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"Loving True Blood in Dallas" - 16 new articles

1. @SookieBonTemps tells us what we'd find in Sookies 's purse
2. True Blood BloodCopy: Reader-Submitted Vampire Erotica
3. True Blood's Anna Paquin Talks X-Men Future
4. True Blood Season 2 Title Song change for Episode 4 (16)
5. True Blood Season 2 Schedule and Episode title change
6. True Blood's Stephen Moyer to be on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
7. First True Blood DVD Sales numbers released
8. True Blood Bloodcopy: Vampire On Trial
9. True Blood BloodCopy: Real Vampires Don't Wear Capes
10. What you might have missed from Loving True Blood in Dallas blog yesterday?
11. True Blood premiers in UK on Friday 17th July at 10pm exclusively on FX.
12. True Blood Fangtasia Craft challenge
13. Autographed Sookie Stackhouse book to winner of True Blood contest!
14. "The Impaler." a self-described vampire and one-time fringe candidate for Minnesota governor pleads guilty to harassment
15. Wanna know how Anna maintains Sookie's perfect tan ?
16. True Blood Music Video of the Day: Kill With Me Tonight by the Devlins

True Blood: "She's Given Him Reason to Live Again"

EOnline interviews Stephen Moyer. Best Question: What about your vampire daughter, Jessica—does that continue to be a fractured fairy tale? haha

Is it possible that Twilight is only the second-most-romantic vampire saga of the moment?

Being on premium cable as they are, True Blood's Sookie and Bill certainly give virginal Edward and Bella a run for their money when it comes to blood-hot sex, but what about love?

We just spoke exclusively with True Blood's leading man, Stephen Moyer, aka Bill Compton himself, to find out what's in store for the vampires of the dirty, dirty South in season two. He told us that while there will be just as many near-pornographic sex scenes, his character is still primarily driven by an overiding morality and an abiding passion for Sookie Stackhouse.

Read on to find out what he told us about sex scenes, his "hideous" vampire daughter and falling in love with Anna Paquin, onscreen and off...

Is True Blood going to stay as explicitly sexual this season or will you dial that back a bit?

The show is ridiculously f--king sexy…I think Alan Ball and the writers do very well in pushing the envelope. I think one of the things that drives me nuts about society is that you can watch hours about terrorists but you can't look at a human nipple. What the f--k is that about? Sex is part of our lives. It's part of our existence. So I kind of embrace the fact that we hit it full on the head.

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True Blood creator Alan Ball reveals what's coming in season two

If you didn't see the first season of HBO's True Blood, you'd better pay attention if you want be able to follow the show's second season, said creator and executive producer Alan Ball in an exclusive interview with SCI FI Wire.

"Everything gets deeper," Ball said on Tuesday. "Everything gets more intense. It's a lot scarier. It's sexier. It's just really, really fun. I feel like each season is a novel, and the episodes are just chapters. Especially the way our show is. The episodes are not self-contained. You know, you gotta be involved in the story, and you gotta know what's going on."

True Blood's second season begins June 14 in its Sunday 9 p.m. ET/PT timeslot. The season is based loosely on the second book in Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse Series, Living Dead in Dallas, Ball said.

"Sookie [Anna Paquin] and Bill [Stephen Moyer] will go to Dallas to help find a missing vampire who is the sheriff of the Dallas area," Ball said. "And Jason [Ryan Kwanten] is going to become involved in the Fellowship of the Sun Church in a way that is really surprising. ... There's a very interesting relationship in the show between Rev. Steve Newland of the Fellowship of the Sun Church and his wife, Sarah [Anna Camp], and Jason, that just took on its own life as we were shooting, and it's hilarious. I can't get enough of the Newlands and Jason together."

And Sookie's hometown of Bon Temps will have some drama as well when Maryann Forrester, played by Michelle Forbes, "begins stirring up all kinds of trouble," Ball said. Last season Maryann appeared to offer Tara (Rutina Wesley) some goodwill and a place to stay. But "she's got an agenda, and it's not a good one," Ball said.

According to Ball, the vampire series will continue to explore the "terrors of intimacy, in that when you really, really open up and let another person into your life and your psyche, it can be terrifying—especially when that person is a vampire. ... And then there's just the whole exploration of the dark side of human nature," he said.

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"True Blood" Season 1: Why would anyone want Edward when they can have Vampire Bill from "True Blood"?

Hans at Hallucina blog gets us ready for season 2 -Ha!

He can't have mint juleps anymore, but Vampire Bill (Stephen Moyer) has kept up with the finer points of being a southern gentleman. You totally get why telepatic waitress Sookie Stackhouse all but shines with orgasmic afterglow everytime Bill decides to burst out of his grave and rub his muddy self all over her breasts. It sounds yucky, but GOSH, do these two sell their sex scenes! Talking about Sookie's breasts, I don't recommend watching "Fly Away Home" ever again after being glamoured by HBO's version of Charlaine Harris' bestselling series. Here, the erotic subtext behind vampirism is taken to its obvious limits. There is no coy "Twilight" bull about: "Will he suck her or not?" He WILL suck her, and it's going to be HOT.

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Gawker : All the Summer TV You'll Need to Watch

So you guys know the Gawker stuff with BloodCopy

So Gawker writes an article about new summer shows and writes this:

True Blood; June 14th, 9pm
HBO's kitschy vampire series started off wildly uneven last season, veering from scary-sexy to scary-stupid in the middle of episodes. But it eventually found its deep-fried Southern Gothic stride, with clever storytelling and ever-deepening characters gushing out of every orifice. And, yes, Anna Paquin is ungodly annoying, thus rendering the show's central relationship something of a bore, but she's more than made up for by the dangerously sexy Ryan Kwanten, the filthy-fascinating Nelsan Ellis, and the as-yet-unexplored-but-still-intriguing lesbodrone that is Michelle Forbes. As entertaining a show as one could want during the hot 'n sticky months. [See Ed. note below]

Editor's note: True Blood, like other TV shows (even some mentioned in this very post!), is a Gawker advertiser. Their campaign, though, includes sponsored posts via Bloodcopy.com, which when it was introduced generated some discussion in the media about media. So here is the boring disclosure: Those Bloodcopy posts are written by the advertising department. Editorial posts are written independent of who advertises; we might endorse, trash or simply ignore TV shows that happen to advertise. And that's why you keep a bright line separating the editorial and advertising in the first place, kids.

So writing a review where you call the lead actress ( who's an Oscar and Golden Globe winner ) annoying and the central relationship boring is supposed to show that even though HBO is advertising on Gawker ( in a BIG way ) you are really nuetral as to how you will review the show ..really is that the best way?

True Blood Music Video of the Day: Wonderwall by Oasis

Wonderwall (by Oasis) sung by Ryan Adams LYRICS

Thanks, VampyrMe

@SookieBonTemps tells us what we'd 'really' find in Sookies 's purse

our friend the Twitter Sookie, @SookieBonTemps has really worked on my question (originally posed by Charlaine) 'What would we find in Sookies 's purse?'
This is great answer...

Loving True Blood in Dallas posed this question on her blog last week. Dallas got an interesting array of answers from both blog readers and tweeters ranging from a condom (God knows why, since Sookie isn’t currently sleeping with anyone who’s going to get her pregnant) to lipgloss.

The question was asked in response to a comment Charlaine Harris made about going through the age-old exercise of thinking about what’s in a character’s purse, on her bookshelf, in her nightstand drawer, etc. in order to get a more intimate sense of who that person was.

Here’s what I think is in Sookie’s purse:

1) Picture of her and Jason with Gran. It’s a childhood photo, not a recent one, that she keeps in her wallet. I’m guessing that the wallet is leather, but it’s not an expensive one. The wallet is probably three or four years old with faded corners and it’s probably been scratched more than a few times by Sookie’s car keys. She’s had this wallet since she replaced the last one.

The photo is kept in one of those little plastic photosleeves that wallets come with — at this point the plastic is probably a little yellowed. The picture itself is probably faded and dog-eared at the edges because she looks at it from time to time and it’s survived being transferred from wallet to wallet.

2) Old address book. While she’s gotten around to getting a cellphone, she still carries her address book out of habit. After all, Sookie probably inputted in new numbers into the phone when they were being told to her, but the older numbers are still in the book. If you flip through the pages, addresses are crossed or whited out and re-written.

The address book may be old, but it’s not full — she’s kept in close contact with only a few people her entire life and she probably has their information committed to memory.

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True Blood BloodCopy: Reader-Submitted Vampire Erotica

In our mailbag a couple of days ago we received a link to a short film made by a Bloodcopy reader Ben Coello. So we watched it, and we think you should too.

Coello, a human, describes Want as "a dark and erotic short film about a pair of vampire lovers struggling to survive in an unfriendly world." Based on a short comic of the same name by Wendy Snow-Lang, it's a sexy, blue-lit, vampire love story starring Ewa Da Cruz—a woman who is so stunningly gorgeous that she could make any vampire-hater want to be turned.

Of course a few major details were missed, like the fact that real vampires wouldn't (couldn't) ever tool around in their cars in broad daylight, but it's worth a look.

Watch the entire film here. It borders on NSFW, so wait until dark. Or at least until you get home from work.

Thanks, Ben...

http://bloodcopy.com/5276022/reader+submitted-vampire-erotica

True Blood's Anna Paquin Talks X-Men Future

Rogue chats with IGN about a return to the franchise.

June 2, 2009 - IGN chatted with True Blood star Anna Paquin this morning, during which time we had the chance to ask her about the possibility of returning to the X-Men franchise. The Oscar-winning actress played Rogue in the first three X-Men films.

When it was announced that Josh Schwartz was writing X-Men: First Class, Variety said that the movie would likely "enlist such characters as Iceman, Rogue, Angel, Colossus, Jubilee and Shadowcat."

So would Paquin be up for playing Rogue again? "Absolutely. Yeah," she told us. "I would hope I could do a little bit more action next time, though. I kind of find it ironic that I did three big action films and did, actually, no action whatsoever. I mean I got some really amazing emotional story moments, but I didn't really get to do the physical stuff."

She continued, "You know, as much as I loved doing those films I was kind of like, 'OK, so when do I get to beat someone up? When do I get to steal some powers?' You know Sookie [Paquin's True Blood character] gets to do more action than Rogue ever did. So I'm just putting that out there. More action please, for next time."

http://movies.ign.com/articles/989/989758p1.html

True Blood Season 2 Possible Title Song: Ep. 4 ' Shake and Fingerpop'

We have noticed that according to the HBO schedule Season 2 episode 4 (16) isn't any longer being called 'Let's Take a Trip together' it's now called 'Shake and Fingerpop'

So we'll look at what that means to what we think our episode title song will be ..

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
Episode 2.07 - Release me
Episode 2.08 - Timebomb
Episode 2.09 - I will rise up
Episode 2.10 - New World In My View

All we know about Season 2 spoilers, casting calls etc. can be found here
All Season 2 videos ( including my great slide shows) here

We know that Alan Ball and the amazing Gary Calamar put great effort into musically curating True Blood !

Episode 2.04 title was called 'Let's Take a Trip Together' and now it's called 'Shake And Fingerpop' that has to be the song by Junior Walker.

Junior Walker was born in Blytheville, Arkansas and grew up in South Bend, Indiana. His saxophone style was the anchor for the band's overall sound.
The other original members of the group were drummer Tony Washington, guitarist Willie Woods, and keyboardist Vic Thomas.
His career started when he developed his own band at the age of 14, in the mid 1950s as the 'Jumping Jacks'. His longtime friend Billy Nix (drummer) started his own group the 'Rhythm Rockers.' Periodically Nix would sit in on Jumping Jack's shows, and Walker would sit in on the Rhythm Rockers shows.

"Shake And Fingerpop" was released in 1965

Lyrics

Said put on your wig, woman
We're goin out to shake and fingerpop! Hey, baby!
I said put on your wig, woman
Goin out to shake and fingerpop! Hey, girl!

Were gonna get out on the floor, now
Dance like we never did before, right on, sugar!

I said, look at the people, find a place in line Doin the barracuda, the jerk and the twine Kick off your shoes baby and get in the groove Cause when you hear the music, you feet has got to move

I said, put on your wig, woman
Goin out to shake and fingerpop, thats what I said We gonna get out on the floor now Dance like we never did before, hey, hey!

I said, do the boomerang, the twine and the jerk They're jammin up the band now, so everybody work!

True Blood Season 2 Schedule and Episode title change

The 4th episode previously known as' Let's Take a Trip Together' is now called 'Shake and Fingerpop', which means I need to do a new title song I guess ;-)

Here is the nifty printable HBO schedule for June.

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True Blood's Stephen Moyer to be on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Stephen Moyer to be a guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon June 10 2009

Set your TIVOs!

http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/

**Wednesday, June 10 – Show 0063 – Guests include John Krasinski, Stephen Moyer, Kudo Tsunoda, and musical guest Manchester Orchestra

First True Blood DVD Sales numbers released

TB DVD Sales info just released:
The DVD True Blood The Complete First Season has entered the DVD sales charts with a bang. In it’s first week after the release (May 19 - May 24) the DVD has been sold 515,877 times generating a cash flow of $17,018,782.

True Blood Bloodcopy: Vampire On Trial

Get this: A vampire is being prosecuted for a murder committed over 100 years ago. Law enforcement cobbled together some evidence etched in stone or something and formally arrested him just the other day.

Nice going. I'm sure the great-great-great-great grandchildren of the victim will finally feel some relief. (Shake of head implying this is ridiculous.)

Riddle me this: How are they going to assemble a jury of this vampire's peers? What if he's convicted? What are they going to do, lock him in a cell with silver bars for the rest of eternity? Vampires can't "live out" their sentences, folks, and there are ways of getting around silver bars.

Vampires have their owns system of justice. We prosecute and punish according to our own laws. Human courts shouldn't be able to try vampires and even if they do sentence this guy, I guarantee you he will be out in no time. He's got friends on the outside who will see to it.

http://bloodcopy.com

True Blood BloodCopy: Real Vampires Don't Wear Capes

Looking like a vampire is, according to the LA Times, so hot right now.

Problem is, modern vampires look pretty much like anyone else. That's to say, we don't wear bat capes, top hats, or skull jewelry. Well some of us might, but it's not a requirement or anything.

Here's a few places you can outfit yourself. (Sites not sanctioned by actual vampires.)

Vampfangs.com
The Lil Baby Vampire Pacifier might be the freakiest of all of the vampire "fashions." If you want to start your kid off right-and by right I mean on the path to being made a vampire-head to vampirefangs.com, fork over the $10 and call it a day. Or a night.

Vampirewear.com
We don't wear vials of blood around our necks. But if for some reason you want to, they are available for around 20 bucks at vampirewear.com.

Carpetina Renaissance
For all of your cape and cloak needs.

http://bloodcopy.com

What you might have missed from Loving True Blood in Dallas blog yesterday?

What you might have missed from Loving True Blood in Dallas blog yesterday.

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True Blood premiers in UK on Friday 17th July at 10pm exclusively on FX.

Local waitress Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), knows how it feels to be an outcast. “Cursed” with the ability to listen in on people’s thoughts, she’s also open-minded about the integration of vampires - particularly when it comes to Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), a handsome 173-year-old living up the road. But as Sookie is drawn into a series of mysteries surrounding Bill’s arrival in Bon Temps, that tolerance will be put to the test.

True Blood is a supernatural drama based on the Sookie Stackhouse Mystery novels by author Charlaine Harris. It takes place in the small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, in the not too distant future, where vampires and humans uneasily coexist.

The show is dark, gritty, and very twisted! The UK premiere starts on Friday 17th July at 10pm exclusively on FX.



http://primetime.unrealitytv.co.uk/true-blood-vampire-drama-comes-to-fx/