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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 movements.
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.
01:18Nicolas Delafonte, a violinist.
01:24You left him there so he could destroy it.
01:31Yes.
01:32You saved Louis.
01:33Banishment.
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.
02:01No 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.
02:06We'll just need about 50 more years of practice.
02:23I'm a little killer.
02:25I'm a lonely one.
02:28I'm a children of your spine.
02:30Telling you to run.
02:31I'm a little shadow.
02:33I'm a last line.
02:35I'm the best of the future.
02:37The last of the sutures are cool and dead.
02:39Where the rock and roll is.
02:41Where they get tame.
02:44Where the heart of me love and the face of the mud.
02:46Where they're stupid, right?
02:49Baby.
02:50Baby.
02:52Baby.
02:54I'll fall down.
02:58Burn the ground.
03:02I'll fall down.
03:06Burn the ground.
03:09Bum, Bum, Bum, Bum, Bum, Bum, Bum, Bum.
03:15Bum, Bum, Bum, Bum, Bum, Bum, Bum.
03:17Hmm.
03:18C'est cool.
03:33I don't think I would.
03:51The House wishes to extend its gratitude to the gathering for your compliance with the unorthodox prerequisites of tonight's event.
04:00Furthermore, we wish to reiterate that the anonymity that you have granted us will be given to you individually as
04:07well as to any institutions that you are representing.
04:11Stating the obvious, we are not here and neither are you.
04:18Lot one of two, the master recordings of the complete works of the Vampire Lestat de Leoncore, which includes his
04:262025 self-titled album, The Vampire Lestat,
04:30additional session tracks that were discarded in the final assemblage of the album, original handwritten scores and private recordings by
04:37the 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 1yuan. Do I hear 1yuan?
05:10B-U-N.
05:13Sold. To the gentlewoman. Third row. Good spirit.
05:19Lot number two. A music box. Curated by the Vampire Lestat himself. A 1978 Fernando Marchani Corinto sideboard.
05:31Inside a Rosner and Zun Mott turntable with Bialab 90 speakers. Two temperature controlled wine cabinets.
05:41One holding a bottle of Niport 1863 port wine. The other with a magnum of blood from the curator himself.
05:49The upper level. A 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 an omniscient history of the events of the 2025
06:08album in supporting tour
06:10and the consequential global catastrophes that sprung from said Alba Mentor as narrated by the Vampire Lestat himself.
06:19The collection has been named The Failures. We will begin the bidding at 50 million yuan.
06:29If you are hearing this now, you must be a very privileged individual.
06:34You could have fed a small nation for years while they paved over the rubble.
06:39You bought my box instead. I like you already.
06:44So let's begin the medal. For I could and should have ended it there. My tour. My hedonistic pursuit of
06:51extremity. All 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. A good nation was making itself great again. Again.
07:27And every vampire, those converting and those enduring, well, they were doing exactly as they pleased.
07:37The End
07:38The End
07:39The End
07:40The End
07:42The End
07:42The End
07:43The End
08:04Oh, oh, oh, oh.
08:14Ooh, ooh, ooh, ah, ah.
08:21Grab a long face, my pretty baby.
08:25I've got long face come up reason.
08:29Remember those things that doesn't faze me?
08:36I'm an actor in my makeup.
08:40I get fatter when we break her.
08:45What does it matter who I take her?
08:49Naturally, I made the band after myself.
08:53And the four that backed me played their parts as instructed.
08:56There was Larry, the front man made sideman, choking his guitar neck nightly, wishing it was mine.
09:03Brother Alex, the more talented seedling, straight-edged in half the fun.
09:09Salamander, bassist, dumb, shockingly dumb.
09:14And TC, the abandoned bride of a dozen should have died in art school bands, keeping us all in the
09:20dirty pocket.
09:21We dropped songs on the streams and booked intimate venues to 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, in the inn of the stooges and the stripes, thirty performances notched and already resting
09:41on the alps of adequacy.
09:42Unacceptable.
09:45Un piano!
09:47And your forte.
09:49Your allegro.
09:51A mandante.
09:53We've a letter.
09:55Prostitue!
10:00Ooh!
10:03Ah!
10:07Ah!
10:08Hello. Welcome to Detroit.
10:12Lovely city.
10:13Your song sucks.
10:14Thank you for the feedback.
11:08Oh yeah! Oh!
11:38The tambourine tomorrow is rehearsed and perfected.
11:41What am I saying?
11:42Your night in Corvallis.
11:44Brian the wife, early retirement, and her lawyer, Lake Boat.
11:47Use the pen.
11:48But it's funny because it's blood and I'm a...
11:50Fire.
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.
12:10We want the car.
12:11No.
12:11We'll be good.
12:12Corvallis.
12:14What do you think?
12:15I'm not!
12:16I'm not!
12:16I'm not!
12:17I'm not!
12:17I'm not!
12:18I'm not!
12:18I'm not!
12:18I'm not!
12:18I'm not!
12:19I'm not!
12:24I'm not!
12:31I'm not!
12:36I'm not!
12:37Did I mention that I was filming a documentary at the time?
12:40A bootless errand helmed by a first-time director.
12:43I've seen a rough cut.
12:45Truthful and daring, with less war and pity.
12:48Anyone see Yarda?
12:49Yarda!
12:50Sky with waters!
12:53Where?
12:54Missing a contact again.
12:56Oh.
12:58How many drinks have you had?
12:59Uh, one and a half.
13:01Drive to the Burbs, sit by yourself in a booth at Applebee's, order the usual.
13:04Big tip, meet us back in the city.
13:07Now you'd think a 54-city rock tour would be a wonderful cover for a blood drinker.
13:11Hide your keel up on the bus, wave to the morgue reports in the rearview mirror, that
13:16kind of thing.
13:16But niche celebrity is a hunter's handicap, and a sloppy night in Corvallis made urgent
13:21the need for a body double.
13:24His name was Yarda Klapek, and the Albanian gangsters Christine hired to find my doppelganger
13:29found him working construction in the Czech Republic.
13:32Three inches shorter than your velvet mouth narrator, we fit him for lifts, blue eye contacts,
13:38and a wig.
13:38And 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
13:50only confirmed, for most, what they already believed.
13:55That I, the Vampire Lestat, was Daniel Malloy's fictitious creation.
14:00And the Vampire Lestat the band was fronted by a bricklaying karaoke fanatic from Ostrova.
14:06Nothing but a desperate cash grab at the end of a chuggy vampire fad.
14:10And I've only myself to blame for the timing, having locked us in an attic for a year plus
14:15perfecting our sound, a sound I hope would counter Mr. Dulac's portrayal of me as a mayonnaise
14:20villain with sociopathic tendencies.
14:24I'll beside the point, because the point was, the point forever is,
14:28I know you're real.
14:29Most of humanity moved on from vampires, and rather quickly.
14:34Congratulations.
14:35Now go make friends.
14:38They lifted their heads from their algorithmic handmasters, uttered a collective, huh, and
14:43swipe left.
14:45I am the Vampire Lestat.
14:48I am a god.
14:51Gods are not swiped.
14:54The Contessa.
14:56The useful idiot.
14:58Great show.
15:00You left before we started.
15:02Yeah, I figured.
15:03Spotify some T-Rex and drag a little oneg from Dr. Fareedgood here.
15:06Same, Jeff.
15:07I am not here.
15:09Can we mic you?
15:10TC punch the boom again.
15:12Yeah.
15:13Okay.
15:19So, uh, you and Louie talking again?
15:23He doesn't return my texts, or my telepathy.
15:28I hear he's back in the States.
15:32We good?
15:33We're good.
15:34It's late.
15:36Okay.
15:40You've been alive and undead for 265 years.
15:43You witnessed the French Revolution first-hand, the electric light, penicillin, two world
15:49wars, the atomic bomb, the moon landing, the Berlin Wall.
15:53Joey Chestnut.
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?
15:59Having accumulated profound wisdom and experience through the dark gift of immortality, why
16:05have you chosen to waste at singing music no one wants to hear in pants no one should
16:10ever squeeze into?
16:11You ask this question every night.
16:13And I get a different answer every night.
16:14You get me to repeat myself soon enough.
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, Danny Malloy, vampire slayer.
16:26They said you requested me.
16:28Absurd.
16:29Oh, as absurd as a documentary about a rock band posing as vampires, fronted by an actual vampire.
16:36Directed by a vampire passing as a human.
16:39You tell him for me.
16:41Is it true you were a stutterer as a child?
16:44Louie said you were.
16:51Was he there in 18th century Auvers?
16:53He said you told him that.
16:54Did I threaten Claudia with rape on a train?
16:57Was I in the room when Donizetti wrote Don Pasquale?
17:01No.
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.
17:31Laborers stand in their doorways hitting their pipes as their children have pipe in their drained empty swimming pools.
17:40Drugstores locked up baby formula and shaving cream while Saks ate Barneys and someone told everyone that Lululemon was sexy.
17:50Facts are irrelevant.
17:55Facts are irrelevant.
17:56Fields are everything.
17:58And the value of human life, it has never been more arbitrary.
18:04David.
18:06David.
18:07Prince Rogers.
18:08They're all gone.
18:10And the lights on Tay Tay's ears have dimmed.
18:13Fire coming down the hill.
18:16Water moving in on Nantucket.
18:20No more safe spaces.
18:24It's my era.
18:26Now.
18:30Host Malone and Jelly Roll playing there tonight.
18:3360,000 for a face tattoo Palooza.
18:36You played an 800 seat venue.
18:38How is it your era?
18:41Hmm.
18:43I'm vain and shallow and pure an empty seat.
18:45Ask me an easy one.
18:48Is it true your band was formed on Halloween?
18:57You are listening to The Failures.
19:01Album 2, Side B.
19:26What do you think?
19:28It's nice.
19:30Nice?
19:31Yeah.
19:31It's nice.
19:32I don't see Beyonce covering it.
19:34But it's nice.
19:37Nice is nothing.
19:39It's nice.
19:40Nice is a balloon.
19:41It's your back writing music.
19:41A flower box is nice.
19:43It's nice.
19:43You got yourself a nice place.
19:45It's a nice word.
19:47And it says everything I wanted to express.
19:49Don't be a bitch about it.
19:50Hm.
19:52You should come visit.
19:54Hm.
19:54I have a space above the bed in one of the guest rooms.
19:57I can't find a painting for.
19:59Oh, a guest room?
20:01You want me to come and see your guest room?
20:03It's an affluent neighborhood.
20:05Old money.
20:07Young professionals.
20:08A smattering of Christ the Trust from Bebe.
20:10Good eating.
20:14Same potholes.
20:15But no hurricanes.
20:18No witches.
20:20Everyone 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 Malloy?
21:02Uh...
21:03I burned his laptop!
21:04I didn't know he had it saved in the cloud.
21:06I only found out it was coming out a month ago.
21:08You've known for a month, and you talk about me and it to a mortal?
21:11Well, yeah.
21:12Uh, yeah.
21:13Gonna...
21:14You know?
21:14No, I don't know, Louie.
21:16Please, explain yourself.
21:18It's gonna be here and gone in a minute.
21:20No one reads anymore.
21:21The stats, it's like whatever.
21:24100%.
21:25But Armand, it's kind of mysterious.
21:28Yeah.
21:28There's layers.
21:29You've killed your roof at the Louvre.
21:31And all the bloomers did the field to go see the other good girl with her resting buttress.
21:37I skipped that and I would help you to see my beta boy in the corner of the room.
21:42I would do it.
21:44You have to throw it.
21:46I would kill it.
21:48I would kill it.
21:49I would kill it.
21:49I would kill it.
21:50I would kill it.
21:55I would kill it.
21:56I would kill it.
21:57I would kill it.
21:58I would kill it.
21:58I would kill it.
21:59I would kill it.
21:59I would kill it.
22:00100%.
22:00How 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 infinitesimal means.
22:18It was raining.
22:20No!
22:21No!
22:22No!
22:26Faaaking!
22:28Leia!
22:29I'm not a harlequin.
22:30Your sources are your sherpets.
22:33Your editor is your priest.
22:36Don't go to the F.
22:38Jesus out!
22:39Why must you complicate it?
22:41Why must you complicate it?
22:42Mmm!
22:43We've got two weeks!
22:45Can you please?
22:47Can you please?
22:48Hello?
22:51Hello?
22:52Oh!
22:52I wanted the full-size bar.
22:54Is that it?
22:55Is that it too?
22:57Thank you!
22:58Oh!
23:00Your camera is not period correct.
23:03I have a peanut allergy.
23:05Well, allergies are delusional.
23:07Take the mounts.
23:08You'll take whatever I give you.
23:10I can't do it!
23:11What's the name?
23:25Oh!
23:30I can't do it!
23:34I can't do it!
23:35I can't do it!
23:36What?
23:37I can't do it!
23:39Oh!
24:03What the fuck?
24:05G, minor, slash, out!
24:11This is in 1979.
24:12Bela Lugosi is not dead.
24:14You don't need to finger her for five bars.
24:18You're hurting her.
24:20Is that her neighbor?
24:22Apologies for the squire.
24:24My man Atura will come in the morning with 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.
24:54So this whole tour is just some ironic reaction to my book.
25:00Who better to refute the book than the man who wrote the book?
25:05The songs are my story.
25:07Your documentary, The Liner Notes.
25:09Liner Notes?
25:10I won two Pulitzers.
25:11I'm taking this thing to Cannes.
25:14Okay?
25:14I'm gonna be slapping Chris Rock and stroking my Oscar.
25:18The 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 the songs.
25:31He 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, now the singer.
25:43This is chaos.
25:44Unmaged.
25:44It doesn't be the share with you.
25:46If he comes to your people,
25:48kill him.
26:12Kill him.
26:18Kill him.
26:26Why a female song is epic?
26:27That's right.
26:27In the knot make the joke.
26:28It is unpleasant to me.
26:29So I am happy to shoot him.
26:35The name I am a toman's video is that,
26:35I'm waiting for you.
26:35The Ross and Denise.
29:06Pick up the fucking tambourine!
29:08From the Alps of Adequacy to the Canyon of Coup d'Etat, two nights in a row, my violin competing
29:16with his guitar for the solo break, two centuries waiting to share my music, two years as Mr.
29:24Dulac's B-Movie Brute.
29:26But just as I was about to bridge the bridge with murder and mayhem, something quite surprising
29:33happened.
29:34My music wrapped itself around me like a jungle snake constricting its prey, and a lifetime
29:42of blood-bartering overwhelmed the temporal lobe.
29:47Muses appeared in my mind and in the now around me.
29:53Memories taking their turn.
29:59Blood in, blood out.
30:02Blood in, blood out.
30:05Hammering away at the performative vampire persona I had welded into armor.
30:13The armor cracked.
30:18The bridge buckled, and the bonafide vampire emerged, center stage.
30:26It was I who had been adequate.
30:30It was I who had been holding us back.
30:34And now, exposed in the roar, under the white hot lights, my bandmates began to feed.
30:46And that sound I had been grinding them for was finally unleashed.
30:52A euphoric grattiness spilling into the crowd, into their bodies, enveloping the venue.
30:58I want to stay in bed, eat it back, make a ranch.
31:05I want to stay in bed, eat it back, make a ranch.
31:11I want to stay in bed, eat it back, make a ranch.
31:19I want to stay in bed, eat it back, make a ranch.
31:38Which one of you is O'Dee'd before?
31:42What do you do?
31:43What did she take?
31:45Not her.
31:47Me.
31:48Get her on the ground.
31:50Her blood has...
31:53Hexas me.
31:53Dead in her.
31:55I am!
31:56What the hell happened to me?
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?
32:19I lost myself on stage for a moment.
32:23It seems you still lost.
32:26This song's gonna kill you, you know that, don't you?
32:29I can't die.
32:30Everything dies.
32:32You die, I die.
32:34She dies.
32:36She dies.
32:38Oh, he dies bad.
32:42I'm immortal.
32:43Yeah, you kill some wolves and fall in love, get the gift, fall in love, go to ground, get dug
32:49up and fall in love.
32:51You like some wet clothes and a coin-op dryer, just 265 years round and round.
32:58Why are you so sad?
33:00Thousands of fans loving you.
33:03I want millions.
33:05And that'll top off that heart of yours.
33:09Billions.
33:11Then why you always gotta make it so hard for someone to give it to you?
33:15Huh?
33:17Who told you that?
33:18Don't worry, they 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.
33:56How 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 unwell.
34:27I was having sex in an elevator with Dee and the girl I had just overindulged myself with early in
34:33the night.
34:34Actually, that happens later.
34:38A lot of things happened that night.
34:40Come on, Dee, come on, come on, come on, come on!
34:44Ahem.
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.
34:57I'm getting ahead of myself again.
34:59I arrive fashionably late, of course.
35:02State your name for the camera.
35:04Baby Jinx.
35:05Okay, baby.
35:06Tell me.
35:07Why do you like the vampire Lestat?
35:09Like I'm gonna be in the movie?
35:11Oh, you're in it now.
35:13I 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.
35:23Wow.
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.
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 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.
36:26He's like, do you wanna fuck?
36:29And rock and roll is like, yes bitch!
36:32I excuse myself to the men's room.
36:35Didn't read about vampire physiology in Mr. Dulac's memoir, did you?
36:39No mention of the scars on my chest either.
36:42Hair stopping way above my shoulders.
36:45And just for the record, no ticket pocket of mine ever had his initials inscribed onto them.
36:49I mean, these are the editorial wags of an insane person.
36:55Note to self-edit that out in the final version.
36:58Starting again.
36:59Vampires pee.
37:01We don't do it as often as you do.
37:03Assuming you're not one of us.
37:04And we generally avoid eco-friendly urinals.
37:18Detroit.
37:39They're.
37:40They're.
37:42Pronouns.
37:44Hmm.
37:44One of these respectful, like, silence.
37:47They're here.
37:48Mm-hm.
37:50He's got a bit uh, crossed when we were minding each other.
37:54The other night, Russ here has a hot mouth.
37:57And a strong pelvic floor.
38:00I admire your aim.
38:03Long face sucks.
38:05Russ wanted to apologize.
38:08But black licorice?
38:11Why do I have to feel?
38:15I like those ones.
38:17Frankly, Mr. Shankly almost ruined the Queen's death.
38:20I 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 Brightmoor.
38:34Our own farm under the floorboards.
38:37Hmm, sure. What about tomorrow night?
38:40You're on the road tomorrow night.
38:42Yes, it was me being polite.
38:46No, that was you lying.
38:49Eco-friendly urinals.
38:51Good for the planet, so we're told.
38:53Good for vampires.
38:54Vampires, hmm.
38:56We chardonnay them.
39:02And then there's regional vampires.
39:06Always trying to make a name for themselves.
39:09I chardonnay them, too.
39:12Obligations, I'm afraid.
39:13But please do send my most sincere bonjour to your bright nourish, come 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, you fool me once, shame on me, you fool me twice, MDMA and LSD
39:49are excellent drugs.
39:51Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, twirl, twirl, overshare.
39:57I saw your soul.
39:58I saw yours, too.
40:02I saw yours, too.
40:04Still feeling good.
40:07I went looking for my band, looking for sex, looking for anything that radiated the fun that I sang about
40:13in my song, Long Face.
40:16And then, regionals.
40:20Wait, did you say that Long Face sucked?
40:23Long Face sucks.
40:24Does it suck?
40:25I wondered.
40:27Did you have a point?
40:28And then I thought, ooh, they want a little scrap with a scalpel.
40:34No worries, I thought I have the Queen's blood in me.
40:36I could take 20 regionals at once with the Queen's blood.
40:41Where's the band, Dan?
40:43A cold corporate bullshit went to party upstairs.
40:52So I'm scoring dick pills in Mogadishu for a UN peacekeeper.
40:56When in walks Stuart Copeland, wearing a kufi and a mouthful of ammo.
41:01So I thought about having sex with Christine.
41:03And then I thought, that's all the way upstairs.
41:06And then I thought, I'm the scalpel.
41:09What does the scalpel do between here and upstairs?
41:14Mr. Deluxe Memoir tiptoed around vampire sex, didn't it?
41:19He and Dan made it out to be this tortured act or obligational foreplay before blood drinking.
41:26That is not the case at all.
41:28It's not the capstone of empiric desires.
41:30That would be the taking of life.
41:32And 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.
41:42And after those three, it's sex.
41:45So now you know, the fourth best thing a vampire can do to avoid thinking about the past is to
41:51have sex.
41:52Sex, sex, sex.
41:54And I have had a lot of sex over the years.
41:56It's not all pain and toxicity.
41:58I have an immortal life and I carry with it an immortal erection and I am not ashamed of it.
42:04Sex is fun.
42:05Like the fun I sing about in Longface.
42:07Which, looking back on it now, does suck.
42:11I 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.
42:51Law 4.
42:52No vampire shall ever reveal his or her true nature to a mortal.
42:57And let the mortal live.
42:58You do know it's 2025.
43:03Praise the world, my dear.
43:04You'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.
43:30I'm building a career that supports my well-being.
43:33But the drug blood in my sex legs and the distracting past my music had unleashed on me put me
43:40at a momentary disadvantage.
43:42I'm in charge of my work-life balance.
43:45Law 4.
43:46Or as if the Dulac Malloy memoir hadn't outed us all two years ago.
43:49The Dulac.
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 dog gift like red cups
44:02in a piss bar.
44:04Collecting fledglings like they were the booboo dogs.
44:06I mean I haven't even told my band I was an actual vampire.
44:10I was just singing my songs and fucking my food and defending myself from the vibrant life choices I had
44:15made on my way from the Auvergne countryside to the 8th floor of this why bother hotel.
44:20And this is how it was all going to end for me.
44:23We are the fangang.
44:25We are the children of the darkness reborn.
44:30Jesus fucking God.
44:33Our man told the truth.
44:35Have you met him?
44:36What the fuck does that even mean?
44:38I 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.
44:49But that's me looking back on it now.
44:51Anything I had done to deserve their timely rescue hadn't happened yet.
44:55I'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.
45:08Use your decanting blood and devour my words.
45:24It's hard hiding you're a god.
45:27You're for real?
45:28CCTV, eco-fledged toilets.
45:31IMF freezing your accounts because you have the blood of a patricidal queen inside you.
45:36Hello again.
45:38We are to the world for you.
45:40Telemask attract 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.
47:19I got myself into something I can't get out of.
47:25Music's opened up to that show then.
47:27I'm not sure if I can close it again.
47:35I'm not really at my best, but.
47:42It's very nice to see you again.
47:49I like what you've done with your hair, Mike.
47:54Mike.
47:56Mike.
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.
48:28How it felt, Ben.
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.
48:52Give me a million more screams.
48:54Do you kill people?
48:57Give me a million more screams.
49:00Please.
49:01Let's talk about your mother.
49:04I've been a bad boy.
49:05Done in my heart.
49:07My makeup called for his mama and I came.
49:10Give me a million more screams.
49:15You are caught in great danger with a stop.
49:18You stole my personal position.
49:21You hired my biographer.
49:24The 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, 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.
50:46And 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.
51:13Come to me.
51:14Montreal.
51:15I am he and he is me.
51:18Louie, and let's start a facetiming and you're probably going to get the sense that Louie's going to come over
51:22pretty soon.
51:22He'll probably get back together or like work it out.
51:25Nice.
51:25Yeah, it's nice.
51:27One of the first conversations I had with Roland and Hannah and the writers was that I think Louie's watched
51:34just a ton of YouTube in his time off.
51:37You know, like cat videos.
51:41Probably hungrily.
51:45Louie, do you know someone called Daniel Malloy?
51:47Well, the staff 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.
52:00Louie sets fire to a laptop to try and erase the book.
52:05But like no one told him about the cloud.
52:08I only found out it was coming out a month ago.
52:10You've known for a month and you talk about me and it to a mortal?
52:13Well, yeah.
52:14Yeah.
52:14I'm going to, you know.
52:16No, I don't know, Louie.
52:18Please explain yourself.
52:20Both Louie 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.
52:32Lestat sees what he perceives are lies and distortions, mistruths.
52:38And he's like, you know what, I'm going to set the record 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.
52:49Daniel Malloy is an investigative journalist of the absolute top shelf.
52:53Who better to refute the book than the man who wrote the book?
52:57He has 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, 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?
53:37Black and the Cooch is a great song.
53:39It's about the first kill that Lestat made after he reconciled with Louis in New Orleans.
53:46Didn't blink, didn't try to run.
53:48I got a real, I won't.
53:52Particularly in episode one, you do see that he's pushing and pushing to get this sort of moment of grace.
53:58To be completely engulfed in the music.
54:02But just as I was about to bridge the bridge with murder and mayhem,
54:07something quite surprising happened.
54:10And that's what he gets from Black Licorice.
54:12He does have his first breakdown of many.
54:16Muses appeared in my mind and in the now around me.
54:20He realizes that he was the one that was holding them back.
54:24So then all of a sudden it cracks open and the real thing starts to appear.
54:28And that sound I had been grinding them for was finally unleashed.
54:34He started it to be, I'm going to go and tell my story.
54:37I'm going to 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?
55:16I'm going to do a break.
55:26Amen.
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