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00:00:00Watch The Vampire Lestat after dark on AMC Plus or wherever you get your podcasts.
00:00:30The Vampire of Akasha are in me.
00:00:31Sorry, what the fuck is Akasha?
00:00:33Is there an evil older than you?
00:00:35Your maker, Marius.
00:00:37My maker is dead. I've told you that already.
00:00:39Was Dubai bullshit?
00:00:41Me breaking you down.
00:00:42You knew everything the whole time.
00:00:44Loving Louis doesn't shut it off.
00:00:46It wasn't my love for Louis.
00:00:48Best, best.
00:00:49But it was love.
00:00:51You've been reaching them.
00:00:53Yes.
00:00:53They are lost and tired of enduring.
00:00:57Your music speaks to them.
00:00:59When's he going to make an album?
00:01:02When we are ready!
00:01:05You are listening to The Failures, album 41, side B.
00:01:20My first coffin had the likeness of my maker carved into its lid.
00:01:25Indecipherable Latin etched around the rim.
00:01:27And as I was an orphan vampire, my sleep within troubled.
00:01:32Again.
00:01:34I spent half of two decades in the silken embrace of a chestnut casket purchased for my French Quarter townhome.
00:01:41Before it was hurled off a balcony during one of Mr. Dulac's redirected moves.
00:01:48Again?
00:01:49What exactly are we going for here on take 17?
00:01:54We are going for...
00:01:56Again.
00:01:58Okay.
00:01:59I have slumbered in a variety of sarcophagi over the centuries, but if I had to choose a favorite, it
00:02:05would be the 7,000 square foot model I endured in the fall of 2025, while I recorded my posthumously
00:02:13produced album that Pitchfork would trash and for which the world shouts in feeble attempts to explain away clearly attributable
00:02:20devastation.
00:02:23But I, Amel, digress.
00:02:26Again.
00:02:28Take 28.
00:02:43Again.
00:02:45Take 28.
00:02:47Take 28.
00:02:47An amnesia fund was created, and annual payments in perpetuity were issued to Jarda Klapik, a coroner, an obituary writer
00:02:56for the Czech Broadsheet Pravo, Di, Daniel, Farid, and two dozen other collaborators, including Christine Clare, who bought a retirement
00:03:04villa and wallpapered her basement sex dungeon with billable hour invoices.
00:03:15Again.
00:03:17Take 61.
00:03:19Four!
00:03:19I would leave this coffin only once in four months.
00:03:23I would butcher the band for bloom and marbling, fleece the muses of their animus, and stop at nothing until
00:03:30an album worthy of the long, lurid life of Les Daudeliencourt burned into elegiac audio formats.
00:03:37And when that was achieved, I would perform it once live in that now infamous concert.
00:03:42And, well, I will come to that later.
00:03:47But like Elvis or Andy Kaufman, rumors swirled of my survival, so Sophia Gabriela de Leoncourt de Vecchia took over
00:03:55for Christine and whittled down my entourage to the essentials, which was her and the vampire Sam Barclay, whom she
00:04:02hired as a producer for three reasons.
00:04:04One, he had faked his death once before so he could be trusted to maintain the right.
00:04:09Two, he knew the board well enough from his own recordings.
00:04:12Big Bad Wolf, vocals, take one.
00:04:15And three, she knew I hated him for his part in Paris.
00:04:19And that would keep me lively.
00:04:20Whoo!
00:04:24I'm the Big Bad Wolf!
00:04:30Nice.
00:04:31I must take one.
00:04:33Fabulous.
00:04:34Moving on.
00:04:36So, straighten your tie, inflate your lips, be it facial or labial.
00:04:40We are going to trace my self-taught musicianship back to its weird and haunting origin.
00:04:45That's right.
00:04:47I'm finally going to talk about the Queen.
00:04:58I'm a little killer.
00:05:00I'm a lonely one.
00:05:02I'm a sugar gun up your spine, telling you to run.
00:05:06I'm a little killer.
00:05:08I'm a lost lover.
00:05:10I'm a lost lover.
00:05:11I'm a past and the future, the lies of the sutures, the cool and dumb.
00:05:14Where the rock and roll is.
00:05:16Where the good take.
00:05:18Where the heart of me love and the face of them love.
00:05:21Where the stupid rhyme.
00:05:24Bang bang.
00:05:25Bang bang.
00:05:26Bang bang.
00:05:28Bang bang.
00:05:28Bang bang.
00:05:29Bang bang.
00:05:30Blow burn.
00:05:43Bang bang.
00:05:46Bang bang.
00:05:48Bang bang.
00:05:49Bang bang.
00:05:50Bang bang.
00:05:51Again.
00:05:53Again.
00:06:17A drum sounds like a drum.
00:06:19That's because it's a drum.
00:06:25The drums can't sound like a drum.
00:06:27Okay.
00:06:29What do you want it to sound like then?
00:06:33It has to sound like death approaching.
00:06:36Oh, my God.
00:06:37Like life emerging.
00:06:39Like, yeah, cool.
00:06:40Like life and death.
00:06:41Death, then life.
00:06:42Okay.
00:06:43A mewing babe extracted from a mother's womb.
00:06:46Okay.
00:06:46I, uh, I don't play metaphorical drums.
00:06:50Try.
00:06:51I can do faster or harder or shuffle, fill, flam, buzz roll.
00:06:56Like a drum is a drum.
00:06:57A stick is a stick.
00:06:58I don't know what to tell you.
00:07:00It's because she's not a vampire.
00:07:02It's because her deepest wound is a man walking away mid ceremony.
00:07:07I'm on me.
00:07:08Wow.
00:07:08Cool.
00:07:10Yoko Mirren.
00:07:13Guests at my death bed.
00:07:16We are making an album about my life, which has been a three century train wreck.
00:07:22Your drums are my heart.
00:07:25Your guitar is my hunger.
00:07:29Your bass, the night terrors that follow me to coffin.
00:07:36What's my guitar?
00:07:37Yes, please interrupt my flow, Larry.
00:07:40Your guitar is my frailty.
00:07:46Keep coloring inside the lines as you play and I'll nod a tempo mark to your life jacket.
00:07:51Blair, Blair.
00:07:53Come on.
00:07:57It's...
00:07:58Hm?
00:07:59Have some reverence.
00:08:01Kill me savagely.
00:08:04Yup.
00:08:05Sure.
00:08:06Sam, let's jump to something else.
00:08:07TC's not ready.
00:08:08I'm fine.
00:08:09I...
00:08:09Can I hear when I call out your name?
00:08:10Vocal 12.
00:08:11Copy that.
00:08:14Blue eyes.
00:08:16Eyes of blue.
00:08:21Blue eyes.
00:08:25Blue is the sea.
00:08:40Fish table from the wilds of the...
00:08:44Pop...poppers grey.
00:08:46What's his mother?
00:08:48Loves.
00:08:50Loves.
00:08:51Loves.
00:08:52Loves.
00:08:54Loves.
00:08:54He wanted to take care of her, as you say.
00:08:57I...
00:08:57No.
00:08:58He was there.
00:08:59He was not.
00:09:03Where am I?
00:09:05For pulling me from the earth.
00:09:08For saving me from starvation.
00:09:10Thank you for the warm blood shared.
00:09:11Yes.
00:09:12You're welcome.
00:09:13She told me where you were, and there you were, and there I was.
00:09:15I brought you back, and...
00:09:18Here we are.
00:09:22Who are you?
00:09:23I am Marius de Romanos.
00:09:27I am the keeper.
00:09:29Was the keeper.
00:09:31Now you are the keeper.
00:09:33Marius?
00:09:34Oh, an echo.
00:09:36I...
00:09:36Armand said that you were destroyed.
00:09:40He was wrong.
00:09:42Rotten boy.
00:09:47She likes music.
00:09:50Come.
00:09:59Touch.
00:10:01They are the mother and father to all of us.
00:10:04And they must be kept.
00:10:07This one?
00:10:10Agasha.
00:10:12This tomb.
00:10:14It's alive.
00:10:15Very alive.
00:10:18Very.
00:10:20Much alive.
00:10:27That's a very flattering offer.
00:10:31Sadly, we were only planning to do one Immemorian concert.
00:10:38Okay.
00:10:39Nice to talk.
00:10:42Lawrence Welsh wants the Vampire Lestat to open for her.
00:10:45But he is two meters deep in Austria, but...
00:10:47No, she wants them after the album comes out.
00:10:50Sorry. Sorry.
00:10:51Can we do that again?
00:10:53Can I get a little bit more vocal in my ears, please?
00:10:56In the ear, down the throat, past the colon.
00:10:58Play it from your groin.
00:11:01Larry, please stop thinking about Alex eating burgers and enjoying Glenlivet again.
00:11:10More singers, Sam. Hold the head shrinking.
00:11:12From the top.
00:11:14So...
00:11:15You're gonna re-record his parts, then?
00:11:18Bury the rest behind the other three.
00:11:26That's a deep grave.
00:11:32Pretend I'm Armand...
00:11:34...with the telemasker.
00:11:37Be the spineless mole once more.
00:11:43You dig a hole in the burrow...
00:11:47...for Larry's guitar.
00:11:51This is the job, Sam.
00:11:54Fill the space with worldly things.
00:11:58Go into the noise and dust of the city.
00:12:01Bring back presents of the present.
00:12:05This is the job.
00:12:06I don't want a job. I want to die.
00:12:08But you didn't die.
00:12:09Eighty years faced down with a seaman you killed.
00:12:13Long enough to learn the depths of despair.
00:12:16Do the job.
00:12:17Learn to endure the depths of living.
00:12:20Find yourself, Luzdata.
00:12:23I have lost myself.
00:12:26Bring me Luzdata, son of Marcus.
00:12:32From a tree of us, she chose you.
00:12:37A great honor.
00:12:38She likes music.
00:12:40She loves music.
00:12:42I don't know how to play.
00:12:43Recall your fledgling.
00:12:46Start with mimicry.
00:12:47I don't...
00:12:48Don't interrupt.
00:12:49Keep your hunts short.
00:12:51A quick sip of blood.
00:12:53A fast fading warmth of the kill.
00:12:56Then back to them.
00:12:56Here.
00:12:57What happened to him?
00:12:58Interruption!
00:12:59If you must bring one back, burn them here.
00:13:03Use the ashes to keep her thriving.
00:13:09And no blood.
00:13:11Our blood overwhelms just the ashes.
00:13:15Play her music.
00:13:20His name was Enkel.
00:13:23How's it?
00:13:24We burned in the sun, yes?
00:13:26Do you remember a night when your body burned under the moon?
00:13:30Yes.
00:13:33Uh...
00:13:33Yes, I...
00:13:34In Denmark, 18...
00:13:35December...
00:13:3619, 1802.
00:13:37Finished the job transporting them from one crypt to another.
00:13:42Two bottles of ginger flower gin in the veins of a celebratory meal.
00:13:46I woke up next to her and my body afired.
00:13:50Hadn't finished the job.
00:13:53Left him above in the sun.
00:13:56My mother and I were countryside.
00:13:59We ran ourselves into a bog.
00:14:01Oh.
00:14:02Took us months to recover.
00:14:04Bogs.
00:14:05Bogs are rare.
00:14:09And now you know.
00:14:12Why there are so few of us.
00:14:16Eyes at us back ages.
00:14:19Hmm.
00:14:21We are all connected, huh?
00:14:24Through her.
00:14:25She is...
00:14:27She is the seed.
00:14:30Hmm.
00:14:31Hmm.
00:14:34And if she burns...
00:14:37We all burn.
00:14:39And you are her keeper.
00:14:41I don't like being alone.
00:14:43Ice... trip... stumble... fumble...
00:14:47I am not worthy of this job.
00:14:48If I do not...
00:14:49Oh...
00:14:50Leave now.
00:14:51The smoke becomes big and a big becomes the end.
00:14:55The end will burn the tree of us.
00:14:57You are...
00:15:02Worthy.
00:15:08Let her tell you that herself.
00:15:16It will take time, Willis, that...
00:15:19She is not on our o'clock.
00:15:21To me, not a word for 22 years when I first took the job.
00:15:3123.
00:15:37You are listening to The Failures.
00:15:39Album 46.
00:15:41Side A.
00:15:42It's called Revpar.
00:15:44Short for revenue per available room.
00:15:46It's been trending down.
00:15:47Especially in high-end luxury property.
00:15:50Probably expanded too fast.
00:15:51But...
00:15:52There's panic now.
00:15:53So...
00:15:54I jumped on it.
00:15:55I got two more.
00:15:56One in Montreal.
00:15:57One in Boston.
00:16:00A place for us.
00:16:02Yeah.
00:16:02And them.
00:16:03There's not enough of...
00:16:05Us...
00:16:06To make it profitable.
00:16:07But...
00:16:08They can come watch if they want.
00:16:10Yeah.
00:16:10If you don't want to be watched,
00:16:11Then there's a private room in the back.
00:16:14Different menu in the back room.
00:16:16Little drinks.
00:16:18I missed you, brother.
00:16:23I missed you too, sis.
00:16:26Both of you.
00:16:28I wish we could stay longer.
00:16:30But you know Claudia.
00:16:32Always go, go, go.
00:16:34Got in something deep last night.
00:16:36And it didn't clean good.
00:16:39Oh?
00:16:40What happened last night?
00:16:41We went to the Russian vodka room for karaoke
00:16:44When the understudies from Hooran Rouge walked in.
00:16:48Something about theatre kids makes me moody.
00:16:51Mmm.
00:16:52We pickled sateen,
00:16:54Took it downtown to the cubby hall,
00:16:55Sucked it dry in the gans of water,
00:16:57And shoved it down the laundry chute.
00:16:58She's good.
00:16:59I actually played sateen on tour two years ago.
00:17:03No way.
00:17:03Yeah.
00:17:04This was really fun.
00:17:07So, we are here for two nights.
00:17:14And then...
00:17:29I think the whole thing's a fake.
00:17:31Total Milli Vanilli situation.
00:17:33It's Larry wrote all their songs.
00:17:34I was a yardophile.
00:17:36We knew that was his real name.
00:17:37When I heard him sing,
00:17:39It just hit me hard.
00:17:41I'm not saying it's a good thing the guy got shot,
00:17:43But I don't think he was even legally allowed to be here anyway.
00:17:45I got to go to dinner with him once,
00:17:47At a white castle after the Hartford show.
00:17:49He was...
00:17:51It was so fucking hot.
00:17:54State your name for the camera.
00:17:56No names.
00:17:58Okay, random Manhattanite.
00:18:00What do you make of Lestat's exit?
00:18:02He faked us.
00:18:04High and dry when we needed him most.
00:18:07All cheap and easy non-fiction ends in death.
00:18:09Revolutions do not require a soundtrack.
00:18:12They only need numbers.
00:18:14And are you making more?
00:18:16Just one.
00:18:17I had a fang in his neck,
00:18:19But I was interrupted.
00:18:21Had to let him go.
00:18:23Sure.
00:18:23Happens.
00:18:24I tracked him down.
00:18:25Planned to finish the work.
00:18:26But as I followed him,
00:18:28I found him...
00:18:31Fascinating.
00:18:31I'd sit at the foot of his bed in derelict motel rooms as he slept off a fix.
00:18:38Gradually, over the next 52 years, I was interceding on his behalf.
00:18:46And when he blacked out under an overpass...
00:18:48Okay, Jesus.
00:18:49A donkey about to roll over him in an RV.
00:18:52Her wife Alice at home, pregnant at the time.
00:18:55Where the fuck are you, Dad?
00:18:5752 years?
00:18:58I wanted to tell you in Philadelphia, but I felt you were not in a space to receive it.
00:19:02That was my gag reflex that I'm in love with you.
00:19:06Prove it.
00:19:09February 11, 1990.
00:19:11A reading at Amherst, Massachusetts.
00:19:14Four students attend.
00:19:15Three are there for extra credit.
00:19:17One is there for you to use.
00:19:19Which you do.
00:19:21Aggressively.
00:19:21In your rental car.
00:19:23In the garage of your Northampton hotel.
00:19:25I make sure the boy makes it home and forgets the event.
00:19:29May 15, 2002.
00:19:31You sneak away from your book research to attend your daughter's graduation at Rice University.
00:19:37She didn't ask you to come and mouth the words fuck off when she sees you approach.
00:19:43You respect her wishes and drive away in a daze, but I guide you to the Roscoe Chapel
00:19:49where inside, you unburden yourself and weep.
00:19:55Uncontrollably.
00:19:57The attending guard asks you to step outside, but I...
00:20:00But he started coughing.
00:20:01A coughing fit, and you mourn your daughter's hatred for the next 30 minutes.
00:20:08In peace.
00:20:14August 5, 2025.
00:20:15I don't plan to say love until I make profound amends for the harm I've caused you.
00:20:24Yeah, sure.
00:20:25It's a timing issue.
00:20:2652 years.
00:20:28I've watched you.
00:20:29Where you went, what you did.
00:20:31Watching your sorrow, your modulating sexuality.
00:20:36And where was Louis at that time?
00:20:38At home.
00:20:39Waiting to hear the minute details when I got back.
00:20:42Yes, you sainted him gray in your book, but he's calculating to the core.
00:20:47Methodically cruel.
00:20:48And here you are again, wearing the same set of horse blinders with Lestat.
00:20:54I signed a contract, I'm finishing a job.
00:20:57He casts you out, and still you carry his water.
00:21:00Let me help you finish that job.
00:21:02Yeah.
00:21:05Love between vampires can be one thing, or it can be countless things.
00:21:08I will never love.
00:21:10Like Lestat and Sophia.
00:21:14I want to be your maker.
00:21:16Finish the thought, Armand.
00:21:17I want to give you half your life back.
00:21:19Lestat and Sophia.
00:21:20Help you walk in the sun.
00:21:24I knew her as Gabriela.
00:21:29She's Lestat's mother.
00:21:31What?
00:21:33Lestat lays with his mother.
00:21:39Did you say walk in the sun?
00:21:41This ain't no good.
00:21:45You're gonna miss you.
00:21:49Make more.
00:21:51Make more.
00:21:53Make more.
00:21:53Why did you leave me?
00:21:55Two months ago.
00:21:57No.
00:21:58In New Orleans.
00:22:00Both times.
00:22:03I was happy you left both times.
00:22:09By the river when you were three.
00:22:12And you...
00:22:15picked up the 9,000th stick that day,
00:22:19and I kept having to say,
00:22:22what does that stick do?
00:22:28You were a terrible mother.
00:22:30I was.
00:22:37In Spain...
00:22:40I didn't need you anymore.
00:22:43You don't need around you what does not need you anymore.
00:22:48Breaks the circle.
00:22:53Okay, let's do another.
00:23:08You need me now.
00:23:10I do.
00:23:12Make more!
00:23:14Make more!
00:23:16Make more!
00:23:17Make more!
00:23:19Make more!
00:23:21Make more!
00:23:22Make more!
00:23:24Make more!
00:23:25Make more!
00:23:28Make more!
00:23:37Or what?
00:23:38I don't recall.
00:23:40It sounded cool.
00:23:45Elbow my way along the Minashtraki.
00:23:47There's a new shop.
00:23:49Jewelry in the style of the Byzantine and plates embossed with the head of Zeus.
00:23:54It's all in very poor taste.
00:23:55But then the colonialists all have very poor taste, so why don't feed it back to them?
00:24:00The city has modernized him in such velocity.
00:24:02It's crude houses, narrow streets, dead monuments, and then electric trams.
00:24:10And this, I found this.
00:24:15A lever action ice cream disher.
00:24:20For ice cream.
00:24:22The merchant called it a scoop.
00:24:26A scoop.
00:24:30Scoop.
00:24:34Tickles the back of the throat when you say it.
00:24:36He's like an owl daydreaming he's a kingfisher.
00:24:40One final treasure.
00:24:43The young man with the bazooki out again.
00:24:46A new one added to his usual repertoire.
00:24:50And...
00:24:53And the G.
00:24:57Something like that.
00:25:02Shooooooool.
00:25:04Shooooool.
00:25:08Peh.
00:25:09You have to put the peu.
00:25:12Peh.
00:25:12School.
00:25:13Peh.
00:25:15So, is this what time works on us?
00:25:17Will I bloodlessly bloom into a husk?
00:25:24If you were the first, then who made you?
00:25:28Why do we exist?
00:25:31Why do we endure at all?
00:25:34Why did she leave me?
00:25:42Am I evil?
00:25:48Is my evil sanctioned by nature?
00:25:53Or divine error?
00:25:57Where is God?
00:26:07Who dies and who stays alive?
00:26:17Who dies and who stays alive?
00:26:22Again, same place.
00:26:23One, two, three, four!
00:26:26Big boss gets to have fun.
00:26:28If you're a boo-boo, then he doesn't want you.
00:26:32Oh, don't you dare write down this history.
00:26:35If you know him, then you won on the floor.
00:26:38Only the big boss gets to decide.
00:26:41Why is God who dies and who stays alive?
00:26:52Why are you not going to have that?
00:26:53Because you're already dead.
00:26:54It's a great idea.
00:26:54It's a good idea.
00:26:55Are we ready?
00:26:55Are we ready?
00:26:56Are we ready?
00:26:57Bad idea.
00:26:58Ready.
00:27:03Why do you stay alive?
00:27:12Again?
00:27:13Again?
00:27:15Who dies and who stays alive?
00:27:19No.
00:27:20Who stays alive?
00:27:34Moving on.
00:27:36You are listening to The Failures, album 49, side B.
00:27:41So how's it worked, you and him?
00:27:44How's it work?
00:27:46Where you at with Lemuel?
00:27:47Uh, taking it slow.
00:27:50Mmm.
00:27:51Holding hands for now.
00:27:54Yeah.
00:27:55Keeping it loose.
00:27:58Um, sorry, you don't have to do the accent.
00:28:03Oh.
00:28:04Yeah, it's hard.
00:28:06The act.
00:28:08So maybe just...
00:28:09Use my own voice?
00:28:10Yeah.
00:28:11Safe.
00:28:12Start again?
00:28:14Yeah.
00:28:16What's it like with Lemuel?
00:28:20Simple things.
00:28:22Like, he asks me how I'm doing, and I say I'm good.
00:28:26And I ask him how he's doing, and he says,
00:28:30I'm hungry.
00:28:32Or put down that iPad and give me some attention.
00:28:35Um, he doesn't count time like it's a badge.
00:28:41I go nice, I don't know where he is, but I like it that way.
00:28:45Yeah.
00:28:47Taking it slow.
00:28:49Mmm.
00:28:58What you writing in there?
00:29:00Uh, yeah, just this and this.
00:29:06All right, you two.
00:29:08Don't make me call the police.
00:29:10Take the boat back to the dock.
00:29:12We're gonna pretend this never.
00:29:17You're doing that to him.
00:29:19Yeah.
00:29:23Do it to me.
00:29:26Nah.
00:29:27Do it.
00:29:28Let's just get out of nowhere.
00:29:28Come on, make me a stone.
00:29:31No.
00:30:03What did you do?
00:30:05Let's just, uh, let's get out of here.
00:30:07I can't hold him for too long.
00:30:27Here they come, Nicky.
00:30:28Here, Bo.
00:30:30The clarinet.
00:30:32The announcement.
00:30:34The reprise.
00:30:36The harmonic shift.
00:30:40Oh, foreshadowing.
00:30:42Yes, I can't guess.
00:30:44Move to the subdominant, but not yet.
00:30:46Not yet.
00:30:47Not yet, madame.
00:30:49Oh, if I say you would have loved it.
00:30:52Competing strings, Father Max.
00:30:54The counterpoint.
00:30:56It's like, uh, trembling waterfalls.
00:31:00It's like hungry peasants itching for a fight.
00:31:07What do you think, Marius?
00:31:10Oh, you're still on holiday?
00:31:12I blame you, Armand's rotten guest.
00:31:15Oh.
00:31:16No voices.
00:31:21Ha, ha.
00:31:25No voices.
00:31:30Perhaps if you finish the goddamn symphony,
00:31:32you might have brought the choir in the final movement.
00:31:34But, um, it's a signature blend
00:31:38of Ottoman bicycle enthusiasts
00:31:41and a Swedish barrel maker from Malmo
00:31:44who thought the Acropolis looked drab.
00:31:52Then it became that kind of party here in Cal.
00:31:56You like to watch?
00:32:00Oh, don't look now.
00:32:02But Magnus, his hand is wandering down
00:32:05my older brother's pants.
00:32:07Are you affronted by these intimacies, Anka?
00:32:11My hand on your eve,
00:32:13on the eve of a great century.
00:32:28Splash of red for the new year.
00:32:31You have been exquisite in your years.
00:32:47They split number eight on the middle.
00:32:49Practical limitations cutting through
00:32:51his romantic gestures.
00:32:53You're supposed to watch the music, Armand.
00:32:56I don't know why I invite you, worthless.
00:33:03Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:33:06Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no-.
00:33:08Daddy's already left.
00:33:09I scratched.
00:33:11I scratched it!
00:33:13Stupid!
00:33:26I ruined your party.
00:33:31Huh.
00:33:33It's nineteen hundred. We made it.
00:33:37Come.
00:33:46Come.
00:33:55Come to me.
00:34:04Come.
00:34:06Come.
00:34:08Come.
00:34:10Come.
00:34:16Come.
00:34:32How is it that they live with such harmony?
00:34:45The billions of stars, how is it that they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when
00:34:55most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their own minds?
00:35:03Something wrong, Mr. No.
00:35:15Yes, Thomas Aquinas.
00:35:24Why did you take me to the witch's place?
00:35:28What?
00:35:29I was asking Sophia.
00:35:33She's taking a call, I think.
00:35:35Check your phone.
00:35:36What?
00:35:37Your phone.
00:35:39It's... bu... buzzing.
00:35:44Again, same place.
00:35:48Again, same place.
00:35:51Ready?
00:35:53No.
00:35:55No.
00:35:55Tune it down a whole step.
00:35:59What?
00:36:01Tune it down a whole step, A minor.
00:36:04All right, let me, uh, let me work that out.
00:36:07Beards to the floor, waiting for you to work it out, Larry!
00:36:13You tune it down a whole step!
00:36:19Everyone, tune it down a whole step.
00:36:23Lay it down without me, Sam.
00:36:25For our ears, not theirs.
00:36:33He's an asshole.
00:36:37And you suck.
00:36:39I suck.
00:36:40Everyone sucks.
00:36:42The singer sucks.
00:36:46Alive!
00:36:54Is this messing you up?
00:36:56I can stop.
00:36:57I can totally stop.
00:36:57Played these parts a million times, man.
00:36:59I'm just...
00:37:02Got that yips.
00:37:04Feel like I'm back in select, letting in grapefruits.
00:37:07You were a terrible boy.
00:37:09No, it's not good.
00:37:12It's your total shredder with an ax.
00:37:15And look, everything we've talked about.
00:37:18We're finally making an album that people might actually hear.
00:37:20And it's like...
00:37:23It's really good.
00:37:24It's good, yeah?
00:37:25Yeah.
00:37:27Put your mitts on.
00:37:29One take.
00:37:32And then rest.
00:37:37And then we played out scenes as if she had lived.
00:37:43Um...
00:37:44Was alive.
00:37:46But now it's all blurred.
00:37:50And I called her Claudia.
00:37:53But she's herself, too, now, I think.
00:37:58And I know it's not real.
00:38:02But is it?
00:38:03Is it her?
00:38:04Come back to me?
00:38:05I can't tell.
00:38:07And whole nights go by where I don't, uh, want to be able to tell.
00:38:12And I just, um...
00:38:15Is it her?
00:38:19Can you go in there and tell me if it's her?
00:38:31I was shut in the streets when you didn't call.
00:38:34I'm a selfish bastard, huh?
00:38:37Anybody spends five minutes with me, they know that.
00:38:39I'm...
00:38:39I'm...
00:38:40I know you're gonna bring it up.
00:38:42I don't have an answer for it.
00:38:46I'm in the middle of recording my fucking head.
00:38:52Yes.
00:38:54Okay.
00:39:08Chicken and waffle special.
00:39:10I wouldn't order it, but I gotta say it.
00:39:12Get you a water.
00:39:20You.
00:39:27The internet says you're dead.
00:39:29Then I must be.
00:39:34You know he has been there for an hour.
00:39:39Stop performing.
00:39:42What does he order when he comes here?
00:39:46I bring him anything about to go bad.
00:39:49What the cook's pushing.
00:39:51Then I'll have that.
00:39:55You will pick the app and catch it.
00:40:07Whatever.
00:40:10You're amazing.
00:40:11I love you.
00:40:11I can't see you.
00:40:11No, I can't see you.
00:40:11I'm a dog.
00:40:11I'm so good.
00:40:11You're so good.
00:40:13You're so good.
00:40:15You're so good.
00:40:18You're so good.
00:40:29I had some debts to pay off, so is that beneficial, going in both?
00:40:33And if he's paying you what I imagine he's paying you, why do you still work here?
00:40:36Well, if things with us get too freaky, I just pick up a shift or two
00:40:40to get some real, real back into my life.
00:40:49He's bringing you in this now. That's his next thing, is it?
00:40:53We're going to be a family. Uncle Les.
00:41:00Find someone else to swing home.
00:41:02He's the one coming around here doing all this with me.
00:41:04I just wait for the bell to ring, or the blowers of us, or the hundred texts a day.
00:41:09You're hurting him.
00:41:11I'm hurting Louis.
00:41:20I look like her.
00:41:22I look just like her, don't I?
00:41:24Your gait suggests a hip injury that she never suffered,
00:41:28and she had a heart murmur. You don't.
00:41:31But I look like her.
00:42:05It's not her.
00:42:06It's not anything like her.
00:42:11The eyes.
00:42:12Yeah, the eye is no spark, right?
00:42:18Don't see this person again.
00:42:23And next time someone tries to murder me, pick up the phone.
00:42:25It's not a knock.
00:42:28To be the bear.
00:42:52It's not a knock.
00:43:13The day you were born
00:43:18I was shaken like a leaf
00:43:21On an old oak tree
00:43:28Then you stayed like a thorn
00:43:32Red roses raining down
00:43:36Till they flooded me
00:43:43Even when we parted ways
00:43:46You never turn, never turn your gaze
00:43:50And I can still, I can still hear you say
00:43:56Don't break that stair
00:43:59I'm burning in your mirror tonight
00:44:04Oh, don't you dare call your name
00:44:09It's the fear that I'm right
00:44:12Don't you try to forget
00:44:15All the things you regret
00:44:19In those stained glass, stained glass eyes
00:44:41Had our fun
00:44:43Like a child
00:44:45Just a couple of knives
00:44:49Cutting through twenty years
00:44:52No one ever gets to keep my smile
00:44:59But you can't peel it off me
00:45:03Like one of your souvenirs
00:45:07Like one of your souvenirs
00:45:33Don't you dare call it yearning
00:45:36It's the fear that I'm right
00:45:39Don't you try to forget
00:45:42Don't you try to forget
00:45:43All the things you regret
00:45:46Like the ashes you spread
00:45:50Till you had nothing left
00:45:54Of those stained glass
00:46:01Stained glass eyes
00:46:13This doesn't sound like us
00:46:16How's it fit with Longface?
00:46:19It doesn't. Longface is not going on the album.
00:46:22That's, uh, that's our calling card
00:46:25And if that's the new sound
00:46:26Then neither is Why Do I Have to Feel
00:46:28Or Big Bad Wolf
00:46:29Or, and you're just gonna, what, re-record?
00:46:32The entire album
00:46:34Instruments play like metaphors
00:46:36Well, yeah, it's a beauty, so
00:46:39Um, you shouldn't fire them
00:46:41That would be a mistake
00:46:43They can do it
00:46:46But I can't
00:46:46So, um, thank you for the ride
00:46:49Best two years of my life
00:46:50And, uh, I quit
00:46:52Larry
00:46:57So we're just
00:46:58We're just gonna record the whole album again
00:47:01Not you
00:47:02It's for our ears
00:47:03Yeah, is it?
00:47:04You need to be a vampire to hear it, TC
00:47:09Yeah
00:47:12You need the blood
00:47:16Read our minds
00:47:17No
00:47:18No
00:47:20We want it
00:47:21Mm-hmm
00:47:21I've come to enjoy you all very much
00:47:23But let me tell you something about this blood
00:47:26Let me save you from myself
00:47:35I was on the shores of Spain
00:47:39When my great love left me
00:47:43I let myself be buried in a stranger's grave
00:47:48It was always a man
00:47:49It is often she
00:47:50Until the queen took pity
00:47:51And summoned me to service
00:47:53And summoned me to service
00:47:56In her arms that are open
00:48:02In her arms that are wide
00:48:03That are open
00:48:04That are always
00:48:05That must always be open
00:48:07And in the old ways
00:48:08And in the old laws
00:48:09This was arranged
00:48:10All this was arranged
00:48:12And who arranged
00:48:12Because it's Amel
00:48:14And the long nights
00:48:15And the dark she is
00:48:16You drank of her
00:48:17She drank of me
00:48:18I drank of her
00:48:20The blood is hot
00:48:22The blood is hot
00:48:24I'm back
00:48:24It is always
00:48:26Amel
00:48:26It is often she
00:48:27You drank the blood
00:48:28She's dying to drink
00:48:29And I drank
00:48:30And I have it up here
00:48:31For three days
00:48:32Into the land
00:48:33Where the dead are kept
00:48:34Where the dead are worse
00:48:36She was on this
00:48:37And why Amel
00:48:37And why Amel
00:48:38For centuries
00:48:39It would take me years
00:48:41To get her back on it
00:48:43And why the days
00:48:45Without an hour
00:48:45And what am I for
00:48:47What is this for
00:48:48And what should Amel
00:48:50Do
00:48:50If not to answer
00:48:52The stairs
00:48:59The stairs
00:49:00My mother
00:49:03And why are they
00:49:04Throwing stones
00:49:05And why is she
00:49:06Curled on the ground
00:49:06And why is it
00:49:07Wound around with blood
00:49:08And why is it
00:49:08It already owns you
00:49:10And why is it
00:49:11Make madness
00:49:11Or sunlight
00:49:12Relieve you
00:49:13Of the birds
00:49:14And why is it
00:49:15In my eyes
00:49:16Is desire
00:49:16And why is it
00:49:17Desire
00:49:18Amel
00:49:18Desire
00:49:19And why does
00:49:20You tell her
00:49:21What God has said
00:49:21And why Amel
00:49:22In their mouths
00:49:23And why must
00:49:24My voice be smooth
00:49:25And why must I
00:49:26Sing so low
00:49:27And why is she
00:49:28Kept
00:49:28Why must she be
00:49:29Kept
00:49:30And why in this
00:49:30Place must she
00:49:31Be kept
00:49:32And what does
00:49:33It mean
00:49:33If you are
00:49:33Not asked
00:49:34And what does
00:49:35It mean
00:49:35If you are
00:49:36Not answered
00:49:36And what is it
00:49:37To see
00:49:38And to
00:49:38Love
00:49:39And to
00:49:39Prove you
00:49:39Have not seen
00:49:40You have not
00:49:41Known
00:49:41And why is her
00:49:42Tongue cut out
00:49:44And why is her
00:49:45Death prolonged
00:49:46And when
00:49:47Will it stop
00:49:48And who
00:49:48Will stop it
00:49:49And why must
00:49:51They
00:49:51Must we
00:49:52Must I
00:49:52Must he
00:49:53Must they
00:49:54At the millennia
00:49:55Unfold
00:49:56Why the girl
00:49:57Curled
00:49:57Why have eyes
00:49:58Lowered
00:49:59Why on the side
00:50:00Of the road
00:50:01Why limp
00:50:01In the straw
00:50:02I am the girl
00:50:04I am the god
00:50:05I am the voice
00:50:07I am the song
00:50:08I am the nut
00:50:09And I can answer
00:50:11I can arrange it
00:50:13I can say rise
00:50:14And I can say speak
00:50:15And I am her
00:50:17And I am she
00:50:18And I
00:50:19I
00:50:20I
00:50:20I
00:50:21Am
00:50:22The answer
00:50:30This is the metal sun
00:50:32Inside my veins
00:50:35This is the hell
00:50:36I unleash
00:50:37On all those near me
00:50:40It cannot be restrained
00:50:42In the moment
00:50:42Or tamed
00:50:44Over time
00:50:45It will drag you
00:50:47Into depravity
00:50:48And reward you
00:50:49With regret
00:50:55So follow Larry
00:50:56To her better life
00:51:05We're finishing
00:51:06The album
00:51:14We're a fucking band
00:51:20Make more
00:51:37Larry?
00:51:39Larry Slater?
00:51:40Lead guitar?
00:51:42TVL?
00:51:43Um, yeah
00:51:44Oh my god
00:51:45Oh my god
00:51:46Hey
00:51:46I
00:51:47I'm sorry
00:51:48I'm so sorry
00:51:49About what happened
00:51:50To him
00:51:51Oh, yeah
00:51:52Yeah
00:51:52I play those videos
00:51:54All the time
00:51:55The concert stuff
00:51:56Not the shooting
00:51:57I mean
00:51:58So
00:52:00What are you doing
00:52:01In New York
00:52:01With your
00:52:02Guitar?
00:52:04I can't really say
00:52:06Oh my fucking god
00:52:07It's true, isn't it?
00:52:08You guys are making
00:52:09The album
00:52:10I saw it online
00:52:11You got his vocals
00:52:13And I just think
00:52:15It's so beautiful
00:52:16I think it's wonderful
00:52:28Because the world
00:52:29Really needs to hear
00:52:30How beautiful he was
00:52:31You know what I mean?
00:52:31Actually, I'm not in the band anymore
00:52:33Oh
00:52:34I don't even know
00:52:35If there is a band anymore
00:52:36They're like laying down a record
00:52:37I'm just like
00:52:39Fucking tired
00:52:40So
00:52:41Oh
00:52:43Oh my god
00:52:43I'm sorry
00:52:44I'm sorry
00:52:45You do look tired
00:52:47I'll, uh, leave you alone
00:52:48A terrible goalie
00:52:50With a total shredder
00:52:51With an axe
00:52:54I'm sorry, what?
00:52:57She's right
00:52:58You do look tired
00:53:00You should probably
00:53:01Get some rest
00:53:04Do I know you?
00:53:11Rest?
00:53:13Rest?
00:53:19Rest
00:53:20Rest
00:53:21Rest
00:53:26Oh my god
00:53:29Oh my god
00:53:32Oh my god
00:53:35Oh my god
00:53:36Oh my god
00:53:36Oh my god
00:53:38Oh my god
00:53:39Oh my god
00:53:57Listen to tracks
00:53:59From the Vampire List ad
00:54:00Wherever you stream music
00:54:03Taylor and Travis
00:54:05Have you set the date yet?
00:54:08Be damaged
00:54:09Be cabbage
00:54:11When the curtains are here
00:54:14You reached out to the worst kind of witch
00:54:17She is not like the rest of them
00:54:21Armand's in town
00:54:22He's going to try to disrupt things
00:54:2550,000 of us out in the woods together
00:54:27What could go on?
00:54:34Guests at my deathbed
00:54:36We are making an album about my life
00:54:39Which has been a three-century train wreck
00:54:41We are here to pull the plug
00:54:44Have some reverence
00:54:46Kill me savagely
00:54:54I would leave this coffin only once in four months
00:54:58I would butcher the band for bloom and marbling
00:55:01And stop at nothing
00:55:03Until an album worthy of the long lurid life
00:55:06Of L'Esta de Liencourt
00:55:07Burned into elegiac audio formats
00:55:10So episode five
00:55:11They're recording the album
00:55:12Big Bad Wolf
00:55:13Vocals
00:55:14Take one
00:55:15His mother comes back to him and says
00:55:17Hey why don't you be this other thing?
00:55:19She needs him to create a song
00:55:21That will speak
00:55:23To all the vampires lurking
00:55:26In all the shadows of the world
00:55:28And so he makes the album to be this thing for her
00:55:31But of course he's really fastidious and obsessive artist
00:55:35So he can't really help but take complete control over it
00:55:38And get lost in the creative process
00:55:40But throughout that process
00:55:41He's niggled by these memories that he can't quite reconcile with
00:55:46Why did she take me to the burning of these teenage girls when I was a child?
00:55:52Why did she touch me in those inappropriate places when I was, you know, wounded?
00:55:57You were a terrible mother
00:55:59I wasn't
00:56:00In the moment
00:56:02They definitely do find it hard
00:56:04To stop their complicated relationship
00:56:09You need me now
00:56:11I do
00:56:18I missed you, brother
00:56:20I missed you too, sis
00:56:24Both of you
00:56:25This show is really funny
00:56:26Intentionally so
00:56:28I wish we could stay longer
00:56:30But, you know, Claudia
00:56:33Always go, go, go
00:56:34There's lots of very dark humour
00:56:36But also kind of, like, silly, fun humour
00:56:40And then Off Off Broadway, Madeleine is definitely very funny
00:56:43Took her downtown to the cubby hall
00:56:45Sucked her dry in the gans of water
00:56:46And shoved her down the laundry chute
00:56:48She's good
00:56:48Beautifully played
00:56:50But it's also very twisted
00:56:52It was so weird
00:56:53But, like, so comedically written
00:56:55That it was hard to not have fun with it
00:56:58Something about theatre kids makes me moody
00:57:00And I think Louis being on the other side of the table
00:57:03Just made it that bit weird
00:57:07I think at one point
00:57:08I was literally sitting in my chair, like
00:57:10And I was off camera
00:57:11And I was, like, sitting there, like
00:57:14Make it stop
00:57:17I know Jacob
00:57:18It was very
00:57:19I think it was uncomfortable for everybody
00:57:21Because
00:57:22Obviously we know the circumstance behind it
00:57:24But for Regina
00:57:25It's just another day on the job
00:57:27Holding hands for now
00:57:29Um
00:57:31Sorry, you don't
00:57:32You don't have to do the accent
00:57:34Oh
00:57:34Did you?
00:57:35Let's just
00:57:36Let's get out of here
00:57:45Can you go in there
00:57:48And tell me
00:57:50If it's her
00:57:52I was shut in the streets
00:57:54When you didn't call
00:57:56Selfish bastard
00:57:57There's a lot of things that keep haunting Lestat
00:57:59And then
00:58:00He meets
00:58:01Regina
00:58:03I look like her
00:58:05I look just like her, don't I?
00:58:06And that instigates a change in his music
00:58:10The day you were born
00:58:14I was shaking like a leaf
00:58:17On an old oak tree
00:58:22That means he comes back
00:58:23And he writes a song about her
00:58:25That is more poppy
00:58:28And more truthful
00:58:31And more paid back
00:58:32And more honest
00:58:33Than he's ever done before
00:58:35And he presents that to the band
00:58:36And says
00:58:36I think this is the sound
00:58:37I think this is what we're doing now
00:58:39So follow Larry
00:58:40To a better life
00:58:43We're finishing
00:58:43The album
00:58:44He no longer
00:58:46Is trying
00:58:47To present himself
00:58:49And he's just being himself
00:58:50With his music
00:58:51Don't break that stair
00:58:55I'm burning
00:58:57In your mirror tonight
00:59:00Oh, don't you dare call it
00:59:03Yearning
00:59:04It's the fear that I'm right
00:59:07Don't you try to forget
00:59:11All the things you regret
00:59:15Like the ashes you spread
00:59:18Till you had nothing left
00:59:22Of those stained glass
00:59:25I think if he wrote
00:59:27Stained glass eyes
00:59:28At the very start of the tour
00:59:30And he played it to himself
00:59:31I don't think he would have
00:59:32Taken it seriously
00:59:33But I think he's had to get
00:59:34To this point
00:59:35Where he could write something
00:59:37Very emotional
00:59:38And very raw
00:59:39To realize
00:59:40That his music
00:59:42Is a personal conduit
00:59:43Of his expression
00:59:45As an individual
00:59:46And you're just gonna
00:59:47What, re-record
00:59:47The entire album
00:59:48Instruments play
00:59:50Like metaphors
00:59:56We're about to shoot Akasha
00:59:57And in fact
00:59:58Our very last day
01:00:00And so
01:00:01A high anticipation
01:00:02Of just looking at her
01:00:05As Akasha
01:00:05And how she's going to play it
01:00:07We're rolling
01:00:08Whenever you're ready
01:00:09Jared
01:00:10God
01:00:13It's a wonderful set
01:00:14It's kind of like
01:00:15This underground storage unit
01:00:18With all of these pieces
01:00:19Of history
01:00:20That Marius has collected
01:00:21To try and keep her entertained
01:00:23It's been very fun
01:00:25To film in
01:00:26As a set
01:00:27And it's been
01:00:28A remarkable setting
01:00:30For the introduction
01:00:31Of Akasha
01:00:31To the series
01:00:32It's alive
01:00:33Very alive
01:00:34This season
01:00:35Played by Sheila
01:00:36The team
01:00:37Who is
01:00:37Extraordinary
01:00:39Actor
01:00:39She is the seed
01:00:41And you are her keeper
01:00:43Marius is there
01:00:44Trying to keep her controlled
01:00:46And Lestat
01:00:47Being Lestat
01:00:48Is much more about
01:00:49Like let's
01:00:50Let's push and see
01:00:51What happens
01:00:51He's also very lonely
01:00:53A lever action
01:00:54Ice cream
01:00:55Disher
01:00:56Anne Rice has
01:00:57Akasha
01:00:58Awoken by Lestat
01:01:00But we actually have Lestat
01:01:01Stay within her crypt
01:01:03For you know
01:01:04Ten years
01:01:05In the book
01:01:06He's there
01:01:06For a couple of days
01:01:07He puts on concerts
01:01:11For her
01:01:12Where is God
01:01:15And she wakes up
01:01:23And then he's got
01:01:24The blood of Akasha
01:01:25In him
01:01:25And then the way
01:01:26That manifests in him
01:01:27And he's obviously
01:01:28He's like flying
01:01:28And I was up on that rig
01:01:31Hold on there
01:01:32I'm going to give you
01:01:33Some articulation
01:01:35Yeah great
01:01:35It was a really fun
01:01:37Thing to do actually
01:01:39That's so real
01:01:40Oh my god
01:01:40I told you man
01:01:41Because I was upside down
01:01:43And you know
01:01:43I was talking to Ron
01:01:44He was like
01:01:44What does it feel like
01:01:45To have the blood of Akasha
01:01:46You know cursing through you
01:01:47So we were kind of like
01:01:48Doing these jolting movements
01:01:49And then they dropped me
01:01:50Which was like
01:01:51A proper
01:01:51Ten foot free fall
01:01:53Wow
01:01:53That's so much fun
01:01:55What is this for
01:01:57And what should the men
01:01:58Do with it
01:01:59If not to answer
01:02:03Sheila is phenomenal
01:02:04And extraordinary
01:02:06As Akasha
01:02:07And I
01:02:08I
01:02:08I
01:02:09I
01:02:10Am
01:02:11The answer
01:02:45As Akasha
01:02:45As Akasha
01:02:46As Akasha
01:02:46As Akasha
01:02:47As Akasha
01:02:47As Akasha
01:02:50As Akasha
01:02:50As Akasha
01:02:50As Akasha
01:02:50As Akasha
01:02:50As Akasha
01:02:50As Akasha
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