1 00:00:02,741 --> 00:00:04,134 Watch "The Vampire Lestat: After Dark" 2 00:00:04,221 --> 00:00:04,874 on AMC or wherever you get your podcasts. 3 00:00:12,012 --> 00:00:13,926 Previously on the show formerly titled 4 00:00:14,101 --> 00:00:15,537 "Interview With the Vampire"... 5 00:00:15,711 --> 00:00:17,843 So, Mr. du Lac, how long have you been dead? 6 00:00:17,974 --> 00:00:20,324 The year was 1910. 7 00:00:20,498 --> 00:00:23,284 Louis, let me introduce you to Mr. Lestat de Lioncourt. 8 00:00:23,458 --> 00:00:25,112 What exactly is the nature of your relationship 9 00:00:25,242 --> 00:00:27,027 with my brother, Monsieur Lioncourt? 10 00:00:27,201 --> 00:00:28,985 I can swap this life of shame, 11 00:00:29,159 --> 00:00:31,074 swap it out for a dark gift. 12 00:00:31,205 --> 00:00:33,729 Be my companion for all eternity. 13 00:00:33,903 --> 00:00:35,557 He had a way about him. 14 00:00:35,731 --> 00:00:37,602 Preternaturally charming, occasionally thoughtful. 15 00:00:37,776 --> 00:00:40,170 He was my murderer, my mentor, my lover, and my maker. 16 00:00:40,344 --> 00:00:41,737 All of those things at once. 17 00:00:41,911 --> 00:00:43,956 Claudia was everything. 18 00:00:44,131 --> 00:00:45,784 The life of a vampire has its challenges. 19 00:00:51,268 --> 00:00:53,575 Can an immortal meet mortality? 20 00:00:53,749 --> 00:00:55,577 Theoretically, it can be done. 21 00:00:55,751 --> 00:00:58,362 But could it be done by us to him? 22 00:00:58,536 --> 00:01:00,843 Paris was an awakening for Louis. 23 00:01:00,973 --> 00:01:02,801 Paris was many things in those days. 24 00:01:05,065 --> 00:01:07,980 - Bonjour, mon amour. - Are you schizophrenic, Louis? 25 00:01:08,155 --> 00:01:10,853 I could feel the movement of air with his movements, 26 00:01:11,027 --> 00:01:13,029 his breath on the back of my neck. 27 00:01:13,203 --> 00:01:15,075 We were on trial for murder. 28 00:01:15,249 --> 00:01:17,686 Love has always been difficult for me. 29 00:01:17,860 --> 00:01:20,167 My first paramour, Nicolas de Lenfent, a violinist. 30 00:01:23,431 --> 00:01:24,475 Nicky! 31 00:01:29,524 --> 00:01:30,829 You led him there so he could destroy it. 32 00:01:31,003 --> 00:01:33,136 - Yes. - You saved Louis. 33 00:01:33,310 --> 00:01:34,833 Banishment. 34 00:01:35,007 --> 00:01:37,184 But not her. 35 00:01:37,358 --> 00:01:38,576 Who made you? 36 00:01:38,707 --> 00:01:41,318 His name was Magnus. 37 00:01:41,449 --> 00:01:44,539 He took me from my room in Paris as I kicked and screamed. 38 00:01:44,713 --> 00:01:47,150 The light's going out of your blue eyes. 39 00:01:47,324 --> 00:01:48,673 I've come to kill you. 40 00:01:48,804 --> 00:01:51,285 I have the blood of Akasha in me. 41 00:01:51,415 --> 00:01:53,113 He didn't save you. 42 00:01:53,243 --> 00:01:55,158 Lestat did. 43 00:01:55,332 --> 00:01:57,421 I'm guessing you haven't heard from my maker. 44 00:01:57,552 --> 00:01:58,988 I shouldn't have left you alone with him. 45 00:01:59,162 --> 00:02:00,729 Make it up to me. We'll do a follow-up book. 46 00:02:00,859 --> 00:02:02,644 I'm companion enough for myself now. 47 00:02:02,818 --> 00:02:04,341 I'm sorry, I don't have much time. 48 00:02:04,515 --> 00:02:06,343 I'm in the middle of rehearsing. I'm going on tour. 49 00:02:06,517 --> 00:02:09,651 Just need about 50 more years of practice. 50 00:02:23,708 --> 00:02:25,580 ♪ I'm the little killer 51 00:02:25,667 --> 00:02:27,712 ♪ I'm the lonely one ♪ 52 00:02:27,843 --> 00:02:29,453 ♪ I'm the chill creeping up your spine ♪ 53 00:02:29,584 --> 00:02:31,846 ♪ Telling you to run ♪ 54 00:02:31,847 --> 00:02:33,718 ♪ I'm a hanging shadow 55 00:02:33,805 --> 00:02:35,893 ♪ I'm a lost love ♪ 56 00:02:35,894 --> 00:02:37,548 ♪ I'm the past and the future ♪ 57 00:02:37,635 --> 00:02:39,811 ♪ The last of the sutures, the cooing dove ♪ 58 00:02:39,942 --> 00:02:41,682 ♪ We're the rock and rollers ♪ 59 00:02:41,683 --> 00:02:43,989 ♪ We're the good time 60 00:02:44,076 --> 00:02:44,947 ♪ We're the heart pumping blood ♪ 61 00:02:45,077 --> 00:02:46,122 ♪ We're the face in the mud ♪ 62 00:02:46,209 --> 00:02:49,212 ♪ We're this stupid rhyme ♪ 63 00:02:49,343 --> 00:02:51,127 ♪ Bang, bang - ♪ Bang, bang ♪ 64 00:02:51,214 --> 00:02:53,129 - ♪ Bang, bang - ♪ Bang, bang ♪ 65 00:02:53,216 --> 00:02:54,695 ♪ Bang, bang ♪ 66 00:02:54,696 --> 00:02:58,395 ♪ All fall down 67 00:02:58,482 --> 00:03:02,269 ♪ Burn the ground ♪ 68 00:03:02,356 --> 00:03:06,447 ♪ All fall down ♪ 69 00:03:06,577 --> 00:03:09,231 ♪ Burn the ♪ 70 00:03:09,232 --> 00:03:11,321 ♪ Bang, bang - ♪ Bang, bang 71 00:03:11,408 --> 00:03:13,367 - ♪ Bang, bang - ♪ Bang, bang ♪ 72 00:03:13,454 --> 00:03:17,326 ♪ Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang ♪ 73 00:03:17,327 --> 00:03:20,939 Hmm. C'est cool. 74 00:03:49,098 --> 00:03:50,185 Good evening. 75 00:03:52,057 --> 00:03:54,669 The house wishes to extend its gratitude to the gathering 76 00:03:54,756 --> 00:03:58,368 for your compliance with the unorthodox prerequisites 77 00:03:58,455 --> 00:04:00,631 of tonight's event. 78 00:04:00,718 --> 00:04:03,243 Furthermore, we wish to reiterate 79 00:04:03,330 --> 00:04:05,288 that the anonymity that you have granted us 80 00:04:05,419 --> 00:04:07,203 will be given to you individually 81 00:04:07,334 --> 00:04:11,381 as well as to any institutions that you are representing. 82 00:04:11,512 --> 00:04:13,427 Stating the obvious, 83 00:04:13,514 --> 00:04:15,777 we are not here and neither are you. 84 00:04:18,693 --> 00:04:22,086 Lot one of two, the master recordings 85 00:04:22,087 --> 00:04:25,002 of "The Complete Works of the Vampire Lestat de Lioncourt," 86 00:04:25,003 --> 00:04:28,092 which includes his 2025 self-titled album 87 00:04:28,093 --> 00:04:29,878 "The Vampire Lestat," 88 00:04:29,965 --> 00:04:32,010 additional session tracks that were discarded 89 00:04:32,097 --> 00:04:34,403 in the final assemblage of the album, 90 00:04:34,404 --> 00:04:37,189 original handwritten scores, and private recordings 91 00:04:37,277 --> 00:04:39,931 by the Vampire Lestat himself, which include 92 00:04:40,018 --> 00:04:42,760 a song cycle in the classical vein 93 00:04:42,847 --> 00:04:47,939 set to the poetry of Baudelaire. 94 00:04:48,026 --> 00:04:52,596 Before we begin the bidding, I perform the following action. 95 00:04:57,297 --> 00:04:58,689 Are you kidding me? 96 00:04:58,776 --> 00:05:00,343 Are you serious? 97 00:05:00,430 --> 00:05:02,171 This is very insulting. 98 00:05:02,258 --> 00:05:03,999 Shame on you. 99 00:05:04,086 --> 00:05:07,872 We will begin the bidding at 1 yuan. 100 00:05:08,003 --> 00:05:11,049 Do I hear 1 yuan? 101 00:05:11,180 --> 00:05:13,313 Yi yuan. 102 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:16,619 Sold to the gentlewoman in the third row 103 00:05:16,620 --> 00:05:19,319 of good spirit. 104 00:05:19,406 --> 00:05:23,801 Lot number two, a music box 105 00:05:23,888 --> 00:05:26,761 curated by the Vampire Lestat himself. 106 00:05:26,891 --> 00:05:31,547 A 1978 Ferdinando Meccani Corinto sideboard. 107 00:05:31,548 --> 00:05:34,769 Inside, a Rossner and Sohn MOTT turntable 108 00:05:34,899 --> 00:05:38,512 with BeoLab 90 speakers, 109 00:05:38,599 --> 00:05:41,514 two temperature-controlled wine cabinets, 110 00:05:41,515 --> 00:05:45,910 one holding a bottle of Niepoort 1863 port wine, 111 00:05:45,997 --> 00:05:47,999 the other with a magnum of blood 112 00:05:48,130 --> 00:05:50,654 from the curator himself. 113 00:05:50,741 --> 00:05:55,006 The upper level, a singular vinyl pressing 114 00:05:55,093 --> 00:05:58,009 of "The Complete Works of the Vampire Lestat de Lioncourt," 115 00:05:58,096 --> 00:06:02,579 previously delineated, along with 111 albums of audio 116 00:06:02,666 --> 00:06:06,843 best described as an omniscient history 117 00:06:06,844 --> 00:06:10,457 of the events of the 2025 album and supporting tour 118 00:06:10,544 --> 00:06:12,893 and the consequential global catastrophes 119 00:06:12,894 --> 00:06:15,462 that sprung from said album and tour 120 00:06:15,549 --> 00:06:19,466 as narrated by the Vampire Lestat himself. 121 00:06:19,553 --> 00:06:24,122 The collection has been named "The Failures." 122 00:06:24,253 --> 00:06:28,431 We will begin the bidding at 50 million yuan. 123 00:06:29,780 --> 00:06:32,261 If you are hearing this now, 124 00:06:32,348 --> 00:06:35,395 you must be a very privileged individual. 125 00:06:35,482 --> 00:06:37,440 You could have fed a small nation for years 126 00:06:37,527 --> 00:06:39,747 while they paved over the rubble. 127 00:06:39,834 --> 00:06:41,879 You bought my box instead. 128 00:06:42,010 --> 00:06:44,360 I like you already. 129 00:06:44,447 --> 00:06:46,188 So let's begin in the middle, 130 00:06:46,275 --> 00:06:49,408 for I could and should have ended it there, 131 00:06:49,409 --> 00:06:54,762 my tour, my hedonistic pursuit of extremity, all of it. 132 00:06:54,892 --> 00:06:57,981 And had I done so, the regretful dead 133 00:06:57,982 --> 00:07:00,028 and the traumatized still alive 134 00:07:00,158 --> 00:07:03,074 would be somewhere other than they are today. 135 00:07:03,161 --> 00:07:05,207 And I am not saying that the attempted extinction 136 00:07:05,294 --> 00:07:07,209 of the Y chromosome across the continents 137 00:07:07,339 --> 00:07:08,993 was all my fault. 138 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:11,213 No, that would suggest a level of self-importance 139 00:07:11,300 --> 00:07:12,823 even I'm not comfortable with. 140 00:07:12,910 --> 00:07:17,654 But upon reflection-- yeah, made a contribution. 141 00:07:17,741 --> 00:07:20,962 It was the spring of 2025. 142 00:07:21,049 --> 00:07:24,574 A good nation was making itself great again, 143 00:07:24,661 --> 00:07:25,923 again. 144 00:07:28,056 --> 00:07:29,449 And every vampire, 145 00:07:29,536 --> 00:07:32,539 those converting and those enduring, 146 00:07:32,626 --> 00:07:36,717 well, they were doing exactly as they pleased. 147 00:08:06,486 --> 00:08:08,531 ♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh ♪ 148 00:08:08,618 --> 00:08:10,751 ♪ Wah-ahh ♪ 149 00:08:10,838 --> 00:08:12,579 ♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh ♪ 150 00:08:12,709 --> 00:08:14,841 ♪ Wah-ahh ♪ 151 00:08:14,842 --> 00:08:16,539 ♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh 152 00:08:16,626 --> 00:08:18,235 ♪ Wah-ahh ♪ 153 00:08:21,196 --> 00:08:23,590 ♪ Why the long face? ♪ 154 00:08:23,677 --> 00:08:25,592 ♪ My pretty baby ♪ 155 00:08:25,722 --> 00:08:27,594 ♪ I got long fangs ♪ 156 00:08:27,724 --> 00:08:29,770 ♪ Come appraise me ♪ 157 00:08:29,857 --> 00:08:31,858 ♪ Bring your long stakes ♪ 158 00:08:31,859 --> 00:08:33,600 ♪ That doesn't faze me 159 00:08:37,081 --> 00:08:38,996 ♪ I'm an actor ♪ 160 00:08:39,083 --> 00:08:41,085 ♪ In my makeup ♪ 161 00:08:41,172 --> 00:08:43,087 ♪ I'll get fatter ♪ 162 00:08:43,218 --> 00:08:45,045 ♪ When we break up ♪ 163 00:08:45,046 --> 00:08:47,351 ♪ What does it matter 164 00:08:47,352 --> 00:08:49,964 ♪ Who I take up? 165 00:08:50,051 --> 00:08:53,097 Naturally, I named the band after myself, 166 00:08:53,184 --> 00:08:55,490 and the four that backed me played their parts 167 00:08:55,491 --> 00:08:57,274 as instructed. 168 00:08:57,275 --> 00:09:00,104 There was Larry, the front man made sideman 169 00:09:00,191 --> 00:09:01,671 choking his guitar neck nightly 170 00:09:01,802 --> 00:09:03,891 wishing it was mine. 171 00:09:03,978 --> 00:09:07,110 Brother Alex, the more talented seedling, 172 00:09:07,111 --> 00:09:09,199 straight-edged and half the fun. 173 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:12,290 Salamander, bassist, dumb. 174 00:09:12,377 --> 00:09:14,509 Shockingly dumb. 175 00:09:14,510 --> 00:09:17,686 And TC, the abandoned bride of a dozen 176 00:09:17,687 --> 00:09:19,254 "should have died in art school" bands 177 00:09:19,341 --> 00:09:22,213 keeping us all in the dirty pocket. 178 00:09:22,300 --> 00:09:24,389 We dropped songs on the streams and booked 179 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:28,437 intimate venues to induce what Gen Snooze called FOMO. 180 00:09:28,568 --> 00:09:30,830 They came for cosplay, left converted, 181 00:09:30,831 --> 00:09:33,485 and I baptized them the Beautiful Unwell. 182 00:09:33,573 --> 00:09:35,836 And yet here we were 183 00:09:35,966 --> 00:09:38,838 in the inn of the Stooges and the Stripes, 184 00:09:38,839 --> 00:09:41,319 30 performances notched, and already resting 185 00:09:41,450 --> 00:09:43,887 on the alps of adequacy. 186 00:09:43,974 --> 00:09:45,236 Unacceptable. 187 00:09:45,323 --> 00:09:47,281 ♪ I'm piano ♪ 188 00:09:47,282 --> 00:09:49,023 ♪ And you're forte 189 00:09:49,110 --> 00:09:51,373 ♪ You're allegro ♪ 190 00:09:51,460 --> 00:09:53,418 ♪ I'm andante ♪ 191 00:09:53,505 --> 00:09:55,420 ♪ We're bolero ♪ 192 00:09:55,507 --> 00:09:57,335 ♪ Prostitué ♪ 193 00:10:01,252 --> 00:10:03,211 ♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh 194 00:10:03,298 --> 00:10:04,821 ♪ Wah-ahh ♪ 195 00:10:07,781 --> 00:10:09,304 ♪ Another taste ♪ 196 00:10:09,391 --> 00:10:12,046 Hello. Welcome to Detroit. 197 00:10:12,133 --> 00:10:13,351 Lovely city. 198 00:10:13,438 --> 00:10:14,614 Your song sucks. 199 00:10:14,744 --> 00:10:16,353 Thank you for the feedback. 200 00:10:16,354 --> 00:10:18,618 ♪ Pick up the pace, pack up the gear ♪ 201 00:10:18,705 --> 00:10:20,576 ♪ Gimme some face, a souvenir ♪ 202 00:10:20,707 --> 00:10:22,796 ♪ Here come the gays, here comes the fear ♪ 203 00:10:22,883 --> 00:10:25,929 ♪ Now we're having fun ♪ 204 00:10:26,016 --> 00:10:30,934 ♪ Fun ♪ 205 00:10:31,065 --> 00:10:36,157 ♪ Now we're having fun ♪ 206 00:10:39,551 --> 00:10:41,641 ♪ Ooh 207 00:10:41,728 --> 00:10:43,294 ♪ Ah, ah ♪ 208 00:10:43,381 --> 00:10:45,688 ♪ Ooh ♪ 209 00:10:45,819 --> 00:10:47,472 ♪ Ah, ah ♪ 210 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:49,431 ♪ Oh, yeah, we're coming ♪ 211 00:10:49,561 --> 00:10:51,563 ♪ Yeah, we're coming ♪ 212 00:10:51,651 --> 00:10:55,654 ♪ Oh, yeah, we're coming ♪ 213 00:10:55,655 --> 00:10:57,613 ♪ Oh, yeah, we're coming 214 00:10:57,700 --> 00:10:59,615 ♪ Yeah, yeah, we're coming ♪ 215 00:10:59,746 --> 00:11:02,183 ♪ Oh, yeah, I'm coming ♪ 216 00:11:02,270 --> 00:11:04,011 ♪ Oh, yeah, oh, yeah ♪ 217 00:11:04,098 --> 00:11:05,969 ♪ Oh, yeah, oh, yeah ♪ 218 00:11:06,100 --> 00:11:08,102 ♪ Oh, yeah, oh, yeah ♪ 219 00:11:08,232 --> 00:11:09,277 ♪ Oh, yeah, oh ♪ 220 00:11:14,804 --> 00:11:16,762 Well, that was boring. - They seem to like it. 221 00:11:16,763 --> 00:11:18,547 Harmonies on "Plastic Fiends" were trash. 222 00:11:18,634 --> 00:11:20,070 He's right. 223 00:11:20,157 --> 00:11:21,419 And the front head on your kick is shimmering. 224 00:11:21,506 --> 00:11:23,333 Tune it up a step. - Singer's right. 225 00:11:23,334 --> 00:11:25,685 And you left your tambourine in its stand, Larry. 226 00:11:25,772 --> 00:11:27,034 Yeah, well, I was feeling the guitar. 227 00:11:27,121 --> 00:11:29,166 No one is coming to hear your guitar, Larry. 228 00:11:29,253 --> 00:11:30,645 No, they come for the Ozzy shtick. 229 00:11:30,646 --> 00:11:32,430 "Dude, rage call to the Harmony Room. 230 00:11:32,517 --> 00:11:35,477 "Larry Slater's shredding it tonight," said no one ever. 231 00:11:35,564 --> 00:11:36,913 You sign the checks, singer. 232 00:11:37,044 --> 00:11:38,872 - I do. I do sign the checks. - Sign this. 233 00:11:39,002 --> 00:11:41,439 The tambourine tomorrow, as rehearsed and perfected. 234 00:11:41,526 --> 00:11:43,050 - Suck it, singer! - What am I signing? 235 00:11:43,180 --> 00:11:44,616 - Your night in Corvallis. - Ah. 236 00:11:44,704 --> 00:11:45,879 You're buying the wife early retirement 237 00:11:45,966 --> 00:11:47,141 and her lawyer a lake boat. 238 00:11:47,228 --> 00:11:48,316 Use the pen. 239 00:11:48,403 --> 00:11:49,534 But it's funny because it's blood, 240 00:11:49,621 --> 00:11:51,406 and I'm a vampire. 241 00:11:51,493 --> 00:11:53,974 Notaries in Oregon don't notarize in red ink. 242 00:11:54,061 --> 00:11:56,280 There's the band, and there's the shell 243 00:11:56,367 --> 00:11:59,848 that protects the band from the world's envy. 244 00:11:59,849 --> 00:12:02,852 Our band shell was Christine Claire. 245 00:12:02,939 --> 00:12:06,682 She hired, fired, dictated, and castrated 246 00:12:06,769 --> 00:12:08,249 with extreme prejudice. 247 00:12:08,379 --> 00:12:09,902 Try your best not to be you tonight. 248 00:12:09,903 --> 00:12:11,773 - We want the car. - No. 249 00:12:11,774 --> 00:12:13,863 - We'll be good. - Corvallis. 250 00:12:13,950 --> 00:12:17,127 Who do you think? 251 00:12:17,214 --> 00:12:18,302 You. - Her. 252 00:12:18,389 --> 00:12:19,651 Me? 253 00:12:19,739 --> 00:12:21,305 All right, sluts, out you go. 254 00:12:21,392 --> 00:12:24,656 So I'm going into my vampire dressing room now. 255 00:12:24,744 --> 00:12:27,137 A little draining, both ways. 256 00:12:27,268 --> 00:12:28,748 You'll have to guess who gets the fangs 257 00:12:28,835 --> 00:12:30,924 and who gets the vodka bottle. 258 00:12:31,011 --> 00:12:33,055 And yes, it's a vodka bottle. 259 00:12:34,492 --> 00:12:37,147 He did it again. Fucking asshole. 260 00:12:37,234 --> 00:12:39,715 Did I mention that I was filming a documentary 261 00:12:39,802 --> 00:12:41,803 at the time, a bootless errand 262 00:12:41,804 --> 00:12:44,024 helmed by a first-time director. 263 00:12:44,154 --> 00:12:46,722 I've seen a rough cut-- truthful and daring 264 00:12:46,809 --> 00:12:48,028 with less Warren Beatty. 265 00:12:48,158 --> 00:12:49,769 - Anyone see Jarda? - Hey, Jarda, heads up. 266 00:12:49,856 --> 00:12:51,945 ♪ From the land of sky-blue waters ♪ 267 00:12:53,903 --> 00:12:56,557 Ahoj. - Missing a contact again. 268 00:12:56,558 --> 00:12:58,255 Oh, sakra. 269 00:12:58,342 --> 00:13:00,343 How many drinks have you had? 270 00:13:00,344 --> 00:13:02,216 - 1 1/2. - Drive to the burbs. 271 00:13:02,303 --> 00:13:03,738 Sit by yourself in a booth at Applebee's. 272 00:13:03,739 --> 00:13:05,828 Order the usual. Big tip. 273 00:13:05,915 --> 00:13:07,221 Meet us back in the city. 274 00:13:07,308 --> 00:13:09,310 Now, you'd think a 54-city rock tour 275 00:13:09,397 --> 00:13:11,486 would be a wonderful cover for a blood drinker. 276 00:13:11,616 --> 00:13:13,227 Hide your kill, hop on the bus, 277 00:13:13,357 --> 00:13:15,359 wave to the morgue reports in the rear view mirror, 278 00:13:15,446 --> 00:13:16,839 that kind of thing. 279 00:13:16,926 --> 00:13:19,276 But niche celebrity is a hunter's handicap, 280 00:13:19,363 --> 00:13:21,801 and a sloppy night in Corvallis made urgent 281 00:13:21,888 --> 00:13:23,106 the need for a body double. 282 00:13:23,237 --> 00:13:24,325 Ahoj! 283 00:13:24,455 --> 00:13:25,935 His name was Jarda Klapek, 284 00:13:26,022 --> 00:13:27,937 and the Albanian gangsters Christine hired 285 00:13:28,024 --> 00:13:29,634 to find my doppelganger 286 00:13:29,721 --> 00:13:32,812 found him working construction in the Czech Republic. 287 00:13:32,942 --> 00:13:35,596 Three inches shorter than your velvet-mouth narrator, 288 00:13:35,597 --> 00:13:39,514 we fit him for lifts, blue eye contacts, and a wig 289 00:13:39,601 --> 00:13:42,386 and otherwise let him be Neanderthal me. 290 00:13:42,473 --> 00:13:44,823 I hunted this way, and we send him that way, 291 00:13:44,824 --> 00:13:48,001 and every sad photograph uploaded to Reddit or Discord 292 00:13:48,131 --> 00:13:51,091 of Jarda eating a tuna melt by himself 293 00:13:51,178 --> 00:13:54,572 only confirmed for most what they already believed... 294 00:13:54,703 --> 00:13:56,009 Let's go! 295 00:13:56,139 --> 00:13:57,662 That I, the Vampire Lestat, 296 00:13:57,749 --> 00:14:01,057 was Daniel Molloy's fictitious creation, 297 00:14:01,144 --> 00:14:03,059 and The Vampire Lestat, the band, was fronted 298 00:14:03,146 --> 00:14:06,454 by a bricklaying karaoke fanatic from Ostrava, 299 00:14:06,584 --> 00:14:08,456 nothing but a desperate cash grab at the end 300 00:14:08,543 --> 00:14:10,588 of a cheugy vampire fad. 301 00:14:10,675 --> 00:14:12,373 And I've only myself to blame for the timing, 302 00:14:12,503 --> 00:14:14,027 having locked us in an attic 303 00:14:14,157 --> 00:14:16,333 for a year-plus perfecting our sound, 304 00:14:16,464 --> 00:14:19,684 a sound I hoped would counter Mr. du Lac's portrayal of me 305 00:14:19,815 --> 00:14:22,600 as a mayonnaise villain with sociopathic tendencies. 306 00:14:24,515 --> 00:14:26,778 All beside the point, because the point was, 307 00:14:26,866 --> 00:14:28,171 the point forever is... 308 00:14:28,302 --> 00:14:29,651 I know you're real. 309 00:14:29,738 --> 00:14:32,436 Most of humanity moved on from vampires, 310 00:14:32,523 --> 00:14:33,785 and rather quickly. 311 00:14:33,873 --> 00:14:36,092 Congratulations. 312 00:14:36,179 --> 00:14:38,486 Now go make friends. 313 00:14:38,573 --> 00:14:39,791 They lifted their heads 314 00:14:39,879 --> 00:14:41,836 from their algorithmic hand masters, 315 00:14:41,837 --> 00:14:45,972 uttered a collective "huh," and swiped left. 316 00:14:46,059 --> 00:14:48,583 I am the Vampire Lestat. 317 00:14:48,670 --> 00:14:50,498 I am a god. 318 00:14:50,628 --> 00:14:54,589 Gods are not swiped. 319 00:14:54,676 --> 00:14:56,198 The Cuntessa. 320 00:14:56,199 --> 00:14:57,940 The useful idiot. 321 00:14:58,027 --> 00:14:59,594 Great show. 322 00:14:59,681 --> 00:15:02,161 You left before we started. 323 00:15:02,162 --> 00:15:04,380 Yeah, I figured, Spotify some T. Rex 324 00:15:04,381 --> 00:15:06,644 and drag a little O neg from Dr. Fareed-Good here, 325 00:15:06,775 --> 00:15:07,862 same diff. 326 00:15:07,863 --> 00:15:09,169 I am not here. 327 00:15:09,299 --> 00:15:10,518 Can we mic you? 328 00:15:10,648 --> 00:15:12,172 TC punched the boom again. 329 00:15:12,302 --> 00:15:14,000 Yeah. OK. 330 00:15:19,527 --> 00:15:23,399 So, uh, you and Louis talking again? 331 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:25,837 He doesn't return my texts 332 00:15:25,968 --> 00:15:28,970 or my telepathy. 333 00:15:28,971 --> 00:15:31,104 I hear he's back in the States. 334 00:15:32,844 --> 00:15:34,629 We good? - We're good. 335 00:15:34,716 --> 00:15:36,804 Slate. 336 00:15:36,805 --> 00:15:40,548 OK. 337 00:15:40,635 --> 00:15:43,899 You've been alive and undead for 265 years. 338 00:15:44,030 --> 00:15:46,989 You witnessed the French Revolution firsthand, 339 00:15:47,076 --> 00:15:48,730 the electric light, penicillin, 340 00:15:48,860 --> 00:15:50,992 two World Wars, the atomic bomb, 341 00:15:50,993 --> 00:15:52,821 the moon landing, the Berlin Wall-- 342 00:15:52,952 --> 00:15:54,300 Joey Chestnut. 343 00:15:54,301 --> 00:15:55,476 What? 344 00:15:55,606 --> 00:15:57,086 He eats hot dogs for a living. 345 00:15:57,217 --> 00:15:58,870 He's extraordinary. I hope to meet him one day. 346 00:15:58,958 --> 00:16:00,436 Was there a question? 347 00:16:00,437 --> 00:16:02,395 Having accumulated profound wisdom and experience 348 00:16:02,396 --> 00:16:04,701 through the dark gift of immortality, 349 00:16:04,702 --> 00:16:07,705 why have you chosen to waste it singing music 350 00:16:07,792 --> 00:16:09,358 no one wants to hear 351 00:16:09,359 --> 00:16:11,709 in pants no one should ever squeeze into? 352 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:13,406 You ask this question every night. 353 00:16:13,407 --> 00:16:14,799 And I get a different answer every night. 354 00:16:14,886 --> 00:16:17,105 You'll get me to repeat myself soon enough, I am sure, 355 00:16:17,106 --> 00:16:19,282 once you confront your transformational trauma. 356 00:16:19,369 --> 00:16:21,457 I don't have transformational trauma. 357 00:16:21,458 --> 00:16:23,983 Mm, that's why these movie producers hired you, 358 00:16:24,070 --> 00:16:26,420 Daniel Molloy, Vampire Slayer. 359 00:16:26,507 --> 00:16:28,160 They said you requested me. 360 00:16:28,161 --> 00:16:29,336 Absurd. 361 00:16:29,466 --> 00:16:31,120 Oh, as absurd as a documentary 362 00:16:31,207 --> 00:16:34,167 about a rock band posing as vampires 363 00:16:34,297 --> 00:16:36,255 fronted by an actual vampire? 364 00:16:36,256 --> 00:16:38,606 Directed by a vampire passing as a human. 365 00:16:38,693 --> 00:16:41,174 You tell him, Fareed. 366 00:16:41,261 --> 00:16:44,568 Is it true you were a stutterer as a child? 367 00:16:44,655 --> 00:16:47,223 Louis said you were. 368 00:16:51,532 --> 00:16:53,621 Was he there in 18th-century Auvergne? 369 00:16:53,708 --> 00:16:54,925 He said you told him that. 370 00:16:54,926 --> 00:16:57,233 Did I threaten Claudia with rape on a train? 371 00:16:57,320 --> 00:16:58,495 Was I in the room 372 00:16:58,582 --> 00:17:01,455 when Donizetti wrote "Don Pasquale"? 373 00:17:01,542 --> 00:17:04,240 No, no, and impossible, 374 00:17:04,371 --> 00:17:06,677 because I had buried myself underground 375 00:17:06,764 --> 00:17:08,722 for the vast majority of the 1800s. 376 00:17:08,723 --> 00:17:10,464 I wrote what he told me. 377 00:17:10,551 --> 00:17:13,467 I don't have trauma, I love being a vampire, 378 00:17:13,554 --> 00:17:16,165 and can you drop the Fledgling Speak and Spell? 379 00:17:23,085 --> 00:17:26,697 The dark, dreary industrial world 380 00:17:26,784 --> 00:17:31,092 has finally submitted to automation. 381 00:17:31,093 --> 00:17:34,052 Laborers stand in their doorways 382 00:17:34,053 --> 00:17:37,230 hitting their pipes as their children half-pipe 383 00:17:37,317 --> 00:17:40,450 in their drained, empty swimming pools. 384 00:17:40,537 --> 00:17:44,193 Drug stores locked up baby formula and shaving cream 385 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:48,632 while Saks ate Barneys and someone told everyone 386 00:17:48,719 --> 00:17:51,983 that Lululemon was sexy. 387 00:17:52,071 --> 00:17:55,117 Facts are irrelevant. 388 00:17:55,204 --> 00:17:58,294 Feels are everything. 389 00:17:58,381 --> 00:18:01,297 And the value of human life, 390 00:18:01,384 --> 00:18:05,040 it has never been more arbitrary. 391 00:18:05,127 --> 00:18:10,350 David, Freddie, Prince Rogers, they're all gone, 392 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:13,657 and the lights on Tay Tay's eras have dimmed. 393 00:18:13,744 --> 00:18:16,443 Fire coming down the hill, 394 00:18:16,573 --> 00:18:20,969 water moving in on Nantucket. 395 00:18:21,056 --> 00:18:25,059 No more safe spaces. 396 00:18:25,060 --> 00:18:27,715 It's my era now. 397 00:18:30,805 --> 00:18:33,547 Post Malone and Jelly Roll playing there tonight. 398 00:18:33,634 --> 00:18:36,376 60,000 for Face Tattoo Palooza. 399 00:18:36,463 --> 00:18:38,942 You played an 800-seat venue. 400 00:18:38,943 --> 00:18:40,206 How is it your era? 401 00:18:43,383 --> 00:18:45,341 I'm vain and shallow and fear an empty seat. 402 00:18:45,428 --> 00:18:47,996 Ask me an easy one. 403 00:18:48,083 --> 00:18:52,609 Is it true your band was formed on Halloween? 404 00:18:57,962 --> 00:18:59,920 You are listening to "The Failures"... 405 00:19:01,531 --> 00:19:03,533 Album 2, Side B. 406 00:19:26,904 --> 00:19:28,428 What do you think? 407 00:19:28,515 --> 00:19:29,994 It's nice. 408 00:19:30,125 --> 00:19:32,432 - Nice? - Yeah. It's nice. 409 00:19:32,562 --> 00:19:34,302 I don't--I don't see Beyoncé covering it. 410 00:19:34,303 --> 00:19:37,132 But it's nice. 411 00:19:37,219 --> 00:19:38,567 Nice is nothing. 412 00:19:38,568 --> 00:19:40,918 - Oh, it--it's nice... - Nice is a balloon. 413 00:19:41,005 --> 00:19:42,005 That you're back writing music. 414 00:19:42,006 --> 00:19:43,530 A flower box is nice. 415 00:19:43,617 --> 00:19:45,401 It's nice that you got yourself a nice place. 416 00:19:45,488 --> 00:19:47,142 It's a nice word, 417 00:19:47,273 --> 00:19:49,231 and it says everything I wanted to express. 418 00:19:49,318 --> 00:19:52,755 Don't be a bitch about it. 419 00:19:52,756 --> 00:19:54,889 You should come visit. 420 00:19:54,976 --> 00:19:57,718 I have a space above the bed in one of the guest rooms 421 00:19:57,848 --> 00:19:59,545 I can't find a painting for. 422 00:19:59,546 --> 00:20:01,330 Oh, the guest room. 423 00:20:01,461 --> 00:20:03,593 You want me to come and see your guest room. 424 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:05,508 It's an affluent neighborhood. 425 00:20:05,595 --> 00:20:08,076 Old money, young professionals, 426 00:20:08,163 --> 00:20:10,252 a smattering of criss-de-trust-fund-bébé. 427 00:20:10,383 --> 00:20:14,213 Mmm, good eating. 428 00:20:14,343 --> 00:20:18,042 Same potholes, but no hurricanes, 429 00:20:18,129 --> 00:20:20,305 no witches. 430 00:20:20,306 --> 00:20:23,744 And everyone mangles French just like you do. 431 00:20:23,831 --> 00:20:25,005 Come to me. 432 00:20:25,006 --> 00:20:26,703 Montreal. 433 00:20:26,790 --> 00:20:29,184 I am he, and he is me. 434 00:20:29,271 --> 00:20:31,925 Less baggage here. 435 00:20:31,926 --> 00:20:34,711 I get it. I get it. 436 00:20:34,798 --> 00:20:39,238 Besides, there's an Olmsted park nearby if I get homesick, 437 00:20:39,325 --> 00:20:42,893 and there's a garage band rehearsing across the street 438 00:20:42,980 --> 00:20:47,855 who call themselves, of all things, Satan... 439 00:20:47,942 --> 00:20:50,596 They call themselves Of All Things Satan? 440 00:20:50,597 --> 00:20:52,076 Satan's Night Ou... 441 00:20:52,207 --> 00:20:53,599 Sat--Satan's Night Owl? 442 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:55,732 Out. Satan's Night Out. 443 00:20:55,819 --> 00:20:57,473 OK. Makes sense. 444 00:20:57,604 --> 00:21:01,477 Louis, do you know someone called Daniel Molloy? 445 00:21:01,608 --> 00:21:03,044 Uh... 446 00:21:03,174 --> 00:21:04,698 I burned his laptop! 447 00:21:04,785 --> 00:21:06,526 I didn't know he had it saved in the cloud. 448 00:21:06,656 --> 00:21:08,267 I only found out it was coming out a month ago. 449 00:21:08,397 --> 00:21:09,442 You've known for a month? 450 00:21:09,572 --> 00:21:11,008 And you talk about me in it to a mortal? 451 00:21:11,139 --> 00:21:12,401 Well, yeah. 452 00:21:12,488 --> 00:21:14,795 Yeah, kind of--but, you know-- 453 00:21:14,882 --> 00:21:16,579 No, I don't know, Louis. 454 00:21:16,710 --> 00:21:18,538 Please explain yourself. 455 00:21:18,668 --> 00:21:20,366 It's gonna be here and gone in a minute. 456 00:21:20,496 --> 00:21:21,671 No one reads anymore. 457 00:21:41,038 --> 00:21:42,649 Mm. 458 00:22:02,625 --> 00:22:03,670 Oh. 459 00:22:05,802 --> 00:22:07,021 No, thank you! 460 00:22:11,721 --> 00:22:14,768 Oh. 461 00:22:14,855 --> 00:22:17,858 Oh, I know what infinitesimal means! 462 00:22:19,381 --> 00:22:20,425 It was raining. 463 00:22:20,426 --> 00:22:21,383 No! 464 00:22:21,470 --> 00:22:22,515 No. 465 00:22:22,602 --> 00:22:27,737 Never fucking... 466 00:22:27,824 --> 00:22:29,043 Liar! 467 00:22:29,130 --> 00:22:31,262 I'm not a harlequin. 468 00:22:31,393 --> 00:22:33,700 Your sources are your sherpas. 469 00:22:33,787 --> 00:22:36,311 Your editor is your priest. 470 00:22:36,442 --> 00:22:37,530 Don't go to the F. 471 00:22:38,966 --> 00:22:41,490 G sus out. Why must you complicate it? 472 00:22:41,621 --> 00:22:43,405 Mm. 473 00:22:43,492 --> 00:22:45,581 all: Trick or treat. 474 00:22:45,712 --> 00:22:48,104 Candy, please. 475 00:22:48,105 --> 00:22:50,673 Hello. 476 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:52,108 Bon Halloween. 477 00:22:52,109 --> 00:22:54,764 Oh, I wanted the full-size bar. 478 00:22:54,895 --> 00:22:55,939 Is that it? 479 00:22:57,898 --> 00:23:00,422 - Thank you. - Oh. 480 00:23:00,509 --> 00:23:03,382 Your camera is not period correct. 481 00:23:03,469 --> 00:23:04,818 I have a peanut allergy. 482 00:23:04,905 --> 00:23:07,733 Well, allergies are delusional. 483 00:23:07,734 --> 00:23:08,996 I'll take the Mounds. 484 00:23:09,083 --> 00:23:11,214 You'll take whatever I give you! 485 00:23:11,215 --> 00:23:12,956 That guy was mean. 486 00:23:32,019 --> 00:23:35,500 Not--not the F! 487 00:23:48,644 --> 00:23:49,775 Come on, Larry! 488 00:23:49,776 --> 00:23:52,518 Yeah! 489 00:24:03,616 --> 00:24:04,878 Dude, what the fuck? 490 00:24:05,008 --> 00:24:10,840 G minor sus out! 491 00:24:10,927 --> 00:24:12,581 This isn't 1979. 492 00:24:12,712 --> 00:24:14,582 Bela Lugosi is not dead. 493 00:24:14,583 --> 00:24:18,064 You don't need to finger her for five bars. 494 00:24:18,065 --> 00:24:20,023 You're hurting her. 495 00:24:20,154 --> 00:24:22,461 - Is that our neighbor? - Um, yeah. 496 00:24:22,548 --> 00:24:24,680 Apologies for the Squier. 497 00:24:24,811 --> 00:24:27,247 My man Arturo will come in the morning 498 00:24:27,248 --> 00:24:28,988 with a replacement 499 00:24:28,989 --> 00:24:31,731 and a new front door. 500 00:24:31,818 --> 00:24:34,776 More frequent showers. 501 00:24:34,777 --> 00:24:35,996 Thank you. 502 00:24:39,216 --> 00:24:40,652 What was the question again? 503 00:24:41,610 --> 00:24:42,829 Why music? 504 00:24:42,916 --> 00:24:44,874 Hey. Hey. 505 00:24:45,005 --> 00:24:46,702 Why now? 506 00:24:46,789 --> 00:24:48,051 Dude, that was sick. 507 00:24:48,138 --> 00:24:51,446 What are we doing here? 508 00:24:51,577 --> 00:24:54,405 We're doing a rewrite. 509 00:24:54,536 --> 00:24:58,845 So this whole tour is just some Byronic reaction 510 00:24:58,932 --> 00:25:00,193 to my book? 511 00:25:00,194 --> 00:25:02,413 Who better to refute the book 512 00:25:02,501 --> 00:25:04,240 than the man who wrote the book? 513 00:25:04,241 --> 00:25:06,983 Mm, well, the songs are my story, 514 00:25:07,070 --> 00:25:08,681 your documentary the liner notes. 515 00:25:08,768 --> 00:25:09,985 Liner notes? 516 00:25:09,986 --> 00:25:11,901 I won two Pulitzers. 517 00:25:11,988 --> 00:25:14,730 I'm taking this thing to Cannes, OK? 518 00:25:14,817 --> 00:25:16,732 I'm gonna be slapping Chris Rock 519 00:25:16,819 --> 00:25:19,082 and stroking my Oscar. 520 00:25:19,213 --> 00:25:21,432 The brat sings, the brat dies. 521 00:25:21,563 --> 00:25:22,999 The Great Laws are clear on this. 522 00:25:24,871 --> 00:25:27,569 More exposure for us, more risk for us. 523 00:25:31,921 --> 00:25:33,662 He sings for himself. 524 00:25:35,534 --> 00:25:36,883 Make more! 525 00:25:36,970 --> 00:25:38,580 Only a coven leader can make more. 526 00:25:38,711 --> 00:25:40,669 The Great Laws are clear on that. 527 00:25:40,756 --> 00:25:43,150 First the book, now the singer. 528 00:25:43,237 --> 00:25:44,325 This is chaos uncaged. 529 00:25:51,201 --> 00:25:55,684 ♪ My little heart's reflection ♪ 530 00:25:55,771 --> 00:25:59,601 ♪ You've got a confession ♪ 531 00:25:59,688 --> 00:26:01,821 ♪ You used to find ♪ 532 00:27:34,261 --> 00:27:37,133 ♪ I caught a real live one ♪ 533 00:27:37,220 --> 00:27:38,569 ♪ Didn't blink ♪ 534 00:27:38,657 --> 00:27:40,180 ♪ Didn't try to run ♪ 535 00:27:40,310 --> 00:27:42,572 ♪ I caught a real live one ♪ 536 00:27:44,663 --> 00:27:46,186 ♪ Sucking on the sun ♪ 537 00:27:46,273 --> 00:27:47,666 ♪ No time for glowing up ♪ 538 00:27:47,796 --> 00:27:49,276 ♪ No time for throwing up ♪ 539 00:27:49,363 --> 00:27:50,669 ♪ No time for vibing out ♪ 540 00:27:50,799 --> 00:27:52,192 ♪ Your phone is blowing up ♪ 541 00:27:52,322 --> 00:27:55,282 ♪ I caught a real live one ♪ 542 00:27:55,369 --> 00:27:57,284 ♪ No time for "I ride my stepbrother ♪ 543 00:27:57,414 --> 00:27:58,589 ♪ Till he come" ♪ 544 00:27:58,677 --> 00:28:00,939 ♪ Doo, doo, doo, dah, dah, dah ♪ 545 00:28:00,940 --> 00:28:02,202 ♪ Don't wanna smash your Slack ♪ 546 00:28:02,332 --> 00:28:04,507 ♪ Or be your morning star ♪ 547 00:28:04,508 --> 00:28:07,207 ♪ Don't wanna learn another TikTok dance ♪ 548 00:28:07,294 --> 00:28:08,774 ♪ Wanna stay in bed ♪ 549 00:28:08,861 --> 00:28:14,083 ♪ Eating black licorice ♪ 550 00:28:15,911 --> 00:28:17,347 ♪ Ooh ♪ 551 00:28:20,046 --> 00:28:21,829 Beef House in the Twin Oaks Mall. 552 00:28:21,830 --> 00:28:23,352 Order at the bar this time. 553 00:28:23,353 --> 00:28:25,747 Take some photos with the fans I've planted there. 554 00:28:25,878 --> 00:28:26,835 ♪ Keep 'em scrolling, rolling ♪ 555 00:28:26,922 --> 00:28:28,271 ♪ Fire emojin', aubergines ♪ 556 00:28:32,711 --> 00:28:34,537 Hi, papi. 557 00:28:34,538 --> 00:28:36,236 ♪ I've been a bad boy 558 00:28:36,323 --> 00:28:37,759 ♪ Deep down in my heart ♪ 559 00:28:37,846 --> 00:28:39,543 ♪ I kept a really dark secret ♪ 560 00:28:39,630 --> 00:28:40,849 ♪ From the very start ♪ 561 00:28:40,936 --> 00:28:43,024 ♪ Give me a million more screams ♪ 562 00:28:44,592 --> 00:28:46,768 ♪ Means exactly what you think it means ♪ 563 00:28:46,855 --> 00:28:49,683 ♪ Doo, doo, doo, dah, dah, dah ♪ 564 00:28:49,684 --> 00:28:50,729 ♪ Don't wanna smash your Slack ♪ 565 00:28:50,859 --> 00:28:52,948 ♪ Or be your morning star ♪ 566 00:28:53,035 --> 00:28:55,646 ♪ Don't wanna learn a fucking TikTok dance ♪ 567 00:28:55,734 --> 00:28:57,431 ♪ Wanna stay in bed ♪ 568 00:28:57,518 --> 00:28:58,824 ♪ Eating black licorice ♪ 569 00:29:06,614 --> 00:29:09,312 Pick up the fucking tambourine! 570 00:29:09,399 --> 00:29:13,664 From the alps of adequacy to the canyon of coup d'etat, 571 00:29:13,752 --> 00:29:17,233 two nights in a row, my violin competing with his guitar 572 00:29:17,364 --> 00:29:18,843 for the solo break. 573 00:29:18,844 --> 00:29:22,064 Two centuries waiting to share my music, 574 00:29:22,151 --> 00:29:25,285 two years as Mr. du Lac's B-movie brute. 575 00:29:27,461 --> 00:29:30,115 But just as I was about to bridge the bridge 576 00:29:30,116 --> 00:29:32,683 with murder and mayhem, 577 00:29:32,771 --> 00:29:35,774 something quite surprising happened. 578 00:29:35,861 --> 00:29:39,995 My music wrapped itself around me like a jungle snake 579 00:29:40,082 --> 00:29:41,997 constricting its prey, 580 00:29:42,128 --> 00:29:44,217 and a lifetime of blood bartering 581 00:29:44,304 --> 00:29:47,437 overwhelmed the temporal lobe. 582 00:29:47,568 --> 00:29:51,050 Muses appeared in my mind and in the now around me. 583 00:29:53,792 --> 00:29:56,837 Memories taking their turn. 584 00:29:59,536 --> 00:30:03,279 Blood in, blood out. 585 00:30:06,239 --> 00:30:09,242 Hammering away at the performative vampire persona 586 00:30:09,372 --> 00:30:11,635 I had welded into armor. 587 00:30:14,551 --> 00:30:15,944 The armor cracked. 588 00:30:18,642 --> 00:30:21,644 The bridge buckled. 589 00:30:21,645 --> 00:30:26,389 And the bona fide vampire emerged center stage. 590 00:30:26,476 --> 00:30:30,480 It was I who had been adequate. 591 00:30:30,567 --> 00:30:34,658 It was I who had been holding us back, 592 00:30:34,789 --> 00:30:38,271 and now, exposed in the raw 593 00:30:38,358 --> 00:30:41,578 under the white hot lights, 594 00:30:41,665 --> 00:30:44,364 my bandmates began to feed. 595 00:30:44,451 --> 00:30:46,801 ♪ I wanna stay in bed eating black licorice ♪ 596 00:30:46,888 --> 00:30:49,847 And that sound I had been grinding them for 597 00:30:49,848 --> 00:30:52,285 was finally unleashed, 598 00:30:52,415 --> 00:30:56,115 a euphoric grottiness spilling into the crowd, 599 00:30:56,202 --> 00:30:59,379 into their bodies, enveloping the venue. 600 00:31:02,034 --> 00:31:03,949 ♪ I wanna stay in bed 601 00:31:04,036 --> 00:31:05,254 ♪ Eating black licorice ♪ 602 00:31:08,475 --> 00:31:09,868 ♪ I wanna stay in bed ♪ 603 00:31:09,955 --> 00:31:11,608 ♪ Eating black licorice ♪ 604 00:31:14,481 --> 00:31:16,048 ♪ I wanna stay in bed ♪ 605 00:31:16,178 --> 00:31:17,614 ♪ Eating black licorice ♪ 606 00:31:20,487 --> 00:31:21,880 ♪ I wanna stay in bed 607 00:31:22,010 --> 00:31:23,620 ♪ Eating black licorice ♪ 608 00:31:26,319 --> 00:31:28,059 ♪ I wanna stay in bed ♪ 609 00:31:28,060 --> 00:31:29,626 ♪ Eating black licorice 610 00:31:32,629 --> 00:31:34,239 ♪ I wanna stay in bed ♪ 611 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:35,589 ♪ Eating black licorice 612 00:31:38,548 --> 00:31:42,335 Which one of you's OD'd before? 613 00:31:42,422 --> 00:31:44,032 What do you do? 614 00:31:44,163 --> 00:31:45,468 What did she take? 615 00:31:45,555 --> 00:31:47,035 Not her. 616 00:31:47,122 --> 00:31:48,210 Me. 617 00:31:48,341 --> 00:31:50,082 Get her on the ground. 618 00:31:50,169 --> 00:31:53,128 Her blood. 619 00:31:53,215 --> 00:31:54,825 Ecstasy. - You dead man'd her, man! 620 00:31:54,913 --> 00:31:56,610 LSD. 621 00:31:56,697 --> 00:31:58,220 What the hell happened up there? 622 00:31:59,569 --> 00:32:01,920 Can't OD on a candy plate. 623 00:32:02,050 --> 00:32:04,356 What the hell were you doing? 624 00:32:04,357 --> 00:32:07,012 I should have quit right there and then. 625 00:32:07,099 --> 00:32:10,450 Would have been a lovely footnote to my life, the band, 626 00:32:10,537 --> 00:32:13,192 but the muses were just beginning. 627 00:32:14,758 --> 00:32:16,891 You done this to me? 628 00:32:16,978 --> 00:32:19,241 - What are you doing? - Calling 9-1-1. 629 00:32:19,328 --> 00:32:22,549 I lost myself on stage for a moment. 630 00:32:22,636 --> 00:32:26,595 Seems you still lost. 631 00:32:26,596 --> 00:32:28,816 These songs gonna kill you. You know that, don't you? 632 00:32:28,947 --> 00:32:30,339 I can't die. 633 00:32:30,426 --> 00:32:32,254 Everything dies. 634 00:32:32,341 --> 00:32:35,127 You die. I die. 635 00:32:35,214 --> 00:32:36,867 She dies. 636 00:32:36,998 --> 00:32:38,433 She dies. 637 00:32:38,434 --> 00:32:39,913 Oh, he dies bad. 638 00:32:42,177 --> 00:32:43,874 I'm immortal. 639 00:32:44,005 --> 00:32:46,441 Yeah, you kill some wolves and fall in love. 640 00:32:46,442 --> 00:32:48,488 Get the gift, fall in love. 641 00:32:48,575 --> 00:32:51,446 Go to ground, get dug up, and fall in love. 642 00:32:51,447 --> 00:32:53,797 You're like some wet clothes in a coin op dryer, 643 00:32:53,928 --> 00:32:57,366 just 265 years round and round. 644 00:32:58,585 --> 00:33:00,978 Why you so sad? 645 00:33:00,979 --> 00:33:02,763 Thousands of fans loving you. 646 00:33:02,893 --> 00:33:05,113 I want millions. 647 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:09,335 And that'll top off that heart of yours? 648 00:33:09,422 --> 00:33:11,119 Billions. 649 00:33:11,206 --> 00:33:13,992 Then why you always gotta make it so hard 650 00:33:14,122 --> 00:33:15,558 for someone to give it to you? 651 00:33:15,645 --> 00:33:17,604 Huh? 652 00:33:17,691 --> 00:33:18,821 Who told you that? 653 00:33:18,822 --> 00:33:20,520 Don't worry. 654 00:33:20,607 --> 00:33:22,782 They comin'. 655 00:33:22,783 --> 00:33:24,045 Who's coming? 656 00:33:24,176 --> 00:33:26,264 Oh, they gonna tell you themselves. 657 00:33:27,875 --> 00:33:28,963 Who's coming? 658 00:33:29,094 --> 00:33:29,920 Great show tonight. 659 00:33:30,051 --> 00:33:30,921 Who? 660 00:33:35,187 --> 00:33:37,102 You are listening to "The Failures," 661 00:33:37,232 --> 00:33:38,929 Album 5, Side B. 662 00:33:40,844 --> 00:33:44,152 If you take nothing else away from your exorbitant purchase, 663 00:33:44,283 --> 00:33:46,024 heed this advice. 664 00:33:46,111 --> 00:33:49,678 Never play two nights in Detroit. 665 00:33:49,679 --> 00:33:52,204 You'll wind up in Windsor with a broken orbital bone 666 00:33:52,334 --> 00:33:54,814 listening to transactional sex through the adjoining walls. 667 00:33:56,382 --> 00:33:58,426 How I came to this squalid real estate 668 00:33:58,427 --> 00:34:01,126 is the premise of Side B, Album 5, so... 669 00:34:03,084 --> 00:34:05,173 Uh-huh, come! 670 00:34:06,783 --> 00:34:08,394 Now, the boutique hotel we were staying at 671 00:34:08,481 --> 00:34:10,744 was having a grand-ish opening that night, 672 00:34:10,831 --> 00:34:12,833 and the band was asked to lend its celebrity status 673 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:14,051 to the event. 674 00:34:14,052 --> 00:34:15,618 Don't tell me to pose. 675 00:34:15,749 --> 00:34:17,142 Fuck you. 676 00:34:17,229 --> 00:34:19,231 There was a red carpet, a pap line, 677 00:34:19,361 --> 00:34:21,537 and a vampire DJ of some renown 678 00:34:21,668 --> 00:34:24,149 seducing corporate employees, provincial influencers, 679 00:34:24,236 --> 00:34:25,933 and party crashing Beautifully Unwell. 680 00:34:26,064 --> 00:34:27,674 Move faster. Thank you. Thank you. 681 00:34:27,804 --> 00:34:30,371 I was having sex in an elevator with Dee 682 00:34:30,372 --> 00:34:32,940 and the girl I had just overindulged myself with 683 00:34:33,027 --> 00:34:34,636 earlier in the night. 684 00:34:34,637 --> 00:34:38,554 Actually, that happens... later. 685 00:34:38,641 --> 00:34:39,816 A lot of things happened that night. 686 00:34:39,903 --> 00:34:41,122 Huh. 687 00:34:41,253 --> 00:34:42,428 Come on. Come on, come on, come on! 688 00:34:45,779 --> 00:34:49,652 The band is inside with Dan in the VIP perch. 689 00:34:49,739 --> 00:34:52,524 I'm giving the paps my pussycat 690 00:34:52,525 --> 00:34:54,222 with no idea that I would be in a fang fight 691 00:34:54,309 --> 00:34:55,441 less than an hour later. 692 00:34:56,616 --> 00:34:57,965 No, no, no, no. 693 00:34:58,052 --> 00:35:00,053 I'm getting ahead of myself again. 694 00:35:00,054 --> 00:35:02,752 I arrive fashionably late, of course. 695 00:35:02,839 --> 00:35:04,014 State your name for the camera. 696 00:35:04,102 --> 00:35:05,581 Baby Jenks. 697 00:35:05,712 --> 00:35:09,716 OK, Baby, tell me, why do you like The Vampire Lestat? 698 00:35:09,803 --> 00:35:11,239 Like, I'm gonna be in the movie? 699 00:35:11,326 --> 00:35:12,806 Oh, you're in it now. 700 00:35:12,893 --> 00:35:16,375 I am feeling good. 701 00:35:16,462 --> 00:35:18,681 Surfing the sublime candy-flipped wave 702 00:35:18,768 --> 00:35:19,813 of the girl's blood. 703 00:35:19,943 --> 00:35:22,250 You're him. You're that voice. 704 00:35:22,337 --> 00:35:24,686 The girl is feeling good... Wow. 705 00:35:24,687 --> 00:35:26,689 Riding the wonders of Dr. Fareed's 706 00:35:26,776 --> 00:35:29,083 blood transfusion quick pick-me-up cocktail. 707 00:35:29,170 --> 00:35:30,910 Who's that guy, 'cause, like, 708 00:35:30,911 --> 00:35:32,782 rock and roll, it's dying. 709 00:35:32,869 --> 00:35:35,697 I sat there soaking up her praise 710 00:35:35,698 --> 00:35:37,918 along with the band, still somehow blind 711 00:35:38,005 --> 00:35:40,790 to the vampiric mysteries of their front man. 712 00:35:40,877 --> 00:35:42,966 So what if the dead and buried past 713 00:35:43,053 --> 00:35:45,317 was now a fresh and eager groupie? 714 00:35:45,447 --> 00:35:47,014 It's rock and roll, you know? 715 00:35:47,101 --> 00:35:48,884 Have a nervous breakdown onstage, 716 00:35:48,885 --> 00:35:50,191 chat it up with the floating girl 717 00:35:50,278 --> 00:35:51,845 on the ceiling you almost killed, 718 00:35:51,975 --> 00:35:53,673 have sex with her in the elevator-- 719 00:35:53,803 --> 00:35:54,848 ah, I'm still not there yet. 720 00:35:56,197 --> 00:35:58,808 MDMA and LSD, 721 00:35:58,895 --> 00:36:00,984 the Torvill and Dean of hallucinogenics. 722 00:36:01,071 --> 00:36:02,203 And so then everybody's like, 723 00:36:02,290 --> 00:36:04,205 is rock and roll actually dying? 724 00:36:04,292 --> 00:36:06,729 Were you a stutterer as a child? 725 00:36:06,860 --> 00:36:08,644 They walk into the ER. 726 00:36:08,731 --> 00:36:12,778 They are, like, the doctor, and Lestat's the scalpel. 727 00:36:12,779 --> 00:36:15,434 I'm the scalpel. Print the T-shirts. 728 00:36:15,564 --> 00:36:18,872 And so he, the scalpel, 729 00:36:18,959 --> 00:36:23,442 cuts into rock and roll's heart like he cut into mine tonight. 730 00:36:23,529 --> 00:36:26,314 And he has the heart in his mouth. 731 00:36:26,401 --> 00:36:29,665 He's like, "Do you wanna fuck?" 732 00:36:29,752 --> 00:36:32,712 And rock and roll is like, "Yes, bitch!" 733 00:36:32,842 --> 00:36:35,541 I excused myself to the men's room. 734 00:36:35,671 --> 00:36:37,847 Didn't read about vampire physiology 735 00:36:37,934 --> 00:36:39,893 in Mr. du Lac's memoir, did you? 736 00:36:39,980 --> 00:36:42,808 No mention of the scars on my chest either. 737 00:36:42,809 --> 00:36:45,420 Hair stopping way above my shoulders. 738 00:36:45,507 --> 00:36:47,727 And just for the record, no ticket pocket of mine 739 00:36:47,814 --> 00:36:49,729 ever had his initials inscribed onto them. 740 00:36:49,816 --> 00:36:51,774 I mean, these are the editorial wags 741 00:36:51,861 --> 00:36:53,514 of an insane person. 742 00:36:55,517 --> 00:36:58,303 Note to self, edit that out in the final version. 743 00:36:58,433 --> 00:36:59,694 Starting again. 744 00:36:59,695 --> 00:37:01,436 Vampires pee. 745 00:37:01,567 --> 00:37:03,003 We don't do it as often as you do, 746 00:37:03,090 --> 00:37:04,873 assuming you're not one of us. 747 00:37:04,874 --> 00:37:07,877 And we generally avoid eco-friendly urinals. 748 00:37:11,490 --> 00:37:12,969 Mm. 749 00:37:17,409 --> 00:37:20,890 Detroit. 750 00:37:36,428 --> 00:37:38,733 Name's Tim. 751 00:37:38,734 --> 00:37:42,390 She's Rus. - They're Rus. 752 00:37:42,521 --> 00:37:44,479 - Pronouns. - Mm. 753 00:37:44,610 --> 00:37:49,745 And yet it's respectful, like silence at a urinal. 754 00:37:49,876 --> 00:37:52,879 Things got a bit crossed 755 00:37:52,966 --> 00:37:54,837 when we were minding each other the other night. 756 00:37:54,968 --> 00:37:57,926 Rus here has a hot mouth. 757 00:37:57,927 --> 00:38:00,756 And a strong pelvic floor. 758 00:38:00,843 --> 00:38:02,628 I admire your aim. 759 00:38:02,758 --> 00:38:04,019 Mm. 760 00:38:04,020 --> 00:38:05,413 "Long Face" sucks. 761 00:38:05,544 --> 00:38:08,329 Rus wanted to apologize. 762 00:38:09,417 --> 00:38:11,940 But "Black Licorice," 763 00:38:11,941 --> 00:38:15,641 "Why Do I Have to Feel," 764 00:38:15,728 --> 00:38:17,859 I like those ones. 765 00:38:17,860 --> 00:38:20,210 "Frankly, Mr. Shankly" almost ruined "The Queen Is Dead." 766 00:38:20,341 --> 00:38:23,953 Apology accepted. 767 00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:26,608 We have a coven out here in Detroit. 768 00:38:26,739 --> 00:38:28,609 - Do you? - The Fang Gang. 769 00:38:30,046 --> 00:38:31,657 You want to see a real vampire bar, come with us. 770 00:38:32,962 --> 00:38:34,529 We have a huge house out past Brightmoor. 771 00:38:34,616 --> 00:38:37,315 Our own farm under the floorboards. 772 00:38:37,402 --> 00:38:40,709 Hmm, sure. What about tomorrow night? 773 00:38:40,796 --> 00:38:42,798 You're on the road tomorrow night. 774 00:38:42,929 --> 00:38:46,019 Yes. That was me being polite. 775 00:38:46,106 --> 00:38:48,326 No, that was you lying. 776 00:38:49,718 --> 00:38:51,198 Eco-friendly urinals. 777 00:38:51,285 --> 00:38:53,635 Good for the planet, so we're told. 778 00:38:53,722 --> 00:38:56,246 Good for vampires? Hmm. 779 00:38:56,334 --> 00:38:58,292 We chardonnay them. 780 00:39:03,036 --> 00:39:06,474 And then there's regional vampires. 781 00:39:06,605 --> 00:39:10,130 Always trying to make a name for themselves. 782 00:39:10,217 --> 00:39:11,958 I chardonnay them, too. 783 00:39:12,088 --> 00:39:13,655 Obligations, I'm afraid. 784 00:39:13,742 --> 00:39:16,223 But please do send my most sincere bonjour 785 00:39:16,310 --> 00:39:17,964 to your Brightmoorish coven. 786 00:39:21,359 --> 00:39:23,317 Lilac. 787 00:39:37,070 --> 00:39:38,984 I have a blind spot 788 00:39:38,985 --> 00:39:40,987 when it comes to blood poisoning. 789 00:39:41,074 --> 00:39:42,336 You'd think a vampire 790 00:39:42,423 --> 00:39:43,859 of my stature would know better. 791 00:39:43,946 --> 00:39:45,034 But then there's that old saying. 792 00:39:45,121 --> 00:39:46,906 You fool me once, shame on me. 793 00:39:46,993 --> 00:39:51,780 You fool me twice, MDMA and LSD are excellent drugs. 794 00:39:51,867 --> 00:39:53,521 Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce. 795 00:39:53,608 --> 00:39:55,915 Twirl, twirl. 796 00:39:56,002 --> 00:39:57,090 Overshare. 797 00:39:57,220 --> 00:39:58,700 I saw your soul. 798 00:39:58,831 --> 00:40:00,920 I saw yours, too. 799 00:40:04,358 --> 00:40:08,623 Still feeling good, I went looking for my band, 800 00:40:08,754 --> 00:40:11,191 looking for sex, looking for anything 801 00:40:11,278 --> 00:40:13,019 that radiated the fun that I sang about 802 00:40:13,106 --> 00:40:16,196 in my song, "Long Face." 803 00:40:16,326 --> 00:40:18,416 And then... 804 00:40:18,503 --> 00:40:20,896 Regionals. 805 00:40:20,983 --> 00:40:22,942 Wait, did she say that "Long Face" sucked? 806 00:40:23,029 --> 00:40:24,683 "Long Face" sucks. 807 00:40:24,813 --> 00:40:26,075 Does it suck? 808 00:40:26,162 --> 00:40:27,337 I wondered. 809 00:40:27,468 --> 00:40:29,296 Did she have a point? 810 00:40:29,383 --> 00:40:32,734 And then I thought, ooh, they want a little scrap 811 00:40:32,865 --> 00:40:34,388 with the scalpel. 812 00:40:34,475 --> 00:40:35,650 No worries, I thought. 813 00:40:35,737 --> 00:40:37,173 I have the Queen's blood in me. 814 00:40:37,260 --> 00:40:38,871 I could take 20 regionals at once 815 00:40:39,001 --> 00:40:41,264 with the Queen's blood. 816 00:40:41,395 --> 00:40:44,397 Where's the band, Dan? 817 00:40:44,398 --> 00:40:45,486 They called 818 00:40:45,573 --> 00:40:48,228 corporate bullshit. 819 00:40:48,315 --> 00:40:51,883 Went to party upstairs. 820 00:40:51,884 --> 00:40:54,495 So I'm scoring dick pills in Mogadishu 821 00:40:54,582 --> 00:40:56,192 for a UN peacekeeper 822 00:40:56,279 --> 00:40:58,368 when in walks Stewart Copeland 823 00:40:58,499 --> 00:41:01,067 wearing a kufi and a mouthful of ammo. 824 00:41:01,154 --> 00:41:02,155 So I thought about 825 00:41:02,242 --> 00:41:03,765 having sex with Christine, 826 00:41:03,852 --> 00:41:06,507 and then I thought, that's all the way upstairs. 827 00:41:06,638 --> 00:41:09,379 And then I thought, I'm the scalpel. 828 00:41:09,467 --> 00:41:12,861 What does the scalpel do between here and upstairs? 829 00:41:15,255 --> 00:41:20,086 Mr. du Lac's memoir tiptoed around vampire sex, didn't it? 830 00:41:20,216 --> 00:41:22,653 He and Dan made it out to be this tortured act 831 00:41:22,654 --> 00:41:25,744 or obligational foreplay before blood drinking. 832 00:41:25,831 --> 00:41:28,660 That is not the case at all. 833 00:41:28,747 --> 00:41:30,922 It's not the capstone of vampiric desires. 834 00:41:30,923 --> 00:41:32,315 That would be the taking of life, 835 00:41:32,402 --> 00:41:34,100 and next would be a good draining, 836 00:41:34,230 --> 00:41:36,276 leaving your victim near death and paralyzed 837 00:41:36,363 --> 00:41:38,277 for an unhurried escape. 838 00:41:38,278 --> 00:41:40,541 And after that, there's the petit coup, 839 00:41:40,628 --> 00:41:42,804 the little drink, the sip. 840 00:41:42,891 --> 00:41:45,763 And after those three, it's sex. 841 00:41:45,764 --> 00:41:48,288 So now you know, the fourth best thing 842 00:41:48,418 --> 00:41:51,291 a vampire can do to avoid thinking about the past 843 00:41:51,378 --> 00:41:52,466 is to have sex. 844 00:41:52,597 --> 00:41:54,554 Sex. Sex. Sex. 845 00:41:54,555 --> 00:41:56,730 And I have had a lot of sex over the years. 846 00:41:56,731 --> 00:41:58,559 It's not all pain and toxicity. 847 00:41:58,646 --> 00:42:00,648 I have an immortal life, and I carry with it 848 00:42:00,735 --> 00:42:01,867 an immortal erection. 849 00:42:01,997 --> 00:42:04,347 And I am not ashamed of it. 850 00:42:04,434 --> 00:42:07,959 Sex is fun, like the fun I sing about in "Long Face," 851 00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:10,963 which, looking back on it now, does suck. 852 00:42:12,617 --> 00:42:14,053 I still have residuals coming in, actually. 853 00:42:16,098 --> 00:42:20,015 Carnal pleasure is essential to a vampire's survival, 854 00:42:20,102 --> 00:42:22,627 if only to keep time's baggage from burying you. 855 00:42:24,672 --> 00:42:29,503 Sex with the bellman and Dee and honey-trapping Baby Jenks. 856 00:42:29,634 --> 00:42:31,244 Probably should have gotten off the seventh floor 857 00:42:31,331 --> 00:42:32,637 when I had gotten off. 858 00:42:35,422 --> 00:42:36,510 But I didn't. 859 00:42:39,774 --> 00:42:42,037 I'm getting married in a week. 860 00:42:42,168 --> 00:42:44,997 I'll never forget you. 861 00:42:51,307 --> 00:42:54,832 Law 4: no vampire shall ever reveal 862 00:42:54,833 --> 00:42:56,835 his or her true nature to a mortal 863 00:42:56,922 --> 00:42:58,837 and let the mortal live. 864 00:42:58,924 --> 00:43:01,753 You do know it's 2025? 865 00:43:03,972 --> 00:43:05,059 Face the wall, my dear. 866 00:43:05,060 --> 00:43:08,020 You'll not want to see this. 867 00:43:08,107 --> 00:43:09,674 Mmm. 868 00:43:09,804 --> 00:43:11,632 The Tooth Team. 869 00:43:11,763 --> 00:43:13,982 The Fang Gang. 870 00:43:16,942 --> 00:43:20,162 I killed a pack of wolves when I was a mortal. 871 00:43:20,249 --> 00:43:21,859 I'll most likely tell you about that later, 872 00:43:21,860 --> 00:43:24,035 as I let it define me for a time. 873 00:43:24,036 --> 00:43:26,604 And normally, confining architecture 874 00:43:26,691 --> 00:43:29,258 and a thrift store coven galvanized by medieval dogma 875 00:43:29,345 --> 00:43:31,043 wouldn't faze me in the least. 876 00:43:31,130 --> 00:43:33,611 I am building a career that supports my well-being. 877 00:43:33,698 --> 00:43:37,266 But the drug blood and my sex legs 878 00:43:37,353 --> 00:43:39,965 and the distracting past my music had unleashed on me 879 00:43:40,052 --> 00:43:43,185 put me at a momentary disadvantage. 880 00:43:43,316 --> 00:43:45,361 I'm in charge of my work-life balance. 881 00:43:45,448 --> 00:43:47,973 Law 4, as if the du Lac-Molloy memoir 882 00:43:48,060 --> 00:43:50,628 hadn't outed us all two years ago, 883 00:43:50,715 --> 00:43:54,109 as if my entire stage show wasn't a bawdy burlesque 884 00:43:54,196 --> 00:43:56,111 of "is he or isn't he," 885 00:43:56,198 --> 00:43:57,896 as if half the vampire population 886 00:43:58,026 --> 00:44:01,160 outside the ruined port of Detroit wasn't waving 887 00:44:01,247 --> 00:44:04,119 the dark gift like red cups in a piss bar, 888 00:44:04,250 --> 00:44:06,861 collecting fledglings like they were Labubu dolls. 889 00:44:06,992 --> 00:44:08,558 I mean, I haven't even told my band 890 00:44:08,689 --> 00:44:10,299 I was an actual vampire. 891 00:44:10,386 --> 00:44:12,998 I was just singing my songs and fucking my food 892 00:44:13,085 --> 00:44:15,130 and defending myself from the vibrant life choices 893 00:44:15,261 --> 00:44:18,264 I had made on my way from the Auvergne countryside 894 00:44:18,394 --> 00:44:21,005 to the eighth floor of this "why bother" hotel. 895 00:44:21,006 --> 00:44:23,312 And this is how it was all going to end for me? 896 00:44:23,399 --> 00:44:26,272 We are the Fang Gang. 897 00:44:26,402 --> 00:44:29,057 We are the children of the darkness reborn. 898 00:44:29,188 --> 00:44:32,060 Jesus fucking Christ. 899 00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:37,021 "Armand told the truth"? Have you met him? 900 00:44:37,022 --> 00:44:38,806 What the fuck does that even mean? 901 00:44:40,286 --> 00:44:41,417 Heard there was an after-party 902 00:44:41,504 --> 00:44:43,289 on the asshole floor. 903 00:44:43,419 --> 00:44:46,379 I like to think I was owed the reinforcements, 904 00:44:46,509 --> 00:44:49,425 Dan and the oddly familiar DJ, 905 00:44:49,512 --> 00:44:51,993 but that's me looking back on it now. 906 00:44:52,124 --> 00:44:54,430 Anything I had done to deserve their timely rescue 907 00:44:54,517 --> 00:44:56,389 hadn't happened yet. 908 00:44:56,476 --> 00:44:58,913 I'd be dead, I think, without Dan. 909 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:00,609 But then maybe more of the world 910 00:45:00,610 --> 00:45:02,524 would still be alive had Dan not 911 00:45:02,525 --> 00:45:04,310 rallied his army downstairs. 912 00:45:06,094 --> 00:45:09,140 Consider this sliding door of Dan 913 00:45:09,141 --> 00:45:11,621 as you decant my blood and devour my words. 914 00:45:24,722 --> 00:45:27,550 It's hard hiding you're a god. 915 00:45:27,637 --> 00:45:28,769 You're for real? 916 00:45:28,856 --> 00:45:31,816 CCTV, eco-flush toilets, 917 00:45:31,903 --> 00:45:33,991 IMF freezing your accounts because you have the blood 918 00:45:33,992 --> 00:45:35,428 of a patricidal queen inside you. 919 00:45:35,515 --> 00:45:38,518 Hello again. 920 00:45:38,648 --> 00:45:40,563 Théâtre des Vampires. 921 00:45:40,650 --> 00:45:42,652 Talamasca dragged me into that. 922 00:45:42,740 --> 00:45:43,871 And once you reveal yourself, 923 00:45:43,958 --> 00:45:46,569 you have to be on all the time 924 00:45:46,656 --> 00:45:48,876 and remember every face you've ever met. 925 00:45:48,963 --> 00:45:50,878 And everywhere you go, everyone remembers 926 00:45:50,965 --> 00:45:54,795 the thing they said to you in the room that you shared. 927 00:45:54,882 --> 00:45:57,319 Were you a stutterer as a child? 928 00:46:00,148 --> 00:46:03,717 This is why gods prefer hiding in the clouds. 929 00:46:03,804 --> 00:46:05,023 There's nothing there... 930 00:46:06,415 --> 00:46:08,374 But water waiting to fall. 931 00:46:15,729 --> 00:46:20,299 So many opportunities to call it a night that night. 932 00:46:20,386 --> 00:46:23,476 After the song unleashed the muses. 933 00:46:23,563 --> 00:46:27,001 After I saw my first soul. 934 00:46:27,088 --> 00:46:31,136 After I was nearly decapitated in a boutique hotel hallway. 935 00:46:32,877 --> 00:46:35,793 After my vampire nature was revealed to the band 936 00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:38,230 and my vampire gift winged me away 937 00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:40,927 north of the river, south of the country. 938 00:46:44,366 --> 00:46:48,153 But I was saved from such rational thought. 939 00:46:48,240 --> 00:46:51,373 Love will do that to you. 940 00:47:09,391 --> 00:47:12,524 Ma chère. 941 00:47:12,525 --> 00:47:14,744 Very kind of you to come. 942 00:47:20,228 --> 00:47:23,014 I got myself into something I can't get out of. 943 00:47:25,668 --> 00:47:27,801 Music's opened up the batch oven, 944 00:47:27,888 --> 00:47:30,238 and I'm not sure if I can close it again. 945 00:47:35,374 --> 00:47:37,202 I'm not really at my best, but-- 946 00:47:42,642 --> 00:47:45,558 It's very nice to see you again. 947 00:47:49,779 --> 00:47:54,088 I like what you've done with your hair, my Ga-- 948 00:47:54,219 --> 00:47:56,134 my Ga-- 949 00:48:01,226 --> 00:48:04,969 My Gabriella. 950 00:48:07,667 --> 00:48:10,496 It's not much of a reveal, I guess. 951 00:48:10,583 --> 00:48:12,628 I know it's common gossip now, 952 00:48:12,715 --> 00:48:13,978 the first thing one thinks about 953 00:48:14,108 --> 00:48:17,068 when my name comes up. 954 00:48:17,198 --> 00:48:20,506 I assume a privileged individual such as yourself 955 00:48:20,593 --> 00:48:22,943 enjoys a little dirt in their sandwich. 956 00:48:25,250 --> 00:48:29,428 So I serve it to you now how it felt then. 957 00:48:31,865 --> 00:48:34,258 Fledgling, 958 00:48:34,259 --> 00:48:37,175 lover, 959 00:48:37,262 --> 00:48:38,611 mother. 960 00:48:43,007 --> 00:48:43,877 Listen to tracks from "The Vampire Lestat" 961 00:48:44,008 --> 00:48:45,357 wherever you stream music. 962 00:48:48,186 --> 00:48:49,274 If you're still listening after the last hour, 963 00:48:49,404 --> 00:48:50,710 welcome back. 964 00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:52,581 Bring on the muses. 965 00:48:52,668 --> 00:48:54,888 ♪ Give me a million more screams ♪ 966 00:48:55,019 --> 00:48:57,847 Do you kill people? 967 00:48:57,978 --> 00:49:00,154 ♪ Give me a million more screams ♪ 968 00:49:01,721 --> 00:49:04,115 Let's talk about your mother. 969 00:49:04,202 --> 00:49:06,987 ♪ I've been a bad boy, deep down in my heart ♪ 970 00:49:07,118 --> 00:49:09,990 My maker called for his mama and I came. 971 00:49:10,121 --> 00:49:12,471 ♪ Give me a million more screams ♪ 972 00:49:15,996 --> 00:49:18,912 You are caught in great danger with Lestat. 973 00:49:18,999 --> 00:49:21,001 You stole my personal physician. 974 00:49:21,132 --> 00:49:22,611 You hired my biographer. 975 00:49:24,309 --> 00:49:25,963 The songs are not about you. 976 00:49:27,138 --> 00:49:31,055 ♪ I want to stay in bed eating black licorice ♪ 977 00:49:31,185 --> 00:49:34,101 Shall we do it? Shall we scorch the mortal world? 978 00:49:34,188 --> 00:49:38,105 ♪ I want to stay in bed eating black licorice ♪ 979 00:49:38,236 --> 00:49:40,020 What do you think about the great conversion? 980 00:49:40,151 --> 00:49:42,283 Fucking stupid. 981 00:49:42,370 --> 00:49:45,678 ♪ I want to stay in bed eating black licorice ♪ 982 00:49:48,550 --> 00:49:50,378 You are listening to The Failures-- 983 00:49:50,465 --> 00:49:52,250 album eight, side A. 984 00:49:57,646 --> 00:50:00,084 At the top of our first episode, 985 00:50:00,171 --> 00:50:05,611 we show a scene that is probably happening in real time 986 00:50:05,741 --> 00:50:10,050 after a bunch of catastrophic events have happened. 987 00:50:13,010 --> 00:50:16,361 If you are hearing this now, 988 00:50:16,448 --> 00:50:19,842 you must be a very privileged individual. 989 00:50:24,325 --> 00:50:27,285 What makes this season special is that it's still 990 00:50:27,372 --> 00:50:28,764 the same characters that you love and know 991 00:50:28,851 --> 00:50:30,592 from the previous seasons. 992 00:50:30,679 --> 00:50:32,551 We're just putting them in an entirely new world. 993 00:50:32,638 --> 00:50:35,293 And as they do in the books and as we do in the show, 994 00:50:35,380 --> 00:50:39,210 the world continues to crack open larger and larger. 995 00:50:39,340 --> 00:50:42,256 ♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh 996 00:50:42,343 --> 00:50:44,084 Just like the plot changes, 997 00:50:44,215 --> 00:50:47,348 the whole attitude of the show changes, 998 00:50:47,479 --> 00:50:50,873 and we move into this completely crazy rock-'n'-roll world. 999 00:50:54,094 --> 00:50:55,748 He did it again. 1000 00:50:55,878 --> 00:50:57,837 A lot of the beauty and elegance 1001 00:50:57,967 --> 00:51:01,536 that you would usually see him surrounded by is gone. 1002 00:51:01,623 --> 00:51:04,974 It feels really grungy and really rough and really raw. 1003 00:51:05,062 --> 00:51:08,326 So it was a very fun environment to be putting him in. 1004 00:51:12,895 --> 00:51:15,202 - Come to me. - Montreal. 1005 00:51:15,333 --> 00:51:18,031 I am he, and he is me. 1006 00:51:18,118 --> 00:51:19,598 Louis and Lestat are FaceTiming, 1007 00:51:19,728 --> 00:51:21,165 and you're probably gonna get the sense 1008 00:51:21,252 --> 00:51:22,992 that Louis is gonna come over pretty soon. 1009 00:51:23,123 --> 00:51:25,038 They'll probably get back together or work it out. 1010 00:51:25,169 --> 00:51:27,214 - Nice? - Yeah. It's nice. 1011 00:51:27,301 --> 00:51:29,608 One of the first conversations I had 1012 00:51:29,738 --> 00:51:32,045 with Rolin and Hannah and the writers 1013 00:51:32,176 --> 00:51:36,397 was that I think Louis has watched just a ton of YouTube 1014 00:51:36,484 --> 00:51:41,185 in his time off-- you know, like cat videos. 1015 00:51:41,272 --> 00:51:44,362 Probably hungrily. 1016 00:51:44,449 --> 00:51:47,234 Louis, do you know someone called Daniel Malloy? 1017 00:51:47,321 --> 00:51:48,888 Lestat finds out about the book, 1018 00:51:49,018 --> 00:51:50,542 and then that completely throws all those plans 1019 00:51:50,672 --> 00:51:52,283 out of the window. 1020 00:51:52,413 --> 00:51:54,763 One of my favorite things about the second season 1021 00:51:54,850 --> 00:51:56,548 of "Interview With the Vampire" is... 1022 00:51:56,635 --> 00:51:58,245 I burned his laptop. 1023 00:51:58,332 --> 00:52:00,204 I didn't know he had it saved in the cloud. 1024 00:52:00,291 --> 00:52:04,295 ...Louis sets fire to a laptop to try and erase the book. 1025 00:52:04,425 --> 00:52:07,646 But, like, no one told him about the cloud. 1026 00:52:07,733 --> 00:52:10,127 I only found out it was coming out a month ago. 1027 00:52:10,214 --> 00:52:11,824 You've known for a month, 1028 00:52:11,911 --> 00:52:13,260 and you talk about me in it to a mortal? 1029 00:52:13,391 --> 00:52:14,740 Well, yeah. Uh, yeah. 1030 00:52:14,870 --> 00:52:16,829 Kind of-- But... you know? 1031 00:52:16,916 --> 00:52:20,528 No, I don't know, Louis. Please explain yourself. 1032 00:52:20,615 --> 00:52:23,227 Both Louis and Lestat are not necessarily happy 1033 00:52:23,357 --> 00:52:25,794 with the way that either of them were portrayed in the book. 1034 00:52:25,881 --> 00:52:27,535 It's like a mix of guilt 1035 00:52:27,666 --> 00:52:29,842 and probably a sense of vengeance about it. 1036 00:52:29,972 --> 00:52:32,714 Lestat sees that book come out, 1037 00:52:32,845 --> 00:52:38,067 sees what he perceives are lies and distortions, mistruths, 1038 00:52:38,155 --> 00:52:39,504 and he's like, "You know what? 1039 00:52:39,634 --> 00:52:41,027 I'm gonna set the record straight." 1040 00:52:41,158 --> 00:52:42,637 Was he there in 18th-century Auvergne? 1041 00:52:42,768 --> 00:52:44,291 He said you told him that. 1042 00:52:44,378 --> 00:52:46,554 Did I threaten Claudia with rape on a train? 1043 00:52:46,685 --> 00:52:49,078 No. And impossible. 1044 00:52:49,209 --> 00:52:51,646 Daniel Molloy is an investigative journalist 1045 00:52:51,777 --> 00:52:53,779 of the absolute top shelf. 1046 00:52:53,909 --> 00:52:57,609 Who better to refute the book than the man who wrote the book? 1047 00:52:57,696 --> 00:53:01,961 He has an incorrigible need to find out what the truth is. 1048 00:53:02,048 --> 00:53:04,050 Why do you like the vampire Lestat? 1049 00:53:07,271 --> 00:53:10,448 Heard there was an after-party on the asshole floor. 1050 00:53:10,578 --> 00:53:13,451 This isn't just sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. 1051 00:53:13,538 --> 00:53:15,192 It's sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, 1052 00:53:15,322 --> 00:53:17,368 and sucking blood out of people's necks. 1053 00:53:17,498 --> 00:53:20,197 You're for real? 1054 00:53:37,431 --> 00:53:39,216 Black Licorice is a great song. 1055 00:53:39,303 --> 00:53:42,654 It's about the first kill that Lestat made 1056 00:53:42,784 --> 00:53:45,700 after he reconciled with Louis in New Orleans. 1057 00:53:45,787 --> 00:53:49,051 ♪ Didn't blink, didn't try to run ♪ 1058 00:53:49,182 --> 00:53:51,924 ♪ I got a real live one ♪ 1059 00:53:52,011 --> 00:53:53,578 Particularly in Episode 1, 1060 00:53:53,665 --> 00:53:56,058 you do see that he's pushing and pushing 1061 00:53:56,145 --> 00:53:58,583 to get this sort of moment of grace, 1062 00:53:58,670 --> 00:54:01,934 to be completely engulfed in the music. 1063 00:54:02,021 --> 00:54:05,111 But just as I was about to bridge the bridge 1064 00:54:05,242 --> 00:54:07,722 with murder and mayhem, 1065 00:54:07,809 --> 00:54:10,334 something quite surprising happened. 1066 00:54:10,464 --> 00:54:12,727 And that's what he gets from Black Licorice. 1067 00:54:12,814 --> 00:54:16,035 He does have his first breakdown of many. 1068 00:54:16,165 --> 00:54:20,169 Muses appeared in my mind and in the now around me. 1069 00:54:20,257 --> 00:54:23,956 He realizes that he was the one that was holding them back. 1070 00:54:24,086 --> 00:54:25,610 So then, all of a sudden, it cracks open, 1071 00:54:25,740 --> 00:54:28,003 and the real thing starts to appear. 1072 00:54:28,134 --> 00:54:31,180 And that sound I had been grinding them for 1073 00:54:31,268 --> 00:54:34,227 was finally unleashed. 1074 00:54:34,358 --> 00:54:37,709 He started it to be "I'm gonna go and tell my story. 1075 00:54:37,839 --> 00:54:40,277 I'm gonna do a rewrite. This is my version of events." 1076 00:54:40,407 --> 00:54:42,627 And it's evolved into something different. 1077 00:54:42,714 --> 00:54:45,107 He's tapped into his past. 1078 00:54:49,503 --> 00:54:53,333 ♪ I want to stay in bad, eating black licorice ♪ 1079 00:54:54,943 --> 00:54:58,730 Which one of you has OD'd before?