askarsswedishmeatballs:

Alexander Skarsgård on Cooking Beef Bourguignon and Eating Food Off the Floor

Brit [Marling] says that you’re actually a fabulous cook.
I enjoy it. What’s my thang? It’s different to cook for these guys, because they’re all vegans. I like to cook stews like beef bourguignon and coq au vin. I made them a lot of pasta and veggies. Zal [Batmanglij] and Brit had a house in Shreveport [Louisiana], and we would go and hang out there on weekends. We would hang out and cook and drink wine and dance and occasionally get some work done.

One of the interesting ideas the film brings up is how much food is wasted in this country. Do you have a rule for how long food is on the floor before you don’t eat it?
I come from a very big, large family with tons of kids, so I’m pretty used to eating off the floor. With seven siblings, you grab whatever you can. We throw away so much good food in this country, and we don’t even think about how much we waste. We’ve created a society where we consume so much — not just food, but everything. And I’m not judging. I’m part of that system. It’s good to be aware of it.

I’m hoping Eric gets something to do with the whole Warlow conspiracy on True Blood.
We’re shooting the last two episodes, and he might get involved in that. We’ll see. I’ve had a great time this year. It’s a big war going on. Humans are fighting back. They’ve figured out a way to actually be a real threat to vampires. They’ve always just been food to Eric. So, for the first time, he’s got to fight.

http://www.grubstreet.com/2013/05/alexander-skarsgard-food.html

Hmm—is he hedging his bets on Warlow because he doesn’t know or because he can’t say? I guess the former—he tries to avoid or misdirect rather than lie outright.

I hope, hope, hope they don’t keep him apart from Sookie all season again. Season 5 was good, but the show gets a lot more energy when Sookie and Eric are in scenes together. I love their dynamic (even when they aren’t coupled-up).

mametupa:

After hearing Bill described as paranoid not once, but twice, I wanted to check out how paranoia is described. I can’t say I was surprised when the signs could be used to describe Bill’s behavior in season 5, especially his behavior in TA in the later stages of season 5 was paranoid, just remember him screaming about security breach when Sam shifted into a fly. That was a paranoid reaction (and again mentioning all the types of bugs, roaches, flies, mice) and then paranoia of wrecking his office looking for bugs with Jess. Also it appeared that Bill showed this trait of his in the last scene in S5. Was he thinking that Eric might do a similar kind of trick on him like he did to Salome? 

But it seems that S6 Bill does not stop his paranoia. Remember the scene with Sookie where she asks if he truly thinks he is a God? A sign of pure paranoia according to Kraepelin, the founder of modern scientific psychology. 

santress:

“With Alex & Onata at a screening of What Maise Knew last week.”

-fallen_star1 @ instagr.am

Aww. Too cute.

switchbladekiller:

wayofthelotus:

pbt1:

When people dis’ Season 5, I shake my head. With great scenes like these with Eric, WTF are they talking about?

Agreed. I’m watching S5 again now and it’s so good. True Blood is a show that’s better served by watching episodes back-to-back, imo. If you can watch the seasons that way, too, it really makes for a more coherent story.

Agreed, I am doing a rewatch now.

Definitely. I’m not sure I would have ever gotten hooked if I had come to the series watching it week to week. You can’t see the overall story arc watching that way—there’s too much going on. You forget things and miss details that later prove important. Watching at your own pace is much more rewarding.
 

alexskarsgardnet:

True Blood: The Complete Fifth Season (Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy) is available to pre-order on Amazon!

http://www.amazon.com/True-Blood-Complete-Blu-ray-Digital/dp/B0092QDMQ2/ref=sr_1_2?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1358432098&sr=1-2

I bought this today in Target. I was so excited—my reward to myself!

When I picked it up, I noticed this was the last copy on the shelf. I checked the rest of the display. Nope. No more. None on the regular shelves, either. I got the last copy in the store.

It was just released today, and every copy is gone. They may have underestimated demand for this item.

stillhidden:

hsm7:

soyeahimafangirl:

stillhidden:

ohiogurl:

stillhidden:

skarsgardnews:

‘True Blood’ Season 6: Alexander Skarsgard Reveals Eric’s ‘Evil’ Plans

Eric’s going even darker this season — premiering June 16 on HBO — and Alexander tells HollywoodLife.com to expect some ‘nasty stuff.’

With humans closing in on them, the vampires of Bon Temps will resort to desperate measures on the upcoming sixth season of HBO’s True Blood – and it sounds like some of them may even be crossing over to the dark side! “[Eric’s] doing some evil stuff this year, some stuff that’s not so nice,” Alexander Skarsgard told HollywoodLife.com on May 20 at Piaget’s screening of Fox Searchlight’s The East in NYC.

“I like them both,” he told us about ‘good’ Eric and ‘evil’ Eric. “It’s fun to go back and forth, you get to play around with both sides. It’s always more interesting than one extreme or the other … when you have both within, and it’s an internal struggle.”

Nordic & ‘Nasty’

We’ve seen Eric commit some pretty seedy acts — remember when he killed Talbot while having sex with him? — and Alexander promised there’s plenty more where that came from. Though he admitted that Eric’s temporary season-four amnesia “affected him in a way,” he said Eric’s still going to be up to his old tricks.

“You’ll see this season he’s doing some pretty nasty stuff,” he told us. “It’s not all good.”

(source)

This makes me more nervous than any empty “Eric will die” rumors. 

Yep. I have no idea how this will go down.

Me neither, and it scares me. I have no problem with Eric fighting his way in and out of whatever facilities that hold vampires, or fighting in general. But if they are making him do sadistic things a-la Bill Compton … No. Just no. 

Here’s hoping that’s not the case. I can well imagine that trickery along the lines of what he did with Talbot could be employed to try to get a hand up on the humans bent on destroying vampires. Or that he may deceive and use the daughter of the governor if necessary to save Pam.

Eric can be brutal if necessary, or in retribution for crimes against vampires (Royce comes to mind). I’m inclined, for now, to think it’s more along those lines than a new “evil” that we’d see as out of character.

Crossing my fingers anyway.

I bet we’ll see things similar to what we’ve seen in the past. He certainly can do nasty things, some of which has been mentioned, but I take heart in what Alex also says — Though he admitted that Eric’s temporary season-four amnesia “affected him in a way,”. That doesn’t sound like anything remotely similar to “sadistic Bill Compton”. He’ll be ruthless in order to protect his family and those he loves, and, I expect, he’ll do what he needs to do in order to protect against the annihilation of his race/species.

Keep talking, guys. I need off this ledge! :))

So do I! If it helps, I just remembered all those human bodies and body parts photographed on the set last week. Bloody and disgusting. But—soldiers killed in war, not innocents sadistically tortured and drained. All those guys were wearing body armor and they died together—a mass killing like a bomb, not a draining. If Eric helps plan or carry out that, that would qualify as “bad”, but not evil. This is what happens in war, and may be necessary to survive.

stillhidden:

jessmetal:

30 Day True Blood Challenge - Day 06

Your favourite Lafayette/Tara moment

I just like the banter between Tara and Lafayette so any moment where they’re joking around is nice.

I want a good ending for them. Doesn’t need to be anything major. Just the two of them making it to the end in one piece, and having an occasional laugh together. A vampire and a witch (warlock?). Survivors both. Just getting their friendship back. And having a cause to laugh. Together. 

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him-e:

exitpursuedbyasloth:

luvtheviking:

“No, I haven’t been avoiding. I’ve been traveling and celebrating a graduation with my family. I’ve read the “Eric is a sex slave” comment on Facebook, and I find it utterly incomprehensible. Eric will certainly enjoy having sex with Freyda, and will build a relationship with her. He’s learned to adapt to thousands of situations in his long, long, life. To imagine that he won’t find challenges and rewards in his new life is ridiculous. He’s a survivor.

-Charlaine Harris on her board (may 13, 2013)

HE

DID

NOT

CONSENT

TO

BEING

WITH

FREYDA

HE

CANNOT

CONSENT

TO

SEX

WITH

FREYDA

HE

CANNOT

LEAVE

FREYDA

HE

IS

A

SLAVE

THAT

MUST

PERFORM

SEXUALLY

HE

IS

A

SEX

SLAVE

YOU

IGNORANT

DIXIE

FRIED

CAMILLE

PAGLIA.

I swear every word coming out of this woman’s mouth is pissing me off more. She doesn’t even have the guts to admit she gave Eric the shittiest fate possible.

I mean, this is Eric Northman who valued freedom more than anything else on this world. But of course he will “enjoy having sex with Freyda” because he’s shallow like that, and as long as he sticks his cock somewhere it’s all rainbows and unicorns, right?

This. All of it.

Also: CH will from now on forever be known as Dixie Fried Camille Paglia. 

Have you read her latest blog? The woman has reached rock bottom and begun to dig. I keep thinking she can’t make it any worse, she can’t make it any worse—AND SHE DOES! She basically comes right out and tells us that fan displeasure means nothing as long as her sales are good. Then she makes it all about her author pain and her hurt feelings. What about your readers’ feelings? Don’t they count? There are a LOT more of them than you. WHAT AN ASSHOLE!

him-e:

unreconstructedfangirl:

hsm7:

switchbladekiller:

thinkingbox:

him-e:

betrayedbyabook:

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2G5WXK3MB3J2N/ref=cm_cr_pr_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=193700788X&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag=#wasThisHelpful

This is one of the worst reviews I’ve ever read.

“keep your mouth shut if you didn’t” —- since when?

When has anyone ever kept their mouth shut about anything they didn’t like? When has that been the established rule of how you approach books?

The title of the review alone made me giggle. It isn’t even about how much they like they book - it’s about how much we don’t impact them by disgusting them (by the way being disgusted WHILE NOT being impacted? you’re doing WRONG). The ending sentece is my FAVORITE “the literary society” - another giggle.

this has been really entertaining… thank you reviewer

Oh wow, my eyes hurt just looking at that incoherent defense rant of DEA, that’s supposed to be a “reivew”. Is this one of CH’s minions who didn’t actually read the book?  Or some delusional fan with a lack of narrative comprehension. Either way, it gave me the giggles too.

“Your pathetic 30 bucks/book mean so little to this woman, who only wanted to share a small part of her imagination with you, you haven’t hurt her bank account, you hurt her feelings.”  This person is ridiculous. I’m getting really tired of reading how authors should be placed on some kind of pedestal and are untouchable. I admire people who write, but if you don’t want criticism then don’t publish, don’t put it out there for people to read. You can create your world and enjoy it in solitude.  However, if you expect people to dig into their pockets and shell out their hard-earned money, then expect criticism if your product is mediocre or if people don’t enjoy it. The fact that you’re an “author” doesn’t mean you can do no wrong. In this case, readers are sharing their displeasure at the storytelling in this last book, as is their right. 

Even without the monetary factor, an author who published for public consumption can expect criticism, and it is every readers’ right to offer it. That is how that shit works. This is the most ridiculous “review”. Also, hilariously, this person imagines that Charlaine Harris is part of “literary society” like that’s a thing where everyone thinks the same thing, and everyone in it respects Charlaine Harris enough to simply defend her and simply be disgusted with her critics. I don’t even know where to begin.

Charlaine Harris, it is true, owed her readers nothing. If she wanted to just quit in the middle of the series, her publishers might object if she were in breech on contract, but to us, it is true, she owes nothing. By the same token, we do not owe her anything beyond the basic respect of one human being to another, and one can easily maintain that basic respect while thinking someone a shitty writer and storyteller.

Also, GTFO for calling my (our) 30 bucks “pathetic”. They are not pathetic. I work to earn that money and I’d rather spend it on something worth, thank you very much.

Sigh. CH posted about the controversy again. That’s what inspired this poor, delusional soul. Here’s the link if you wish to sully your eyes with it (http://www.charlaineharris.com/bb/bb_current.html). She’s playing the martyr again, and that riles up the faithful.

Of course, for those of us who AREN’T drinking the Kool-aid, it just digs the grave for her career even deeper. It’s interesting that when looking for reassurance about her book, she points to sales. She writes, “In the end, my sales went up. I would rather not have had to endure what I did, but did the controversy really hurt the book? No, it didn’t.”

It’s all about her and her sales. Nothing about the feelings of the majority of her fans, many of whom wrote heartbreaking reviews/eulogies after reading the book. They felt betrayed or played, but that means nothing to her. Money and professional success are all she focuses on. The more she posts, the more she confirms my view of her as an utterly self-absorbed, greedy hack.

I even wonder if that’s why Sookie has been growing less and less likable. She’s being written by Harris, who is clearly having some problems with selfishness and misjudgment. These are similar to the problems Sookie posed to me, as a reader. How do you root for someone who seems so selfish and unempathetic? Whose view of the world is so skewed? I hoped that Harris realized that Sookie was becoming unlikable, and was consciously doing it to show that Sookie was an unreliable narrator, or that she was under some malign influence. Nope. She’s just channeling her creator.

stillhidden:

ohiogurl:

stillhidden:

skarsgardnews:

‘True Blood’ Season 6: Alexander Skarsgard Reveals Eric’s ‘Evil’ Plans

Eric’s going even darker this season — premiering June 16 on HBO — and Alexander tells HollywoodLife.com to expect some ‘nasty stuff.’

With humans closing in on them, the vampires of Bon Temps will resort to desperate measures on the upcoming sixth season of HBO’s True Blood – and it sounds like some of them may even be crossing over to the dark side! “[Eric’s] doing some evil stuff this year, some stuff that’s not so nice,” Alexander Skarsgard told HollywoodLife.com on May 20 at Piaget’s screening of Fox Searchlight’s The East in NYC.

“I like them both,” he told us about ‘good’ Eric and ‘evil’ Eric. “It’s fun to go back and forth, you get to play around with both sides. It’s always more interesting than one extreme or the other … when you have both within, and it’s an internal struggle.”

Nordic & ‘Nasty’

We’ve seen Eric commit some pretty seedy acts — remember when he killed Talbot while having sex with him? — and Alexander promised there’s plenty more where that came from. Though he admitted that Eric’s temporary season-four amnesia “affected him in a way,” he said Eric’s still going to be up to his old tricks.

“You’ll see this season he’s doing some pretty nasty stuff,” he told us. “It’s not all good.”

(source)

This makes me more nervous than any empty “Eric will die” rumors. 

Yep. I have no idea how this will go down.

Me neither, and it scares me. I have no problem with Eric fighting his way in and out of whatever facilities that hold vampires, or fighting in general. But if they are making him do sadistic things a-la Bill Compton … No. Just no. 

Exactly. I want him to defend the other vampires—for him to side with humans makes no sense at all. But I don’t want him to get sucked into cruel or vengeful behavior. He just finished a huge vengeance arc with Russell, and I thought he’d learned something about how revenge is not ultimately satisfying. Killing his enemies is one thing—causing them pain merely for pain’s sake would be stepping back to season 3.

I want all the characters to move forward, not backward. Don’t rehash old battles, please!