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00:00:05Previously on The Vampire Lestat.
00:00:08Shall we do it?
00:00:09Shall we scorch the mortal world?
00:00:12Decimate.
00:00:13Together.
00:00:14For our eternity.
00:00:15Claudia, I look like her.
00:00:17You're the only one watching me like I'm Netflix.
00:00:19And a million guesses you would not guess.
00:00:21What happened to her?
00:00:22You can have a different life.
00:00:24What now, Daddy Lou?
00:00:25What about Greece?
00:00:26Hot Springs.
00:00:27Those who must be counted.
00:00:28What was that?
00:00:29I have the blood of Akasha.
00:00:31Sorry, what the fuck is Akasha?
00:00:33Is there an evil older than you?
00:00:35Your maker, Marius.
00:00:37My maker is dead.
00:00:38I've told you that already.
00:00:39Was Dubai bullshit?
00:00:41Me breaking you down.
00:00:42You knew everything the whole time.
00:00:44Loving Louis doesn't shut it off.
00:00:46It wasn't my love for Louis.
00:00:48Best.
00:00:49But it was love.
00:00:51You've been reaching them.
00:00:53Yes.
00:00:54They are lost and tired of enduring.
00:00:57Your music speaks to them.
00:00:59When's he going to make an album?
00:01:02When we are ready!
00:01:05You are listening to The Failures.
00:01:08Album 41.
00:01:09Side B.
00:01:20My first coffin had the likeness of my maker carved into its lid.
00:01:25Indecipherable Latin etched around the rim.
00:01:27And as I was an orphan vampire, my sleep within troubled.
00:01:33Again.
00:01:34I spent half of two decades in the silken embrace of a chestnut casket purchased for my French Quarter townhome.
00:01:41Before it was hurled off a balcony during one of Mr. Dulac's redirected moods.
00:01:48Again.
00:01:49What exactly are we going for here on take 17?
00:01:53We are going for...
00:01:56Again.
00:01:58Okay.
00:01:59I have slumbered in a variety of sarcophagi over the centuries, but if I had to choose
00:02:04a favorite, it would be the 7,000 square foot model I endured in the fall of 2025, while
00:02:11I recorded my posthumously produced album that Pitchfork would trash, and for which the
00:02:16world shouts in feeble attempts to explain away clearly attributable devastation, j'accuse.
00:02:23But I, Amel, digress.
00:02:27Again.
00:02:28Take 28.
00:02:30The deranged Wegmans produce manager, Beau Ridley, provided me the Frenchest of exits,
00:02:36and the good fortune of a second mass shooting with a higher body count occurring that same
00:02:40night made the faking of my death all the easier.
00:02:44Again.
00:02:46Take 46.
00:02:47An amnesia fund was created, and annual payments in perpetuity were issued to Yerda Klapik,
00:02:54a coroner, an obituary writer for the Czech Brodskyt Bravo, Di, Daniel, Farid, and two dozen
00:03:01other collaborators, including Christine Clare, who bought a retirement villa and wallpapered
00:03:06her basement sex dungeon with billable hour invoices.
00:03:15Again.
00:03:17Take 61.
00:03:19Take 61.
00:03:19Four!
00:03:19I would leave this coffin only once in four months.
00:03:23I would butcher the band for bloom and marbling, fleece the muses of their animus, and stop
00:03:29at nothing until an album worthy of the long, lurid life of Les Daudeliencours burned into
00:03:35elegiac audio formats.
00:03:37And when that was achieved, I would perform it once live in that now infamous concert.
00:03:43And, well...
00:03:45Well, we'll come to that later.
00:03:46But like Elvis or Andy Kaufman, rumors swirled of my survival, so...
00:03:52Sofia Gabriela de Lianco de Vecchia took over for Christine and whittled down my entourage
00:03:57to the essentials, which was her and the vampire Sam Barkley, whom she hired as a producer for
00:04:04three reasons.
00:04:05One, he had faked his death once before so he could be trusted to maintain the right.
00:04:09Two, he knew the board well enough from his own recordings.
00:04:12Big Bad Wolf vocals take one.
00:04:15And three, she knew I hated him for his part in Paris.
00:04:19And that would keep me lively.
00:04:21Woo!
00:04:24I'm.
00:04:25The.
00:04:26Big Bad Wolf.
00:04:30Nice.
00:04:31I must take one.
00:04:33Fabulous.
00:04:35Moving on.
00:04:36So, straighten your tie.
00:04:37Inflate your lips, be it facial or labial.
00:04:40We are going to trace my self-taught musicianship back to its weird and haunting origin.
00:04:46That's right.
00:04:47I'm finally going to talk about...
00:04:49The Queen.
00:04:58I'm a little killer.
00:05:00I'm a lonely one.
00:05:02I'm the trigger.невtryspide
00:05:04telling you to run. I'm the hero.
00:05:08I'm the last line.
00:05:10I'm the past and the
00:05:11future, the lives of the such as a coo. The and close. Where the
00:05:15rock and roll is.
00:05:16Where thecue tape wajÄ….
00:05:18Where the hope of me, love and the peace of the love
00:05:21Where this stupid rain
00:05:23Bang, bang
00:05:25Bang, bang
00:05:26Bang, bang
00:05:28Bang, bang
00:05:29I'll fall down
00:05:33Burn the ground
00:05:37I'll fall down
00:05:41Burn the
00:05:42Bang, bang
00:05:45Bang, bang
00:05:46Burn the ground
00:05:47Bang, bang
00:05:49Bang, bang
00:05:50Again
00:05:52Again
00:06:17A drum sounds like a drum
00:06:19That's because it's a drum
00:06:24The drums can't sound like a drum
00:06:27Okay
00:06:29What do you want it to sound like then?
00:06:33It has to sound like death approaching
00:06:36Oh my god
00:06:37Like life emerging
00:06:39Like, yeah, cool
00:06:40Like life and death
00:06:41Death, then life
00:06:42Okay
00:06:42A mirroring babe extracted from a mother's womb
00:06:45Okay
00:06:46I, uh
00:06:48I don't play metaphorical drums
00:06:50Try
00:06:51I can do faster
00:06:52Or harder
00:06:53Or shuffle
00:06:54Fill
00:06:55Blam
00:06:55Buzz roll
00:06:56Like a drum
00:06:56Is a drum
00:06:57A stick is a stick
00:06:58I don't know
00:06:58What to tell you
00:07:00It's because she's not a vampire
00:07:02It's because her deepest wound
00:07:04Is a man walking away
00:07:06Mid-ceremony
00:07:07Wow, cool
00:07:09Thank you
00:07:09Yoko Mirren
00:07:12Guests at my deathbed
00:07:16We are making an album about my life
00:07:19Which has been a three-century train wreck
00:07:22Your drums are my heart
00:07:25Your guitar is my hunger
00:07:28Your bass, the night terrors that follow me to coffee
00:07:35Was my guitar
00:07:37Yes, please interrupt my flow, Larry
00:07:40Your guitar
00:07:43Is my frailty
00:07:45Keep coloring inside the lines as you play
00:07:48And I'll nod a tempo mark to your life jacket
00:07:51Blair, Blair
00:07:52Come on
00:07:54We are here to pull the plug
00:07:57Have some reverence
00:08:01Kill me savagely
00:08:04Yep
00:08:05Sure
00:08:05Sam, let's jump to something else
00:08:07TC's not ready
00:08:08I'm fine
00:08:08Can I hear when I call out your name
00:08:10Vocal 12
00:08:11Copy that
00:08:13Blue eyes
00:08:16Eyes of blue
00:08:21Blue eyes
00:08:22Blue
00:08:24Blue
00:08:24Blue is the sea
00:08:28Dictus of violence
00:08:30Not the air
00:08:35No, he was there
00:08:36He was going to see
00:08:40Fish team from the wild
00:08:42But he was great
00:08:45What was his mother
00:08:47No
00:08:50No
00:08:51It was her
00:08:55Wanted to take care of her
00:08:56As you say
00:08:57No, he was there
00:08:59He was not
00:09:03Where am I?
00:09:04Thank you
00:09:05For pulling me from the earth
00:09:06Thank you
00:09:07For saving me from starvation
00:09:10Thank you for the warm blood shared
00:09:11Yes, you're welcome
00:09:13She told me where you were
00:09:14And there you were
00:09:15And there I was
00:09:15I brought you back
00:09:18And here we are
00:09:22Who are you?
00:09:23I am Marius de Romanos
00:09:27I am the keeper
00:09:29Was the keeper
00:09:30Now you are the keeper
00:09:33Marius?
00:09:34Oh, an echo
00:09:37Armand said that you were destroyed
00:09:40He was wrong
00:09:43Rotten boy
00:09:46She likes music
00:09:50Come
00:09:59Touch
00:10:01They are the mother and father to all of us
00:10:04And they must be kept
00:10:06This one
00:10:10Akasha
00:10:12The stone
00:10:13It's alive
00:10:15Very alive
00:10:18Very
00:10:19Much alive
00:10:27That's a very flattering offer
00:10:30Sadly, we were only planning to do one
00:10:33In Memoriam concert
00:10:38Okay
00:10:39Nice to talk
00:10:42Lawrence Welch wants the Vampire Lestat to open for her
00:10:45But he is two meters deep in Astrova
00:10:47No, she wants them
00:10:49After the album comes out
00:10:50Sorry, sorry
00:10:52Can we do that again?
00:10:53Can I get a little bit more vocal in my ears, please?
00:10:56In the ear, down the throat, past the colon
00:10:58Play it from your groin
00:11:00Larry, please stop thinking about Alex eating burgers and enjoying Glenlivet again
00:11:09More singer, Sam
00:11:11Hold the head shrinking
00:11:12From the top
00:11:13So
00:11:14You're gonna re-record his parts, then?
00:11:18Bury the rest behind the other three
00:11:25That's a deep grave
00:11:32Pretend I'm Armand
00:11:34With the telemasker
00:11:36Be the spineless mole once more
00:11:43You dig a hole in the burrow
00:11:47For Larry's guitar
00:11:51This is the job, Sam
00:11:54Fill the space with worldly things
00:11:58Go into the noise and dust of the city
00:12:01Bring back presents of the present
00:12:04This is the job
00:12:06I want a job
00:12:07I want to die
00:12:07But you didn't die
00:12:09Eighty years faced down with a seaman you killed
00:12:13Long enough to learn the depths of despair
00:12:16Do the job
00:12:17Learn to endure the depths of living
00:12:20Find yourself, Lustat
00:12:22And I have lost myself
00:12:25Bring me, Lustat
00:12:28Son of mouth
00:12:32From a tree of ours
00:12:33She chose you
00:12:37A great honor
00:12:38She likes music
00:12:40She loves music
00:12:42I don't know how to play
00:12:43Recall your fledgling
00:12:45Start with mimicry
00:12:47Don't interrupt
00:12:49Keep your hunts short
00:12:51A quick sip of blood
00:12:53Fast-fading warmth
00:12:54For the kill
00:12:55Then back to them
00:12:56Here
00:12:57What happened to him?
00:12:58Interruption
00:12:59If you must bring one back
00:13:01Burn them here
00:13:03Use the ashes
00:13:05To keep her thriving
00:13:09And no blood
00:13:11Our blood overwhelms
00:13:14Just the ash
00:13:15Play her music
00:13:20His name was Ayn Kiel
00:13:23How did
00:13:24We burned in the sun
00:13:25Yes
00:13:26Do you remember a night
00:13:27When your body burned under the moon?
00:13:30Yes
00:13:33Yes
00:13:34In Denmark
00:13:35December 19, 1802
00:13:37Finished the job transporting them from one crypt to another
00:13:42Two bottles of ginger flower gin
00:13:44In the veins of a celebratory meal
00:13:46I woke up next to her
00:13:47My body afired
00:13:50Hadn't finished the job
00:13:53Left him above in the sun
00:13:56My mother and I were countryside
00:13:59We ran ourselves into a bog
00:14:01Oh
00:14:01Took us months to recover
00:14:04Bogs
00:14:05Bogs are rare
00:14:09And now you know
00:14:13Why there are so few of us
00:14:16Eyes at us back ages
00:14:21We were all connected
00:14:24Through her
00:14:25She is
00:14:28She is the seed
00:14:34And if she burns
00:14:37We will burn
00:14:39And you are her keeper
00:14:41I don't like being alone
00:14:43Ice
00:14:44Trip
00:14:45Stumble
00:14:46Fumble
00:14:47I am not worthy of this job
00:14:48But do not
00:14:49Leave now
00:14:50The smoke becomes big
00:14:53And the big becomes the end
00:14:54The end will burn the tree of us
00:14:57You are
00:15:02Worthy
00:15:08Let her tell you that herself
00:15:16It will take time, Lestat
00:15:19She is not on our o'clock
00:15:21To me
00:15:22Not a word for 22 years
00:15:24When I first took the job
00:15:29Twenty
00:15:32Three
00:15:37You are listening to The Failures
00:15:39Album 46
00:15:40Side A
00:15:42It's called Rev Par
00:15:44Short for Revenue Per Available Room
00:15:46It's been trending down
00:15:47Especially in high-end luxury property
00:15:49Probably expanded too fast
00:15:51But
00:15:52There is panic now
00:15:53So
00:15:54I jumped on it
00:15:55I got two more
00:15:56One in Montreal
00:15:57One in Boston
00:16:00A place for us
00:16:01Yeah
00:16:02And them
00:16:03There is not enough of us
00:16:06To make it profitable
00:16:07But
00:16:08They can come watch
00:16:08If they want
00:16:09Yeah
00:16:10If you don't want to be watched
00:16:11Then there is a private room
00:16:13In the back
00:16:14Different menu
00:16:15In the back room
00:16:15A little drink
00:16:18I missed you
00:16:19Brother
00:16:22I missed you too
00:16:23Sis
00:16:26Both of you
00:16:27I wish we could stay longer
00:16:30But you know Claudia
00:16:32Always go go go
00:16:34Got into something
00:16:35Deep last night
00:16:36And it didn't clean good
00:16:38Oh
00:16:39What happened last night
00:16:41We went to the
00:16:43Hush and vodka room
00:16:44For karaoke
00:16:44When the understudies
00:16:46From Hoorah Rouge
00:16:47Walked in
00:16:48Something about
00:16:49Theater kids
00:16:50Makes me moody
00:16:52We pickled sateen
00:16:54Took it downtown
00:16:54To the cubby hole
00:16:55Sucked it dry
00:16:56And shoved it down
00:16:57The laundry chute
00:16:58She's good
00:16:59I actually played sateen
00:17:01On tour
00:17:02Two years ago
00:17:02No way
00:17:03Yeah
00:17:04This is really fun
00:17:08So
00:17:08We are here for
00:17:10Two nights
00:17:12And then
00:17:28I think the whole thing's a fake
00:17:30Total millivanili situation
00:17:32It's Larry
00:17:33Wrote all their songs
00:17:34I was a yardophile
00:17:35We knew that was his real name
00:17:37When I heard him sing
00:17:39It just hit me hard
00:17:41I'm not saying it's a good thing
00:17:42The guy got shot
00:17:43But I don't think
00:17:44He was even legally allowed
00:17:44To be here anyway
00:17:45I got to go to dinner
00:17:46With him once
00:17:47At a white castle
00:17:48After the Hartford show
00:17:49He was
00:17:52So fucking hot
00:17:53State your name
00:17:54For the camera
00:17:55No names
00:17:58Okay
00:17:59Random Manhattanite
00:18:00What do you make
00:18:01Of Lestat's exit
00:18:02He faked us
00:18:04High and dry
00:18:05When we needed him most
00:18:06All cheap and easy
00:18:08Nonfiction
00:18:08Ends in death
00:18:09Revolutions do not require
00:18:11A soundtrack
00:18:12They only need numbers
00:18:14And are you making more?
00:18:16Just one
00:18:17I had a fang in his neck
00:18:19I had a fang in his neck
00:18:19But I was interrupted
00:18:21Had to let him go
00:18:22Sure
00:18:23Happens
00:18:24I tracked him down
00:18:25Planned to finish the work
00:18:26But as I followed him
00:18:28I found him
00:18:31Fascinating
00:18:31I'd sit at the foot of his bed
00:18:34In derelict motel rooms
00:18:36As he slept off
00:18:37A fix
00:18:38Gradually
00:18:39Over the next
00:18:4052 years
00:18:42I was interceding
00:18:44On his behalf
00:18:45And when he blacked out
00:18:47Under an overpass
00:18:48Okay jesus
00:18:49A donkey about to roll over him
00:18:51In an rv
00:18:51Her wife alice at home
00:18:53Pregnant at the time
00:18:55Where the fuck are you dad
00:18:5652 years
00:18:58I wanted to tell you
00:18:59In philadelphia
00:19:00But I felt you were not
00:19:01In a space to receive it
00:19:02That was my gag reflex
00:19:04And I'm in love with you
00:19:05Prove it
00:19:09February 11
00:19:101990
00:19:11A reading at Amherst
00:19:13Massachusetts
00:19:13Four students attend
00:19:15Three are there
00:19:15For extra credit
00:19:16One is there
00:19:17For you to use
00:19:19Which you do
00:19:21Aggressively
00:19:21In your rental car
00:19:23In the garage
00:19:23Of your Northampton hotel
00:19:25I make sure the boy
00:19:26Makes it home
00:19:27And forgets
00:19:28The event
00:19:29May 15, 2002
00:19:30You sneak away
00:19:32From your book research
00:19:33To attend your daughter's
00:19:34Graduation at
00:19:35Rice University
00:19:36She
00:19:37Didn't ask you to come
00:19:39And mouths the words
00:19:40Fuck off
00:19:41When she sees you approach
00:19:43You respect her wishes
00:19:44And drive away in a daze
00:19:46But I
00:19:47Guide you to the
00:19:48Roscoe Chapel
00:19:49Where inside
00:19:51You unburden yourself
00:19:53And weep
00:19:56Uncontrollably
00:19:56The attending guard
00:19:58Asks you to step outside
00:19:59But I
00:20:00But he started coughing
00:20:01A coughing fit
00:20:02And you mourn
00:20:03Your daughter's hatred
00:20:04For the next
00:20:05Thirty minutes
00:20:08In peace
00:20:14August 5, 2025
00:20:15I don't plan to say
00:20:17Love
00:20:19Until I make profound amends
00:20:21For the harm I've caused you
00:20:51Yeah, sure
00:20:52With Lestat
00:20:54I signed a contract
00:20:55I'm finishing a job
00:20:57He cast you out
00:20:58And still you carry his water
00:20:59Let me help you finish
00:21:01That job
00:21:01Yeah
00:21:05Love between vampires
00:21:06Can be one thing
00:21:07Or it can be countless things
00:21:08I will never love
00:21:10Like Lestat
00:21:11And Sophia
00:21:14I want to be your maker
00:21:16Finish the thought, Armand
00:21:17I want to give you
00:21:18Half your life back
00:21:19Lestat and Sophia
00:21:20Help you walk in the sun
00:21:24I knew her as
00:21:27Gabriella
00:21:29She's Lestat's mother
00:21:31What?
00:21:33Lestat lays with his mother
00:21:39Did you say
00:21:40Walk in the sun?
00:21:53Why did you leave me?
00:21:56Two months ago
00:21:57No
00:21:57In New Orleans
00:22:00Both times
00:22:03I was happy you left
00:22:04Both times
00:22:09By the river
00:22:10When you were three
00:22:12And you
00:22:15Picked up
00:22:16The 9,000th stick
00:22:18That day
00:22:19And I kept having to say
00:22:22What does that stick do?
00:22:28You were a terrible mother
00:22:30I was
00:22:36In Spain
00:22:40I didn't need you anymore
00:22:43You don't need around you
00:22:45What does not need you anymore
00:22:48Breaks the circle
00:22:50Oh, great, rad
00:22:51That was cool
00:22:53Okay, let's do another
00:23:08You need me now
00:23:10I do
00:23:12Make more
00:23:13Make more
00:23:15Make more
00:23:17Make more
00:23:20Make more
00:23:21Make more
00:23:29Sounds awesome
00:23:30Does this satisfy the request?
00:23:33What does it mean
00:23:35Make more
00:23:36Like, make more what?
00:23:38I don't recall
00:23:40Sounded cool
00:23:45Elbowed my way
00:23:46Along the Minostraki
00:23:47There's a new shop
00:23:48Jewelry in the style
00:23:50Of the Byzantium
00:23:51And plates
00:23:52Embassed with the head of Zeus
00:23:53It's all in very poor taste
00:23:55But then the colonialists
00:23:57All have very poor taste
00:23:58So why not feed it back to them?
00:24:00The city is modernizing
00:24:01With such velocity
00:24:02It's crude houses
00:24:04Narrow streets
00:24:05Dead monuments
00:24:07And then electric trams
00:24:09And this
00:24:11I found this
00:24:15A liver action
00:24:17Ice cream
00:24:19Disher
00:24:19For ice cream
00:24:21The merchant
00:24:24Called it a scoop
00:24:25A scoop
00:24:30Scoop
00:24:31Scoop
00:24:37Scoop
00:24:56Scoop
00:24:57Scoop
00:24:57Scoop
00:24:57Scoop
00:25:07Scoop
00:25:09You have to put the p-p-scoop.
00:25:15So is this what time works on us?
00:25:17Will I bloodlessly bloom into a husk?
00:25:24If you were the first, then who made you?
00:25:28Why do we exist?
00:25:31Why do we endure at all?
00:25:34Why did she leave me?
00:25:42Am I evil?
00:25:48Is my evil sanctioned by nature?
00:25:53Or divine error?
00:25:57Where is God?
00:26:07Who dies and who stays alive?
00:26:10Who dies and who stays alive?
00:26:22Again, same place.
00:26:23One, two, three, four!
00:26:26Big Boss gets to have fun.
00:26:28If you're a boo-boo, then he doesn't want you.
00:26:31I hate his dick behind my back.
00:26:32Oh, don't you dare write down his history.
00:26:35If you know him, then you won almost more.
00:26:38Only the Big Boss gets to just die.
00:26:41Who dies and who stays alive?
00:26:52Why are you not going to die?
00:26:53Why are you not going to die?
00:26:53Because you're already dead.
00:26:54That's a great idea.
00:26:54That's a good idea.
00:26:55Are we ready?
00:26:56Are we ready?
00:26:56Are we ready?
00:26:57Are we ready?
00:26:58Bad idea.
00:26:59Ready.
00:27:03Time to stay alive!
00:27:12Again?
00:27:14Guys, who dies and who stays alive?
00:27:19No.
00:27:20Who stays alive?
00:27:21No!
00:27:34Moving on.
00:27:36You are listening to The Failures, album 49, side B.
00:27:42So how's it worked, you and him?
00:27:45How's it work?
00:27:46Where you at with Lemuel?
00:27:48Taking it slow.
00:27:51Holding hands for now.
00:27:54Keeping it loose.
00:27:59Sorry, you don't have to do the accent.
00:28:03Oh.
00:28:04Yeah, it's hard.
00:28:07So maybe just...
00:28:09Use my own voice?
00:28:10Yeah.
00:28:11So, start again?
00:28:14Yeah.
00:28:16What's it like with Lemuel?
00:28:20Simple things.
00:28:22Like, he asks me how I'm doing, and I say I'm good.
00:28:26And I ask him how he's doing, and he says, I'm hungry.
00:28:32Or, put down that iPad and give me some attention.
00:28:37He doesn't count time like it's a badge.
00:28:41I go nice, I don't know where he is, but I like it that way.
00:28:45Yeah.
00:28:47Taking it slow.
00:28:58What you writing in there?
00:29:02Uh...
00:29:03Yeah, just...
00:29:04This and this.
00:29:06All right, you two.
00:29:08Don't make me call the police.
00:29:10Take the boat back to the dock.
00:29:12We're gonna pretend this never...
00:29:17You're doing that to him?
00:29:19Yeah.
00:29:23Do it to me.
00:29:26Nah, let's just get out of nowhere.
00:29:28Come on, make me a stone.
00:29:37Oh, God, let's be alive.
00:30:04what did you uh let's get out of here i can't hold him for too long
00:30:26here they come nicky herbo the clarinet the announcement the reprise the harmonic shift
00:30:40oh foreshadowing yes yes move to the subdominant but not yet not yet not yet madame
00:30:49oh difficile you would have loved it competing strings father max the counterpoint is like
00:30:57trembling waterfalls it's like hungry peasants itching for a fight
00:31:08what do you think marius oh you're still on holiday i blame you armand's rotten guest
00:31:30perhaps if you finish the goddamn symphony it might have brought the choir in the final movement
00:31:34but um it's a signature blend of ottoman bicycle enthusiast and a swedish barrel maker from malmo
00:31:44who thought the acropolis looked drab
00:31:52then it became that kind of party here in cal you like to watch
00:32:00well don't look now but magnus his hand is wandering down my older brother's pants
00:32:07are you affronted by these intimacy's ankle my hand on your eve on the eve of a great century
00:32:28splash of red for the new year you have been exquisite in your years
00:32:47they split number eight on the middle practical limitations cutting through his romantic gestures
00:32:53you're supposed to watch the music armand i don't know why i invite you worthless
00:33:27i ruined your party
00:33:31huh
00:33:32it's 1900
00:33:35we made it
00:33:37come
00:33:47come
00:33:48come
00:33:53come
00:33:55come
00:33:56to me
00:34:09Oh, my God.
00:34:33How is it that they live with such harmony, the billions of stars, how is it that they live
00:34:50in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring
00:34:58war in their own minds?
00:35:03Something wrong, Mr. No.
00:35:12Yes.
00:35:15Thomas Aquinas.
00:35:24Why did you take me to the witch's place?
00:35:28What?
00:35:29I was asking Sophia.
00:35:33She's taken a call, I think.
00:35:35Check your phone.
00:35:36What?
00:35:37Your phone.
00:35:37It's buzzing.
00:35:44Again, same place.
00:35:48Again, same place.
00:35:51Ready.
00:35:53No.
00:35:55No.
00:35:56Tune it down a whole step.
00:35:59What?
00:36:01Tune it down a whole step, A minor.
00:36:04All right, let me, uh, let me work that out.
00:36:07Oh, beards to the floor, waiting for you to work it out, Larry.
00:36:13You tune it down a whole step.
00:36:19Everyone, tune it down a whole step.
00:36:23Lay it down without me, Sam.
00:36:25For our ears, not theirs.
00:36:33He's an asshole.
00:36:37And you suck.
00:36:39I suck.
00:36:40Everyone sucks.
00:36:42Singer sucks.
00:36:46Alive.
00:36:54Is this messing you up?
00:36:56I can stop.
00:36:57I can totally stop.
00:36:58Played these parts a million times, man.
00:36:59I'm just...
00:37:02Got that yips.
00:37:04Feel like I'm back in select, letting in grapefruits.
00:37:07You were a terrible boy.
00:37:09No, it's not good.
00:37:12It's your total shredder with an axe.
00:37:15And look, everything we've talked about.
00:37:18We're finally making an album that people might actually hear.
00:37:20And it's like...
00:37:23It's really good.
00:37:24It's good, yeah?
00:37:25Yeah.
00:37:27Put your mitts on.
00:37:29One take.
00:37:32And then rest.
00:37:37And then we played out scenes as if she had lived.
00:37:44It was alive.
00:37:47But now it's all blurred.
00:37:50And I called her Claudia.
00:37:53But she's herself, too, now, I think.
00:37:58And I know it's not real.
00:38:02But is it?
00:38:03Is it her?
00:38:04Come back to me?
00:38:05I can't tell and whole nights go by where I don't want to be able to tell.
00:38:12And I just, um...
00:38:15Is it her?
00:38:19Can you go in there and tell me if it's her?
00:38:31I was shut in the streets when you didn't call.
00:38:34Selfish bastard.
00:38:36Anybody spends five minutes with me, they know that.
00:38:39I'm...
00:38:40I'm...
00:38:40I'm...
00:38:41I know you're gonna bring it up.
00:38:42Don't have an answer for it.
00:38:46I'm in the middle of recording, man.
00:38:49Fuck it.
00:38:52Yes.
00:38:54Okay.
00:39:08Chicken and waffle special.
00:39:10I wouldn't order it, but I've got to say it.
00:39:13Get you a water.
00:39:21Yeah.
00:39:27The internet says you're dead.
00:39:29Then I must be.
00:39:34You know he has been there for an hour.
00:39:39Stop performing.
00:39:42What does he order when he comes here?
00:39:46I bring him anything about to go bad.
00:39:50What the cook's pushing.
00:39:51Then I'll have that.
00:39:55I'll have that.
00:39:57I'll have that.
00:40:29I had some debts to pay off, so is that beneficial? Going in both.
00:40:33And if he's paying you what I imagine he's paying you, why do you still work here?
00:40:36Well, if things with us get too freaky, I just pick up a shift or two to get some real,
00:40:41real back into my life.
00:40:49He's bringing you in this now. That's his next thing, is it?
00:40:54We're going to be a family. Uncle Les.
00:41:00Find someone else to swim home.
00:41:02He's the one coming around here doing all this with me.
00:41:04I just wait for the bell to ring, or the blowers of us, or the hundred texts a day.
00:41:09You're hurting him.
00:41:10Oh, I'm hurting Louie.
00:41:20I look like her. I look just like her, don't I?
00:41:24You're gay to suggest a hip injury that she never suffered, and she had a heart murmur. You don't.
00:41:31But I look like her.
00:41:32I look like her.
00:42:05It's not her, it's not anything like her.
00:42:11The eyes.
00:42:12Yeah, the eyes, no spark, right?
00:42:18Don't see this person again.
00:42:23And next time someone tries to murder me, pick up the phone.
00:43:13The day you were born, I was shaking like a leaf on an old oak tree.
00:43:28Then you stayed like a thorn, red roses raining down till they flooded me.
00:43:43Even when we parted ways, you never turn, never turn your gaze.
00:43:50And I can still, I can still hear you say, don't break that stair I'm burning in your mirror tonight.
00:44:04Oh, don't you dare call your name.
00:44:09It's the fear that I'm right.
00:44:12Don't you try to forget all the things you regret.
00:44:18In those stained glass, stained glass eyes.
00:44:41Had our fun like a child, just a couple of knives cutting through twenty years.
00:44:54No one ever gets to keep my smile.
00:44:59But you can peel it off me like one of your souvenirs.
00:45:10Even when we parted ways, you never turn, never turn your gaze.
00:45:18And I can still, I can still hear you say, don't break that stair I'm burning in your mirror tonight.
00:45:32Oh, don't you dare call it yearning.
00:45:37It's the fear that I'm right.
00:45:39Don't you try to forget all the things you regret.
00:45:46Like the ashes you spread.
00:45:50Till you had nothing left.
00:45:54Of those stained glass.
00:45:59Stained glass eyes.
00:46:13This doesn't sound like us.
00:46:16How's it fit with Long Face?
00:46:19It doesn't.
00:46:20Long Face is not going on the album.
00:46:22It's, uh, it's our calling card.
00:46:25And if that's the new sound, then neither is Why Do I Have to Feel or Big Bad Wolf or...
00:46:30And you're just gonna, what, re-record?
00:46:32The entire album, instruments play like metaphors.
00:46:36Well, yeah, it's a beauty, so...
00:46:39Um, you shouldn't fire them.
00:46:41That would be a mistake.
00:46:43They can do it.
00:46:46But I can't.
00:46:47So, um, thank you for the ride.
00:46:49Best two years of my life.
00:46:50And, uh, I quit.
00:46:52Larry.
00:46:57So we're just, we're just gonna, we're just gonna record the whole album again.
00:47:01Not you.
00:47:02It's for our ears.
00:47:03Yeah, is it?
00:47:04You need to be a vampire to hear it, TC.
00:47:09Yeah.
00:47:09Yeah.
00:47:12You need the blood.
00:47:16Read our minds.
00:47:17No.
00:47:20We want it.
00:47:21Mm-hmm.
00:47:21I've come to enjoy you all very much, but let me tell you something about this blood.
00:47:26Let me save you from myself.
00:47:35I was on the shores of Spain when my great love left me.
00:47:43I let myself be buried in a stranger's grave, until a queen took pity and summoned me to service.
00:47:54Oh.
00:47:55Oh.
00:47:56Oh!
00:47:57She did hold him in a strong arms.
00:48:00In her arms, that are open.
00:48:02In her arms, that are wide.
00:48:04That are open.
00:48:04That are always.
00:48:06That must always be open.
00:48:07And, in the old ways, and in the old laws, this was arranged.
00:48:10All this was arranged.
00:48:12And, who arranged it?
00:48:13Amel.
00:48:14Oh.
00:48:15What have you done?
00:48:16You drank over!
00:48:18You drank of me.
00:48:19I drank of her.
00:48:20That is what it means to be loved.
00:48:21That's why she died in the midst of awful.
00:48:24I'm back.
00:48:25It is always a matter. It is often she...
00:48:27You packed the blood! She said I drink!
00:48:29And I drink and I have it up here for three days!
00:48:33...into the land where the dead are kept, where the dead are worshipped.
00:48:36She was harmless now.
00:48:37For centuries!
00:48:39It will take me years to get her back on it!
00:48:44Why the day is without an hour and what am I for?
00:48:47What is this for?
00:48:49What should the men do if not to our concern?
00:48:57Stairs!
00:48:59The stairs!
00:49:00My mother!
00:49:03And why are they throwing stones?
00:49:05And why is she curled on the ground?
00:49:07And why is it wound around her throat?
00:49:09It already owns you.
00:49:10Make madness or sunlight relieve you of the bird!
00:49:14And in my eyes is desire.
00:49:16And why is it desire?
00:49:18And why does friends tell her what God has said?
00:49:22And why amels in their mouths?
00:49:23And why must my voice be smooth?
00:49:25And why must I sing so low?
00:49:27And why is she kept?
00:49:28Why must she be kept?
00:49:30And why in this place must she be kept?
00:49:32And what does it mean if you are not asked?
00:49:34And what does it mean if you are not answered?
00:49:36And what is it to see?
00:49:38And to know but to throw you have not seen?
00:49:40You have not known.
00:49:41And why is her tongue cut out?
00:49:44And why is her death prolonged?
00:49:46And when will it stop?
00:49:48And who will stop it?
00:49:50And why must they, must we, must I, must he, must they at the millennia unfold?
00:49:56Why the girl curled?
00:49:58Why her eyes lowered?
00:49:59Why on the side of the road?
00:50:01Why limp in the straw?
00:50:03I am the girl!
00:50:04I am the god!
00:50:06I am the voice!
00:50:07I am the saw!
00:50:08I am the nut!
00:50:10And I can answer!
00:50:11I can arrange it!
00:50:13I can say rise!
00:50:14And I can say speak!
00:50:16And I am her!
00:50:17And I am she!
00:50:18And I, I, I, I am the answer!
00:50:31This is the metal sun inside my veins.
00:50:35This is the hell I unleash on all those near me.
00:50:40It cannot be restrained in the moment or tamed over time.
00:50:45It will drag you into depravity.
00:50:48And reward you with regret.
00:50:55So follow Larry to a better life.
00:51:06We're finishing the album.
00:51:15We're a fucking band!
00:51:20Make more.
00:51:38Larry?
00:51:39Larry Slater?
00:51:41Lead guitar? TVL?
00:51:43Uh, Jeff.
00:51:45Oh my god!
00:51:45Oh my god!
00:51:46Oh my god, hey!
00:51:47I, I'm sorry.
00:51:48I'm so sorry about what happened to him.
00:51:51Oh, yeah.
00:51:52Yeah, I, I play those videos all the time.
00:51:55The concert stuff, not the shooting.
00:51:57I mean, uh, so what are you doing in New York with your guitar?
00:52:05I can't really say.
00:52:06Oh my fucking god, it's true, isn't it?
00:52:08You guys are making the album!
00:52:10I saw it online.
00:52:11You got his vocals!
00:52:14And I just think it's wonderful!
00:52:26I think it's wonderful because the world really needs to hear how beautiful he was, you know what I mean?
00:52:31Actually, I'm, I'm not in the band anymore.
00:52:34Oh.
00:52:34I don't even know if there is a band anymore.
00:52:36They're like laying down a record and I'm just like, fucking tired.
00:52:41So.
00:52:41Oh.
00:52:43Oh my god, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
00:52:45I, you do look tired.
00:52:47I'll, uh, leave you alone.
00:52:48A terrible goalie.
00:52:50With a total shredder with an axe.
00:52:54I'm sorry, what?
00:52:58She's right, you do look tired.
00:53:00You should probably get some rest.
00:53:04Do I know you?
00:53:05You should try!
00:53:12Rest?
00:53:13Rest.
00:53:19Rest.
00:53:28Oh, my God!
00:53:30Oh, my God!
00:53:32Oh, my God!
00:53:57Listen to tracks from the Vampire List app
00:54:00Wherever you stream music
00:54:03Taylor and Travis
00:54:05Is that the date yet?
00:54:08Be damned, be cabbage
00:54:11When the girls are here
00:54:14You reached out to the worst kind of witch
00:54:17She is not like the rest
00:54:20Our man's in town
00:54:22He's going to try to disrupt things
00:54:2550,000 of us out in the woods together
00:54:27We can go home
00:54:34Guests at my deathbed
00:54:36We are making an album about my life
00:54:39Which has been a three century train wreck
00:54:42We are here to pull the plug
00:54:44Have some reverence
00:54:46Kill me savagely
00:54:55I would leave this coffin only once in four months
00:54:58I would butcher the band for bloom and marbling
00:55:01And stop at nothing
00:55:03Until an album worthy of the long lurid life
00:55:06Of Les Dades Aliencourt
00:55:07Burned into elegiac audio formats
00:55:10So episode five they're recording the album
00:55:12Big Bad Wolf vocals take one
00:55:15His mother comes back to him and says
00:55:17Hey why don't you be this other thing
00:55:19She needs him to create a song
00:55:21That will speak to all the vampires lurking in all the shadows of the world
00:55:28And so he makes the album to be this thing for her
00:55:31But of course he's really fastidious and obsessive artist
00:55:35So you can't really help but take complete control over it and get lost in the creative process
00:55:40But throughout that process
00:55:41He's niggled by these memories that he can't quite reconcile with
00:55:46Why did she take me to the burning of these teenage girls when I was a child?
00:55:52Why did she touch me in those inappropriate places when I was, you know, wounded?
00:55:57You were a terrible mother
00:55:59I won't
00:56:00In the moment they definitely do find it hard to stop their complicated relationship
00:56:09You need me now
00:56:11I do
00:56:18I missed you, brother
00:56:20I missed you too, sis
00:56:24Both of you
00:56:25This show is really funny, intentionally so
00:56:28I wish we could stay longer
00:56:30But you know Claudia
00:56:32Always go, go, go
00:56:34There's lots of very dark humour
00:56:36But also kind of like silly, fun humour
00:56:40And then off-off Broadway, Madeleine is definitely very funny
00:56:43Took a downtown to the cubby hall
00:56:45Sucked a dry in a ganse of autumn
00:56:46Shove it down the laundry chute
00:56:48She's good
00:56:48Beautifully played
00:56:50But it's also very twisted
00:56:51It was so weird
00:56:53But like so comedically written
00:56:55That it was hard to not have fun with it
00:56:58Something about theatre kids makes me moody
00:57:00And I think Louis being on the other side of the table
00:57:03Just made it that bit weird
00:57:06I think at one point I was literally sitting in my chair like
00:57:10And I was off camera
00:57:11And I was like sitting there like
00:57:14Make it stop
00:57:17I know Jacob
00:57:18It was very
00:57:19I think it was uncomfortable for everybody
00:57:21Because obviously we know the circumstance behind it
00:57:24But for Regina, it's just another day on the job
00:57:27Holding hands for now
00:57:29Um
00:57:31Sorry, you don't have to do the accent
00:57:34Oh, did you?
00:57:35Let's just get out of here
00:57:45Can you go in there
00:57:48And tell me
00:57:50If it's her
00:57:52I was shut in the streets
00:57:54When you didn't call
00:57:56Selfish bastard
00:57:57There's a lot of things that keep haunting Lestat
00:57:59And then
00:58:00He meets
00:58:01Regina
00:58:03I look like her
00:58:04I look just like her, don't I?
00:58:07And that instigates a change in his music
00:58:10The day you were born
00:58:14I was shaking like a leaf
00:58:17On an old oak tree
00:58:22That means he comes back
00:58:24And he writes a song about her
00:58:25That is more
00:58:28Poppy
00:58:28And more truthful
00:58:31And more paid back
00:58:32And more honest
00:58:33Than he's ever done before
00:58:35And he presents that to the band
00:58:36And says
00:58:36I think this is the sound
00:58:37I think this is what we're doing now
00:58:39So follow Larry to a better life
00:58:43We're finishing the album
00:58:44He no longer is trying to present himself
00:58:49And he's just being himself with his music
00:58:51Don't break that stair
00:58:55I'm burning
00:58:57In your mirror tonight
00:59:00Oh, don't you dare call it yearning
00:59:05It's the fear that I'm right
00:59:07Don't you try to forget
00:59:11All the things you regret
00:59:15Like the ashes you spread
00:59:18Till you had nothing left
00:59:22Of those stones
00:59:24I think if he wrote Stained Glass Eyes
00:59:28At the very start of the tour
00:59:30And he played it to himself
00:59:31I don't think he would have taken it seriously
00:59:33But I think he's had to get to this point
00:59:35Where he could write something very emotional
00:59:38And very raw
00:59:39To realize that his music
00:59:42Is a personal conduit
00:59:44Of his expression
00:59:45As an individual
00:59:46And you're just going to let Rerecord
00:59:47The entire album
00:59:48Instruments play like metaphors
00:59:56We're about to shoot Akasha
00:59:57And in fact
00:59:58Our very last day
01:00:00And so
01:00:01A high anticipation
01:00:02Of just looking at her
01:00:05As Akasha
01:00:06And how she's going to play it
01:00:07We're rolling
01:00:08Whenever you're ready
01:00:10God
01:00:13It's a wonderful set
01:00:14It's kind of like this
01:00:16Underground storage unit
01:00:18With all of these pieces of history
01:00:20That Marius has collected
01:00:21To try and keep her entertained
01:00:23It's been very fun to film in
01:00:26As a set
01:00:27And it's been a remarkable setting
01:00:30For the introduction of Akasha
01:00:31To the series
01:00:32It's alive
01:00:33Very alive
01:00:34This season played by Sheila Thiem
01:00:37Who is an extraordinary actor
01:00:39She is the seed
01:00:41And you are her keeper
01:00:43Marius is there
01:00:44Trying to keep her controlled
01:00:46And Lestat being Lestat
01:00:48Is much more about
01:00:49Like let's
01:00:50Let's push and see what happens
01:00:51He's also very lonely
01:00:53A liver action
01:00:54Ice cream dishwasher
01:00:56Anne Rice has Akasha
01:00:58Awoken by Lestat
01:01:00But we actually have Lestat
01:01:01Stay within her crypt
01:01:03For you know
01:01:04Ten years
01:01:05In the book
01:01:06He's there for a couple of days
01:01:07He puts on concerts for her
01:01:12Where is God?
01:01:15And she wakes up
01:01:23And then he's got the blood of Akasha in him
01:01:25And then the way that manifests in him
01:01:27Is obviously he's like flying
01:01:28And I was up on that rig
01:01:30Fall in there
01:01:32Gonna give you some articulation
01:01:35Yeah great
01:01:35It was a really fun thing to do actually
01:01:39That's so real
01:01:40Oh my god
01:01:40I told you man
01:01:41Because I was upside down
01:01:43And you know
01:01:43I was talking to Ron
01:01:44He was like
01:01:44What does it feel like
01:01:45To have the blood of Akasha
01:01:46You know cursing through you
01:01:47So we were kind of like
01:01:48Doing these jolting movements
01:01:49And then they dropped me
01:01:50Which was like a proper
01:01:51Ten foot free fall
01:01:53Wow
01:01:53That's so much fun
01:01:55What is this for?
01:01:57And what should the men do with it
01:01:59If not to answer?
01:02:03Sheila is phenomenal
01:02:05And extraordinary as Akasha
01:02:07And I, I, I, I
01:02:10Am the answer!
01:02:14Roar!
01:02:15Roar!
01:02:16Roar!
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