True Blood Season 2 spoilers

From eonline

Eileen in Menlo Park, Calif.: Spill me some news on True Blood, especially about that gorgeous Jason Stackhouse.
True Blood star Ryan Kwanten tells us that Jason and his sister, Sookie, won't be separated forever: "There will be [a reunion between the Stackhouse siblings] and quite an electric one, too, where we gang up for the greater good."

Tim in Sarasota Springs, Fla.: When do we finally get to see this badass vampire Godric on True Blood?
We've been waiting patiently for this mysterious vampire-of-all-vampires too, and the wait is almost over. Godric (Allan Hyde) pops up in the July 19 episode, along with his lieutenants Stan (Eureka's Ed Quinn) and Isabel (Valerie Cruz). Valerie tells us, "Isabel runs with the Dallas vampires, but she kind of becomes friends with both Bill and Eric. And she likes Sookie. [Isabel] has a penchant for humans, and she's sensitive to this love story they have."

Lee in Terre Haute, Ind.: I need some True Blood info!
Carrie Preston, who plays Arlene, says, "The second-season finale is only two weeks after the end of the first season. Things get crazy in Bon Temps, Louisiana, I'll tell you that." Wait, Arlene doesn't die, does she? "Not so far!"

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b132777_spoiler_chat_whos_taking_break_from.html

True Blood and Sam's 'Boggy Bayou Mullet ' tshirt

Thanks so much to Lisa W

I have written about past True Blood t-shirts here

In S2 Episode #3 Scratch My Back, Sam is wearing a t-shirt that says "Boggy Bayou Mullet Festival" - That is a real festival held in Niceville, FL all based around a brackish water fish called a "mullet". It's not about the haircut. That's a real shirt -- I lived in that area for nearly 40 Years (now in Colorado).

Here's a link to the festival web site:
http://mulletfestival.com/

Spooky chic :Vampire mania is taking the fashion scene by storm

THE symptoms are unnerving: a taste for fresh meat — rare, if you please; an aversion to sunlight; and a passion for spectral-looking, fine-boned rakes. All are indications that the sufferer has been bitten by the vampire bug.

Sookie Stackhouse, the feisty young heroine of HBO’s True Blood, risks doom whenever she visits with her otherworldly beau. And Oskar, the adolescent misfit of the Swedish art film Let the Right One In, a favourite in fashion circles, courts extinction each time he ventures out with Eli, the eerily ageless shape-shifter he befriends.

Sookie and Oskar are in the throes of vampire lust, a pop-culture contagion being spread via television, films and fiction. What began with the Twilight Saga, the luridly romantic young-adult series by Stephenie Meyer, followed by Twilight, the movie, has become a pandemic of unholy proportions.

Is it a wonder?
Rarely have monsters looked so sultry — or so camera-ready. No small part of this latest vampire mania seems to stem from the ethereal cool and youthful sexiness with which the demons are portrayed. Bela Lugosi they are not.

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'True Blood': You Ask, I Answer on Lafayette's fate, 'True' love lives & more

HBO staked us with a "True Blood" rerun last night. No good. But today, I'm answering a few of your "TB" questions to keep you satiated 'til next Sunday...

Any scoop on summer scripted shows like "True Blood"? They seem to be dragging out Lafayette's fate. I guess the next episode we get somewhere finally? -kellek
Um, sort of. Seems to me Lafayette wasn't made a Vampire, since he will end up drinking Eric's blood in order to heal his wounds... but I'm still not super clear on the whole Vampire deal. Do Vamp's ever suck on each other for strength? What I know for sure is that Eric's blood brings our boy Lafayette back to fighting form. We'll see the happy-go-lucky guy we loved last season once again.

What's up with Eggs and Tara? Is it over? -Kate
Ha, oh hells no.
From Korbi

I love the idea of Hoyt and Jessica on "True Blood"! -P
Hoyt loves the idea too. Jessica's into it as well, but I don't think she's exactly a one man kind of vampiress... not just yet anyway.

Am I imagining the overwhelming sexual tension between Jason Stackhouse and the preacher's wife on "True Blood"? Is something going to happen with that? -Maria
No to the former. Yes to the latter. Keep watching, you're not waiting for nothing.

Sookie and Eric! Is Alan Ball going to completely ignore that storyline from the book series? -Paula
Nope. When I spoke to Stephen Moyer about what's coming up with S&E, he got a little jealous. I think he was joking... for the most part.

I read on Twitter that you weren't a big fan of last week's "True Blood" episode. It was a little disappointing compared to the first two. -Jan
No worries, they step it back up this coming Sunday...

Psyched for what's on tap? Anything specific you're hoping to see this season?

Oh, I keep forgetting to show you guys a photo of the SAG Foundation's "True Blood" event with Stephen Moyer, which I moderated a couple weeks ago. Great guy. Anna Paquin's a lucky girl. He looks hot with a little color in his face, no?

http://blog.zap2it.com/korbitv/2009/07/true-blood-you-ask-i-answer.html

One Thing Vampires and Humans Can Agree on: Synthetic Blood Would Be Great

From Discover magazine blog

Everyone is enjoying their summer run of HBO’s True Blood, yes? Our team of brooding vampires and charming Louisianans seem to be up to their usual high jinks. For those not into the show, it’s premised on the invention of TruBlood, a synthetic human blood substitute. A few years before the show begins, the Japanese have invented the stuff, and for the first time, vampires can subsist without killing people. They decide that now is the time to come out of the coffin—err, closet—and go mainstream.

But producing synthetic human blood has been a grail of sorts of the medical profession for decades. Imagine, no more public-service messages on the radio, begging for donations, no more blood donor trucks. If synthetic blood came into being, there would be no more searching for exact blood types, or fear of contracting blood-born diseases from transfusions. Heck, the entire blood-for-cookie market would collapse, and I mean that in the best way possible. And it may actually happen, possibly within the next few years.

Last year, scientists working for Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) published results in the journal Blood that showed they could produce functioning, oxygen-carrying red blood cells from stem cells. By selecting stem cells from embryos that produce O-negative blood (universal donor), ACT could theoretically produce synthetic blood that anyone could receive.

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Set-Design Drool: True Blood

from morewaystowastetime blog

Are y'all watching True Blood on HBO? I can't get enough of this soapy, Southern-fried vampire series.

In fact, I'm a sucker -- so to speak -- for pretty much any well-done, intelligent vampire tale. Unlike seemingly half of the adult female population, though, I'm utterly immune to the supposed charms of the Twilight saga and its sparkling (non)bloodsuckers. I like my vampire fables complete with sex and blood, thank you very much. (As for what's behind our collective obsession with the undead, this recent New York Times article attempts to psychoanalyze the fang fixation.)

Anyway, there is plenty of sex and blood in Bon Temps, Louisiana -- the fictional setting for the show, which centers around clairvoyant barmaid Sookie Stackhouse; her 170-year-old vampire boyfriend, Bill Compton; Bill's newly undead "daughter," Jessica; shape-shifting roadhouse proprietor Sam; Sookie's formerly demon-possessed BFF, Tara; mysterious Maenad Maryann; vampire head honcho Eric and his tart-tongued sidekick, Pam; gay and fierce short-order cook, hustler, porn-site entrepreneur, and erstwhile drug dealer Lafayette; Sookie's dumb but sexy brother, Jason; and a collection of other odd -- and often oddly lovable -- characters.

Of course, being the design geek that I am, I'm nearly as fascinated by the physical spaces the show's characters inhabit as I am the steamy storylines they become entangled in. Let's take a little tour, shall we? (Warning: Mild spoilers ahead.)

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True Blood Music Video of the Day: Never Say Never by The Fray

Never Say Never by The Fray LYRICS

Thanks, sariebearie08

'True Blood': Where's our new episode tonight?

It's Sunday night, and what better way to end the holiday weekend than to settle in for a new episode of True Blood. Wait -- what? No new episode of True Blood? What the fang is HBO thinking? This is a perfect night to please both regular viewers and capture some new, Fourth of July-relaxed eyeballs with some fresh Blood.

This whole, let's-air-reruns-on-holidays concept is so broacast-network circa, like, 1975. It is not HBO. Yes, I know we could sit through the two Blood reruns HBO is showing back-to-back starting at 9 p.m. ET, but it's not the same.

What's the TV alternative? A rerun of Dexter on Showtime at 9? (Not a terrible idea; I like the episode description: "Dexter feels distracted and unable to kill" -- hey, I remember that one!) Or a new episode of Kendra on E! at 10? No thanks: Kendra's laugh is like a scream made by someone who's just been bitten by a vampire...

Which brings us back to True Blood, for which I'm jonesing, as the kids used to say. How about you ?

http://watching-tv.ew.com/2009/07/true-blood-dexter-hbo.html

True Blood Dvd Biographies : Eric, Chow, Pam, Lorena and Hadley

These are the bio from the True Blood Season 1 Blu-ray ( I assume dvd too) , these are the ones I have, are there others ?

Pam
Born 1871, made Vampire 1905 at 34yrs old
1) Born to a wealthy London family and it bored her to no end.
2) She spent most of her 20s breaking most men's heart..
3) When she meet Eric he offered her immortality and she took him up on it..
4) She loves being a vampire

Eric Northman...born in Scandinavia
Born 1046...made vampire 1077
1) As a teenager Eric joined up with a rouge band of warriors, who refused to swear allegiance to any kingdom (My destiny is to answer to no Man)
2) He became the leader of the group, which was infamous for marauding in Poland and Germany until they vanished in 1077
3) He will not speak of how he was made Vampire or who made him.

Lorena Krasiki
Born 1759, made Vampire 1777
1). She was the illegitimate child of an unmarried Lady in waiting for the Empress of Austria, who arranged for the Bastard child to be raised by Nuns in Vienna..
2) She was a well behaved child, model student, lover of nature.
3) She told the nuns God was not just in the church, but in the World.
4) On the evening before she was to take her Vows, she stayed out after dark and was turned by a Gypsy Vampire

Hadley
Hadley protected Sookie as a kid.
1) When Sookie was in middle school, Hadley used to pick Sookie up in her Hot Trans Am
2) Lafayette loved Hadley, thought she was the coolest
3) Hadley shacked up with a Meth dealer in Shreveport. She went down hill fast and hasn't been heard from since...

Chow- Chow Lin
Born 1860 and.turned 1901
1) Lived a solitary life in a small village in Central China, working as a carpenter, the only joy in his life came from watching the widow next door, for whom he pinned for over 10 interminable years.
2) When a vampire attacked her on a lonely street, Chow offered his life for hers and the vampire accepted.
3) Chow thought he finally won the woman's affection, but instead she recoiled leaving him to an eternity of loneliness.

True Blood's Queen Sophie Anne: For Evan Rachel Wood, 'Whatever Works'

From Pottstown Mercury

Move aside, Oprah. It might be time to crown Evan Rachel Wood the new Queen of All Media. The actress best known for roles in "Thirteen," "Across the Universe" and "The Wrestler" is expanding her realm to include TV and Broadway.

Beginning in February 2010, Wood will portray Mary-Jane in a musical production of "Spider-Man," which "Lion King" director Julie Taymor and members of U2 have adapted from the Marvel comics. Until then, Wood can be seen on HBO's hit neck-biter drama "True Blood" as a 400-year-old vampire queen.

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The Courageous Heart of Irene Sendler out on DVD

As a Polish Catholic social worker in the early 1940s, Irena Sendler created and led a conspiracy of women who moved in and out of Warsaw's Jewish Ghetto disguised as nurses employed by Warsaw's Health Department. Though they worked under the guise of merely attempting to prevent and contain the spread of Typhus and Spotted Fever, Sendler and her brave cohorts emerged each time with the children of consenting Jewish parents. The children were sometimes sedated and hidden inside boxes, suitcases and coffins as a means of rescuing them from their imminent deportation to death camps. They were given new identities and placed with Polish families and in convents. Sendler kept a hidden record of their birth names and where they were placed with the hope that they would some day be reunited with their own families.

In 1943, the Nazis discovered Sendler's daring and dangerous ruse and arrested her. She was tortured by Gestapo agents and suffered broken feet. On the day of her scheduled execution she was rescued by "Zegota," the underground network with which she worked to save the Jewish children.

As a result of Sendler's efforts, approximately 2,500 children were smuggled to safety. Not a single child she rescued was ever betrayed or discovered by the Nazis.

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Lafayette ( Nelsan Ellis) interview with TV Guide

True Blood: Nelsan Ellis
by tvguide

True Blood behind the scenes: filming at the Carmilla Hotel in Dallas ( Silent Shore Hotel in books)

( click on images to enlarge) Sofitel Hotel in Los Angeles, CA just wrapped HBO’s TRUE BLOOD.One of HBO’s newest hit shows “True Blood” is starting season 2 in June , keep watch for Stone Rose Lounge this season. Also featured is the amazing lobby of Sofitel LA located in West Hollywood. Shooting took two seperate days and a total of 18 hours one day and 24 hours the following week. During shooting of True Blood, Sofitel LA was turned into “Carmilla Hotel” a Vampire Hotel located in the south. The concierge desk featured Tru Blood bottles of blood (which look more like beer bottles). This exciting shoot was a huge hit with guests of the hotel. Guests of Sofitel got to see star of True Blood Anna Paquin upclose. Before and After photos were taking during shooting, see attached photos in this blog for a sneak peak at the show. True Blood’s filming was a total success and we hope to book them again sometime in the future. If you would like FilmingDirect.com to represent your hotel, home, bar…please contact us at info@filmingdirect.com or use our contact page to send a message to our sales department. For information about True Blood go to www.hbo.com/trueblood

http://blog.filmingdirect.com/posts/true-blood/
Concierge and Front Desk

True Blood's Anna Paquin also stars in a possible Emmy nominated movie

The LA Times reports that:

Another WWII drama is keenly in the running too, "Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler," starring Anna Paquin as a Pole rescuing Jews during the Holocaust.

They think Grey Gardens will get it ..

BEST TV MOVIE
(Front-runners)
"Accidental Friendship"
"The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler"
"Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story"
"Grey Gardens"
"Into the Storm"
"Jesse Stone: Thin Ice"
"My Zinc Bed"
"Prayers for Bobby"
"Taking Chance"
"24 Redemption"
"Wallander: One Step Beyond"'

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Valerie Cruz, 'True Blood's' First Latina Vampire Speaks

Valerie Cruz, who comes aboard "True Blood" this season as the show's first Latina vampire, Isabel, recounts that she was surprised to find series creator Alan Ball on when she first went in for a casting meeting.

"Funny, I wasn't even expecting him to be in the room. A lot of producers nowadays, it's like they can't even be bothered to be in the room anymore. They want it on tape," says the actress, known as Sylvia Prado -- Jimmy Smits' wife -- to "Dexter" fans. "There are a lot of things you can't get from an audition tape -- the energy when someone walks in, their interaction. Alan is such a class act. He's there at every table read. The writers I've spoken to say he's incredibly gracious -- he trusts the people that he hires to really do a great job. The cool thing about it is, once you're cast, once the whole thing is put together, he takes a step back and lets people do creatively what they want to do."

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True Blood Music Video of the Day:She's the Reigning Champ of the Teething Crowd by Say Hi to your Mom

She's the Reigning Champ of the Teething Crowd by Say Hi to your Mom LYRICS
Thanks, losteyesight

True Blood behind the scenes: Merlotte's Busboy played by Robert Amjarv

Robert some facts ( what more do you need to know except that he plays the theremin and is a stilt walker ?) .

Date of Birth: 16 June 1985, Burbank, California, USA
Birth Name : Robert Ian Amjarv
Height: 6' 2" (1.88 m)

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/amjarv

Myspace
About me: I'm Rob. I'm from Los Angeles and I've been a musician since I can remember. I'm pretty partial to the hard rock genre, but I enjoy elements from all others as well. Like mariachi for example; can you imagine how awesome it would be to plug in a 'Big Muff' distortion pedal to one of those trumpet players? I'm also a regular on the TV show 'True Blood.'
e-mail: robert@amjarv.com

Music:Pentamental
Progressive Alternative Hard Rock
Songwriting, Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Theremin, Production, Engineering, Mastering, 5.1 Surround Mixing/Mastering.

String Theory
Classical, Ambient, Rock
Sitar and Theremin

Airship Red
Rock
Guitar and Vocals

William Kirkham Band
Rock
Bass Guitar
Film and TV:

The Spotlight -Actor

True Blood -Actor

# The Spotlight (2009) .... Wolfboy
# Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) (uncredited) .... Theremin Player ... aka Walk Hard (USA: short title) ... aka Walk Hard: American Cox, the Unbearably Long, Self-Indulgent Director's Cut (USA: director's cut)

http://www.myspace.com/amjarv imdb.com/name/nm2735515/

Robert Amjarv

"True Blood" (12 episodes)
1. Strange Love (7 September 2008) - Bus Boy (uncredited) 2. The First Taste (14 September 2008) - Bus Boy (uncredited) 3. Mine (21 September 2008) - Bus Boy 4. Escape from Dragon House (28 September 2008) - Bus Boy 5. Sparks Fly Out (5 October 2008) - Bus Boy (uncredited) 6. Cold Ground (12 October 2008) - Bus Boy (uncredited) 7. Burning House of Love (19 October 2008) - Bus Boy (uncredited) 8. The Fourth Man in the Fire (26 October 2008) - Bus Boy (uncredited) 9. Plaisir d'amour (2 November 2008) - Bus Boy 10. I Don't Wanna Know (9 November 2008) - Bus Boy 11. To Love Is to Bury (16 November 2008) - Bus Boy 12. You'll Be the Death of Me (23 November 2008) - Bus Boy