Being Human

I love BBC! This show, Being Human, is actually pretty good! I have seen about 4 or 5 episodes now and this show is really starting to grow on me.

The show is about a werewolf (George), a vampire (Mitchell) and a ghost (Anne) that all move in together. The Werewolf and Vampire move into this house where this woman was killed and they are the only ones that can see her. She was so excited that finally she could be seen, and it turns out that only supernatural creatures can see her.

So George is trying to fight against who he is. He is someone of a girly boy, he is timid, a romantic and sophisticated, but once a month he because a violent creature.
Mitchell is trying to survive without taking the life of others; he has sworn off human blood and is fighting the urge day in and out to taste the sweet warm blood of a living human one more time.

George and Mitchell are trying to live a normal live and to mix their supernatural selves with the human selves. But of course it ends up being harder than they thought.

Anne was engaged and she ended up being murdered by someone. She ends up being trapped on the earthly plain and she has to come to terms with the fact that she can’t cross over until she finds out the truth of how she died and why she is still “here”.

I must admit that the first episode was a little odd, I felt like it was missing something and it jumped into the story at the middle and not so much the beginning. Maybe that is what they were going for. In the first episode, you see how George and Mitchell meet Anne, but you have no idea how George and Mitchell meet, just that Mitchell got George the job at the hospital….I feel like there should have been a first episode to the first episode. Since the first episode this show has gotten better and is now worth watching.

I do wish that the Vampire, Mitchell, was more of a Vamp. He can go out during the day, he is not super strong or super quick, but he is a Vampire. Not too bad.
There are of course other Vampires. They are everywhere and they work to bring him back to the “darkside”. They do not understand why Mitchell has sworn off blood and why he is so determined to live among humans, and what they do not understand they do not like.

This show is on BBC America on Saturday nights, it is on at 9pm, so you can watch it before you go out! And if you have TiVo or Direct TV, you can record it and watch it later.

Avoiding a Vampire Attack

Today I was sitting in the office, being a Friday...I was dragging. Then my best friend sent me an email (well actually 2) that really eased my day.

I love vampires and zombies. The amuse me. I read vampire & zombie books, watch movies, basically anything I can get my hands on. When I was younger I was convinced that Vampires were real. I was actually convinced they existed, mostly because I could have sworn I saw one. YES, even to this day, I still question that encounter.

So the story of my meeting with a vampire starts of fairly amusing:

I was at the mall in St. Louis. I know right off the bat; you are thinking at the mall right...way would a vampire be at the mall?! Well heck if you where a vampire living in 1990something then really where else would you hang out to meet unsuspecting young girl? DUH...mall is the perfect spot! So anyway, back to my meeting. It was dusk (of course, vampires cannot be out during daylight hours) and the pales guy I have ever seen walked out of the mall. Not pale in a sick way or in a "I was born that way", but in a "I'm the living dead way". The guy had the darkest eyes and hair I think is even possible and honestly, there was not a single speck of white in his eyes. Like creepy...all black eyes (maybe they were contacts...this concept revels itself to me now). This guy looks around the parking lot and spots a group of 15/16 year old girls gabbing and laughing. He just leans up against the side of the building eyeing one of them. She had is back to him and suddenly she stops laughing and talking to her friends becomes very stiff, turn directly around and walks strait over to this guy...the vampire. She stops in front of him and he takes her by the arm and leads her away into the dark covers of the parking lot. I never saw that girl or guy again. I know I didn't go to that mall very often and to be honest, I could have easily missed them, but I didn't see them inside the mall later or when I left, but I did pass that same group of girls a few times while walking around the mall shopping and the girl was not with them. So that is my story. And although I cannot prove that the guy was a vampire, I can also not disprove it...so we are just going with, I love vampires and even thought I am old enough to know they don't exist a little part of me wants to think they are lurking out there in the dark.

Anyway. The email my friend sent me, it was a comic on how to avoid a vampire attack.


It was the funniest thing I had seen all day. I wanted to roll over laughing, but heck the guy in the comic is definitely not going to get attacked by a vampire...that is for sure!! AND lets just say that if the girl would have had any of those weapons that the guy in the comic did, the I think she would be alive today and not one of the living dead!