yourself a favor and go back and revisit arguably his two best movies - The Devil's Backbone and Cronos. The latter is his debut and co-stars the big red guy himself, Ron Perlman. The film is about an antique dealer who finds an ancient device that essentially turns him into a vampire. Moody, atmospheric, and very dark, Cronos clearly heralded the arrival of a talented new filmmaker when it premiered at Toronto in 1993. A decade-and-a-half later, Guillermo Del Toro has a loyal following and is prepping to do The Hobbit. Check out where it began with one of the best vampire movies ever made.

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4. Fright Night (Tom Holland, 1985)

If you had asked me to write this list when I was thirteen, Fright Night would have been at the top. Heck, if you had asked me to list the best movies ever made, Fright Night might have been at the top. I loved this '80s action/adventure/comedy flick, a perfect example of the kind of tongue-in-cheek horror they made more often in the era of Ghostbusters and Gremlins. Come to think of it, why DON'T they make as many mainstream horror comedies anymore? It's weird. Watching it now, what I love about Fright Night is its recognition of the fans. It's a film about a horror movie fan made by horror fans for horror movie fans. The adoration of the genre comes through in every frame. Director Tom Holland was chosen for Showtime's Masters of Horror primarily for Fright Night (secondarily for Child's Play and not at all for The Temp).

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3. Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992)

Yes, Keanu Reeves is goofy and no one likes to think anything positive about Winona Ryder any more, but before you knee-jerk response to this choice, check it out again. Coppola's Dracula is a grandiose spectacle of a film, which is exactly what this story demands. Over-the-top set pieces with ridiculous dialogue not only work for this kind of material, there's no other way to pull it off successfully. Gary Oldman gives one of the best performances of his career, and we'll take Anthony Hopkins as Van Helsing over that Oscar host any day of the week. But the real key to the mesmerizing charm of Bram Stoker's Dracula is there in the design. The bloody, insane, gorgeous design.

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2. Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)

I hate it when critics and viewers try to claim all of a certain kind of horror movie is the same. There is a wide variety within the subgenres of "zombie movie," "ghost story," "slasher flick," etc. and snobby people often lump things together. As if this list hasn't proven the unpredictability within the "vampire movie" already, take the case of Let the Right One In. Tomas Alfredson's riveting adolescent drama couldn't be much more dissimilar from the over-the-top style of #3 or the action extravaganza of #1. Where most movies about bloodsuckers are action or horror flicks, I would almost call Let the Right One In a vampire drama. It's a beautiful dissection of adolescence and longing for a true relationship, even if it's with a vampire.

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1. Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow, 1987)

It's been twenty years since Kathryn Bigelow rocked our worlds with Near Dark and yet it is still one of the very first movies I think of when I hear the word "vampire", modern era or otherwise. Near Dark is a masterful combination of varying themes and ideas from vampire mythology as a whole, playing off both the allure and danger of being a creature of the night. Who hasn't thought about being sucked into a more exciting world than their own? Face it. Being a vampire would be pretty cool. Hanging with Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen all night at biker bars? Sign me up. Near Dark is a Western/horror/biker movie hybrid that feels like nothing else in the subgenre of vampire flick. It stands alone. It is weird, unusual, riveting, action-packed, romantic, old-fashioned, gory, clever, and exceptional. Near Dark rules.

True Blood : Cutting Edge Camera Work

Interesting article in American Cinematographer magazine, it can be a little technical but it's fascinating.

True Blood
by Jay Holben

When writer/director Alan Ball hired Checco Varese, AMC to shoot the pilot for HBO’s horror fantasy True Blood, the cinematographer spent the next several nights “doing my homework,” he says. “I watched everything I could that was on TV at 10 p.m. I flipped to one channel, and it looked fantastic; the show was moody and had lots of camera energy and a bit of a blue tone. Then I flipped the channel, and that show looked great, but it looked just like the first one. Then I flipped again, and again, and saw that most of the shows looked the same. That’s not the case now — there are a lot of great shows with a lot of great looks — but at the time, they all looked the same to me! I thought True Blood merited a very different look, something sweaty, hot and sexy, which is what Louisiana feels like. Alan, [production designer] Suzuki Ingerslev and I decided to make it a saturated show, with red reds and green greens.”

Another key component of the look is humidity, which had to be artificially created for the Los Angeles-based production. “When you’re in a very humid climate, there isn’t any dust,” notes Varese. “So whenever we shot an exterior, I made sure every inch was wet down.” Fire hoses were used to wet down the vegetation in the background and Hudson sprayers were used to saturate the closer greens. “I was obsessed with that detail because I think it really refines the look,” says Varese. “When you see those details in the trees in the background and the sheen in the foreground, it really looks like Louisiana. The constant wetness was tough on the actors, but it really enhanced the look.”

Set in the sleepy town of Bon Temps, La., True Blood is based on Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire Series, which was begun in 2001 with the publication of Dead Until Dark. The invention of synthetic blood has enabled vampires to integrate themselves into human society, but the transition has not been smooth. Tensions in town reach a boiling point when a comely local, Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), takes up with a vampire, Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), and Sookie’s associates and loved ones begin turning up dead.

Read on here

True Blood goes to the movie : Anna Paquin stars in Castle in the Sky

Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta (1986) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_in_the_Sky

Director : Hayao Miyazaki

Release Date : 2 August 1986 (Japan) Anna did the English Disney English audio dub in 1998

Genre : Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Cast : Mayumi Tanaka as Pazu (voice), James Van Der Beek as Pazu (2003) (voice: English version), Anna Paquin as Sheeta (2003) (voice: English version), Keiko Yokozawa as Sheeta (voice), Kotoe Hatsui as Dola (voice), Cloris Leachman as Dola (2003) (voice: English version), Mark Hamill as Muska (voice: English version), Minori Terada as Muska (voice), Richard Dysart as Uncle Pomme (2003) (voice: English version), Fujio Tokita as Uncle Pomme (voice), Jim Cummings as General (voice), Ichirô Nagai as Shogun Mouro (voice), John Hostetter as Boss (voice: English version), Hiroshi Ito as Oyakata (voice), Machiko Washio as Okami, Mrs. Daffy (voice)

You gotta love this plot text !

Plot : A infantile boy furthermore a gal as well as a anathema bright must race hostile pirates furthermore unfamiliar agents inside a pursuit as a legendary hanging castle.

True Blood Music Video of the Day :Ice by Sarah McLachlan

Ice by Sarah McLachlan LYRICS

Let's look at the other e-book reader, the Kindle from Amazon and we would buy a Sookie book first !

Fancy that, 'Words from Dancing Fool blog' just got her new kindle and what's the firsts book she downloaded ? A Sookie Stackhouse book !

The Kindle is from Amazon and like the Sony Reader (we looked at it yesterday ) you can wirelessly download books, magazines and newspapers and read them on the device.

You can buy a Kindle 2 here

There is nothing like curling up with a good book, but these devices are fantastic if you commute, travel, live in a small place, require large print materials etc You can instantly have access to 500 thousand books -now how would you carry them around and where would you them? I love e-readers and I love books.

Benefits for e-book readers: Books are cheaper ( instantly buy any NYT book for $9.99)

Portable: Slim: Just over 1/3 of an inch, as thin as most magazines, weight: At 10.2 ounces
easy to store

Storage: Take your library with you; holds over 1,500 books

You can access them anytime anywhere: Wireless: 3G wireless lets you download books right from your Kindle, anytime, anywhere; no monthly fees, service plans, or hunting for Wi-Fi hotspots

Easy to Read : Changeable font size is GREAT for those with eye sight issues. Improved Display: Reads like real paper; now boasts 16 shades of gray for clear text and even crisper images.Read-to-Me: With the new text-to-speech feature, Kindle can read every newspaper, magazine, blog, and book out loud to you, unless the book is disabled by the rights holder

Saves trees for paper, water and other natural resources

From Words from a dancing....
I finally got a Kindle2. I have been looking at the Kindles since they first came out, but I kept putting off getting one for a variety of reasons. The first generation ones were a little bulky and new technology, which is always scary, and I am always broke, which was another powerful inducement to wait. When the K2s came out, though, I had a much harder time waiting. They are sleek and many of the complaints early users had were gone. I went so far as to place one in my amazon cart several times, but I didn't get one until Saturday of last week.

It came Wednesday. It's already one of my favorite pieces of technology. I have read two books on it and am about halfway through a third. I have about 25 books downloaded onto it including some of my very favorite rereads. Almost all of the books I've found so far have been free, too, since they are old enough to be out of copyright protection. It's amazing.

There are so many people and sites out there putting out literature for free. I find that to be a wonderful thing. It's like having a huge free bookstore with thousands of titles for the asking. Granted, the latest best-sellers are not free, but that's not a big deal to me. I pay less to download the ones of those I'm interested in that I would pay to buy them from my local bookstore. Plus, I can get them when I want them, something I can't always say about my local book store.

I've also noticed that with my Kindle I read much faster. I don't know why that should be true, but it is. It may be because of the adjustable print size or the ease of use, but even though I've always been a fast reader, I'm really flying now. The day I got my Kindle, I read the 8th Sookie Stackhouse novel and half of a Lauren Willig book, too. I'm now working on rereading Beloved.

Read on here

Did March Madness or maybe the True Blood characters crash Twitter Friday night??

One response to the techcrunch article about the Twitter outage was:

When twitter went down, it was crazy. I picked up the phone and called a friend, and guess what, it worked! I heard their voice and everything!! Then I hung up and turned to my wife and spoke real words, and our conversation led to dinner and a movie. What a crazy night it was without Twitter.

(haha)

Everyone’s always raving about the huge popularity of Twitter given its limited feature set. After all, the service lets people share whatever they’re doing, eating, listening to, reading, etc. in 140 characters, and that’s basically the gist of it. Of course, we’ve learned that it can be extremely powerful for a variety of reasons, like enabling people to keep up with your friends’ social activities without cluttering your e-mail inbox or Facebook account, for instant news, real-time search, etc.

But some time ago, about two hours at the time of this writing, the constant waterfall of Twitter messages has abruptly stopped updating. Status update messages are simply no longer being published, neither on the Twitter home page or through any of the third-party clients, and even Twitter search no longer crawls for recent messages, as you can tell from the screenshot below. The basic functionality of Twitter is still there though, so you can still update your own stream, but the conversation has ended. All you can do is go to individual profile pages for people you’re following and take a look at what they’re tweeting about, but that’s it.

Update: messages seem to be trickling in again, but with a lag.

Update 2: should be back now. Lucky for Twitter this happened on a weekend during the night (at least U.S. time) so most users won’t have even noticed. But it goes to show how dangerous it is to rely on a free third-party service for important communication.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/21/twitters-constant-stream-of-update-messages-suddenly-grinds-to-a-halt/

Move over, 'Twilight' hunks! 'The Lost Boys' are coming back!

From the LA Times

Move over, Edward Cullen, a.k.a. Robert Pattinson.

Vampire hunter Corey Feldman is back! “The Lost Boys” are returning, and they're gonna be real thirsty for fresh blood.

An original cast member of the 1987 "Twilight" precursor, Feldman will produce and star, with his hapless character Edgar Frog getting –- surprise -– a much more central role.

Evan Charmov will write the script for Warner Premiere’s “The Lost Boys 3” a direct-to-disc sequel to 2008’s direct-to-DVD “Lost Boys: The Tribe.”

No word on whether the other original Corey -- Corey Haim -- will have a part in the film. Which is kinda sad. Maybe he’ll get his act together.

But "highly unlikely” is the phrase that Bloody-Disgusting.com used when it broke the news.

OMG, they totally gotta pull Kiefer Sutherland out of “24” for a cameo!

And how about still car-window-steamy Jason Patric, as an older vampire who has learned to control his feeding habits and hunts only animals now?

Oh wait, that's too :Twilighty" familiar.

Maybe he can drink a concoction called "True Blood"? Nope, that's been done by HBO.

Well, we hope they come up with some to raise these devilish dudes from the dead. Rent the original on Netflix and see just how hot they were.

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/15628

Update: Moviehole.net adds that Jamison Newlander has also been cast! We've learned exclusively that veteran TV writer Evan Charnov (Fearless) has been tapped to pen the screenplay for The Lost Boys 3, Warner Premiere's next direct-to-disc sequel to the classic teen-vamp film from 1987. In addition, Corey Feldman has come on to executive produce and will also return once again as Edgar Frog. We're told this film will actually focus on Feldman's popular character (thank God). Corey Haim's return as Sam Emerson is highly, highly unlikely at this point in time.

Loving True Blood in Dallas blog reaches a milestone

This milestone happened last Wednesday and I have been thinking about it and wanting to say something. I am not any further along with thinking of something appropriate and brilliant to say, so I think I'll just settle for saying, Thank You.

In just 4 months,(funny that it's to the day!) this blog has had 100,000 visits! I am astounded, pleased and honored.

I am having fun and I hope you are too. I love hearing from you guys and I love getting suggestions, tips and questions.(Ask Dallas)

I talk almost everyday with blog (and radio show) fans and readers from across the U.S., Europe, South America and the Middle East. It's an amazing amount of fun.

We have so many big events coming with the new book release in 45 days and the new season of True Blood in 3 months! I will keep posting and chatting if you'll keep reading and listening !

So, thanks and I'd love to hear from you.

"Dallas"

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:29 PM
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Vampire Bill Compton as Yoda ?

Funny he is .


haha thanks to @jessicahamby for this great graphic

http://jessicahamby.posterous.com/

Living Dead in Dallas a look at the cover art

OK, let's try another one ...


This is the cover art for Book 2, Living Dead in Dallas.

What do we see here in the book cover about the story?


You can buy these fabulous prints from the artist , Lisa Desimini