True Blood Season 2 Possible Title Song: Ep. 7 'Release me'

This is exciting ! We now (might) know the titles of the first 7 episodes of True Blood for Season 2.

Now the one thing we know about True Blood is that the episode names come from the a song used in in the soundtrack of that episode and that it is somehow significant to that episode.

So far for Season 2 we have :
Episode 2.01 - Nothing but the Blood
Episode 2.02 - Keep this Party Going
Episode 2.03 - Changed to Scratches from Scratch My Back
Episode 2.04 - Changed to Shake and Fingerpop from Let's Take a Trip Together
Episode 2.05 - Never let me Go
Episode 2.06 - Friend is a Four Letter Word

All we know about Season 2 spoilers, casting calls etc. can be found here
We know the amazing Gary Calamar puts great effort into musically curating True Blood !

Episode 2.07 - Release Me , this is only my guess, I just research the various songs with the leaked title and come up with a song I think it might be. 'Release me' by Eddie Miller and made famous by Humperdinck.

"Release Me" is a popular song by Eddie Miller, Robert Yount, and Dub Williams, published in 1946. Miller wrote the song in 1946 but could not get anyone to record it for years, so he recorded it himself in 1953. Shortly afterward it was covered by Jimmy Heap, and with even better success by Ray Price and Kitty Wells.
Subsequently a big seller was recorded by Little Esther Phillips (#1 on the R&B and pop charts) and the song was also taken to #4 on the pop charts (and #1 in the UK) by Engelbert Humperdinck.
The song has the distinction in the UK of holding the number one slot in the chart for six weeks during March and April 1967, and preventing The Beatles single, "Penny Lane" / "Strawberry Fields Forever", from reaching the top."Release Me" was also the highest selling single of 1967 in the UK, recording over one million sales.

Lyrics

Please release me let me go
for I don't love you anymore
to waste our lives would be a sin
release me and let me love again.

I have found a new love dear

and I will always want her near
her lips are warm while yours are cold
release me my Darling let me go.

Please release me can't you see
you'd be a fool to cling to me
to live a lie would bring us pain
release me and let me love again

Go ask Dallas: Sookie Stackhouse books in hardback ?

A writes to ask ..

"Hey Dallas,

I want to collect all the sookie books in hardback but I can't seem to find some of them ..what's the deal ?"

Dallas: Hello A -for this answer we will go right to CH herself. " the first three books were paperback originals. Now they're being re-released as hardbacks for the first time, and since CLUB DEAD was the third book, it's being the last one released in hardback. "

Dead until Dark , Living Dead in Dallas and Club Dead were NOT originally published in hardback.

• Dead until Dark was re- released in hardback by Ace January 2008
• Living Dead in Dallas was re-released in hardback by Ace January 2009 ( we saw Charlaine at the release party in Houston)
• Club Dead will be re-released in hardback by Ace in 2010

* my hardback collection looks a little different here's mine ( photo above) because I love the Science Fiction Book Club version , more on those below

Dead in Dixie
http://lovingtruebloodindallas.blogspot.com/2008/12/this-is-my-favorite-sookie-stachhouse.html

Dead by Day
http://lovingtruebloodindallas.blogspot.com/2009/01/here-is-my-2nd-favorite-sookie.html

True Blood - Episode 2.09 - I Will Rise Up - Casting Call

[BOY] 20s, Caucasian. This terrified youth, a Soldier of the Sun, attempts to flee from the enraged Bill. He pleads for his life...3 lines, 2 scenes (1)

[CUSTOMER] Female, 40s, Caucasian. This very sick sensation seeker comes into the restaurant asking to see where the murder took place sptv050769...2 lines, 1 scene (19)

[CUSTOMER #2] Male, 60s, African-American. This annoyed and surly restaurant patron asks the annoyed and surly Arlene for a little service...2 lines, 1 scene (19)

Source: SpoilerTV

Charlaine Harris Interview about Dead and Gone : All About Romance

All about Romance does a great Charlaine Harris intereview about Dead and Gone !

On May 5th, the wait is over for Sookie Stackhouse fans when Dead and Gone, the ninth entry in Charlaine Harris’ incrredible series hits bookstores.

As if that wasn’t enough to get your buzz on, season two of True Blood, the ultra-cool HBO show based on the ultra-cool books debuts on June 14th.

We’ll all have to wait until June to catch the latest TV adventures of Sookie, Bill, Eric, and Sam, but one lucky reader is about to get…well, very lucky because, courtesy of Ace Books, I’ve got an early copy of Dead and Gone ready to ship out Thursday. Details on how to enter for your chance to win are at the end of this post.

In the meantime, ready for a tease (or two)? Charlaine Harris herself was kind enough to take the time to answer a few of my burning (really) questions about Sookie, Dead and Gone, and, of course, True Blood.

Read on http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=1421

Vampire Video Craze

Unless you've been living in a cave for the past six months, you've heard about Twilight or Trueblood: Twilight,the book, was written by Stephanie Meyer and published in 2005, but the movie's screenplay was written by Melissa Rosenberg.The Sookie Stackhouse book series written by Charlaine Harris became a hit miniseries on HBO (The second season is slated to start this summer). A creative viral marketing campaign was used to promote the show.

Since the premier episode of Trueblood and the premier of Twilight, vampires have replaced pirates as the "in" movie or TV characters. For example, check out the movie section of your local Wal-Mart, and you'll notice an end cap devoted strictly to the vampire genre.

http://www.marketingshift.com/2009/4/wal-mart-tries-capitalize-vampire.cfm

Evan Rachel Woods on and off again 'relationship' with Marilyn Manson

Sophie- Anne dates Marilyn ...hmmmm

People magazine interview 2007

GQ Magazine May 2009 A Little Piece of Evan
"Wood, now 21, who is back with Manson after “taking some time” away from the relationship"

http://men.style.com/gq

Anna Paquin and other stars use fan-mail / fan club service.

Fascinating inside look at fan -mail

In the course of her career as a psychotherapist, Shelley De Angelus counseled schizophrenics, patients with multiple personality disorder, and garden-variety neurotics.

Long exposure to people with inflated expectations, economy-size fantasies and delusions of grandeur serves her well in her current slot as the office manager of Mail Mann, Inc., a Los Angeles-based fan-mail and fan-club service. Daily, she or her colleague Marie Kehoe stops at the post office to pick up white plastic bins of letters addressed to such clients as Anna Paquin, Ralph Fiennes, Richard Gere, Reese Witherspoon, Kyra Sedgwick, Kevin Bacon, Joe Cocker and Samuel L. Jackson, as well as some cast members of the series “Two and a Half Men,” “30 Rock” and “Brothers & Sisters.”

They’ve got mail, thousands of missives a week — from fans who want to express approval/disapproval of their idols’ political stands, religious beliefs, recent headline-making behavior, taste in mates or taste in movie roles. From fans who want to express sympathy or support when there’s been a death in the celeb’s family. From straitened fans seeking cash (five- and six-figure requests are not uncommon) and from fans seeking a far more precious commodity: a date for the high-school prom.

Read on

http://abluteau.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/where-fan-mail-goes-to-get-answered/

True Blood Music Video of the Day: The Scientist by Coldplay

The Scientist by Coldplay LYRICS
Thanks, ChemAttraction

'True Blood' scoop: Evan Rachel Wood crowned Queen Sophie-Anne !

Ready for some fangstastic casting news?

Sources confirm to me exclusively that True Blood creator Alan Ball has tapped Evan Rachel Wood to play the pivotal role of Sophie-Anne, the vampire Queen of Louisiana!

Who dat, you ask? She's a 500-year-old vampire from France who is charming, wily, ruthless and wise. She's a consummate diplomat who has (or had) many of history's most famous people on speed dial.

Short story shorter: It's a major frakkin' part, and landing Wood (whose last significant TV gig was Once and Again) is a major frakkin' coup.

A True Blood insider tells me that Wood is booked for two episodes, both of which will air towards the end of the show's upcoming second season. But rest assured, if the show is renewed for a third season (and, please, it will be), Wood will be back. Again: Major frakkin' part.

http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/04/true-blood-scoo.html

Team Dallas True Blood Paleyfest Travelogue: Part two by ObjectDesire

Day 2 Agenda: Easter Sunday Brunch at hotel, Getty Villa/Malibu, Drive PCH1, Fish Tacos, Gran's House?, Parker Lighthouse Restaurant & Alex's Bar (TB Fan Meet-up #2), and Surprise Karaoke

Leisurely brunch eaten in the beautiful rooftop garden of our hotel:
brioche, Mediterranean frittata, fresh fruit, french press coffee...yum!
Return to room to make preparations for the day. Dallas blogs/twitters.

Getty Villa/Malibu: Once again, no traffic to speak of. See Pacific Ocean for first time this trip. Arrive 45 minutes ahead of our reservation time, but are admitted anyway. Participate in an interesting tour of the Villa grounds in which we learn to make jello and that our guide doesn't know how to email. Leave tour early and enjoy cappuccino/coffee/chai tea latte to gather strength for self-guided tour of museum and grounds. Many beautiful pieces of Roman and Egyptian art are viewed (jewelry, pottery, sculptures).
The grounds are beautiful and we have wonderful views of Malibu hills surrounding the Villa. Discover upon leaving that we have not paid excellent attention to where we parked. Visit several parking levels before stumbling upon car in another parking area.

Fish Taco Stand: ( it's actually Malibu seafood) Dallas takes us to her favorite fish taco stand, on PCH1 just north of Pepperdine University. The drive along the ocean is beautiful. At the taco stand, we all have the fish tacos which are made with a combination of grilled salmon, tilapia, and halibut, shredded cabbage, and special sauce. Very good! Once again, excellent people watching--we see couples, families, surfers, college students, and tourists; Dallas scores a coveted table for us.

Drive over mountains on Malibu Canyon Road. Once over the mountain, Dallas has some information about location of filming locations.We feel we get awfully close, but have to cut the search short because we are suddenly out of time.

Zip back to hotel using freeways (with NO traffic!) and change clothes for dinner and Alex's Bar. Deciding what to wear for a nice restaurant then a rocker bar is a bit tricky. Dallas and OD both end up with white shirt, jacket, and jeans. Nocturn wears cool T, black jeans and jacket. We are excited to finally meet @SookieBonTemps outside of Twitterville. She joins us at our hotel for the drive to Long Beach. She is beautiful, vivacious, intelligent, and funny--just what one who reads her tweets would expect!

Parker Lighthouse/Long Beach: We are worried about time because we get a late start, but once again NO traffic to slow us down. We take only one wrong turn, but Dallas enjoys fast u-turns, so this is a treat for her. We arrive at the restaurant only 20 minutes late. Here we are joined by IYOUWANT2, Robiart, FangsNRoses and her daughter, Dana, and Jeweltoo. The food is excellent (seafood, steaks, salads, gumbo) and a few of us indulge by sharing a warm apple tart...mmmmmm. We spend about 2-1/2 hours visiting and eating before some of us head out to meet more Dallas Blog fans at Alex's Bar.

Alex's Bar: We have an adventure finding Alex's Bar in a 3-car caravan.
Ms. Robiart has been to the bar before but confesses in advance that she is not skilled at finding even familiar locations. After a slightly wild u-turn, we lose Robiart (in car 1) but are talking to her by phone.
IYOUWANT2 (in car 2) has a GPS system and we follow her. We drive into an AutoZone parking lot and to the left we see an alley with a very familiar structure--the building we see in background as patrons enter Fangtasia in TrueBlood. Yay! Once again, Dallas finds that elusive parking spot (poor IYOUWANT2 does not have magic and parks on street). We are met in parking lot by a handsome young man who says, "Are you Dallas?" He turns out to be Patrick, Robiart BF. We discover that Robiart has had a flat tire. Patrick is on his way to rescue her and has been waiting to make sure we arrived safely. We stand briefly outside gazing in awe at the front of the building. The awning and the window are both there (no "Fangtasia" of course, but very exciting to stand in that spot!). We are greeted by a very large bouncer who could probably give Quinn a run for his money. Inside, we find the IMdB ladies, Beadrbob, Ei Ei, and Mermaid, along with several other TrueBlood/Dallas Blog fans. OD confesses that after 2 glasses of wine at dinner and a Heinekin at the bar, plus very loud music...she did not get all the names of these wonderful ladies. Perhaps Dallas can fill in a few blanks here? The live band is in full swing, music is loud but good, even if OD cannot understand a word that is sung, age of crowd is young (20s).
We all make sure to visit the infamous ladies room to take pics of kewpie vampire doll murals. Dallas and Sookie decide to take a pic together in the photo booth and find some interesting items inside the booth.
Most of the ladies have been at the bar for awhile and they depart shortly after we arrive. They will all be at PaleyFest tomorrow. Ms. Robiart makes it to bar but has had to abandon her car because the correct tools to change tire are not available. Her knight in shining armor, Patrick, heads out to find tools. We hang out at bar for awhile. As we are leaving, we find Alex, bar owner, sitting outside. He clears the outside area so we can take pics then comes over to chat. He has correctly surmised that we are True Blood fans.
Dallas' glamours him and he reveals some interesting info regarding filming at the bar for Season 2. The info is innocent, but gives us a big clue about how closely Season 2 will follow Book 2 .

Karaoke: On the way back from Long Beach, Sookie receives a call--some family and friends are at a karaoke bar on LaCienaga. Dallas and Noct are excited to join them; they are kind enough to drop a very tired OD at the hotel first though. Reports have it that Dallas and Noct do not participate in karaoke, but Miss Sookie gets a standing ovation! Sookies family and friends are fun and entertaining. It is very late when Dallas and Noct arrive back at hotel. ( very very late !)

You've watched too much True Blood if ....

* This is the very last of the You've watched too much True Blood if ....


You're reading The Shock Doctrine and listening to Dengue Fever to get to know the characters better. (But you tell yourself it's educational.)

When you are this close to writing a TB fanfic. (save me)

When anyone says that they are thirsty you automatically think of Malcolm.

You go on a junk food binge just to spite Amy and her clean food, clean soul, Gaia crap.

You start a diet and exercise program to tone up, because you don't ever want to be referred to as a "doughy f*ck".

You now check yahoo news for Shreveport, LA even though you live in Seattle.

Another nice 'Dead and Gone ' review this time from

Dead and Gone

Charlaine Harris
May 2009, Vampire Romance
Ace, $25.95, 312 pages, Amazon ASIN 0441017150
Part of a series

This one is tough to write because…well, gee, because I just can’t tell you much of anything about the plot without spoiling the book for Sookie readers – something I really, really don’t want to do.

For those new to the party, my advice is to not even think about starting with Dead and Gone, the ninth in a series of books about the adventures of telepathic Louisiana waitress Sookie Stackhouse. In our heroine’s world, vampires, whose “nutritional requirements” can be met by a synthetic Japanese blood, came “out of the coffin” a few years earlier. Everyone in the world in which Sookie lives is coping with the aftermath.

read on http://www.likesbooks.com/cgi-bin/bookReview.pl?BookReviewId=7262

Sam's love life in season two of True Blood ?

How about some True Blood scoop? — Kelli
MICKEY: Have you seen the new poster? It's bloody cool! We know that Sookie and Bill have some traveling to do when Season 2 returns, but where does that leave poor, heartsick, shape-shifting Sam? Anna Paquin tells the Buzz: "They have a bit of a rough time of it. It seems like they should be more understanding of each other, and yet they aren't — in some truly ironic way." Translation: Sam will be otherwise occupied this season with Maryann the vibrating mystery lady.

http://spoilertv.blogspot.com/2009/04/latest-from-tv-guide-various-shows_22.html

Vampire movie posters

Here's a couple of good ones



http://www.allposters.com/

Loving True Blood Dallas Blogtalk: Paleyfest revisited ( Episode 18b)

We visit with the two ladies that couldn't be with us Monday night and we have even more silliness.

It just didn't seem right to not have these two important attendees also talk about their experience.

We get first hand impressions and thoughts from the fans that were there ...these are folks that traveled thousands of miles to be there LIVE at the event!

They will regale us with stories, thoughts, memories and impressions!

Blood Copy Volume 8: Vampires in Focus

We are revisiting the Blood Copy videos which were part of the HBO True Blood viral marketing campaign that helped introduce the True Blood television series in the summer of 2008. We will be doing a radio show on this topic soon.
Previously we have see the mysterious packages were being received, the gatekeeper awakened on a mysterious website, .... Blood Copy website HERE http://bloodcopy.com/

The blog and videos not only were a marketing ploy but they also served as a prologue to the series ...
Here is the blog entry for that time period HERE ( July 27, 2008)
It's great to watch these videos but you also must read the blog entry for that week.

True Blood Music Video of the Day:Substitute by Clout

Substitute by Clout LYRICS
Thanks, Warriorprincess1869
(It's a Sam video)