best line from true blood last night

you ask?

well i shall tell you

jason went off to that i hate vampires religious cult camp for leaders. we got to see him play religious sports with his shirt off (oh my goddess. i don't usually get the vapors, my oh my oh my)

anyway, because of his athletic prowess, he (jason) sort of pissed off this other jock at the camp.

cut to the evening and a meeting/dance/c&w concert type deal. after the hoe down, the lead religious dude and his dutiful mrs (who i think has the hots for jason AS DOES THE LEAD RELIGIOUS DUDE) anyway i digress..... call jason up to the stage to do a little role playing. the mrs is to play a fang banger and jason is to portray what he is turning into - a cult member zealot. anyway, the mrs puts some fangs in and jason goes nuts, sees his ex-grrrlfren (that wicked crazy biotch whose name i forget) staking the vamp lafayette used to get his "v" from and flips. he (jason) grabs the flag and snaps the wooden pole in half and stomps over to the mrs screaming DIE DIE DIE. everyone (after their initial shock) claps and whoops it up and all is well

cut to jason (in a towel) brushing his teeth. the jealous jock dude pops in and says.....

hey, what the fuck was up with you snapping that pole and doing all that muslim buffy with a dick shit?

(it was REALLY very funny)

my question is;

i reallyyyyyyyyyyyyy like the hbo true blood series A LOT

i got the first 7 (or is it 8) books by charlaineharris but i didn't get very far in book one.

BUT i am devouring EVERYTHING laurell k hamilton has written. i'm on the fifth anita blake book.

now answer me this. i believe all of those hamilton books were written WAY before the sookie story (at least on hbo, as i have said, i didn't get very far reading them). hasn't the sookie story line taken (appropriated?????) an awful lot of the blake shite (i'll give you 'glamoring' for one and vampire rights for two but there really are so many more similarities. hmmmmmmm that's all i'm sayin')

oh mama....

i cannot wait for true blood to start again.

Ryan Kwanten as Jason Stackhouse

in celebration of true blood's finale

the other night (shite, i am going to have to wait until NEXT summer to watch the new season.)

i am not going to talk about the finale because i'm guessing some haven't watched it yet. i WILL say jason stackhouse DOES NOT get any smarter. that's not news to anyone who watches the show though

i love that show. it's funny, sexy, poignant AND it's making a point (god hates fangs is a kick ass take off)

again from boing boing

True Blood Featurette (video)

My friend Clayton Cubitt describes this spectacular little featurette by Digital Kitchen in four words: "Southern gothic art boner." Link to QuickTime file (contains blurry, fleeting art-nudity). UPDATE: sorry, looks like that direct "Link to QuickTime file" won't work as a clickthrough from BoingBoing, but if you copy and paste the url into your browser, it does.

Found on the excellent artofthetitle.com, in a post linking the opening sequence for Alan Ball's killer (heh) new HBO series with the cultural roots of the film Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus.

coolness personified

Tuvan Throat-Singing Rap by Ondar, with the voice of Richard Feynman

.Filmmaker Ralph Leighton says, "This was the highlight of my recent trip to Vladivostok, Russia, where the film GENGHIS BLUES won the Governor's Prize at the Pacific Meridian Film Festival. It features Tuvan throat-singer ONDAR and the voice of [Nobel laureate and physicist] Richard Feynman. ........



by the way an episode or two back on hbo's true blood bill (the vamp) and sookie were in a car and what was on that car's radio? why tuvan throat singing of course! (it was wicked cool to hear it mainstream. well as mainstream as a show about cajuns and vampires can be)