I know that I am a huge dork when it comes to this subject...I almost hate to say it, you know, Vampires. (there so hot right now, vampires-please use your best 'Mugatu' voice) But as dorky as I may be, I can at least say its been a life-long passion. I remember watching Bela and Christopher Lee as a child, staying up late for the creature feature, thinking 'that's what I want to be when I grow up'. I always identified with the male leads, not the hopeless, whiny girls. In 3rd or 4th grade I became obsessed with 'The Lost Boys'. I saw it in the theater and when it came out on VHS, my best friend and I rented it from Errol's video every fucking weekend! I even had my own 'Vampire Kit' that I made in secret, I tried to make a jewel encrusted bottle like David's and kept it in my cubbord under the stairs (yes, I had one just like Harry but my parents were normal and I did not sleep there...lots of spiders though...)The next phase came with Anne Rice, I learned about her and Lestat through my parents, of all people. When we would go on car trips, my mom would rent books on tape from the library to pass the time. She rented 'The Vampire Lestat' because, being a sulky teen on a long car trip in the back of a huge, ugly Dodge, I was always less than pleased! When we started listening to that book, I was sooooo in love, with Lestat, with Anne Rice's wonderful story telling. My mom bought me all the books, probably regretting it later because that was the last hope she ever had of me being 'normal'. Even in high school, I wrote several papers on Vampires and shit like that. I got a long, black velvet cape for Christmas one year, I had a lot of brocade jackets, I dyed my hair black for the first time in 9th grade and have never looked back.
All of these things have become such a part of me that I don't think my family even notices anymore. I feel bad for those people who call themselves vampires, try to drink blood, wear fangs and all that crap. Makes the rest of us look bad. I may be a big nerd about all this crap, but at least I don't lisp!
My favorite vampire book of all time is 'Lost Souls' by Poppy Z. Brite. She captures everything I know about being a spooky kid, growing up in the South, she makes her characters so real to me, and in a way I already knew them!
And last, the one all you boys are dreading, the Twilight series. Maybe it's because I am a girl, but I love them! Even the 'PG-ness' of the books, who can deny the power of true love? I am not that sentimental of a girl, but damn, I need me some 'Edward' in my life! The monster quality of these books is not why I love them, its that Bella, a sensible, regular girl can still find herself lost to emotional responses instead of rational ones. Now THAT is something I sure as hell understand! Right now, I am in the midst of reading the 'Sookie Stackhouse' series by Charlaine Harris. It is the series that the HBO show 'True Blood' is based on. So far, the books are fun, sexy and definitely adult in nature which I love. I also watched the pilot of the TV show online (no cable) and I loved it! Anna Paquin is a perfect Sookie and Stephen Moyer gives me chills and the sexy vampire Bill, I just love the way he says 'Sookie' and stares her down...i would have been in his bed/coffin in a heart beat!
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