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The Vampire Lestat - Interview with the Vampire Season 3 Episode 1
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00:00Watch The Vampire Lestat After Dark on AMC Plus or wherever you get your podcasts.
00:30You're a dark gift.
00:31Be my companion for all eternity.
00:34You 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, 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.
01:20Guardes-tu ce garçon en comède mémoire?
01:23Mickey!
01:24Je suis Armand.
01:26Je suis le chef de ton clan.
01:28Did I send you?
01:29You led him there so he could destroy it.
01:31Yes.
01:31You saved Louis.
01:33That's 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.
01:43As 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.
02:39Where the rock and roll is.
02:41Where the kids have.
02:43Where the hope of me, love of the feet of the mud.
02:46Where the stupid rain.
02:49Bang, bang.
02:51Bang, bang.
02:52Bang, bang.
02:54I'll fall down.
02:58Burn the ground.
03:02I'll fall down.
03:06Burn the ground.
03:09Bang, bang.
03:12Bang, bang.
03:13Bang, bang.
03:14Bang, bang.
03:15Bang, bang.
03:16Bang, bang.
03:17Bang, bang.
03:18C'est cool.
03:33I don't think I would.
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 Leoncore, 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,
04:39which include a song cycle in the classical vein set to the poetry of Baudelaire.
04:47Before we begin the bidding, I perform the following action.
05:03We will begin the bidding at one yuan. Do I hear one yuan?
05:10B-U-N?
05:11B-U-N.
05:13Sold.
05:14To the gentlewoman.
05:16Third row.
05:17Good spirit.
05:19Lot number two.
05:20A music box, curated by the Vampire Lestat himself, a 1978 Fernando Marciani Corinto sideboard,
05:31inside a Rosner & Zonn Mott turntable, with Bialab 90 speakers.
05:37Two temperature controlled wine cabinets, one holding a bottle of Kneeport 1863 port wine,
05:46the other with a magnum of blood from the curator himself.
05:50The upper level.
05:52A singular vinyl pressing of the complete works of the Vampire Lestat de Leoncore,
05:58previously delineated, along with 111 albums of audio best described as
06:04an omniscient history of the events of the 2025 album in supporting TOR,
06:10and the consequential global catastrophes that sprung from said album and TOR,
06:15as narrated by the Vampire Lestat himself.
06:18The 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.
06:46For I could and should have ended it there.
06:49My tour, my hedonistic pursuit of extremity.
06:53All of it.
06:54And had I done so, 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.
07:36The End
07:38The End
07:38The End
07:40The End
07:54The End
08:21What a long thing, not for the baby.
08:24I've got long fangs
08:27Come appreasing
08:29The most 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
08:51After myself
08:52And the four that backed me
08:54Played their parts as instructed
08:56There was Larry
08:58The front man made side man
09:00Choking his guitar neck nightly
09:01Wishing it was mine
09:03Brother Alex
09:04The more talented seedling
09:06Straight edged in half the fun
09:09Salamander
09:10Bassist
09:11Dumb
09:12Shockingly dumb
09:13And TC
09:15The 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
09:23And booked intimate venues
09:25To induce what Jen's snooze called FOMO
09:28They came for cosplay left converted
09:30And I baptized them
09:31The beautiful unwell
09:33And yet
09:34Here we were
09:35In the inn of the stooges
09:37And the stripes
09:3830 performances notched
09:40And already resting on the alps of adequacy
09:43Unacceptable
09:44Unacceptable
09:46Unpiano
09:46And your forte
09:48You're l'allegro
09:50I'm a Dante
09:52With a little
09:56Prostituate
10:08Hello
10:09Welcome to Detroit
10:11Lovely city
10:13Your song sucks
10:14Thank you for the feedback
10:16Pick up the pace
10:17Back up the gear
10:18Give me some face
10:19A souvenir
10:20Here come the days
10:21Here comes the fear
10:32You're coming
10:48You're coming
10:50You're coming
10:52Oh yeah
10:54Oh yeah
10:56I'm coming
10:57Yeah, you're coming
10:59Oh yeah
11:00I'm coming
11:01Oh yeah
11:02Oh yeah
11:05Oh yeah
11:07Oh yeah
11:08Oh yeah
11:09Oh yeah
11:20is shimmering. Turn it up a step.
11:22Singer's right. You left your tambourine
11:24in his stand, Larry. Yeah, I was feeling the
11:26guitar. No one is coming to here, yucky
11:28darling. No, they come for the Aussie
11:30shit. Dear Rage, call the Harmony Room. Larry
11:32Slater shredding it tonight and no one
11:34ever. You sign the checks,
11:36sir. I do, I do sign the checks. Sign this.
11:38The tambourine tomorrow is rehearsed
11:40and perfected. What am I saying?
11:43You're not in Corvallis.
11:44You're crying the wife early retirement and her lawyer
11:46a lake, but who's the parent?
11:48But he's funny because it's blood and I'm of
11:50vampire. There's the
11:54band and there's the shell that
11:56protects the band from the world's
11:58envy. Our band
12:00shell was Christine Clare.
12:02She hired, fired,
12:04dictated and castrated
12:06with extreme prejudice.
12:09We want the
12:10car. No. We'll be good.
12:12Corvallis.
12:14What do you think?
12:17Yay.
12:21I'm going into
12:22my vampire dressing room
12:24now. A little draining both
12:26ways. You'll have to guess who gets
12:28the fangs and who gets the vodka bottle.
12:30And yes, it's a vodka
12:32bottle.
12:33He did it again.
12:36Fucking asshole.
12:37Did I mention that I was
12:38filming a documentary at the time?
12:40A bootless errand helmed by a
12:42first-time director.
12:44I've seen a rough cut.
12:45Truthful and daring, but less war
12:47and pity.
12:48Anyone see Yarda?
12:49Yarda, sky
12:50blue 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
13:03Applebee's, order the usual.
13:04Big tip, meet us back in the city.
13:07Now you'd think a 54-city rock tour
13:09would be a wonderful cover for a blood drinker.
13:11Hide your keel up on the bus,
13:13wave to the morgue reports in the rearview mirror,
13:15that kind of thing.
13:16But niche celebrity is a hunter's handicap,
13:19and a sloppy night in Corvallis
13:21made urgent the need for a body double.
13:23Oh, what?
13:23His name was Yarda Klapik,
13:26and the Albanian gangsters Christine hired
13:28to find my doppelganger
13:29found him working construction
13:30in the Czech Republic.
13:32Three inches shorter
13:34than your velvet mouth narrator,
13:35we fit him for lifts,
13:37blue eye contacts,
13:38and a wig.
13:39And otherwise,
13:40let him be Neanderthal me.
13:42I hunted this way,
13:43and we sent him that way,
13:44and every sad photograph
13:46uploaded to Redieto discord
13:47of Yarda eating up tuna melt
13:49by himself
13:50only confirmed for most
13:52what they already believed.
13:55Let's go!
13:55That I, the Vampire Lestat,
13:57was Daniel Malloy's fictitious creation.
14:00And the Vampire Lestat,
14:02the band,
14:02was fronted by a brick-laying
14:03karaoke fanatic from Ostrova.
14:06Nothing but a desperate cash grab
14:08at 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
14:14for a year-plus perfecting our sound.
14:16The sound I hope would counter
14:17Mr. Dulac's portrayal of me
14:19as a mayonnaise villain
14:21with sociopathic tendencies.
14:24I'll beside the point,
14:25because the point was,
14:27the point forever is,
14:28I know you're real!
14:29But most of humanity
14:30moved on from vampires,
14:32and rather quickly.
14:34Congratulations.
14:35Now go make friends.
14:38They lifted their heads
14:39from their algorithmic handmasters,
14:41uttered 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!
14:56The useful idiot!
14:58Great show!
15:00You left before we started.
15:02Yeah, I figured.
15:02Spotify some T-Rex
15:04and drag a little old egg
15:05from Dr. Fareed.
15:06Good here.
15:06Save him, Jeff.
15:08I am not here.
15:09Can we mic you?
15:10TC punched the boom again.
15:12Yeah.
15:13Okay.
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're good.
15:34Sleep.
15:37Okay.
15:40You've been alive
15:41and undead
15:42for 265 years.
15:43You witnessed
15:44the French Revolution
15:45firsthand,
15:47the electric light,
15:48penicillin,
15:49two world wars,
15:49the atomic bomb,
15:51the moon landing,
15:52the Berlin Walls...
15:53Joey Chestnut.
15:54What?
15:55He eats hot dogs
15:56for a living.
15:57He's extraordinary.
15:58I hope to meet him one day.
15:59Was there a question?
15:59Having accumulated
16:00profound wisdom
16:01and experience
16:02through the dark gift
16:03of immortality,
16:04why have you chosen
16:06to waste
16:06at singing music
16:07no one wants to hear
16:09in pants
16:09no one should ever
16:10squeeze into?
16:11You ask this question
16:12every night.
16:13And I get a different
16:14answer every night.
16:14You get me to repeat
16:15myself soon enough.
16:16I am sure once you
16:17confront your
16:18transformational trauma.
16:19I don't have
16:20transformational trauma.
16:21That's why these
16:22movie producers
16:23hired you,
16:24Danny Molloy,
16:25vampire slayer.
16:26They said you requested
16:27me.
16:28Absurd.
16:29Oh, as absurd
16:30as a documentary
16:31about a rock band
16:32posing as vampires
16:33fronted by an actual
16:35vampire.
16:36Directed by a vampire
16:37passing as a human.
16:39You tell him for me.
16:41Is it true
16:41you were a stutterer
16:42as a child?
16:44Louis said you were.
16:51Was he there
16:52in 18th century Auvers?
16:53He said you told him that.
16:54Did I threaten
16:55Claudia with rape
16:56on a train?
16:57Was I in the room
16:58when Donizetti
16:59wrote Don Pasquale?
17:01No.
17:02No.
17:03And impossible
17:04because I had
17:05buried myself
17:05underground
17:06for the vast majority
17:07of 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
17:14the fledgling
17:14speak and spell?
17:22The dark, dreary,
17:25industrial world
17:26has finally submitted
17:28to automation.
17:31Laborers stand
17:32in their doorways
17:33hitting their pipes
17:35as their children
17:36have pipe
17:37in their drained
17:38empty swimming pools.
17:40Drugstores locked up
17:41baby formula
17:42and shaving cream
17:44while Saks
17:45ate Barneys
17:46and someone
17:47told everyone
17:48that Lululemon
17:49was sexy.
17:51Facts
17:52are irrelevant.
17:55Feels
17:55are everything.
17:58And the value
17:59of human life
18:00it has never been
18:02more arbitrary.
18:04David.
18:06Freddy.
18:07Prince Rogers.
18:08They're all gone.
18:10And the lights
18:11on Tay-Tay's ears
18:12have dimmed.
18:13Fire
18:14coming down
18:15the hill.
18:16Water moving in
18:18on Nantucket.
18:20No more
18:21safe spaces.
18:24It's my era
18:26now.
18:30Post Malone
18:31and Jelly Roll
18:32playing there tonight.
18:3360,000
18:34for a face
18:34tattooed Palooza.
18:36You played
18:36an 800-seat venue.
18:38How was it
18:39your era?
18:43I'm vain
18:43and shallow
18:44and pure
18:44and empty seat.
18:45Ask me an easy one.
18:48Is it true
18:49your band
18:50was formed
18:51on Halloween?
18:57you were listening
18:58to The Failures
19:01album 2
19:02side B
19:26What do you think?
19:28It's nice.
19:30It's nice.
19:31Yeah, it's nice.
19:32I don't see
19:33Beyonce covering it
19:34but it's nice.
19:37Nice is nothing.
19:39It's nice.
19:40Nice is a balloon.
19:41It's your back
19:41right music.
19:41A flower box is nice.
19:43It's nice.
19:43You got yourself
19:44a nice place.
19:45It's a nice word
19:46and it says
19:47everything I wanted
19:48to express.
19:49Don't be a bitch
19:49about it.
19:52You should come visit.
19:54I have a space
19:55above 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
20:02and see your guest room?
20:03It's an affluent neighborhood.
20:05Old money,
20:07young professionals,
20:08a smattering
20:09of Christ de Trasso
20:10from baby.
20:10Good eating.
20:14Same potholes
20:15but no hurricanes,
20:18no witches.
20:20Everyone 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.
20:32I get it.
20:32I get it.
20:34Besides,
20:35there's an Olmstead Park
20:36nearby if I get homesick
20:38and there's a
20:40garage band
20:41rehearsing across the street
20:42who call themselves
20:44of all things
20:45Satan.
20:47They call themselves
20:48of all things
20:49Satan?
20:50Satan's night out.
20:53Satan's night out?
20:54Out.
20:54Satan's night out.
20:56Okay.
20:56Amazing.
20:57Louis, do you know
20:58someone called
20:58Daniel Malloy?
21:02Uh...
21:03I burned his laptop!
21:04I didn't know
21:05he had it saved
21:05in the cloud.
21:06I only found out
21:07it was coming out
21:08a month ago.
21:08You've known for a month
21:09and you talk about
21:10me and it to a mortal?
21:11Well, yeah.
21:12Uh, yeah.
21:13Gonna...
21:13You know?
21:14No, I don't know,
21:15Louis.
21:16Please,
21:17explain yourself.
21:18It's gonna be here
21:19and gone in a minute.
21:20No one reads anymore.
21:21The stat, he's like...
21:24100%.
21:25But Armand,
21:26he's like...
21:27mysterious.
21:28Yeah, there's some layers.
21:29You're...
21:29You have to do that
21:30to you at the Louvre.
21:31Hey,
21:32all the boomers
21:33were going to go
21:34to see the other
21:34bottom line
21:35with his resting
21:36butt face.
21:37I skipped that
21:37and I would help you
21:38see my beta boy
21:39in the corner of the room.
21:42I'll do it.
21:44You have to do it.
21:47I'll kill it.
21:48I'll kill it.
21:49I'll kill it.
21:50And I'll kill it.
21:55The stat, man.
21:57He's going to burn
21:58the French ones
21:58at the Royal Street.
22:00100%.
22:00Combien de Wildsleeve-le.
22:03Tu veux-tu devenir membre?
22:05Il y a 10%...
22:06No, thank you!
22:11Huh.
22:14Oh.
22:15I know what
22:16Infinitetimo means.
22:19It was raining.
22:20No!
22:21No!
22:23Never!
22:27F***ing!
22:27Lelio!
22:29I'm not a harlequin.
22:30Your sources
22:32are your sharpens.
22:33Your editor
22:34is your priest.
22:36Don't go to the end.
22:38Jesus out!
22:40Why must you
22:40complicate it?
22:43Things out there.
22:44I've got two days!
22:45Can you please?
22:47Hello.
22:51Oh,
22:52I wanted the full-size bar.
22:57Thank you!
22:58Oh.
23:00Your camera is not period correct.
23:03I haven't been at Allergy.
23:04Well, allergies are delusional.
23:07Take the mounts.
23:08You'll take whatever I give you.
23:32What is it?
23:34What is it?
23:34I'm down there.
24:03What the fuck?
24:05T.
24:06Minor.
24:08Slash.
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.
24:22Apologies 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!
24:43Hey!
24:44Why now?
24:46Dude, that was sick.
24:48What are we doing here?
24:51We're doing a rewrite.
24:52We're doing it.
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?
25:04Hmm.
25:05The songs are my story.
25:06Your documentary.
25:08The liner notes.
25:09Ha!
25:09Liner notes?
25:10I won two pollicers.
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.
25:20The Brat dies.
25:21The great laws are clear on this.
25:23I love songs.
25:24More exposure for us.
25:26More risk for us.
25:27I don't have any problems in the songs.
25:29The song is for them.
25:31Not for us.
25:32He sings for himself.
25:33Make more!
25:35Only a coven leader can make more.
25:38The great laws are clear on that.
25:41First the book.
25:42Now the singer.
25:43This is chaos.
25:44It does a bit of share with you.
25:46If he comes to your people,
25:48kill him.
26:18Find some lanterns.
26:18Are we still 18 years earlier today?
26:19Is he well managed to magnet a random device?
26:19Not for us?ctor,
26:27no matter for us. He has
26:27typical woman. is not replaced by
26:27minor language. She understands the audience.
26:27Yeah? You're not
26:28an engineer.
26:28Better. At this point.
27:33I got a real life one, the book didn't try to run, I got a real life one.
27:50I got a real life one, the book didn't try to run, I got a real life one, the book
28:07didn't try to run, I got a real life one.
28:23I got a real life one, the book didn't try to run, I got a real life one, the book
28:40didn't try to run, I got a real life one.
28:42Screams
28:44Exactly
28:44What you think it means
28:46Do do do do
28:49Don't wanna smash yourself
28:50You'll be a flying star
28:52Don't wanna learn a fucking TikTok dance
28:55Wanna stay in bed
28:57Eat in bed in your ass
29:06Pick up the fucking jammery
29:08From the alps of adequacy to the canyon of coup d'etat
29:13Two nights in a row
29:14My violin competing with his guitar for the solo break
29:18Two centuries waiting to share my music
29:21Two years as Mr. Dulac's B-movie Brute
29:26But just as I was about to bridge the bridge
29:29With murder and mayhem
29:31Something quite surprising happened
29:35My music wrapped itself around me
29:38Like a jungle snake constricting 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
30:13The armor cracked
30:18The bridge buckled
30:20And 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
30:41My bandmates
30:42Began to feed
30:45And that sound I had been grinding them for
30:49Was finally unleashed
30:52A euphoric grottiness spilling into the crowd
30:55Into their bodies
30:57Enveloping the venue
30:58I want to stay back
31:03Even like a ranch
31:05I want to stay back
31:09Even like a ranch
31:11I want to stay back
31:15Even like a ranch
31:22I want to stay back
31:27I want to stay back
31:29I want to stay back
31:36I want to stay back
31:37I want to stay back
31:38I want to stay back
31:39I want to stay back
31:39I want to stay back
31:39I want to stay back
31:40I want to stay back
31:42I want to stay back
31:43I want to stay back
31:45Let her get her on the ground
31:52I should have quit right there and then would have been a lovely footnote to my life the band, but
32:10the muses were just beginning
32:14You done this to me
32:19I lost myself on stage for a moment
32:22Seems you still lost
32:26This song's gonna kill you, you know that, don't you?
32:29I can't die
32:30Everything dies, you die, I die
32:34She dies, she dies
32:37Oh, 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
32:57Why are you so sad?
33:00Thousands of fans loving you
33:02I want millions
33:04And that'll top off that heart of yours
33:09Billions
33:10Then why you always gotta make it so hard for someone to give it to you
33:15Huh?
33:17Who told you that?
33:19Don't worry, they coming
33:22Who's coming?
33:24Oh, they gonna tell you themselves
33:27Who's coming?
33:29Who's coming?
33:29Great show, man
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
33:43Heed this advice
33:45Never 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
33:56How 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
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 seducing corporate employees, provincial influencers,
34:24and party crashing beautifully unknown
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!
34:45The band is inside with Dan and a VIP purse
34:49I'm giving the paps my pussycat
34:52With 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 Jinx
35:05Ok, baby
35:06Tell me
35:07Why 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. 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? Because like, rock and roll, it's dying.
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?
35:45It'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 tour of Lendina, 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-shirt.
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.
36:26He's like, do you want to fuck?
36:29And rock and roll is like, yes, bitch!
36:32I excused 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,
36:46no ticket pocket of mine ever had his initials inscribed onto them.
36:49I mean, these are the editorial wags of an insane person.
36:55Note to self-edit that out in the final version.
36:58Starting again.
37:00Vampire's pee.
37:01We don't do it as often as you do, assuming you're not one of us.
37:04And we generally avoid eco-friendly urinals.
37:19Detroit...
37:20Detroit...
37:32Oh!
37:36Her name's Tim. She's Russ.
37:39Bear. Russ.
37:42Pronouns.
37:43Hmm. And yet it's respectful, like silence at a urinal.
37:49Mm-hmm. He's got a bit, uh, crossed. We were minding each other the other night.
37:54Russ here has a hot mouth.
37:57And a strong pelvic floor. I admire your aim.
38:02Hmm.
38:03Hmm. Long face sucks.
38:05Russ wanted to apologize.
38:08What? Black licorice? Why do I have to feel?
38:14Hmm. I like those ones.
38:17Frankly, Mr. Shankly almost ruined the Queen's death. I apologize if 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 Brackmore.
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.
38:45No. That was you lying.
38:48Hmm.
38:49Hmm. Eco-friendly urinals. Good for the planet, so we're told. Good for vampires. Hmm. We chardonnay them.
39:00Hmm. And then there's regional vampires, always trying to make a name for themselves. I've chardonnay them, too.
39:11Thank you. Obligations, I'm afraid. But please do send my most sincere bonjour to your bright nourish, come on.
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. But then there's that old saying. You fool me once,
39:46shame on me. You fool me twice. MDMA and LSD are excellent drugs.
39:51Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, twirl, twirl, overshare. I saw your soul. I saw yours, too.
40:04Still feeling good. I 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.
40:16Long Face. And then... Regionals. Wait, did you say that Long Face sucked? Long Face sucks. Does it suck? I
40:26wondered. Did you have a point? And then I thought, ooh, they want a little scrap with the scalpel. No
40:34worries, I thought I have the Queen's blood in me. I could take 20 Regionals at once with the Queen's
40:39blood.
40:41Where's the band? Where's the band, Dan? They called corporate bullshit. Went to party upstairs.
40:52So I'm scoring dick pills in Mogadishu for a UN peacekeeper. When in walks Stuart Copeland, wearing a kufi and
40:59a mouthful of ammo.
41:01So I thought about having sex with Christine. And then I thought, it's all the way upstairs. And then I
41:07thought, I'm the scalpel. What does the scalpel do between here and upstairs?
41:15Mr. Delac's memoir tiptoed around vampire sex, didn't it? He and Dan made it out to be this tortured act
41:22or obligational foreplay before blood drinking.
41:26That is not the case at all. It's not the capstone of vampiric desires. That would be the taking of
41:31life. And 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. And after those three, it's sex. So now you
41:46know, the fourth best thing a vampire can do to avoid thinking about the past is to have sex.
41:52Sex, sex, sex. And I have had a lot of sex over the years. It'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.
42:03Sex is fun. Like 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. If only to keep time's baggage from burying you.
42:24Sex with the bellman and Dee and honey-trapping baby Jenks. Probably should have gotten off the seventh floor when
42:31I had gotten off.
42:35Sex with the bellman and Dee and honey-trapping baby Jenks. But I didn't.
42:39I'm getting married in a week. I'll never forget you.
42:51Law 4. No vampire shall ever reveal his or her true nature to a mortal. Let the mortal live.
42:58You do know it's 2025.
43:03Praise the world, my dear. You'll not want to see this.
43:09The Tooth Team. The Fang Gang.
43:16I killed a pack of wolves when I was immortal. I'll most likely tell you about that later as I
43:22let 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.
43:30I'm building a career that supports my well-being.
43:34But 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. As 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 gift like red cups
44:02in a piss bar.
44:04Collecting fledglings like they were the bubadobs.
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.
44:30Jesus fucking God.
44:33Our mom told the truth if you met him.
44:37What the fuck does that even mean?
44:39I thought 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.
44:56I'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 flush toilets.
45:31IMF freezing your accounts because you have the blood of a patricidal queen inside you.
45:36Hello again.
45:38We have to live on for 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.
46:20After the song unleashed the muses.
46:23After I saw my first soul.
46:26After I was nearly decapitated in a boutique hotel hallway.
46:32After my vampire nature was revealed to the band.
46:35And my vampire gift winged me away north of the rivers off of the country.
46:43But I was saved from such rational thought.
46:48Love will do that to you.
47:02What is the song again?
47:06How is the song again?
47:09My chird.
47:12Very kind of you to come.
47:19I got myself into something I can't get out of.
47:25Music's opened up to that show bed.
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.
48:07It's not much of a reveal, I guess.
48:10I know it's common gossip now,
48:12the first thing one thinks about when my name comes up.
48:16I assume a privileged individual such as yourself
48:20enjoys a little dirt in their sandwich.
48:24So I serve it to you now.
48:27How it felt then.
48:31Fledgling.
48:34Lover.
48:37Mother.
48:40Listen to tracks from the Vampire List ad wherever you stream music.
48:46If you're still listening after the last hour,
48:49welcome back to Bring On The Music.
48:52Give me a million more screams.
48:54Give me a million more screams.
48:56Do you kill people?
48:57Give me a million more screams.
49:00Give me a million more screams.
49:01Let's talk about your mother.
49:04I've been a bad boy.
49:06My maker called for his mama and I came.
49:10Give me a million more screams.
49:12Give me a million more screams.
49:13Give 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.
49:22Eat him black.
49:23Eat him black like the rest.
49:24The songs are not about you.
49:27I want to stay in bad.
49:28Eat him black like the rest.
49:31Shall we do it?
49:31Shall we scorch the mortal world?
49:34I want to stay in bad.
49:35Eat him black like the rest.
49:37What do you think about The Great Conversion?
49:40Fucking stupid.
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 know from the previous
50:29seasons.
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.
50:47And we move into this completely crazy rock and roll world.
50:54He did it again.
50:55And a 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 we'll 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, like, work it out.
51:25Nice.
51:25Yeah.
51:26It's nice.
51:27One of the first conversations I had with Roland and Hannah and the writers was that I think Louis has
51:33watched just a ton of YouTube.
51:36And it's time off, you know, like, cat videos, probably 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 out of the window.
51:52One of my favorite things about this second season of Interview with the Vampire is that I 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.
52:04Um, but, 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, and 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 in 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.
52:33Lestat sees what he perceives are lies and distortions, mistruths, and he's like, you know what? I'm gonna set the
52:40record straight.
52:41Was he there in 18th century Auvergne?
52:43He said you told him that.
52:44Did I threaten Claudia with rape on a train?
52:46No, and impossible.
52:48Daniel 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 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?
53:37Blackí•´ Cleared is just a great song.
53:39It's about the first kill that Lestat made after he reconciled with Louis in New Orleans.
53:45Didn't blink, didn't try to run, I caught a real eye word.
53:52Particularly in episode one, you do see that he's pushing and pushing to get this sort
53:57of moment of grace, to be completely engulfed in the music.
54:02But just as I was about to bridge the bridge with murder and mayhem, something quite surprising
54:09happened.
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 gonna go and tell my story, I'm gonna do a rewrite, this is my
54:39version of events and it's evolved into something different, he's tapped into his past.
54:55Which one of you is OD'd before?
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