trailer trash - Cirque Du Freak The Vampire's Assistant

Since True Blood airs tonight I felt compelled to post something vamp related. I don't know how I feel about this movie yet, but the cast is ridiculous and John C. Reilly always gives it his all even if the movie totally blows...

"True Blood" is back and better than ever!

I was such a huge fan of the first season, that I had a marathon to get ready for the second, and found myself thinking about vampires while reading French poetry. Now that the 2nd season has premiered, we finally know Lafayette's fate, I can go gaga over Alexander Skarsgard again, & wonder what trouble Jason Stackhouse is going to get himself into this season, though it's pretty obvious it's going to be at The Bible campe he's at.

"To Live"

This poem made me think of True Blood which returns on 6/14 by the by...

but of course it's open to interpretation.

To Live

We both have our hands to give
Take mine I shall lead you afar

I have lived several times my face has changed
With every threshold I have crossed and every hand clasped Familial springtime was reborn
Keeping for itself and for me its perishable snow
Death and the betrothed
The future with five fingers clenched and letting go

My age always gave me
New reasons for living through others
For having the blood of man other's heart in mine

Oh the lucid fellow I was and that I am
Before the pallor of frail blind girls
Lovelier than the delicate worn moon so fair
By the reflection of life's ways
A trail of moss anf trees
Of mist and morning dew
Of the young body which does not rise alone
To its place on earth
Wind cold and rain cradle it
Summer makes a man of it

Presesence is my virtue in each visible hand
Only death is solitude
From delight to fury from fury to clarity
I make myself whole through all beings
Through all weather on the earth and in the clouds
Through the passing seasons I am young
And strong for having lived
I am young my blood rises over my ruins

We have our hands to entwine Nothing can ever seduce better
Tahn our bonding to each other a forest
Returning earth to sky and the sky to night

To the night which prepares an unending day.

-Paul Eluard

Is it June yet?

Because I'm in dire need of some True Blood

'Twilight' Movie Review

I'm not going to mince words or go into a long diatribe about this film. All I can say is that it is incredibly entertaining, preposterously silly and annoyingly delightful. I absolutely love Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight Saga," she's a brilliant writer with a distinct voice that has written a great book series with a legion of fans, who's passion boggles my mind. With that mentioned "Twilight" is a completely different artistic endeavor and entity and an ADAPTATION, and not a perfect book to screen copy, but certainly does the source material justice.

Director Catherine Hardwicke has done a stellar job helming this special little film, that just happened to turn into a ginormous pop-culture phenomenon. There's really not much else I can say accept go see the movie if you're interested or intrigued, and if you've actually read any of the Twilight Saga, seeing all the characters come to life will most certainly amuse and please you. It's just a cool movie, with a cool story, cast and fantastic soundtrack, that's worth seeing (maybe even more than once- and no I won't admit how many times I've already seen it.) My rating 8/10

the world is a vampire...

With the "True Blood" finale tonight, the release of "Twilight" Friday and constant pop-culture focus on Vampires, has made me also think about my favorite "vampire related" songs and they're accompanying videos.

Smashing Pumpkins "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" and while we're on the subject of the Pumpkins I can share possibly THE greatest article title I've seen in a while.

Arctic Monkey's "Perhaps Vampires is a Bit Strong"

Radiohead "We Suck Young Blood" Live in West Palm in 2003

Twilight Review Round Up

11/19/08

Though "Twilight" comes out on November 21st and there's a number of reviews out that aren't as obsessed as the 18 million people who bougt Stephanie Meyer's novels. As if anyone else's opinon mattered when it came to the film adaptation this incredible book, I was pretty excited, intrigued and nervous about what Entertainment Weekly would have to say (my main concern was that Lisa Schwarzbaum would write the review and we don't really agree on anything.) Thankfully Owen Glieberman wrote the review and gave it a solid B, which is honestly good enough for me, though I intend to see the movie at 12:01 tonight no matter what. Like almost every film adaptation (All the Pretty Horses excluded) I'm not expecting the film to be better or surpass the book in any capacity. I'm just really excited to see what Catherine Hardwicke was able to do on the biggest picture she's ever worked on. She is a woman, artist and director I highly respect and am inspired by...and ok yes Robert Pattinson, as well as Kristen Stewart and the rest of the case make me swoon. So here are a compilation of the "Twilight" reviews.

trailer trash- Twilight

so i haven't been posting as much this week, because i, like most people, was following the Election and subsequent win of President Elect Barack Obama. though the main reason to be perfectly and completely honest as to why i haven't been posting on the regular (thursday's were pre-drafted) is that i've been obsessively reading Stephanie Meyer's vampire-romance "Twilight." the series has sold over 17 million copies world wide and spawned a fan base that's reminiscent of that of Harry Potter.

coincidentally the film stars Robert Pattinson, who played Cedric Diggory in HP "Goblet of Fire," and the legitmately talented Kristin Stewart (who you may have caught in "Panic Room" when she was 11, or more recently in "Into The Wild,") as Edward Cullen the "unbelivably beautiful vampire" who falls in love the "incredibly clumsy human" Bella Swan. when i first saw the trailer for the film a few months ago, i was unimpressed and wondered "WTF is this POS." [which i might add is also how i felt the first time i saw the trailer for "The Matrix"...& ultimately ended up seeing 3 times in theaters.] but then Ms. Kelly lent me her copy of Twilight and i wasn't able to put it down to the point where i would have to remind myself to eat during my lunch break rather than just sit and read. the movie is directed by the eternally cool and incredibly talented Catherine Hardwicke, who also directed the heart-breaking and gut-wrenching drama "Thirteen" and "Lords of Dogtown." when "Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince" got moved from November 21st to next summer, Twilght's release was pushed forward to occupy that date and has created a frenzy and coverage like i have never seen before. i'm just hoping the film does this beloved book justice.

"Twilight Trailer"

i thought i'd be a fool for no one,but oh baby i'm a fool for you

who cares if i posted this video over a year ago it's flippin fantastic and the opening song on the "Twilight Soundtrack"

"True Blood" is fangtastic

i've always been a fan of vampire lore, and mythology. i grew up watching "Buffy" religiously, and am one of the few people who will admit they liked "Mad Men's" 'Pete Campbell' on Angel over his current role, but random info aside. Alan Ball's new show is better than fantastic it's fangtastic. i may come off a little cheesy and a little cheeky, but anyone who is into vampires has to be. I've been a huge fan of Ball since he wrote "American Beauty" (which he won the Oscar for,) but mainly because of "Six Feet Under" which was definitely one of the most exciting, original and honest TV shows ever made. anyway "True Blood" is awesome. it's funny, dramatic, creepy, sensual and incredibly sexy. Anna Paquin is adorable and strong, while Stephen Moyer oozes so much sex appeal that i want him to jump off the screen and nibble on me. i posted 2 mini reviews below, but my advice to you is check out this show immediately!

Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly describes it as: "Set in a tiny Louisiana town, True Blood is a Southern/absurdist/goth/civil rights horror show: Folks acknowledge that vampires exist; they just don't want 'em moving into their neighborhood."

While IMDB wrote: "In the not-too-distant future, vampires have come out of the coffin. Thanks to the invention of mass-produced synthetic blood, these oft-maligned creatures of the night no longer need a human fix -- and as a result can walk freely, if not yet comfortably, among their living counterparts. Can young Louisiana waitress Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) buck conventional wisdom to forge a love match with the 173-year-old vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer)? Sink your teeth into "True Blood", the new HBO series from the creator of "Six Feet Under". Visit the official site, get local listings, and see the photos for "True Blood"