Evan Rachel Wood returns to her roots to do a fundraiser for her father’s NC theater

If you live in Raleigh, North Carolina you can go see Queen Sophie-Anne in Romeo and Juliet..pretty cool and help raise money for the theatre !

RALEIGH, N.C. — Evan Rachel Wood has a starring role in the soon-to-be-released Woody Allen film and guest-stars in “True Blood.” She’s got a racy photo spread in the latest issue of GQ, and she hopes to play Mary Jane in the Broadway production of “Spider-Man.”

So why did the 21-year-old Raleigh native return home starring as Juliet in six performances of “Romeo and Juliet” (starting Friday) as a fundraiser for Theatre In The Park, which her father manages?

“It was where I started,” the actress said in an interview between rehearsals last week. “I wouldn’t be an actress, I wouldn’t be who I am if this place wasn’t here. I wanted to do something to give back to it, to somehow repay it for what it gave to me.”

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True Blood Behind the Scenes: Costumes

ha ha really behind the scenes...
I sure would like to disturb those people...

'Dead and Gone' is #1 so says the AP!

By The Associated Press – 1 hour ago

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. "Dead and Gone" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)

2. "The 8th Confession" by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown)

3. "Pygmy" by Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday)

4. "First Family" by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)

5. "Just Take My Heart" by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster)

6. "Summer on Blossom Street" by Debbie Macomber (Mira)

7. "Lover Avenged" by J.R. Ward (NAL Hardcover)

8. "Tea Time for the Traditionally Built: The New No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Novel" by Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon)

9. "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown)

10. "The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrun" by J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

'To Love is to Bury' the title song for True Blood Season One Episode Eleven

I recently did a Season 2 Spoiler show for my Blogtalk radio show, where we looked at what we might know about the upcoming episode by knowing and examining the title song for that episode.

I can't tell you how many emails I received from folks saying they felt so stupid for not realizing that the True Blood episodes were named for songs. It's OK but I thought it might be a good idea to look back at the song, the artist and the lyrics for each of last season's episode title songs.

So let's look back to Season 1, Ep 11 'To Love is to Bury' which originally aired November 16, 2008
'To Love is to Bury' is from the Cowboy Junkies' album the Trinity Sessions from 1998, their second album.

The album was recorded at Toronto, Ontario's Church of the Holy Trinity on November 27, 1987 (1987-11-27), with the band circled around a single microphone. The album includes a mixture of original material by the band and covers of classic pop, rock and country songs, including the band's most famous single, a cover of The Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane", based on the early version found on 1969: The Velvet Underground Live, rather than the well-known studio version from Loaded. Also included is "Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis)", which is both a cover and an original, combining a new song by the band with the pop standard "Blue Moon".

The band was formed by three siblings from the Timmins entertainment family.
Another sibling, Cali, rose to fame as an actress on Ryan's Hope. (The Timmins siblings are descendants of Noah Timmins, a mining prospector who founded the Ontario city of Timmins.) Cowboy Junkies formed in Toronto in 1985.

Fascinating history of the songs and production of this a,bum on the Cowboy Junkie website HERE

http://www.cowboyjunkies.com/

Lyrics
I buried him down by the river
'cause that's where he liked to be
And every night when the moon is high
I go there and weep openly

He and I were married
By this river 'neath this willow tree
And with God and friends witnessing it
He pledged his life to me

To me he was Earth
And I rooted in his soil
I to he was Sky vast and free
Of the burdens from which he toiled

Then one night a terrible fight
Words spoken better left unsaid
With his wedding vows ringing in my ears
He gave his life to me

They say to love is to bury
Those demons from which we all hide
But tonight by this river 'neath this willow tree
Becoming one of Earth and Sky

Loving True Blood in Dallas book suggestion: Harper Connelly Mysteries

You know and love Sookie but do you know Harper ?

Book 4 will be out in October so need to get reading on books 1, 2 and 3.

Grave Sight (book 1)
*Berkley, 2005, ISBN-10: 0425205681; ISBN-13: 978-0425205686 (H)
*Recorded Books, ISBN-10: 1428122745; ISBN-13: 978-1428122741 (A)

Grave Surprise (book 2)
*Berkley 2006, ISBN-10: 0425212033; ISBN-13: 978-0425212035 (H)
*Recorded Books, ISBN-10: 1428132473; ISBN-13: 978-1428132474 (A)

An Ice Cold Grave (book 3)
*Berkley 2007, ISBN-10: 0-425-21729-9; ISBN-13: 978-0-4252-1729-0 (H)
*Recorded Books, ISBN -13: 978-1-4281-8125-0 (A)

Grave Secret (book 4)
* Berkley, October 27, 2009, ISBN-10: 0441018300; ISBN-13: 978-0441018307 (H)

From Publishers Weekly
Ever since Harper Connelly survived a zap from a lightning bolt, she's been able to find dead people, a skill that makes the protagonist in the first installment of Harris's new series a tad more bizarre than the mind-reading heroine of the author's Sookie Stackhouse books (Dead as a Doornail, etc.). Harper travels to the Ozark town of Sarne, Ark., to find a missing teenage girl's body, accompanied by her stepbrother, Tolliver, who acts as her manager and bodyguard and with whom she shares a thinly disguised physical attraction that they manage to keep at bay by engaging in casual sex with various partners. Finding the body takes no time at all, but leaving town afterward isn't so easy. When Harper's life is threatened and Tolliver ends up in jail on trumped-up charges, it quickly becomes apparent that something sinister is going on in Sarne. Harris delivers a knuckle-gnawing tale populated with well-developed, albeit edgy characters. A nifty puzzle toward the end will challenge the most jaded mystery buffs.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.

This title will be released on October 27, 2009.

True Blood Season2: Eric basement fight

I have had so many questions about the two clips we see of Eric in the basement in 2 of the last 3 True Blood HBO promos.

I have combined the two parts and saved them as stills and put them in this slide show ...

I hope this helps...

True Blood Soundtrack Giveaway winner is LyndaK!

Congrats to LyndaK and thanks to Atlantic records!

"True Blood: Music From the Original HBO Series" ($18.98, Atlantic/WEA)


1. "Bad Things," Jace Everett.

2. "Bleed 2 Feed," CC Adcock.

3. "Lake Charles," Lucinda Williams.

4. "Give It Up," Lee Dorsey.

5. "Swampblood," Th' Legendary Shack Shakers.

6. "Play With Fire," Cobra Verde.

7. "Just Like Heaven," The Watson Twins.

8. "Christine's Tune (A.K.A. Devil in Disguise)," The Flying Burrito Brothers.

9. "Two," Ryan Adams.

10. "Strange Love," Slim Harpo.

11. "From a Whisper to a Wind," Allen Toussaint.

12. "I Don't Wanna Know," Dr. John.

13. "The Golden State," Joe Doe featuring Kathleen Edwards.

14. "Bones," Little Big Town.

The soundtrack's producer, Gary Calamar, is music supervisor for the show.

Please pre-order the soundtrack HERE ( what a great Father's Day gift idea !)

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Blood Copy True Blood Season 2 :SPECTACLE

Great pains have been taken to try and convince humans they shouldn’t fear us. That the invention of Tru Blood assures that no vampire will ever again target a human for his source of sustenance. Fortunately, this is true in most cases. But some vampires have proven more stubborn with regards to their old habits, though in fairness, plenty of humans have developed a taste for our blood, as well.

The result is, although most have no reason to believe a vampire will harm them, some continue to be afraid. To see us as dangerous. Yet, as so often happens, this danger also opens the door to a kind of fascination. An interest in what vampires can do. An interest in how our abilities make us unique members of society, and how we are attempting to fit in despite them.

It’s little surprise then, that humans are making greater efforts to film us. Some of these are spectacle driven, depicting physical feats, some show how humans themselves have made alterations due to our existence. As I understand it, one television program has even been created starring a vampire character.

I look forward to seeing more and more of these as time goes on. I suppose I should say that these will help my attempts to witness the human vampire social experiment, but more because they somehow remind me of my own attempts to understand vampires through videos in my human days.

So I hope you’ll join me for this new entertainment.

P.S. You can also follow me on Twitter www.twitter.com/AndrewBloodcopy. However, as with these posts, I only write them at night and time delay their delivery, so I can’t respond to direct messages.

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Vampires and Werewolves: BEWARE!

Manion’s International Auction House has placed a plethora of interesting items up for bid in their nearly four decades in business, but a recently consigned item is of particular interest . . . to the undead!

At first glance, it looks to be an antique jewelry box, but a lift of the lid reveals an odd assortment: single shot revolver with silver bullets; vials containing holy water, wolf’s bane, and other peculiar potions; a collection of crucifixes, a sharpened stake, and additional artifacts intended to strike fear into “creatures of the night.”

“Apparently kits like these were sold to travelers to Eastern Europe in the 1800s and towards the turn of the century,” said Manion’s representative Andrew Turner. “I suppose one could say they worked fairly well as vampire and werewolf encounters are rare in modern day.”

A similar kit sold with Sotheby’s for $12,000 in 2003.

“The Internet is full of opinion,” said Turner. “Judgments are made as to whether or not these kits, constructed to slay imaginary creatures, are authentic or replicas – the entire conversation is quite a quandary.”

Turner views the kit as a piece of decorative art which would be of interest to an eclectic collector. It exhibits superior construction, and the quality of the artifacts are significant - in addition to their vampire and werewolf connection.

“Whether or not you believe in the existence of vampires and werewolves, you have to admit: this is a pretty neat piece,” said Turner. “If I had a few thousand dollars to spare, the first bid would be mine.”

The reserve price for the kit has been set at $3500 in addition to a 15% buyer’s premium. Photos and additional information can be viewed by visiting the company’s website – www.manions.com – and clicking the appropriate banner in the center of the page. The auction will close May 26, 2009

True Blood Music Video of the Day: Riot by Three Days Grace

Riot by Three Days Grace LYRICS
Thanks, Sisters513

Meet Corbett Hale Stackhouse - Sookie's Dad

The wonderful Beadrbop just happened to have a photo from last year when she and her family when to Las Vegas to see the Blue Man Group and her son was photographed with them ..

Ta da....

Pappa is that you ? Yes, we are pretty sure this is Jeffery Nicholas Brown aka Daddy Stackhouse

Charlaine Harris - June Book Signing in Louisiana June 13

There are LOTS of us going to this...if you are going let me know !! We will be having some meetups over the weekend !

Charlaine Harris is the author of the Sookie Stackhouse vampire novels that the HBO series True Blood is closely based on. Her HBO series was their biggest hit last season!

Charlaine is only scheduled to appear at seven signings this year. Her first book signing of 2009 is at the Author! Author! Book Festival on June 13, in Shreveport, Louisiana. Her books are set in North Louisiana in a fictional town near Shreveport.

She will also be hosting an informal question and answer session for the public at 2:00 p.m.

The event is free with tickets printed from the website (www.authorauthorshreveport.com) or is $2 at the door.

Alan Ball and True Blood cast promote dvd sales on Amazon

Alan Ball, Anna, Stephen and Sam all have nifty 40 second videos on the Amazon site to promote Dvd sales.

See them all HERE

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Alan Ball’s True Blood series works well for television, as it has enough sensationalism to tantalize and enough story girth to make the viewer care about the characters. That one can finally invest emotion into monsters, including an undead Civil War victim, a transformer who can shapeshift into various animals, and a female mind reader, speaks volumes about America’s willingness to accept fantasy. Of course, television has always produced good fantasy shows (I Dream of Jeannie), but True Blood’s Southern Goth brand of fun horror is more macabre and more perverse, not to mention gorier, than most shows of its kind to date. Adapted from Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse novels, True Blood thrills because of its equal blend in each episode of erotica, humor, tragedy, mystery, and fantasy.

Set in a rural, swampy Louisiana parrish, the show centers around Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) and her clan, sweet grandmother Adele (Lois Smith) and air-headed brother Jason (Ryan Kwanten). Illicit love is spawned early on, when Sookie saves vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) from having his blood stolen in the parking lot of Merlotte’s diner, owned by Sam Merlotte (Sam Trammell) who completes what will form a complex love triangle. As tensions between Sookie’s suitors loosen or tighten, many side plots, such as her African American best friend Tara’s (Rutina Wesley) struggle with an alcoholic, Bible-thumping mother and her brother’s dangerous crush on drug addicted hippie, Amy Burley (Lizzy Caplan), keep one wondering who will succeed in this podunk place. The main tension throughout, however, is a race war waged between vampires and humans. As murders of “fang bangers” occur (human girls who let vampires bite them) and dumb policeman Andy Bellefleur (Chris Bauer) fails to find clues, one sees the metaphorical implications of vampirism and feels deeper resonance with what can be a downright trashy show. Gossip galore, especially about what kinds of babies interbreeding will produce, is rampant. One of the funniest characters is Tara’s flamboyant cousin, Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis), who deals drugs, works as a fry cook, and services the local white politicians, while making sure he’s always up in everyone’s business.

What makes True Blood smarter than pure soap opera is the parallels it draws between its monster mash and actual, familiar societal problems. Sookie and her friends watch the news, where Evangelicals bash vampires and prohibit mixed marriage, and everyone is addicted to V, a.k.a vampire blood, that effects like psychedelic heroin. Even its gore reflects a mix of serious and silly, as vampires explode into red, sticky goop. Though it may not be attempting to qualify for the best vampire footage ever shot, True Blood is as addictive as that substance the town’s youth obsesses over, which is a metaphor in itself. --Trinie Dalton

First look: 'True Blood' season 2 poster and first 3 episodes.

from Entertainment Weekly

Sink your teeth into this exclusive first look at the official new key art for True Blood's 12-episode second season, which kicks off June 14.

To further whet your appetites, here are the official titles and (somewhat spoilery) loglines for the first three episodes...

June 14: “Nothing But the Blood”
A shocking murder outside Merlotte’s has Bon Temps reeling. Meanwhile, Sookie’s (Anna Paquin) relationship with Bill (Stephen Moyer) is tested when she learns about Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll), and of his involvement in her uncle’s death. Sam (Sam Trammell) recalls a shape-shifting encounter he had with Maryann (Michelle Forbes) as a 17-year-old. Jason (Ryan Kwanten) gets a sudden windfall that allows him to pay for a leadership retreat with the Fellowship of the Sun. Two adversaries find themselves sharing a mysterious dungeon and, possibly, the same fate.

June 21: “Keep This Party Going”
Sookie is forced to cope with Bill’s obligations to Jessica, as well as the romantic inconveniences the teen vampire’s presence creates. At the Light of Day leadership conference, Jason makes a favorable impression on its ambitious leaders, Steve (Michael McMillian) and Sarah Newlin (Anna Camp), though not on his jealous roommate Luke (Wes Brown). Maryann casts her spell on Merlotte’s patrons, and Sam proves helpless to stop the revelry.

June 28: “Scratches”
When Sookie is attacked by a mysterious creature, Bill must enlist Eric’s (Alexander Skarsgård) help to save her. At the Light of Day retreat, Jason has second thoughts about the sect’s anti-vampire agenda, but Sarah and Steve counter his doubts with flattery and promises. After snapping at Tara (Rutina Wesley) and new employee Daphne (Ashley Jones), Sam decides to cut and run. A bored Jessica heads over to Merlotte’s, where a smitten Hoyt (Jim Parrack) falls under her spell. At another Maryann-hosted party, Tara finds her attraction to Eggs (Mehcad Brooks) interrupted by a swirling, aphrodisiac fog.

Can't. Bloody. Wait.

Dallas has a free copy of True Blood Soundtrack to give away : released May 19th

We have a free copy from Atlantic Records to give away!

They have very kindly given me a free copy of the soundtrack to giveaway!

Of course, there is trick ..

If you would like to receive this FREE copy send me an email and you must include the title and artist for 2 songs that you will find on this soundtrack.

(**you can find the answers right here on this blog)
Email: True Blood in Dallas

Closes at midnight 12:00 cst tonight ( May 13)

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True Blood Buzz2 stills

You guys seem to really like these - it's easier to look at what going on in the scenes.
You are also welcome to use or take any of them -be creative!

True Blood behind the scenes: Sookie's Dad is a member of the Blue Man Group - What the hell ?

Why- Yes, he is and her mom was a ballerina !

NO, I am not making that up...haha

Jenni Blong plays Michelle Stackhouse in True Blood Season One : Episode 1, First Bite

Jenni's IMDb and Facebook page
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0089093/
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jenni-Blong/551796934
She is a former ballet dancer

Jeffery Nicholas Brown plays Corbett Stackhouse True Blood Season One : Episode 1, First Bite

Jeffreys's IMDb page
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1467955/

* is one of the Blue Men in the "Blue men group"
* played a vampire in 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' in 2002

** We do not know the name of Sookie's mother from the books.

Here are some behind the scenes photos from the set in Louisiana










We see Sookie and Jason as children and meet their parents in this True Blood clip ( 3:13)