Pantie-less Vampire v the squat toilet

Look just because the movies don’t show that Vampires have normal bodily functions it does not mean they don’t have them………… let me give you a hint a vampire bat after a meal relives itself ok …..now then why do you think that after 8 pints of blood I would not like to do the same thing?

My trip to SE Asia this year gave me lots of problems ………..dont so much as finding blood but how to get rid of it afterwards ………..just listen:

Your Panties are griped tightly in your hand and your skirt clenched between your teeth and they say this is a holiday!

There comes a time when you can no longer cross your legs and when a girls got to go a girls got to go ………….

How To Use a Squat Toilet

Mastering Squat Toilets: Toilet Paper Necklace -- Female Travel Underground

But when in SE Asia just try and keep your legs crossed a bit longer as the toilets are so not good news for a nice vampire girl brought up in the west ………..

I got myself a nice light long flowing cotton dress to try and keep cool in and also hide the heat lumps …………. No not heat rash but heat lumps ………anything over 2inch dia is a lump ………it is also red and itches like  ****   ……

Look I’m a vampire and so even with 100% sun block I still suffer from the sun………….. No I am not the sort that catch fire ! I’m the sort slowly turns into one giant heat lump ……..

Culture shock

The toilets are PRIMATIVE ………yes very primitive …… a concrete room with stalls and flies lots and lots of flies……er did I say lots of flies…….. Each stall has a hole in the ground ………which looks like an entrance to hell……..and the floor is wet very wet …….this is due to the hose pipe which is attached to a tap in the wall and which is constantly running ……………. No toilet paper ……………you use a water hose pipe and fingers to wash yourself !!!!! YES IT IS TRUE ! You stick a cold water hose pipe between your legs !!!

As to no toilet paper a lot of the stalls don’t have doors !!!

Yes I know I have a cute Butt …..Well I have been told…………. Mostly by men over 60 that wink when they say it ………yuck……and men with odd tattoos on building sites………. but at least it is noticed……. But I am used to putting my cute butt down on a seat ………………Of course I can squat …..I am female and all females can squat but ….well I have two legs but you don’t see me taking part in the Olympics!

Well the floor is soaking wet as I said very wet so I remove my panties……………. Yes well with my sense of balance it is best not to tie my knees together while squatting over a hole in a very wet floor, now is it! ………………

And I am wearing a long cotton dress ………….. and the floor is soaking wet …and I am hoping just from the hose pipe…………… soooooooooo how not to get the dress wet ?……… time is running out as I am getting so desperate I may even risk standing up but that could make the dress even wetter…………

I have a bright idea …..I grab the front of the dress, pull it up to my face and grip it between my teeth…………..

Thank god they don’t have CCTV ………………

So there I am A blood sucking Denizen of the night ergo A VAMPIRE !  squatting over a hole in the ground with my dress clenched between my teeth and my panties safely in my hands.

Then is the problem of working out how to use the hose pipe to clean yourself……………. How the heck was I to know that in a hot county the water was so ..so  .so.  very cold …………. And yes I discovered that by pointing it somewhere delicate !!!!!! ............. delicate and now dripping wet and very cold!!

I am sure such things should be banned under the UN as a torture technique ………..if you did not want to take a piss before you would now !!

And without tissue paper how do you dry yourself? ……………. Well you don’t !  ……….. you have just put a cold water hose pipe between your legs and you are now …..well ………..how can one put it …er……your personal rainforest is kinda dripping…..so I put my panties back on and …..yes before you ask it does feel like you have wet yourself..

Look I asked afterwards and I was told this is normal …NORMAL !!!!!!!!!!  now just who would have put it about that it is normal to do that ! stick a hosepipe of cold water between your legs and then have to walk around like that …er damp……….you can’t even sit down for fear of leaving a damp patch.

Now this is why Vampires live in the West !!!!

Advertising for a boyfriend and sleeping with a naked girl for the first time.

Sleeping with a naked girl for the first time, and advertising for a boyfriend

As I said before I was in SE Asia for Chinese New Year.

In SE Asia the rules are different, ok some are the same, don’t talk to boys or they will think you are easy…………….. yes right … like that is going to stop a girl.

You may not just go up and talk with him or rather send a friend over but you are happy to write your cell phone number on an orange and throw in a lake.

ITS TRADITIONAL ! like how long have we had cell phones let alone waterproof felt tipped pens.

I think it is called “Chap Goh Meh” and happens at the end of the 15 day Chinese New Year.

All Chinese maidens and that’s me, look I am unmarried so it is obvious I am still a maiden ………SHUT UP !  can get a boy by throwing an orange into the lake

I watched as some girls wrote a Facebook address other braver ones put a cell number on it, it should be the luck of a draw but one girl had a bag of about 30 oranges each covered with witty messages along with her date of birth, pretty hearts and an email address, done in red and black waterproof pen and must have taken her all day …………….

Boys line the bank with 20 ft long fishing poles, but the keener boys were in the water keeping an eye open for which girl threw which orange, one girl had about three guys fight over her orange so I don’t see her staying single for long.

As to me? Wellllll I wrote my book details on two of them ……er…………….. ok so I also added my email but not one replied so I guess mine must have sunk.     

While I am thinking of my Chinese New Year trip I may as remind you all of a change of life event that took place this year and that was the time my cousin removed her underwear and got in bed with me.

I promised to let you have all the details of my trip to Asia and well ……………..one of the most embarrassing things happened at night.

HMG well I never thought I would find myself sleeping with another girl I mean like together not just in the same room but in the same bed and then discover she had roving hands !!! and it was no where as exciting as when guys talk about what happens………

God this is so embarrassing to say   ….well ………… there is a first time for everything ……. Forget the worry about the embarrassment of being a girl trying to buy condoms in a shop just remember to buy ear plugs ……………… heck did she snore!

Guys are always so interested to know what goes on when two girls sleep together, (perverts !!!!)

……well anyway I will tell you ! …………. It was well kinda .er…….different ……...and well I did not do anything much myself………….

As to what strange urges happen well it is true I did get some strange urges when her hand slowly moved up my inner leg ……….. The urge was to try and sneak away and get a hotel room………. On my own !!!

It was not that I even knew her ……..well…ok……. she is a cousin ………… and she seamed to take a liking to me during the day ……..but liking each other as cousins means shopping together and  sharing an ice cream in the mall ………… moving into my bed on the pretence that the aircon was too powerful and she was cold…………. Well that is something I would have expected more from a guy…….

…. All she had on was a tee ……… and no don’t ask me why, perhaps she liked the freedom, ok it was a long Tee but she was defiantly naked under it,  look  if she had not raised it to scratch I would not have know it was the only item she had on.

To prove she was cold she placed her hands between my thighs and ……..look I am not that sort of girl ! even more of a shock when she pushed her face into my boobs……giving out a little giggle….

What am I a pillow !! ……….heck…….  I just hoped she was not going to bite anything !……….  well you try and explain teeth marks on ones boobs!

Ok try again ………….. you try and give a believable reason why you have teeth marks on your boobs

The only way I could stop her hands locating more intimate places was to hug her …………pulling her even more into my chest I locked an arm around her and stroked he hair, so??????? 

and that was all that happened until she fell asleep, then I discovered that I was now trapped in the bed with miss roving hands ……….. Could not move without waking her and so that was my first time sleeping with a naked girl………

Er………..perhaps I should point out that my cousin is 6 years old and her mother was sleeping the other side of the room in another bed with my cousins two other sisters ………

Well even at that young age I still think her morals are very poor to sleep with someone just because I shared an ice cream with her …………….

It ended up that I had to cuddle her all night ! everytime I stopped to get comfy she started to fidget ………… God I have had boyfriends that have needed less physical attention.

I still wonder what happened to my oranges …………. Sigh …………………..

Look just because I shower naked with a girl it does not mean I want to wear her panties!

As a girl you do know when you are being watched naked …

Its true you can sense eyes on you and you get the feeling that your bra size is being calculated

Thinking back to earlier this year remember I said I would tell you more of my trip home for Chinese New Year, so here it is.

As with the strange toilets that came as a culture shock so did other things………hell I am only a different colour on the outside I am Weston educated ……………… true I also have strange some very odd Non-Weston habits but those I blame on my Aunts that brought me up …………………..        

After the problems with wet toilets and trying to keep a dress dry I opted for that standard Chinese girl uniform which is a Tee with or without bra and a pair of shorts ……lucky my cousins are all the same size as I am, but then so is everyone ………so odd not having to get a chair to look someone in the eyes, so they lent me all the things I needed to blend in, the reason why a Tee can be worn with or without a bra is due to the thickness of material …..er how can I put this…………. The nipples don’t show ………like the bras, the cups are of a thick material, nipples should not be seen!   

(ho god for a change I could buy undies that fitted without feeling like a child playing dress up in their Moms clothes) 

 As was so pointed out (nipples pointed out ! get it ?.......... sorry)   to me only white women and prostitutes let guys see their nipples ………………. As to why ……well ask a white woman how should I know, perhaps proud of the size or something.

The shorts were normal as shorts go and not like the ones I saw in a Siam market…4 inches deep !!!!!!  like that is 8 cm …………I know the local girls are small but even they would have to shave before wearing something like that !

But must remember do not get close to Malay as they see your legs and will want to rape you ………

……… its TRUE !!! I read it in the newspaper a malay man arrested for rapeing a Chinese girl told the court that he thought she was a prostitute because of what she was wearing which was a Tee and shorts …………..er he did go to prison due to the fact she was only 14 ………….. but if she was 24 he may have got away with it

The races do not mix my name, religion (lack of) and colour make me a second class citizen, but that is better than being Indian as they are 3rd class citizens ……………. As to white people they are just foreign so no class as such …………….. as to being black ! no one and I mean not even Indians would live next to black people ……very few blacks about and as we all know those are drug dealers and pimps just in the country to kidnap girls for the sex trade…..

Isn’t life funny in the West there are laws to stop racism where as in the East we have laws to enforce it!  I cold tell you more but I will save it for a future blog.

Now I burn in sunlight ……….no not burst into flames ………. Not all vampires do that I just can not take strong sunlight. …………….. Which oddly is not a problem in SE Asia …..er………….. as no one goes out in the sun! its true again only white people go in the sun, Asians always walk and park in the shade ………….. we even have stick on or pull down blinds on the car windows ………… no not for the driver!......... stupid question ………baseball cap and sunglasses for the driver ………don’t forget we do not go for suntans ………….. the paler the skin the nicer you look ……….so my deathly pale completion was liked by all the family

And even my washing habits fitted in ……due to one of my crazy Aunts …….I have the habit of showering and change undies at least 3 times a day …….. Something which was pointed out as an oddity at Uni is normal here, all my distant relatives spend so much time in the shower it normally takes 4 hours to get ready to go out to eat …………

…… Yes again as my Aunt pointed out to me:    

 “you don’t want to smell like a white person now do you” ?

It is not true that all white people smell that is just stereotyping ………. Well yes a lot do smell but you can get used to it ………… and not all is body odour, well don’t forget just as Indians smell of curry,

Whites smell of Sour milk ………….. er ………you did not know?   ……sorry …………. Its alright not to me…………well I am used to it……., I mostly just notice the BO …….. but lots of my race do not take dairy products ………. So when someone takes lots of milk and cheese and butter etc…. well it must seep out of the pores …………. Look I am not a doctor if you don’t bath in the stuff you tell me why you smell of it then.?

Now the hotels were fantastic but when moving around the cousins you have to live like they do

…………. Ok ok ok Its just that I am not used to sleeping with other girls or taking my clothes off in front of others ………….. well I am not ………… I blog about all kinds of sexy stuff but it is all talk ………..

Ok if I was Japanese I would be used to being naked sharing hot tubs and hot springs with other girls ………….. but as I am not, so being naked in front of others is not normal for me……….. 

Again with the hotel you have lovely power shower, but as a race that has had showers for 3000 years this part of SE Asia is a little kinda pre 1,000 BC plumbing

To take a shower you enter a room with a drain in the centre, with a plastic cover over it ………………

The top of the wall does not join the ceiling and that is where a neon tube is located………….and the wild life lives, the door has a small plastic bolt which must be only for decoration as it bends and pops open when the door is pushed from the other side………… this means if I am too long a cousin will join me making it look like a start of a porno movie    

eck ….I thought I got past girlies showering together when I left high school …

Walls floor and ceiling are bare apart from the eyes watching me ……..yes as I remove my things and try and hang them on nipple shaped plugs in the wall ……

..I am being watched ……………… as I look around I see the peeping toms sticking tongues out with excitement ………….. Small lizards are walking up the wall …………. And they can run across a ceiling faster than you could ever hope to catch one ... Geako I think they are called.

Now my family hate them but I find them cute …………. They eat insects and that is mega cute to me………………… the problem is the toilet habits after they have eaten the insects ………

Two bottles with plungers containing two liquids

.1 is pink and for the hair and

1 is green and for the body and they both smell like cheap washing up liquid.

Now as for the shower Huh ! fitted to a wall with a dripping tap to fill it is a er……….. don’t know what to call, (urn?) it well it is plastic, blue and must hold 50 gallons of water ………….. floating on the top is a pale blue plastic bucket.

What you do is fill the bucket and pour it over you and that is called showering I call it frigging COLD !!!!!!

You stand in the room over a drain and rub washing up liquid all over the body and hair then pour buckets of water over yourself,    

it was at this stage I nearly screamed as a finger prods me in the butt as a cousin is now standing naked behind …………….. yes the plastic bolt was only for show ……she takes the bucket off me and insists on pouring it for me

Look you get the picture, you as you cover your chest with your arms and shiver someone pours a bucket of cold water over your head………………

If those lizards had a camera I would now be staring in some online porn magazine with a discreet title such as :

Hot and Horny Asian Chicks playing in the shower

Now at this point where all my male readers are getting the idea of two girls genteelly rubbing soap over each others naked bodies with some sensual music playing in the back ground …………………. Forget it ! ...............that sort of stuff does not happen in the real world ..........only in Guys dreams

That’s it nothing more, .........I just to grab my towel as a loud voice fills the room:

“AMY !! ask May if you can borrow some of her underwear as I have just put all of the things you left in the case in the wash, and tell her to hurry up as Uncle wants to shower next”  

Look just because I shower naked with a girl it does not mean I want to wear her panties!  and besides she is standing naked in front of me and can hear the one sided convesation as just as well as i can .......like how grown up would it sound if i shouted back in front of May that I did not want to wear May's spare undies..

And just why are they searching though my case to find washing, it is not that I would have packed dirty clothes.

At what point in my life will I even feel grown up?.

Geckos are lizards belonging to the family Gekkonidae, found in warm climates throughout the world. They range from 1.6 cm to 60 cm.

Geckos are unique among lizards in their vocalizations, making chirping sounds in social interactions with other geckos. Gekkonidae is the largest family of lizards, with over 2000 different species worldwide and many others likely yet to be discovered. The name stems from the Indonesian-Javanese word Tokek, inspired by the sound these animals make.
All geckos, excluding the Eublepharinae subfamily, have no eyelids and instead have a transparent membrane which they lick to clean. Many species will, in defense, expel a foul-smelling material and feces onto their aggressors. There are also many species that will drop their tails in defense, a process called autotomy. Many species are well known for their specialized toe pads that enable them to climb smooth and vertical surfaces, and even cross indoor ceilings with ease (one hypothesis explains the ability in terms of the van der Waals force). These antics are well-known to people who live in warm regions of the world, where several species of geckos make their home inside human habitations. These species (for example the House Gecko) become part of the indoor menagerie and are often welcome guests, as they feed on insects, including mosquitoes.
The largest species, the Kawekaweau, is only known from a single, stuffed specimen found in the basement of a museum in Marseille, France, and one documented sighting in the wild in 1870. This gecko was 60 cm (24 in) long and it was endemic to New Zealand, where it lived in native forests. It was probably wiped out along with much of the native fauna of these islands in the late 19th century, when new invasive species such as rats and stoats were introduced to the country during European colonization. The smallest gecko, the Jaragua Sphaero, is a mere 1.6 cm long and was discovered in 2001 on a small island off the coast of the Dominican Republic.^[2]

Common traits

Geckos come in various patterns and colors such as purple, pink, blue, and black, and are among the most colorful lizards in the world.
Some are subtly patterned and somewhat rubbery looking, while others are brightly colored. Some species can change color to blend in with their environment or with particular temperatures. Some species are parthenogenic, which means the female is capable of reproducing without copulating with a male. This improves the gecko's ability to spread to new islands. However, in a situation where a single female gecko populates an entire island, the island will suffer from a lack of genetic variation within the geckos that inhabit it. The gecko's mating call sounds like a shortened bird chirping which attracts males, when they are around. This allows a female to reproduce with more genetic variation, by using sexual reproduction instead of asexual.

[edit] Adhesion Ability

Close-up of the underside of a gecko's foot as it walks on vertical glass

The toes of the gecko have a special adaptation that allows them to adhere to most surfaces without the use of liquids or surface tension. The spatula tipped setae on gecko footpads allow attractive forces called van der Waals interactions to arise between the adhesive setae and the surface. One study suggested that capillary adhesion might play a role^[3], but that hypothesis has been rejected by more recent studies^{[4] [5] [6]}.
These van der Waals interactions involve no fluids; in theory, a boot made of synthetic setae would adhere as easily to the surface of the International Space Station as it would to a living room wall, although adhesion varies with humidity^{[5] [6]}. The setae on the feet of geckos are also self cleaning and will usually remove any clogging dirt within a few steps.^[7][8] Teflon, which has very low van der Waals forces,^[9] is more difficult for geckos to adhere to than many other surfaces.
Geckos' toes seem to be "double jointed", but this is a misnomer. Their toes actually bend in the opposite direction from our fingers and toes. This allows them to overcome the van der Waals force by peeling their toes off surfaces from the tips inward. In essence, this peeling action alters the angle of incidence between millions of individual setae and the surface, reducing the Van der Waals force. Geckos' toes operate well below their full attractive capabilities for most of the time. This is because there is a great margin for error depending upon the roughness of the surface, and therefore the number of setae in contact with that surface.

Uroplatus fimbriatus clinging to glass.

Use of small van der Waals attraction force requires very large surface areas: every square millimeter of a gecko's footpad contains about 14,000 hair-like setae. Each seta has a diameter of 5 micrometers. Human hair varies from 18 to 180 micrometers, so a human hair could hold between 3 and 36 setae. Each seta is in turn tipped with between 100 and 1,000 spatulae.^[7] Each spatula is 0.2 micrometer long^[7] (one five-millionth of a meter), or just below the wavelength of visible light.^[10]
If a typical mature 70 g (2.5 oz) gecko had every one of its setae in contact with a surface, it would be capable of holding aloft a weight of 133 kg (290 lb):^[11] each spatula can exert an adhesive force of 10 nanonewtons (0.0010 mgf)^[12]. Each seta can resist 10 milligrams-force (100 µN), which is equivalent to 10 atmospheres of pull.^[7] This means a gecko can support about eight times its weight hanging from just one toe on smooth glass.^[7]

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the Anime Vampire Series review BOOD + Plus by Stavros VAM09

Hi today we have blood + I have seen a bit of it on Youtube but would like to see more and so I will buy the series when out as a complete series on dvd today Stavros tell you all about it.

 I have seen the anime film about Saya called Blood the last vampire and that was excellent and as for the feature film with real actors …………wow ………now that one is soooooooo coolllllllll one of the very best vampire films I have seen, but I digress …let the blood flow……………………

 

 

Blood+

Blood Plus follows the supernatural exploits of a seemingly ordinary school girl, who just so happens to be a vampire, that hunts down and destroys Chiropterans.  Chropterans are bat-like, werewolf creatures that feed on human blood, and Saya Otonashi is the only one who can kill them.  With merely faint allusions to the sensational 2000 anime movie, Blood - The Last Vampire, this half-hour anime television show isn’t a continuation of that story, but rather a full re-imagining.  The name of the main character, Saya, remains the same and she hunts down these vicious metamorphosing killers, but there really is very little that would make anyone believe that she is a vampire…or that the show is a spin off from the noir horror classic.

To be fair to the show, I can not compare them.  It would be like discerning the likes and dislikes of apples and oranges.  Blood+ isn’t bad.  It’s rather awesome actually, but I want all die-hard fans of the anime movie to know up front and personal-like that the TV show is not like the movie…at all.

In this re-imaging Saya is an adopted teenager living with amnesia.  Her adopted brothers Kai and Riku, and the faithful, cello-totting chevalier, Haji, aid her on her quests to make the world a safer place for a powerful organization known as Red Shield.  Armed with her Katana, Saya must sacrifice her own blood onto the blade before it will kill the rancid beasts.  Like any good anime the fight scenes are incredible, graphic, and taught with tension as Saya journeys to rediscover who and what she is.

My only beef with the show is that Saya was born in1833 and during the Vietnam War she entered a hypnotic blood trance and killed not only Chiropterans, but humans alike, thus starting her amnesic spell, and since then hasn’t aged.  Okay, I get the part where its cool to see a cutely drawn character in a school uniform kicking ass, but she’s been a teenager for well over a hundred and sixty years.  Kinda smacks a little on the perverted Twilight side, if you ask me.  But if you can get past the logistics of her age and the fact that she’s been in high school longer than Edward then you are going to get involved in a great show. 

Blood+ is rich with drama, emotional strain, and endearing characters.  It may not slip easily into the vampire genre, as Saya doesn’t conform to the traditional trappings of being nocturnal, having fangs, or needing to drink blood on a regular basis, it does, however, posses its own mythology.  Though, the show is geared more toward a younger audience don’t let that put you off.  Good anime is hard to find, and Blood+ delivers the goods.  Available on Netflix and Hulu, all four seasons of Blood+ are bound into two self-contained parts, ready for streaming or home delivery. 

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The Vampire Diaries: Turning the Pages by Monique Snyman VAM08

Wowwwwwwwwwww I so love this …………… Stefan Salvatore is a mega drip but Damon Salvatore his older brother is hot did I say hot ? I should have said HOT !!!!!!!! hoooooo to meet him on a dark night ………sigh………………

Well take a look for yourselves I have added a few film clips …………………

When L.J. Smith released her series of young adult novels called, The Vampire Diaries, I’m sure she never expected it to become one of television’s hottest shows almost two decades later.  It did though, and although the show is only based on the novels, the main plot is still true to the original storyline and the characters are still as intriguing as ever.  Featuring one of the hottest bad boy vampires to ever see the light of day, Damon Salvatore (played by the extremely handsome Ian Somerhalder), it seems that he has stolen the hearts of many especially with his witty one-liners, quick comebacks and all around cocky attitude.  In all regards it seems as though Damon Salvatore has taken on a life of his own in the show and is slowly pushing his younger brother Stefan Salvatore (played by Paul Wesley) out of the runs as the lead man… 

The Vampire Diaries is one of those shows that seems to be getting better with time and if you have the patience, you will not be disappointed.  The love triangle that is at play creates for an interesting conflict between the characters and also makes for an intriguing inner conflict that will keep you at the edge of your seat throughout.  It’s also one of those shows that obscure the lines to actual mythological stories and fictional stories, which always makes for a creative journey into the unknown.  But that’s not why everyone is watching the show.  Why everyone is watching The Vampire Diaries is because of the sexy vampires that always seem to charm their viewers into wanting more.  It’s not Twilight, these vampires actually kill their prey and although there’s sometimes a bit of guilt in the air, it’s not really that big of an issue… at least not for Damon Salvatore.  For his little brother, it’s a whole different story though.  Stefan (Paul Wesley) has a bit of issues that makes him slightly more like a Twilight vamp, the broody tormented soul that falls in love with a human and whatnot is unfortunately present, but thankfully Damon (Ian Somerhalder) always make fun of him and that’s what makes The Vampire Diaries awesome.

The differences between the show and the books are subtle, yet present.  Elena Gilbert (played by Nina Dobrev in the show) was not a lanky, sexy brunette in the books, whereas Caroline Forbes (Candice Accola) was not a blonde haired, fair skinned girl either.  It seemed as though executives decided to switch the characters up, but the biggest change there was, was changing the story for Caroline Forbes in the whole.  Bonnie Bennett (Katerina Graham) on the other hand also got a bit of a change in regards to her witchery ancestry.  L.J. Smith made her a descendant of Druids, the executives decided to make her a descendant of the Salem Witches instead.  The subtle changes in the television show certainly did not make it worse than the books as some may say; instead it made the books and the show as two stand-alone entities that share the same name and idea.  The two entertainment genres came together like soul mates, completing one another to create a story that makes it superior to most others which are in the same leagues.  It also grows with its audience and its audience is growing fast…

What could a person expect after the first season’s finale, which was jaw dropping?  Where Elena suddenly decides to kiss the other brother and then basically tries to kill her own uncle?  That part was talked about for a while and certainly created enough anticipation for the show to be brought back for a second season, which was just as exciting and made for a fun filled, suspenseful watch.  Everyone wanted more…  Even L.J. Smith was being pushed to release more books for The Vampire Diaries, which she obviously did and there’s still coming more.  But what did you think would happen with a novel that threw together the elements of hidden secrets for the humans, wary witches, werewolves with tempers, a borderline alcoholic vampire with a crush on his brother’s girlfriend, inner conflict, a doppelganger that wants to kill her own lookalike and so much more?  The Vampire Diaries may get classified by some people as too Twilight, due to some similarities, but people have to remember that The Vampire Diaries was written long before Twilight even came into existence and that although there’s a love triangle, werewolves and conflict that it’s nothing like Twilight.  It’s a fun vampire series that teenagers and adults can watch together, with romance, action and horror blended together in an intricate, yet intelligent way that will leave you wanting more.

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Angel the series Review number 7 Vampire Awareness Month VAM07

Angel the series Review number 7 Vampire Awareness Month VAM07

Ribbons of color band across the sky’s canvas painting a harmonic chorus that only Mother Nature could divine. Yet not all that walk the earth get to witness such glory. When night falls the organizational chart of predator and prey is reorganized.

The night lit only by the rays of fullest moon; frames shadows that conceal unimaginable foes. The undead walk the earth at night in search of control and sustenance in the form of blood.  People are no longer the highest threat unless they are aiding the evil that threatens to overcome Los Angeles in this dark broody series.

   

In the midst of the horror hidden beneath the noses of the unsuspecting is a single vampire seeking to make a change. Cursed with a soul by gypsies as a punishment for killing one of them, Angel travels a course seeking atonement from the sordid ways of his past. The demons that he battles are not only the ones he encounters but also from the depths of his being; for having a soul is in direct conflict with the true nature of his being. He is Angel – the vampire with a soul.

Angel forms Angel Investigations and walks his path of redemption as a private investigator helping people with their supernatural problems. As with any good investigator he is supported by a team of human and part human associates while battling the byproducts of law firm of Wolfram & Hart – an advocate of evil.

The concept of Angel was a dark and broody man in the middle. Good versus evil with Angel in the middle. Having played on both teams, Angel struggle is to maintain the person he wants to be. The series spanned five seasons and 111 episodes with David Boreanz playing the title character.  Boreanz captured the emotionally ruptured characteristics of Angel. The often stoic face with pain lurking just behind the windows of the soul would become the face of Angel the vampire many came to know and love. While the character didn’t smile often, when he did it was a soft genuine alluring smile that appealed to many, but perhaps that’s how it started as he wasn’t always Angel.

The short backdraft is that Angel was born Liam in Ireland and was a purely evil vampire. As he ate and ravaged his way through Europe he was known as the devil with the angel’s face – after all he was a very attractive man and exceedingly so as a vampire. After receiving his soul Angel became a changed vampire even falling love with the vampire slayer Buffy. He would leave Buffy to continue his redemptive path in LA after realizing their love could never really be.

Angel was a successful spin-off series that brought a darker more tenacious storyline to the screen.

Today’s review is on Moonlight by Audrey A’Clagh. VAM06

Today’s review is on Moonlight by Audrey A’Clagh. VAM06

Moonlight - No Such Thing As Vampires (Part 1)

Now this is a good one, thank you Audrey for your rerview.

I have always loved this series, and the number of times I shouted at the TV screen BITE HER !!!  she wants to be bitten !!!!  but it was the only thing I had to yell about as it was a cool series that should have gone on a lot longer than it did.

To prove my point I have been able to give you a small bite of what it was like with a little film clip

Moonlight

            Moonlight originally aired from Sept 28, 2007 to April 25, 2008 . It stars Alex O’Loughlin as our vampire Mick St. John who works as a private detective; the other main lead is Sophia Myles as Beth Turner, a mortal reporter for Buzzwire -- a tabloid type of news outlet. In the series opener Mick encounters Beth at a crime scene; we get flash backs to Beth as a little girl Mick rescued from a vampire woman, a woman he then killed by staking her and burning the house down. The first episode “No Such Things as Vampires” set everything up nicely; when I first saw it, a week seemed  too long for the next piece!

The first episode opens with Mick explaining his vampire state to an imaginary interviewer and saying he always wondered how he would explain his existence. He gives us the basics of vampire nature in  this mythology. He sleeps in a freezer, these vampires need cold to achieve rest. If he did eat, garlic wouldn’t be a problem, holy water and crosses are also nothing to him. Sunlight is tolerable but the longer the exposure the sicker he gets (the episode “Fever” turns on this).  The way to kill a vampire is beheading or fire. Once Beth catches Mick feeding to heal, a released felon who knows what he is shoots him with silver bullets since silver is poisonous to vampires and attempts to burn him, he begins to explain more to her. A stake in the heart will apparently paralyze a vampire but not kill them, and old fashioned photography using silver emulsion couldn’t capture the vampire’s image but modern digital can. Vampires are created by being drained to the point of death then given the blood of the vampire with their blood in it.

            

Okay, enough of the nuts and bolts.

           

The show is mostly placed in the modern day  but flips back to the 1950s when Mick was turned.  There is a cool Noir-ish feel that is retro in the flashbacks and modern in the current timeline which keeps a stylish, consistent voice. Mick and Beth’s feelings for each other are complicated by his being a vampire and her having a boyfriend she genuinely cares for. Mick has a best friend, Josef Kostan, who is +/-400 years old. They have differing views of how to live as vampires, (for example Mick drinks blood from a bag and Josef prefers his from the beautiful young female body) but this a friendly lifestyle debate, not your tortured “we are killers and should be stopped” angst. Mick has a conscience and a strong moral sense, but he is not a self-hating vampire. Josef is a little more amoral but his heart is good, which annoys him. They are great fun whenever they interact. Beth takes Mick’s state with curiosity and a sense of humour. (She gets along with Josef too.)

Mick does not hesitate to use his vampire abilities to get information, and when the bad guys are particularly nasty he enjoys going feral on them. He gets a chance to be human for a while but finding it too inconvenient -- he hastens the relapse to get his power back.

The show is full of fun, toss off lines too. Josef to Mick: “You’re only 90, you don’t know what it is like to be chased by angry villagers with torches.” Josef, on drinking the blood Mick buys from a vampire in the hospital morgue: “What is this? Non-fat soy vegan blood?“ Mick to Beth: “Perpetual coolness, the vampire’s curse.” Beth snooping in a female vamp’s closet: “Immortals don’t shop at the Shoe Barn.”

It is a short series, prematurely cancelled due to the writer‘s strike, only 16 episodes long, which is a real shame. It is a smart, beautiful show with subtlety and grace that moves along quickly and never gets dull. You love the characters, I didn’t end up yelling at them for being repeatedly stupid or dense. In my mind Mick has changed Beth -- she is persistent and strong,  and they are now the Nick and Nora of the vampire world.