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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.
00:11Previously 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.
01:11His 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.
01:20Do you remember all these boys who have made my memory?
01:23Mickey!
01:24I am Armand.
01:26I am the head of Tom Clon.
01:28You led him there so he could destroy it.
01:31Yes.
01:31You saved Louis.
01:33Darnishment.
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.
02:00No 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 guitar.
02:43Where the heart will be loving.
02:45The beat is in the mood.
02:46Where the stupid rain.
02:49Bang, bang.
02:50Bang, bang.
02:51Bang, bang.
02:53Bang, bang.
02:54Bang, bang.
02:54I'll fall down.
02:58Burn the ground.
03:02I'll fall down.
03:06Burn the ground.
03:09Bang, bang.
03:11Bang, bang.
03:13Bang, bang.
03:14Bang, bang.
03:15Bang, bang.
03:15Bang, bang.
03:16Bang, bang.
03:18C'est cool.
03:33I don't think I'll do it.
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, additional session tracks that were discarded in the final assemblage of the album,
04:33original 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 1yuan.
05:07Do I hear 1yuan?
05:111yuan.
05:12Sold.
05:14To the gentlewoman.
05:15Third row.
05:17Good spirit.
05:18Lot number two.
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.
05:37Two temperature-controlled wine cabinets, one holding a bottle of Kneeport 1863 port wine, the other with a magnum of
05:47blood from the curator himself.
05:50The upper level.
05:51A singular vinyl pressing of the complete works of The Vampire Lestat, Deliancore, previously delineated, along with 111 albums of
06:02audio best described as an omniscient history of the events of the 2025 album and supporting tour and the consequential
06:11global catastrophes that sprung from said album and tour as narrated by The Vampire Lestat himself.
06:18The collection has been named The Failures.
06:23We will begin the bidding at 50yuan.
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, 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.
07:17It 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.
07:36....
07:38..
08:05BT11
08:06Ooh, ooh, ooh, wah-ah
08:09Ooh, ooh, ooh, wah-ah
08:13Ooh, ooh, ooh, wah-ah
08:20What a long face, my pretty baby
08:24I've got long face, come up recently
08:29You're my lost days, that doesn't faze 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
09:08Salamander, 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 baptized 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
09:44I'm a piano
09:46I'm a piano
09:48I'm a piano
09:48I'm a forte
09:48I'm a alegro
09:50I'm a dante
09:52I'm a valero
09:54I'm a prostitute
10:08Hello
10:09Welcome to Detroit
10:11Lovely city
10:13Your song sucks
10:14Thank you for your 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 comes the fear
10:22Now I have a fear
10:30Now I have a fear
10:32Now I have a fear
10:32Now I have a fear
10:32Now I have a fear
10:32Now I have a fear
10:34Now I have a fear
10:41Oh, oh, oh
10:45Oh, oh, oh
10:47Oh, oh, oh
11:14Well, that was boring.
11:15Do you seem to like it?
11:16Harmony's on Plastic Fiends were trash.
11:19He's right.
11:19And the front head on your kick is shimmering.
11:21Turn it up a step.
11:22Singer's right.
11:23You'll lift your tambourine in his stand, Larry.
11:25Yeah, I was feeling the guitar.
11:26No one is coming to hear your guitar, Larry.
11:29No, they come for the Aussie stand.
11:30Dude, Rage, call the Harmony Room.
11:32Larry Slater shredding it tonight and no one ever.
11:35You sign the checks, dude.
11:36I do, I do sign the checks.
11:38Sign this.
11:38The tambourine tomorrow is rehearsed and perfected.
11:41What am I saying?
11:42You're not in Corvallis.
11:44You're buying the wife early retirement and her lawyer a lakeboat.
11:47Use the pen.
11:48But it's funny because it's blood and I'm a vampire.
11:51Notaries in Oregon don't notarize in red ink.
11:53There's the band and there's the shell that protects the band from the world's envy.
11:59Our band shell was Christine Clare.
12:02She hired, fired, dictated and castrated with extreme prejudice.
12:08Try your best not to be you tonight.
12:09We want the car.
12:11No.
12:11We'll be good.
12:12Corvallis.
12:14What do you think?
12:15I'm not out.
12:17Me.
12:19All right, Slats, out to go.
12:21I'm going into my vampire dressing room, you know, a 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.
12:34He did it again.
12:36Fucking asshole.
12:37Did I mention that I was filming a documentary at the time?
12:40A bootless Aaron helmed by a first-time director.
12:43I've seen a rough cut.
12:45Truthful and daring, with less war and pity.
12:48Anyone see Yarda?
12:49Yarda.
12:49Skybird waters.
12:54Missing a contact again.
12:58How many drinks have you had?
12:59Uh, one in the 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 rearview mirror, that kind of thing.
13:16But niche celebrity is a hunter's handicap, and a sloppy night in Corvallis made urgent the need for a body
13:22double.
13:23A what?
13:23His 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.
13:35We 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.
13:44And every sad photograph uploaded to Reddito discord of Yarda eating up tuna melt by himself only confirmed, for most,
13:53what they already believed.
13:55Let's go!
13:55That I, the Vampire Lestat, was Daniel Molloy's fictitious creation.
14:01And the Vampire Lestat, the band, was fronted by a brick-laying 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!
14:29...most of humanity moved on from vampires, and rather quickly.
14:34Congratulations.
14:35Now go make friends.
14:38They lifted their heads from their algorithmic handmasters, uttered a collective,
14:42and swipe left.
14:45I am the Vampire Lestat.
14:48I am a god.
14:50Gods are not swiped.
14:54The Contessa!
14:56The useful idiot!
14:58Great show!
15:00You left before we started.
15:02Yeah, I figured Spotify some T-Rex and drag a little oneg from Dr. Fareedgood here.
15:06Same, Tiff.
15:08I am not here.
15:09Can we mic you?
15:10TC punched the boom again.
15:12Yeah.
15:13Okay.
15:19So, uh, you and Louie talking again?
15:23He 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.
15:40You've been alive and undead for 265 years.
15:43You witnessed the French Revolution firsthand, the electric light, penicillin, two world wars,
15:49the atomic bomb, the moon landing, the Berlin Wall...
15:53It's just not.
15:54What?
15:55He eats hot dogs for a living.
15:57He's extraordinary.
15:58I hope to meet him one day.
15:59Was there a question?
16:00Having 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.
16:14You get me to repeat myself soon enough.
16:16I am sure once you confront your transformational trauma.
16:19I don't have transformational trauma.
16:21That's why these movie producers hired you to animal boy, 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.
17:02No.
17:03And impossible because I had buried myself underground for the vast majority of the 1800s.
17:08I wrote what he told me.
17:10I don't have trauma.
17:11I love being a vampire.
17:13And can you drop the fledgling speak and spell?
17:22The 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.
17:39Drugstores locked up baby formula and shaving cream while Saks ate Barneys and someone told everyone that Lululemon was sexy.
17:51Facts are irrelevant.
17:55Fields are everything.
17:58And the value of human life, it has never been more arbitrary.
18:04David, Freddy, Prince Rogers, they're all gone.
18:10And the lights on Tay-Tay's ears had dimmed.
18:13Fire coming down the hill.
18:16Water moving in on Nantucket.
18:20No more safe spaces.
18:24It's my era now.
18:30Post Malone and Jelly Roll playing there tonight.
18:33$60,000 for a face tattoo palooza.
18:36You played an 800-seat venue.
18:38How is it your era?
18:43I'm vain and shallow and pure and empty seat.
18:45Ask me an easy one.
18:48Is it true your band was formed on Halloween?
18:52Halloween.
18:57You are listening to The Failures.
19:01Album 2, Side B.
19:26What do you think?
19:28It's nice.
19:30Nice?
19:31Yeah.
19:31It's nice.
19:32I don't see Beyoncé covering it, but it's nice.
19:37Nice is nothing.
19:38Oh, it's nice.
19:40Nice is a balloon.
19:40It's your back right music.
19:41A 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 want it to express.
19:49Don't be a bitch about it.
19:52You should come visit.
19:54I have a space above the bed in one of the guest rooms.
19:57I can't find a painting for her.
19:59Oh, a guest room.
20:00You want me to come and see your guest room?
20:03It's an awful one, neighborhood.
20:05Old money, young professionals.
20:08A smattering of Christe Troste von Bebe.
20:10Good eating.
20:14Same potholes, but no hurricanes.
20:18No witches.
20:19And 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 who call themselves, of all things, Satan.
20:47They call themselves, of all things, Satan?
20:50Satan's night out.
20:52Satan's night out?
20:53Out.
20:54Satan's night out.
20:55Okay.
20:56Makes sense.
20:57Louie, do you know someone called Daniel 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.
21:12Yeah.
21:13Gonna, but, you know?
21:14No, I don't know, Louie.
21:17Please, explain yourself.
21:18It's gonna be here and gone in a minute.
21:20No one reads anymore.
21:21The stade, he's like whatever.
21:24100%.
21:25But Armand, he's like mysterious.
21:28Yeah, there's layers.
21:29You're killing his roof at the Louvre?
21:31Hey, all the boomers were going to go to see the other good girl with his resting betrays?
21:37I skipped that and I would help you to see my beta boy in the corner of the room.
21:42I'll do it.
21:44You have to throw it in there.
21:46I'll kill it.
21:48I'll kill it.
21:49I'll kill it, bro.
21:49And I'll kill it, I'll kill it.
21:55The stade man.
21:57He's gonna burn the French people on the street.
21:59100%?
22:01How many wildsleeves are there?
22:03Do you want to become a member?
22:05There's 10% of it.
22:05No, thank you!
22:15I know what Infinitettimo means.
22:18It was raining.
22:20No!
22:21No!
22:22Never!
22:26Fucking!
22:27Lelio!
22:29Not a harlequin.
22:30Your sources are your sherpets.
22:33Your editor is your priest.
22:36Don't go to the end.
22:38Jesus out!
22:40Why must you complicate it?
22:44Winter Twins!
22:45Can you please?
22:47Hello?
22:50Hello?
22:52Oh, I want to put full-sized bars.
22:54Is that a tooth?
22:57Thank you!
23:00Your camera is not period correct.
23:03I have a peanut allergy.
23:04Well, allergies are delusional.
23:07Take the mounts.
23:08You'll take whatever I give you.
23:10Oh, I thought it looks like...
23:14Ah!
23:29Ah!
23:31Ah!
23:32Ah!
23:34Ah!
23:35Ah!
23:37Ah!
23:38Ah!
23:38Ah!
23:38Ah!
23:39Ah!
23:40Ah!
24:03Yeah, what the f***?
24:04G. Minor. Slash.
24:10This is in 1979. Bela Lugosi is not dead.
24:14You don't need to finger her for five bars.
24:17You're hurting her.
24:19Is that a neighbor?
24:22Apologies for the squire.
24:24My manatura will come in the morning with a replacement
24:27and a new front door.
24:31More frequent showers?
24:38What was the question again?
24:41Why music?
24:42Hey! Hey!
24:44Why now?
24:46Dude, that was sick.
24:48What are we doing here?
24:51We're doing a rewrite.
24:54So this whole tour is just some ironic reaction to my book.
24:59Who better to refute the book than the man who wrote the book?
25:05The songs of my story.
25:07Your documentary, The Liner Notes.
25:09Liner Notes?
25:10I won two pollicers.
25:11I'm taking this thing to Cannes.
25:14Okay?
25:14I'm going to be slapping Chris Rock and stroking my Oscar.
25:19The brat sings.
25:20The brat dies.
25:21The great laws are clear on this.
25:23I love the songs.
25:24More exposure for us.
25:26More risk for us.
25:27I don't have any problems in their songs.
25:29The song is for them, not for us.
25:32He sings for himself.
25:33Make more!
25:37Only 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.
25:44Unpained.
25:44I'm going to be the sheriff with him.
25:46If he comes to your people, kill him.
26:43I'm going to be the sheriff with him.
27:13I'm going to be the sheriff.
27:33I got a real life one
27:36The book didn't try to run
27:39I got a real life one
27:44Sucking on the sun
27:45No time for blowing up
27:47No time for blowing up
27:49No time for blaving out
27:50Your boat is blowing up
27:52I got a real life one
27:55No time for all my stepbrother
27:57Until you come
27:58Do do do do do
27:59Da da da da
28:01Don't wanna smash this line
28:02To be your morning star
28:04Don't wanna learn another
28:05Tick tock dance
28:07Wanna stay in bed
28:08Eating blind like a man
28:19The Beef House and the Twin Oaks Mall
28:21Order at the bar this time
28:22Take some photos with the fans
28:24I can find a bear for the dog
28:25Keep it scrolling
28:26Roll a fire emoji
28:27Call the sheep
28:33Hi, papi
28:34I've been a bad boy
28:36Deep down in my heart
28:37I kept a million dark secrets
28:39From the very start
28:40Can read a million more screams
28:43He's exactly what you think it means
28:46Do do do do
28:48Da da da da
28:49Don't wanna smash this line
28:50To be your morning star
28:52Don't wanna learn a fucking
28:54Tick tock dance
28:55Wanna stay in bed
28:57Eating blind like a rush
29:06Pick up the fucking tambourine
29:08From the Alps of Adequacy
29:10To the Canyon of Coup d'Etat
29:12Two 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 to 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
29:58Blood 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
30:21And the bonafide vampire emerged
30:23Center stage
30:25It was I who had been adequate
30:29It 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
30:42My bandmates began to feed
30:45And that sound
30:47I had been grinding them for
30:49Was finally unleashed
30:52A euphoric grattiness
30:54Spilling into the crowd
30:55Into their bodies
30:57Enveloping the venue
30:58I
31:19For
31:20To
31:21Help me!
31:24Help me!
31:26Help me!
31:27Help me!
31:29Help me!
31:30Help me!
31:38Which one of you is Odide before?
31:41What do you do?
31:43What did she take?
31:45Not her.
31:47Me.
31:48Get her on the ground.
31:50Her blood.
31:53Ecstasy.
31:55LSD.
31:56What the hell happened up there?
32:01What the hell were you doing?
32:03What the hell were you doing?
32:04What the hell were you doing?
32:04I should have quit right there and then.
32:06Would have been a lovely footnote to my life, the band.
32:10But the muses were just beginning.
32:14You done this to me?
32:16What are you doing?
32:19I lost myself on stage for a moment.
32:23Seems you still lost.
32:26This song's gonna kill you, you know that, don't you?
32:28I can't die.
32:30Everything dies.
32:32You die, I die.
32:34She dies.
32:36She dies.
32:38Oh, he dies bad.
32:42I'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.
32:54Just 265 years round and round.
32:58Why are you so sad?
33:00Thousands of fans loving you.
33:03I want millions.
33:04And that'll top off that heart of yours.
33:09Billions.
33:10Then why you always gotta make it so hard for someone to give it to you?
33:15Huh?
33:17Who told you that?
33:19Don't worry.
33:20They coming.
33:22Who's coming?
33:23Oh, they gonna tell you themselves.
33:27Who's coming?
33:29Great show, didn't I?
33:30Who?
33:34You are listening to The Failures.
33:37Album 5, Side B.
33:39If you take nothing else away from your exorbitant purchase, heed this advice.
33:45Never play two nights in Detroit.
33:49You'll wind up in Windsor with a broken orbital bone listening to transactional sax 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 and the band was asked
34:11to lend its celebrity status to the event.
34:13Don't tell me to pose.
34:15Fuck you!
34:16There was a red carpet, a pap line, and a vampire DJ of some renown 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.
34:40Huh.
34:41Come on!
34:41Come on!
34:41Come on!
34:42Come on!
34:45The band is inside with Dan and the VIP perch.
34:49I'm giving the paps my pussycat with no idea that I would be in a fang fight less than an
34:54hour later.
34:56No, no, no, no.
34:57Well, I'm getting ahead of myself again.
34:59I arrive fashionably late, of course.
35:02State your name through the camera.
35:04Baby Jinx.
35:05Okay, baby.
35:06Tell me, why do you like the vampire Lestat?
35:09Like I'm gonna be in the movie?
35:11Oh, you're in it now.
35:12I am feeling good.
35:16Surfing the sublime candy-flipped wave of the girl's blood.
35:19Hear him.
35:20Hear that voice.
35:22The girl is feeling good.
35:23Whoa.
35:24Riding the wonders of Dr. Fareed's blood transfusion quick pick-me-up cocktail.
35:29Who's this guy?
35:30Cause like, rock and roll, it's dying.
35:32I sat there, soaking up her praise, along with the band, still somehow blind to the vampiric mysteries of their
35:39front man.
35:40So what if the dead and buried past was now a fresh and eager groupie?
35:45It's rock and roll, you know?
35:47Have a nervous breakdown on stage.
35:49Chatted 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.
36:01And 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.
36:14And 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.
36:25He'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.
36:49I mean, these are the editorial wags of an insane person.
36:55Note to self-edit that out in the final version.
36:58Starting again.
36:58Starting 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.
37:18Detroit.
37:36The name's Tim.
37:38She's Russ.
37:39What's there?
37:40Russ.
37:42Pronounced.
37:44And yet it's respectful, like silence at a urinal.
37:49He's got a bit, uh, crossed.
37:52We were minding each other the other night.
37:54Russ here has a hot mouth.
37:57And a strong pelvic floor.
38:00I admire your aim.
38:02Hm.
38:03Long face sucks.
38:05Russ.
38:06Wanted to apologize.
38:08What?
38:09Black licorice?
38:11Why do I have to feel?
38:14Hm.
38:15I like those ones.
38:17Frankly, Mr. Shankly almost ruined the Queen's dead.
38:20I apologize.
38:21Accept 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?
38:31Come with us.
38:31We have a huge house out past Bradmore.
38:34Our own farm under the floorboards.
38:37Hm.
38:37Sure.
38:38What about tomorrow night?
38:40You're on the road tomorrow night.
38:42Yes.
38:43It was me being polite.
38:46No.
38:46That was you lying.
38:48Hm.
38:49Eco-friendly urinals.
38:51Good for the planet, so we're told.
38:53Good for vampires.
38:55Hm.
38:56We Chardonnay them.
39:02And then there's regional vampires.
39:06Always trying to make a name for themselves.
39:09I Chardonnay them, too.
39:11Obligations, I'm afraid.
39:13But please do send my most sincere bonjour to your bright maurice.
39:17Come on.
39:22Lilac.
39:37I have a blind spot when it comes to blood poisoning.
39:40I didn't think a vampire of my stature would know better.
39:43But then there's that old saying.
39:45You fool me once, shame on me.
39:47You fool me twice, MDMA and LSD are excellent drugs.
39:51Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, twirl, twirl, overshare.
39:57I saw your soul.
39:58I saw yours, too.
40:04Still feeling good.
40:06I went looking for my band, looking for sex, looking for anything that radiated the fun that I sang about
40:13in my song, Long Face.
40:21Long Face sucks.
40:24Long Face sucks.
40:24Does it suck?
40:26I wondered.
40:27Did you have a point?
40:28Did you have a point?
40:29And then I thought, ooh, they want a little scrap with a scalpel.
40:34No worries.
40:35I thought I had the Queen's blood in me.
40:36I could take 20 regionals at once with the Queen's blood.
40:41Where's the band, then?
40:44They called corporate bullshit.
40:47Went to party upstairs.
40:51So I'm scoring dick pills in Mogadishu for a UN peacekeeper.
40:56When in walks Stuart Copeland, wearing a kufi and a mouthful of ammo.
41:01So I thought about having sex with Christine, and then I thought, that's all the way upstairs.
41:06And then I thought, I'm the scalpel.
41:08What does the scalpel do between here and upstairs?
41:15Mr. 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 empiric desires.
41:30That 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, 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.
42:03Sex is fun, like the fun I sing about in Long Face, which, 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.
43:03Praise the wall, my dear.
43:05You'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 the drug blood in my sex legs and the distracting past my music had unleashed on me put me
43:40at a momentary disadvantage.
43:42I'm in charge of my work-life balance.
43:45Law 4.
43:46As if the Dulac Malloy memoir hadn't outed us all two years ago.
43:50As 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 ball.
44:04Collecting fledglings like they were the bubadoves.
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 man told the truth if you met him.
44:37What the fuck does that even mean?
44:39I heard there was an after party on the asshole floor.
44:43I like to think I was owed the reinforcements.
44:46Dan and the oddly familiar DJ.
44:48But 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?
45:28CCTV, eco flush toilets.
45:31IMF freezing your accounts because you have the blood of a patricidal queen inside you.
45:36Hello again.
45:38We 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.
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.
47:01grasping.cano
47:09crashes. Marty.
47:13Very kind
47:13of you to come. I got
47:20myself into something I can't get out of. Music's
47:26opened up to that's your bed, but 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 enjoys a little dirt in their sandwich
48:24So I serve it to you now
48:27How it felt then
48:31Fledgling
48:34Love her
48:37Mother
48:40Listen to tracks from the Vampire List ad wherever you stream music
48:46If you're still listening after the last hour, welcome back
48:50So bring on the music
48:54Do you kill people?
48:59Give me a million more screams
49:01Let's talk about your mother
49:03I've been a bad boy
49:06My maker 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
49:20You are my biographer
49:23The songs are not about you
49:30Shall we do it?
49:31Shall we scorch the mortal world?
49:37What do you think about the great conversion?
49:40Fucking stupid
49:47You are listening to The Failures
49:49Album 8
49:51Album 8, Side A
49:52At the top of our first episode
50:00We show a scene that is probably happening in real time
50:05After a bunch of catastrophic events have happened
50:13If you are hearing this now
50:15You must be a very privileged individual
50:24What makes this season special is that it's still the same characters that you love and know
50:28From the previous seasons
50:30We're just putting them in an entirely new world
50:32And as they do in the books
50:33And as we do in the show
50:34Like the world continues to crack open
50:37Larger and larger
50:42Just like the plot changes
50:44The whole attitude of the show changes
50:46And we move into this completely crazy rock and roll world
50:54He did it again
50:55A lot of the beauty and elegance that you would usually see him surrounded by is gone
51:01It feels really grungy and really rough and really raw
51:04And so it was a very fun environment to be putting him in
51:12Come to me
51:13Montreal
51:15I am he
51:16And he is me
51:18Louis and let's start a FaceTiming
51:19And you're probably going to get the sense that
51:20Louis is going to come over pretty soon
51:22They'll probably get back together
51:24Or like work it out
51:25Nice
51:25Yeah, it's nice
51:26One of the first conversations I had with
51:30Roland and Hannah and the writers was
51:32That I think Louis has watched
51:34Just a ton of YouTube
51:35And it's time off
51:37You know
51:38Like
51:39Cat videos
51:41Probably hungrily
51:44Louis, do you know someone called
51:46Daniel Malloy
51:47Well the staff finds out about the book
51:48And then that completely throws all those plans out of the window
51:52One of my favorite things about
51:53The second season of Interview with the Vampire is that
51:56I burned his laptop
51:57I didn't know he had it saved in the cloud
51:59Louis sets fire to a laptop to try and erase the book
52:04Um
52:05But
52:05Like 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
52:13Uh
52:14Yeah
52:14Gonna
52:15But
52:15You know
52:16No I don't know Louis
52:18Please explain yourself
52:20Both Louis and Lestat are not necessarily happy with the way that either of them were portrayed
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
52:32Lestat sees what he perceives are lies and distortions mistruths
52:38And he's like you know what I'm gonna set the record straight
52:40Was he there in 18th century Auvers?
52:43He said you told him that
52:44Did I threaten Claudia with rape on a train?
52:46No
52:47And impossible
52:48Daniel 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 a incorrigible need to find out what the truth is
53:02Why do you like the vampire Lestat?
53:04Si el llega a tu pueblo
53:06Matale
53:06I 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?
53:32Yeah, that's a good job
53:33I mean Black Lives Matter is just a great song
53:38It'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
53:48I got a real life one
53:51Particularly in episode one you do see that he's pushing and pushing
53:55To get this sort of moment of grace
53:58To be completely engulfed in the music
54:02But just as I was about to bridge the bridge
54:05With murder and mayhem
54:07Something quite surprising happened
54:10And that's what he gets from Black Licorice
54:12He does have his first breakdown of many
54:16Muses appeared in my mind and in the now around me
54:19He realizes that he was the one that was holding them back
54:23So then all of a sudden it cracks open
54:25And the real thing starts to appear
54:28And that sound I had been grinding them for was finally unleashed
54:33He started it to be
54:35I'm gonna go and tell my story
54:37I'm gonna do a rewrite
54:38This is my version of events
54:40And it's evolved into something different
54:42He's tapped into his past
54:55Which one of you's OD'd before?
55:08You're all thatyr I did
55:12And it's communist
55:14You're all thatyr
55:17You're all thatyr
55:19You're all thatyr
55:20You're all thatyr
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