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Away in a Graveyard (sung to the tune of "Away in a Manger")
Away in a graveyard,
Just dirt for his bed,
Vampire Bill Compton
lay down his sweet head.
The stars in the sky
looked down where he lay
The Vampire Bill Compton,
asleep in the day.
The maenad is roaming,
The vampire wakes,
But Vampire Bill Compton,
no victim he takes;
I love you Bill Compton,
I see how you try
To only drink True Blood
so no one will die.
Be near me, Bill Compton
And let us not fight
Just love me forever,
and love me tonight
I know you're a vampire
You can drink from me
Just don't bite my neck, dear
Where others can see.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
True Blood Christmas Carols - Away in a Graveyard
Loving True Blood in Dallas book suggestion: The Dead Travel Fast
One morning while Eric Nuzum sleepily munched his Count Chocula at breakfast, he realized he was surrounded by vampires. Not literally, of course. News stories, advertising, television shows-it seemed vampires were everywhere. Motivated by curiosity, this National Public Radio employee decided to research people's fascination with the mythical blood sucker, resulting in The Dead Travel Fast, a very humorous research/travelogue title.
Nuzum first decided to attempt to watch every vampire movie ever made. He details how Nosferatu and Bela Lugosi's Dracula were made, providing interesting reading for film buffs. The list also includes Samurai Vampire Bikers from Hell, Rockabilly Vampire, and Atom Age Vampire. There are a surprising number of interesting facts interspersed with the narrative, particularly about Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. Nuzum and his very skeptical wife travel to England, tracing the locations mentioned in the book. Stoker was a stickler for setting. Nuzum gives a nice background about what may have motivated Stoker to write his classic horror story, and how it's been interpreted and reinterpreted through the years. The chapter in which he travels by tour bus through Romania to research Vlad Tepes (the "real" count Dracula, who was very pro-impalement) is the funniest travelogue I've read.
Think you've had a bad family vacation? Nope. Nuzum's travelling companions included Butch Patrick, "Eddie" from The Munsters-who spent most of his time asleep. The trip included a dog bite, an infected mosquito bite, sinking boats, an emotionally disturbed monk, and lots of vomiting. After eating a Romanian "American-style" pizza, which included fried eggs, venison and goat cheese, let's just say things were a bit messy on the bus.
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Listen to NPR interview HERE
Erics blog HERE
If you don't like it - you can just bite me ! (3)
This is the bite marks from one of the character in True Blood.
Do you know who this is ?
Do you know who the vampire was that did the biting ?
Yes, it was Ginger (there are multiple bites on her arm- vamp(s) unknown)
Fashion faux pas in Sookieville" Christmas Reindeer Sweater
Who wears this ?
Who else is involved in the wearing ?
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I cannot believe no one got this -! This is from Club Dead and its Sookie's
I'd entered the bathroom carrying my jeans and underwear and a red-and-green
Christmas sweater with reindeer on it, because that's what had been at the top of
my drawer. You only get a month to wear the darn things, so I make the most of it.
My True Blood Soundtrack
auntb at tinycatprints made her own list of her favorite True Blood songs for a TB soundtrack maybe some of you have these on your iPod shuffle.
What's your favorite song?
NM asked what kinds of music a person who didn’t watch True Blood should think of when she hears “The music of True Blood.” Here’s the True Blood Soundtrack I’ve compiled, based solely on songs that intrigued me from the show.
1. “Play with Fire”–Cobra Verde. This is a Rolling Stones cover, and it sticks with you, whether you like it or not; it’s damn catchy.
2. “Bones”–Little Big Town. Can Fleetwood Mac sue for impersonation? I’m not sure. Basically, if you like Fleetwood Mac, but you don’t like Stevie Nicks’ voice and wish it were a hair more country, this is your song.
3. “Stumble and Pain”–Joseph Arthur. I haven’t listened to this song enough to decide what I think of it. But it would seem as at home in the imaginary good sequel to The Lost Boys, so I’m calling it a good song for anything about vampires.
4. “The Dreaming Dead”–Jesse Sykes. I still can’t decide if I like this song, but it haunting. I don’t know if it makes me think “Southern,” exactly, though.
5. “Strange Love”–Slim Harpo. I love this song, but I love songs that make you say, “What the fuck is happening here?!” Can a person have a banjo voice? Slim Harpo has a tragic banjo voice.
6. “Y’all’d Think She’d Be Good 2 Me”–C.C. Adcock. This song is so generically southern that, if you didn’t listen to it too closely, you’d think you’d already heard it a million times.
7. “Good Times”–Charlie Robison. Ha, I love Charlie. I swear, he could fart at the table and I’d find it awesome. Anyway, the song delivers what it promises.
8. “Red Eyes and Tears”–Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. I always feel like I should like these guys better than I do, but I don’t. This song is like the alt.country version of Godsmack’s “Voodoo.”
9. “Jack Me Up”–jeff laine. I feel cheated by every day of my life that passed without this song in it. “But holding the love of a woman is like holding water in your hand.” That phrase right there is so beautiful that I sometimes just whisper it to myself to have the feel of the words fill up my whole mouth. It seems at first listen just a song that is an ode to getting laid, but holy shit, it’s the best poetry about getting laid. “Don’t worry about the rest of your life. It’s going to happen anyhow.”
If you knew about this song and didn’t tell me about it, you’re on my shit list.
10. “Brand New Cadillac”–I love Wayne Hancock so much. And this song is a good example of why. Hancock sings like he’s only got an inch-high slot to squeeze his voice through, or like you’re only going to hear him on a distant AM radio station and so he’s just given up on everything but the high whine. That and the boogie.
11.”Cold Ground”–Rusty Truck. This song is growing on me. It also has some kind of country/Fleetwood Mac harmonies, which kind of cracks me up.
12. “Sweet Jane”–Cowboy Junkies. I don’t guess I have to say anything about this.
13. “Everybody’s Got Somebody But Me”–Mildred Anderson. There’s an organ! And lovely organ playing.
14. “Walking the Dog”–Rufus Thomas. There’s clearly a dance you do to this. I don’t know it. But, if I did, I’d be obnoxious about doing it, so it’s probably for the best.
15. “Bad Things”–Jace Everett. You know the song. It’s like if Chris Issak and Dwight Youkum had a baby who inexplicibly decided mid-song to make it a poetry reading.
I think we can call this music more “Evoking a feeling of vaguely Southern foreboding” more than “Southern Vampire music.”
Bill t-shirts on Ebay
I don't know how they can get away with selling these unlicensed t-shirts but they are really really cool.
Shop Ebay here
Eric ones here :
http://lovingtruebloodindallas.blogspot.com/2008/12/i-dont-know-how-they-can-get-away-with.html
True Blood Music Video of the Day
Think twice by Eve 6
** another thanks to obejectdesire
send me your favorites: truebloodindallas@gmail.com
True Blood goes to the movies : Anna Paquin in ' Fly Away Home'
Do you want a way to get your True Blood fix with all the kids/ grand kids around over Christmas?
How about watching Anna Paquin in Fly Away Home with Jeff Daniels?
from wikipedia
Fly Away Home is a 1996 film, directed by Carroll Ballard, about the daughter (Anna Paquin) of a widower (Jeff Daniels) who, with her father, leads a flock of Canada geese from Canada to a wildlife refuge in the US.
The film was loosely based on the real-life experiences of Bill Lishman, a Canadian inventor, artist, and ultralight aircraft hobbyist. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Lishman openly wondered if geese and similar birds could be taught new migration patterns by following ultralight aircraft onto which they had been imprinted. In 1993, after several years of logistical and bureaucratic setbacks, Lishman successfully led a flock of Canada Geese on a winter migration from Ontario, Canada to Northern Virginia, U.S.A. Of the 16 birds that participated in the migration, 13 of them returned the following year entirely on their own.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_Away_Home
Gratuitous Alexander Skarsgård
Thanks to luvseric on her Totally Random blog for gathering all of these great Alexander Skarsgard clips
Gratuitous Alexander Skarsgård
Scenes from Swedish movie Om Sara with Alexander Skarsgard, courtesy of Skarsgard Channel, the wonderful YouTube channel completely dedicated to A.S., the awesome Swedish actor playing Eric Northman on True Blood.
http://luvseric-totallyrandom.blogspot.com/2008/12/gratuitous-alexander-skarsgrd.html
Friday, December 19, 2008
Some think Stephen Moyer should NOT be overlooked for his portrayl of Vampire Bill
TCPalm agrees with many fans that think that Stephen Moyer should not be overlooked for award nominations ...
I personally think many of the "critics" do not understand the 175 year old, Southern, vampire gentleman that Stephen Moyer is bringing to life from the Charlaine Harris " Sookie Stackhouse " books.
Stephen Moyer in "True Blood" for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, Drama
TV's best new series, "True Blood," got much-deserved nods for TV series and also for its lead actress, Anna Paquin, but how those two occurred without naming Moyer, who plays the mysterious, yet lovable vampire, Bill, makes no bloody sense to us.
http://www.tcpalm.com/blogs/thewatercooler/2008/dec/11/golden_globe_snubs/
The year's 10 best TV shows
The Connecticut Post puts TB at #8
This was a dark year for television.
First, the writers' strike completely fractured last season, grinding most shows to a halt for what seemed like an eternity and preventing some (including Fox's "24") from airing at all last year. While most shows returned from the strike break, many of them felt rushed and not up to their regular standards.
The effects of the strike were still felt this fall, with a smaller-than-average crop of new shows -- most of which were mediocre to poor in quality.
Yet there was still plenty of good shows, and more than enough material for a year-end top-10 list. Here's a list of 2008's best TV series, starting with the very best.
8. "True Blood," HBO: With the success of this series, about a romance between a vampire man and a human woman, and the craze over the film adaptation of "Twilight," it was a red-letter year for bloodsuckers. Though I haven't seen (or read) "Twilight," I do understand why HBO's "True Blood" emerged as one of the year's sleeper hits. Funny, campy and clever, the series got better with each episode and featured a fine supporting and guest cast of some of the industry's best character actors.
http://www.connpost.com/ci_11272262
Behind the scenes with True Blood: Tara and Lettie Mae take a drive
Tara and Lettie Mae stop at the De Soto Pharmacy to buy some Pepto on their way back from Mamaw's Mudbugs in Keachi but some how they ended up Canoga Park, California ( note the palm trees )
Finding humanity "Let the Right One In" offers great vampire horror, while drawing sympathy for the characters.
I enjoyed this article and I enjoyed the film, " Let the Right One In "
It's still playing in Dallas - you might want to check it out also in the Moyer's interview posted earlier the interviewer asks him if he's seen it
Somewhere between the emo soap opera of "Twilight" and the deep-fried whimsy of "True Blood" you'll find the sweet but brutal world of the Swedish vampire drama, "Let the Right One In."
Director Tomas Alfredson and screenwriter John Ajvide Lindqvist (who adapted his own novel) have created one of the most absorbing horror films in recent memory. Somber and frequently gory, it covers all the ground you'd expect from a vampire tale, but its real brilliance is the way it maintains its focus on the humanity of the characters no matter how horrific the action involving them.
In a drab apartment complex in early '80s Sweden, we meet 12-year-old Oskar (Kare Hedebrant), a sweet-faced spindly boy who lives with his divorced mother. Friendless, unhappy and the target of constant bullying at school, Oskar keeps a secret scrapbook of newspaper clippings about horrible crimes and slips outside at night to fantasize about killing his tormentors with a hunting knife. It isn't hard to imagine Oskar making a few headlines himself in the future, accompanied by quotes from the neighbors about what a quiet boy he was.
Read on
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=243&articleid=20081219_281_D3_KareHe307530
I also posted about it here : http://lovingtruebloodindallas.blogspot.com/2008/11/swedish-vampire-no-not-that-one-let.html
Mariana Klaveno ( Lorena) will be season regular next year on True Blood .
More images of Mariana here
A audio interview she did and mentions TB here
imbd listing here
Video below Lorena turns Bill ....
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From Variety
"I love Skarsgard " Swedish interview with Stephen Moyer
Again, we need the Swedish translator - hmm and Stephen is English, right ? (Ha)
the title of this article is "Jag älskar Skarsgård"
You can see it here: http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/article4030638.ab
The handy translator here :http://www.stars21.com/translator/swedish_to_english.html
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Here is the gist of the interview :
Then Stephen Moyer talks about vampires, romance with his colleague Anna Paquin in "True blood" - and his love of Alexander Skarsgård.
He plays 175-year-old dead guy.
CADAVEROUS, with black hair and both stab teeth and a look that can kill.
Bill Compton is a vampire with "sydstatsdialekt". ( i think maybe this is "southern drawl" but i'm told it is literaly "south states dialect" )
In reality, Stephen Moyer, 38, brown hair, an infectious smile and a dialect which testify that he is true Englishman was close to giving up his Hollywood career to stay home and be the father.
He said " I had gone to the U.S. for a huge job in a TV series that was predicted to become the new "24". But then it was withdrawn by Fox -it was incredibly frustrating.
He has has enough- He was divorced because of his career. The long periods abroad had left their mark. And Stephen Moyers also had two small children in London and he wanted to be at home.
He said "I had had enough after having gone back and forth for so many years. My manager did not want me to give up because everyone in the industry knew I still had this incredible role, and now it was my chance. But I was tired of being disappointed."
But as it so often happens once its been offered you just can't say no . In Stephen Moyers case it was a role in the new HBO series "True Blood" which is about a world in the not too distant future where people live side -by -side with the vampires who are now living on the synthetic blood.
He said " I emailed a TEST video to director Alan Ball. He saw it, called back and I flew over to the U.S. the day after to see him and Anna Paquin and it became my role. Everything was decide in three days.
"It is complete nonsense"
In his new role, he also found love. But the only time Stephen Moyer is taciturn during the interview is when rumors of romance with Anna Paquin, 26
- Is it possible rumors about it?" I can not really talk about it, "he said, laughing nervously.
Love for Alexander Skarsgård, who also plays vampire
-SM says " I love him! We are very close to each other. He is extremely funny, a little crazy and dark in mind though he does not seem to be there. Anna said that her favorite moments on the recording is when we are together. It is complete nonsense and we are talking nonstop."
Moyer on ...
The second season of "True Blood":
- I am thrilled and the series has incredible potential. I usually say no to playing the same role twice, but now I see genuine forward to the second season that we start filming soon. I have already been offered several other jobs, thanks to this role, which I hoped would happen.
The new Swedish vampire film "Let the right to In":
- I have heard about the fact and that it should be pretty good. It is about a child who is a vampire, right? I really need to see it. Exciting there to be an American version, too.
On being a dad who plays a vampire:
- It is a nightmare. My son named Bill, so he thinks the series is about him. It is a pity that he can not see it, it is far too bloody. But he knows that it is about vampires and when is get home he says I am the king of all vampires.
On its role in nature:
- He is a very moral person, because of his background and how he became a vampire. He is also very sexual but diabolical in mind and is fearless on revenge on those who do wrong. The series turns up and down the stereotypes about vampires and depicts how different a vampire world could be.
Name: Stephen Moyer. Age: 38. Occupation: Actor (played theater, made TV series and movies for 17 years). Lives: London. Family: Divorced. Have kids Billy, 8, and Lilac, 6. Current: As the Vampire Bill Compton in "True blood" which is broadcast on Canal +. SVT is shown in the spring.
Jack Bauer comes to True Blood
The set-up: Jack Bauer receives an urgent message from the president about a situation in Baton Rouge where domestic terrorists have taken over the city. The national guard has already been brought in, but they’re all dead, so now they need the country’s most powerful weapon to take over, which is obviously Jack Bauer.
Why this would be awesome: Jack bursts into the city guns blazing, and soon meets up with Bill Compton, the only sane vampire left in the city. Together they sweep the streets while receiving location updates from Sookie via earpieces. Soon they discover the vampire’s ultimate plan, they’re going to blow up the nation’s silver reserves with A NUCLEAR BOMB. The clock starts ticking.
http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2008/12/19/five-tv-show-crossovers-that-should-be-happening/
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