what new fresh hell is this?
I know, I know, I don't so much post here anymore; I mean to, but I'm busy with another blog/Twitter feed/trying to write another story (original) if not an actual novel....
...so yeah, things are slipping. This one made me sit up and headtilt, though.
There's an article I'm linking after this that is just baffling to read on its own, but in this context, it's IN.SANE.
First:
For example, there's no blood-sucking. That's just a figure of speech.
"We use the metaphor of the blood," he said.
Um...I hate to break this to you, Sparky, but a) you don't speak for everybody, and b) you're being wildly inaccurate, here.
Second:
That lifestyle has a guide. it's called the Sanguinomicon: the Lexicon of the Living Vampire.
The what now? It's called the what now? You mean this thing?
You've gone stark, you have.
The full article is under the cut:
"Real" Vampires Living Among Twilight Fans
Reporting Gio Benitez - Hollywood, FL; CBS-4
June 30, 2010
http://cbs4.com/local/vampire.vampires.fangs.2.1780919.html
On the premiere of the film "Twilight: Eclipse," CBS4 News wondered, do vampires really exist? It turns out, they do.
They live among us, and now we're getting a close look at what vampyrism really is in South Florida. We walked through the doors of Club X-It in Hollywood to meet a man who worked his way into the vampire community years ago.
"What is the most important message of vampyrism?" asked CBS4's Gio Benitez.
"We live," he replied.
He didn't want to provide his name for his story, but tells us what you see in the movies, like "Twilight," isn't what real vampires practice. For example, there's no blood-sucking. That's just a figure of speech.
"We use the metaphor of the blood," he said.
"The blood is the energy?" asked Benitez.
"That's correct," he said.
The energy he's talking about is what you might experience when you go to a concert or even see a movie with another person. The excitement from one person is transferred to another.
"Is it an evil energy?" asked Benitez.
"I've never really come across that, you know? I mean, there's going to be a bad seed just about anywhere," he said.
It's not quite a religion. Each vampire follows their own rules, but there's a lot of special events, with performers celebrating vampyrism. Oftentimes, the dress code is risque.
"And the reason for that is that it keeps out people who wouldn't be part of that lifestyle or sympathetic to that lifestyle," said the man from the vampire community.
That lifestyle has a guide. it's called the Sanguinomicon: the Lexicon of the Living Vampire. In it, we learn about the five principles of vampyrism: following the law, responsibility, that metaphorical blood, the quest of family, and secrets. The vampire is an open secret hiding in plain sight, but not necessarily dangerous
"They're not going out and hunting down somebody to drink their blood," he said.
A sort of responsible vampyrism. It may be what inspired the character of Edward Cullen in Twilight. There's no blood sucking, but lots of tradition, and in South Florida, it's very much... alive.
The HELL, mysterious wannabe vamp? The friggin' HELL??
Oftentimes, the dress code is risque.
TO WHOM? Gods, they PRINTED this trash somewhere. Just NUTS.
...so yeah, things are slipping. This one made me sit up and headtilt, though.
There's an article I'm linking after this that is just baffling to read on its own, but in this context, it's IN.SANE.
First:
For example, there's no blood-sucking. That's just a figure of speech.
"We use the metaphor of the blood," he said.
Um...I hate to break this to you, Sparky, but a) you don't speak for everybody, and b) you're being wildly inaccurate, here.
Second:
That lifestyle has a guide. it's called the Sanguinomicon: the Lexicon of the Living Vampire.
The what now? It's called the what now? You mean this thing?
You've gone stark, you have.
The full article is under the cut:
"Real" Vampires Living Among Twilight Fans
Reporting Gio Benitez - Hollywood, FL; CBS-4
June 30, 2010
http://cbs4.com/local/vampire.vampires.fangs.2.1780919.html
On the premiere of the film "Twilight: Eclipse," CBS4 News wondered, do vampires really exist? It turns out, they do.
They live among us, and now we're getting a close look at what vampyrism really is in South Florida. We walked through the doors of Club X-It in Hollywood to meet a man who worked his way into the vampire community years ago.
"What is the most important message of vampyrism?" asked CBS4's Gio Benitez.
"We live," he replied.
He didn't want to provide his name for his story, but tells us what you see in the movies, like "Twilight," isn't what real vampires practice. For example, there's no blood-sucking. That's just a figure of speech.
"We use the metaphor of the blood," he said.
"The blood is the energy?" asked Benitez.
"That's correct," he said.
The energy he's talking about is what you might experience when you go to a concert or even see a movie with another person. The excitement from one person is transferred to another.
"Is it an evil energy?" asked Benitez.
"I've never really come across that, you know? I mean, there's going to be a bad seed just about anywhere," he said.
It's not quite a religion. Each vampire follows their own rules, but there's a lot of special events, with performers celebrating vampyrism. Oftentimes, the dress code is risque.
"And the reason for that is that it keeps out people who wouldn't be part of that lifestyle or sympathetic to that lifestyle," said the man from the vampire community.
That lifestyle has a guide. it's called the Sanguinomicon: the Lexicon of the Living Vampire. In it, we learn about the five principles of vampyrism: following the law, responsibility, that metaphorical blood, the quest of family, and secrets. The vampire is an open secret hiding in plain sight, but not necessarily dangerous
"They're not going out and hunting down somebody to drink their blood," he said.
A sort of responsible vampyrism. It may be what inspired the character of Edward Cullen in Twilight. There's no blood sucking, but lots of tradition, and in South Florida, it's very much... alive.
The HELL, mysterious wannabe vamp? The friggin' HELL??
Oftentimes, the dress code is risque.
TO WHOM? Gods, they PRINTED this trash somewhere. Just NUTS.