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True Blood s04e10. "Burning Down the House". Fighting fire with fire.

Did you know that every episode of True Blood is entitled after a song? I do remember the closing tune for being a good version of a song that being a classic, never said too much to me. The Used's version of Talking Heads' Burning Down the House was, I have to admit, interesting. The Used gave the song that intensity that the original lacks in my opinion. On the other hand, The Used are not Talking Heads, not even close, but enough with the music. The episode opens with the Tolerance Fair's battle whose only remarkable outcome is Eric's coming back to normalcy thanks to Sooki's display of fairy powers (I insist, once again, in boycotting this part of the story, anything to do with fairies makes me return to reality and think about the absurdity of willingly letting yourself get upset by this kind of stuff, which is nonetheless the point of any fiction).
Soon enough, we face what's for me the highlight of this episode. Jessica and Jason's after-humping conversation. Jason feels extremely guilty for going to bed (meaning the back of his pick up truck) with his best friend's ex, so he "innocently" asks her to glamour him so he will be able to face Hoyt in a normal way. Jessica rants and raves! Her feelings are hurt! Poor baby... but, wait a second, didn't she glamour her boyfriend after cheating on him only a few days ago? Interesting... I forgive her, though, she is too hot to blame, don't you think?
In the meanwhile, Hoyt is living the hell of breaking up with his sweet heart, and he has become an over-flatulent drunk according to Jason, who obviously is being corroded by guilt.
We can say that everything worth mentioning is above this line, now I have to complete the review with a few other things that fall below this category.

Tommy, Sam's brother, dies because Alcide decides that neither Sam nor he have the right to save Tommy's life giving him V, go figure! On top of that, they keep articulating ridiculous statements trying to console Tommy. Oh, well, au revoir to the last of Sam's relatives!
Terry and Andy made, out of a shooting competition, a therapy session to get Andy off his V addiction. I guess Bon Temps does not have an equivalent to AA for V addicts yet.
Antonia Gavilan de Logroño is not the witch, pun intended, that we thought. Marnie is an even bigger witch, pun intended again, but at the end of the scene both become equal witches.
Obviously, the cliffhanger is the disappearance of Sooki, Lafayette, Tara, and Holly under Marnie's spell, but who was expecting the Matrix-leather vampire showdown at the end? I don't want to believe my own eyes when I see the shiny quartet armed to the teeth ready to go war!

In any case, we had to know that an episode like this was coming. I hate when it is the one before the last, so I hope I don't have to complain about the next one, and everything until the end is a roller coaster of excitement.

Soccer

As you probably have already noticed, I am a huge soccer fan. Now, being originally from Spain, most of you are probably thinking that I am either a Real Madrid or Barcelona fan. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! In my opinion, you should only support these two teams if you are NOT a Spaniard, if you are from Madrid or Barcelona, or if, for some reason, you are intimately related to any of these cities.
For me, there is nothing more shameful and ridiculous than being from a city that has a team in La Liga, or even in the Spanish Second division, and still support any of these teams.
Now, that does not mean, I can enjoy watching a game where these teams are present. That, also, would be ridiculous.

I do support, Sevilla FC, and by the way, today we beat SSC Napoli, 1- 2. It was the presentation game for the Italians.

Did you know... that one of the best players of all times, Diego Armando Maradona, played for these two teams?

Did you know about Black Sabbath?

Any horror film aficionado has heard abot the 1964 classic Black Sabbath. It is where the British Band led by Mr. Ozzy Osbourne in the 70s got it's name from, and likely a strong influence in the band's change of style from hard rock-blues to the first steps into heavy metal. Appart from that, what I did not know is that the original title of this film was not Black Sabbath, but I tre volti della paura (The three faces of fear). In fact, it was released in Italy a year before, and it opened the American market for Mario Bava, who later directed other horror classics as Diabolik, or Twitch of the Death Nerve, considered to be a main influence in the classic slasher film Friday the 13th.
Another striking thing about this film is something, unfortunately, not that uncommon in American releases of European films of those times. The "narrative of The Telephone" (the second of the three stories featured in this film) "was radically transformed from it's version in I tre volti della paura, eliminating all references to Rosie and Mary's previous lesbian relationship and transforming Frank, the vengeful pimp and prison escapee, into a ghost who continues to haunt Rosie on the telephone after she has seemingly stabbed him to death."(1)


(1) Heffernan, Kevin. Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold. Duke University Press, Durham, 2004. 146-7.

Did you know...? A series begins!

Today, I'm starting a series of posts that will appear periodically in this blog about things that may not be new for you, but they were for me. I hope some of you guys share the same fascination for the new discovered facts, or if you already knew about them, and want to share something else related to the topic, let me know!

The first entry will be about horror films, more exactly about the 1964 release Black Sabbath.