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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?
00:54Theoretically, it can be done.
00:55But could it be done by us to him?
00:58Paris was an awakening, 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, Nicolas Delafonte, a violinist.
01:20Guarded all these garçons commets de mémoire.
01:23Mickey!
01:24Je suis Armand.
01:25Je suis le chef de ton clan.
01:28Il a saigné?
01:29You led him there so he could destroy it.
01:31Yes.
01:31You saved Louis.
01:33Darnished it.
01:34Go for 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 50 more years of practice.
02:23I'm a little killer.
02:25I'm a lonely one.
02:28I'm a champion of your spine.
02:30Telling you to run.
02:31I'm a little show.
02:33I'm a lost love.
02:35I'm a past and the future.
02:37The last of the sutures are cool and dead.
02:39Where the world's the world is.
02:41Where they get saved.
02:44Where the heart of me love and the face of the mother.
02:46Where they jump and run.
02:49Bang, bang.
02:51Bang, bang.
02:52Bang, bang.
02:53Bang, bang.
02:54Bang, bang.
02:55I'll fall down.
02:58Down the ground.
03:02Oh, bang, bang.
03:09Bang, bang.
03:11Bang, bang.
03:15Bang, bang.
03:15Bang, bang.
03:16Hmm, c'est cool.
03:33I don't think I will.
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,
04:30additional 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?
05:11E-U-N.
05:12E-U-N.
05:13Sold.
05:14To the gentlewoman.
05:16Third row.
05:17Good spirit.
05:19Lot number two.
05:20A music box.
05:23Curated 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 Kneeport 1863 port wine.
05:46The other with a magnum of blood from the curator himself.
05:50The upper level.
05:51A 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 and 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.
06:49My tour.
06:50My 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
07:02today.
07:03And 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, well, they were doing exactly as they pleased.
07:38I'm good at that.
07:38Never mind.
07:57Absolutely.
08:04Now someone who is being married and that's just one of the finest.
08:05This is the best of our last days.
08:05I am a really blessed.
08:05I am the rest of my family.
08:06I am a
08:06Ooh, ooh, ooh, wah-ah
08:09Ooh, ooh, ooh, wah-ah
08:13Ooh, ooh, ooh, wah-ah
08:21What a long face, my pretty baby
08:24I've got long face, come up reason
08:29No more long things, that doesn't face me
08:36I'm an actor, and I make her
08:40I get fat to her when we break her
08:44What doesn't matter who I take her
08:49Naturally, I named the band after myself
08:52And the four that backed me played their parts as instructed
08:56There was Larry, the front man, made side man
09:00Choking his guitar neck nightly, wishing it was mine
09:03Brother Alex, the more talented seedling
09:06Straight-edged in half the fun
09:10Salamander, bassist, dumb
09:12Shockingly dumb
09:13And TC, the abandoned bride of a dozen should have died in art school bands
09:19Keeping us all in the dirty pocket
09:21We dropped songs on the streams and booked intimate venues
09:25To induce what Jen's snooze called FOMO
09:28They came for cosplay, left converted, and I baptised them, the beautiful unwell
09:33And yet, here we were
09:35In the inn of the stooges and the stripes
09:38Thirty performances notched and already resting on the alps of adequacy
09:44Unacceptable
09:45Unpiel
09:46Unlements
09:48Unlements
09:51Tasty
09:55Pree
10:08Hello
10:10Welcome to Detroit
10:12Lovely city
10:13Your song sucks
10:14Thank you for your feedback.
10:45Oh yeah, we're coming.
10:49Oh yeah, we're coming.
10:54Oh yeah, we're coming.
11:02Oh yeah, I am.
11:14That was boring.
11:17Harmony's on Plastic Fiends were trash.
11:19He'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.
11:25Yeah, 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's shredding it tonight and no one ever.
11:35You sign the checks, dear.
11:36I do, I do sign the checks.
11:38Sign this.
11:38The tambourine tomorrow is rehearsed and perfected.
11:42What am I saying?
11:42You're mad in Corvallis.
11:44You're buying the wife early retirement and her lawyer a lakeboat.
11:47You speak pen.
11:48But it's funny because it's blood and I'm a buyer.
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.
12:09Try 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!
12:18Yeah.
12:19Alright Slats, I have to go.
12:21So, I'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.
12:36Did I mention that I was filming a documentary at the time a bootless Aaron helmed by a first-time
12:42director?
12:43I've seen a rough cut truthful and daring with less worrying
12:54missing a contact again how many drinks have you had
13:00drive to the burbs, sit by yourself in a booth at Applebee's, order the usual, big tip, meet us back
13:06in 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 is a hunter's handicap and a sloppy night in Corvallis made urgent the need for a body
13:23double
13:24his 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, 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 reddit or discord
13:48of Yarda eating up tuna melt by himself only 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
14:12having locked us in an attic for a year plus perfecting our sound
14:16a sound I hope would counter Mr. Dulac's portrayal of me as a
14:20mayonnaise 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
14:33congratulations
14:35now go make friends
14:38they lifted their heads from their algorithmic handmasters uttered a collective
14:42huh
14:43and swipe left
14:45I am the Vampire Lestat
14:48I am a god
14:50gods
14:51are not
14:53swiped
14:54the Contessa
14:55the useful idiot
14:57great 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
15:06save Jeff
15:07I am not here
15:09can we mic you?
15:10TC punch the boom again
15:12yeah
15:12okay
15:19so uh
15:20you 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 good
15:34it's late
15:36okay
15:40you've been alive and undead for 265 years you witnessed the french revolution first hand
15:46the electric light penicillin two world wars the atomic bomb the moon landing the berlin
15:53joy 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
16:04why have you chosen to waste at singing music no one wants to hear in pants no one should ever
16:10squeeze into
16:11you ask this question every night
16:13and I get a different answer every night
16:14if you get me to repeat myself soon enough I am sure once you confront your transformational trauma
16:19I don't have transformational trauma
16:21mmm that'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
16:37directed by a vampire passing as a human
16:38you 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?
17:00no
17:02no
17:03and impossible
17:04because 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?
17:22the dark dreary industrial world
17:26has finally submitted to automation
17:30laborers stand in their doorways
17:33hitting their pipes
17:35as their children have pipe
17:37in their drained empty swimming pools
17:39drugstores locked up baby formula and shaving cream
17:44while sacks ate Barneys
17:46and someone told everyone that Lululemon was sexy
17:50facts are irrelevant
17:54feels are everything
17:57and the value of human life
18:00it has never been more arbitrary
18:04David
18:05Freddy
18:06Prince Rogers
18:08they're all gone
18:09and the lights
18:11some 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 eight hundred seat venue
18:38how was it your era?
18:41hmm
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 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 right music
19:42a flower box is nice
19:43it's 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
19:52hmm
19:52you should come visit
19:53hmm
19:54I have a space above the bed
19:56in 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
20:07young professionals
20:08a smattering of Christ de Truss von Bebe
20:10hmm
20:10good eating
20:14same potholes
20:15but no hurricanes
20:18no witches
20:19everyone mangles French
20:21just like you do
20:23come to me
20:24Montreal
20:26I am he
20:27and he is me
20:30that's baggage here
20:31I get it
20:32I get it
20:34besides
20:35there's an Olmstead Park nearby
20:37if I get homesick
20:38and there's a
20:40garage band rehearsing across the street
20:42who call themselves
20:44of all things
20:46Satan
20:46they call themselves
20:48of all things
20:49Satan
20:50Satan's night out
20:52Satan's night out
20:53Satan's night out
20:54Satan's night out
20:55okay
20:56makes sense
20:57Louis do you know someone called Daniel Molloy?
21:02I 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
21:11uh yeah
21:12gonna
21:13but you know
21:14no I don't know Louis
21:16please
21:17explain yourself
21:18it's gonna be here and gone in a minute
21:20no one reads anymore
21:21the stats
21:22it's like
21:23whatever
21:24100%
21:25but Armand
21:26it's kind of mysterious
21:27yeah
21:28there's layers
21:29it's just to you at the Louvre
21:31hey
21:32all the boomers
21:33did the field
21:34to go see the other bottom of the farm with his resting but Trace
21:36yeah
21:37I skipped that and I would help you to see my beta boy in the corner of the room
21:40hmm
21:42I would do it
21:44you have to do it
21:45you have to do it
21:46I would kill it
21:48I would kill it
21:49I would kill it
21:50and I would kill it
21:51and I would kill it
21:55the stat man
21:57he would stop burning the French people on the rural street
21:59100%
22:01how many wildsleeves are there?
22:03do you want to become a member?
22:05there's 10%
22:05no thank you
22:11huh
22:14oh
22:15I know what infinitesimal means
22:18it was raining
22:20no
22:20no
22:21never
22:26fucking
22:27layup
22:28not a harlequin
22:30your sources are your sharpens
22:33your editor is your publisher
22:35pray
22:36don't go to the F
22:38Jesus out
22:39why must you complicate it?
23:05mmmm
23:05these are delusional
23:06oh
23:07take the mounts
23:08you'll take whatever I give you
23:11what?
23:11what?
23:32you'll tell us to me
23:35oh
23:35Oh, no!
23:41Oh, no!
23:45Oh, no!
24:03What the fuck?
24:05G. Minor. Slash.
24:11This is in 1979. Bela Lugosi is not dead.
24:14You don't need to finger her for five bars.
24:18You're hurting her.
24:20Is that her neighbor?
24:22Apologies for the squire.
24:24My man, Atura, 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 is just some ironic reaction to my book.
25:00Who better to refute the book than the man who wrote the book?
25:05The songs are my story.
25:07Your documentary, The Liner Notes.
25:09Ha! Liner Notes?
25:10I won two Pulitzers.
25:11I'm taking this thing to Cannes.
25:14Okay?
25:14I'm gonna 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 want to make the songs in their songs.
25:30The song is for them, not for us.
25:32He sings for himself.
25:33Make more!
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 Hunet.
25:46If he comes to your people, kill him.
25:51While the little hearts will flow soon, you ain't gonna confess what you used to find.
26:31The Great Laws are clear on that.
26:56The Great Laws are clear on that.
28:32Hi, papi.
29:06Pick up the fucking jammery!
29:08From the alps of adequacy to the canyon of coup d'etat, two nights in a row, my violin competing
29:16with his guitar for the solo break, two centuries waiting to share my music, two years as Mr. Dulac's B
29:24-movie brooped.
29:26But just as I was about to bridge the bridge with murder and mayhem, something quite surprising happened.
29:34My music wrapped itself around me like a jungle snake constricting its prey, and a lifetime of blood-bartering overwhelmed
29:44the temporal lobe.
29:47Muses appeared in my mind and in the now around me, memories taking their turn.
29:59Blood in, blood out.
30:05Hammering away at the performative vampire persona I had welded into armor.
30:13The armor cracked.
30:17The bridge buckled.
30:20And the bonafide vampire emerged center stage.
30:25The bridge.
30:26It was I who had been adequate.
30:30It was I who had been holding us back.
30:34And now, exposed in the roar, under the white hot lights, my 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, into their bodies, enveloping the venue.
30:58A euphoric grattiness spilling into the crowd.
31:20Cantor laughing!
31:28Carcre gattriness spilling into the floor.
31:36Ah.
31:38Which one of you is Odide before?
31:41What do you do?
31:43Ah...
31:44What did she take?
31:45Not her...
31:47Me.
31:48Get her on the ground!
31:50My blood...
31:54Ecstasy...
31:55LSD...
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?
32:16What are you doing?
32:19I lost myself on stage for a moment.
32:23Seems you still lost.
32:26This 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.
32:38Though he dies bad.
32:42I'm immortal.
32:43Yeah, you kill some wolves and fall in love, get the gift, fall in love, go to ground, get dug
32:49up and fall in love.
32:51You like some wet clothes and a coin-op dryer, just 265 years round and round.
32:58Why are you so sad?
33:00Thousands of fans loving you.
33:03I want millions.
33:05And 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?
33:23Oh, they gonna tell you themselves.
33:27Who's coming?
33:29Great show, didn't it?
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.
33:56How 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 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.
34:40Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on!
34:45The band is inside with Dan and the VIP purge.
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. I'm getting ahead of myself again.
34:59I arrive fashionably late, of course.
35:02State your name for the camera.
35:04Baby Jinx.
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.
35:13I am feeling good.
35:16Surfing the sublime candy-flipped wave of the girl's blood.
35:20Hear 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's this guy? Cause 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.
35:49Chat it 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.
36:01And 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 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.
36:50I 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.
37:07I like this.
37:07I like this.
37:11I like this.
37:14I like this.
37:17Detroit.
37:20Droid...
37:36Name's Tim.
37:38She's Ross.
37:49He's got a bit... crossed.
37:52We were minding each other the other night.
37:55Ross here has a hot mouth.
37:57And a strong pelvic floor.
38:00I admire your aim.
38:03Long face sucks.
38:05Ross...
38:06Wanted to apologize.
38:08What? Black licorice?
38:11Why do I have to feel?
38:15I like those ones.
38:17Frankly, Mr. Shankly almost ruined the Queen's death. I apologize. Accept it.
38:24We 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 Brightmoor.
38:34Our own farm under the floorboards.
38:37I'm not sure. What about tomorrow night?
38:40You're on the road tomorrow night.
38:43Yes. 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.
38:55Hmm.
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 Brightmoorish, Governor.
39:22Lilac.
39:37I have a blind spot when it comes to blood poisoning.
39:40I 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.
39:54Twirl, twirl.
39:56Overshare.
39:57I saw your soul.
39:59I saw yours, too.
40:04Still feeling good.
40:07I went looking for my band.
40:08Looking for sex.
40:10Looking for anything that radiated the fun that I sang about in my song, Long Face.
40:21Long Face sucks.
40:24Does it suck?
40:25I wondered.
40:27Did you have a point?
40:29And then I thought, ooh, they want a little scrap with the scalpel.
40:34No worries.
40:35I thought I have the Queen's blood in me.
40:37I could take 20 regionals at once with the Queen's blood.
40:41Where's the band, Dan?
40:43They called corporate bullshit.
40:48Went to party upstairs.
40:52So 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, 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?
41:15Mr. Delac's memoir tiptoed around vampire sex, didn't it?
41:20He 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.
41:31That would be the taking of life and next would be a good draining,
41:34leaving 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.
41:46The fourth best thing a vampire can do to avoid thinking about the past is to have 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.
42:08Which, looking back on it now, does suck.
42:12I 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.
42:35But 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.
43:03Raise the wall, my dear. You'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.
43:20Almost 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...
43:35The drug blood in my sex legs and the distracting past my music had unleashed on me put me at
43:40a 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.
43:50The Dulac.
43:50As if my entire stage show wasn't a bawdy burlesque of is he or isn't he.
43:56As 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.
44:03Collecting fledglings like they were the bubadoors.
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...
44:24The Fang Gang.
44:25We are the children of the darkness reborn.
44:30Jesus fucking God.
44:33Our man told the truth if you met him.
44:37What the fuck does that even mean?
44:39I think 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.
45:24It's hard hiding you're a god.
45:27You're for real?
45:29CCTV, eco-flux toilets, IMF freezing your accounts because you have the blood of a patricidal queen inside you.
45:36Hello 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.
45:55Were 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.
46:19After 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 and my vampire gift winged me away north of the river
46:39south of the country.
46:43But I was saved from such rational thought.
46:48Love will do that to you.
47:09The band is out.
47:12The band is out.
47:13I am the only two.
47:14The band is out.
47:19I got myself into something I can't get out of.
47:25Music's opened up the batch of it,
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.
48:02My...
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 enjoys a little dirt in their sandwich.
48:24So I serve it to you now.
48:27How it felt, Ben.
48:31Fledgling.
48:34Lover.
48:37Mother.
48:40Listen 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.
48:52Give me a million more screams.
48:54Give me a million more screams.
48:55Do you kill people?
48:57Give me a million more screams.
49:00Please, sir.
49:01Let's talk about your mother.
49:04I've been a bad boy.
49:05D-dunny, bro.
49:07My makeup called for his mama and I came.
49:10Give me a million more screams.
49:15You are caught in great danger with the stuff.
49:18You stole my personal position.
49:21You hired my biographer.
49:24The songs are not about you.
49:30Shall we do it?
49:32Shall we scorch the mortal world?
49:37What do you think about the Great Conversion?
49:40Fucking stupid.
49:41I, I, I, I, I want to say you're mad.
49:44Eat it, man, and go.
49:47You are listening to The Failures, album eight, 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.
50:39Ooh, ooh, ooh.
50:42Just like the plot changes, the whole attitude of the show changes.
50:47And we move into this completely crazy rock and roll world.
50:53Come on.
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 and he is me.
51:18Louis and Lysada FaceTiming and you're probably going to get the sense that Louis is going to
51:21come over pretty soon.
51:22They'll probably get back together or work it out.
51:25Nice.
51:25Yeah, it's nice.
51:27One of the first conversations I had with Roland and Hannah and the writers was that I think
51:33Louis's watched just a ton of YouTube and it's time off, you know, like cat videos,
51:41probably hungrily.
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.
51:51One 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, but like no one told him about the
52:07cloud.
52:08I only found out it was coming out a month ago.
52:10You've known for a month and you talk about me and it to a mortal?
52:13Well, yeah.
52:14Yeah.
52:15But, 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, sees what he perceives are lies and distortions, mistruths,
52:38and he's like, you know what?
52:39I'm going to 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 Molloy 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 heard 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?
53:26I'm sorry.
53:27Oh, my God.
53:31Oh, my God.
53:33Thank you so much.
53:37I'm glad I'm here.
53:38This is a great song.
53:38It's about the first kill that Lestat made after he reconciled with Louis in New Orleans.
53:46Didn't blink, didn't try to run, I got a real life worth.
53:52Particularly in episode one, you do see that he's pushing and pushing to get this sort of
53:57moment of grace, to 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.
54:23So 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.
54:39This 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 did before?
54:56You did before.
54:57Laura...
55:27Laura...
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