True Blood

In a moment of pre-internship boredom, I decided to watch HBO's "True Blood."  Vin recommended it to me and I had heard a ton of people in Paris talking about it but I was desperately trying to avoid jumping on the vampire bandwagon.  Anyways, here's what I have to say about it:

BEST. SHOW. EVER. 

Seriously, if you haven't watched it, you should stop reading this entry right now and start watching True Blood.  It's about vampires going mainstream in today's society thanks to a synthetic blood drink that some Japanese people came up with.  The show is set in Louisiana with a waitress who can hear other people's thoughts, vampires, murders, and a ton of other surprises (supernatural or otherwise) that I wouldn't want to reveal. 

If anything, you should watch it for the opening title sequence itself, which is this crazy mix of religion, sex, violence, the South, and the supernatural.  It's unlike any other opener I've seen and will stick in your head. 

Also, the ad campaign that they've had to promote this show is ridiculous.  Season 1 started off with ads for Tru Blood (the synthetic blood drink) that were made to look like mock alcohol ads and they even put Tru Blood buttons on vending machines.  There is this really awesome blog that they set up - bloodcopy.com, that is supposed to be a human turned vampire blogging about vampires coming out in the open.  For season 2, they turned to sponsors like Marc Ecco, Gilette, and Harley Davidson to make mock ads for products geared specifically towards vampires, like vampire cologne and motorcycles that drive fast enough to beat the sun.  They did a couple of magazine inserts that were fake little newsletters with vampire-specific news, as well as events that were then photographed and published in magazines where human celebs hung out with other celebs who were actually vampires.  Also, living in New York, I am constantly seeing ads for True Blood everywhere, especially wildpostings (which are when you see like a row of the same poster advertising something.  It's done deliberately, even if it doesn't look like it...)  So they've done a pretty good job of surrounding me. (<---wow can you tell what industry I've been working in for the past couple of weeks?)

So yeah, as you can see, I'm kind of currently obsessed with this.  Thank goodness season 2 just premiered 2 weeks ago, cus I don't think I could have waited any longer.

Sunday, please come soon.