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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.
00:29Swap 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?
00:54Theoretically, it can be done.
00:55But could it be done by us to him?
00:58Paris was an awakening.
01:00Louis?
01:00Paris was many things in those days.
01:05Bonjour, mon amour.
01:06Are you schizophrenic, Louis?
01:08I could feel the movement of air with his movement.
01:11His breath on the back of my neck.
01:13We were on trial for murder.
01:15Love has always been difficult for me.
01:17My first paramour, Nicolas Delafonte, a violinist.
01:20Guardes you to see garçons come in the memory.
01:24I am Armand.
01:26I am the chef of your clan.
01:28You led him there so he could destroy it.
01:31Yes.
01:31You saved Louis.
01:33Banishment.
01:34Go for it!
01:35But not her.
01:37Who made you?
01:38His name was Magnus.
01:41He took me from my room in Paris as I kicked and screamed.
01:44The light's going out of your blue eye.
01:47I've come to kill you.
01:48I have the blood of Akasha in me.
01:51He didn't save you.
01:53Lestat did.
01:55I'm guessing you haven't heard from my maker.
01:57I shouldn't have left you alone with him.
01:58Make it up to me.
01:59We'll do a follow-up book.
02:01I'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.
02:22I'm in the middle of rehearsing.
02:51Baby, baby, baby, baby.
02:54I fall down.
02:58Burn the ground.
03:02I fall down.
03:07Burn the...
03:09Baby, baby, baby, baby.
03:13Baby, baby, baby.
03:16Hmm, c'est cool.
03:49Good evening.
03:51The House wishes to extend its gratitude to the gathering for your compliance with the unorthodox prerequisites of tonight's event.
04:00Furthermore, we wish to reiterate that the anonymity that you have granted us will be given to you individually as
04:07well as to any institutions that you are representing.
04:11Stating the obvious, we are not here and neither are you.
04:18Lot 1 of 2, the master recordings of the complete works of the Vampire Lestat de Liancourt, 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 1yuan. Do I hear 1yuan?
05:111yuan.
05:12Sold to the gentlewoman, 3rd row, good spirit.
05:19Lot number 2.
05:21A 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.
05:38Two temperature-controlled wine cabinets, one holding a bottle of Niport 1863 port wine, the other with a magnum of
05:47blood from the curator himself.
05:49The upper level, a singular vinyl pressing of the complete works of the Vampire Lestat de Liancourt, previously delineated, along
06:00with 111 albums of audio best described as an omniscient history of the events of the 2025 album in supporting
06:09tour,
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.
06:24We will begin the bidding at 50 million yuans.
06:29If you are hearing this now, you must be a very privileged individual.
06:35You could have fed a small nation for years while they paved over the rubble.
06:39You bought my box instead.
06:41I like you already.
06:44So let's begin in the middle.
06:46For I could and should have ended it there, my tour, my hedonistic pursuit of extremity, all of it.
06:54And had I done so, the regretful dead and the traumatized still alive would be somewhere other than they are
07:02today.
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 am 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,
07:32well, they were doing exactly as they pleased.
07:57And every vampire, those who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones
07:57who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones
07:57who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones
07:57who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones
07:57who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones
07:57who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones
07:57who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones
07:57who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones
07:57who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones
07:58who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones
07:58who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones
08:05Ooh, ooh, ooh, wah-ah
08:09Ooh, ooh, ooh, wah-ah
08:14Ooh, ooh, ooh, wah-ah
08:21Oh, I've a long face
08:23Not before the baby
08:24I've got long face
08:27Come up reason
08:29No more long stains
08:31That doesn't faze me
08:36I'm an actor
08:38And I make her
08:40I get fat to her
08:42When we break her
08:44What doesn't matter
08:46Who I take her
08:49Naturally I made the band after myself
08:52And the four that backed me
08:54Played their parts as instructed
08:56There was Larry
08:58The front man made side man
09:00Choking his guitar neck nightly
09:01Wishing it was mine
09:03Brother Alex
09:04The more talented seedling
09:06Straight-edged in half the fun
09:08Salamander
09:10Bassist
09:11Dumb
09:12Shockingly dumb
09:13And TC
09:15The abandoned bride
09:17Of a dozen should have died
09:18In art school bands
09:19Keeping us all in the dirty pocket
09:21We dropped songs on the streams
09:24And booked intimate venues
09:25To induce what Jen's snooze
09:27Called FOMO
09:28They came for cosplay
09:29Left converted
09:30And I baptized them
09:31The beautiful unwell
09:33And yet
09:34Here we were
09:35In the inn
09:36Of the stooges
09:37And the stripes
09:38Thirty performances notched
09:40And already resting
09:41On the alps of adequacy
09:43Unacceptable
09:44I'm piano
09:46And your forte
09:48You're l'allegro
09:50I'm a dante
09:53We're ballero
09:55Prostitué
10:08Hello
10:09Welcome to Detroit
10:11Lovely city
10:13Your song sucks
10:14Thank you for the feedback
10:16Pick up the pace
10:17Back up the gear
10:18Give me some face
10:19A souvenir
10:20Here come the gaze
10:21Here come the fear
10:22Now I'll never
10:25Flare
10:29Flare
10:31Flare
10:32Flare
10:33Flare
10:34Flare
10:38Flare
10:39Flare
10:40Flare
10:45Flare
11:01Flare
11:12That was boring
11:15What do you seem to like it?
11:17Harmony's on Plastic Fiends were trash.
11:19He's right.
11:19And the front head on your kick is shimmering.
11:21Turn it up a step.
11:22Singer's right.
11:23You left your tambourine in his stand, Larry.
11:25Yeah, I was feeling the guitar.
11:27No one is coming to New York, you darling.
11:29No, they come for the Aussie shit.
11:30Do rage call the Harmony Room.
11:32Larry Slater's shredding it tonight and no one ever.
11:35You sign the check, sir.
11:36I do, I do sign the check.
11:38Sign this.
11:38The tambourine tomorrow is rehearsed and perfected.
11:41Suck it, sir.
11:42When am I, Sarah?
11:42You're not in court.
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 liar.
11:51Notaries in Oregon don't notarize in red ink.
11:54There'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.
12:09Try 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?
12:17No.
12:19No.
12:21I'm going into my vampire dressing room now.
12:25A little draining both ways.
12:27You'll have to guess who gets the fangs and who gets the vodka bottle.
12:30And yes, it's a vodka bottle.
12:34He did it again.
12:36Fucking asshole.
12:37Did I mention that I was filming a documentary at the time?
12:40A bootless errand helmed by a first time director.
12:44I've seen a rough cut.
12:45Truthful and daring, with less war and pity.
12:47Anyone see Yorda?
12:49Yorda.
12:49Yorda.
12:50Sky blue waters.
12:55Missing a contact again.
12:56Oh.
12:58How many drinks have you had?
13:00One 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.
13:13Wave to the morgue ports in the rear view mirror.
13:15That kind of thing.
13:17But 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 Klapek.
13:26And 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.
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
13:47of Yarda eating up tuna melt by himself
13:50only 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 bricklaying karaoke
14:04phonetic 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,
14:12having locked us in an attic for a year plus perfecting our sound.
14:16The sound I hope would counter Mr. Dulac's portrayal of me
14:19as 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,
14:42huh, and swipe 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 good here.
15:07Same, Jeff.
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'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,
15:49two world wars, 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 hoped to meet him one day.
15:59Was there a question?
16:00Having accumulated profound wisdom and experience through the dark gift of immortality,
16:04why have you chosen to waste at singing music no one wants to hear in pants no one should
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.
16:25But he 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.
16:39You tell him for me.
16:41Is 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?
16:57Was 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?
17:23The 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
17:37drained empty swimming pools.
17:39Drugstores locked up baby formula and shaving cream while Saks ate Barneys and someone told
17:48everyone that Lululemon was sexy.
17:51Facts are irrelevant.
17:55Feels 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.
18:14Fire coming down the hill.
18:16Water moving in on Nantucket.
18:20No more safe spaces.
18:24It's my era.
18:27Now.
18:30Post Malone and Jelly Roll playing there tonight.
18:33Sixty thousand 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 fear 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.
19:30It's nice.
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 right music.
19:41A flower box is nice.
19:43It's nice.
19:43You got yourself a nice place.
19:45It's a nice word.
19:46And it says everything I 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 I 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.
20:06Young professionals.
20:08A smattering of Chris de Trosfort, baby.
20:10Good eating.
20:14Same potholes.
20:16But no hurricanes.
20:18No witches.
20:19Everyone 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.
20:46Satan?
20:47They call themselves, of all things, Satan?
20:50Satan's night out.
20:53Satan's night out?
20:54Out.
20:54Satan's night out.
20:56Okay.
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?
21:09And you talk about me and it to a mortal?
21:11Well, yeah.
21:12Uh, yeah.
21:13Gonna...
21:13But...
21:13You know what?
21:14No, I don't know, Louie.
21:17Please...
21:17Explain yourself.
21:18It's gonna be here and gone in a minute.
21:20No one reads anymore.
21:22Nostad, he is genre...
21:23Whatever.
21:24100%.
21:25But Armand...
21:26He is genre mystérieux.
21:28Yeah.
21:28There's layers.
21:29You have to do that toile in the Louvre.
21:31Hey, toots!
21:32The Boomers!
21:33Did the film to go see the other boss farm with his resting butt face?
21:36Yeah, I skipped that and I would help you see my beta boy in the corner of the room.
21:42Hmm...
21:43I would do it.
21:44You have to do it.
21:45You have to do it.
21:47I would kill it.
21:48I would kill it.
21:49I would kill it.
21:50I would kill it.
21:50I would kill it.
21:50And I would kill it.
21:55I would kill it.
21:55The Statman...
21:57You have to burn the French Mouthis on the street.
21:59100%
22:01100%
22:01There's a wild sleeve.
22:02Huh?
22:04Do you want to become a member?
22:05There's 10% of the...
22:06No, thank you!
22:11Huh.
22:14Oh, I know what Infinitettimo means.
22:19It was raining.
22:20No!
22:21No!
22:23Never!
22:27Perfecting...
22:28Leia!
22:29I'm not a harlequin.
22:30Your sources are your sherfets.
22:34Your editor is your priest.
22:36Don't go to the app.
22:38Jesus out.
22:40Why must you complicate it?
22:43Mr. Twins!
22:45Can you please?
22:47Hello.
22:50Hello.
22:51Oh, I wanted the full-size box.
22:54Is that it?
22:56Is that it?
22:57Is that it?
22:57Is that it?
22:57Is that it?
22:57Is that it?
23:00Your camera is not period correct.
23:03I have a finite allergy.
23:05Well, allergies are delusional.
23:07Take the mounts.
23:09You'll take them.
23:09Whatever I give you.
23:10carpet videos.
23:11Are there someone else you mean that?
23:34Not the AF!
23:36It's not there...
23:37Fuck the laut!
23:39Oh!
23:40Oh, what the fuck?
24:05T-minor-slash
24:11This is in 1979, Bela Lugosi is not dead.
24:15You don't need to finger her for five bars, you're hurting her.
24:22Apologies for the squire, my 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, hey!
24:45Why now?
24:46Dude, that was sick.
24:48What are we doing here?
24:51We're doing a rewrite.
24:54So this whole tour is just some ironic reaction to my book.
24:59Who better to refute the book than the man who wrote the book?
25:05The songs of my story, your documentary, The Liner Notes.
25:08Ha, liner notes, I won two Pulitzers.
25:11I'm taking this thing to Cannes, okay?
25:14I'm gonna be slapping Chris Rock and stroking my Oscar.
25:19The brat sings, the brat dies.
25:21The great laws are clear on this.
25:23I love these songs.
25:24More exposure for us.
25:26More risk for us.
25:27I don't have problems in the songs.
25:31He sings for himself.
25:33Make more.
25:37Only a coven leader can make more.
25:38The great laws are clear on that.
25:40First the book, now the singer.
25:43This is chaos.
25:44Uncaused.
25:44It does a bit of share with you.
25:46If he comes to your people, kill him.
25:48I'm not done here.
26:18We're in.
26:32We're out.
26:35Hang on.
26:42Don't turn to theibi.
26:43Let's do this on the keyboard.
26:45Let's do this.
27:11I don't know.
27:20I don't know.
27:46No time for blowin' up.
27:47No time for throwin' up.
27:49No time for layin' out.
27:50Your phone is blowin' up.
27:52I gotta realize what...
27:55No time for hold my stepbrother until we come.
27:58Do-do-do-do.
27:59Da-da-da.
28:01Don't wanna smash us, let it be your morning star.
28:04Don't wanna learn at a TikTok desk.
28:07Wanna see a man.
28:08Eatin' behind your head.
28:14Oh!
28:19The Beef House and the Twin Oak Small.
28:21Order at the bar this time.
28:23Take some photos with the fans.
28:24I plan to bear with the W.
28:25Keep it scrollin', rollin' fire, mulch, and hope is she...
28:32Hi, Poppy.
28:35I've been a bad boy deep down in my heart.
28:38I kept a million dark secrets from the very star.
28:41Give me a million more screams.
28:43Yeah!
28:43He's exactly what you think it means.
28:47Do-do-do-do.
28:48Da-da-da-da.
28:49Don't wanna smash us, let it be your morning star.
28:53Don't wanna learn at a fucking TikTok desk.
28:56Wanna see a man.
28:57Eatin' behind your crush.
29:06Pick up the fucking tamarind!
29:09From the Alps of Adequacy to the Canyon of Coup d'Etat.
29:13Ah, two nights in a row.
29:15My violin competing with his guitar for the solo break.
29:18Two centuries waiting to share my music.
29:22Two years as Mr. Dulac's B-movie Brute.
29:26But just as I was about to bridge the bridge with murder and mayhem,
29:32something 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.
29:59Blood 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
30:21and the bona fide vampire emerged
30:23center stage
30:25it was I who had been adequate
30:30it was I who had been holding us back
30:34and now
30:35exposed in the roar
30:37under the white hot lights
30:41my bandmates began to feed
30:46and that sound I had been grinding them for
30:49was finally unleashed
30:52a euphoric grattiness spilling into the crowd
30:55into their bodies enveloping the venue
30:58I wanna stay a man
31:03eat a man like a ranch
31:05I wanna stay a man
31:09eat a man
31:10eat a man
31:11I wanna stay a man
31:15eat a man
31:17eat a man
31:19eat a man
31:24eat a man
31:28eat a man
31:29eat a man
31:29eat a man
31:34eat a man
31:39I've been in a deed before.
31:42What do you do?
31:44What did she take?
31:45Not her.
31:47Me.
31:48Get her on the ground.
31:50Her blood.
31:53Ecstasy.
31:55LSD.
31:56What the hell happened up there?
31:59Don't be like mad at her.
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.
32:09The 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, I die.
32:35She dies.
32:36She dies.
32:38Oh, he dies bad.
32:42I'm a mortal.
32:43Yeah, you kill some wolves and fall in love.
32:46Get the gift.
32:47Fall in love.
32:48Go to ground.
32:49Get dug up and fall in love.
32:51You like some wet clothes and a coin-op dryer.
32:54Just 265 years round and round.
32:58Why are you so sad?
33:00Thousands of fans loving you.
33:03I want millions.
33:05And 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?
33:16Huh?
33:17Who told you that?
33:18Don't worry.
33:20They coming.
33:22Who's coming?
33:24They gonna tell you themselves.
33:27Who's coming?
33:29Great show, man.
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.
33:46Never play two nights in Detroit.
33:49You'll wind up in Windsor with a broken orbital bone listening to transactional sex through the adjoining walls.
33:55How I came to this squalid real estate is the premise of Side B, Album 5, so...
34:04Come.
34:06Now, the boutique hotel we were staying at was having a grandish opening that night, and the band was asked
34:11to lend its celebrity status to the event.
34:13Don't tell me to pose.
34:15Fuck you!
34:16There was a red carpet, a pap line, and a vampire DJ of some renown seducing corporate employees, provincial influencers,
34:24and party crashing beautifully unwell.
34:26Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Look faster. Thank you. Thank you.
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. A lot of things happened that night.
34:40Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on!
34:56No, no, no, no. I'm getting ahead of myself again. I arrived fashionably late, of course.
35:02State your name for the camera.
35:04Baby Jinx.
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 gooood.
35:16Surfing the sublime candy-flipped wave of the girl's blood.
35:20Hear him. Hear that voice.
35:22The girl is feeling good.
35:24Wow.
35:24Riding the wonders of Dr. Fareed's blood transfusion quick pick-me-up cocktail.
35:29Who's this guy? Cause like, rock and roll, it's dying.
35:32I sat there, soaking up her praise, along with the band, still somehow blind to the vampiric mysteries of their
35:39front man.
35:40So what if the dead and buried past was now a fresh and eager groupie?
35:45It's rock and roll, you know?
35:46Have 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.
36:21Like 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.
36:50I 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, assuming you're not one of us.
37:04And we generally avoid eco-friendly urinals.
37:07Demol jackass.
37:11Hmm!
37:20Detroit...
37:23Mmm!
37:32Alright.
37:34Good morning.
37:35Hi there so much.
37:37Her name's Tim. She's Russ.
37:39They're Russ.
37:42Pronouns.
37:44And yet it's respectful like silence of a urinal.
37:50He's got a bit, uh, crossed.
37:52We were minding each other the other night.
37:54Russ here has a hot mouth.
37:58And a strong pelvic floor.
38:00I admire your aim.
38:03Long face sucks.
38:05Russ wanted to apologize.
38:08What? Black licorice?
38:11Why do I have to feel?
38:15I like those ones.
38:17Franklin, Mr. Shankly almost ruined the Queen's death. I apologize.
38:21Accept it.
38:24We 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.
38:32We have a huge house out past Bradmore.
38:34Our own farm under the floorboards.
38:37Hmm, sure. What about tomorrow night?
38:40You're on the road tomorrow night.
38:43Yes, it was me being polite.
38:46No, that was you lying.
38:48Hmm.
38:49Eco-friendly urinals.
38:51Good for the planet, so we're told.
38:53Good for vampires.
38:55Hmm.
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 color.
39:22Lilac.
39:37I have a blind spot when it comes to blood poisoning.
39:40I 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.
39:48MDMA and LSD are excellent drugs.
39:51Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce.
39:54Twirl, twirl.
39:56Overshare.
39:57I saw your soul.
39:59I saw yours, too.
40:04Still feeling good.
40:07I went looking for my band.
40:08Looking for sex.
40:10Looking for anything that radiated the fun that I sang about in my song, Long Face.
40:16And then...
40:19Regionals.
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...
40:30Ooh.
40:31They want a little scrap with a scalpel.
40:34No worries.
40:35I thought I have the Queen's blood in me.
40:37I could take 20 Regionals at once with the Queen's blood.
40:41Where's the band, Dan?
40:44They called corporate bullshit.
40:48Went to party.
40:50Upstairs.
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, 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?
41:15Mr. 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.
41:31That would be the taking of life.
41:32And next would be a good draining, leaving your victim near death unparalyzed for an unhurried escape.
41:38And after that, there's the petticoot, the little drink, the sip.
41:42And after those three, it's sex.
41:45So now you know.
41:46The fourth best thing a vampire can do to avoid thinking about the past is to have 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 and I am not ashamed of it.
42:04Sex is fun.
42:05Like the fun I sing about in Longface, which 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.
42:51Law 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.
43:03Trace the wall, my dear. You'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.
43:24A normally confining architecture and a thrift store coven galvanized by medieval dogma wouldn't faze me in the least.
43:31I'm building a career that supports my well-being.
43:34But...
43:34The drug blood in my sex legs and the distracting past my music had unleashed on me put me at
43:40a momentary disadvantage.
43:43I'm in charge of my work-life balance.
43:45Law 4.
43:46Or...
43:46As if the Dulac Malloy memoir hadn't outed us all two years ago.
43:50As if my entire stage show wasn't a bawdy burlesque of is he or isn't he.
43:56As 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 fang gang.
44:25We are the children of the darkness reborn.
44:30Jesus fucking God!
44:33Our mom 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.
44:49But 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.
45:06Consider this sliding door of Dan.
45:08As you decant my blood and devour my words.
45:24it's hard hiding you're a god you're for real cctv eco flush toilets imf freezing your accounts
45:33because you have the blood of a patricidal queen inside you hello again we have to live up here
45:40tell a mask will drag me into that and once you reveal yourself you have to be on all the
45:45time
45:46and remember every face you've ever met and everywhere you go everyone remembers the
45:50thing they said to you in the room that you shared were you a stutterer as a child
45:59this is why gods prefer hiding in the clouds there's nothing there
46:14so many opportunities to call it a night that night
46:20after the song unleashed the muses after i saw my first soul after i was nearly decapitated
46:28in a boutique hotel hallway after my vampire nature was revealed to the band and my vampire
46:36gift winged me away north of the rivers off of the country
46:43but i was saved from such rational thought love will do that to you
47:08my dear very kind of beautiful calm
47:14my dear very kind of beautiful calm
47:19my dear very kind of beautiful calm
47:20my soulmate is something i can't get out of music's opened up to that job and i'm not sure
47:28if i can close it again i'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
48:01my
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 how it felt then
48:31the fledgling
48:34lover
48:37mother
48:40listen to tracks from the vampire list ad wherever you stream music
48:46if you're still listening after the last hour welcome back
48:50so bring on the music
48:54do you kill people
49:01let's talk about your mother
49:04i've been a bad woman
49:06my makeup called for his mama and i can't
49:10give me a million more screens
49:15you are caught in great danger with this dot
49:18you stole my personal position
49:20you 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
49:39fucking 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
50:02probably happening in real time after 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
50:28from the previous seasons we'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 and we move into this completely crazy rock
50:50and 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 and so it was a very fun environment to be
51:07putting him in
51:13come to me
51:13Montreal
51:15I am he and he is me
51:18Louis on the side of FaceTiming and you're probably going to get the sense that Louis is going to come
51:21over 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 Rollin and Hannah and the writers was that I think Louis watched
51:34just a ton of YouTube in his time off you know like cat videos probably hungrily
51:45Louis do you know someone called Daniel Malloy
51:47well the staff finds out about the book and then that completely throws all those plants out of the window
51:51one of my favorite things about the second season of Interview with the Vampire is that
51:56I burned his laptop
51:57I didn't know he had it saved in the cloud
51:59Louis sets fire to a laptop to try and erase the book
52:04um 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
52:18please 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 Auverg
52:43he said you told him that
52:44did I threaten Claudia with rape on a train?
52:47no 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?
53:04si el llega a tu pueblo, matale
53:06I 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?
53:22yeah
53:23i mean black & cleavage is a great song
53:38it's about the first kill that Lestat made
53:42after he reconciled with Louis in New Orleans
53:45Didn't blink, didn't try to run, I got a real eye for...
53:51Particularly in episode one, you do see that he's pushing and pushing
53:55to get this sort of moment of grace, to 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, he does have his first breakdown.
54:15Of 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 gonna go and tell my story, I'm gonna do a rewrite,
54:39this is my version of events.
54:40And it's evolved into something different, he's tapped into his past.
54:55Which one of you's OD'd before?
54:57I don't know how far...
54:57Oh?
55:04I don't know how far...
55:27Amen.
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