Never done meth or heroin or crack myself, but I hear they are very addictive, which is one reason (among many others- I don’t want to die, don’t want to use needles for anything other than blood tests, I’ve seen meth mouth, I’ve watched the Wire, and so on), but this fucking True Blood is seriously like crack rock.
And you know what? I never, ever, ever thought Anna Paquin was hot. And by hot, I mean by Hollywood standards, not my own personal standards. I’d see pictures of her and think compared to most starlets, she is kind of “meh.” But with each and every episode, she gets more and more attractive.
Now Tara on the other hand, RAWWWR.
Hunter Gathers
Is Jason Stackhouse not the dumbest character to ever have existed in the world of fiction? He makes Frito Pendejo look like a Rhodes Scholar.
Narcissus
Didn’t Jason Stackhouse play in the NBA like fifteen, twenty years ago?
Hunter Gathers
@Narcissus: Nope. The whistles would have confused him.
David Koch
Gurlz just wannna have fun!
Suffern ACE
O.K. let’s play hypothetical. Say your boss is Aaron Hernandez and he shoots you one night. Why on earth would you not tell the police? Would you think “hey, maybe he’ll let me keep my job? He’s an otherwise good boss except for the shooting?”
TaMara (BHF)
I am pretty sure, on this very blog, that I described True Blood in the same manner years ago.
I drifted away after season 4 I think. But man, season 1 was television crack for sure. HOT SUMMER FUN. Like a good beach read*
*if by good beach read you mean hot sweaty erotica, which I do.
James E. Powell
But with each and every episode, she gets more and more attractive.
It’s all about the make-up and the lighting. Sometimes plastic surgery, but mostly make-up and lighting.
amk
@James E. Powell: or meth / crack. Are cole’s pinkyswears trustworthy? It’d be irresponsible not to speculate.
BillinGlendaleCA
@James E. Powell: The SF Valley varient:
But with each and every
episodemovie, she gets more and more attractive.In Pron, it’s
allabout the make-up and the lighting.SometimesMostly plastic surgery, butmostlymake-up and lighting.BethanyAnne
I loved this silly dancing video on boing boing http://boingboing.net/2013/06/20/phase-shifted-torsos-and-impos.html
Ms.B
@BillinGlendaleCA: In this case. I’d say it’s a stylist helping it all along as Paquin goes from “little gal with no sex appeal” to a young woman who goes for it. Unless she wants character actor roles. Make-up and lighting help, of course, too.
mouse tolliver
If Sam turned into a chicken, could he lay his own eggs. And if he can lay his own eggs, and he fed those eggs to a human, would that be cannibalism?
NotMax
@James E. Powell
Plus general bearing.
Good example is Lenora Crichlow’s ghost character (ex. 1 – ex. 2 in the British (original) Being Human*, all the more impressive as she is essentially stuck in the same blah, gray outfit for eternity.
Seasons 1&2 highly, highly recommended. Season 3 reluctantly recommended. Seasons 4&5, probably best skipped.
NotMax
Fixed errant italics gone wild.
@James E. Powell
Plus general bearing.
Good example is Lenora Crichlow’s ghost character (ex. 1 – ex. 2 in the British (original) Being Human*, all the more impressive as she is essentially stuck in the same blah, gray outfit for eternity.
Seasons 1&2 highly, highly recommended. Season 3 reluctantly recommended. Seasons 4&5, probably best skipped.
Joey Maloney
My problem is that I’m old enough to remember her in The Piano and that movie about teaching the geese to migrate, whatever that was?
Whenever I start thinking about her in “that way” it’s like thinking about one of my daughter’s friends that I’ve known since they were all running around in diapers. (Insert descending slide whistle.)
Chris
@Joey Maloney:
Fly Away Home! That takes me back… loved that movie as a kid.
C.S.Strowbridge
I’ve always liked Anna Paquin. I think the gap in her teeth makes her stand out so she doesn’t look like another cookie-cutter starlet.
Narcissus
@Joey Maloney:
It’s strange that this has become culturally synonymous with a losing an erection.
David Koch
@Suffern ACE: only way to stop a tight-end with a gun is another tight-end with a gun.
Amir Khalid
An update on the haze situation. The worst effects are still concentrated in S’pore, and Johore state at the southern tip of the peninsula. There, the air would feel and smell as though you were walking through the smoke from burning garden refuse. The 200 or so schools closed by the Ministry of Education, as reported by the BBC and others, are all in Johore. The sky here in KL — a few hundred Km to the north — looks overcast, but the air still feels breathable.
The mutual fingerpointing is still going on: Malaysians and Singaporeans blame Indonesia for not policing its environment, Indonesians blame the Malaysian and Singaporean corporations that own all the big plantations in Southeast Asia. Given the relatively small footprint of the haze this time, it seems that there isn’t the vast acreage of forest in flames over in Sumatra that there was in Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) back in the great haze of 1997-98. So there’s progress in that regard at least.
Amir Khalid
@Joey Maloney:
Test reply to Joey Maloney #15
sm*t cl*de
I hear they are very addictive
Meh. Alcohol is the dependency where withdrawal can be lethal.
Nicotine withdrawal will fuck you up and the dependency starts quickly.
Opiates… it takes a while to get dependent, but it’s not much fun when you stop.
Amphetamines… hardly addictive at all in terms of physiological dependency; it’s just that you don’t want to give it up.
Or so I hear from a friend.
Old Dan and Little Ann
I blame Oblamer bin Lyin’. I love reading right wing blogs to learn new nicknames. They are just so clever.
Yatsuno
BTW thanks y’all for letting me vent/commiserate earlier.
The prophet Nostradumbass
Is it bad of me to hope that the woman who appears in the American Beverage Association propaganda ads gets run over by a Coke truck?
Amir Khalid
FYWP has been eating my comments for some time now. What did I do?
ETA: I gripe about it, and my comment appears. Typical.
BillinGlendaleCA
@The prophet Nostradumbass: No.
Though maybe we should hope for a twofer, the API lady too.
Keith
Damn, Tara’s my absolute least favorite character on the show. Terrible actress with a terrible accent.
TheOtherWa
I’m a hetero female and I think Rutina Wesley, who plays Tara, is simply gorgeous. True Blood is just good, clean, hot, sweaty fun. What’s to dislike? ;)
Randy P
@Chris: Fly Away Home is the only thing I know Anna Paquin from. I watched that movie as a dad of a daughter about the same age, and it absolutely destroys me every time.
She and Jeff Daniels did another movie a few years later which I didn’t see. He’s a professor and she’s the student he has an affair with. In interviews they both said “What? We’re actors. It’s not like she’s actually his daughter.” But I’m still too squicked out about it to watch.
OmerosPeanut
The first two seasons amused me greatly, but the ridiculous camp of it all overwhelmed the storytelling by season 3, at least for me. I haven’t tried watching further.
Jethro Troll
Hey, crack is actually pretty easy to give up. I’ve quit dozens of times.
Frowny
I have watched the entire series, because I am a television masochist, and the new episodes keep giving me new reasons to say this show is among the dumbest shows I have ever seen, and I watched the entirety of Britney and Kevin: Chaotic. Do yourself a favor and quit after three. Season four and beyond you watch at your own peril.
Cassidy
Sounds a little like Supernatural. It was a great show until Season 3 (I think). After that it just got clunky and weird.
Roger
Having been foolish enough to watch 5 seasons back-to-back and being too OCD to stop myself when the show jumped several different sharks each week I am not a fan.
But I will say that once they finally realised they were just making Carry On Buffay the Vampire Layer and started playing up the comedy it almost redeemed itself (‘you drained the whole fairy – go to your room!’ the sublime Teenage Dream sequence with Russell the Reverend and a house-full of drained fratboys, pretty much anything Jason or Pam ever does or says….).
Roger
@Keith: I started out liking Tara but found her more and more annoying til season 5 when they finally worked out a clever way to save her character.
And yes bizarre that the woman from Las Vegas who must have grown up amidst every US accent going has a far worse Louisiana accent than the Brit, the Canadian, the Australian (I won’t count The Swede as he’s not even trying).
hungrycaterpillar
@Randy P: The movie was The Squid and the Whale. It would have been squicky even without the parallel to Fly Away Home. Fairly good movie though, if you’re into uncomfortable family dramedy.
Mousebumples
Season 5, for me, was very meh, but I really liked 1-4. 6 seems to be off to a good start, but I think they changed show-runners (from what I’ve heard) so that may have something to do with it. We’ll see on Sunday if the “promise” of Season 6 continues or goes into crash-and-burn mode.
Jay C
What I like about True Blood is that it has a little something for everyone (well, if you define “something” as being blatant sex and overt nudity, etc.) : it’s a family viewing tradition here chez nous: I can
leer atappreciate the exhibited pulchritude (Anna, Rutina, all those hot naked werewolf girls), while Mrs. Jay canslaver overadmire the prime beef on display: every episode we view generates a debate on who’s sexier: Alexander Skarsgard, or the (astonishingly buff) Joe Manganiello. So far, the answer has turned out to be “both”….@mouse tolliver:
Of course not, dumbass: cause he’d be a rooster…..
jibeaux
Never seen it, so I’ll just chime in that I love that Tina Fey prayer for her daughter which includes something like, “and when the crystal meth comes out, may she remember her parents who cut her grapes in half, and stick with beer.”
Jen
If you’re not fully in the tank gay for Eric Northman/Alexander Skarsgård by the time you’re caught up I will never read this site again, John Cole.
Hob
@sm*t cl*de: Alcohol is the dependency where withdrawal can be lethal.
Not the only one. Benzodiazepines and barbiturates too.
hartly
@Narcissus: You’re thinking of Jerry Stackhouse. Last I remember he was with the Dallas Mavericks in 2007 as a shell of his younger self. He’s probably retired by now.
mouse tolliver
@Jay C: You realize that was a Jason Stackhouse reference, right?
mouse tolliver
@Jay C: You realize that was a Jason Stackhouse reference, right?
Also too, shifters can immitate the opposite sex. It’s happened a few times.
Nazgul35
As with any addiction, you will find yourself self loathing and despondent that you fell for this addiction and will consider ending it all (by not watching that lame ass show any more).
Anonymous At Work
I haven’t watched True Blood for the same reason. Anna Paquin in on the short list of people for whom I will kill.
gopher2b
If I live to be 85, I’m trying heroin. I had to take Vicodin once and it was A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. So, on my 85 birthday, I’m doing it. Don’t care what you think.