1 00:00:13,617 --> 00:00:15,490 ♪ I'm the little killer 2 00:00:15,577 --> 00:00:17,622 ♪ I'm the lonely one ♪ 3 00:00:17,753 --> 00:00:19,363 ♪ I'm the chill creeping up your spine ♪ 4 00:00:19,494 --> 00:00:21,733 ♪ Telling you to run ♪ 5 00:00:21,757 --> 00:00:23,628 ♪ I'm a hanging shadow 6 00:00:23,715 --> 00:00:25,780 ♪ I'm a lost love ♪ 7 00:00:25,804 --> 00:00:27,458 ♪ I'm the past and the future ♪ 8 00:00:27,545 --> 00:00:29,721 ♪ The last of the sutures, the cooing dove ♪ 9 00:00:29,852 --> 00:00:31,569 ♪ We're the rock and rollers ♪ 10 00:00:31,593 --> 00:00:33,899 ♪ We're the good time 11 00:00:33,986 --> 00:00:34,858 ♪ We're the heart pumping blood ♪ 12 00:00:34,988 --> 00:00:36,096 ♪ We're the face in the mud ♪ 13 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:39,123 ♪ We're this stupid rhyme ♪ 14 00:00:39,254 --> 00:00:41,038 - ♪ Bang, bang. - ♪ Bang, bang ♪ 15 00:00:41,125 --> 00:00:43,039 - ♪ Bang, bang. - ♪ Bang, bang ♪ 16 00:00:43,126 --> 00:00:44,583 ♪ Bang, bang ♪ 17 00:00:44,607 --> 00:00:48,306 ♪ All fall down 18 00:00:48,393 --> 00:00:52,180 ♪ Burn the ground ♪ 19 00:00:52,267 --> 00:00:56,359 ♪ All fall down ♪ 20 00:00:56,489 --> 00:00:59,119 ♪ Burn the ♪ 21 00:00:59,143 --> 00:01:01,232 - ♪ Bang, bang. - ♪ Bang, bang 22 00:01:01,319 --> 00:01:03,278 - ♪ Bang, bang. - ♪ Bang, bang ♪ 23 00:01:03,365 --> 00:01:07,215 ♪ Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang ♪ 24 00:01:07,239 --> 00:01:10,851 Hmm. C'est cool. 25 00:01:39,011 --> 00:01:40,098 Good evening. 26 00:01:41,970 --> 00:01:44,583 The house wishes to extend its gratitude to the gathering 27 00:01:44,670 --> 00:01:48,281 for your compliance with the unorthodox prerequisites 28 00:01:48,368 --> 00:01:50,544 of tonight's event. 29 00:01:50,631 --> 00:01:53,156 Furthermore, we wish to reiterate 30 00:01:53,243 --> 00:01:55,202 that the anonymity that you have granted us 31 00:01:55,333 --> 00:01:57,117 will be given to you individually 32 00:01:57,248 --> 00:02:01,295 as well as to any institutions that you are representing. 33 00:02:01,426 --> 00:02:03,340 Stating the obvious, 34 00:02:03,427 --> 00:02:05,691 we are not here and neither are you. 35 00:02:08,607 --> 00:02:11,977 Lot one of two, the master recordings 36 00:02:12,001 --> 00:02:14,894 of "The Complete Works of the Vampire Lestat de Lioncourt," 37 00:02:14,918 --> 00:02:17,984 which includes his 2025 self-titled album. 38 00:02:18,008 --> 00:02:19,792 "The Vampire Lestat," 39 00:02:19,879 --> 00:02:21,924 additional session tracks that were discarded 40 00:02:22,011 --> 00:02:24,295 in the final assemblage of the album, 41 00:02:24,319 --> 00:02:27,104 original handwritten scores, and private recordings 42 00:02:27,192 --> 00:02:29,846 by the Vampire Lestat himself, which include 43 00:02:29,933 --> 00:02:32,675 a song cycle in the classical vein 44 00:02:32,762 --> 00:02:37,854 set to the poetry of Baudelaire. 45 00:02:37,941 --> 00:02:42,511 Before we begin the bidding, I perform the following action. 46 00:02:47,213 --> 00:02:48,605 Are you kidding me? 47 00:02:48,692 --> 00:02:50,259 Are you serious? 48 00:02:50,346 --> 00:02:52,086 This is very insulting. 49 00:02:52,173 --> 00:02:53,915 Shame on you. 50 00:02:54,002 --> 00:02:57,788 We will begin the bidding at 1 yuan. 51 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:00,965 Do I hear 1 yuan? 52 00:03:01,096 --> 00:03:03,229 Yi yuan. 53 00:03:03,316 --> 00:03:06,513 Sold to the gentlewoman in the third row 54 00:03:06,537 --> 00:03:09,235 of good spirit. 55 00:03:09,322 --> 00:03:13,717 Lot number two, a music box 56 00:03:13,805 --> 00:03:16,678 curated by the Vampire Lestat himself. 57 00:03:16,808 --> 00:03:21,441 A 1978 Ferdinando Meccani Corinto sideboard. 58 00:03:21,465 --> 00:03:24,686 Inside, a Rossner and Sohn MOTT turntable 59 00:03:24,816 --> 00:03:28,429 with BeoLab 90 speakers, 60 00:03:28,516 --> 00:03:31,408 two temperature-controlled wine cabinets, 61 00:03:31,432 --> 00:03:35,828 one holding a bottle of Niepoort 1863 port wine, 62 00:03:35,915 --> 00:03:37,917 the other with a magnum of blood 63 00:03:38,048 --> 00:03:40,571 from the curator himself. 64 00:03:40,658 --> 00:03:44,924 The upper level, a singular vinyl pressing 65 00:03:45,011 --> 00:03:47,927 of "The Complete Works of the Vampire Lestat de Lioncourt," 66 00:03:48,014 --> 00:03:52,497 previously delineated, along with 111 albums of audio 67 00:03:52,584 --> 00:03:56,738 best described as an omniscient history 68 00:03:56,762 --> 00:04:00,375 of the events of the 2025 album and supporting tour 69 00:04:00,462 --> 00:04:02,788 and the consequential global catastrophes 70 00:04:02,812 --> 00:04:05,381 that sprung from said album and tour 71 00:04:05,468 --> 00:04:09,385 as narrated by the Vampire Lestat himself. 72 00:04:09,472 --> 00:04:14,041 The collection has been named "The Failures." 73 00:04:14,172 --> 00:04:18,350 We will begin the bidding at 50 million yuan. 74 00:04:19,699 --> 00:04:22,180 If you are hearing this now, 75 00:04:22,267 --> 00:04:25,315 you must be a very privileged individual. 76 00:04:25,402 --> 00:04:27,360 You could have fed a small nation for years 77 00:04:27,447 --> 00:04:29,666 while they paved over the rubble. 78 00:04:29,753 --> 00:04:31,798 You bought my box instead. 79 00:04:31,929 --> 00:04:34,280 I like you already. 80 00:04:34,367 --> 00:04:36,108 So let's begin in the middle, 81 00:04:36,195 --> 00:04:39,305 for I could and should have ended it there, 82 00:04:39,329 --> 00:04:44,682 my tour, my hedonistic pursuit of extremity, all of it. 83 00:04:44,812 --> 00:04:47,878 And had I done so, the regretful dead 84 00:04:47,902 --> 00:04:49,948 and the traumatized still alive 85 00:04:50,078 --> 00:04:52,994 would be somewhere other than they are today. 86 00:04:53,081 --> 00:04:55,128 And I am not saying that the attempted extinction 87 00:04:55,215 --> 00:04:57,130 of the Y chromosome across the continents 88 00:04:57,260 --> 00:04:58,914 was all my fault. 89 00:04:59,001 --> 00:05:01,133 No, that would suggest a level of self-importance 90 00:05:01,220 --> 00:05:02,743 even I'm not comfortable with. 91 00:05:02,830 --> 00:05:07,575 But upon reflection... yeah, made a contribution. 92 00:05:07,662 --> 00:05:10,883 It was the spring of 2025. 93 00:05:10,970 --> 00:05:14,496 A good nation was making itself great again, 94 00:05:14,583 --> 00:05:15,845 again. 95 00:05:17,977 --> 00:05:19,370 And every vampire, 96 00:05:19,457 --> 00:05:22,460 those converting and those enduring, 97 00:05:22,547 --> 00:05:26,639 well, they were doing exactly as they pleased. 98 00:05:56,409 --> 00:05:58,454 ♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh ♪ 99 00:05:58,541 --> 00:06:00,674 ♪ Wah-ahh ♪ 100 00:06:00,761 --> 00:06:02,502 ♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh ♪ 101 00:06:02,632 --> 00:06:04,742 ♪ Wah-ahh ♪ 102 00:06:04,766 --> 00:06:06,462 ♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh 103 00:06:06,549 --> 00:06:08,158 ♪ Wah-ahh ♪ 104 00:06:11,119 --> 00:06:13,514 ♪ Why the long face? ♪ 105 00:06:13,601 --> 00:06:15,516 ♪ My pretty baby ♪ 106 00:06:15,646 --> 00:06:17,518 ♪ I got long fangs ♪ 107 00:06:17,648 --> 00:06:19,694 ♪ Come appraise me ♪ 108 00:06:19,781 --> 00:06:21,758 ♪ Bring your long stakes ♪ 109 00:06:21,782 --> 00:06:23,524 ♪ That doesn't faze me 110 00:06:27,005 --> 00:06:28,920 ♪ I'm an actor ♪ 111 00:06:29,007 --> 00:06:31,009 ♪ In my makeup ♪ 112 00:06:31,096 --> 00:06:33,012 ♪ I'll get fatter ♪ 113 00:06:33,143 --> 00:06:34,947 ♪ When we break up ♪ 114 00:06:34,971 --> 00:06:37,253 ♪ What does it matter 115 00:06:37,277 --> 00:06:39,888 ♪ Who I take up? 116 00:06:39,975 --> 00:06:43,022 Naturally, I named the band after myself, 117 00:06:43,109 --> 00:06:45,392 and the four that backed me played their parts 118 00:06:45,416 --> 00:06:47,176 as instructed. 119 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:50,029 There was Larry, the front man made sideman 120 00:06:50,116 --> 00:06:51,596 choking his guitar neck nightly 121 00:06:51,727 --> 00:06:53,817 wishing it was mine. 122 00:06:53,904 --> 00:06:57,012 Brother Alex, the more talented seedling, 123 00:06:57,036 --> 00:06:59,101 straight-edged and half the fun. 124 00:06:59,125 --> 00:07:02,215 Salamander, bassist, dumb. 125 00:07:02,302 --> 00:07:04,412 Shockingly dumb. 126 00:07:04,436 --> 00:07:07,589 And TC, the abandoned bride of a dozen 127 00:07:07,613 --> 00:07:09,180 "should have died in art school" bands 128 00:07:09,267 --> 00:07:12,138 keeping us all in the dirty pocket. 129 00:07:12,225 --> 00:07:14,315 We dropped songs on the streams and booked 130 00:07:14,446 --> 00:07:18,363 intimate venues to induce what Gen Snooze called FOMO. 131 00:07:18,494 --> 00:07:20,733 They came for cosplay, left converted, 132 00:07:20,757 --> 00:07:23,412 and I baptized them the Beautiful Unwell. 133 00:07:23,500 --> 00:07:25,763 And yet here we were 134 00:07:25,893 --> 00:07:28,741 in the inn of the Stooges and the Stripes, 135 00:07:28,765 --> 00:07:31,245 30 performances notched, and already resting 136 00:07:31,376 --> 00:07:33,814 on the alps of adequacy. 137 00:07:33,901 --> 00:07:35,163 Unacceptable. 138 00:07:35,250 --> 00:07:37,185 ♪ I'm piano ♪ 139 00:07:37,209 --> 00:07:38,950 ♪ And you're forte 140 00:07:39,037 --> 00:07:41,300 ♪ You're allegro ♪ 141 00:07:41,387 --> 00:07:43,345 ♪ I'm andante ♪ 142 00:07:43,432 --> 00:07:45,347 ♪ We're bolero ♪ 143 00:07:45,434 --> 00:07:47,262 ♪ Prostitué ♪ 144 00:07:51,179 --> 00:07:53,139 ♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh 145 00:07:53,226 --> 00:07:54,749 ♪ Wah-ahh ♪ 146 00:07:57,709 --> 00:07:59,231 ♪ Another taste ♪ 147 00:07:59,318 --> 00:08:01,973 Hello. Welcome to Detroit. 148 00:08:02,060 --> 00:08:03,279 Lovely city. 149 00:08:03,366 --> 00:08:04,542 Your song sucks. 150 00:08:04,672 --> 00:08:06,258 Thank you for the feedback. 151 00:08:06,282 --> 00:08:08,546 ♪ Pick up the pace, pack up the gear ♪ 152 00:08:08,633 --> 00:08:10,504 ♪ Gimme some face, a souvenir ♪ 153 00:08:10,635 --> 00:08:12,725 ♪ Here come the gays, here comes the fear ♪ 154 00:08:12,812 --> 00:08:15,857 ♪ Now we're having fun ♪ 155 00:08:15,944 --> 00:08:20,862 ♪ Fun ♪ 156 00:08:20,993 --> 00:08:26,086 ♪ Now we're having fun ♪ 157 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:31,569 ♪ Ooh 158 00:08:31,656 --> 00:08:33,223 ♪ Ah, ah ♪ 159 00:08:33,310 --> 00:08:35,617 ♪ Ooh ♪ 160 00:08:35,748 --> 00:08:37,401 ♪ Ah, ah ♪ 161 00:08:37,488 --> 00:08:39,360 ♪ Oh, yeah, we're coming ♪ 162 00:08:39,490 --> 00:08:41,492 ♪ Yeah, we're coming ♪ 163 00:08:41,580 --> 00:08:45,561 ♪ Oh, yeah, we're coming ♪ 164 00:08:45,585 --> 00:08:47,542 ♪ Oh, yeah, we're coming 165 00:08:47,629 --> 00:08:49,544 ♪ Yeah, yeah, we're coming ♪ 166 00:08:49,675 --> 00:08:52,112 ♪ Oh, yeah, I'm coming ♪ 167 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:55,899 ♪ Oh, yeah, oh, yeah ♪ 168 00:08:56,030 --> 00:08:58,032 ♪ Oh, yeah, oh, yeah ♪ 169 00:08:58,162 --> 00:08:59,207 ♪ Oh, yeah, oh ♪ 170 00:09:04,734 --> 00:09:06,669 - Well, that was boring. - They seem to like it. 171 00:09:06,693 --> 00:09:08,477 Harmonies on "Plastic Fiends" were trash. 172 00:09:08,564 --> 00:09:10,000 He's right. 173 00:09:10,087 --> 00:09:11,412 And the front head on your kick is shimmering. 174 00:09:11,436 --> 00:09:13,241 - Tune it up a step. - Singer's right. 175 00:09:13,265 --> 00:09:15,616 And you left your tambourine in its stand, Larry. 176 00:09:15,703 --> 00:09:17,028 Yeah, well, I was feeling the guitar. 177 00:09:17,052 --> 00:09:19,097 No one is coming to hear your guitar, Larry. 178 00:09:19,184 --> 00:09:20,552 No, they come for the Ozzy shtick. 179 00:09:20,576 --> 00:09:22,361 "Dude, rage call to the Harmony Room. 180 00:09:22,448 --> 00:09:25,408 "Larry Slater's shredding it tonight," said no one ever. 181 00:09:25,495 --> 00:09:26,844 You sign the checks, singer. 182 00:09:26,975 --> 00:09:28,803 - I do. I do sign the checks. - Sign this. 183 00:09:28,933 --> 00:09:31,370 The tambourine tomorrow, as rehearsed and perfected. 184 00:09:31,457 --> 00:09:32,982 - Suck it, singer! - What am I signing? 185 00:09:33,112 --> 00:09:34,548 - Your night in Corvallis. - Ah. 186 00:09:34,636 --> 00:09:35,874 You're buying the wife early retirement 187 00:09:35,898 --> 00:09:37,072 and her lawyer a lake boat. 188 00:09:37,159 --> 00:09:38,247 Use the pen. 189 00:09:38,334 --> 00:09:39,528 But it's funny because it's blood, 190 00:09:39,552 --> 00:09:41,337 and I'm a vampire. 191 00:09:41,424 --> 00:09:43,906 Notaries in Oregon don't notarize in red ink. 192 00:09:43,993 --> 00:09:46,212 There's the band, and there's the shell 193 00:09:46,299 --> 00:09:49,757 that protects the band from the world's envy. 194 00:09:49,781 --> 00:09:52,784 Our band shell was Christine Claire. 195 00:09:52,871 --> 00:09:56,614 She hired, fired, dictated, and castrated 196 00:09:56,701 --> 00:09:58,181 with extreme prejudice. 197 00:09:58,311 --> 00:09:59,811 Try your best not to be you tonight. 198 00:09:59,835 --> 00:10:01,682 - We want the car. - No. 199 00:10:01,706 --> 00:10:03,796 - We'll be good. - Corvallis. 200 00:10:03,883 --> 00:10:07,060 Who do you think? 201 00:10:07,147 --> 00:10:08,235 - You. - Her. 202 00:10:08,322 --> 00:10:09,583 Me? 203 00:10:09,671 --> 00:10:11,237 All right, sluts, out you go. 204 00:10:11,324 --> 00:10:14,589 So I'm going into my vampire dressing room now. 205 00:10:14,677 --> 00:10:17,070 A little draining, both ways. 206 00:10:17,201 --> 00:10:18,721 You'll have to guess who gets the fangs 207 00:10:18,768 --> 00:10:20,857 and who gets the vodka bottle. 208 00:10:20,944 --> 00:10:22,989 And yes, it's a vodka bottle. 209 00:10:24,426 --> 00:10:27,080 He did it again. Fucking asshole. 210 00:10:27,167 --> 00:10:29,648 Did I mention that I was filming a documentary 211 00:10:29,735 --> 00:10:31,713 at the time, a bootless errand 212 00:10:31,738 --> 00:10:33,958 helmed by a first-time director. 213 00:10:34,088 --> 00:10:36,656 I've seen a rough cut... truthful and daring 214 00:10:36,743 --> 00:10:37,962 with less Warren Beatty. 215 00:10:38,092 --> 00:10:39,766 - Anyone see Jarda? - Hey, Jarda, heads up. 216 00:10:39,790 --> 00:10:41,879 ♪ From the land of sky-blue waters ♪ 217 00:10:43,837 --> 00:10:46,468 - Ahoj. - Missing a contact again. 218 00:10:46,492 --> 00:10:48,189 Oh, sakra. 219 00:10:48,276 --> 00:10:50,254 How many drinks have you had? 220 00:10:50,278 --> 00:10:52,151 -11/2. - Drive to the burbs. 221 00:10:52,238 --> 00:10:53,650 Sit by yourself in a booth at Applebee's. 222 00:10:53,674 --> 00:10:55,763 Order the usual. Big tip. 223 00:10:55,850 --> 00:10:57,156 Meet us back in the city. 224 00:10:57,242 --> 00:10:59,244 Now, you'd think a 54-city rock tour 225 00:10:59,331 --> 00:11:01,420 would be a wonderful cover for a blood drinker. 226 00:11:01,550 --> 00:11:03,162 Hide your kill, hop on the bus, 227 00:11:03,292 --> 00:11:05,294 wave to the morgue reports in the rear view mirror, 228 00:11:05,381 --> 00:11:06,774 that kind of thing. 229 00:11:06,861 --> 00:11:09,211 But niche celebrity is a hunter's handicap, 230 00:11:09,298 --> 00:11:11,737 and a sloppy night in Corvallis made urgent 231 00:11:11,824 --> 00:11:13,042 the need for a body double. 232 00:11:13,173 --> 00:11:14,260 Ahoj! 233 00:11:14,390 --> 00:11:15,870 His name was Jarda Klapek, 234 00:11:15,957 --> 00:11:17,872 and the Albanian gangsters Christine hired 235 00:11:17,959 --> 00:11:19,569 to find my doppelganger 236 00:11:19,656 --> 00:11:22,748 found him working construction in the Czech Republic. 237 00:11:22,878 --> 00:11:25,509 Three inches shorter than your velvet-mouth narrator, 238 00:11:25,533 --> 00:11:29,450 we fit him for lifts, blue eye contacts, and a wig 239 00:11:29,537 --> 00:11:32,322 and otherwise let him be Neanderthal me. 240 00:11:32,409 --> 00:11:34,736 I hunted this way, and we send him that way, 241 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:37,937 and every sad photograph uploaded to Reddit or Discord 242 00:11:38,067 --> 00:11:41,027 of Jarda eating a tuna melt by himself 243 00:11:41,114 --> 00:11:44,509 only confirmed for most what they already believed... 244 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:45,945 Let's go! 245 00:11:46,075 --> 00:11:47,598 That I, the Vampire Lestat, 246 00:11:47,685 --> 00:11:50,993 was Daniel Molloy's fictitious creation, 247 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:52,996 and The Vampire Lestat, the band, was fronted 248 00:11:53,083 --> 00:11:56,391 by a bricklaying karaoke fanatic from Ostrava, 249 00:11:56,521 --> 00:11:58,393 nothing but a desperate cash grab at the end 250 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:00,525 of a cheugy vampire fad. 251 00:12:00,612 --> 00:12:02,372 And I've only myself to blame for the timing, 252 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:03,964 having locked us in an attic 253 00:12:04,094 --> 00:12:06,270 for a year-plus perfecting our sound, 254 00:12:06,401 --> 00:12:09,621 a sound I hoped would counter Mr. du Lac's portrayal of me 255 00:12:09,752 --> 00:12:12,538 as a mayonnaise villain with sociopathic tendencies. 256 00:12:14,453 --> 00:12:16,716 All beside the point, because the point was, 257 00:12:16,804 --> 00:12:18,109 the point forever is... 258 00:12:18,239 --> 00:12:19,588 I know you're real. 259 00:12:19,675 --> 00:12:22,374 Most of humanity moved on from vampires, 260 00:12:22,461 --> 00:12:23,723 and rather quickly. 261 00:12:23,811 --> 00:12:26,030 Congratulations. 262 00:12:26,117 --> 00:12:28,424 Now go make friends. 263 00:12:28,511 --> 00:12:29,729 They lifted their heads 264 00:12:29,817 --> 00:12:31,752 from their algorithmic hand masters, 265 00:12:31,776 --> 00:12:35,910 uttered a collective "huh," and swiped left. 266 00:12:35,997 --> 00:12:38,521 I am the Vampire Lestat. 267 00:12:38,608 --> 00:12:40,436 I am a god. 268 00:12:40,566 --> 00:12:44,528 Gods are not swiped. 269 00:12:44,615 --> 00:12:46,114 The Cuntessa. 270 00:12:46,138 --> 00:12:47,879 The useful idiot. 271 00:12:47,966 --> 00:12:49,533 Great show. 272 00:12:49,620 --> 00:12:52,077 You left before we started. 273 00:12:52,101 --> 00:12:54,296 Yeah, I figured, Spotify some T. Rex 274 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:56,583 and drag a little O neg from Dr. Fareed-Good here, 275 00:12:56,714 --> 00:12:57,778 same diff. 276 00:12:57,802 --> 00:12:59,108 I am not here. 277 00:12:59,238 --> 00:13:00,457 Can we mic you? 278 00:13:00,587 --> 00:13:02,112 TC punched the boom again. 279 00:13:02,242 --> 00:13:03,940 Yeah. OK. 280 00:13:09,466 --> 00:13:13,316 So, uh, you and Louis talking again? 281 00:13:13,340 --> 00:13:15,777 He doesn't return my texts 282 00:13:15,908 --> 00:13:18,887 or my telepathy. 283 00:13:18,911 --> 00:13:21,045 I hear he's back in the States. 284 00:13:22,785 --> 00:13:24,569 - We good? - We're good. 285 00:13:24,656 --> 00:13:26,721 Slate. 286 00:13:26,745 --> 00:13:30,488 OK. 287 00:13:30,575 --> 00:13:33,840 You've been alive and undead for 265 years. 288 00:13:33,971 --> 00:13:36,930 You witnessed the French Revolution firsthand, 289 00:13:37,017 --> 00:13:38,671 the electric light, penicillin, 290 00:13:38,801 --> 00:13:40,910 two World Wars, the atomic bomb, 291 00:13:40,934 --> 00:13:42,762 the moon landing, the Berlin Wall... 292 00:13:42,893 --> 00:13:44,218 Joey Chestnut. 293 00:13:44,242 --> 00:13:45,417 What? 294 00:13:45,547 --> 00:13:47,027 He eats hot dogs for a living. 295 00:13:47,158 --> 00:13:48,875 He's extraordinary. I hope to meet him one day. 296 00:13:48,899 --> 00:13:50,354 Was there a question? 297 00:13:50,378 --> 00:13:52,314 Having accumulated profound wisdom and experience 298 00:13:52,338 --> 00:13:54,620 through the dark gift of immortality, 299 00:13:54,644 --> 00:13:57,646 why have you chosen to waste it singing music 300 00:13:57,733 --> 00:13:59,276 no one wants to hear 301 00:13:59,300 --> 00:14:01,651 in pants no one should ever squeeze into? 302 00:14:01,782 --> 00:14:03,325 You ask this question every night. 303 00:14:03,349 --> 00:14:04,804 And I get a different answer every night. 304 00:14:04,828 --> 00:14:07,024 You'll get me to repeat myself soon enough, I am sure, 305 00:14:07,048 --> 00:14:09,224 once you confront your transformational trauma. 306 00:14:09,311 --> 00:14:11,377 I don't have transformational trauma. 307 00:14:11,401 --> 00:14:13,925 Mm, that's why these movie producers hired you, 308 00:14:14,012 --> 00:14:16,362 Daniel Molloy, Vampire Slayer. 309 00:14:16,449 --> 00:14:18,079 They said you requested me. 310 00:14:18,103 --> 00:14:19,278 Absurd. 311 00:14:19,408 --> 00:14:21,063 Oh, as absurd as a documentary 312 00:14:21,150 --> 00:14:24,110 about a rock band posing as vampires 313 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:26,175 fronted by an actual vampire? 314 00:14:26,199 --> 00:14:28,548 Directed by a vampire passing as a human. 315 00:14:28,635 --> 00:14:31,117 You tell him, Fareed. 316 00:14:31,204 --> 00:14:34,511 Is it true you were a stutterer as a child? 317 00:14:34,598 --> 00:14:37,166 Louis said you were. 318 00:14:41,476 --> 00:14:43,565 Was he there in 18th-century Auvergne? 319 00:14:43,652 --> 00:14:44,845 He said you told him that. 320 00:14:44,869 --> 00:14:47,176 Did I threaten Claudia with rape on a train? 321 00:14:47,263 --> 00:14:48,438 Was I in the room 322 00:14:48,525 --> 00:14:51,399 when Donizetti wrote "Don Pasquale"? 323 00:14:51,486 --> 00:14:54,184 No, no, and impossible, 324 00:14:54,315 --> 00:14:56,621 because I had buried myself underground 325 00:14:56,708 --> 00:14:58,643 for the vast majority of the 1800s. 326 00:14:58,667 --> 00:15:00,407 I wrote what he told me. 327 00:15:00,495 --> 00:15:03,411 I don't have trauma, I love being a vampire, 328 00:15:03,498 --> 00:15:06,109 and can you drop the Fledgling Speak and Spell? 329 00:15:13,030 --> 00:15:16,641 The dark, dreary industrial world 330 00:15:16,728 --> 00:15:21,014 has finally submitted to automation. 331 00:15:21,038 --> 00:15:23,974 Laborers stand in their doorways 332 00:15:23,998 --> 00:15:27,175 hitting their pipes as their children half-pipe 333 00:15:27,262 --> 00:15:30,396 in their drained, empty swimming pools. 334 00:15:30,483 --> 00:15:34,138 Drug stores locked up baby formula and shaving cream 335 00:15:34,225 --> 00:15:38,577 while Saks ate Barneys and someone told everyone 336 00:15:38,664 --> 00:15:41,929 that Lululemon was sexy. 337 00:15:42,017 --> 00:15:45,063 Facts are irrelevant. 338 00:15:45,150 --> 00:15:48,240 Feels are everything. 339 00:15:48,327 --> 00:15:51,243 And the value of human life, 340 00:15:51,330 --> 00:15:54,986 it has never been more arbitrary. 341 00:15:55,073 --> 00:16:00,297 David, Freddie, Prince Rogers, they're all gone, 342 00:16:00,427 --> 00:16:03,604 and the lights on Tay Tay's eras have dimmed. 343 00:16:03,691 --> 00:16:06,389 Fire coming down the hill, 344 00:16:06,519 --> 00:16:10,916 water moving in on Nantucket. 345 00:16:11,003 --> 00:16:14,983 No more safe spaces. 346 00:16:15,007 --> 00:16:17,662 It's my era now. 347 00:16:20,753 --> 00:16:23,494 Post Malone and Jelly Roll playing there tonight. 348 00:16:23,581 --> 00:16:26,323 60,000 for Face Tattoo Palooza. 349 00:16:26,410 --> 00:16:28,866 You played an 800-seat venue. 350 00:16:28,890 --> 00:16:30,154 How is it your era? 351 00:16:33,331 --> 00:16:35,289 I'm vain and shallow and fear an empty seat. 352 00:16:35,376 --> 00:16:37,943 Ask me an easy one. 353 00:16:38,030 --> 00:16:42,557 Is it true your band was formed on Halloween? 354 00:16:47,910 --> 00:16:49,868 You are listening to "The Failures"... 355 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:53,482 Album 2, Side B. 356 00:17:16,853 --> 00:17:18,377 What do you think? 357 00:17:18,464 --> 00:17:19,944 It's nice. 358 00:17:20,075 --> 00:17:22,382 - Nice? - Yeah. It's nice. 359 00:17:22,512 --> 00:17:24,229 I don't... I don't see Beyoncé covering it. 360 00:17:24,253 --> 00:17:27,081 But it's nice. 361 00:17:27,168 --> 00:17:28,493 Nice is nothing. 362 00:17:28,517 --> 00:17:30,868 - Oh, it... it's nice... - Nice is a balloon. 363 00:17:30,955 --> 00:17:31,932 That you're back writing music. 364 00:17:31,956 --> 00:17:33,480 A flower box is nice. 365 00:17:33,567 --> 00:17:35,351 It's nice that you got yourself a nice place. 366 00:17:35,438 --> 00:17:37,092 It's a nice word, 367 00:17:37,223 --> 00:17:39,181 and it says everything I wanted to express. 368 00:17:39,268 --> 00:17:42,682 Don't be a bitch about it. 369 00:17:42,706 --> 00:17:44,839 You should come visit. 370 00:17:44,926 --> 00:17:47,668 I have a space above the bed in one of the guest rooms 371 00:17:47,798 --> 00:17:49,472 I can't find a painting for. 372 00:17:49,496 --> 00:17:51,281 Oh, the guest room. 373 00:17:51,412 --> 00:17:53,544 You want me to come and see your guest room. 374 00:17:53,631 --> 00:17:55,459 It's an affluent neighborhood. 375 00:17:55,546 --> 00:17:58,027 Old money, young professionals, 376 00:17:58,114 --> 00:18:00,203 a smattering of criss-de-trust-fund-bébé. 377 00:18:00,334 --> 00:18:04,164 Mmm, good eating. 378 00:18:04,294 --> 00:18:07,993 Same potholes, but no hurricanes, 379 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:10,234 no witches. 380 00:18:10,258 --> 00:18:13,696 And everyone mangles French just like you do. 381 00:18:13,783 --> 00:18:14,933 Come to me. 382 00:18:14,957 --> 00:18:16,654 Montreal. 383 00:18:16,741 --> 00:18:19,135 I am he, and he is me. 384 00:18:19,222 --> 00:18:21,854 Less baggage here. 385 00:18:21,878 --> 00:18:24,663 I get it. I get it. 386 00:18:24,750 --> 00:18:29,190 Besides, there's an Olmsted park nearby if I get homesick, 387 00:18:29,277 --> 00:18:32,845 and there's a garage band rehearsing across the street 388 00:18:32,932 --> 00:18:37,807 who call themselves, of all things, Satan... 389 00:18:37,894 --> 00:18:40,526 They call themselves Of All Things Satan? 390 00:18:40,550 --> 00:18:42,029 Satan's Night Ou... 391 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:43,529 Sat... Satan's Night Owl? 392 00:18:43,553 --> 00:18:45,685 Out. Satan's Night Out. 393 00:18:45,772 --> 00:18:47,425 OK. Makes sense. 394 00:18:47,556 --> 00:18:51,430 Louis, do you know someone called Daniel Molloy? 395 00:18:51,561 --> 00:18:52,997 Uh... 396 00:18:53,127 --> 00:18:54,651 I burned his laptop! 397 00:18:54,738 --> 00:18:56,479 I didn't know he had it saved in the cloud. 398 00:18:56,609 --> 00:18:58,326 I only found out it was coming out a month ago. 399 00:18:58,350 --> 00:18:59,396 You've known for a month? 400 00:18:59,526 --> 00:19:01,069 And you talk about me in it to a mortal? 401 00:19:01,093 --> 00:19:02,355 Well, yeah. 402 00:19:02,442 --> 00:19:04,748 Yeah, kind of... but, you know... 403 00:19:04,835 --> 00:19:06,532 No, I don't know, Louis. 404 00:19:06,663 --> 00:19:08,491 Please explain yourself. 405 00:19:08,621 --> 00:19:10,320 It's gonna be here and gone in a minute. 406 00:19:10,450 --> 00:19:11,625 No one reads anymore. 407 00:19:30,993 --> 00:19:32,604 Mm. 408 00:19:52,580 --> 00:19:53,625 Oh. 409 00:19:55,757 --> 00:19:56,976 No, thank you! 410 00:20:01,677 --> 00:20:04,724 Oh. 411 00:20:04,811 --> 00:20:07,814 Oh, I know what infinitesimal means! 412 00:20:09,337 --> 00:20:10,358 It was raining. 413 00:20:10,382 --> 00:20:11,382 No! 414 00:20:11,426 --> 00:20:12,471 No. 415 00:20:12,558 --> 00:20:17,693 Never fucking... 416 00:20:17,780 --> 00:20:19,000 Liar! 417 00:20:19,087 --> 00:20:21,219 I'm not a harlequin. 418 00:20:21,350 --> 00:20:23,657 Your sources are your sherpas. 419 00:20:23,744 --> 00:20:26,267 Your editor is your priest. 420 00:20:26,398 --> 00:20:27,486 Don't go to the F. 421 00:20:28,923 --> 00:20:31,447 G sus out. Why must you complicate it? 422 00:20:31,578 --> 00:20:33,362 Mm. 423 00:20:33,449 --> 00:20:35,538 All: Trick or treat. 424 00:20:35,669 --> 00:20:38,038 Candy, please. 425 00:20:38,062 --> 00:20:40,631 Hello. 426 00:20:40,717 --> 00:20:42,042 Bon Halloween. 427 00:20:42,066 --> 00:20:44,721 Oh, I wanted the full-size bar. 428 00:20:44,852 --> 00:20:45,896 Is that it? 429 00:20:47,855 --> 00:20:50,380 - Thank you. - Oh. 430 00:20:50,467 --> 00:20:53,340 Your camera is not period correct. 431 00:20:53,427 --> 00:20:54,776 I have a peanut allergy. 432 00:20:54,863 --> 00:20:57,667 Well, allergies are delusional. 433 00:20:57,691 --> 00:20:58,954 I'll take the Mounds. 434 00:20:59,041 --> 00:21:01,149 You'll take whatever I give you! 435 00:21:01,173 --> 00:21:02,914 That guy was mean. 436 00:21:21,978 --> 00:21:25,459 Not... not the F! 437 00:21:38,604 --> 00:21:39,712 Come on, Larry! 438 00:21:39,736 --> 00:21:42,478 Yeah! 439 00:21:53,576 --> 00:21:54,838 Dude, what the fuck? 440 00:21:54,968 --> 00:22:00,801 G minor sus out! 441 00:22:00,888 --> 00:22:02,541 This isn't 1979. 442 00:22:02,672 --> 00:22:04,519 Bela Lugosi is not dead. 443 00:22:04,543 --> 00:22:08,001 You don't need to finger her for five bars. 444 00:22:08,025 --> 00:22:09,984 You're hurting her. 445 00:22:10,115 --> 00:22:12,422 - Is that our neighbor? - Um, yeah. 446 00:22:12,509 --> 00:22:14,641 Apologies for the Squier. 447 00:22:14,772 --> 00:22:17,185 My man Arturo will come in the morning 448 00:22:17,209 --> 00:22:18,926 with a replacement 449 00:22:18,950 --> 00:22:21,692 and a new front door. 450 00:22:21,779 --> 00:22:24,714 More frequent showers. 451 00:22:24,738 --> 00:22:25,957 Thank you. 452 00:22:29,178 --> 00:22:30,614 What was the question again? 453 00:22:31,572 --> 00:22:32,791 Why music? 454 00:22:32,878 --> 00:22:34,835 Hey. Hey. 455 00:22:34,966 --> 00:22:36,663 Why now? 456 00:22:36,750 --> 00:22:38,012 Dude, that was sick. 457 00:22:38,099 --> 00:22:41,408 What are we doing here? 458 00:22:41,539 --> 00:22:44,367 We're doing a rewrite. 459 00:22:44,498 --> 00:22:48,808 So this whole tour is just some Byronic reaction 460 00:22:48,895 --> 00:22:50,133 to my book? 461 00:22:50,157 --> 00:22:52,375 Who better to refute the book 462 00:22:52,463 --> 00:22:54,179 than the man who wrote the book? 463 00:22:54,203 --> 00:22:56,945 Mm, well, the songs are my story, 464 00:22:57,032 --> 00:22:58,644 your documentary the liner notes. 465 00:22:58,731 --> 00:22:59,925 Liner notes? 466 00:22:59,949 --> 00:23:01,864 I won two Pulitzers. 467 00:23:01,951 --> 00:23:04,693 I'm taking this thing to Cannes, OK? 468 00:23:04,780 --> 00:23:06,694 I'm gonna be slapping Chris Rock 469 00:23:06,781 --> 00:23:09,045 and stroking my Oscar. 470 00:23:09,176 --> 00:23:11,395 The brat sings, the brat dies. 471 00:23:11,526 --> 00:23:12,962 The Great Laws are clear on this. 472 00:23:14,834 --> 00:23:17,532 More exposure for us, more risk for us. 473 00:23:21,885 --> 00:23:23,625 He sings for himself. 474 00:23:25,497 --> 00:23:26,846 Make more! 475 00:23:26,933 --> 00:23:28,544 Only a coven leader can make more. 476 00:23:28,675 --> 00:23:30,633 The Great Laws are clear on that. 477 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,114 First the book, now the singer. 478 00:23:33,201 --> 00:23:34,289 This is chaos uncaged. 479 00:23:41,165 --> 00:23:45,648 ♪ My little heart's reflection ♪ 480 00:23:45,735 --> 00:23:49,566 ♪ You've got a confession ♪ 481 00:23:49,653 --> 00:23:51,786 ♪ You used to find ♪ 482 00:25:24,229 --> 00:25:27,101 ♪ I caught a real live one ♪ 483 00:25:27,188 --> 00:25:28,538 ♪ Didn't blink ♪ 484 00:25:28,626 --> 00:25:30,149 ♪ Didn't try to run ♪ 485 00:25:30,279 --> 00:25:32,540 ♪ I caught a real live one ♪ 486 00:25:34,631 --> 00:25:36,154 ♪ Sucking on the sun ♪ 487 00:25:36,241 --> 00:25:37,635 ♪ No time for glowing up ♪ 488 00:25:37,765 --> 00:25:39,245 ♪ No time for throwing up ♪ 489 00:25:39,332 --> 00:25:40,638 ♪ No time for vibing out ♪ 490 00:25:40,768 --> 00:25:42,161 ♪ Your phone is blowing up ♪ 491 00:25:42,291 --> 00:25:45,251 ♪ I caught a real live one ♪ 492 00:25:45,338 --> 00:25:47,253 ♪ No time for "I ride my stepbrother ♪ 493 00:25:47,384 --> 00:25:48,559 ♪ Till he come" ♪ 494 00:25:48,647 --> 00:25:50,885 ♪ Doo, doo, doo, dah, dah, dah ♪ 495 00:25:50,909 --> 00:25:52,171 ♪ Don't wanna smash your Slack ♪ 496 00:25:52,301 --> 00:25:54,453 ♪ Or be your morning star ♪ 497 00:25:54,477 --> 00:25:57,176 ♪ Don't wanna learn another TikTok dance ♪ 498 00:25:57,263 --> 00:25:58,744 ♪ Wanna stay in bed ♪ 499 00:25:58,831 --> 00:26:04,053 ♪ Eating black licorice ♪ 500 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:07,317 ♪ Ooh ♪ 501 00:26:10,016 --> 00:26:11,776 Beef House in the Twin Oaks Mall. 502 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:13,299 Order at the bar this time. 503 00:26:13,323 --> 00:26:15,717 Take some photos with the fans I've planted there. 504 00:26:15,848 --> 00:26:16,868 ♪ Keep 'em scrolling, rolling ♪ 505 00:26:16,892 --> 00:26:18,242 ♪ Fire emojin', aubergines ♪ 506 00:26:22,681 --> 00:26:24,484 Hi, papi. 507 00:26:24,508 --> 00:26:26,206 ♪ I've been a bad boy 508 00:26:26,293 --> 00:26:27,730 ♪ Deep down in my heart ♪ 509 00:26:27,817 --> 00:26:29,514 ♪ I kept a really dark secret ♪ 510 00:26:29,601 --> 00:26:30,820 ♪ From the very start ♪ 511 00:26:30,907 --> 00:26:32,995 ♪ Give me a million more screams ♪ 512 00:26:34,563 --> 00:26:36,739 ♪ Means exactly what you think it means ♪ 513 00:26:36,826 --> 00:26:39,631 ♪ Doo, doo, doo, dah, dah, dah ♪ 514 00:26:39,655 --> 00:26:40,806 ♪ Don't wanna smash your Slack ♪ 515 00:26:40,830 --> 00:26:42,919 ♪ Or be your morning star ♪ 516 00:26:43,006 --> 00:26:45,617 ♪ Don't wanna learn a fucking TikTok dance ♪ 517 00:26:45,705 --> 00:26:47,403 ♪ Wanna stay in bed ♪ 518 00:26:47,490 --> 00:26:48,796 ♪ Eating black licorice ♪ 519 00:26:56,585 --> 00:26:59,284 Pick up the fucking tambourine! 520 00:26:59,371 --> 00:27:03,636 From the alps of adequacy to the canyon of coup d'etat, 521 00:27:03,724 --> 00:27:07,206 two nights in a row, my violin competing with his guitar 522 00:27:07,337 --> 00:27:08,793 for the solo break. 523 00:27:08,817 --> 00:27:12,036 Two centuries waiting to share my music, 524 00:27:12,123 --> 00:27:15,257 two years as Mr. du Lac's B-movie brute. 525 00:27:17,434 --> 00:27:20,065 But just as I was about to bridge the bridge 526 00:27:20,089 --> 00:27:22,656 with murder and mayhem, 527 00:27:22,744 --> 00:27:25,747 something quite surprising happened. 528 00:27:25,834 --> 00:27:29,968 My music wrapped itself around me like a jungle snake 529 00:27:30,055 --> 00:27:31,970 constricting its prey, 530 00:27:32,101 --> 00:27:34,190 and a lifetime of blood bartering 531 00:27:34,277 --> 00:27:37,411 overwhelmed the temporal lobe. 532 00:27:37,542 --> 00:27:41,024 Muses appeared in my mind and in the now around me. 533 00:27:43,765 --> 00:27:46,810 Memories taking their turn. 534 00:27:49,510 --> 00:27:53,253 Blood in, blood out. 535 00:27:56,213 --> 00:27:59,216 Hammering away at the performative vampire persona 536 00:27:59,346 --> 00:28:01,609 I had welded into armor. 537 00:28:04,525 --> 00:28:05,918 The armor cracked. 538 00:28:08,617 --> 00:28:11,596 The bridge buckled. 539 00:28:11,620 --> 00:28:16,363 And the bona fide vampire emerged center stage. 540 00:28:16,450 --> 00:28:20,455 It was I who had been adequate. 541 00:28:20,542 --> 00:28:24,633 It was I who had been holding us back, 542 00:28:24,764 --> 00:28:28,247 and now, exposed in the raw 543 00:28:28,334 --> 00:28:31,553 under the white hot lights, 544 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,339 my band mates began to feed. 545 00:28:34,426 --> 00:28:36,777 ♪ I wanna stay in bed eating black licorice ♪ 546 00:28:36,864 --> 00:28:39,800 And that sound I had been grinding them for 547 00:28:39,824 --> 00:28:42,261 was finally unleashed, 548 00:28:42,391 --> 00:28:46,091 a euphoric grottiness spilling into the crowd, 549 00:28:46,178 --> 00:28:49,355 into their bodies, enveloping the venue. 550 00:28:52,010 --> 00:28:53,925 ♪ I wanna stay in bed 551 00:28:54,012 --> 00:28:55,230 ♪ Eating black licorice ♪ 552 00:28:58,452 --> 00:28:59,845 ♪ I wanna stay in bed ♪ 553 00:28:59,932 --> 00:29:01,585 ♪ Eating black licorice ♪ 554 00:29:04,457 --> 00:29:06,024 ♪ I wanna stay in bed ♪ 555 00:29:06,154 --> 00:29:07,591 ♪ Eating black licorice ♪ 556 00:29:10,464 --> 00:29:11,857 ♪ I wanna stay in bed 557 00:29:11,987 --> 00:29:13,597 ♪ Eating black licorice ♪ 558 00:29:16,296 --> 00:29:18,014 ♪ I wanna stay in bed ♪ 559 00:29:18,038 --> 00:29:19,603 ♪ Eating black licorice 560 00:29:22,606 --> 00:29:24,193 ♪ I wanna stay in bed ♪ 561 00:29:24,217 --> 00:29:25,566 ♪ Eating black licorice 562 00:29:28,526 --> 00:29:32,313 Which one of you's OD'd before? 563 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:34,010 What do you do? 564 00:29:34,141 --> 00:29:35,446 What did she take? 565 00:29:35,533 --> 00:29:37,013 Not her. 566 00:29:37,100 --> 00:29:38,188 Me. 567 00:29:38,319 --> 00:29:40,060 Get her on the ground. 568 00:29:40,147 --> 00:29:43,106 Her blood. 569 00:29:43,193 --> 00:29:44,803 - Ecstasy. - You dead man'd her, man! 570 00:29:44,891 --> 00:29:46,589 LSD. 571 00:29:46,676 --> 00:29:48,199 What the hell happened up there? 572 00:29:49,548 --> 00:29:51,898 Can't OD on a candy plate. 573 00:29:52,028 --> 00:29:54,311 What the hell were you doing? 574 00:29:54,335 --> 00:29:56,991 I should have quit right there and then. 575 00:29:57,078 --> 00:30:00,429 Would have been a lovely footnote to my life, the band, 576 00:30:00,516 --> 00:30:03,171 but the muses were just beginning. 577 00:30:04,737 --> 00:30:06,871 You done this to me? 578 00:30:06,958 --> 00:30:09,220 - What are you doing? - Calling 9-1-1. 579 00:30:09,307 --> 00:30:12,528 I lost myself on stage for a moment. 580 00:30:12,615 --> 00:30:16,552 Seems you still lost. 581 00:30:16,576 --> 00:30:18,796 These songs gonna kill you. You know that, don't you? 582 00:30:18,927 --> 00:30:20,319 I can't die. 583 00:30:20,406 --> 00:30:22,234 Everything dies. 584 00:30:22,321 --> 00:30:25,106 You die. I die. 585 00:30:25,193 --> 00:30:26,847 She dies. 586 00:30:26,978 --> 00:30:28,390 She dies. 587 00:30:28,414 --> 00:30:29,893 Oh, he dies bad. 588 00:30:32,157 --> 00:30:33,854 I'm immortal. 589 00:30:33,985 --> 00:30:36,399 Yeah, you kill some wolves and fall in love. 590 00:30:36,423 --> 00:30:38,469 Get the gift, fall in love. 591 00:30:38,556 --> 00:30:41,403 Go to ground, get dug up, and fall in love. 592 00:30:41,427 --> 00:30:43,777 You're like some wet clothes in a coin op dryer, 593 00:30:43,908 --> 00:30:47,347 just 265 years round and round. 594 00:30:48,566 --> 00:30:50,936 Why you so sad? 595 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:52,744 Thousands of fans loving you. 596 00:30:52,874 --> 00:30:55,094 I want millions. 597 00:30:55,181 --> 00:30:59,316 And that'll top off that heart of yours? 598 00:30:59,403 --> 00:31:01,100 Billions. 599 00:31:01,187 --> 00:31:03,973 Then why you always gotta make it so hard 600 00:31:04,103 --> 00:31:05,539 for someone to give it to you? 601 00:31:05,626 --> 00:31:07,586 Huh? 602 00:31:07,673 --> 00:31:08,780 Who told you that? 603 00:31:08,804 --> 00:31:10,502 Don't worry. 604 00:31:10,589 --> 00:31:12,741 They comin'. 605 00:31:12,765 --> 00:31:14,026 Who's coming? 606 00:31:14,157 --> 00:31:16,246 Oh, they gonna tell you themselves. 607 00:31:17,857 --> 00:31:18,945 Who's coming? 608 00:31:19,076 --> 00:31:19,902 Great show tonight. 609 00:31:20,033 --> 00:31:21,033 Who? 610 00:31:25,169 --> 00:31:27,085 You are listening to "The Failures,". 611 00:31:27,215 --> 00:31:28,912 Album 5, Side B. 612 00:31:30,826 --> 00:31:34,134 If you take nothing else away from your exorbitant purchase, 613 00:31:34,265 --> 00:31:36,007 heed this advice. 614 00:31:36,094 --> 00:31:39,638 Never play two nights in Detroit. 615 00:31:39,662 --> 00:31:42,187 You'll wind up in Windsor with a broken orbital bone 616 00:31:42,317 --> 00:31:44,797 listening to transactional sex through the adjoining walls. 617 00:31:46,365 --> 00:31:48,386 How I came to this squalid real estate 618 00:31:48,410 --> 00:31:51,109 is the premise of Side B, Album 5, so... 619 00:31:53,067 --> 00:31:55,156 Uh-huh, come! 620 00:31:56,767 --> 00:31:58,407 Now, the boutique hotel we were staying at 621 00:31:58,465 --> 00:32:00,728 was having a grand-ish opening that night, 622 00:32:00,815 --> 00:32:02,816 and the band was asked to lend its celebrity status 623 00:32:02,903 --> 00:32:04,011 to the event. 624 00:32:04,035 --> 00:32:05,602 Don't tell me to pose. 625 00:32:05,733 --> 00:32:07,126 Fuck you. 626 00:32:07,213 --> 00:32:09,215 There was a red carpet, a pap line, 627 00:32:09,345 --> 00:32:11,521 and a vampire DJ of some renown 628 00:32:11,652 --> 00:32:14,133 seducing corporate employees, provincial influencers, 629 00:32:14,220 --> 00:32:15,918 and party crashing Beautifully Unwell. 630 00:32:16,049 --> 00:32:17,659 Move faster. Thank you. Thank you. 631 00:32:17,788 --> 00:32:20,332 I was having sex in an elevator with Dee 632 00:32:20,356 --> 00:32:22,924 and the girl I had just overindulged myself with 633 00:32:23,011 --> 00:32:24,597 earlier in the night. 634 00:32:24,621 --> 00:32:28,539 Actually, that happens... later. 635 00:32:28,626 --> 00:32:29,864 A lot of things happened that night. 636 00:32:29,888 --> 00:32:31,107 Huh. 637 00:32:31,238 --> 00:32:32,598 Come on. Come on, come on, come on! 638 00:32:35,764 --> 00:32:39,637 The band is inside with Dan in the VIP perch. 639 00:32:39,724 --> 00:32:42,486 I'm giving the paps my pussycat 640 00:32:42,510 --> 00:32:44,230 with no idea that I would be in a fang fight 641 00:32:44,294 --> 00:32:45,427 less than an hour later. 642 00:32:46,602 --> 00:32:47,951 No, no, no, no. 643 00:32:48,038 --> 00:32:50,016 I'm getting ahead of myself again. 644 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:52,737 I arrive fashionably late, of course. 645 00:32:52,824 --> 00:32:54,063 State your name for the camera. 646 00:32:54,087 --> 00:32:55,567 Baby Jenks. 647 00:32:55,698 --> 00:32:59,702 OK, Baby, tell me, why do you like The Vampire Lestat? 648 00:32:59,789 --> 00:33:01,225 Like, I'm gonna be in the movie? 649 00:33:01,312 --> 00:33:02,792 Oh, you're in it now. 650 00:33:02,879 --> 00:33:06,361 I am feeling good. 651 00:33:06,448 --> 00:33:08,667 Surfing the sublime candy-flipped wave 652 00:33:08,754 --> 00:33:09,799 of the girl's blood. 653 00:33:09,929 --> 00:33:12,236 You're him. You're that voice. 654 00:33:12,323 --> 00:33:14,649 The girl is feeling good... Wow. 655 00:33:14,673 --> 00:33:16,676 Riding the wonders of Dr. Fareed's 656 00:33:16,763 --> 00:33:19,070 blood transfusion quick pick-me-up cocktail. 657 00:33:19,157 --> 00:33:20,874 Who's that guy, 'cause, like, 658 00:33:20,898 --> 00:33:22,768 rock and roll, it's dying. 659 00:33:22,855 --> 00:33:25,661 I sat there soaking up her praise 660 00:33:25,685 --> 00:33:27,905 along with the band, still somehow blind 661 00:33:27,992 --> 00:33:30,777 to the vampiric mysteries of their front man. 662 00:33:30,864 --> 00:33:32,953 So what if the dead and buried past 663 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:35,305 was now a fresh and eager groupie? 664 00:33:35,435 --> 00:33:37,002 It's rock and roll, you know? 665 00:33:37,089 --> 00:33:38,848 Have a nervous breakdown onstage, 666 00:33:38,872 --> 00:33:40,178 chat it up with the floating girl 667 00:33:40,265 --> 00:33:41,832 on the ceiling you almost killed, 668 00:33:41,962 --> 00:33:43,660 have sex with her in the elevator... 669 00:33:43,790 --> 00:33:44,910 ah, I'm still not there yet. 670 00:33:46,185 --> 00:33:48,796 MDMA and LSD, 671 00:33:48,883 --> 00:33:50,972 the Torvill and Dean of hallucinogenics. 672 00:33:51,059 --> 00:33:52,219 And so then everybody's like, 673 00:33:52,278 --> 00:33:54,193 is rock and roll actually dying? 674 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:56,717 Were you a stutterer as a child? 675 00:33:56,848 --> 00:33:58,632 They walk into the ER. 676 00:33:58,719 --> 00:34:02,743 They are, like, the doctor, and Lestat's the scalpel. 677 00:34:02,767 --> 00:34:05,423 I'm the scalpel. Print the T-shirts. 678 00:34:05,553 --> 00:34:08,861 And so he, the scalpel, 679 00:34:08,948 --> 00:34:13,430 cuts into rock and roll's heart like he cut into mine tonight. 680 00:34:13,517 --> 00:34:16,303 And he has the heart in his mouth. 681 00:34:16,390 --> 00:34:19,654 He's like, "Do you wanna fuck?" 682 00:34:19,741 --> 00:34:22,701 And rock and roll is like, "Yes, bitch!" 683 00:34:22,831 --> 00:34:25,531 I excused myself to the men's room. 684 00:34:25,661 --> 00:34:27,836 Didn't read about vampire physiology 685 00:34:27,923 --> 00:34:29,882 in Mr. du Lac's memoir, did you? 686 00:34:29,969 --> 00:34:32,774 No mention of the scars on my chest either. 687 00:34:32,798 --> 00:34:35,410 Hair stopping way above my shoulders. 688 00:34:35,497 --> 00:34:37,717 And just for the record, no ticket pocket of mine 689 00:34:37,804 --> 00:34:39,719 ever had his initials inscribed onto them. 690 00:34:39,806 --> 00:34:41,764 I mean, these are the editorial wags 691 00:34:41,851 --> 00:34:43,504 of an insane person. 692 00:34:45,507 --> 00:34:48,293 Note to self, edit that out in the final version. 693 00:34:48,423 --> 00:34:49,661 Starting again. 694 00:34:49,685 --> 00:34:51,426 Vampires pee. 695 00:34:51,557 --> 00:34:52,993 We don't do it as often as you do, 696 00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:54,841 assuming you're not one of us. 697 00:34:54,865 --> 00:34:57,868 And we generally avoid eco-friendly urinals. 698 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:02,959 Mm. 699 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:10,881 Detroit. 700 00:35:26,420 --> 00:35:28,702 Name's Tim. 701 00:35:28,726 --> 00:35:32,381 - She's Rus. - They're Rus. 702 00:35:32,512 --> 00:35:34,470 - Pronouns. - Mm. 703 00:35:34,602 --> 00:35:39,737 And yet it's respectful, like silence at a urinal. 704 00:35:39,868 --> 00:35:42,871 Things got a bit crossed 705 00:35:42,958 --> 00:35:44,839 when we were minding each other the other night. 706 00:35:44,961 --> 00:35:47,896 Rus here has a hot mouth. 707 00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:50,748 And a strong pelvic floor. 708 00:35:50,835 --> 00:35:52,620 I admire your aim. 709 00:35:52,750 --> 00:35:53,988 Mm. 710 00:35:54,012 --> 00:35:55,406 "Long Face" sucks. 711 00:35:55,537 --> 00:35:58,322 Rus wanted to apologize. 712 00:35:59,410 --> 00:36:01,910 But "Black Licorice,". 713 00:36:01,934 --> 00:36:05,634 "Why Do I Have to Feel," 714 00:36:05,721 --> 00:36:07,829 I like those ones. 715 00:36:07,853 --> 00:36:10,203 "Frankly, Mr. Shankly" almost ruined "The Queen Is Dead." 716 00:36:10,334 --> 00:36:13,946 Apology accepted. 717 00:36:14,033 --> 00:36:16,602 We have a coven out here in Detroit. 718 00:36:16,733 --> 00:36:18,603 - Do you? - The Fang Gang. 719 00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:21,959 You want to see a real vampire bar, come with us. 720 00:36:22,955 --> 00:36:24,556 We have a huge house out past Brightmoor. 721 00:36:24,610 --> 00:36:27,309 Our own farm under the floorboards. 722 00:36:27,396 --> 00:36:30,703 Hmm, sure. What about tomorrow night? 723 00:36:30,790 --> 00:36:32,792 You're on the road tomorrow night. 724 00:36:32,923 --> 00:36:36,014 Yes. That was me being polite. 725 00:36:36,101 --> 00:36:38,320 No, that was you lying. 726 00:36:39,712 --> 00:36:41,192 Eco-friendly urinals. 727 00:36:41,279 --> 00:36:43,629 Good for the planet, so we're told. 728 00:36:43,716 --> 00:36:46,241 Good for vampires? Hmm. 729 00:36:46,329 --> 00:36:48,287 We chardonnay them. 730 00:36:53,031 --> 00:36:56,469 And then there's regional vampires. 731 00:36:56,600 --> 00:37:00,125 Always trying to make a name for themselves. 732 00:37:00,212 --> 00:37:01,953 I chardonnay them, too. 733 00:37:02,083 --> 00:37:03,650 Obligations, I'm afraid. 734 00:37:03,737 --> 00:37:06,219 But please do send my most sincere bonjour 735 00:37:06,306 --> 00:37:07,960 to your Brightmoorish coven. 736 00:37:11,354 --> 00:37:13,312 Lilac. 737 00:37:27,066 --> 00:37:28,957 I have a blind spot 738 00:37:28,981 --> 00:37:30,983 when it comes to blood poisoning. 739 00:37:31,070 --> 00:37:32,332 You'd think a vampire 740 00:37:32,419 --> 00:37:33,855 of my stature would know better. 741 00:37:33,942 --> 00:37:35,094 But then there's that old saying. 742 00:37:35,118 --> 00:37:36,903 You fool me once, shame on me. 743 00:37:36,990 --> 00:37:41,777 You fool me twice, MDMA and LSD are excellent drugs. 744 00:37:41,863 --> 00:37:43,517 Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce. 745 00:37:43,604 --> 00:37:45,912 Twirl, twirl. 746 00:37:45,999 --> 00:37:47,087 Overshare. 747 00:37:47,217 --> 00:37:48,697 I saw your soul. 748 00:37:48,828 --> 00:37:50,917 I saw yours, too. 749 00:37:54,356 --> 00:37:58,620 Still feeling good, I went looking for my band, 750 00:37:58,751 --> 00:38:01,188 looking for sex, looking for anything 751 00:38:01,275 --> 00:38:03,016 that radiated the fun that I sang about 752 00:38:03,103 --> 00:38:06,194 in my song, "Long Face." 753 00:38:06,324 --> 00:38:08,414 And then... 754 00:38:08,501 --> 00:38:10,894 Regionals. 755 00:38:10,981 --> 00:38:12,940 Wait, did she say that "Long Face" sucked? 756 00:38:13,027 --> 00:38:14,681 "Long Face" sucks. 757 00:38:14,811 --> 00:38:16,073 Does it suck? 758 00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:17,335 I wondered. 759 00:38:17,466 --> 00:38:19,294 Did she have a point? 760 00:38:19,381 --> 00:38:22,732 And then I thought, ooh, they want a little scrap 761 00:38:22,863 --> 00:38:24,387 with the scalpel. 762 00:38:24,474 --> 00:38:25,649 No worries, I thought. 763 00:38:25,736 --> 00:38:27,172 I have the Queen's blood in me. 764 00:38:27,259 --> 00:38:28,870 I could take 20 regionals at once 765 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,262 with the Queen's blood. 766 00:38:31,393 --> 00:38:34,373 Where's the band, Dan? 767 00:38:34,397 --> 00:38:35,485 They called 768 00:38:35,572 --> 00:38:38,227 corporate bullshit. 769 00:38:38,314 --> 00:38:41,859 Went to party upstairs. 770 00:38:41,883 --> 00:38:44,495 So I'm scoring dick pills in Mogadishu 771 00:38:44,582 --> 00:38:46,192 for a UN peacekeeper 772 00:38:46,279 --> 00:38:48,367 when in walks Stewart Copeland 773 00:38:48,498 --> 00:38:51,066 wearing a kufi and a mouthful of ammo. 774 00:38:51,153 --> 00:38:52,154 So I thought about 775 00:38:52,241 --> 00:38:53,765 having sex with Christine, 776 00:38:53,852 --> 00:38:56,507 and then I thought, that's all the way upstairs. 777 00:38:56,638 --> 00:38:59,379 And then I thought, I'm the scalpel. 778 00:38:59,467 --> 00:39:02,861 What does the scalpel do between here and upstairs? 779 00:39:05,255 --> 00:39:10,086 Mr. du Lac's memoir tiptoed around vampire sex, didn't it? 780 00:39:10,216 --> 00:39:12,630 He and Dan made it out to be this tortured act 781 00:39:12,654 --> 00:39:15,745 or obligational foreplay before blood drinking. 782 00:39:15,832 --> 00:39:18,661 That is not the case at all. 783 00:39:18,748 --> 00:39:20,899 It's not the capstone of vampiric desires. 784 00:39:20,923 --> 00:39:22,315 That would be the taking of life, 785 00:39:22,402 --> 00:39:24,101 and next would be a good draining, 786 00:39:24,231 --> 00:39:26,277 leaving your victim near death and paralyzed 787 00:39:26,364 --> 00:39:28,255 for an unhurried escape. 788 00:39:28,279 --> 00:39:30,542 And after that, there's the pet it coup, 789 00:39:30,629 --> 00:39:32,805 the little drink, the sip. 790 00:39:32,892 --> 00:39:35,741 And after those three, it's sex. 791 00:39:35,765 --> 00:39:38,289 So now you know, the fourth best thing 792 00:39:38,419 --> 00:39:41,292 a vampire can do to avoid thinking about the past 793 00:39:41,379 --> 00:39:42,467 is to have sex. 794 00:39:42,598 --> 00:39:44,533 Sex. Sex. Sex. 795 00:39:44,557 --> 00:39:46,709 And I have had a lot of sex over the years. 796 00:39:46,733 --> 00:39:48,561 It's not all pain and toxicity. 797 00:39:48,648 --> 00:39:50,650 I have an immortal life, and I carry with it 798 00:39:50,737 --> 00:39:51,868 an immortal erection. 799 00:39:51,998 --> 00:39:54,349 And I am not ashamed of it. 800 00:39:54,436 --> 00:39:57,938 Sex is fun, like the fun I sing about in "Long Face," 801 00:39:57,962 --> 00:40:00,965 which, looking back on it now, does suck. 802 00:40:02,619 --> 00:40:04,300 I still have residuals coming in, actually. 803 00:40:06,101 --> 00:40:10,017 Carnal pleasure is essential to a vampire's survival, 804 00:40:10,104 --> 00:40:12,629 if only to keep time's baggage from burying you. 805 00:40:14,675 --> 00:40:19,506 Sex with the bellman and Dee and honey-trapping Baby Jenks. 806 00:40:19,637 --> 00:40:21,310 Probably should have gotten off the seventh floor 807 00:40:21,334 --> 00:40:22,640 when I had gotten off. 808 00:40:25,425 --> 00:40:26,513 But I didn't. 809 00:40:29,777 --> 00:40:32,040 I'm getting married in a week. 810 00:40:32,171 --> 00:40:35,001 I'll never forget you. 811 00:40:41,310 --> 00:40:44,813 Law 4: no vampire shall ever reveal 812 00:40:44,837 --> 00:40:46,839 his or her true nature to a mortal 813 00:40:46,926 --> 00:40:48,841 and let the mortal live. 814 00:40:48,928 --> 00:40:51,757 You do know it's 2025? 815 00:40:53,977 --> 00:40:55,041 Face the wall, my dear. 816 00:40:55,065 --> 00:40:58,024 You'll not want to see this. 817 00:40:58,111 --> 00:40:59,678 Mmm. 818 00:40:59,808 --> 00:41:01,636 The Tooth Team. 819 00:41:01,767 --> 00:41:03,987 The Fang Gang. 820 00:41:06,947 --> 00:41:10,167 I killed a pack of wolves when I was a mortal. 821 00:41:10,254 --> 00:41:11,841 I'll most likely tell you about that later, 822 00:41:11,865 --> 00:41:14,017 as I let it define me for a time. 823 00:41:14,041 --> 00:41:16,609 And normally, confining architecture 824 00:41:16,696 --> 00:41:19,263 and a thrift store coven galvanized by medieval dogma 825 00:41:19,350 --> 00:41:21,048 wouldn't faze me in the least. 826 00:41:21,135 --> 00:41:23,617 I am building a career that supports my well-being. 827 00:41:23,704 --> 00:41:27,272 But the drug blood and my sex legs 828 00:41:27,359 --> 00:41:29,970 and the distracting past my music had unleashed on me 829 00:41:30,057 --> 00:41:33,191 put me at a momentary disadvantage. 830 00:41:33,322 --> 00:41:35,367 I'm in charge of my work-life balance. 831 00:41:35,454 --> 00:41:37,979 Law 4, as if the du Lac-Molloy memoir 832 00:41:38,066 --> 00:41:40,634 hadn't outed us all two years ago, 833 00:41:40,721 --> 00:41:44,116 as if my entire stage show wasn't a bawdy burlesque 834 00:41:44,203 --> 00:41:46,117 of "is he or isn't he," 835 00:41:46,204 --> 00:41:47,902 as if half the vampire population 836 00:41:48,032 --> 00:41:51,166 outside the ruined port of Detroit wasn't waving 837 00:41:51,253 --> 00:41:54,126 the dark gift like red cups in a piss bar, 838 00:41:54,257 --> 00:41:56,868 collecting fledglings like they were Labubu dolls. 839 00:41:56,999 --> 00:41:58,565 I mean, I haven't even told my band 840 00:41:58,696 --> 00:42:00,306 I was an actual vampire. 841 00:42:00,393 --> 00:42:03,005 I was just singing my songs and fucking my food 842 00:42:03,092 --> 00:42:05,137 and defending myself from the vibrant life choices 843 00:42:05,268 --> 00:42:08,271 I had made on my way from the Auvergne countryside 844 00:42:08,401 --> 00:42:10,989 to the eighth floor of this "why bother" hotel. 845 00:42:11,013 --> 00:42:13,320 And this is how it was all going to end for me? 846 00:42:13,407 --> 00:42:16,280 We are the Fang Gang. 847 00:42:16,410 --> 00:42:19,064 We are the children of the darkness reborn. 848 00:42:19,195 --> 00:42:22,067 Jesus fucking Christ. 849 00:42:24,288 --> 00:42:27,006 "Armand told the truth"? Have you met him? 850 00:42:27,030 --> 00:42:28,814 What the fuck does that even mean? 851 00:42:30,294 --> 00:42:31,488 Heard there was an after-party 852 00:42:31,512 --> 00:42:33,298 on the asshole floor. 853 00:42:33,428 --> 00:42:36,387 I like to think I was owed the reinforcements, 854 00:42:36,517 --> 00:42:39,433 Dan and the oddly familiar DJ, 855 00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:42,001 but that's me looking back on it now. 856 00:42:42,132 --> 00:42:44,439 Anything I had done to deserve their timely rescue 857 00:42:44,526 --> 00:42:46,398 hadn't happened yet. 858 00:42:46,485 --> 00:42:48,922 I'd be dead, I think, without Dan. 859 00:42:49,009 --> 00:42:50,594 But then maybe more of the world 860 00:42:50,618 --> 00:42:52,509 would still be alive had Dan not 861 00:42:52,534 --> 00:42:54,319 rallied his army downstairs. 862 00:42:56,103 --> 00:42:59,126 Consider this sliding door of Dan 863 00:42:59,150 --> 00:43:01,630 as you decant my blood and devour my words. 864 00:43:14,732 --> 00:43:17,560 It's hard hiding you're a god. 865 00:43:17,647 --> 00:43:18,779 You're for real? 866 00:43:18,866 --> 00:43:21,826 CCTV, eco-flush toilets, 867 00:43:21,913 --> 00:43:23,978 IMF freezing your accounts because you have the blood 868 00:43:24,002 --> 00:43:25,438 of a patricidal queen inside you. 869 00:43:25,525 --> 00:43:28,528 Hello again. 870 00:43:28,658 --> 00:43:30,573 Théâtre des Vampires. 871 00:43:30,660 --> 00:43:32,663 Talamasca dragged me into that. 872 00:43:32,751 --> 00:43:33,911 And once you reveal yourself, 873 00:43:33,969 --> 00:43:36,580 you have to be on all the time 874 00:43:36,667 --> 00:43:38,886 and remember every face you've ever met. 875 00:43:38,973 --> 00:43:40,888 And everywhere you go, everyone remembers 876 00:43:40,975 --> 00:43:44,806 the thing they said to you in the room that you shared. 877 00:43:44,893 --> 00:43:47,330 Were you a stutterer as a child? 878 00:43:50,159 --> 00:43:53,729 This is why gods prefer hiding in the clouds. 879 00:43:53,816 --> 00:43:55,034 There's nothing there... 880 00:43:56,426 --> 00:43:58,385 But water waiting to fall. 881 00:44:05,741 --> 00:44:10,311 So many opportunities to call it a night that night. 882 00:44:10,398 --> 00:44:13,488 After the song unleashed the muses. 883 00:44:13,575 --> 00:44:17,013 After I saw my first soul. 884 00:44:17,100 --> 00:44:21,148 After I was nearly decapitated in a boutique hotel hallway. 885 00:44:22,890 --> 00:44:25,806 After my vampire nature was revealed to the band 886 00:44:25,893 --> 00:44:28,242 and my vampire gift winged me away 887 00:44:28,372 --> 00:44:30,939 north of the river, south of the country. 888 00:44:34,379 --> 00:44:38,166 But I was saved from such rational thought. 889 00:44:38,253 --> 00:44:41,386 Love will do that to you. 890 00:44:59,405 --> 00:45:02,515 Ma chère. 891 00:45:02,539 --> 00:45:04,758 Very kind of you to come. 892 00:45:10,242 --> 00:45:13,029 I got myself into something I can't get out of. 893 00:45:15,683 --> 00:45:17,815 Music's opened up the batch oven, 894 00:45:17,902 --> 00:45:20,252 and I'm not sure if I can close it again. 895 00:45:25,389 --> 00:45:27,217 I'm not really at my best, but... 896 00:45:32,657 --> 00:45:35,573 It's very nice to see you again. 897 00:45:39,794 --> 00:45:44,104 I like what you've done with your hair, my Ga... 898 00:45:44,235 --> 00:45:46,150 my Ga... 899 00:45:51,241 --> 00:45:54,985 My Gabriella. 900 00:45:57,683 --> 00:46:00,512 It's not much of a reveal, I guess. 901 00:46:00,599 --> 00:46:02,645 I know it's common gossip now, 902 00:46:02,732 --> 00:46:04,012 the first thing one thinks about 903 00:46:04,125 --> 00:46:07,084 when my name comes up. 904 00:46:07,214 --> 00:46:10,522 I assume a privileged individual such as yourself 905 00:46:10,609 --> 00:46:12,960 enjoys a little dirt in their sandwich. 906 00:46:15,267 --> 00:46:19,445 So I serve it to you now how it felt then. 907 00:46:21,882 --> 00:46:24,252 Fledgling, 908 00:46:24,276 --> 00:46:27,192 lover, 909 00:46:27,279 --> 00:46:28,628 mother. 910 00:46:33,025 --> 00:46:33,895 Listen to tracks from "The Vampire Lestat" 911 00:46:34,026 --> 00:46:35,375 wherever you stream music. 912 00:46:38,203 --> 00:46:39,397 If you're still listening after the last hour, 913 00:46:39,421 --> 00:46:40,727 welcome back. 914 00:46:40,857 --> 00:46:42,599 Bring on the muses. 915 00:46:42,686 --> 00:46:44,906 ♪ Give me a million more screams ♪ 916 00:46:45,037 --> 00:46:47,865 Do you kill people? 917 00:46:47,996 --> 00:46:50,172 ♪ Give me a million more screams ♪ 918 00:46:51,740 --> 00:46:54,133 Let's talk about your mother. 919 00:46:54,220 --> 00:46:57,005 ♪ I've been a bad boy, deep down in my heart ♪ 920 00:46:57,136 --> 00:47:00,008 My maker called for his mama and I came. 921 00:47:00,139 --> 00:47:02,490 ♪ Give me a million more screams ♪ 922 00:47:06,015 --> 00:47:08,931 You are caught in great danger with Lestat. 923 00:47:09,018 --> 00:47:11,019 You stole my personal physician. 924 00:47:11,150 --> 00:47:12,630 You hired my biographer. 925 00:47:14,328 --> 00:47:15,982 The songs are not about you. 926 00:47:17,157 --> 00:47:21,074 ♪ I want to stay in bed eating black licorice ♪ 927 00:47:21,204 --> 00:47:24,121 Shall we do it? Shall we scorch the mortal world? 928 00:47:24,208 --> 00:47:28,124 ♪ I want to stay in bed eating black licorice ♪ 929 00:47:28,255 --> 00:47:30,039 What do you think about the great conversion? 930 00:47:30,170 --> 00:47:32,303 Fucking stupid.