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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Fan Art : Eric Northman Keepsake box
I am on a kick looking for for interesting ways that fans are
How can you not want a burned wood Eric Northman portrait on a keepsake box?
Buy one today!
From Danelle41
http://www.etsy.com/shop/danelle41
Let's compare Dead and Gone ( Sookie #10) different book descriptions
Here are the 2 different book descriptions I've seen posted to the Dead in the Family pre-order listings on Amazon. There is no description posted yet for Borders or Banes and Noble.
Amazon US book description
After enduring torture and the loss of loved ones during the brief but deadly Faery War, Sookie Stackhouse is hurt and she's angry. Just about the only bright spot in her life is the love she thinks she feels for vampire Eric Northman. But he's under scrutiny by the new Vampire King because of their relationship. And as the political implications of the Shifters coming out are beginning to be felt, Sookie's connection to the Shreveport pack draws her into the debate. Worst of all, though the door to Faery has been closed, there are still some Fae on the human side-and one of them is angry at Sookie. Very, very angry...
Amazon UK description
If you think your family relationships are complicated, think again: you haven't seen anything like the ones in Bon Temps, Louisiana. Sookie Stackhouse is dealing with a whole host of family problems, ranging from her own kin (a non-human fairy and a telepathic second cousin) demanding a place in her life, to her lover Eric's vampire sire, an ancient being who arrives with Eric's 'brother' in tow at a most inopportune moment. And Sookie's tracking down a distant relation of her ailing neighbour (and ex), Vampire Bill Compton. In addition to the multitude of family issues complicating her life, the werewolf pack of Shreveport has asked Sookie for a special favour, and since Sookie is an obliging young woman, she agrees. But this favour for the wolves has dire results for Sookie, who is still recovering from the trauma of her abduction during the Fairy War.
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‘Intercourse With A Vampire’ Picks Up ‘Twilight’ 5 (or 10) Years Later
Now is exactly the right time to spoof vampires, because they are everywhere. Right Thoughts of a dying Atheist? They are in our books, our movie adaptations of books, even our TV show adaptations of books. Eddie Murphy, either you had bad timing, or were way ahead of your time.
As you might have guessed from its title, Intercourse With A Vampire is a spoof. The comedy is about a lascivious, rather unconvincingly seductive Dracula-type named Vampire Larry who lives with his high school sweetheart. The idea being “what if Robert Pattinson’s Twilight character Edward got older, kept his girlfriend, but was a creep.” Using that premise, Vampire picks up where creator and star Jacob Fleisher’s comedy short Twilight – 5 Years Later left off.
In terms of performance, Fleisher has the tendency to go broad with his comedy. That’s putting it politely. In the first scene of the first episode he slimes his way into bed with his girlfriend Tracy (Kristen Carney), and as they have sex his face contorts wildly, as if a GIF Party of Jim Carrey’s face from Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.
read onIntercourse With A Vampire, Episode 1
'Gone With The Wind'/Vampire Mash-Up Proves That Blood-Suckers Make Everything More Awesome
Forget the idea of retro-fitting old movies for 3-D, which sometimes reminds
from MTV
True Blood Music Video of the Day: Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) Sex Bomb
Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) Sex Bomb
Thanks, Gracounette4
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
True Blood author Charlaine Harris's Harper Connelly series to have a comic adaptation
Via PR, another best-selling author goes the comics route, Charlaine Harris:
Acclaimed author Charlaine Harris, the writer of the Sookie Stackhouse series, is joining the Dynamite Entertainment family in 2010! We are proud to announce that the first book of her hit Harper Connelly series, Grave Sight, will be adapted by Dynamite Entertainment in 2010. Her Sookie Stackhouse novels became the basis for one of today’s most successful television shows, the hit HBO series True Blood. Dynamite is extremely proud to present Charlaine Harris’ first comic adaptation!
For the past five years, readers have been thrilled by the Harper Connelly series. Featuring Harper Connelly, a woman who has what you might call a strange job: she finds dead people. She can sense the final location of a person who’s passed, and share their very last moment. The way Harper sees it, she’s providing a service to the dead while bringing some closure to the living-but she’s used to most people treating her like a blood-sucking leech. Traveling with her step-brother Tolliver as manager and sometime-bodyguard, she’s become an expert at getting in, getting paid, and getting out fast. Because for the living it’s always urgent-even if the dead can wait forever.
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If you haven't read them get going !
True Blood gets Southern Comfort backing
Sponsorship includes national press campaign
Southern Comfort is sponsoring the second season of TV vampire series True Blood, showing on digital entertainment channel FX.
The drinks brand is being included in marketing promotions, including a national press campaign.
Brand manager Jamie Butler said: “Southern Comfort’s ‘come as you are’ attitude to life is epitomized in the stories of the residents of Bon Temps, which along with our New Orleans heritage makes True Blood a perfect fit with our brand”.
Cool website with more drink recipes here
The Sookie Swizzle
This zest infused cocktail has plenty of bite. Southern Comfort mixed with the fresh fruit infused flavours of blood orange and lemon juice is a combination that is sure to stimulate your taste buds for all the right reasons.
Ingredients
50ml Southern Comfort
3 wedges Blood Orange
3 wedges lemon
15ml Sugar syrup
Dash of Peychaud’s Bitters
Served in a large rocks over crushed ice, muddle fruit and build in glass
Southern Merlotte’s Punch
This cunning concoction mixes Southern Comfort, red wine, with the juice of 1/2 a blood orange to create a taste tingling explosion of flavors.
Ingredients
35ml Southern Comfort
15ml Lemon Juice
25ml Apple Juice
50ml Merlot red wine
15ml Sugar syrup
1/2 blood orange (squeezed)
Dash of Peychaud’s Bitters
Shake and strain into a High Ball glass over cubed ice. Serve with a blood orange and lemon slice and garnish with mint sprig.
Southern Mary
Move over Bloody Mary; make way for Southern Mary which offers an eclectic mix of Southern Comfort, tomato juice, Tabasco and red wine – sure to wow friends and family.
Ingredients
35ml Southern Comfort
15ml Red Wine
15ml Lemon Juice
Dash sugar syrup
80ml Tomato Juice
2 dash Tabasco
1 dash Lee and Perrings
Salt and pepper
Celery Stick
Mix the Southern Comfort, red wine, tomato and lemon juice together and stir. Add the Tabasco, Lee and Perrings sugar and salt. Sir again and garnish with celery stick.
Southern Blood
Mixes Southern Comfort, a traditional taste of New Orleans, with the juice of half a blood orange – an established drink with a dark twist.
Ingredients
50ml Southern Comfort
½ blood orange
Ice
Fill a glass halfway with ice and pour the Southern Comfort over. Squeeze the juice of half a blood orange and stir for a true taste of New Orleans, where Southern Comfort originates.
The spectre of sexism haunting horror fiction
Women play a huge role in the genre, so when they are ignored it speaks of an ugly menace
Just when you thought it was safe to venture into the murky depths of horror fiction again, back comes the re-animated, shuffling monster of a problem that seems to be dogging the genre at the moment: accusations of sexism.
The latest broadside against the lack of acknowledgement given to the role of women in the horror field is levelled against SFX magazine, one of the longest-running and m
The magazine has just published a special horror-themed spin-off. "Our first special edition of the new decade is SFX COLLECTION: HORROR," it proclaims: "your ultimate guide to the dark side of the imagination. It features a beefy 14-page news section, oodles of in-depth new features, and six great free gifts." It also features, unfortunately, a distinct lack of female practitioners of the dark art, resurrecting an argument from five months ago that prompted an internet flurry when the British Fantasy Society published a book entitled In Conversation: A Writer's Perspective, Volume One: Horror.
read on from Guardian UK
True Blood Season Two May 25th
Just like season one, season two will be available in both Blu-ray, DVD, and digital download versions. The standard DVD version will run you $59.99 and bring you a handful of special features, but throwing down an extra 20 bucks for the Blu-ray will mean tripling the bonus features, at least according to the press release. Here's what we know:
Standard DVD Bonus Features
Blu-Ray Bonus Features
All of the above, plus...
From Cinema Blend
Sam Trammell: True Blood series two is even better
True Blood's Michelle Forbes and Sam Trammell have told fans that the second series is set to be sexier, scarier and more bloody.
The hit vampire series returns on Friday for a new series on FX and the actors claim that this stint will be even more successful than the last.
Sam Trammell, who plays Sam Merlotte in the drama, told The Daily Record: "If you liked season one, then this is where it all really starts getting exciting - it was the second year that saw the show really take off in the States, we were all getting recognised more and it kind of exploded.
"Season two is really fantastic, it's better than season one and is very exciting and very fast paced.
read on From whats on TV UK
'True Blood' star Alexander Skarsgard reveals he used to be an anti-terrorist marine in Sweden
These days Alexander Skarsgard often uses his teeth as weapons, but he is much more comfortable with your garden variety guns and ammo.
Long before he became known as the evil head vampire Eric in 'True Blood,' SKarsgard was an anti-terrorist marine in his home country of Sweden, London's Telegraph reports.
The 33-year-old actor grew up in Stockholm as the son of famous actor Stellan Skarsgard. As he grew up, he says he wanted the challenge of a hard life.
At 19, he enrolled in Sweden's national service where he practised battle tactics, combat and anti-sabotage assaults
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True Blood Music Video of the Day: My United States Of Whatever
My United States Of Whatever
Thanks, ToddMarty
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
True Blood Parodies : Applesauce and more
I begin to worry a little bit about True Blood fans every year when it's been SOOO long between new Sookie books and new seasons of True Blood that we start expressing ourselves like this ...hahha
True Blood on Sky TV UK
Check out Sky TV UK True Blood web page and Character Profiles
Bon Temps born and bred, Sookie's boyfriend Bill Compton is a true Southern gentleman - and a 173-year-old vampire.
First Appearance: Strange Love (Episode 1.1)
Special Attributes: Vampire
Season 1: Bill walked into Merlotte’s bar and into the life of Sookie Stackhouse. After rescuing her from an attack by a pair of rednecks, Bill let Sookie drink of his blood, healing her and forming a bond between the two. His relationship with Sookie hit a bump when he killed a vampire who was trying to hurt her. Vampire code dictates that he must be punished and he was forced to turn an innocent young woman into a vampire. Having completed the task he discovered the young woman was overjoyed at leaving her drab human life behind, but was also something of a handful. When Sookie was being pursued by the Bon Temps murderer, Bill sensed that she was in trouble and ventured into the sun to help her. The power of the sun nearly killed him but he was buried and saved by Sookie and Sam.
True Blood's Anna Paquin : A relationship with bite
Anna Paquin was nine years old when she first became famous for her role as Flora in The Piano, and 11 as she stood smiling and gasping in silence for a full 20 seconds at the podium to receive her Oscar for it.
In True Blood, the new HBO hit (seen here on Showcase), Paquin, now 27, has morphed into the telepathic barmaid Sookie Stackhouse. She runs around in tiny shorts and has bleached blonde hair and a lot of steamy sex with a vampire named Bill.
The first episode sets out to shock, featuring a couple getting amorous strung from a meat hook while watching vampire sex on video. But it has been a huge success in America, winning Paquin a 2009 Golden Globe for best actress in a television drama. It is now HBO's second most popular series, after The Sopranos. To add to the mix, and to the delight of the British tabloids, in August Paquin got engaged in real life to her vampire lover, the English actor Stephen Moyer. He is 40, she is 27, and they divide their time between his house near Hampstead and hers in Los Angeles.
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