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Interview With The Vampire S3e1
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00:00Watch The Vampire Lestat After Dark on AMC Plus or wherever you get your podcasts.
00:11Previously on the show formally titled Interview with the Vampire.
00:15So, Mr. Dulac, how long have you been dead?
00:18The year was 1910.
00:20Louis, let me introduce you to Mr. Lestat de Leoncore.
00:23What exactly is the nature of your relationship with my brother, Monsieur Leoncore?
00:27I can swap this life of shame.
00:29Swap it out for a dark gift.
00:31Be my companion for all eternity.
00:34He had a way about him.
00:35Preternaturally charming, occasionally thoughtful.
00:37He was my murderer, my mentor, my lover and my maker.
00:40All of those things at once.
00:42Claudia was everything.
00:44The life of a vampire has its challenges.
00:50Can an immortal meet mortality?
00:53Theoretically, it can be done.
00:55But could it be done by us to him?
00:58Paris was an awakening for Louis.
01:00Paris was many things in those days.
01:04Bonjour, mon amour.
01:06Are you schizophrenic, Louis?
01:08I could feel the movement of air with his movement.
01:11His breath on the back of my neck.
01:13We were on trial for murder.
01:15Love has always been difficult for me.
01:17My first paramour.
01:18Nicolas Delafonte, a violinist.
01:24You let him there so he could destroy it.
01:31Yes.
01:31You saved Louis.
01:33That's it.
01:35But not her.
01:37Who made you?
01:38His name was Magnus.
01:41He took me from my room in Paris as I kicked and screamed.
01:44The light's going out of your blue eye.
01:47I've come to kill you.
01:48I have the blood of Akasha in me.
01:51He didn't save you.
01:53Lestat did.
01:55I'm guessing you haven't heard from my maker.
01:57I shouldn't have left you alone with him.
01:58Make it up to me.
01:59We'll do a follow-up book.
02:01I'm companion enough for myself now.
02:02I'm sorry I don't have much time.
02:04I'm in the middle of rehearsing.
02:05I'm going on tour.
02:06I just need about 15 more years of practice.
02:23I'm a little killer.
02:25I'm a lonely one.
02:27I'm a chicken upper spine.
02:30Telling you to run.
02:31I'm a living shallow.
02:33I'm a last line.
02:36I'm a past, a future, the last, a future, the future, the future, the future, the future, the future, the
02:38future, the future.
02:39Where the rock and roll is.
02:41Where the guitar is.
02:43Where the horror me, love me, the vision I'm out.
02:46Where the stupid rain.
02:49Bang, bang.
02:50Bang, bang.
02:51Bang, bang.
02:53Bang, bang.
02:54Bang, bang.
02:55Up, up, down.
02:58Burn the ground.
03:02Up, up, down.
03:06Burn the ground.
03:09Bang, bang.
03:13Bang, bang.
03:14Bang, bang.
03:15Bang, bang.
03:15Bang, bang.
03:16Bang, bang.
03:17Hmm, c'est cool.
03:49Good evening.
03:51The House wishes to extend its gratitude to the gathering for your compliance with the unorthodox prerequisites of tonight's event.
04:00Furthermore, we wish to reiterate that the anonymity that you have granted us will be given to you individually as
04:07well as to any institutions that you are representing.
04:11Stating the obvious, we are not here and neither are you.
04:18Lot one of two.
04:20The master recordings of the complete works of the Vampire Lestat de Liancourt, which includes his 2025 self-titled album,
04:28The Vampire Lestat,
04:29additional session tracks that were discarded in the final assemblage of the album,
04:34original handwritten scores and private recordings by the Vampire Lestat himself,
04:39which include a song cycle in the classical vein set to the poetry of Baudelaire.
04:47Before we begin the bidding, I perform the following action.
05:03We will begin the bidding at 1yuan.
05:07Do I hear 1yuan?
05:111yuan.
05:12Sold to the gentlewoman in the third row of good spirit.
05:19Lot number two.
05:21A music box curated by the Vampire Lestat himself,
05:26a 1978 Fernando Marciani Corinto sideboard,
05:31inside a Rosner and Zonn Mott turntable with Bialab 90 speakers.
05:38Two temperature-controlled wine cabinets,
05:41one holding a bottle of Niport 1863 port wine,
05:46the other with a magnum of blood from the curator himself.
05:49The upper level.
05:52A singular vinyl pressing of the complete works of the Vampire Lestat de Liancore,
05:58previously delineated,
05:59along with 111 albums of audio best described as
06:04an omniscient history of the events of the 2025 album in supporting tour
06:10and the consequential global catastrophes that sprung from said album and tour
06:15as narrated by the Vampire Lestat himself.
06:19The collection has been named The Failures.
06:24We will begin the bidding at 50 million yuans.
06:29If you are hearing this now,
06:31you must be a very privileged individual.
06:35You could have fed a small nation for years while they paved over the rubble.
06:39You bought my box instead.
06:41I like you already.
06:44So let's begin the metal.
06:45For I could and should have ended it there.
06:49My tour, my hedonistic pursuit of extremity.
06:53All of it.
06:54And had I done so,
06:56the regretful dead and the traumatized still alive
06:59would be somewhere other than they are today.
07:02And I am not saying that the attempted extinction of the Y chromosome across the continents was all my fault.
07:08Now that would suggest a level of self-importance even I'm not comfortable with.
07:12But upon reflection,
07:14made a contribution.
07:17It was the spring of 2025.
07:20A good nation was making itself great again.
07:24Again.
07:27And every vampire,
07:29those converting and those enduring,
07:32well,
07:33they were doing exactly as they pleased.
07:52And I'm not saying that the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is
07:53the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth
07:53is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the
07:53truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is
07:54the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth
07:54is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the
07:56truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is
07:57the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth
07:58is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the
07:59truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is
08:00the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth is the truth
08:06Ooh ooh ooh
08:08Wah-ah
08:10Ooh ooh ooh
08:12Wah-ah
08:13Ooh ooh ooh
08:16Wah-ah
08:21What a long face
08:23Not for the baby
08:24I've got long face
08:27Come up reason
08:29No more long stains
08:31That doesn't faze me
08:36I'm an actor
08:38In my makeup
08:40I get fat
08:42When we break
08:44What does it matter
08:46Who I take
08:49Naturally
08:50I made the band after myself
08:52And the four that backed me
08:54Played their parts as instructed
08:56There was Larry
08:58The front man made side man
09:00Choking his guitar neck nightly
09:01Wishing it was mine
09:03Brother Alex
09:04The more talented seedling
09:07Straight-edged in half the fun
09:09Salamander
09:10Bassist
09:11Dumb
09:12Shockingly dumb
09:13And TC
09:15The abandoned bride of a dozen
09:17Should have died in art school bands
09:19Keeping us all in the dirty pocket
09:21We dropped songs on the streams
09:24And booked intimate venues
09:25To induce what Jen's snooze called FOMO
09:28They came for cosplay left converted
09:30And I baptized them
09:31The beautiful unwell
09:33And yet
09:34Here we were
09:35In the inn of the stooges
09:37And the stripes
09:38Thirty performances notched
09:40And already resting on the alps of adequacy
09:44Unacceptable
09:44Un piano
09:46Un forte
09:48Un allegro
09:50Un mandante
09:53Un valero
09:55ProstituƩ
09:57Un
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10:13That song sucks.
10:14Thank you for your feedback.
11:14Well, that was boring.
11:15Do you seem to like it?
11:16Harmonies on Plastic Fiends were trash.
11:19He's right.
11:19And the front head on your kick is shimmering. Turn it up his step.
11:22Singer's right.
11:23You left your tambourine in his stand, Larry.
11:25Yeah, well, I was feeling the guitar.
11:26No one is coming to hear your guitar, Larry.
11:29No, they come for the Aussie shit.
11:30Dear Rage, call the Harmony Room. Larry Slater shredding it tonight and no one ever.
11:35You sign the checks, dude.
11:36I do, I do sign the checks.
11:38Sign this.
11:38The tambourine tomorrow is rehearsed and perfected.
11:41What am I saying?
11:43You're not in Corvallis.
11:44You're Brian, the wife, early retirement and her lawyer, Lake Boat.
11:47You spit pen.
11:48But it's funny because it's blood and I'm of, um, fire.
11:51There's a reason Oregon don't know to rise in red income.
11:54There's the band and there's the shell that protects the band from the world's envy.
11:59Our band shell was Christine Clare.
12:02She hired, fired, dictated and castrated with extreme prejudice.
12:09Try your best not to be you tonight.
12:09We want the car.
12:11No.
12:11We'll be good.
12:12Corvallis.
12:13Yes.
12:14What do you think?
12:15I'm a little!
12:17I'm a little!
12:18I'm a little!
12:18I'm a little!
12:20I'm a little!
12:21I'm a little!
12:21I'm going into my vampire dressing room now.
12:25A little draining both ways.
12:27You'll have to guess who gets the fangs and who gets the vodka bottle.
12:30And yes, it's a vodka bottle.
12:34You did it again.
12:36Fucking asshole.
12:37Did I mention that I was filming a documentary at the time?
12:40A bootless errand helmed by a first time director.
12:43I've seen a rough cut.
12:45Truthful and daring.
12:46With less war and pity.
12:48Anyone see Yarda?
12:49I don't know.
12:50I don't know.
12:50I don't know.
12:51I don't know.
12:51I don't know.
12:53I don't know.
12:54I don't know.
12:54Missing a contact again.
12:56Oh.
12:57So good.
12:58How many drinks have you had?
12:59Uh, one and a half.
13:01Drive to the burbs, sit by yourself in a booth at Applebee's, order the usual,
13:04big tip, meet us back in the city.
13:07Now you'd think a 54 city rock tour would be a wonderful cover for a blood drinker.
13:11Hide your keel up on the bus, wave to the morgue ports in the rear view mirror, that kind of
13:16thing.
13:16But niche celebrity is a hunter's handicap and a sloppy knight in Corvallis made urgent the need for a body
13:22double.
13:24His name was Yarda Klepek, and the Albanian gangsters Christine hired to find my doppelganger
13:29found him working construction in the Czech Republic.
13:32Three inches shorter than your velvet mouth narrator, we fit him for lifts, blue eye contacts, and a wig.
13:39And otherwise, let him be Neanderthal me.
13:42I hunted this way and we sent him that way, and every sad photograph uploaded to Reddito discord of Yarda
13:48eating up tuna melt by himself, only confirmed for most what they already believed.
13:55Let's go!
13:55That I, the Vampire Lestat, was Daniel Malloy's fictitious creation.
14:00And the Vampire Lestat, the band, was fronted by a bricklaying karaoke fanatic from Ostrova.
14:06Nothing but a desperate cash grab at the end of a chuggy vampire fad.
14:10And I've only myself to blame for the timing, having locked us in an attic for a year plus perfecting
14:15our sound.
14:16The sound I hope would counter Mr. Dulac's portrayal of me as a mayonnaise villain with sociopathic tendencies.
14:24I'll beside the point, because the point was, the point forever is,
14:28I know you're real!
14:29But most of humanity moved on from vampires, and rather quickly.
14:34Congratulations. Now go make friends.
14:38They lifted their heads from their algorithmic handmasters, uttered a collective, huh, and swiped left.
14:45I am the Vampire Lestat. I am a god. Gods are not swiped.
14:54The Contessa!
14:56The useful idiot!
14:58Great show!
15:00You left before we started.
15:02Yeah, I figured Spotify some T-Rex and drag a little one egg from Dr. Fareed. Good here.
15:06Same, Jeff.
15:08I am not here.
15:09Can we mic you? TC punched the boom again.
15:12Yeah, okay.
15:19So, uh, you and Louie talking again?
15:23He doesn't return my texts.
15:25Or my telepathy.
15:28I hear he's back in the States.
15:32We good?
15:33We're good.
15:34It's late.
15:37Okay.
15:40You've been alive and undead for 265 years.
15:43You witnessed the French Revolution first hand, the electric light, penicillin, two world wars, the atomic bomb, the moon landing,
15:52the Berlin Wall...
15:53Joey Chestnut.
15:54What?
15:55He eats hot dogs for a living. He's extraordinary. I hope to meet him one day. Was there a question?
15:59Having accumulated profound wisdom and experience through the dark gift of immortality, why have you chosen to waste at singing
16:07music no one wants to hear in pants no one should ever squeeze into?
16:11You ask this question every night.
16:13And I get a different answer every night.
16:14You get me to repeat myself soon enough. I am sure once you confront your transformational trauma.
16:19I don't have transformational trauma.
16:21That's why these movie producers hired you, Danny Malloy, a vampire slayer.
16:26But he said you requested me.
16:28Absurd.
16:29Oh, as absurd as a documentary about a rock band posing as vampires, fronted by an actual vampire.
16:36Directed by a vampire passing as a human.
16:38You tell him for it.
16:41Is it true you were a stutterer as a child?
16:44Louis said you were.
16:51Was he there in 18th century Auvers?
16:53He said you told him that.
16:54Did I threaten Claudia with rape on a train?
16:56Was I in the room when Donizetti wrote Don Pasquale?
17:01No.
17:02No.
17:03And impossible because I had buried myself underground for the vast majority of the 1800s.
17:08I wrote what he told me.
17:10I don't have trauma.
17:11I love being a vampire.
17:13And can you drop the fledgling speak and spell?
17:15No.
17:22The dark, dreary, industrial world has finally submitted to automation.
17:30Laborers stand in their doorways hitting their pipes as their children have pipe in their drained empty swimming pools.
17:39Drugstores locked up baby formula and shaving cream while Saks ate Barneys and someone told everyone that Lululemon was sexy.
17:51Facts are irrelevant.
17:55Feels are everything.
17:58And the value of human life, it has never been more arbitrary.
18:04David, Freddy, Prince Rogers.
18:08They're all gone.
18:10And the lights on Tay Tay's ears have dimmed.
18:13Fire coming down the hill.
18:16Water moving in on Nantucket.
18:20No more safe spaces.
18:24It's my era.
18:26Now.
18:30Post Malone and Jelly Roll playing there tonight.
18:33Sixty thousand for a face tattoo Palooza.
18:36You played an 800 seat venue.
18:38How is it your era?
18:43I'm vain and shallow and pure an empty seat.
18:45Ask me an easy one.
18:48Is it true your band was formed on Halloween?
18:57You were listening to The Failures.
19:01Album 2.
19:02Side B.
19:26What do you think?
19:28It's nice.
19:30Nice?
19:31Yeah!
19:31Yeah, it's nice. I don't see BeyoncƩ covering it, but it's nice.
19:37Nice is nothing.
19:39It's nice that you back write music.
19:42A flower box is nice.
19:43It's nice that you got yourself a nice place.
19:45It's a nice word, and it says everything I want it to express.
19:49Don't be a bitch about it.
19:52You should come visit.
19:54I have a space above the bed in one of the guest rooms.
19:57I can't find anything for her.
19:59Oh, a guest room?
20:01You want me to come and see your guest room?
20:03It's an afternoon neighborhood.
20:05Old money, young professionals, a smattering of Christ de Trasphan, baby.
20:10Good eating.
20:14Same potholes, but no hurricanes, no witches.
20:20Everyone mangles French just like you do.
20:23Come to me.
20:24Montreal. I am he, and he is me.
20:30That's baggage here.
20:31I get it. I get it.
20:34Besides, there's an Olmstead Park nearby if I get homesick.
20:38And there's a garage band rehearsing across the street who call themselves, of all things, Satan.
20:46They call themselves, of all things, Satan?
20:50Satan's night out.
20:52Satan's night out?
20:54Out. Satan's night out.
20:56Okay.
20:56Makes sense.
20:57Louis, do you know someone called Daniel Malloy?
21:03I burned his laptop.
21:04I didn't know he had it saved in the cloud.
21:06I only found out it was coming out a month ago.
21:08You've known for a month, and you talk about me and it to a mortal?
21:11Well, yeah.
21:12Uh, yeah.
21:12Gonna, you know?
21:14No, I don't know, Louis.
21:17Please, explain yourself.
21:18It's gonna be here and gone in a minute.
21:20No worries anymore.
21:22The stat, he is genre, whatever.
21:24100%.
21:25But Armand, he is genre mystƩrieux.
21:28Yeah, there's layers.
21:29You have to do that toile, Olouve.
21:31And all the boomers did the field to go to see the other boss farm with his resting batrice.
21:37I skipped that and I was going to see my beta boy in the corner of the room.
21:42I'll do it.
21:44You have to do it.
21:45You have to do it.
21:47I'll kill it.
21:47I'll kill it.
21:49I'll kill it.
21:49I'll kill it.
21:50I'll kill it.
21:50And I'll kill it.
21:52I'll kill it.
21:55I'll kill it.
21:55The stat, man.
21:57He's going to burn the French maudits on the road on the street.
22:00100%.
22:00How many wildsleeves are there?
22:03Do you want to become a member?
22:05There's 10% of it.
22:06No, thank you!
22:11Huh.
22:14Huh.
22:15I know what infinitesimal means.
22:18It was raining.
22:20No!
22:21No!
22:22Never!
22:26Fucking!
22:27Lelio!
22:29I'm not a harlequin.
22:30Your sources are your sherpas.
22:33Your editor is your priest.
22:36Don't go to the end.
22:38Jesus, out!
22:40Why must you complicate it?
22:41I know.
22:43Well, I know.
22:44Swank with hot treats!
22:45Can you please?
22:48Hello.
22:52I want to pop both sides bars.
22:54I want to pop both sides.
23:00Your camera is not period correct.
23:03I have a peanut allergy.
23:04Well, allergies are delusional.
23:07Take the mounts.
23:08You'll take whatever I give you.
23:32You want a check?
23:34Look out there.
23:47Look out there.
24:10This is in 1979.
24:12Bela Lugosi is not dead.
24:14You don't need to finger her for five bars.
24:18You're hurting her.
24:22Apologies for the squire.
24:24My man, Arturo, will come in the morning with your replacement
24:28and a new front door.
24:31More frequent showers.
24:38What was the question again?
24:41Why music?
24:42Hey, hey!
24:44Why now?
24:46Dude, that was sick.
24:48What are we doing here?
24:51We're doing a rewrite.
24:54So this whole tour is just some ironic reaction to my book.
24:59Who better to refute the book than the man who wrote the book?
25:05The songs are my story.
25:07Your documentary, The Liner Notes.
25:09Liner Notes?
25:10I won two Pulitzers.
25:11I'm taking this thing to camp.
25:14Okay?
25:14I'm going to be slapping Chris Rock and stroking my Oscar.
25:18The Brat sings, The Brat dies.
25:21The Great Laws are clear on this.
25:23I love the songs.
25:24More exposure for us.
25:26More risk for us.
25:27I don't have any problems in his songs.
25:31He sings for himself.
25:33He sings for himself.
25:34He sings for himself.
25:36Only a Coven Leader can make more.
25:38The Great Laws are clear on that.
25:40First the book, now the singer.
25:43This is chaos.
25:44It does a bit of share with you.
25:46If he comes to your people, kill him.
25:50The Great Laws are clear on that.
26:29The Great Laws are clear on that.
26:30The Great Laws are clear to all people.
26:34The Great Laws are clear on that.
26:41The Great Laws are clear on the lines of France.
26:48Mm-hmm.
27:33I got a real life, whoa
27:37Didn't break, didn't try to run
27:39I got a real life, whoa
27:44Sucking on the sun
27:45No time for growing up
27:47No time for blowing up
27:49No time for blading out
27:50Your phone is blowing up
27:52I got a real life, whoa
27:54No time for throwing my step right there
27:57Until we come, doo-doo-doo
27:59Da-da-da
28:00Don't want to smash this line
28:02To be your morning star
28:04Don't want to learn about a tic-tac-disc
28:07Want to stay in bed
28:08Eating blood like a rabbit
28:15Woo!
28:17That's a nice game
28:19Who's coming?
28:19The Fithouse and the Twin Old Small
28:21Order at the bar this time
28:23Take some photos with the fans
28:24I climb up there
28:25Keep it scrolling
28:26Only buy a large and home machine
28:28Shhh
28:29Shhh
28:29Shhh
28:43Shhh
28:43It means exactly what you think it means.
28:47Do, do, do, do!
28:48Da, da, da!
28:49Don't wanna smash yourself, you'll be a blind star.
28:53Don't wanna learn a fucking TikTok dance.
28:56Wanna stay a bear, eat it blind, then no rush!
29:06Pick up the fucking jammory!
29:09From the alps of adequacy to the canyon of coup d'Ć©tat,
29:12two nights in a row, my violin competing with his guitar for the solo break,
29:18two centuries waiting to share my music, two years as Mr. Dulac's B-Movie Brute.
29:27But just as I was about to bridge the bridge with murder and mayhem,
29:32something quite surprising happened.
29:35My music wrapped itself around me like a jungle snake constricting its prey,
29:41and a lifetime of blood-bartering overwhelmed the temporal lobe.
29:47Muses appeared in my mind and in the now around me.
29:53Memories taking their turn.
29:59Blood in.
30:02Blood out.
30:05Hammering away at the performative vampire persona I had welded into armor.
30:13The armor cracked.
30:17The bridge buckled.
30:21And the bonafide vampire emerged, center stage.
30:25It was I who had been adequate.
30:30It was I who had been holding us back.
30:34And now, exposed in the roar,
30:37under the white hot lights,
30:41my bandmates began to feed.
30:46And that sound I had been grinding them for was finally unleashed.
30:52A euphoric grattiness spilling into the crowd,
30:56into their bodies,
30:57enveloping the render.
31:00I want to stay back.
31:03Eat a pan or crash.
31:06I want to stay back.
31:09Eat a pan or crash.
31:12I want to stay back.
31:16Eat a pan or crash.
31:19Yum!
31:24Yaaah.
31:25Yaaah.
31:26No!
31:28No!
31:32No!
31:32No!
31:32No!
31:34No!
31:35No!
31:38Which one of you is OD'd before?
31:42What do you do?
31:43What did she take?
31:45Not her.
31:47Me.
31:48Get her on the ground.
31:50Her blood has...
31:53Ecstasy.
31:53Ecstasy.
31:55LSD.
31:56What the hell happened up there?
31:59What the hell were you doing?
32:01What the hell were you doing?
32:04I should have quit right there and then.
32:06Would have been a lovely footnote to my life, the band.
32:10But the muses were just beginning.
32:14You done this to me?
32:16What are you doing?
32:19I lost myself on stage for a moment.
32:22It seems you still lost.
32:26The song's gonna kill you.
32:27You know that, don't you?
32:29I can't die.
32:30Everything dies.
32:32You die.
32:33I die.
32:34She dies.
32:36She dies.
32:38Though he dies bad.
32:42I'm immortal.
32:43Yeah.
32:44You kill some wolves and fall in love.
32:46Get the gift.
32:47Fall in love.
32:48Go to ground.
32:49Get dug up and fall in love.
32:51You like some wet clothes and a coin-op dryer.
32:54Just 265 years round and round.
32:58Why are you so sad?
33:00Thousands of fans loving you.
33:02I want millions.
33:04And that'll top off that heart of yours.
33:09Billions.
33:10Then why you always gotta make it so hard for someone to give it to you?
33:15Huh?
33:17Who told you that?
33:19Don't worry.
33:20They coming.
33:22Who's coming?
33:23They gonna tell you themselves.
33:27Who's coming?
33:28Great show, didn't I?
33:30Who?
33:34You are listening to The Failures.
33:37Album 5, Side B.
33:39If you take nothing else away from your exorbitant purchase, heed this advice.
33:45Never play two nights in Detroit.
33:49You'll wind up in Windsor with a broken orbital bone listening to transactional sex with the adjoining walls.
33:56How I came to this squalid real estate is the premise of Side B Album 5, so...
34:04Come.
34:06Now the boutique hotel we were staying at was having a grandish opening that night and the band was asked
34:11to lend its celebrity status to the event.
34:13Don't tell me to pose, fuck you!
34:16There was a red carpet, a pap line, and a vampire DJ of some renown seducing corporate employees, provincial influencers,
34:24and party crashing beautifully.
34:26Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go faster, thank you, thank you.
34:27I was having sex in an elevator with Dee and the girl I had just overindulged myself with early in
34:33the night.
34:34Actually, that happens... later.
34:38A lot of things happened that night.
34:40Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on!
34:44The band is inside with Dan in the VIP perch.
34:49I'm giving the paps my pussycat with no idea that I would be in a fang fight less than an
34:54hour later.
34:56No, no, no, no, no. I'm getting ahead of myself again.
34:59I arrived fashionably late, of course.
35:02State your name for the camera.
35:04Baby Jake.
35:05Okay, baby, tell me, why do you like the vampire Lestat?
35:09Like I'm gonna be in the movie?
35:11Oh, you're in it now.
35:12I am feeling good.
35:16Surfing the sublime candy-flipped wave of the girl's blood.
35:19Hear him, hear that voice.
35:22The girl is feeling good.
35:23Wow.
35:24Riding the wonders of Dr. Fareed's blood transfusion quick pick-me-up cocktail.
35:29Who is this guy?
35:30Cause, like, rock and roll, it's dying.
35:32I sat there, soaking up her praise, along with the band, still somehow blind to the vampiric mysteries of their
35:39front man.
35:40So what if the dead and buried past was now a fresh and eager groupie?
35:45It's rock and roll, you know?
35:47Have a nervous breakdown on stage, chatted up with the floating girl on the ceiling you almost killed,
35:51have sex with their in the elevator.
35:53Ah, I'm still not there yet.
35:56MDMA and LST.
35:58The Torval and Dean of hallucinogenics.
36:00So then everybody's like, is rock and roll actually dying?
36:04Were you a stutterer as a child?
36:05They walk into the ER, they are like, the doctor, unless that's the scalpel.
36:12I'm the scalpel, printed t-shirts.
36:15And so he, the scalpel, cuts into rock and roll's heart, like he cut into mine tonight.
36:23And he has the heart in his mouth.
36:26He's like, do you wanna fuck?
36:29And rock and roll is like, yes, bitch!
36:32I excuse myself to the men's room.
36:35Didn't read about vampire physiology in Mr. Dulac's memoir, did you?
36:39No mention of the scars on my chest either.
36:42Hair stopping way above my shoulders.
36:45And just for the record, no ticket pocket of mine ever had his initials inscribed onto them.
36:49I mean, these are the editorial wags of an insane person.
36:55Note to self-edit that out in the final version.
36:58Starting again.
37:00Vampire's pee.
37:01We don't do it as often as you do, assuming you're not one of us.
37:04And we generally avoid eco-friendly urinals.
37:19Detroit...
37:20I need to.
37:36Name's Tim.
37:38She's Ross.
37:39They're... Ross.
37:42Pronouns.
37:44And yet it's respectful, like silence at a urinal.
37:49He's got a bit, uh, crossed.
37:52We were minding each other the other night.
37:55Ross here has a hot mouth.
37:58And a strong pelvic floor.
38:00I admire your aim.
38:03Long face sucks.
38:05Ross wanted to apologize.
38:08What?
38:09Black licorice?
38:11Why do I have to feel?
38:14Hm.
38:15I like those ones.
38:17Franklin, Mr. Shankly almost ruined the Queen's death.
38:20I apologize.
38:21Accept it.
38:23We have a coven out here in Detroit.
38:26Do you?
38:27The Fang Gang.
38:29You wanna see a real vampire bar? Come with us.
38:32We have a huge house out past Bradmore.
38:34Our own farm under the floorboards.
38:36I'm not sure.
38:38What about tomorrow night?
38:40You're on the road tomorrow night.
38:42Yes.
38:43It was me being polite.
38:46No.
38:46That was you lying.
38:49Eco-friendly urinals.
38:51Good for the planet, so we're told.
38:53Good for vampires.
38:55Hm.
38:56We chardonnay them.
39:02And then there's regional vampires.
39:06Always trying to make a name for themselves.
39:09I chardonnay them, too.
39:12Obligations, I'm afraid.
39:13But please do send my most sincere bonjour to your bright nourish color.
39:22Lilac.
39:37I have a blind spot when it comes to blood poisoning.
39:40You think a vampire of my stature would know better.
39:43But then there's that old saying.
39:45You fool me once, shame on me.
39:47You fool me twice.
39:48MDMA and LSD are excellent drugs.
39:51Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce.
39:53Twirl.
39:54Twirl.
39:56Overshare.
39:56I saw your soul.
39:58I saw yours, too.
40:04Still feeling good.
40:07I went looking for my band, looking for sex, looking for anything that radiated the
40:12fun that I sang about in my song, Long Face.
40:15And then, regionals.
40:20Wait, did you say that Long Face sucked?
40:23Long Face sucks.
40:24Does it suck?
40:25I wondered.
40:27Did you have a point?
40:28And then I thought, ooh, they want a little scrap with a scalpel.
40:34No worries, I thought I have the Queen's blood in me.
40:36I could take 20 regionals at once with the Queen's blood.
40:41Where's the band, Dan?
40:44They called corporate bullshit.
40:48Went to party upstairs.
40:51So I'm scoring dick pills in Mogadishu for a UN peacekeeper.
40:56When in walks Stuart Copeland wearing a kufi and a mouthful of ammo.
41:01So I thought about having sex with Christine.
41:03And then I thought, it's all the way upstairs.
41:06And then I thought, I'm the scalpel.
41:08What does the scalpel do between here and upstairs?
41:14Mr. Delac's memoir tiptoed around vampire sex, didn't it?
41:19He and Dan made it out to be this tortured act or obligational foreplay before blood drinking.
41:26That is not the case at all.
41:28It's not the capstone of empiric desires.
41:31That would be the taking of life.
41:32And next would be a good draining, leaving your victim near death and paralyzed for an unhurried escape.
41:38And after that, there's the petit coup, the little drink, the sip.
41:42And after those three, it's sex.
41:45So now you know, the fourth best thing a vampire can do to avoid thinking about the past is to
41:51have sex.
41:52Sex, sex, sex.
41:54And I have had a lot of sex over the years.
41:56It's not all pain and toxicity.
41:58I have an immortal life and I carry with it an immortal erection and I am not ashamed of it.
42:04Sex is fun.
42:05Like the fun I sing about in Longface, which looking back on it now does suck.
42:12I still have residuals coming in actually.
42:15Carnal pleasure is essential to a vampire survival.
42:19If only to keep time's baggage from burying you.
42:24Sex with the bellman and Dee and honey trapping baby Jenks.
42:29Probably should have gotten off the seventh floor when I had gotten off.
42:35But I didn't.
42:39I'm getting married in a week.
42:42I'll never forget you.
42:45I'll never forget you.
42:49I'll never forget you.
42:50Law 4.
42:52No vampire shall ever reveal his or her true nature to a mortal.
42:57And let the mortal live.
42:58You do know it's 2025.
43:03Close the wall, my dear.
43:05You'll not want to see this.
43:08Mmm.
43:09The tooth team.
43:11The Fang gang.
43:16I killed a pack of wolves when I was immortal.
43:20I'll most likely tell you about that later as I let it define me for a time.
43:23A normally confining architecture and a thrift store coven galvanized by medieval dogma wouldn't faze me in the least.
43:31I'm building a career that supports my well-being.
43:33But the drug blood in my sex legs and the distracting past my music had unleashed on me put me
43:40at a momentary disadvantage.
43:42I'm in charge of my work-life balance.
43:45Law 4.
43:46As if the Dulac Malloy memoir hadn't outed us all two years ago.
43:49The Dulac Malloy.
43:50As if my entire stage show wasn't a bawdy burlesque of is he or isn't he.
43:55As if half the vampire population outside the ruined pool of Detroit wasn't waving the dark gift like red cups
44:02in a piss bar.
44:04Collecting fledglings like they were the bubba dogs.
44:06I mean I haven't even told my band I was an actual vampire.
44:10I was just singing my songs and fucking my food and defending myself from the vibrant life choices I had
44:15made on my way from the Auvergne countryside to the 8th floor of this why bother hotel.
44:20And this is how it was all going to end for me.
44:22We are the fangang.
44:25We are the children of the darkness reborn.
44:30Jesus fucking God.
44:33Our mom told the truth if you met him.
44:37What the fuck does that even mean?
44:39I heard there was an after party on the asshole floor.
44:43I like to think I was owed the reinforcements.
44:46Dan and the oddly familiar DJ.
44:49But that's me looking back on it now.
44:51Anything I had done to deserve their timely rescue hadn't happened yet.
44:56I'd be dead I think without Dan.
44:58But then maybe more of the world would still be alive had Dan not rallied his army downstairs.
45:05Consider this sliding door of Dan.
45:08As you decant my blood and devour my words.
45:14I'm out.
45:15I'm out.
45:15I'm out.
45:20I'm out.
45:21I'm out.
45:24I'm out.
45:24It's hard hiding you're a god.
45:27You're for real?
45:28CCTV.
45:30Eagle flutched toilets.
45:31IMF freezing your accounts because you have the blood of a patricidal queen inside you.
45:36Hello again.
45:38We are to the wall of you.
45:40Telemask will drag me into that.
45:42And once you reveal yourself, you have to be on all the time.
45:46And remember every face you've ever met.
45:48And everywhere you go, everyone remembers the thing they said to you in the room that you shared.
45:55Were you a stutterer as a child?
45:59This is why gods prefer hiding in the clouds.
46:03There's nothing there.
46:06But water waiting to fall.
46:15So many opportunities to call it a night that night.
46:20After the song unleashed the muses.
46:23After I saw my first soul.
46:26After I was nearly decapitated in a boutique hotel hallway.
46:32After my vampire nature was revealed to the band.
46:35And my vampire gift winged me away north of the rivers off of the country.
46:43But I was saved from such rational thought.
46:48Love will do that to you.
47:09Oh my god.
47:13Whyain...
47:13This one?
47:16This is my grandma.
47:19I thought anienne.
47:20This oven is something I can't get out of.
47:25Music's opened up to that oven,
47:27and I'm not sure if I can close it again.
47:35I'm not really at my best, but...
47:42It's very nice to see you again.
47:49I like what you've done with your hair, Mike.
47:54Mike.
48:01Mike.
48:03Gabriel.
48:07It's not much of a reveal, I guess.
48:10I know it's common gossip now.
48:12The first thing one thinks about when my name comes up.
48:16I assume a privileged individual such as yourself
48:20enjoys a little dirt in their sandwich.
48:24So I serve it to you now.
48:27How it felt then.
48:31Fledgling.
48:34Lover.
48:37Mother.
48:42From the Vampire List ad, wherever you stream music.
48:46If you're still listening after the last hour,
48:49welcome back.
48:50So bring on the music.
48:52Give me a million more screams.
48:55Do you kill people?
48:57Give me a million more screams.
49:01Let's talk about your mother.
49:04I've been a bad boy.
49:05They've done it by heart.
49:06My makeup calls for his mama, and I can't.
49:10Give me a million more screams.
49:15You are caught in great danger with this dog.
49:18You stole my personal position.
49:21You hired my biographer.
49:23The songs are not about you.
49:30Shall we do it?
49:31Shall we scorch the mortal world?
49:37What do you think about the great conversion?
49:40Fucking stupid.
49:47You are listening to The Failures.
49:50Album 8, Side A.
49:57At the top of our first episode,
50:00we show a scene that is probably happening in real time
50:05after a bunch of catastrophic events have happened.
50:13If you are hearing this now,
50:15you must be a very privileged individual.
50:24What makes this season special
50:26is that it's still the same characters
50:27that you love and know from the previous seasons.
50:30We're just putting them in an entirely new world.
50:32And as they do in the books,
50:33and as we do in this show,
50:35the world continues to crack open
50:37larger and larger.
50:39Ooh, ooh, ooh.
50:42Just like the plot changes,
50:44the whole attitude of the show changes,
50:46and we move into this completely crazy rock and roll world.
50:54He did it again.
50:55A lot of the beauty and elegance
50:57that you would usually see him surrounded by is gone.
51:01It feels really grungy and really rough and really raw,
51:05and so it was a very fun environment to be putting him in.
51:12Come to me.
51:14Montreal.
51:15I am he, and he is me.
51:18Louis, and let's start a FaceTiming,
51:19and you're probably going to get the sense
51:20that Louis is going to come over pretty soon.
51:22They'll probably get back together or, like, work it out.
51:25Nice.
51:25Yeah, it's nice.
51:27One of the first conversations I had
51:29with Roland and Hannah and the writers
51:31was that I think Louis has watched
51:34just a ton of YouTube
51:36in his time off, you know?
51:39Like, cat videos.
51:41Probably hungrily.
51:45Louis, do you know someone called Daniel Malloy?
51:47Well, the staff finds out about the book,
51:48and then that completely throws all those plans out of the window.
51:52One of my favorite things about
51:53this second season of Interview with the Vampire
51:56is that I burned his laptop.
51:58I didn't know he had it saved in the cloud.
52:00Louis sets fire to a laptop
52:01to try and erase the book,
52:05but, like, no one told him about the cloud.
52:08I only found out it was coming out a month ago.
52:10You've known for a month,
52:11and you talk about me and it to a mortal?
52:13Well, yeah, uh, yeah, gonna...
52:15But, you know...
52:16No, I don't know, Louis.
52:19Please explain yourself.
52:20Both Louis and Lestat are not necessarily happy
52:23with the way that either of them were portrayed in the book.
52:25It's like a mix of guilt
52:27and probably a sense of vengeance about it.
52:30Lestat sees that book come out,
52:33sees what he perceives are lies
52:35and distortions, mistruths,
52:38and he's like,
52:39you know what?
52:39I'm gonna set the record straight.
52:41Was he there in 18th century Auvers?
52:43He said you told him that.
52:44Did I threaten Claudia with rape on a train?
52:46No, and impossible.
52:49Daniel Malloy is an investigative journalist
52:51of the absolute top shelf.
52:53Who better to refute the book
52:55than the man who wrote the book?
52:57He has an incorrigible need
53:00to find out what the truth is.
53:02Why do you like the vampire Lestat?
53:04Si el llega a tu pueblo, matale.
53:07I thought there was an after-party
53:09on the asshole floor.
53:10This isn't just sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
53:13It's sex, drugs, rock and roll,
53:15and sucking blood out of people's necks.
53:19You're for real?
53:37Black and the Clear is just a great song.
53:39It's about the first kill
53:41that Lestat made
53:42after he reconciled with Louis
53:44in New Orleans.
53:46Didn't blink, didn't try to run
53:48I got a real life worth
53:51Particularly in episode one,
53:53you do see that he's pushing and pushing
53:55to get this sort of moment of grace
53:58to be completely engulfed in the music.
54:02But just as I was about to bridge the bridge
54:05with murder and mayhem,
54:07something quite surprising happened.
54:10And that's what he gets from Black Licorice.
54:12He does have his first breakdown of many.
54:16Muses appeared in my mind
54:18and in the now around me.
54:20He realizes that he was the one
54:22that was holding them back.
54:23So then all of a sudden
54:25it cracks open
54:25and the real thing starts to appear.
54:28And that sound
54:29I had been grinding them for
54:31was finally unleashed.
54:34He started it to be
54:35I'm gonna go and tell my story.
54:37I'm gonna do a rewrite.
54:39This is my version of events.
54:40And it's evolved into something different.
54:43He's tapped into his past.
54:54I wish one of you
54:56did before.
54:57I wish one of you
55:22you
55:23did before.
55:34I wish one of you
55:34If the world is
55:34what you think about
55:34it was over.
55:35I wish one of you
55:35of you
55:35of you
55:35and your
55:35of you
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