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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?
00:17The 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.
00:28Swap it out for a dark gift.
00:31Be my companion for all eternity.
00:33He 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.
00:41Claudia was everything.
00:43The 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?
01:07I could feel the movement of air with his movement.
01:10His breath on the back of my neck.
01:13We were on trial for murder.
01:14Love has always been difficult for me.
01:17My first paramour, Nicolas Delafonte, a violinist.
01:20Do you remember all these boys who are in memory?
01:23Mickey!
01:24I am Armand.
01:26I am the chief of your clan.
01:28You led him there so he could destroy it.
01:31Yes.
01:31You saved Louis.
01:33Banishment.
01:33Go for it!
01:35But not her.
01:37Who made you?
01:38His name was Magnus.
01:40He 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.
01:54I'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.
02:00No companion enough for myself now.
02:02I'm sorry I don't have much time.
02:03I'm in the middle of rehearsing.
02:05I'm going on tour.
02:06I just need about 50 more years of practice.
02:22I'm in the middle of rehearsing.
02:48Baby, baby, baby, baby.
02:54Off the bill, burn the grill.
03:02Off the bill, burn the...
03:08Baby, baby, baby.
03:13Baby, baby, baby, baby.
03:18C'est cool.
03:48Good evening.
03:50Hello.
03:51How's that?
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, the master recordings of the complete works of the Vampire Lestat de Leoncore, which includes his
04:262025 self-titled album, The Vampire Lestat, additional session tracks that were discarded in the final assemblage of the album,
04:34original handwritten scores, and private recordings by the Vampire Lestat himself, which include a song cycle in the classical vein
04:42set to the poetry of Baudelaire.
04:47Before we begin the bidding, I perform the following action.
05:03We will begin the bidding at one yuan.
05:07Do I hear one yuan?
05:10E.
05:11E.
05:11U.
05:11A yuan.
05:13Sold.
05:14To the gentlewoman, third row of good spirit.
05:19Lot number two.
05:20A music box curated by the Vampire Lestat himself, a 1978 Fernando Marciani Corinto sideboard inside a Rosner and Zonn
05:33Mott turntable with Bialab 90 speakers.
05:38Two temperature-controlled wine cabinets, one holding a bottle of Kneeport 1863 port wine, the other with a magnum of
05:47blood from the curator himself.
05:50The upper level, a singular vinyl pressing of the complete works of the Vampire Lestat de Liencourt, previously delineated, along
06:00with 111 albums of audio best described as an omniscient history of the events of the 2025 album in supporting
06:09tour and the consequential global catastrophes that sprung from said album and tour as narrated by the Vampire Lestat himself.
06:18The collection has been named The Failures. We will begin the bidding at 50 million yen.
06:29If you are hearing this now, you must be a very privileged individual. You could have fed a small nation
06:36for years while they paved over the rubble.
06:39You bought my box instead. I like you already.
06:44So let's begin in the middle. For I could and should have ended it there, my tour, my hedonistic pursuit
06:51of extremity. All of it.
06:53And had I done so, the regretful dead and the traumatized still alive would be somewhere other than they are
07:01today.
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, I made a contribution.
07:17It was the spring of 2025.
07:20A good nation was making itself great again.
07:24Again.
07:27And every vampire, those converting and those enduring,
07:32well, they were doing exactly as they pleased.
08:06Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, wah-ah.
08:10Ooh, ooh, ooh, wah-ah.
08:14Ooh, ooh, ooh, wah-ah.
08:20What a long face, my pretty baby.
08:25I've got long face, come up easy.
08:29You're my long face, that doesn't face me.
08:33Yeah.
08:36I'm an actor and I make her.
08:40I get fat to her when we drink her.
08:45What does it matter who I take her?
08:49Naturally, I named the band after myself, and the four that backed me played their parts as instructed.
08:56There was Larry, the front man, made side man, choking his guitar neck nightly, wishing it was mine.
09:02Brother Alex, the more talented seedling, straight-edged in half the fun, salamander, bassist, dumb, shockingly dumb.
09:14And TC, the abandoned bride of a dozen should have died in art school bands, keeping us all in the
09:20dirty pocket.
09:21We dropped songs on the streams, and booked intimate venues to induce what Jen snooze called FOMO.
09:28They came for cosplay, left converted, and I baptized them, the beautiful unwell, and yet, here we were, in the
09:36inn of the stooges and the stripes, 30 performances notched and already resting on the alps of adequacy.
09:43Unacceptable.
09:45I'm piano!
10:08Hello.
10:10Welcome to Detroit.
10:11Lovely city.
10:13Your song sucks.
10:14Thank you for the feedback.
10:44Oh, yeah, we're coming.
10:49Yeah, we're coming.
10:51Oh, yeah, we're coming.
10:54Oh, yeah, we're coming.
10:57Oh, yeah, we're coming.
10:57Yeah, we're coming.
10:59Yeah, we're coming.
11:02Oh, yeah, I'm coming.
11:03Oh, yeah.
11:05Oh, yeah.
11:07Oh, yeah.
11:09Oh.
11:14Well, that was boring.
11:15Do you seem to like it?
11:16Harmony's on Plastic Fiends were trash.
11:18He's right.
11:19And the front head on your kick is shimmering.
11:21Turn it up a step.
11:22Singer's right.
11:23You left your tambourine in his stand, Larry.
11:25Yeah, I was feeling the guitar.
11:26No one is coming to hear your guitar, Larry.
11:29No, they come for the Aussie stand.
11:30Dude, Rage, call the Harmony Room.
11:32Larry 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?
11:42You're not in Corvallis.
11:44You're buying the life, early retirement, and the lawyer lick, but use the pen.
11:48But it's funny because it's blood and I'm a liar.
11:51Notaries in Oregon don't notarize in red ink.
11:53There'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.
12:08Try your best not to be you tonight.
12:09We want the car.
12:10No.
12:11We'll be good.
12:12Corvallis.
12:14What do you think?
12:15I'm out of here.
12:17Me.
12:19All right, Slats.
12:20I have to go.
12:21I'm going into my vampire dressing room now.
12:24A 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.
12:33He did it again.
12:36Fucking asshole.
12:36Did 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, with less war and pity.
12:47Anyone see Yarda?
12:48Hi, Yarda.
12:49A sky with waters.
12:50What else?
12:53I just don't know.
12:54Missing a contact again.
12:56Oh.
12:57How many drinks have you had?
13:00One and a half.
13:01Drive to the burbs.
13:02Sit by yourself in a booth at Applebee's.
13:03Order the usual.
13:04Big tip.
13:05Meet us back in the city.
13:06Now, 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 reports in the rearview mirror, that kind of thing.
13:16But niche celebrity is a hunter's handicap, and a sloppy night in Corvallis made urgent the need for a body
13:22double.
13:23His name was Yarda Klapek, 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,
13:36blue eye contacts, and a wig.
13:39And otherwise, let him be Neanderthal me.
13:42I hunted this way, and we sent him that way.
13:44And every sad photograph uploaded to Reddito discord of Yarda eating up tuna melt by himself
13:50only confirmed, for most, what they already believed.
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,
14:14perfecting our sound.
14:16The sound, I hope, would counter Mr. Dulac's portrayal of me as a mayonnaise villain with
14:21sociopathic tendencies.
14:23I'll be beside the point, because the point was, the point forever is,
14:28I know you're real.
14:29Most of humanity moved on from vampires, and rather quickly.
14:34Congratulations.
14:35Now go make friends.
14:38They lifted their heads from their algorithmic handmasters, uttered a collective,
14:42and swipe left.
14:45I am the Vampire Lestat.
14:48I am a god.
14:50Gods are not swiped.
14:54The Contessa.
14:56The useful idiot.
14:57Great show.
15:00You left before we started.
15:01Yeah, I figured Spotify some T-Rex and drag a little oneg from Dr. Fareedgood here.
15:06Same, Jeff.
15:07I am not here.
15:09Can we mic you?
15:10TC punched the boom again.
15:12Yeah.
15:13Okay.
15:19So, uh, you and Louie talking again?
15:22He 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.
15:36Okay.
15:40You've been alive and undead for 265 years.
15:43You witnessed the French Revolution firsthand,
15:46the electric light, penicillin,
15:48two world wars, the atomic bomb,
15:50the moon landing, the Berlin Wall...
15:52Joey Chestnut.
15:54What?
15:55He eats hot dogs for a living.
15:57He's extraordinary.
15:57I hope to meet him one day.
15:59Was there a question?
16:00Having accumulated profound wisdom and experience
16:02through the dark gift of immortality,
16:04why have you chosen to waste at singing music
16:07no 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.
16:16I am sure once you confront your transformational trauma.
16:19I don't have transformational trauma.
16:21That's why these movie producers hired you,
16:23Danny Molloy, vampire slayer.
16:26They said you requested me.
16:28Absurd.
16:29Oh, as absurd as a documentary about a rock band
16:32posing as vampires, fronted by an actual vampire.
16:36Directed by a vampire passing as a human.
16:38You tell him for me.
16:40Is it true you were a stutterer as a child?
16:44Louie said you were.
16:51Was he there in 18th century Auverg?
16:53He said you told him that.
16:54Did I threaten Claudia with rape on a train?
16:57Was I in the room when Donazetti wrote Don Pasquale?
17:01No, no, and impossible because I had buried myself underground
17:06for the vast majority of the 1800s.
17:08I wrote what he told me.
17:09I don't have trauma.
17:11I love being a vampire.
17:13And can you drop the fledgling speak and spell?
17:16No.
17:21The dark, dreary industrial world has finally submitted to automation.
17:30Laborers stand in their doorways, hitting their pipes
17:34as their children half-pipe in their drained, empty swimming pools.
17:40Drugstores locked up baby formula and shaving cream
17:43while Saks ate Barneys.
17:46And someone told everyone that Lululemon was sexy.
17:51Facts are irrelevant.
17:54Fields are everything.
17:58And the value of human life,
18:00it has never been more arbitrary.
18:04David, Freddy, Prince Rogers,
18:08they're all gone.
18:10And the lights, some 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, now.
18:30Post Malone and Jelly Roll playing there tonight.
18:3360,000 for a face tattoo palooza.
18:36You played an 800-seat venue.
18:38How is it your era?
18:42I'm vain and shallow and pure and empty seat.
18:45Ask me an easy one.
18:48Is it true your band was formed on Halloween?
18:57You are listening to The Failures.
19:01Album 2, Side B.
19:26What do you think?
19:28It's nice.
19:30Nice?
19:30Yeah, it's nice.
19:32I don't see Beyonce covering it,
19:34but it's nice.
19:37Nice is nothing.
19:39It's nice.
19:40Nice is a balloon.
19:40It's your back right music.
19:41A flower box is nice.
19:42It's nice.
19:43You got yourself a nice place.
19:45It's a nice word.
19:46And 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 a painting for.
19:59Oh, a guest room?
20:00You want me to come and see your guest room?
20:03It's an affluent neighborhood.
20:05Old money, young professionals,
20:08a smattering of Christ the Trust from baby.
20:10Good eatin'.
20:14Same potholes, but no hurricanes.
20:18No witches.
20:20Everyone mangles French just like you do.
20:23Come to me.
20:24Montreal.
20:26I am he, and he is me.
20:30That's baggage here.
20:31I get it.
20:32I 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
20:42who call themselves, of all things, Satan.
20:47They call themselves, of all things, Satan?
20:50Satan's night out.
20:52Satan's night out?
20:53Out.
20:54Satan's night out.
20:55Okay.
20:56Makes sense.
20:57Louie, do you know someone called Daniel Malloy?
21:02Uh...
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, uh, yeah, gonna...
21:13But, you know...
21:14No, I don't know, Louie.
21:16Please, explain yourself.
21:18It's gonna be here and gone in a minute.
21:20No one reads anymore.
21:21The Stade is like, whatever.
21:24100%.
21:24But Armand...
21:26He's like, mysterious.
21:27Yeah, there's layers.
21:29You killed him at the Louvre.
21:31Hey, toots, les boomers faisaient la file pour aller voir l'autre bonne femme avec sa resting butrace.
21:36Moi, j'ai skippé de ça pis je t'aiderais de voir ma belle à boi dans le coin de
21:40la salle.
21:42Mmm...
21:42Je le ferais.
21:44Faut que tu l'enseures.
21:46Je le ponnerais.
21:48Je le mordrais.
21:50Je le l'échelich l'échelichrais.
21:55Le Stade, man.
21:57Il aurait dû le brûler les motifs français sur Rural Street.
22:00100%.
22:00Combien mon Wildsleeve, là.
22:02Huh?
22:03Tu veux-tu devenir membre?
22:05Il y a 10%...
22:05No, thank you!
22:11Huh.
22:14Oh, I know what infinitesimal means.
22:18It was raining.
22:20No!
22:21No!
22:22Never!
22:26Fucking!
22:27Lelio!
22:28I'm not a harlequin.
22:30Your sources are your sherpas.
22:33Your editor is your priest.
22:36Don't go to the F.
22:38Jesus, out.
22:39Why must you complicate it?
22:42Mmm.
22:43Smell or cheese!
22:45Can you please?
22:47Oh, I'll see.
22:48Hello.
22:51Oh, I wanted the full-size bar.
22:54Is that the two?
22:57Thank you!
22:58Oh.
22:59Your 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.
23:10Oh.
23:11Oh, that looks nice.
23:14Oh!
23:32Goddamn.
23:32God damn!
24:03What the fuck?
24:05T!
24:06Minor!
24:08Trash!
24:10This is in 1979. Bela Lugosi is not dead.
24:14You don't need to finger her for five bars.
24:17You're hurting her.
24:19Is that her neighbor?
24:22Apologies for the squire.
24:24My mandatory 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.
24:47What 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. Your documentary, The Liner Notes.
25:08Liner Notes? I won two Pulitzers.
25:11I'm taking this thing to can, okay?
25:14I'm gonna be slapping Chris Rock and stroking my Oscar.
25:19The brat sings, the brat dies.
25:21The great laws are clear on this.
25:26First, the book. Now the singer. This is chaos. Unpained.
25:32He sings for himself.
25:33He sings for himself.
25:34Make more!
25:36Only a covenant leader can make more.
25:38The great laws are clear on that.
25:40First the book. Now the singer. This is chaos. Unpained.
25:44The great laws are clear on that.
25:46If he comes to your people, kill him.
25:56If he comes to your people, kill him.
26:28Then he comes to your people.
26:28Herbert says the great Perry, what can he do.
26:31Still, he sings for himself.
26:31We must love the king.
26:32Just like the 80s.
26:36Here he sings his men's position and leave.
26:42Happy one morning to the lemma into the dog.
26:43When his father is the same army.
26:43Now the former woman
30:14The armor cracked.
30:17The bridge buckled, and the bona fide vampire emerged, center stage.
30:34And now, exposed in the roar, under the white hot lights, my bandmates began to feed.
30:45And that sound I had been grinding them for was finally unleashed.
30:52A euphoric grudiness spilling into the crowd, into their bodies, enveloping the venue.
31:01I want to say, I want to say, man.
31:03I want to say, man.
31:09Eat it back, make a ranch.
31:11I want to say, man.
31:16I want to say, man.
31:18I want to say, man.
31:26Eat it back, make a ranch.
31:30I want to say, man.
31:39You're dead before.
31:41What do you do?
31:43What did she take?
31:45Not her.
31:47Me.
31:48Get her on the ground.
31:50Her blood, ecstasy, LSD.
32:03I 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?
32:19I lost myself on stage for a moment.
32:22Seems you still lost.
32:25This song's gonna kill you, you know that, don't you?
32:29I can't die.
32:30Everything dies.
32:32You die, I die.
32:34She dies.
32:36She dies.
32:37Oh, he dies bad.
32:42I'm immortal.
32:43Yeah, you kill some wolves and fall in love.
32:46Get the gift, fall in love.
32:48Go to ground, get dug up and fall in love.
32:51You like some wet clothes and a coin-op dryer.
32:53Just 265 years round and round.
32:58Why are you so sad?
33:00Thousands of fans loving you.
33:03I 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 come and...
33:22Who's coming?
33:23Oh, they 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 through the adjoining walls.
33:55How 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,
34:10and the band was asked to lend its celebrity status to the event.
34:13Don't tell me to pose.
34:15Fuck you!
34:16There was a red carpet, a pap line, and a vampire DJ of some renown,
34:21seducing corporate employees, provincial influencers, and party crashing beautifully unwell.
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.
34:44The band is inside with Dan and 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.
34:57I'm getting ahead of myself again.
34:59I arrive fashionably late, of course.
35:02State your name for the camera.
35:04Baby Jink.
35:05Okay, baby.
35:06Tell me, why do you like the vampire Lestat?
35:09Like I'm going to be in the movie?
35:11Oh, you're in it now.
35:13I am feeling good.
35:16Surfing the sublime candy-flipped wave of the girl's blood.
35:19Hear him.
35:20Hear 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's this guy?
35:30Because, 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?
35:44It's rock and roll, you know?
35:46Have a nervous breakdown on stage?
35:48Chatted up with the floating girl on the ceiling you almost killed?
35:51Have sex with her in the elevator?
35:53Ah, I'm still not there yet.
35:56MDMA and LSD.
35:58The Torval and Dean of hallucinogenics.
36:00And so then everybody's like, is rock and roll actually dying?
36:04Were you a stutterer as a child?
36:06They walk into the ER, they are, like, the doctor.
36:10Unless 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.
36:20Like, he cut into mine tonight.
36:23And he has the heart in his mouth.
36:25He's like, do you want to 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.
36:54Note to self-edit that out in the final version.
36:58Starting again.
36:59Vampire'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.
37:17Detroit.
37:23Oh my God.
37:26Oh my God.
37:32Oh my God.
37:36I'm Tim. She's Russ.
37:39They're Russ.
37:41What?
37:42Pronouns.
37:44And yet it's respectful, like silence at a urinal.
37:49He's got a bit crossed when we were minding each other the other night.
37:54Russ here has a hot mouth.
37:57And a strong pelvic floor.
38:00I admire your aim.
38:03Long face sucks.
38:05Russ wanted to apologize.
38:07What? Black licorice?
38:11Why do I have to feel?
38:15I like those ones.
38:17Frankly, Mr. Shankly almost ruined the Queen's death.
38:20I apologize if you accept it.
38:23We have a coven out here in Detroit.
38:26Do you?
38:27The Fang Gang.
38:28You want to see a real vampire bar? Come with us.
38:31We have a huge house out past Brightmoor.
38:34Our own farm under the floorboards.
38:36I'm not sure. What about tomorrow night?
38:40You're on the road tomorrow night.
38:42Yes, it was me being polite.
38:46No, that was you lying.
38:49Eco-friendly urinals.
38:51Good for the planet, so we're told.
38:53Good for vampires.
38:55We chardonnay them.
39:02And then there's regional vampires.
39:05Always trying to make a name for themselves.
39:09I chardonnay them too.
39:11Obligations, I'm afraid.
39:13But please do send my most sincere bonjour to your Brightmoorish color.
39:21Lilac.
39:37I have a blind spot when it comes to blood poisoning.
39:40I didn't 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.
39:46You fool me twice.
39:47MDMA 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.
40:06I went looking for my band.
40:08Looking for sex.
40:09Looking for anything that radiated the fun that I sang about in my song.
40:14Long Face.
40:16And then...
40:18Regionals.
40:20Wait, did you say that Long Face sucked?
40:22Long Face sucks.
40:24Does it suck?
40:25I wondered.
40:26Did you have a point?
40:28And then I thought...
40:30Ooh.
40:31They want a little scrap with a scalpel.
40:34No worries.
40:35I 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.
40:55When 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, that'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. Deluxe 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.
41:25That is not the case at all.
41:28It's not the capstone of empiric desires.
41:30That would be the taking of life.
41:32And next would be a good draining, leaving your victim near death unparalyzed for an unhurried escape.
41:37And after that, there's the petticoot, 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.
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 Long Face.
42:07Which, looking back on it now, does suck.
42:11I still have residuals coming in actually.
42:15Carnal pleasure is essential to a vampire's 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.
42:34But I didn't.
42:39I'm getting married in a week.
42:41I'll never forget you.
42:46I'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.
43:03Praise the wall, my dear.
43:04You'll not want to see this.
43:09The tooth team.
43:11The fang gang.
43:16I killed a pack of wolves when I was immortal.
43:19Almost 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 faz me in the least.
43:30I'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.
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 gif like red cups
44:02in a piss ball.
44:03Collecting 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.
44:23We are the fang gang.
44:25We are the children of the darkness reborn.
44:29Jesus fucking god.
44:33Our mom told the truth if you met him.
44:36What 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.
44:48But that's me looking back on it now.
44:51Anything I had done to deserve their timely rescue hadn't happened yet.
44:55I'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.
45:24It's hard hiding you're a god.
45:27You're for real?
45:28CCTV, eco flush toilets.
45:31IMF freezing your accounts because you have the blood of a patricidal queen inside you.
45:35Hello again.
45:38We have to love you.
45:40Telemasker dragged 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.
45:54Were 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.
46:19After 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.
47:08How many people can't be there.
47:09My dear...
47:12Very kind of beat the camp.
47:19I got myself into something I can't get out of
47:25Music's opened up to that show
47:27But I'm not sure if I can close it again
47:34I'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
47:53Mike
48:01Mike
48:01Mike
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
48:34Love her
48:37Mother
48:40Listen to tracks from the Vampire List ad
48:43Wherever you stream music
48:46If you're still listening after the last hour
48:48Welcome back
48:50So bring on the music
48:54Do you kill people?
49:01Let's talk about your mother
49:03I've been a bad boy
49:06My maker called for his mama
49:08And I came
49:09Give me a million more screams
49:15You are caught in great danger with the stuff
49:18You stole my personal position
49:20You 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
49:49Album 8, Side A
49:52At the top of our first episode
49:59We show a scene that is
50:01Probably 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
50:25Is that it's still the same characters
50:27That you love and know from the previous seasons
50:29We're just putting them in an entirely new world
50:31And as they do in the books
50:33And as we do in this show
50:34Like the world continues to crack open
50:37Larger and larger
50:41Just like the plot changes
50:43The 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
51:00Is gone
51:01It feels really grungy
51:02And really rough
51:03And really raw
51:04And so it was a very fun environment
51:06To be putting him in
51:12Come to me
51:13Montreal
51:15I am he
51:16And he is me
51:18Louis, let's start a FaceTiming
51:19And you're probably going to get the sense that
51:20Louis is going to come over pretty soon
51:22They'll probably get back together
51:23Or like work it out
51:25Nice
51:25Yeah, it's nice
51:26One of the first conversations I had with
51:29Roland and Hannah and the writers
51:31Was that I think Louis has watched
51:33Just a ton of YouTube
51:35And it is time off
51:37You know
51:38Like cat videos
51:41Probably hungrily
51:44Louis, do you know someone called Daniel Malloy?
51:47Well, the start finds out about the book
51:48And then that completely throws all those plans out of the window
51:51One of my favorite things about
51:53The second season of Interview with the Vampire is that
51:56I burned his laptop
51:57I didn't know he had it saved in the cloud
51:59Louis sets fire to a laptop
52:01To try and erase the book
52:05But 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
52:14Yeah
52:14Gonna, but, you know
52:16No, I don't know, Louis
52:18Please explain yourself
52:20Both Louis and Lestat are not necessarily happy with the way that either of them were portrayed in the book
52:25It's like a mix of guilt and probably a sense of vengeance about it
52:29Lestat sees that book come out
52:32Sees what he perceives are lies and distortions, mistruths
52:38And he's like, you know what?
52:39I'm gonna set the record straight
52:40Was 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
52:47And impossible
52:49Daniel Malloy is an investigative journalist of the absolute top shelf
52:53Who better to refute the book than the man who wrote the book?
52:57He has a incorrigible need to find out what the truth is
53:01Why do you like the vampire Lestat?
53:03Si el llega a tu pueblo, matale
53:06I heard there was an after party on the asshole floor
53:09This isn't just sex, drugs, and rock and roll
53:13It's sex, drugs, rock and roll, and sucking blood out of people's necks
53:19You're for real?
53:36I mean, Black Lives Matter is just a great song
53:38It's about the first kill that Lestat made
53:42After he reconciled with Louis in New Orleans
53:45Didn'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
54:04With murder and mayhem
54:06Something quite surprising happened
54:10And that's what he gets from Black Licorice
54:12He does have his first breakdown
54:14Of 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 it cracks open
54:25And the real thing starts to appear
54:27And that sound I had been grinding them for
54:31Was finally unleashed
54:33He started it to be
54:35I'm going to go and tell my story
54:37I'm going to do a rewrite
54:38This is my version of events
54:40And it's evolved into something different
54:42He's tapped into his past
54:55Which one of you's OD'd before?
55:21Outside the season of events
55:22Of course
55:22Of course
55:23I'll hear it
55:24In the moment
55:25And he was talking about
55:32All along
55:33Well I'm going to go
55:33And he's bringing
55:33To be lovely
55:34My auspicious
55:34I'm going to go
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