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The Vampire Lestat - Interview with the Vampire Season 3 Episode 1 Engsub
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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.
00:28Swap 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.
01:11It's 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 parent, Nicolas Delafonte, a violinist.
01:20Do you keep this young man who is in memory?
01:23McGee!
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.
01:33That'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.
01:47They'll 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.
02:00No 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 50 more years of practice.
02:22I'm in the middle of rehearsing.
02:39Where the rock and roll is.
02:41Where the kids have.
02:43Where the heart will be done by the face of the mother.
02:46Where the stupid rain.
02:49Bang, bang.
02:51Bang, bang.
02:52Bang, bang.
02:53Bang, bang.
02:54I'll fall down.
02:58Burn the ground.
03:02I'll fall down.
03:06Burn the ground.
03:09Burn the ground.
03:11Burn the ground.
03:13Burn the ground.
03:15Burn the ground.
03:17C'est cool.
03:33I don't think I'm good.
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. Do I hear one yuan?
05:10B-U-N.
05:12B-U-N.
05:13Sold.
05:14To the gentlewoman.
05:15Third row.
05:16Good spirit.
05:18Lot number two.
05:20Two.
05:21A 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.
05:39Two.
05:39Temperature controlled wine cabinets.
05:41One, holding a bottle of Kneeport 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 Leoncore, previously delineated, along with 111 albums
06:01of audio best described as an omniscient history of the events of the 2025 album in supporting tour and the
06:10consequential global catastrophes that sprung from said album and tour as narrated by the Vampire Lestat himself.
06:19The collection has been named The Failures.
06:23We will begin the bidding at 50 million yuan.
06:29If you are hearing this now, you 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 in the middle.
06:45For I could and should have ended it there, my tour, my hedonistic pursuit of extremity.
06:53All of it.
06:54And 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.
07:16It 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.
07:36Yes.
07:38Yes.
07:40I am just.
07:49Yes.
07:52Yes.
07:55Yes.
07:57Yes.
08:09Oh-oh-oh
08:19What a long face
08:22My pretty baby
08:24I've got long face
08:27Come a prison
08:29No one loves things
08:31That doesn't faze me
08:36I'm an actor
08:38And I make her
08:40I get fat to her
08:42When we break her
08:44What does it matter
08:46Who I take her
08:49Naturally I named 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, the more talented seedling
09:06Straight edged in half the fun
09:09Salamander
09:10Bassist, dumb
09:12Shockingly dumb
09:13And TC, the abandoned bride
09:16Of a dozen should have died in art school bands
09:19Keeping us all in the dirty pocket
09:21We dropped songs on the streams
09:23And booked intimate venues
09:25To induce what Jen's snooze called FOMO
09:28They came for cosplay
09:29Left 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
09:43Unacceptable
09:44I'm piano
09:46And your forte
09:48You're l'allegro
09:50I'm a dante
09:52With a letter
09:54Prostituate
10:08Hello
10:10Welcome to Detroit
10:11Lovely city
10:13Your song sucks
10:14They give you the feedback
10:16Pick up the pace
10:17Pack up the gear
10:18Give me some face
10:19A souvenir
10:20Here come the gaze
10:21Here come the fear
10:22To be y'all
10:22I'll work with you
10:31No
10:33No
10:34No
10:34No
10:35No
10:35No
10:37No
10:40Oh
10:41Oh
10:41Oh
10:42Oh
10:43Oh
10:43Oh
10:45Oh
10:47Yeah
10:48We're
10:48Coming
10:50Yeah
10:51I am coming!
10:55I am coming!
10:57I am coming!
10:59I am coming!
11:01Oh yeah!
11:03Oh yeah!
11:05Oh yeah!
11:07Oh yeah!
11:08Oh!
11:13Well that was boring.
11:15Do you seem to like it?
11:16Harmonies on Plastic Fiends were trash.
11:18He's right.
11:19The front head on your kick is shimmering. Turn it up a step.
11:22Singer's right.
11:23You left your tambourine in his stand, Larry.
11:25No one is coming to hear your guitar, Larry.
11:29No, they come for the Aussie shit.
11:30Do rage call the harmony room, Larry Slater shredding it tonight and no one ever.
11:35You sign the checks there.
11:36I do, I do sign the checks.
11:38The tambourine tomorrow is rehearsed and perfected.
11:41What am I saying?
11:43You're back in Corvallis.
11:44Crying the wife, early retirement, and the lawyer, Lake Book.
11:47Use the pen!
11:47But it's funny because it's blood and I'm a vampire.
11:51Notaries in Oregon don't notarize in red ink.
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.
12:08Try your best not to be you tonight.
12:09We want the car.
12:11No.
12:11We'll be good.
12:12Corvallis.
12:14What do you think?
12:17Me?
12:18Me?
12:19All right, Slater, out to go.
12:21I'm going into my vampire dressing room.
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.
12:37Did 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, with less war and pity.
12:47Anyone see Yarda?
12:49I'm Yarda.
12:50I'm Yarda.
12:50Sky for waters.
12:54Missing a contact again.
12:56Oh.
12:58How many drinks have you had?
13:00One 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 reports in the rear view mirror, that kind of
13:16thing.
13:16But niche celebrity has a hunter's handicap, and a sloppy night in Corvallis made urgent the need for a body
13:22double.
13:24His name was Yarda Klapek, and the Albanian gangsters Christine hired to find my doppelganger found him working construction in
13:31the 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.
13:41I 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, only confirmed for most
13:52what they already believed.
13:55Let's go!
13:55That I, the Vampire Lestat, was Daniel Malloy's fictitious creation.
14:01And 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!
14:29Most 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 swipe 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 oneg from Dr. Fareed. Good here. Same, Jeff.
15:08I am not here.
15:09Can we mic you? TC punched the boom again.
15:12Yeah. Okay.
15:19So, uh, you and Louis talking again?
15:23He doesn't return my texts. Or 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.
15:43As you witnessed the French Revolution firsthand, 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, vampire slayer.
16:26They 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.
16:39You tell him for me.
16:41Is it true you were a stutterer as a child?
16:44Louie 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?
16:57Was I in the room when Donizetti wrote Don Pasquale?
17:01No, no, and 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?
17:22The dark, dreary, industrial world has finally submitted to automation.
17:30Laborers stand in their doorways hitting their pipes as their children half-pipe in their drained empty swimming pools.
17:40Drugstores 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?
18:01It 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.
18:3360,000 for a face tattoo Palooza.
18:36You played an 800 seat venue.
18:38How is it your era?
18:41Hmm.
18:43I'm vain and shallow and fear an 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.
19:31It'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 writing music.
19:41A flower box is nice.
19:43You got yourself a nice place.
19:45It's a nice word.
19:46And it says everything I wanted to express.
19:49Don't be a bitch about it.
19:50Hm.
19:52You should come visit.
19:54Hm.
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?
20:01You 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 for a baby.
20:10Good eating.
20:14Same potholes, but no hurricanes.
20:18No witches.
20:20And everyone 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,
20:46Satan.
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.
21:12Uh, yeah.
21:13Gonna...
21:14You 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 stat, he's like whatever.
21:24100%.
21:25But Armand, he's like mysterious.
21:28Yeah, there's layers.
21:29You've got to do that, Lou Louvre.
21:31Hey, Toots!
21:32The Bloomers!
21:33They were going to go see the other good girl with his resting betrays.
21:36I skipped all that, and I would help you see my beta boy in the corner of my room.
21:41Hmm.
21:42I would do it.
21:44You have to do it.
21:45You have to do it.
21:47I would kill it.
21:48I would kill it.
21:49I would kill it.
21:50I would kill it.
21:50And I would kill it.
21:51And I would kill it.
21:55The stat, man.
21:57He would have had to burn his French accent on Royal Street.
22:00100%.
22:00How many wildsleeves are there?
22:03Do you want to become a member?
22:04No, thank you!
22:11Oh.
22:15I know what infinitesimal means.
22:18It was raining.
22:20No!
22:21No!
22:22Never!
22:26F**king!
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 emperor!
22:38Jesus out!
22:40Why must you complicate it?
22:46I'm not a harlequin.
22:47I'm not a harlequin.
22:48I'm not a harlequin.
22:48Hello.
22:51Oh.
22:52I'm not a harlequin.
22:52I'm going to put full-size bars.
22:54Daddy.
22:55Does that say two?
22:56I'm not a harlequin.
22:57Thank you!
22:58Thank you!
23:00Your camera is not period correct.
23:03I have a peanut allergy.
23:04Well, allergies are delusional.
23:07Take them out.
23:08You'll take whatever I give you.
23:10Good lord!
23:11It looks great.
23:12Oh, my God.
23:53Oh, fuck!
24:05T.
24:06Minor.
24:07Slash.
24:09Ow!
24:10This is in 1979.
24:12Bela 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 a 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
24:55is just some
24:57ironic reaction to my book.
24:59Who better to refute the book
25:02than the man who wrote the book?
25:05The songs of my story.
25:07Your documentary, The Liner Notes.
25:09Liner Notes?
25:10I won two Pulitzers.
25:11I'm taking this thing to Cannes.
25:14Okay?
25:14I'm gonna be slapping Chris Rock
25:16and stroking my Oscar.
25:19The brat sings.
25:20The brat dies.
25:21The great laws are clear on this.
25:23More exposure for us.
25:26More risk for us.
25:29He sings for himself.
25:35Make more.
25:36Only a coven leader can make more.
25:38The great laws are clear on that.
25:40First the book,
25:42now the singer.
25:43This is chaos.
25:44It does a bit of share, Becuna.
25:46Si él llega a tu pueblo,
25:47mátale.
25:51Amer proportion.
25:52All of our lives would hem
25:54leryvitat after he até
25:55Aschanda филь surfer.
25:56Wirens flamidat.
25:56We learn myConnet.
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26:22So
26:48Mm-hmm.
27:33I got a real life, whoa
27:36The boy didn't try to run
27:39I got a real life, whoa
27:44Sucking on his tongue
27:45No time for going 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 hold my stepbrother
27:57Until you come to the moon
27:59Die, die, die
28:00Don't want to smash us
28:02Let it be your morning star
28:04Don't want to learn another
28:05Tick-tock dance
28:07Want to see a man
28:08Eat by the girl
28:19The beat house and the twin oak small
28:21Order at the bar this time
28:22Take some photos with the fans
28:24It's like my hair
28:25Keep it scrolling, roll it
28:26Fire, mulch, and oversheen
28:33Hi, papi
28:34I've been a bad boy
28:36Deep down in my heart
28:37I kept on moving dark
28:39Secrets from the very start
28:40Can read a million more screams
28:43Easy as I play
28:45What you think it means
28:46Do, do, do
28:48Da, da, da
28:49Don't want to smash us like a bigger room
28:51Fighting star
28:52Don't want to learn a fucking Tick-tock dance
28:55Want to stay in bed
28:57Eat it by the girl
29:06Crash
29:06Pick up the fucking tambourine
29:08From the ups of adequacy
29:11To the canyon of coup d'etat
29:13Two nights in a row
29:14My violin competing with his guitar
29:17For the solo break
29:18Two centuries waiting to share
29:20My music
29:21Two years
29:23As Mr. Dulac's B-movie brooked
29:26But just as I was about
29:28To bridge the bridge
29:29With murder and mayhem
29:31Something quite surprising happened
29:35My music
29:36Wrapped itself around me
29:38Like a jungle snake
29:39Constricting its prey
29:41And a lifetime of blood-bartering
29:44Overwhelmed the temporal lobe
29:47Muses appeared in my mind
29:49And in the now around me
29:53Memories taking their turn
29:59Blood in
30:01Blood out
30:05Hammering away at the performative vampire persona
30:09I had welded into armor
30:14The armor cracked
30:18The bridge buckled
30:21And the bona fide vampire emerged
30:23Center stage
30:25It was I who had been adequate
30:30It was I who had been holding us back
30:34And now
30:35Exposed in the roar
30:37Under the white hot lights
30:39My bandmates
30:42Began to feed
30:45And that sound
30:47I had been grinding them for
30:49Was finally
30:50Unleashed
30:52A euphoric
30:53Grattiness
30:54Spilling into the crowd
30:55Into their bodies
30:57Enveloping the venue
30:58End
31:01Gonna
31:02Est undefeated
31:03In
31:04Inter
31:04A
31:05A
31:05A
31:12A
31:13A
31:14A
31:14A
31:14A
31:14Take it back
31:15Take it back
31:27Take it back
31:29Take it back
31:29Take it back
31:38Which one of you is OD'd before?
31:41What do you do?
31:43What did she take?
31:45Not her
31:47Me
31:47Get her on the ground
31:50Her blood
31:53Ecstasy
31:55LSD
31:55I should've quit right there and then
32:06Would've been a lovely footnote to my life
32:09The band
32:10But the muses were just beginning
32:14Have you done this to me?
32:16What are you doing?
32:19I lost myself on stage for a moment
32:22Seems you still lost
32:26This song's gonna kill you, you know that, don't you?
32:28I can't die
32:30I can't die
32:30Everything dies
32:32You die
32:32I die
32:34She dies
32:36She dies
32:37Though he dies bad
32:42I'm immortal
32:43I'm immortal
32:43Yeah, you 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
32:53Just 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
33:11Then 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?
33:29Great show, didn't it?
33:30Who?
33:34You are listening to The Failures
33:36Album 5, Side B
33:39If you take nothing else away from your exorbitant purchase
33:44Heed this advice
33:46Never play two nights in Detroit
33:48You'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, fuck 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
34:32Early in the night
34:34Actually, that happens... later
34:38A lot of things happened that night
34:40Come on!
34:44The band is inside with Dan and a VIP perch
34:49I'm giving the paps my pussycat
34:51With no idea that I would be in a fang fight less than an hour 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 through the camera
35:04Baby Jink
35:05Okay, baby, tell me
35:07Why 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
35:24Riding the wonders of Dr. Fareed's blood transfusion quick pick-me-up cocktail
35:29Who's this guy? Cause like, rock and roll, it's thine
35:32I sat there, soaking up her praise, along with the band
35:36Still somehow blind to the vampiric mysteries of their front man
35:40So what if the dead and buried past was now a fresh and eager groupie?
35:45Rock and roll, you know?
35:47Have 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 LST
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
36:14And 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
36:26He'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
36:59Vampires 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
37:19Detroit
37:38There, Ross.
37:50It, uh, crossed when we were minding each other the other night.
37:54Russ here has a hot mouth.
37:58And a strong pelvic floor.
38:00I admire your aim.
38:02Hmm. Long face sucks.
38:05Russ wanted to apologize.
38:08What? Black licorice?
38:11Why do I have to feel?
38:14Hmm. I like those ones.
38:17Frankly, Mr. Shankly almost ruined the Queen's death.
38:20And I apologize, you accept it.
38:23We have a coven out here in Detroit.
38:26Do you?
38:27The Fang Gang.
38:29You want to see a real vampire bar? Come with us.
38:31We have a huge house out past Bragmore.
38:34Our own farm under the floorboards.
38:37Hmm, 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.
38:48Hmm, hmm. Eco-friendly urinals.
38:51Good for the planet, so we're told.
38:53Good for vampires.
38:55Hmm.
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 maurice, come on.
39:22Lilac.
39:37I have a blind spot when it comes to blood poisoning.
39:40I don't think a vampire of my stature would know better.
39:43But then there's that old saying, you fool me once, shame on me.
39:47You fool me twice, MDMA and LSD are excellent drugs.
39:51Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce.
39:54Twirl, twirl.
39:56Overshare, I 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 fun that
40:12I 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?
40:43A cold corporate bullshit went to party upstairs.
40:52So I'm scoring dick pills in Mogadishu for a UN peacekeeper when in walks Stuart Copeland
40:58wearing 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.
41:09What 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.
41:26That is not the case at all.
41:28It's not the capstone of vampiric desires.
41:30That 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.
41:37And 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, 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.
42:50Law 4.
42:52No vampire shall ever reveal his or her true nature to a mortal.
42:57Let the mortal live.
42:58You do know it's 2025.
43:03Trace the wall, my dear.
43:05You'll not want to see this.
43:07Mmm.
43:09The Tooth Team.
43:11The Fang Gang.
43:16I killed a pack of wolves when I was immortal.
43:20Almost 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.
43:46Or as 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 port of Detroit wasn't waving the dog gift like red cups
44:02in a piss bar.
44:04Collecting fledglings like they were the booboo 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 fangang.
44:25We are the children of the darkness reborn.
44:30Jesus fucking God.
44:33Our mom told the truth.
44:35Have you met him?
44:36What the fuck does that even mean?
44:39I thought it 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 as 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.
45:36Hello again.
45:38We are to the world of you.
45:40We are to the world of you.
45:40Tell them Asuka 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.
45:55Were you a stutterer as a child?
45:59This is why gods prefer hiding in the clouds.
46:03There's nothing there.
46:14So 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.
47:19I got myself into something I can't get out of.
47:25Music's opened up the batch of it.
47:27But 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.
47:54Mike.
48:02My...
48:03Gabrielle.
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 enjoys 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.
48:40Mother.
48:41Listen to tracks from the Vampire List ad wherever you stream music.
48:46If you're still listening after the last hour, welcome back.
48:50So bring on the music.
48:51Give me a million more screams.
48:54Give me a million more screams.
48:56Do you kill people?
48:57Give me a million more screams.
49:00Please!
49:01Let's talk about your mother.
49:04I've been a bad boy.
49:05Deep down the brush.
49:07My maker called for his mama and I came.
49:10Give me a million more screams.
49:13Die, die, die.
49:16You are caught in great danger with this stuff.
49:18You stole my personal position.
49:21You hired my biographer.
49:24The songs are not the best of you.
49:26I want to stay in bad eating black victory.
49:30I want to stay in bad eating black victory.
49:31Shall we do it?
49:31Shall we scorch the mortal world?
49:34I want to stay in bad eating black victory.
49:37What do you think about the Great Conversion?
49:40Fucking stupid.
49:41I, I, I want to stay in bad eating black victory.
49:47You are listening to The Failures.
49:50Album 8, Side A.
49:57At the top of our first episode, we 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, you must be a very privileged individual.
50:24What makes this season special is that it's still the same characters that you love and
50:28know from the previous seasons.
50:30We're just putting them in an entirely new world.
50:32And as they do in the books and as we do in this show, like the world continues to crack
50:36open larger and larger.
50:42Just like the plot changes, the 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 that 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.
51:13Come to me.
51:14Montreal.
51:15I am he.
51:17And he is me.
51:18Louis, and let's start a FaceTiming.
51:19And you're probably going to get the sense that Louis is going to come over pretty soon.
51:22They'll probably get back together or work it out.
51:25Nice.
51:25Yeah.
51:26It's nice.
51:26One of the first conversations I had with Roland and Hannah and the writers was that I think
51:33Louis has watched just a ton of YouTube in his time off, you know?
51:38Like, cat videos.
51:41Probably Hungryly.
51:44Louis, do you know someone called Daniel Malloy?
51:47Well, the stuff finds out about the book, and then that completely throws all those plans
51:50out of the window.
51:52One of my favorite things about the second season of Interview with the Vampire is that
51:56I burned his laptop.
51:58I didn't know he had it saved in the cloud.
52:00Louis sets fire to a laptop to 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.
52:14Uh, yeah.
52:15Gonna, but, you know...
52:16No, I don't know, Louis.
52:19Please explain yourself.
52:20Both Louis and Lestat are not necessarily happy with the way that either of them were portrayed
52:25in the book.
52:25It's like a mix of guilt and probably a sense of vengeance about it.
52:30Lestat sees that book come out.
52:33Sees what he perceives are lies and distortions, mistruths.
52:38And he's like, you know what?
52:39I'm gonna set the record straight.
52:41Was 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.
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 an incorrigible need to 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 on the asshole floor.
53:10This 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?
53:20You're for real?
53:23You're for real?
53:24You're for real?
53:31You're for real?
53:33You're for real?
53:53I know.
53:54that he's pushing and pushing to 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 with 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 and in the now around me.
54:20He realizes that he was the one that was holding them back.
54:24So then all of a sudden it cracks open and the real thing starts to appear.
54:28And that sound I had been grinding them for was finally unleashed.
54:34He started it to be, I'm going to go and tell my story, I'm going to do a rewrite.
54:38This is my version of events.
54:40And it's evolved into something different.
54:43He's tapped into his past.
54:55Which one of you's OD'd before?
55:05I'm going to go and tell my story.
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