You can always pick up new hobbies. Didn’t Anne Rice’s Lestat form a Nu-Metal band?
The book was published in 1985, so I think they were a good old fashioned hair metal band. I assume this was adjusted for the more recent movie.
On True Blood, Pam had a hissy fit, sputtering she was damn sick and tired of hearing ‘mortals’ and their same old shit, year after year, decade after decade. She was only fond of Eric, her 2000 year old maker. Who somehow after 2000 years is running a vampire bar in current day Louisiana…Now, Russell Edgington is even older, born 850 years before Jesus Christ, and he is now totally crazy, though living the high life as a gay owner of a pink plantation house. … All I can figure is, the ancient vampires have human servants and loved ones to keep around, to keep them up to date on what the current lifestyles are. And having a lot of money helps. A poor, part-time Walmart worker turned into a vampire isn’t going to live a very enjoyable after-life, IMO.
So you don’t read those threads. You read the one about new developments in picotechnology and holistic krelm rights.
And human interactions are always fascinatint.
Speaking of True Blood, I always thought that in the first season, Alexander Skarsgård did an excellent job of portraying a man who had lived a very long time and was pretty much bored with everything he saw happening. I don’t think it was ever explicitly stated, just there in the actor’s interpretation.
Before the Anita Blake series devolved into bad porn fanfic there appeared in one novel a very minor tertiary character who joined a “vampire church” (guaranteed afterlife!) and was turned only to find that being undead, for him, wasn’t much different than being alive, and in some ways even more limiting than his prior humdrum worker-bee existence.
In vampire lore – the original East European folk tales – the question does not arise, because vampires are for the most part as mindless as Romero slow-zombies. But then came vampire fiction, with its romantic-aristocratic vamps like Varney, and the rest is literary/Hollywood history.