Vampires are all the rage these days. With the popularity of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series, HBO's True Blood and the Sweedish vampire movie Let the Right One In, kids everywhere are appropriating vampire culture. No big deal, right? Well, it's no big deal unless you're a real vampire. And in that case, this fake vampire business is some bullshit.
Peter Rugg, from Kansas City's alt weekly, The Pitch, sat down with a few Midwestern vampires and learned that people who consider themselves real vampires actually drink blood (O negative "tastes like a dessert wine!"), that the consumption of blood is better when it's an erotic experience, and that these kids in their Hot Topic trench coats R DOIN IT RONG.
"A lot of people think they're vampires now," Sylvere says.
"I will say, though, reading those books True Blood is based on, they did their research," Lisa allows. "They even got the flavors of the blood types right."
"There are flavors?" I ask.
Lisa begins. "They got it right that the best one is ... "
"O negative!" they yell out in unison.
"Why is that good?"
"It's hard to describe," Lisa says. "It's sweet. It's like a dessert wine."
"How about AB positive?" I ask, curious if my own blood type
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