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The Vampire Lestat Season 1 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, Nicolas Delafonte, a violinist.
01:20You kept all these boys who made me more.
01:23Ricky!
01:24I'm Armand.
01:26I'm the chief of Tom Clon.
01:28He l'a saigné?
01:29You led him there so he could destroy it.
01:31Yes.
01:31You saved Louis.
01:33That shit.
01:34But not her.
01:37Who made you?
01:38His name was Magnus.
01:40He 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.
02:00I'm companion enough for myself now.
02:02I'm sorry I don't have much time.
02:04I'm in the middle of rehearsing.
02:05I'm going on tour.
02:06I just need about 50 more years of practice.
02:23I'm a little killer.
02:25I'm a lonely one.
02:27I'm a sugar to upper spine.
02:29Telling you to run.
02:31I'm a little shadow.
02:33I'm a last line.
02:35I'm a past and the future.
02:37The last of the sutures.
02:38The crew and death.
02:39Where the rock and roll is.
02:41Where the good's head.
02:43Where the heart of it, love it.
02:45The face of the mud.
02:46Where the stupid rain.
02:47Baby, baby.
02:52Baby, baby.
02:53Baby, baby.
02:54Up, oh, down.
02:58Burn the ground.
03:02Up, oh, down.
03:06Burn the wall.
03:09Baby, baby.
03:11Baby, baby, baby.
03:13Baby, baby.
03:17C'est cool.
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, additional session tracks that were discarded in the final assemblage of the album,
04:34original 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 one yuan. Do I hear one yuan?
05:10E-U-N.
05:13Sold.
05:14To the gentlewoman, third row of good spirit.
05:19Lot number two.
05:20Two.
05:21A music box, curated by the Vampire Lestat himself, a 1978 Fernando Marciani Corinto sideboard, inside a Rosner & Zonn
05:33Mott turntable, with Bialab 90 speakers.
05:38Two.
05:39Two.
05:39Temperature 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.
05:51A singular vinyl pressing of the complete works of the Vampire Lestat de Leoncore, previously delineated, along with 111 albums
06:01of audio best described as an omniscient history of the events of the 2025 album in supporting tour and the
06:10consequential global catastrophes that sprung from said album and tour as narrated by the Vampire Lestat himself.
06:18The collection has been named The Failures.
06:23We will begin the bidding at 50 million yuan.
06:29If you are hearing this now, you must be a very privileged individual.
06:35You could have fed a small nation for years while they paved over the rubble.
06:39You bought my box instead.
06:41I like you already.
06:44So let's begin in the middle.
06:46For I could and should have ended it there.
06:49My tour.
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, made a contribution.
07:17It was the spring of 2025.
07:20A good nation was making itself great again.
07:24Again.
07:27And every vampire, those converting and those enduring.
07:32Well, they were doing exactly as they pleased.
07:36The End
07:38The End
07:40The End
08:04Oh, oh, oh.
08:11Oh, oh, oh.
08:14Oh, oh, oh.
08:18Oh, oh, oh.
08:21I've got long fans.
08:23My pretty baby.
08:25I've got long fans.
08:27Come up reason.
08:29You're my long stage.
08:31That doesn't faze me.
08:36I'm an actor.
08:38And I make sure.
08:40I get fat when we break.
08:44What does it matter who I take?
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 side man, choking his guitar neck nightly, wishing it was mine.
09:03Brother Alex, the more talented seedling, straight-edged in half the fun.
09:08Salamander, 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.
09:32And 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.
09:44Unacceptable.
09:44On piano!
09:47You're intelligent!
09:51Armandante!
09:53We're balero!
09:55Prostituey!
10:08Hello, welcome to Detroit.
10:11Lovely city.
10:13Your song sucks.
10:14They give me the feedback.
10:41But I'm gonna lay through.
10:46Ah!
10:47Oh, we're comin'
10:49Yeah, we're comin'
10:51Yeah, we're comin'
10:54Yeah- I'm-
10:56Yeah, we're comin'
10:57Yeah, we're comin'
11:01Oh yeah
11:02Aw yeah
11:03Oh yeah
11:04Aw yeah
11:05Aw yeah
11:06Aw yeah
11:08Aw yeah
11:09Ooh
11:14Well, that was boring.
11:15Are you seem to like it?
11:16Harmony's on Plastic Fiends were trash.
11:18He's right.
11:19And the front head on your kick is shimmering.
11:21Turn it up a step.
11:22Singer's right.
11:23You left your tambourine in his stand, Larry.
11:25Yeah, well, I was feeling the guitar.
11:26No one is coming to hear your guitar, Larry.
11:29No, they come for the Aussie stand.
11:30Do rage call the Harmony Room.
11:32Larry Slater's shredding it tonight and no one ever.
11:35You've signed the checks, dude.
11:36I do, I do sign the checks.
11:38Sign this.
11:38The tambourine tomorrow is rehearsed and perfected.
11:41What am I saying?
11:42Good night in Corvallis.
11:44Brian, the wife, early retirement, and her lawyer, Lake Boat.
11:47You speak pen.
11:48But it's funny because it's blood and I'm of, um, fire.
11:51Notaries in Oregon don't notarize in red ink.
11:53There's the band and there's the shell that protects the band from the world's envy.
11:59Our band shell was Christine Clare.
12:02She hired, fired, dictated, and castrated with extreme prejudice.
12:08Try your best not to be you tonight.
12:09We want the car.
12:11No.
12:11We'll be good.
12:12Corvallis.
12:14What do you think?
12:17Yay.
12:19All right, Slat, it's out to go.
12:21So, I'm going into my vampire dressing room now, a little draining both ways.
12:27You'll have to guess who gets the fangs and who gets the vodka bottle.
12:30And yes, it's a vodka bottle.
12:34You did it again.
12:36Did 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.
12:47Anyone see Yorta?
12:49Anyone see Yorta?
12:49I'm Yorta.
12:50I'm Sky Blue Waters.
12:52I just don't want you to...
12:54Missing a contact again.
12:56Oh.
12:57Okay.
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 ports in the rearview mirror, that kind of thing.
13:16But niche celebrity is a hunter's handicap, and a sloppy night in Corvallis made urgent the need for a body
13:22double.
13:23His name was Yarda Klepek, and the Albanian gangsters Christine hired to find my doppelganger found him working construction in
13:31the Czech Republic.
13:32Three inches shorter than your velvet mouth, narrator, we fit him for lifts, blue eye contacts, and a wig.
13:39And otherwise, let him be Neanderthal me.
13:41I hunted this way, and we sent him that way, and every sad photograph uploaded to Reddito discord of Yarda
13:48eating up tuna melt by himself only confirmed, for most, what they already believed.
13:55Let's go!
13:55That I, the Vampire Lestat, was Daniel Malloy's fictitious creation.
14:00And the Vampire Lestat, the band, was fronted by a brick-laying karaoke fanatic from Ostrova.
14:06Nothing but a desperate cash grab at the end of a chuggy vampire fad.
14:10And I've only myself to blame for the timing, having locked us in an attic for a year plus, perfecting
14:15our sound.
14:16The sound, I hope, would counter Mr. Dulac's portrayal of me as a mayonnaise villain with sociopathic tendencies.
14:24I'll beside the point, because the point was, the point forever is...
14:28I know you're real!
14:29...most of humanity moved on from vampires, and rather quickly.
14:34Congratulations.
14:35Now go make friends.
14:38They lifted their heads from their algorithmic handmasters, uttered a collective, huh, and swiped 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 Spotify some T-Rex and drag a little oneg from Dr. Fareed.
15:06Good here.
15:06Same, Tiff.
15:08I am not here.
15:09Can we mic you?
15:10TC punched the boom again.
15:12Yeah.
15:13Okay.
15:19So, uh, you and Louie talking again?
15:23He doesn't return my texts.
15:25Or my telepathy.
15:28I hear he's back in the States.
15:32We good?
15:33We good.
15:34It's late.
15:40You've been alive and undead for 265 years.
15:43You witnessed the French Revolution firsthand, the electric light, penicillin, two world wars,
15:49the atomic bomb, the moon landing, the Berlin Wall.
15:53Joey 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,
16:04why have 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
16:35vampire.
16:36Directed by a vampire passing as a human.
16:38You tell him for me.
16:40Is it true you were a stutterer as a child?
16:44Louis 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?
16:56Was I in the room when Donizetti wrote Don Pasquale?
17:01No, no, and impossible because I had buried myself underground for the vast majority of the
17:081800s.
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?
17:21The dark, dreary industrial world has finally submitted to automation.
17:30Laborers stand in their doorways hitting their pipes as their children half pipe in their drained
17:38empty swimming pools.
17:40Drugstores locked up baby formula and shaving cream while Saks ate Barneys and someone told everyone
17:48that Lululemon was sexy.
17:51Facts are irrelevant.
17:55Fields are everything.
17:58And the value of human life, it has never been more arbitrary.
18:04David, Freddy, Prince Rogers, they're all gone.
18:10And the lights on Tay-Tay's ears have dimmed.
18:13Fire coming down the hill.
18:16Water moving in on Nantucket.
18:20No more safe spaces.
18:24It's my era now.
18:30Post Malone and Jelly Roll playing there tonight.
18:3360,000 for a face tattooed palooza.
18:36You played an 800 seat venue.
18:38How is it your era?
18:43I'm vain and shallow and pure and empty seat.
18:45Ask me an easy one.
18:48Is it true your band was formed on Halloween?
18:57You were listening to The Failures.
19:01Album 2, side B.
19:06Yada-da-da-da-da-da-da
19:10Yada-da-da-da-da-da-da
19:26What do you think?
19:28It's nice.
19:30Nice?
19:30Yeah, it's nice.
19:32I don't see Beyonce covering it, but 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 in one of the guest rooms
19:57I can't find a painting for it
19:59Oh, a guest room
20:00You want me to come and see your guest room
20:03It's an afternoon neighborhood
20:04Old money
20:06Young professionals
20:08A smattering of Christ de Trosfort, baby
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
20:35There's an Olmstead Park nearby
20:36If I get homesick
20:38And there's a
20:39Garage band rehearsing across the street
20:42Who call themselves
20:43Of all things
20:45Satan
20:46They call themselves
20:48Of all things
20:49Satan
20:50Satan
20:50Satan
20:51Satan's night out
20:52Satan's night out
20:54Out
20:54Satan's night out
20:55Okay
20:56Makes sense
20:57Louis, 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, uh, yeah, gonna...
21:13But, you know...
21:14No, I don't know, Louis
21:17Please, explain yourself
21:18It's gonna be here and gone in a minute
21:20No worries anymore
21:21The stat is like, whatever
21:23100%
21:24But, Armand
21:26It's like, mysterious
21:27Yeah, there's layers
21:29You have to do that to you at the Louvre
21:31And all the boomers
21:33Did the field
21:34To go see the other good farm
21:35With her resting but trees?
21:36I skipped that
21:37And I was going to see my beta boy
21:39In the corner of the room
21:42I would do it
21:44You have to do it
21:44You have to do it
21:45You have to do it
21:45You have to do it
21:46You have to do it
21:47You have to do it
21:47I would kill it
21:48I would kill it
21:49I would kill it
21:51My brother
21:55The stat man
21:56He was going to burn
21:57He's going to burn
21:58The French guy on the Royal street
21:59100%
22:00That's a wild
22:01He's like, well...
22:03Do you want to become a member?
22:05There's a 10% of the-
22:05No, thank you!
22:14Huh...
22:14Oh
22:15I know what infinitesimal means
22:19It was raining
22:20No, no, never fucking...
22:27Lelio!
22:29I'm not a harlequin.
22:30Your sources are your sherpas.
22:33Your editor is your priest.
22:36Don't go to the end.
22:38Jesus, out.
22:40Why must you complicate it?
22:43We love cheese.
22:45Can you please?
22:47Hello.
22:49Hello.
22:51Oh, I went to the full-size box.
22:59Your camera is not period correct.
23:03I haven't been at allergy.
23:04Well, allergies are delusional.
23:07Take the mounts.
23:08You'll take whatever I give you.
23:10Oh, my God.
23:20Oh, my God.
23:28Oh, my God.
23:34Oh, my God.
24:03What the fuck?
24:10This is in 1979, Bela Lugosi is not dead.
24:14You don't need to finger her for five bars.
24:17You're hurting her.
24:22Apologies for the squire.
24:24My manager will come in the morning with a replacement and 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 Byronic reaction to my book.
24:59Who better to refute the book than the man who wrote the book?
25:05The songs are my story.
25:07Your documentary, The Liner Notes.
25:09Ha! Liner 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 the songs.
25:24More exposure for us.
25:26More risk for us.
25:27I don't have any problems in their songs.
25:31He sings for himself.
25:33Make more!
25:36Only a Coven Leader can make more.
25:38The Great Laws are clear on that.
25:40First the book, now the singer.
25:43This is chaos.
25:44It does a bit of sherbet with it.
25:46If he comes to your people, kill him.
26:26He sings for himself.
29:06Pick up the fucking tambourine!
31:48Get her on the ground
31:50Her blood
31:53Excessing
31:55LSD
31:55I should have quit right there and then
32:06Would have been a lovely footnote to my life
32:09The band
32:10But the muses were just beginning
32:14You done this to me?
32:19I lost myself on stage for a moment
32:22Seems you still lost
32:25This song's gonna kill you, you know that, don't you?
32:29I can't die
32:30Everything dies
32:31You die, I die
32:34She dies
32:36She dies
32:37Though he dies bad
32:42I'm immortal
32:43Yeah, you kill some wolves and fall in love
32:46Get the gift
32:47Fall in love
32:48Go to ground
32:49Get dug up and fall in love
32:51You like some wet clothes and a coin-op dryer
32:53Just 265 years round and round
32:57Why are you so sad?
33:00Thousands of fans loving you
33:02I want millions
33:04And that'll top off that heart of yours
33:09Billions
33:10Then why you always gotta make it so hard
33:13For someone to give it to you
33:15Huh?
33:17Who told you that?
33:19Don't worry
33:20They come and pee
33:22Who's coming?
33:23Oh, they gonna tell you themselves
33:27Who's coming?
33:29Great show, didn't it?
33:30Who?
33:34You are listening to The Failures
33:36Album 5, Side B
33:39If you take nothing else away from your exorbitant purchase
33:43Heed this advice
33:45Never play two nights in Detroit
33:48You'll wind up in Windsor with a broken orbital bone
33:52Listening to transactional sex with the adjoining walls
33:55How I came to this squalid real estate is the premise of Side B Album 5, so
34:04Come
34:06Now the boutique hotel we were staying at was having a grandish opening that night
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
34:21Seducing corporate employees, provincial influencers, and party crashing beautifully unwell
34:26Let'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!
34:41Come on!
34:42Come on!
34:42Come on!
34:42Come on!
34:43Come on!
34:44Come 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 an
34:54hour later
34:56No, no, no, no
34:57I'm getting ahead of myself again
34:59I arrived fashionably late, of course
35:02State your name for the camera
35:04Baby Jake
35:05Okay, baby
35:06Tell me, why do you like the vampire Lestat?
35:09Like I'm gonna be in the movie?
35:11Oh, you're in it now
35:12I am feeling good
35:16Surfing the sublime candy-flipped wave of the girl's blood
35:19Hear him
35:20Hear that voice
35:22The girl is feeling good
35:23Wow
35:23Riding the wonders of Dr. Fareed's blood transfusion quick pick-me-up cocktail
35:28Who'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?
35:44It's rock and roll, you know
35:46Have a nervous breakdown on stage
35:48Chatted up with the floating girl on the ceiling you almost killed
35:51Have sex with her in the elevator
35:53Ah, I'm still not there yet
35:56MDMA and LST
35:58The Torval and Dean of hallucinogenics
36:00And so then everybody's like, is rock and roll actually dying?
36:04Were you a stutterer as a child?
36:06They walk into the ER, they are like, the doctor
36:10Unless that's the scalpel
36:12I'm the scalpel, printed t-shirts
36:14And so he, the scalpel, cuts into rock and roll's heart
36:20Like he cut into mine tonight
36:23And he has the heart in his mouth
36:25He's like, do you wanna fuck?
36:28And rock and roll is like, yes, bitch
36:32I excuse myself to the men's room
36:35Didn't read about vampire physiology and Mr. Dulac's memoir, did you?
36:39No mention of the scars on my chest either
36:42Hair stopping way above my shoulders
36:44And just for the record
36:46No ticket pocket of mine ever had his initials inscribed onto them
36:49I mean, these are the editorial wags of an insane person
36:55Note to self-edit that out in the final version
36:58Starting again
37:00Vampire's pee
37:01We don't do it as often as you do
37:02Assuming you're not one of us
37:04And we generally avoid eco-friendly urinals
37:17Detroit
37:19Freud...
37:36Name's Tim.
37:38She's Ross.
37:49He's got a bit, uh, crossed.
37:52We were minding each other the other night.
37:54Ross here has a hot mouth.
37:57And a strong pelvic floor.
38:00I admire your aim.
38:02Hm. Long face sucks.
38:05Ross...
38:06Wanted to apologize.
38:08What? Black licorice?
38:11Why do I have to feel?
38:14Hm.
38:15I like those ones.
38:17Frankly, Mr. Shankly almost ruined the Queen's dead.
38:20I apologize. Accept it.
38:23We have a coven out here in Detroit.
38:26Do you?
38:27The Fang Gang.
38:29You wanna see a real vampire bar? Come with us.
38:31We have a huge house out past Bragmore.
38:34Our own farm under the floorboards.
38:37Hm, 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.
38:48Hm.
38:49Eco-friendly urinals.
38:51Good for the planet, so we're told.
38:53Good for vampires.
38:55Hm. We 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 color.
39:21Lilac.
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.
39:47You fool me twice.
39:47You fool me twice.
39:48MDMA and LSD are excellent drugs.
39:51Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce.
39:54Twirl.
39:54Twirl.
39:56Overshare.
39:57I saw your soul.
39:59I saw yours too.
40:04Still feeling good.
40:06I went looking for my band.
40:08Looking for sex.
40:10Looking for anything that radiated the fun that I sang about in my song.
40:14Long Face.
40:16And then...
40:18Regionals.
40:20Wait, did you say that Long Face sucked?
40:22Long 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 the scalpel.
40:33No worries, I thought I had the Queen's blood in me.
40:36I could take 20 regionals at once with the Queen's blood.
40:41Where's the band then?
40:44They called corporate bullshit.
40:48Went to party.
40:50Up still.
40:51So I'm scoring dick pills in Mogadishu for a UN peacekeeper.
40:56When in walks Stuart Copeland wearing a kufi and a mouthful of ammo.
41:01So I thought about having sex with Christine.
41:03And then I thought, it'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. Delac's 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 vampiric desires.
41:30That would be the taking of life.
41:32And next would be a good draining, leaving your victim near death and paralyzed 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.
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.
42:02And I am not ashamed of it.
42:04Sex is fun.
42:05Like the fun I sing about in Long Face.
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 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.
42:57And let the mortal live.
42:58You do know it's 2025.
43:03Trace the wall, my dear.
43:05You'll not want to see this.
43:09The Tooth Team.
43:11The Fang Gang.
43:16I killed a pack of wolves when I was immortal.
43:20I'll most likely tell you about that later as I let it define me for a time.
43:23A normally confining architecture and a thrift store coven galvanized by medieval dogma wouldn't faze me in the least.
43:31I'm building a career that supports my lobby.
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. As if the Dulac Malloy memoir hadn't outed us all two years ago.
43:50As if my entire stage show wasn't a bawdy burlesque of is he or isn't he.
43:55As if half the vampire population outside the ruined pool of Detroit wasn't waving the dark gift like red cups
44:02in a piss bar.
44:04Collecting fledglings like they were the 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 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 if you met him.
44:37What the fuck does that even mean?
44:39I thought there was an after party on the asshole floor.
44:43I like to think I was owed the reinforcements.
44:46Dan and the oddly familiar DJ.
44:48But that's me looking back on it now.
44:51Anything I had done to deserve their timely rescue hadn't happened yet.
44:56I'd be dead I think without Dan.
44:58But then maybe more of the world would still be alive had Dan not rallied his army downstairs.
45:05Consider this sliding door of Dan.
45:08Use your decanting blood and devour my words.
45:24It's hard hiding you're a god.
45:27You're for real?
45:28CCTV, eco flush 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 here.
45:40Telemasker Jack can interact.
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 and my vampire gift winged me away north of the rivers
46:39off of the country.
46:43But I was saved from such rational thought.
46:47Love will do that to you.
47:08A sad mule to go home in the sky.
47:19Help me.
47:20I love you.
47:20Sullivan is something I can't get out of.
47:25Music's opened up to that show, but I'm not sure if I can close it again.
47:35I'm not really at my best, but...
47:42It's very nice to see you again.
47:49I like what you've done with your hair, Mike.
47:53Mike.
48:01Mike.
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, Ben.
48:31Fledgling.
48:34Lover.
48:37Mother.
48:42From 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.
48:55Do you kill people?
48:57Give me a million more screams.
49:01Let's talk about your mother.
49:04I've been a bad boy.
49:05I've been a bad boy.
49:06My makeup called for his mama, and I can't.
49:10Give me a million more screams.
49:15You are caught in great danger with this dog.
49:18You stole my personal position.
49:20You hired my biographer.
49:23The songs are not about you.
49:30Shall we do it?
49:31Shall we scorch the mortal world?
49:37What do you think about the great conversion?
49:40Fucking stupid.
49:47You are listening to The Failures.
49:50Album 8, 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,
50:35like the world continues to crack open 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.
51:16And he is me.
51:18Louis and Lestat are 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 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
51:31was that I think Lurie's watched just a ton of YouTube in his time off, you know?
51:38Like, cat videos.
51:41Probably hungrily.
51:44Louis, do you know someone called Daniel Malloy?
51:47Well, Lestat 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.
51:58I didn't know he had it saved in the cloud.
52:00Louis sets fire to a laptop to try and erase the book.
52:05But, 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.
52:15Gonna, but, you know?
52:16No, I don't know, Louis.
52:19Please explain yourself.
52:20Both Louis and Lestat are not necessarily happy with the way that either of them were portrayed in the book.
52:25It's like a mix of guilt and probably a sense of vengeance about it.
52:30Lestat sees that book come out,
52:32sees what he perceives are lies and distortions, mistruths,
52:38and he's like, you know what?
52:39I'm gonna 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 Molloy is an investigative journalist of the absolute top shelf.
52:53Who better to refute the book than the man who wrote the book?
52:57He has an incorrigible need to find out what the truth is.
53:02Why do you like the vampire Lestat?
53:04Si el llega a tu pueblo, matale.
53:07I thought there was an after party on the asshole floor.
53:10This isn't just sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
53:13It's sex, drugs, rock and roll, and sucking blood out of people's necks.
53:19You're for real?
53:23You're for real?
53:36I mean, Black Lives Matter is a great song.
53:38It'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.
53:49I got a real life one.
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.
54:23So 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 is OD'd before?
55:17So I'm going to do a rewrite.
55:34I'm going to de-
55:34You
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