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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 the good time.
02:43Where the heart of me love and the face of the mud.
02:46Where the stupid rain.
02:49Bang bang.
02:50Bang bang.
02:51Bang bang.
02:53Bang bang.
02:54I'll fall down.
02:58Burn the ground.
03:07Bang bang.
03:11Bang bang.
03:12Bang bang.
03:13Bang bang.
03:15BABY BABY
03:17Hmm, c'est cool.
03:49BABY BABY
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.
04:10Stating 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 1 Yuen. Do I hear 1 Yuen?
05:10B-U-N.
05:13Sold.
05:14To the gentlewoman.
05:15Third row.
05:17Good spirit.
05:19Lot number two.
05:21A music box curated by the vampire Lestat himself.
05:26A 1978 Fernando Marchani Corinto sideboard.
05:31Inside a Rosner and Zun Mott turntable.
05:34With Bielab 90 speakers.
05:37Two, temperature controlled wine cabinets.
05:41One, holding a bottle of Kneeport 1863 port wine.
05:46The other, with a magnum of blood from the curator himself.
05:50The upper level.
05:52A singular vinyl pressing of the complete works of the vampire Lestat de Liencourt.
05:58Previously delineated, along with 111 albums of audio best described as an omniscient history of the events of the 2025
06:08album and supporting tour.
06:10And the consequential global catastrophes that sprung from said album and tour, as narrated by the vampire Lestat himself.
06:18The collection has been named The Failures.
06:24We will begin the bidding at 50 million yen.
06:29If you are hearing this now, you must be a very privileged individual.
06:35You could have fed a small nation for years while they paved over the rubble.
06:39You bought my box instead.
06:41I like you already.
06:44So let's begin in the middle.
06:46For I could and should have ended it there.
06:49My tour.
06:50My hedonistic pursuit of extremity.
06:53All of it.
06:54And had I done so, the regretful dead and the traumatized still alive would be somewhere other than they are
07:01today.
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.
07:25Again.
07:27And every vampire, those converting and those enduring, well, they were doing exactly as they pleased.
08:19A good nation was making itself great again.
08:25I've got long fangs come a-preason.
08:29And my life stays, that doesn't faze me.
08:36I'm an actor and I make her.
08:41I get fat to her when we break her.
08:45What does it 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 frontman 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.
09:12Shockingly dumb.
09:13And TC, the abandoned bride of a dozen should have died in art school bands, keeping us all in the
09:20dirty pocket.
09:22We 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.
09:32And yet, here we were, in the inn of the stooges and the stripes, 30 performances notched, and already resting
09:41on the alps of adequacy.
09:43Unacceptable.
09:45I'm a piano.
09:47Your forte is your allegro.
09:51I'm a Dante.
09:53With a letter.
09:56Prostitué.
10:09Hello.
10:10Welcome to Detroit.
10:12Lovely city.
10:13Your song sucks.
10:14Thank you for the feedback.
10:16Pick up the pace, pack up the gear, give me some face, a souvenir.
10:20Here come the gaze, here come the fear.
10:22Never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never,
10:32never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never,
10:32never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never,
10:33never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never,
10:34never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never,
10:40never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never
10:52I am coming!
10:55I am coming!
10:57I am coming!
10:58Yeah, yeah, we're coming!
10:59I am coming!
11:01Oh yeah!
11:03Oh yeah!
11:05Oh yeah!
11:07Oh yeah!
11:13Well that was boring.
11:15Are you seem to like it?
11:16Harmonies on plastic fiends were trash.
11:18He's right.
11:19And the front head on your kick is shimmering, turning up his step.
11:22Singer's right.
11:23You left your tambourine in his stand, Larry.
11:25Yeah, I was feeling the guitar.
11:26No one is coming to hear your guitar, Larry.
11:29No, they come for the Aussie shit.
11:30Do you rage call the Harmony Room?
11:32Larry Slater shredding it tonight and no one ever.
11:35You sign the checks there.
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 Brian 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 vampire.
11:51Notaries in Oregon, notarizing red ink.
11:54There's the band and there's the shell that protects the band from the world's envy.
11:58Our 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?
12:17Yay.
12:21I'm going into my vampire dressing room now.
12:24A 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.
12:33He did it again.
12:36Fucking asshole.
12:37Did I mention that I was filming a documentary at the time?
12:40A bootless errand helmed by a first time director.
12:44I've seen a rough cut.
12:45Truthful and daring.
12:47With less war and pity.
12:48Anyone see Yarda?
12:49Yarda.
12:50Sky blue waters.
12:54Missing a contact again.
12:56Oh.
12:58How many drinks have you had?
13:00One and a half.
13:01Drive to the Burbs.
13:02Sit by yourself in a booth at Applebee's.
13:03Order the usual.
13:04Big tip.
13:06Meet 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.
13:13Wave to the morgue reports in the rear view mirror.
13:15That kind of thing.
13:16But niche celebrity is a hunter's handicap.
13:19And a sloppy night in Corvallis made urgent the need for a body double.
13:24His name was Yarda Klepek.
13:26And the Albanian gangsters Christine hired to find my doppelganger found him working construction in the 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
13:52what they already believed.
13:55Let's go!
13:55That I, the Vampire Lestat, was Daniel Malloy'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!
14:29Most of humanity moved on from vampires. And rather quickly.
14:34Congratulations. Now go make friends.
14:38They lifted their heads from their algorithmic handmasters, uttered a collective, huh, and swipe left.
14:45I am the Vampire Lestat. I am a god. Gods are not swiped.
14:54The Contessa. The useful idiot. Great show.
15:00You left before we started. Yeah, I figured. Spotify some T-Rex and drag a little oneg from Dr. Fareedgood
15:06here.
15:06Save Jeff. I am not here.
15:09Can we mic you? TC punch the boom again. Yeah, okay.
15:19So, uh, you and Louie talking again? He doesn't return my texts. Or my telepathy. I hear he's back in
15:29the States. We good? We're good. Slate?
15:36Okay. You've been alive and undead for 265 years. You witnessed the French Revolution first hand, the electric light, penicillin,
15:49two world wars, the atomic bomb, the moon landing, the Berlin Walls...
15:53Chestnut. What? He eats hot dogs for a living. He's extraordinary. I hope to meet him one day. Was there
15:59a question?
15:59Having accumulated profound wisdom and experience through the dark gift of immortality, why have you chosen to waste at singing
16:07music no one wants to hear in pants no one should ever squeeze into?
16:11You ask this question every night. And I get a different answer every night. You get me to repeat myself
16:15soon enough. I am sure once you confront your transformational trauma.
16:19I don't have transformational trauma. That's why these movie producers hired you, Danny Molloy, vampire slayer. They said you requested
16:27me.
16:28Absurd. Oh, as absurd as a documentary about a rock band posing as vampires, fronted by an actual vampire. Directed
16:36by a vampire passing as a human.
16:38You tell him for me. Is it true you were a stutterer as a child? Louis said you were.
16:51Was he there in 18th century Auvers? He said you told him that. Did I threaten Claudia with rape on
16:56a train? Was I in the room when Donizetti wrote Don Pasquale?
17:01No, no, no, and impossible because I had buried myself underground for the vast majority of the 1800s.
17:08I wrote what he told me. I don't have trauma. I love being a vampire. And can you drop the
17:14fledgling 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 half 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. Facts are irrelevant. Fields are everything. And the value of human life? It has never been more
18:03arbitrary.
18:04David, Freddy, Prince Rogers. They're all gone. And the lights on Tay-Tay's ears have dimmed. Fire coming down the
18:16hill.
18:16Water moving in on Nantucket. No more safe spaces. It's my era now.
18:30Host Malone and Jelly Roll playing there tonight. $60,000 for a face tattoo Palooza. You played an 800 seat
18:37venue. How is it your era?
18:43I'm vain and shallow and pure an empty seat. Ask me an easy one.
18:48Is it true your band was formed on Halloween?
18:57You are listening to The Failures. Album 2, Side B.
19:25Of which being looked for였ary television?
19:26What do you think?
19:28It's nice
19:30Nice?
19:31Yeah, it'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
19:40A flower box is nice
19:43It's nice
19:43You got yourself a nice place
19:45It's a nice word
19:46And it says everything I wanted to express
19:49Don't be a bitch about it
19:52You should come visit
19:54I have a space above the bed
19:56I got 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 Christe de Troyes
20:10Oh, good eating
20:14Same potholes
20:15But no hurricanes
20:18No witches
20:19Everyone mangles French
20:21Just like you do
20:23Come to me
20:24Montreal
20:26I am he
20:27And he is me
20:30That's baggage here
20:31I get it
20:32I get it
20:34Besides, there's an Olmstead Park nearby
20:37If I get homesick
20:38And there's a
20:39Garage band rehearsing across the street
20:42Who call themselves
20:44Of all things
20:45Satan
20:46They call themselves
20:48Of all things
20:49Satan?
20:50Satan's night out
20:53Satan's night out?
20:53Out
20:54Satan's night out
20:55Okay
20:56Makes sense
20:57Louis, do you know someone called Daniel Malloy?
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
21:09And you talk about me and it to a mortal?
21:11Well, yeah
21:12Yeah
21:12Gonna
21:13You know?
21:14No, I don't know, Louis
21:16Please
21:17Explain yourself
21:18It's gonna be here and gone in a minute
21:20No one reads anymore
21:21No stat, he's like
21:23Whatever
21:23100%
21:25But Armand
21:26He's like
21:27Mysterious
21:27Yeah
21:28There's layers
21:29You're the same
21:30You're the same
21:31Hey
21:32Toots
21:32The boomers
21:33Did the field
21:34To go see the other bottom
21:35With his resting
21:36Betrace
21:36I skipped that
21:37And I was going to help you
21:38To see my beta boy
21:39In the corner of the room
21:40Hmm
21:42I'll do it
21:43You have to do it
21:44You have to do it
21:46I'll kill it
21:48I'll kill it
21:49I'll kill it
21:50I'll kill it
21:51I'll kill it
21:52I'll kill it
21:55I'll kill it
21:57I'll kill it
21:58I'll kill it
21:58I'll kill it
21:58I'll kill it
21:59I'll kill it
21:59100%
22:00I'll kill it
22:03I'll kill it
22:04Do you want to become a member?
22:05There's 10% of it
22:06No, thank you!
22:11Huh
22:15I know what infinitesimal means
22:19It was raining
22:20No!
22:20No!
22:21No!
22:22Never
22:26fucking
22:27Play her!
22:29I'm not a harlequin
22:30Your sources are your sharps
22:33Your editor is your priest
22:36Don't go to the M
22:37Jesus out!
22:40Why must you complicate it?
22:43Thank you so much!
22:46Hello!
22:48Hello.
23:00Your camera is not period correct.
23:04Well, allergies are delusional.
23:07Take the mounts.
23:08You'll take whatever I give you.
23:17P.O.S.
23:31piraturge
23:33Beautiful!
23:38Strom Blacks
24:03Yeah, what the fuck?
24:05G, minor, slas.
24:11This is in 1979. Bela Lugosi is not dead.
24:14You don't need to finger her for five bars.
24:17You're hurting her.
24:22Apologies for the squire.
24:24My mandatory will come in the morning with your replacement
24:28and a new front door.
24:31More frequent showers?
24:38What was the question again?
24:41Why music?
24:42Hey, hey!
24:44Why now?
24:46Dude, that was sick.
24:48What are we doing here?
24:51We're doing a rewrite.
24:54So this whole tour is just some ironic reaction to my book.
25:00Who better to refute the book than the man who wrote the book?
25:05The songs are my story.
25:07Your documentary, The Liner Notes.
25:09Liner Notes?
25:10I won two Pulitzers.
25:11I'm taking this thing to Cannes, okay?
25:14I'm gonna be slapping Chris Rock and stroking my Oscar.
25:18The Brat sings, the Brat dies.
25:21The great laws are clear on this.
25:23I love songs.
25:24More exposure for us.
25:26More risk for us.
25:27I don't have any issues in songs.
25:29The song is for them, not for us.
25:32He sings for himself.
25:33Make more.
25:36Only a Coven Leader can make more.
25:38The great laws are clear on that.
25:41First the book, now the singer.
25:43This is chaos.
25:44Unpained.
25:44Let's share it.
25:45If he comes to your people, kill him.
26:32It's the only contagion of all of these songs.
26:33This is chaos.
26:39We are safe.
26:41Could be any of these songs?
26:41I'm eternally abrir the room and擠 Yellen's body.
26:44Please listen carefully.
26:45I believe that our song is in the very, very thick.
26:45I believe we have fourions of artists in the company.
27:45No time for glowing up, no time for flowing up, no time for bathing out, your boat is blowing up.
27:52I got a real life, but no time for holding myself, brother, until we come.
27:58Doot do do, da da da da, the one that's not just gonna be a morning star, don't wanna love
28:05at a tic-tac dance.
28:07Wanna sing in bed?
28:08Eating by your head.
28:19The Beef House in the Twin Oaks Mall.
28:21Order at the bar this time, take some photos with the fans.
28:24I plan to bear with the dog.
28:25Keep it scrolling, roll it, fire a merchant home machine.
28:32Hi, Poppy.
28:34I've been a bad boy, deep down in my heart.
28:37I kept a million dark secrets, I'm a very star.
28:40Give me a million more screens.
28:43He's exactly what you think it means.
28:48You wanna smash yourself and you'll be your money.
28:52Don't wanna learn a fucking TikTok dance.
28:56What a stupid, eating black licorice.
29:06Pick up the fucking jammery!
29:08From the Alps of Adequacy to the Canyon of Coup D'Etat.
29:13Two nights in a row, my violin competing with his guitar for the solo break.
29:18Two centuries waiting to share my music.
29:22Two years.
29:23Two years as Mr. Dulac's B-Movie Brute.
29:26But just as I was about to bridge the bridge with murder and mayhem, something quite surprising happened.
29:35My music wrapped itself around me like a jungle snake constricting its prey.
29:41And a lifetime of blood-bartering overwhelmed the temporal lobe.
29:47Muses appeared in my mind and in the now around me.
29:53Memories taking their turn.
29:58Blood in.
30:01Blood out.
30:05Hammering away at the performative vampire persona I had welded into armor.
30:14The armor cracked.
30:18The bridge buckled.
30:20And the bonafide vampire emerged.
30:24Center stage.
30:26It was I who had been adequate.
30:29It 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 wanna stay a man, eat a man, eat a man, eat a man.
31:05I wanna stay a man.
31:10I wanna stay a man,...
31:17A you go.
31:25I wanna stay a man.
31:38Which one of you is OD'ed 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...
31:53Existing her...
31:55Her blood has...
31:56What the hell happened up there?
31:59OD, I'm not a girl.
32:01What 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.
32:27You know that, don't you?
32:29I can't die.
32:30Everything dies.
32:32You die.
32:32I die.
32:34She dies.
32:36She dies.
32:38Oh, he dies bad.
32:42I'm a mortal.
32:43Yeah, you kill some wolves and fall in love, get the gift, fall in love, go to ground, get
32:49dug 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.
33:05And that'll top off that heart of yours.
33:09Billions.
33:11Then why you always gotta make it so hard for someone to give it to you?
33:15Huh?
33:17Who told you that?
33:19Don't worry.
33:20They coming.
33:22Who's coming?
33:23Oh, they gonna tell you themselves.
33:27Who's coming?
33:29Great show, didn't 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 sex through the
33:53adjoining walls.
33:56How I came to this squalid real estate is the premise of Side B, Album 5, so...
34:04Come.
34:06Now, the boutique hotel we were staying at was having a grandish opening that night, and
34:10the band was asked to 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,
34:22provincial influencers, and party crashing beautifully on well.
34:26Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go faster. Thank you. Thank you.
34:27I was having sex in an elevator with Dee and the girl I had just overindulged myself with
34:32early in the night.
34:34Actually, that happens later.
34:38A lot of things happened that night.
34:40Come on, Dee! Come on!
34:45The band is inside with Dan in the VIP perch.
34:49I'm giving the paps my pussycat with no idea that I would be in a fang fight less than
34:54an hour later.
34:56No, no, no, no. I'm getting ahead of myself again.
34:59I arrive fashionably late, of course.
35:02State your name through the camera.
35:04Baby Jank.
35:05Okay, baby. Tell me, why do you like the vampire Lestat?
35:09Like I'm gonna be in the movie?
35:11Oh, you're in it now.
35:12I am feeling good, surfing the sublime candy-flipped wave of the girl's blood.
35:19Hear him. Hear that voice.
35:22The girl is feeling good, riding the wonders of Dr. Fareed's blood transfusion quick pick-me-up
35:28cocktail.
35:29Who's this guy?
35:30Because, 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
35:38mysteries of their front man. So what if the dead and buried past was now a fresh and
35:44eager groupie? It's rock and roll, you know? Have a nervous breakdown on stage, chat it up
35:49with the floating girl on the ceiling you almost killed. Have 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?
36:05They walk in the ER, they are, like, the doctor. Unless that's the scalpel.
36:12I'm the scalpel printed t-shirts.
36:15And so he, the scalpel, cuts into rock and roll's heart. Like, he cut into mine tonight.
36:23And he has the heart in his mouth. He's like, do you want to fuck? And rock and roll is
36:30like,
36:31yes, bitch!
36:32I excused myself to the men's room. Didn't read about vampire physiology in Mr. Dulac's memoir, did you?
36:39No mention of the scars on my chest either. Hair 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.
37:00Vampire's pee.
37:01We don't do it as often as you do, assuming you're not one of us.
37:04And we generally avoid eco-friendly urinals.
37:17Detroit.
37:19Detroit.
37:38There, Ross.
37:42Pronouns
37:43And yet it's respectful
37:46Like silence at a urinal
37:49He's got a bit
37:51Crossed
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
38:02Long face sucks
38:05Russ
38:06Wanted to apologize
38:08But
38:09Black licorice
38:11Why do I have to feel
38:15I like those ones
38:17Frankly Mr. Shankly almost ruined the Queen
38:19He's dead, I apologize
38:20We have a coven
38:24Out here in Detroit
38:26Do you?
38:27The Fang Gang
38:28You 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
38:36I'm not sure, what about tomorrow night?
38:40You're on the road tomorrow night
38:42Yes, it was me being polite
38:45No, that was you lying
38:49Eco-friendly urinals
38:50Good for the planet, so we're told
38:53Good for vampires
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 Brightmoorish color
39:22Lilac
39:36Lilac
39:37I have a blind spot when it comes to blood poisoning
39:40I don'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
39:46You fool me twice
39:47MDMA and LSD are excellent drugs
39:51Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce
39:53Twirl, twirl
39:56Overshare
39:57I saw your soul
39:58I saw yours too
40:04Still feeling good
40:06I went looking for my band
40:08Looking for sex
40:09Looking for anything
40:10That radiated the fun that I sang about in my song
40:13Long Face
40:15And then
40:19Regionals
40:20Wait, did you say that Long Face sucked?
40:23Long Face sucks
40:24Does it suck?
40:25I wondered
40:26Did you have a point?
40:28And then I thought
40:30Ooh, they want a little scrap with a scalpel
40:33No worries
40:35I 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, then?
40:44They called corporate bullshit
40:47Went to party
40:49Up still
40:51So I'm scoring dick pills in Mogadishu for a UN peacekeeper
40:55When in walks Stuart Copeland
40:58Wearing a kufi and a mouthful of ammo
41:01So I thought about having sex with Christine
41:03And then I thought
41:04That's all the way upstairs
41:06And then I thought
41:07I'm the scalpel
41:08What 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
41:22Or obligational foreplay before blood drinking
41:26That is not the case at all
41:28It's not the capstone of vampiric desires
41:30That would be the taking of life
41:32And next would be a good draining
41:33Leaving your victim near death
41:35Unparalyzed for an unhurried escape
41:37And after that
41:39There's the pedicure, the little drink, the sip
41:42And after those three
41:44It's sex
41:45So now you know
41:46The fourth best thing a vampire can do
41:49To avoid thinking about the past
41:50Is to have sex
41:52Sex
41:52Sex
41:53And I have had a lot of sex over the years
41:56It's not all pain and toxicity
41:58I have an immortal life
41:59And I carry with it an immortal erection
42:02And I am not ashamed of it
42:03Sex is fun
42:05Like the fun I sing about in Longface
42:07Which, 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
42:56And let the mortal live
42:58You do know it's 2025
43:03Praise the wall, my dear
43:04You'll not want to see this
43:09The tooth team
43:12The fang gang
43:16I killed a pack of wolves when I was immortal
43:20I'll most likely tell you about that later
43:21As 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
43:46As if the Dulac Malloy memoir hadn't outed us all two years ago
43:49As 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 port of Detroit wasn't waving the dog give like red cups
44:02in a piss bar
44:03Collecting fledglings like they were la bubadoors
44:06I mean, I haven't even told my band I was an actual vampire
44:10I was just singing my songs and fucking my food and defending myself from the vibrant life choices
44:15I had made on my way from the Auvergne countryside to the eighth floor of this why bother hotel
44:20And this is how it was all going to end for me
44:22We are the fang gang
44:25We are the children of the darkness reborn
44:30Jesus fucking God
44:33Our man told the truth, have you met him?
44:37What the fuck does that even mean?
44:39I thought there was an after party on the asshole floor
44:42I 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
44:55I'd be dead, I think, without Dan
44:58But then maybe more of the world would still be alive
45:01Had 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?
45:29CCTV, eco flush toilets, IMF freezing your accounts because you have the blood of a patricidal queen inside you
45:36Hello again
45:38We are 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
46:47Love will do that to you
47:09My dear
47:12Very kind of you to come
47:19I got myself into something I can't get out of
47:25Music's opened up the batch of it
47:27And I'm not sure if I can close it again
47:35I'm not really at my best but
47:42It's very nice to see you again
47:49I like what you've done with your hair, Mike
47:53Mike
47:56Mike
48:01My
48:03Gabriel
48:07It's not much of a reveal, I guess
48:10I know it's common gossip now
48:12The first thing one thinks about when my name comes up
48:16I assume a privileged individual such as yourself enjoys a little dirt in their sandwich
48:24So I serve it to you now
48:27How it felt then
48:31Fledgling
48:34Lover
48:37Mother
48:37Mother
48:40Listen to tracks from the Vampire List ad wherever you stream music
48:46If you're still listening after the last hour
48:49Welcome back
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
49:01Let's talk about your mother
49:04I've been a bad boy deep down in my heart
49:06My maker called for his mama and I can't
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 hired my biographer
49:24The song's in there to build 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
49:46You are listening to The Failures
49:49Album 8 Side A
49:57At 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
50:15If 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 from the previous
50:29seasons
50:30We are just putting them in an entirely new world
50:32And as they do in the books and as we do in the show
50:34Like the world continues to crack open larger and larger
50:39Ooh, ooh, ooh
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
50:53Wow
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
51:13Come to me
51:14Montreal
51:15I am he
51:16And he is me
51:18Louis on the side of FaceTiming
51:19And you're probably going to get the sense that Louis is going to come over pretty soon
51:22They'll probably get back together or like work it out
51:25Nice?
51:25Yeah, it's nice
51:27One of the first conversations I had with Roland and Hannah and the writers was
51:32That I think Louis watched just a ton of YouTube
51:36And it's time off, you know?
51:39Like, cat videos
51:41Probably hungrily
51:44Louis, do you know someone called Daniel Malloy?
51:47Well, the staff finds out about the book
51:48And then that completely throws all those plans out of the window
51:51One of my favorite things about this second season of Interview with the Vampire is that
51:56I burned his laptop! I 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, but like no one told him about the cloud
52:08I only found out it was coming out a month ago
52:10You've known for a month and you talk about me and it to a mortal?
52:13Well, yeah, uh, yeah, gonna, but you know
52:16No, I don't know Louis, please explain yourself
52:20Both Louis and Lestat are not necessarily happy with the way that either of them were portrayed in the book
52:25It's like a mix of guilt and probably a sense of vengeance about it
52:30Lestat sees that book come out
52:33Sees 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, and impossible
52:48Daniel Malloy is an investigative journalist of the absolute top shelf
52:53Who better to refute the book than the man who wrote the book?
52:57He has a incorrigible need to find out what the truth is
53:02Why do you like the vampire Lestat?
53:03Si el llega a tu pueblo, matale
53:07Heard 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?
53:36I 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
53:49I got real, I won
53:52Particularly 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
54:15Of many
54:16Muses appeared in my mind
54:18And in the now around me
54:20He realizes that he was the one that was holding them back
54:23So then all of a sudden it cracks open
54:25And 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
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?
55:17He believed
55:18For you
55:18From the last fall
55:18From the last fall
55:19Of the last fall
55:19Of the last fall
55:35Undersed
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