out and about at my part time job today….just getting a chance for the blog late now.

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Yes Vampires…they have become such a hot item—Keefer Southerland did a Vampire with his own teen peer group in Lost Boys….Long before his TV stints of 24-hours. and though Vampires have been interwoven with our ancient history from the earliest recorded times they were just dark legends, things that went bump in the night and that became less believable as we became more…ah…civilized.  But with this civilization came war and disaster and those things in the night continued to stir just at the corner of our vision, causing a bit of the old uncivilized to shine through.    My blame on the modern vampire craze goes to Bram Stoker who used the name of a man who in his own lands is thought of as a hero, but who has become interchangeable with evil and those uncivilized things that watch us from the shadows. Then came the early movies and the vampire made his debut in the silent genre with a creature that was truly scary and unless you have a thing for weird ears, untrimmed nails and check out those teeth, definitely needs a dentist. The 30’s found us with the man who made Dracula and vise  versa….while not exactly sexy, we did get a classical and much more appealing image that the silent one.   OTHER actors did one or more performances of the evil creature that came out of the night and seemed more and more to prefer women.  who in turn often were seen as completely under the power of the blood thirsty beast. and if you can’t draw sexual symbolism from that please go and read somebody else’s blog. I blame this vampire   later played by this man:  as responsible for making Vampires as a sympathetic (or in Depp’s case a comic) character for probably the first time and he did it 5 days a week in a soap opera format that was previously reserved for “our stories”.  We began to see the vampire as a poor unfortunate that due to another (usually much more evil and less sympathetic) vampire’s even intent. and now we have vampires for every season and every taste TRAILER TRASH VAMPIRES for those who want the baser beings (and a shape shifter that turns in to a dog–REALLY!) or have red neck phantasies.  This show had a nice run on HBO with lots of sex and blood  and was mentioned by Rizzoli(Rozzoil & Isles) as just that Trailer Trash vampires, it did add a new dimension to the legends. TWILIGHT for the kids and those who can’t handle more mature creatures…The movies weren’t critically acclaimed but they did a lot to add the teeny set to the vampire ranks–though the number of 40 year old woman that found this series sexy was down right scary all in itself….and  it amazes me that nobody thought it was weird for this girl to get involved with a 90 year old vampire just because he went to high school and like all vampires don’t show physical aging after their conversion.   BLADE:  the hot black is beautifu vampire that was really a half breed and killed vampires who were becoming a powerful influence in these movies (3).  Don’t know if he counts and the movies more action pictures than truly scary were fun to watch none the less. MOONLIGHT–For the woman that enjoys hot guys and cops.  The show is gone and the actor is now in Hawaii, obviously over the vampire thing.  It was a short running TV show but showed that you can have a hard working, law abiding vampire if you wanted one. ANN RICE–you can’t mention the vampire craze without this author’s series–and  this movie which starred Pitt and Cruise as vampires…it was not one of my favorites–Rice always has one whinny character in each book (in this one it was Pitt) and I just never got past Cruise with the blonde hair.  This one was a bizarre affair of lost love and children vampires that mature mentally but not physically and all kinds of items that you might want to look into before you actually want to take up with one. and there have been lots of women vampire   From ageless children To kick butt warriors and even prom queens   and dark queens   and slayers Pre-presidential and pre-marriage some in both movie and TV issue and those princes of evil or misunderstood beings (which every) that raise lust and love in the breast of many reader are continuing to be produced in movies and to an even greater extent in books. Feehan In her series about Carpathians (sun sensitive who sleep in the earth)–living beings who after hundreds of years of life–loose their feelings, sense of color etc. if they do not find their mate and after years of this non-feeling they may turn to the murder of humans to gain emotions through the blood of their victims and in doing so become vampire–hated and hunted by their former families and friends.   Feehan is considered to be one of the foundations of the modern Vampire fiction and popularity.  so instead of denying that creature that has so long lurked in the shadows and haunted our dreams and fears, we have brought him and/or her into our entertainment, fantasies, and games.  So tell me does this make us more civilized or less? I’m not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I’m afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.