My Monday is in Need of Some Hunky Men...

Soooo I present to you some of the favorite vampires of movies and tv...


How could you not love Lost Boys? The 80's hair might bring the sex appeal down a bit, but I still love the movie and especially Keiffer Southerland. There is a sequal coming out at the end of this month - straight to DVD... I think I will still check it out, even if the trailor looks like a modern version of the original.

My favorite vampire of all time might go to Buffy's Angel star David Boreanaz though: my first big celeb crush. In middle school my room was literally plastered with pictures of this guy:


Deacon Frost (Stephan Dorf) is a pretty hunky vamp in Blade


I found that Lestat played by Stewart Townsend was a lot sexier than Tom Cruise




Brad Pitt was pretty sexy as Louis: (I thought he was sexier in Troy though)


Let's not forget my favorite vamps from books (I definitely prefer hunky book guys to tv/film guys, even if I do try and stay away from those bodice ripping, throbbing member romances).

Top guy: Eric Northman of the Sookie Stackhouse series - Hunky Viking Vamp
Kisten of the Rachel Morgan Series
I'm finding Christian of the Dark Ones Series quite hilarious
I prefer tall dark and handsome vamp cousin to Oswald From Happy Hour at Casa Dracula
I also was a fan of Asher and Jean Claud from the Anita Blake series until the books became bad porn.

Technically Speaking...

So in discussion, my fiance is quite convinced that the main characteristic of a vampire is that they are immortal (when I brought up the blood aspect he said it was a "given"). So what does vampire actually mean? Good'ol dictionary.com has the answers:

vam•pire ˈvæm paɪər - [vam-pahyuh r] –noun
1. a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.
2. (in Eastern European folklore) a corpse, animated by an undeparted soul or demon, that periodically leaves the grave and disturbs the living, until it is exhumed and impaled or burned.
3. a person who preys ruthlessly upon others; extortionist.
4. a woman who unscrupulously exploits, ruins, or degrades the men she seduces.
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[Origin: 1725–35; (< F) < G Vampir < Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr, alter. of earlier upir (by confusion with doublets such as vȁzdūh, ȕzdūh air (< Slavic vŭ-), and with intrusive nasal, as in dùbrava, dumbrȁva grove); akin to Czech upír, Pol upiór, ORuss upyrĭ, upirĭ, (Russ upýrʾ) < Slavic *u-pirĭ or *ǫ-pirĭ, prob. a deverbal compound with *per- fly, rush (literal meaning variously interpreted) ]


Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006
Arabic: شَبَح الميِّت الذي يجول لإمتصاص الدِّماء
Czech: upír
Danish: vampyr
Dutch: vampier
Estonian: vampiir
Finnish: vampyyri
French: vampire
German: der Vampir
Greek: βρικόλακας
Hungarian: vámpír
Icelandic: vampíra, blóðsuga
Indonesian: vampir
Italian: vampiro
Latvian: vampīrs
Lithuanian: vampyras
Norwegian: vampyr
Polish: wampir
Portuguese (Brazil): vampiro
Portuguese (Portugal): vampiro
Romanian: vampir
Russian: вампир
Slovak: upír
Slovenian: vampir
Spanish: vampiro
Swedish: vampyr
Turkish: vampir

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd.

While some definitions do include the undead thing and the blood thing, it also means to prey on others... so there. Makes me wonder though, when there might be a new definition to the dictionary to add the mortal vampire (or vampyre) crowd.

For Your Boredom (or mine)

Get your own fangs here.

Confessions of a Modern Vampyre - blog of a psi vamp.

Vampire Research - likes to call themselves an "institute" but I don't think I would go that far... lack of "research" as well... kind of interesting, has a long list of links on the blog.

Vampires Among Us - Lists all kinds of information.

Pam the Vampire

Bloodcopy has a video up about an interview Pam, the vampire from Baton Rouge. Is this suppose to be the Pam that works for Eric in Shreveport? If so, she is far better dressed than what she wears in the Sookie Stackhouse books... or maybe she just finished working at the bar.

If you have read this blog you know I love the Sookie Stackhouse series, but sometimes I seriously question Charlaine Harris' style. She has dressed Pam in a Navy jumpsuit with green piping and brown loafers (wtf?), an outfit that was pink pants and a pink sweater (probably pink socks too) and other horrible fashion atrocities. Here is where you can see the discussion about the crazy outfits. Some people are totally for the Talbot wearing vampire. Yes, you can find some nice stuff on their website, but never pink mom jeans! And please don't match your pants in the same color as your sweater! Just say no to pants like this together with a shirt like this. I love cardigans, but not with the same color pants! It's not like I am a fashion expert or fashion snob or anything, but don't dress them like old ladies!

Pam may be old, but she's not an old lady. Just say no!



Anyways: Here is the video.

Books On My Nightstand

I have been pretty busy lately and I have not finished a book in a while (over a month!)... These are the books I have waiting for me at home, some of which I have already started.

Sex and the Single Vampire (Book 2 of the Dark Ones)

Bled Dry (Book 3 of Vegas Vampires)

Dance with a Vampire (Book 4 of Vampire Kisses)

The Vampyre, Camilla, and Dracula (3 vampire tales)

FYI - Don't waste your time

This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen/tried to watch.

Yes... I am sure everyone could tell my just looking at the box, but I was in the mood for a vampire movie and everthing was out, so I risked it.

I couldn't even sit through half of it. I watched about 10 minutes of it... then watched it on fast forward for about 5 minutes and just had to turn it off. Don't pay money or waste your time to see someone's bad home movie.

If you are trying to watch the worst movies ever made then here is the link to buy. If you are on this kick may I suggest Jesus Christ the Vampire Hunter. I haven't seen it myself, but I am sure it belongs on the list of horrible movies; the title says a lot, but I hear the only person who can help Jesus defeat the creatures of the night is a Mexican wrestler... there you go.

Real Vampires?

Last night I introduced my fiancé to the interesting world of Blood Copy and the True Blood viral campaign. He won’t play Mobsters with me, but he did think that the campaign was pretty interesting. I also showed him a couple of sites about/for sanguinarians, psi-vamps, and vampyre lifestylers.

People who are role-playing and people who actually think they are vampires are posting a lot on the BloodCopy website. A few people who are involved in real covens have actually expressed concern/annoyance over BloodCopy and Tru:Blood. It is getting pretty interesting.


If anyone is interested here are a view links:
Psivamp.org
Veritas
Veritas Resource Directory
http://sanguin.org/
http://www.suscitatio.com/

Vampire Notes posted some interesting links the other day too. To see the blog entry go here… otherwise, here are the links

By Light Unseen Media - "By Light Unseen Media will present the best of quality fiction and non-fiction on the theme of vampires and vampirism. We will offer fictional works with original imagination and style, as well as non-fiction of academic caliber."

Broadsheet – publication of Broad Universe that promotes women writers of paranormal, horror, and sci-fi fiction.

And Genre of the Month– July is Vampire Month

Also, DragonBytes.com for full texts of classic vampire stories: Vampyre by John Polidori; Feast of Blood/ Varney the Vampyre by James Malcolm Rymer; Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu; Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker: Dracula by Bram Stoker, and from the lunatic fringe comes The Vampire: His Kith and Kin by the eccentric clergyman Montague Summers.

I haven’t checked it out yet, but I am interested to see what they have for Varney the Vampyre. I have been looking everywhere for it and the only place I have found the full edition is on amazon for over 30 bucks.