1 00:00:13,578 --> 00:00:15,450 ♪ I'm the little killer 2 00:00:15,537 --> 00:00:17,582 ♪ I'm the lonely one ♪ 3 00:00:17,713 --> 00:00:19,323 ♪ I'm the chill creeping up your spine ♪ 4 00:00:19,454 --> 00:00:21,673 ♪ Telling you to run ♪ 5 00:00:21,717 --> 00:00:23,588 ♪ I'm a hanging shadow 6 00:00:23,675 --> 00:00:25,721 ♪ I'm a lost love ♪ 7 00:00:25,764 --> 00:00:27,418 ♪ I'm the past and the future ♪ 8 00:00:27,505 --> 00:00:29,681 ♪ The last of the sutures, the cooing dove ♪ 9 00:00:29,812 --> 00:00:31,509 ♪ We're the rock and rollers ♪ 10 00:00:31,553 --> 00:00:33,859 ♪ We're the good time 11 00:00:33,946 --> 00:00:34,817 ♪ We're the heart pumping blood ♪ 12 00:00:34,947 --> 00:00:35,992 ♪ We're the face in the mud ♪ 13 00:00:36,079 --> 00:00:39,082 ♪ We're this stupid rhyme ♪ 14 00:00:39,213 --> 00:00:40,997 ♪ Bang, bang - ♪ Bang, bang ♪ 15 00:00:41,084 --> 00:00:42,999 - ♪ Bang, bang - ♪ Bang, bang ♪ 16 00:00:43,086 --> 00:00:44,522 ♪ Bang, bang ♪ 17 00:00:44,566 --> 00:00:48,265 ♪ All fall down 18 00:00:48,352 --> 00:00:52,139 ♪ Burn the ground ♪ 19 00:00:52,226 --> 00:00:56,317 ♪ All fall down ♪ 20 00:00:56,447 --> 00:00:59,059 ♪ Burn the ♪ 21 00:00:59,102 --> 00:01:01,191 ♪ Bang, bang - ♪ Bang, bang 22 00:01:01,278 --> 00:01:03,237 - ♪ Bang, bang - ♪ Bang, bang ♪ 23 00:01:03,324 --> 00:01:07,154 ♪ Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang ♪ 24 00:01:07,197 --> 00:01:10,809 Hmm. C'est cool. 25 00:01:38,968 --> 00:01:40,012 Good evening. 26 00:01:41,927 --> 00:01:44,539 The house wishes to extend its gratitude to the gathering 27 00:01:44,626 --> 00:01:48,238 for your compliance with the unorthodox prerequisites 28 00:01:48,325 --> 00:01:50,501 of tonight's event. 29 00:01:50,588 --> 00:01:53,113 Furthermore, we wish to reiterate 30 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:55,158 that the anonymity that you have granted us 31 00:01:55,289 --> 00:01:57,073 will be given to you individually 32 00:01:57,204 --> 00:02:01,251 as well as to any institutions that you are representing. 33 00:02:01,382 --> 00:02:03,297 Stating the obvious, 34 00:02:03,384 --> 00:02:05,647 we are not here and neither are you. 35 00:02:08,563 --> 00:02:11,914 Lot one of two, the master recordings 36 00:02:11,957 --> 00:02:14,830 of "The Complete Works of the Vampire Lestat de Lioncourt," 37 00:02:14,873 --> 00:02:17,920 which includes his 2025 self-titled album 38 00:02:17,963 --> 00:02:19,748 "The Vampire Lestat," 39 00:02:19,835 --> 00:02:21,880 additional session tracks that were discarded 40 00:02:21,967 --> 00:02:24,231 in the final assemblage of the album, 41 00:02:24,274 --> 00:02:27,059 original handwritten scores, and private recordings 42 00:02:27,147 --> 00:02:29,801 by the Vampire Lestat himself, which include 43 00:02:29,888 --> 00:02:32,630 a song cycle in the classical vein 44 00:02:32,717 --> 00:02:37,809 set to the poetry of Baudelaire. 45 00:02:37,896 --> 00:02:42,466 Before we begin the bidding, I perform the following action. 46 00:02:47,167 --> 00:02:48,559 Are you kidding me? 47 00:02:48,646 --> 00:02:50,213 Are you serious? 48 00:02:50,300 --> 00:02:52,041 This is very insulting. 49 00:02:52,128 --> 00:02:53,869 Shame on you. 50 00:02:53,956 --> 00:02:57,742 We will begin the bidding at 1 yuan. 51 00:02:57,873 --> 00:03:00,919 Do I hear 1 yuan? 52 00:03:01,050 --> 00:03:03,183 Yi yuan. 53 00:03:03,270 --> 00:03:06,447 Sold to the gentlewoman in the third row 54 00:03:06,490 --> 00:03:09,189 of good spirit. 55 00:03:09,276 --> 00:03:13,671 Lot number two, a music box 56 00:03:13,758 --> 00:03:16,631 curated by the Vampire Lestat himself. 57 00:03:16,761 --> 00:03:21,375 A 1978 Ferdinando Meccani Corinto sideboard. 58 00:03:21,418 --> 00:03:24,639 Inside, a Rossner and Sohn MOTT turntable 59 00:03:24,769 --> 00:03:28,382 with BeoLab 90 speakers, 60 00:03:28,469 --> 00:03:31,341 two temperature-controlled wine cabinets, 61 00:03:31,385 --> 00:03:35,780 one holding a bottle of Niepoort 1863 port wine, 62 00:03:35,867 --> 00:03:37,869 the other with a magnum of blood 63 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,524 from the curator himself. 64 00:03:40,611 --> 00:03:44,876 The upper level, a singular vinyl pressing 65 00:03:44,963 --> 00:03:47,879 of "The Complete Works of the Vampire Lestat de Lioncourt," 66 00:03:47,966 --> 00:03:52,449 previously delineated, along with 111 albums of audio 67 00:03:52,536 --> 00:03:56,671 best described as an omniscient history 68 00:03:56,714 --> 00:04:00,327 of the events of the 2025 album and supporting tour 69 00:04:00,414 --> 00:04:02,720 and the consequential global catastrophes 70 00:04:02,764 --> 00:04:05,332 that sprung from said album and tour 71 00:04:05,419 --> 00:04:09,336 as narrated by the Vampire Lestat himself. 72 00:04:09,423 --> 00:04:13,992 The collection has been named "The Failures." 73 00:04:14,123 --> 00:04:18,301 We will begin the bidding at 50 million yuan. 74 00:04:19,650 --> 00:04:22,131 If you are hearing this now, 75 00:04:22,218 --> 00:04:25,265 you must be a very privileged individual. 76 00:04:25,352 --> 00:04:27,310 You could have fed a small nation for years 77 00:04:27,397 --> 00:04:29,617 while they paved over the rubble. 78 00:04:29,704 --> 00:04:31,749 You bought my box instead. 79 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:34,230 I like you already. 80 00:04:34,317 --> 00:04:36,058 So let's begin in the middle, 81 00:04:36,145 --> 00:04:39,235 for I could and should have ended it there, 82 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:44,632 my tour, my hedonistic pursuit of extremity, all of it. 83 00:04:44,762 --> 00:04:47,809 And had I done so, the regretful dead 84 00:04:47,852 --> 00:04:49,898 and the traumatized still alive 85 00:04:50,028 --> 00:04:52,944 would be somewhere other than they are today. 86 00:04:53,031 --> 00:04:55,077 And I am not saying that the attempted extinction 87 00:04:55,164 --> 00:04:57,079 of the Y chromosome across the continents 88 00:04:57,209 --> 00:04:58,863 was all my fault. 89 00:04:58,950 --> 00:05:01,083 No, that would suggest a level of self-importance 90 00:05:01,170 --> 00:05:02,693 even I'm not comfortable with. 91 00:05:02,780 --> 00:05:07,524 But upon reflection-- yeah, made a contribution. 92 00:05:07,611 --> 00:05:10,832 It was the spring of 2025. 93 00:05:10,919 --> 00:05:14,444 A good nation was making itself great again, 94 00:05:14,531 --> 00:05:15,793 again. 95 00:05:17,926 --> 00:05:19,319 And every vampire, 96 00:05:19,406 --> 00:05:22,409 those converting and those enduring, 97 00:05:22,496 --> 00:05:26,587 well, they were doing exactly as they pleased. 98 00:05:56,356 --> 00:05:58,401 ♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh ♪ 99 00:05:58,488 --> 00:06:00,621 ♪ Wah-ahh ♪ 100 00:06:00,708 --> 00:06:02,449 ♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh ♪ 101 00:06:02,579 --> 00:06:04,668 ♪ Wah-ahh ♪ 102 00:06:04,712 --> 00:06:06,409 ♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh 103 00:06:06,496 --> 00:06:08,063 ♪ Wah-ahh ♪ 104 00:06:11,066 --> 00:06:13,460 ♪ Why the long face? ♪ 105 00:06:13,547 --> 00:06:15,462 ♪ My pretty baby ♪ 106 00:06:15,592 --> 00:06:17,464 ♪ I got long fangs ♪ 107 00:06:17,594 --> 00:06:19,640 ♪ Come appraise me ♪ 108 00:06:19,727 --> 00:06:21,685 ♪ Bring your long stakes ♪ 109 00:06:21,729 --> 00:06:23,470 ♪ That doesn't faze me 110 00:06:26,951 --> 00:06:28,866 ♪ I'm an actor ♪ 111 00:06:28,953 --> 00:06:30,955 ♪ In my makeup ♪ 112 00:06:31,042 --> 00:06:32,957 ♪ I'll get fatter ♪ 113 00:06:33,088 --> 00:06:34,872 ♪ When we break up ♪ 114 00:06:34,916 --> 00:06:37,179 ♪ What does it matter 115 00:06:37,222 --> 00:06:39,834 ♪ Who I take up? 116 00:06:39,921 --> 00:06:42,967 Naturally, I named the band after myself, 117 00:06:43,054 --> 00:06:45,317 and the four that backed me played their parts 118 00:06:45,361 --> 00:06:47,102 as instructed. 119 00:06:47,145 --> 00:06:49,974 There was Larry, the front man made sideman 120 00:06:50,061 --> 00:06:51,541 choking his guitar neck nightly 121 00:06:51,672 --> 00:06:53,761 wishing it was mine. 122 00:06:53,848 --> 00:06:56,938 Brother Alex, the more talented seedling, 123 00:06:56,981 --> 00:06:59,027 straight-edged and half the fun. 124 00:06:59,070 --> 00:07:02,160 Salamander, bassist, dumb. 125 00:07:02,247 --> 00:07:04,336 Shockingly dumb. 126 00:07:04,380 --> 00:07:07,514 And TC, the abandoned bride of a dozen 127 00:07:07,557 --> 00:07:09,124 "should have died in art school" bands 128 00:07:09,211 --> 00:07:12,083 keeping us all in the dirty pocket. 129 00:07:12,170 --> 00:07:14,259 We dropped songs on the streams and booked 130 00:07:14,390 --> 00:07:18,307 intimate venues to induce what Gen Snooze called FOMO. 131 00:07:18,438 --> 00:07:20,657 They came for cosplay, left converted, 132 00:07:20,701 --> 00:07:23,355 and I baptized them the Beautiful Unwell. 133 00:07:23,443 --> 00:07:25,706 And yet here we were 134 00:07:25,836 --> 00:07:28,665 in the inn of the Stooges and the Stripes, 135 00:07:28,709 --> 00:07:31,189 30 performances notched, and already resting 136 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:33,757 on the alps of adequacy. 137 00:07:33,844 --> 00:07:35,106 Unacceptable. 138 00:07:35,193 --> 00:07:37,108 ♪ I'm piano ♪ 139 00:07:37,152 --> 00:07:38,893 ♪ And you're forte 140 00:07:38,980 --> 00:07:41,243 ♪ You're allegro ♪ 141 00:07:41,330 --> 00:07:43,288 ♪ I'm andante ♪ 142 00:07:43,375 --> 00:07:45,290 ♪ We're bolero ♪ 143 00:07:45,377 --> 00:07:47,205 ♪ Prostitué ♪ 144 00:07:51,122 --> 00:07:53,081 ♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh 145 00:07:53,168 --> 00:07:54,691 ♪ Wah-ahh ♪ 146 00:07:57,651 --> 00:07:59,174 ♪ Another taste ♪ 147 00:07:59,261 --> 00:08:01,916 Hello. Welcome to Detroit. 148 00:08:02,003 --> 00:08:03,221 Lovely city. 149 00:08:03,308 --> 00:08:04,484 Your song sucks. 150 00:08:04,614 --> 00:08:06,181 Thank you for the feedback. 151 00:08:06,224 --> 00:08:08,488 ♪ Pick up the pace, pack up the gear ♪ 152 00:08:08,575 --> 00:08:10,446 ♪ Gimme some face, a souvenir ♪ 153 00:08:10,577 --> 00:08:12,666 ♪ Here come the gays, here comes the fear ♪ 154 00:08:12,753 --> 00:08:15,799 ♪ Now we're having fun ♪ 155 00:08:15,886 --> 00:08:20,804 ♪ Fun ♪ 156 00:08:20,935 --> 00:08:26,027 ♪ Now we're having fun ♪ 157 00:08:29,421 --> 00:08:31,511 ♪ Ooh 158 00:08:31,598 --> 00:08:33,164 ♪ Ah, ah ♪ 159 00:08:33,251 --> 00:08:35,558 ♪ Ooh ♪ 160 00:08:35,689 --> 00:08:37,342 ♪ Ah, ah ♪ 161 00:08:37,429 --> 00:08:39,301 ♪ Oh, yeah, we're coming ♪ 162 00:08:39,431 --> 00:08:41,433 ♪ Yeah, we're coming ♪ 163 00:08:41,521 --> 00:08:45,481 ♪ Oh, yeah, we're coming ♪ 164 00:08:45,525 --> 00:08:47,483 ♪ Oh, yeah, we're coming 165 00:08:47,570 --> 00:08:49,485 ♪ Yeah, yeah, we're coming ♪ 166 00:08:49,616 --> 00:08:52,053 ♪ Oh, yeah, I'm coming ♪ 167 00:08:52,140 --> 00:08:53,881 ♪ Oh, yeah, oh, yeah ♪ 168 00:08:53,968 --> 00:08:55,839 ♪ Oh, yeah, oh, yeah ♪ 169 00:08:55,970 --> 00:08:57,972 ♪ Oh, yeah, oh, yeah ♪ 170 00:08:58,102 --> 00:08:59,147 ♪ Oh, yeah, oh ♪ 171 00:09:04,674 --> 00:09:06,589 Well, that was boring. - They seem to like it. 172 00:09:06,633 --> 00:09:08,417 Harmonies on "Plastic Fiends" were trash. 173 00:09:08,504 --> 00:09:09,940 He's right. 174 00:09:10,027 --> 00:09:11,289 And the front head on your kick is shimmering. 175 00:09:11,376 --> 00:09:13,161 Tune it up a step. - Singer's right. 176 00:09:13,204 --> 00:09:15,555 And you left your tambourine in its stand, Larry. 177 00:09:15,642 --> 00:09:16,904 Yeah, well, I was feeling the guitar. 178 00:09:16,991 --> 00:09:19,036 No one is coming to hear your guitar, Larry. 179 00:09:19,123 --> 00:09:20,472 No, they come for the Ozzy shtick. 180 00:09:20,516 --> 00:09:22,300 "Dude, rage call to the Harmony Room. 181 00:09:22,387 --> 00:09:25,347 "Larry Slater's shredding it tonight," said no one ever. 182 00:09:25,434 --> 00:09:26,783 You sign the checks, singer. 183 00:09:26,914 --> 00:09:28,742 - I do. I do sign the checks. - Sign this. 184 00:09:28,872 --> 00:09:31,309 The tambourine tomorrow, as rehearsed and perfected. 185 00:09:31,396 --> 00:09:32,920 - Suck it, singer! - What am I signing? 186 00:09:33,050 --> 00:09:34,486 - Your night in Corvallis. - Ah. 187 00:09:34,574 --> 00:09:35,749 You're buying the wife early retirement 188 00:09:35,836 --> 00:09:37,011 and her lawyer a lake boat. 189 00:09:37,098 --> 00:09:38,186 Use the pen. 190 00:09:38,273 --> 00:09:39,404 But it's funny because it's blood, 191 00:09:39,491 --> 00:09:41,276 and I'm a vampire. 192 00:09:41,363 --> 00:09:43,844 Notaries in Oregon don't notarize in red ink. 193 00:09:43,931 --> 00:09:46,150 There's the band, and there's the shell 194 00:09:46,237 --> 00:09:49,676 that protects the band from the world's envy. 195 00:09:49,719 --> 00:09:52,722 Our band shell was Christine Claire. 196 00:09:52,809 --> 00:09:56,552 She hired, fired, dictated, and castrated 197 00:09:56,639 --> 00:09:58,119 with extreme prejudice. 198 00:09:58,249 --> 00:09:59,729 Try your best not to be you tonight. 199 00:09:59,773 --> 00:10:01,601 - We want the car. - No. 200 00:10:01,644 --> 00:10:03,733 - We'll be good. - Corvallis. 201 00:10:03,820 --> 00:10:06,997 Who do you think? 202 00:10:07,084 --> 00:10:08,172 You. - Her. 203 00:10:08,259 --> 00:10:09,521 Me? 204 00:10:09,609 --> 00:10:11,175 All right, sluts, out you go. 205 00:10:11,262 --> 00:10:14,526 So I'm going into my vampire dressing room now. 206 00:10:14,614 --> 00:10:17,007 A little draining, both ways. 207 00:10:17,138 --> 00:10:18,618 You'll have to guess who gets the fangs 208 00:10:18,705 --> 00:10:20,794 and who gets the vodka bottle. 209 00:10:20,881 --> 00:10:22,883 And yes, it's a vodka bottle. 210 00:10:24,362 --> 00:10:27,017 He did it again. Fucking asshole. 211 00:10:27,104 --> 00:10:29,585 Did I mention that I was filming a documentary 212 00:10:29,672 --> 00:10:31,631 at the time, a bootless errand 213 00:10:31,674 --> 00:10:33,894 helmed by a first-time director. 214 00:10:34,024 --> 00:10:36,592 I've seen a rough cut-- truthful and daring 215 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:37,898 with less Warren Beatty. 216 00:10:38,028 --> 00:10:39,639 - Anyone see Jarda? - Hey, Jarda, heads up. 217 00:10:39,726 --> 00:10:41,815 ♪ From the land of sky-blue waters ♪ 218 00:10:43,773 --> 00:10:46,384 Ahoj. - Missing a contact again. 219 00:10:46,428 --> 00:10:48,125 Oh, sakra. 220 00:10:48,212 --> 00:10:50,171 How many drinks have you had? 221 00:10:50,214 --> 00:10:52,086 - 1 1/2. - Drive to the burbs. 222 00:10:52,173 --> 00:10:53,565 Sit by yourself in a booth at Applebee's. 223 00:10:53,609 --> 00:10:55,698 Order the usual. Big tip. 224 00:10:55,785 --> 00:10:57,091 Meet us back in the city. 225 00:10:57,178 --> 00:10:59,180 Now, you'd think a 54-city rock tour 226 00:10:59,267 --> 00:11:01,356 would be a wonderful cover for a blood drinker. 227 00:11:01,486 --> 00:11:03,097 Hide your kill, hop on the bus, 228 00:11:03,227 --> 00:11:05,229 wave to the morgue reports in the rear view mirror, 229 00:11:05,316 --> 00:11:06,709 that kind of thing. 230 00:11:06,796 --> 00:11:09,146 But niche celebrity is a hunter's handicap, 231 00:11:09,233 --> 00:11:11,671 and a sloppy night in Corvallis made urgent 232 00:11:11,758 --> 00:11:12,976 the need for a body double. 233 00:11:13,107 --> 00:11:14,195 Ahoj! 234 00:11:14,325 --> 00:11:15,805 His name was Jarda Klapek, 235 00:11:15,892 --> 00:11:17,807 and the Albanian gangsters Christine hired 236 00:11:17,894 --> 00:11:19,504 to find my doppelganger 237 00:11:19,591 --> 00:11:22,682 found him working construction in the Czech Republic. 238 00:11:22,812 --> 00:11:25,423 Three inches shorter than your velvet-mouth narrator, 239 00:11:25,467 --> 00:11:29,384 we fit him for lifts, blue eye contacts, and a wig 240 00:11:29,471 --> 00:11:32,256 and otherwise let him be Neanderthal me. 241 00:11:32,343 --> 00:11:34,650 I hunted this way, and we send him that way, 242 00:11:34,694 --> 00:11:37,871 and every sad photograph uploaded to Reddit or Discord 243 00:11:38,001 --> 00:11:40,961 of Jarda eating a tuna melt by himself 244 00:11:41,048 --> 00:11:44,442 only confirmed for most what they already believed... 245 00:11:44,573 --> 00:11:45,879 Let's go! 246 00:11:46,009 --> 00:11:47,532 That I, the Vampire Lestat, 247 00:11:47,619 --> 00:11:50,927 was Daniel Molloy's fictitious creation, 248 00:11:51,014 --> 00:11:52,929 and The Vampire Lestat, the band, was fronted 249 00:11:53,016 --> 00:11:56,324 by a bricklaying karaoke fanatic from Ostrava, 250 00:11:56,454 --> 00:11:58,326 nothing but a desperate cash grab at the end 251 00:11:58,413 --> 00:12:00,458 of a cheugy vampire fad. 252 00:12:00,545 --> 00:12:02,243 And I've only myself to blame for the timing, 253 00:12:02,373 --> 00:12:03,897 having locked us in an attic 254 00:12:04,027 --> 00:12:06,203 for a year-plus perfecting our sound, 255 00:12:06,334 --> 00:12:09,554 a sound I hoped would counter Mr. du Lac's portrayal of me 256 00:12:09,685 --> 00:12:12,470 as a mayonnaise villain with sociopathic tendencies. 257 00:12:14,385 --> 00:12:16,648 All beside the point, because the point was, 258 00:12:16,736 --> 00:12:18,041 the point forever is... 259 00:12:18,172 --> 00:12:19,521 I know you're real. 260 00:12:19,608 --> 00:12:22,306 Most of humanity moved on from vampires, 261 00:12:22,393 --> 00:12:23,655 and rather quickly. 262 00:12:23,743 --> 00:12:25,962 Congratulations. 263 00:12:26,049 --> 00:12:28,356 Now go make friends. 264 00:12:28,443 --> 00:12:29,661 They lifted their heads 265 00:12:29,749 --> 00:12:31,663 from their algorithmic hand masters, 266 00:12:31,707 --> 00:12:35,842 uttered a collective "huh," and swiped left. 267 00:12:35,929 --> 00:12:38,453 I am the Vampire Lestat. 268 00:12:38,540 --> 00:12:40,368 I am a god. 269 00:12:40,498 --> 00:12:44,459 Gods are not swiped. 270 00:12:44,546 --> 00:12:46,026 The Cuntessa. 271 00:12:46,069 --> 00:12:47,810 The useful idiot. 272 00:12:47,897 --> 00:12:49,464 Great show. 273 00:12:49,551 --> 00:12:51,988 You left before we started. 274 00:12:52,032 --> 00:12:54,208 Yeah, I figured, Spotify some T. Rex 275 00:12:54,251 --> 00:12:56,514 and drag a little O neg from Dr. Fareed-Good here, 276 00:12:56,645 --> 00:12:57,689 same diff. 277 00:12:57,733 --> 00:12:59,039 I am not here. 278 00:12:59,169 --> 00:13:00,388 Can we mic you? 279 00:13:00,518 --> 00:13:02,042 TC punched the boom again. 280 00:13:02,172 --> 00:13:03,870 Yeah. OK. 281 00:13:09,397 --> 00:13:13,227 So, uh, you and Louis talking again? 282 00:13:13,270 --> 00:13:15,707 He doesn't return my texts 283 00:13:15,838 --> 00:13:18,798 or my telepathy. 284 00:13:18,841 --> 00:13:20,974 I hear he's back in the States. 285 00:13:22,714 --> 00:13:24,499 We good? - We're good. 286 00:13:24,586 --> 00:13:26,631 Slate. 287 00:13:26,675 --> 00:13:30,418 OK. 288 00:13:30,505 --> 00:13:33,769 You've been alive and undead for 265 years. 289 00:13:33,900 --> 00:13:36,859 You witnessed the French Revolution firsthand, 290 00:13:36,946 --> 00:13:38,600 the electric light, penicillin, 291 00:13:38,730 --> 00:13:40,820 two World Wars, the atomic bomb, 292 00:13:40,863 --> 00:13:42,691 the moon landing, the Berlin Wall-- 293 00:13:42,822 --> 00:13:44,127 Joey Chestnut. 294 00:13:44,171 --> 00:13:45,346 What? 295 00:13:45,476 --> 00:13:46,956 He eats hot dogs for a living. 296 00:13:47,087 --> 00:13:48,740 He's extraordinary. I hope to meet him one day. 297 00:13:48,828 --> 00:13:50,264 Was there a question? 298 00:13:50,307 --> 00:13:52,222 Having accumulated profound wisdom and experience 299 00:13:52,266 --> 00:13:54,529 through the dark gift of immortality, 300 00:13:54,572 --> 00:13:57,575 why have you chosen to waste it singing music 301 00:13:57,662 --> 00:13:59,186 no one wants to hear 302 00:13:59,229 --> 00:14:01,579 in pants no one should ever squeeze into? 303 00:14:01,710 --> 00:14:03,233 You ask this question every night. 304 00:14:03,277 --> 00:14:04,669 And I get a different answer every night. 305 00:14:04,756 --> 00:14:06,933 You'll get me to repeat myself soon enough, I am sure, 306 00:14:06,976 --> 00:14:09,152 once you confront your transformational trauma. 307 00:14:09,239 --> 00:14:11,285 I don't have transformational trauma. 308 00:14:11,328 --> 00:14:13,853 Mm, that's why these movie producers hired you, 309 00:14:13,940 --> 00:14:16,290 Daniel Molloy, Vampire Slayer. 310 00:14:16,377 --> 00:14:17,987 They said you requested me. 311 00:14:18,031 --> 00:14:19,206 Absurd. 312 00:14:19,336 --> 00:14:20,990 Oh, as absurd as a documentary 313 00:14:21,077 --> 00:14:24,037 about a rock band posing as vampires 314 00:14:24,167 --> 00:14:26,082 fronted by an actual vampire? 315 00:14:26,126 --> 00:14:28,476 Directed by a vampire passing as a human. 316 00:14:28,563 --> 00:14:31,044 You tell him, Fareed. 317 00:14:31,131 --> 00:14:34,438 Is it true you were a stutterer as a child? 318 00:14:34,525 --> 00:14:37,093 Louis said you were. 319 00:14:41,402 --> 00:14:43,491 Was he there in 18th-century Auvergne? 320 00:14:43,578 --> 00:14:44,753 He said you told him that. 321 00:14:44,796 --> 00:14:47,103 Did I threaten Claudia with rape on a train? 322 00:14:47,190 --> 00:14:48,365 Was I in the room 323 00:14:48,452 --> 00:14:51,325 when Donizetti wrote "Don Pasquale"? 324 00:14:51,412 --> 00:14:54,110 No, no, and impossible, 325 00:14:54,241 --> 00:14:56,547 because I had buried myself underground 326 00:14:56,634 --> 00:14:58,549 for the vast majority of the 1800s. 327 00:14:58,593 --> 00:15:00,334 I wrote what he told me. 328 00:15:00,421 --> 00:15:03,337 I don't have trauma, I love being a vampire, 329 00:15:03,424 --> 00:15:06,035 and can you drop the Fledgling Speak and Spell? 330 00:15:12,955 --> 00:15:16,567 The dark, dreary industrial world 331 00:15:16,654 --> 00:15:20,920 has finally submitted to automation. 332 00:15:20,963 --> 00:15:23,879 Laborers stand in their doorways 333 00:15:23,923 --> 00:15:27,100 hitting their pipes as their children half-pipe 334 00:15:27,187 --> 00:15:30,320 in their drained, empty swimming pools. 335 00:15:30,407 --> 00:15:34,063 Drug stores locked up baby formula and shaving cream 336 00:15:34,150 --> 00:15:38,502 while Saks ate Barneys and someone told everyone 337 00:15:38,589 --> 00:15:41,853 that Lululemon was sexy. 338 00:15:41,941 --> 00:15:44,987 Facts are irrelevant. 339 00:15:45,074 --> 00:15:48,164 Feels are everything. 340 00:15:48,251 --> 00:15:51,167 And the value of human life, 341 00:15:51,254 --> 00:15:54,910 it has never been more arbitrary. 342 00:15:54,997 --> 00:16:00,220 David, Freddie, Prince Rogers, they're all gone, 343 00:16:00,350 --> 00:16:03,527 and the lights on Tay Tay's eras have dimmed. 344 00:16:03,614 --> 00:16:06,313 Fire coming down the hill, 345 00:16:06,443 --> 00:16:10,839 water moving in on Nantucket. 346 00:16:10,926 --> 00:16:14,886 No more safe spaces. 347 00:16:14,930 --> 00:16:17,585 It's my era now. 348 00:16:20,675 --> 00:16:23,417 Post Malone and Jelly Roll playing there tonight. 349 00:16:23,504 --> 00:16:26,246 60,000 for Face Tattoo Palooza. 350 00:16:26,333 --> 00:16:28,770 You played an 800-seat venue. 351 00:16:28,813 --> 00:16:30,076 How is it your era? 352 00:16:33,253 --> 00:16:35,211 I'm vain and shallow and fear an empty seat. 353 00:16:35,298 --> 00:16:37,866 Ask me an easy one. 354 00:16:37,953 --> 00:16:42,479 Is it true your band was formed on Halloween? 355 00:16:47,832 --> 00:16:49,747 You are listening to "The Failures"... 356 00:16:51,401 --> 00:16:53,403 Album 2, Side B. 357 00:17:16,774 --> 00:17:18,298 What do you think? 358 00:17:18,385 --> 00:17:19,864 It's nice. 359 00:17:19,995 --> 00:17:22,302 - Nice? - Yeah. It's nice. 360 00:17:22,432 --> 00:17:24,130 I don't--I don't see Beyoncé covering it. 361 00:17:24,173 --> 00:17:27,002 But it's nice. 362 00:17:27,089 --> 00:17:28,395 Nice is nothing. 363 00:17:28,438 --> 00:17:30,788 - Oh, it--it's nice... - Nice is a balloon. 364 00:17:30,875 --> 00:17:31,833 That you're back writing music. 365 00:17:31,876 --> 00:17:33,400 A flower box is nice. 366 00:17:33,487 --> 00:17:35,271 It's nice that you got yourself a nice place. 367 00:17:35,358 --> 00:17:37,012 It's a nice word, 368 00:17:37,143 --> 00:17:39,101 and it says everything I wanted to express. 369 00:17:39,188 --> 00:17:42,583 Don't be a bitch about it. 370 00:17:42,626 --> 00:17:44,759 You should come visit. 371 00:17:44,846 --> 00:17:47,588 I have a space above the bed in one of the guest rooms 372 00:17:47,718 --> 00:17:49,372 I can't find a painting for. 373 00:17:49,416 --> 00:17:51,200 Oh, the guest room. 374 00:17:51,331 --> 00:17:53,463 You want me to come and see your guest room. 375 00:17:53,550 --> 00:17:55,378 It's an affluent neighborhood. 376 00:17:55,465 --> 00:17:57,946 Old money, young professionals, 377 00:17:58,033 --> 00:18:00,122 a smattering of criss-de-trust-fund-bébé. 378 00:18:00,253 --> 00:18:04,083 Mmm, good eating. 379 00:18:04,213 --> 00:18:07,912 Same potholes, but no hurricanes, 380 00:18:07,999 --> 00:18:10,132 no witches. 381 00:18:10,176 --> 00:18:13,614 And everyone mangles French just like you do. 382 00:18:13,701 --> 00:18:14,832 Come to me. 383 00:18:14,876 --> 00:18:16,573 Montreal. 384 00:18:16,660 --> 00:18:19,054 I am he, and he is me. 385 00:18:19,141 --> 00:18:21,752 Less baggage here. 386 00:18:21,796 --> 00:18:24,581 I get it. I get it. 387 00:18:24,668 --> 00:18:29,108 Besides, there's an Olmsted park nearby if I get homesick, 388 00:18:29,195 --> 00:18:32,763 and there's a garage band rehearsing across the street 389 00:18:32,850 --> 00:18:37,725 who call themselves, of all things, Satan... 390 00:18:37,812 --> 00:18:40,423 They call themselves Of All Things Satan? 391 00:18:40,467 --> 00:18:41,946 Satan's Night Ou... 392 00:18:42,077 --> 00:18:43,426 Sat--Satan's Night Owl? 393 00:18:43,470 --> 00:18:45,602 Out. Satan's Night Out. 394 00:18:45,689 --> 00:18:47,343 OK. Makes sense. 395 00:18:47,474 --> 00:18:51,347 Louis, do you know someone called Daniel Molloy? 396 00:18:51,478 --> 00:18:52,914 Uh... 397 00:18:53,044 --> 00:18:54,568 I burned his laptop! 398 00:18:54,655 --> 00:18:56,396 I didn't know he had it saved in the cloud. 399 00:18:56,526 --> 00:18:58,137 I only found out it was coming out a month ago. 400 00:18:58,267 --> 00:18:59,312 You've known for a month? 401 00:18:59,442 --> 00:19:00,878 And you talk about me in it to a mortal? 402 00:19:01,009 --> 00:19:02,271 Well, yeah. 403 00:19:02,358 --> 00:19:04,665 Yeah, kind of--but, you know-- 404 00:19:04,752 --> 00:19:06,449 No, I don't know, Louis. 405 00:19:06,580 --> 00:19:08,408 Please explain yourself. 406 00:19:08,538 --> 00:19:10,236 It's gonna be here and gone in a minute. 407 00:19:10,366 --> 00:19:11,541 No one reads anymore. 408 00:19:30,908 --> 00:19:32,519 Mm. 409 00:19:52,495 --> 00:19:53,540 Oh. 410 00:19:55,672 --> 00:19:56,891 No, thank you! 411 00:20:01,591 --> 00:20:04,638 Oh. 412 00:20:04,725 --> 00:20:07,728 Oh, I know what infinitesimal means! 413 00:20:09,251 --> 00:20:10,252 It was raining. 414 00:20:10,296 --> 00:20:11,253 No! 415 00:20:11,340 --> 00:20:12,385 No. 416 00:20:12,472 --> 00:20:17,607 Never fucking... 417 00:20:17,694 --> 00:20:18,913 Liar! 418 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:21,132 I'm not a harlequin. 419 00:20:21,263 --> 00:20:23,570 Your sources are your sherpas. 420 00:20:23,657 --> 00:20:26,181 Your editor is your priest. 421 00:20:26,312 --> 00:20:27,400 Don't go to the F. 422 00:20:28,836 --> 00:20:31,360 G sus out. Why must you complicate it? 423 00:20:31,491 --> 00:20:33,275 Mm. 424 00:20:33,362 --> 00:20:35,451 all: Trick or treat. 425 00:20:35,582 --> 00:20:37,932 Candy, please. 426 00:20:37,975 --> 00:20:40,543 Hello. 427 00:20:40,630 --> 00:20:41,936 Bon Halloween. 428 00:20:41,979 --> 00:20:44,634 Oh, I wanted the full-size bar. 429 00:20:44,765 --> 00:20:45,809 Is that it? 430 00:20:47,768 --> 00:20:50,292 - Thank you. - Oh. 431 00:20:50,379 --> 00:20:53,252 Your camera is not period correct. 432 00:20:53,339 --> 00:20:54,688 I have a peanut allergy. 433 00:20:54,775 --> 00:20:57,560 Well, allergies are delusional. 434 00:20:57,604 --> 00:20:58,866 I'll take the Mounds. 435 00:20:58,953 --> 00:21:01,042 You'll take whatever I give you! 436 00:21:01,085 --> 00:21:02,826 That guy was mean. 437 00:21:21,889 --> 00:21:25,327 Not--not the F! 438 00:21:38,514 --> 00:21:39,602 Come on, Larry! 439 00:21:39,646 --> 00:21:42,388 Yeah! 440 00:21:53,486 --> 00:21:54,748 Dude, what the fuck? 441 00:21:54,878 --> 00:22:00,710 G minor sus out! 442 00:22:00,797 --> 00:22:02,451 This isn't 1979. 443 00:22:02,582 --> 00:22:04,410 Bela Lugosi is not dead. 444 00:22:04,453 --> 00:22:07,891 You don't need to finger her for five bars. 445 00:22:07,935 --> 00:22:09,893 You're hurting her. 446 00:22:10,024 --> 00:22:12,331 - Is that our neighbor? - Um, yeah. 447 00:22:12,418 --> 00:22:14,550 Apologies for the Squier. 448 00:22:14,681 --> 00:22:17,074 My man Arturo will come in the morning 449 00:22:17,118 --> 00:22:18,815 with a replacement 450 00:22:18,859 --> 00:22:21,601 and a new front door. 451 00:22:21,688 --> 00:22:24,604 More frequent showers. 452 00:22:24,647 --> 00:22:25,866 Thank you. 453 00:22:29,086 --> 00:22:30,479 What was the question again? 454 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:32,699 Why music? 455 00:22:32,786 --> 00:22:34,744 Hey. Hey. 456 00:22:34,875 --> 00:22:36,572 Why now? 457 00:22:36,659 --> 00:22:37,921 Dude, that was sick. 458 00:22:38,008 --> 00:22:41,316 What are we doing here? 459 00:22:41,447 --> 00:22:44,275 We're doing a rewrite. 460 00:22:44,406 --> 00:22:48,715 So this whole tour is just some Byronic reaction 461 00:22:48,802 --> 00:22:50,020 to my book? 462 00:22:50,064 --> 00:22:52,283 Who better to refute the book 463 00:22:52,371 --> 00:22:54,068 than the man who wrote the book? 464 00:22:54,111 --> 00:22:56,853 Mm, well, the songs are my story, 465 00:22:56,940 --> 00:22:58,551 your documentary the liner notes. 466 00:22:58,638 --> 00:22:59,813 Liner notes? 467 00:22:59,856 --> 00:23:01,771 I won two Pulitzers. 468 00:23:01,858 --> 00:23:04,600 I'm taking this thing to Cannes, OK? 469 00:23:04,687 --> 00:23:06,602 I'm gonna be slapping Chris Rock 470 00:23:06,689 --> 00:23:08,952 and stroking my Oscar. 471 00:23:09,083 --> 00:23:11,302 The brat sings, the brat dies. 472 00:23:11,433 --> 00:23:12,869 The Great Laws are clear on this. 473 00:23:14,741 --> 00:23:17,439 More exposure for us, more risk for us. 474 00:23:21,791 --> 00:23:23,532 He sings for himself. 475 00:23:25,404 --> 00:23:26,753 Make more! 476 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:28,450 Only a coven leader can make more. 477 00:23:28,581 --> 00:23:30,539 The Great Laws are clear on that. 478 00:23:30,626 --> 00:23:33,020 First the book, now the singer. 479 00:23:33,107 --> 00:23:34,195 This is chaos uncaged. 480 00:23:41,071 --> 00:23:45,554 ♪ My little heart's reflection ♪ 481 00:23:45,641 --> 00:23:49,471 ♪ You've got a confession ♪ 482 00:23:49,558 --> 00:23:51,691 ♪ You used to find ♪ 483 00:25:24,131 --> 00:25:27,003 ♪ I caught a real live one ♪ 484 00:25:27,090 --> 00:25:28,439 ♪ Didn't blink ♪ 485 00:25:28,527 --> 00:25:30,050 ♪ Didn't try to run ♪ 486 00:25:30,180 --> 00:25:32,400 ♪ I caught a real live one ♪ 487 00:25:34,533 --> 00:25:36,056 ♪ Sucking on the sun ♪ 488 00:25:36,143 --> 00:25:37,536 ♪ No time for glowing up ♪ 489 00:25:37,666 --> 00:25:39,146 ♪ No time for throwing up ♪ 490 00:25:39,233 --> 00:25:40,539 ♪ No time for vibing out ♪ 491 00:25:40,669 --> 00:25:42,062 ♪ Your phone is blowing up ♪ 492 00:25:42,192 --> 00:25:45,152 ♪ I caught a real live one ♪ 493 00:25:45,239 --> 00:25:47,154 ♪ No time for "I ride my stepbrother ♪ 494 00:25:47,284 --> 00:25:48,459 ♪ Till he come" ♪ 495 00:25:48,547 --> 00:25:50,766 ♪ Doo, doo, doo, dah, dah, dah ♪ 496 00:25:50,810 --> 00:25:52,072 ♪ Don't wanna smash your Slack ♪ 497 00:25:52,202 --> 00:25:54,335 ♪ Or be your morning star ♪ 498 00:25:54,378 --> 00:25:57,077 ♪ Don't wanna learn another TikTok dance ♪ 499 00:25:57,164 --> 00:25:58,644 ♪ Wanna stay in bed ♪ 500 00:25:58,731 --> 00:26:03,953 ♪ Eating black licorice ♪ 501 00:26:05,781 --> 00:26:07,217 ♪ Ooh ♪ 502 00:26:09,916 --> 00:26:11,657 Beef House in the Twin Oaks Mall. 503 00:26:11,700 --> 00:26:13,180 Order at the bar this time. 504 00:26:13,223 --> 00:26:15,617 Take some photos with the fans I've planted there. 505 00:26:15,748 --> 00:26:16,705 ♪ Keep 'em scrolling, rolling ♪ 506 00:26:16,792 --> 00:26:18,141 ♪ Fire emojin', aubergines ♪ 507 00:26:22,581 --> 00:26:24,365 Hi, papi. 508 00:26:24,408 --> 00:26:26,106 ♪ I've been a bad boy 509 00:26:26,193 --> 00:26:27,629 ♪ Deep down in my heart ♪ 510 00:26:27,716 --> 00:26:29,413 ♪ I kept a really dark secret ♪ 511 00:26:29,500 --> 00:26:30,719 ♪ From the very start ♪ 512 00:26:30,806 --> 00:26:32,852 ♪ Give me a million more screams ♪ 513 00:26:34,462 --> 00:26:36,638 ♪ Means exactly what you think it means ♪ 514 00:26:36,725 --> 00:26:39,510 ♪ Doo, doo, doo, dah, dah, dah ♪ 515 00:26:39,554 --> 00:26:40,599 ♪ Don't wanna smash your Slack ♪ 516 00:26:40,729 --> 00:26:42,818 ♪ Or be your morning star ♪ 517 00:26:42,905 --> 00:26:45,516 ♪ Don't wanna learn a fucking TikTok dance ♪ 518 00:26:45,604 --> 00:26:47,301 ♪ Wanna stay in bed ♪ 519 00:26:47,388 --> 00:26:48,694 ♪ Eating black licorice ♪ 520 00:26:56,484 --> 00:26:59,182 Pick up the fucking tambourine! 521 00:26:59,269 --> 00:27:03,534 From the alps of adequacy to the canyon of coup d'etat, 522 00:27:03,622 --> 00:27:07,103 two nights in a row, my violin competing with his guitar 523 00:27:07,234 --> 00:27:08,670 for the solo break. 524 00:27:08,714 --> 00:27:11,934 Two centuries waiting to share my music, 525 00:27:12,021 --> 00:27:15,155 two years as Mr. du Lac's B-movie brute. 526 00:27:17,331 --> 00:27:19,942 But just as I was about to bridge the bridge 527 00:27:19,986 --> 00:27:22,553 with murder and mayhem, 528 00:27:22,641 --> 00:27:25,644 something quite surprising happened. 529 00:27:25,731 --> 00:27:29,865 My music wrapped itself around me like a jungle snake 530 00:27:29,952 --> 00:27:31,867 constricting its prey, 531 00:27:31,998 --> 00:27:34,087 and a lifetime of blood bartering 532 00:27:34,174 --> 00:27:37,307 overwhelmed the temporal lobe. 533 00:27:37,438 --> 00:27:40,920 Muses appeared in my mind and in the now around me. 534 00:27:43,662 --> 00:27:46,665 Memories taking their turn. 535 00:27:49,406 --> 00:27:53,149 Blood in, blood out. 536 00:27:56,109 --> 00:27:59,112 Hammering away at the performative vampire persona 537 00:27:59,242 --> 00:28:01,505 I had welded into armor. 538 00:28:04,421 --> 00:28:05,814 The armor cracked. 539 00:28:08,512 --> 00:28:11,472 The bridge buckled. 540 00:28:11,515 --> 00:28:16,259 And the bona fide vampire emerged center stage. 541 00:28:16,346 --> 00:28:20,350 It was I who had been adequate. 542 00:28:20,437 --> 00:28:24,528 It was I who had been holding us back, 543 00:28:24,659 --> 00:28:28,141 and now, exposed in the raw 544 00:28:28,228 --> 00:28:31,448 under the white hot lights, 545 00:28:31,535 --> 00:28:34,234 my bandmates began to feed. 546 00:28:34,321 --> 00:28:36,671 ♪ I wanna stay in bed eating black licorice ♪ 547 00:28:36,758 --> 00:28:39,674 And that sound I had been grinding them for 548 00:28:39,718 --> 00:28:42,155 was finally unleashed, 549 00:28:42,285 --> 00:28:45,985 a euphoric grottiness spilling into the crowd, 550 00:28:46,072 --> 00:28:49,249 into their bodies, enveloping the venue. 551 00:28:51,904 --> 00:28:53,819 ♪ I wanna stay in bed 552 00:28:53,906 --> 00:28:55,124 ♪ Eating black licorice ♪ 553 00:28:58,345 --> 00:28:59,738 ♪ I wanna stay in bed ♪ 554 00:28:59,825 --> 00:29:01,478 ♪ Eating black licorice ♪ 555 00:29:04,351 --> 00:29:05,918 ♪ I wanna stay in bed ♪ 556 00:29:06,048 --> 00:29:07,484 ♪ Eating black licorice ♪ 557 00:29:10,357 --> 00:29:11,750 ♪ I wanna stay in bed 558 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:13,490 ♪ Eating black licorice ♪ 559 00:29:16,189 --> 00:29:17,886 ♪ I wanna stay in bed ♪ 560 00:29:17,930 --> 00:29:19,496 ♪ Eating black licorice 561 00:29:22,499 --> 00:29:24,066 ♪ I wanna stay in bed ♪ 562 00:29:24,110 --> 00:29:25,459 ♪ Eating black licorice 563 00:29:28,418 --> 00:29:32,205 Which one of you's OD'd before? 564 00:29:32,292 --> 00:29:33,902 What do you do? 565 00:29:34,033 --> 00:29:35,338 What did she take? 566 00:29:35,425 --> 00:29:36,905 Not her. 567 00:29:36,992 --> 00:29:38,080 Me. 568 00:29:38,211 --> 00:29:39,952 Get her on the ground. 569 00:29:40,039 --> 00:29:42,998 Her blood. 570 00:29:43,085 --> 00:29:44,695 Ecstasy. - You dead man'd her, man! 571 00:29:44,783 --> 00:29:46,480 LSD. 572 00:29:46,567 --> 00:29:48,090 What the hell happened up there? 573 00:29:49,439 --> 00:29:51,790 Can't OD on a candy plate. 574 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,183 What the hell were you doing? 575 00:29:54,227 --> 00:29:56,882 I should have quit right there and then. 576 00:29:56,969 --> 00:30:00,320 Would have been a lovely footnote to my life, the band, 577 00:30:00,407 --> 00:30:03,062 but the muses were just beginning. 578 00:30:04,628 --> 00:30:06,761 You done this to me? 579 00:30:06,848 --> 00:30:09,111 - What are you doing? - Calling 9-1-1. 580 00:30:09,198 --> 00:30:12,419 I lost myself on stage for a moment. 581 00:30:12,506 --> 00:30:16,423 Seems you still lost. 582 00:30:16,466 --> 00:30:18,686 These songs gonna kill you. You know that, don't you? 583 00:30:18,817 --> 00:30:20,209 I can't die. 584 00:30:20,296 --> 00:30:22,124 Everything dies. 585 00:30:22,211 --> 00:30:24,997 You die. I die. 586 00:30:25,084 --> 00:30:26,737 She dies. 587 00:30:26,868 --> 00:30:28,261 She dies. 588 00:30:28,304 --> 00:30:29,740 Oh, he dies bad. 589 00:30:32,047 --> 00:30:33,744 I'm immortal. 590 00:30:33,875 --> 00:30:36,269 Yeah, you kill some wolves and fall in love. 591 00:30:36,312 --> 00:30:38,358 Get the gift, fall in love. 592 00:30:38,445 --> 00:30:41,274 Go to ground, get dug up, and fall in love. 593 00:30:41,317 --> 00:30:43,667 You're like some wet clothes in a coin op dryer, 594 00:30:43,798 --> 00:30:47,236 just 265 years round and round. 595 00:30:48,455 --> 00:30:50,805 Why you so sad? 596 00:30:50,849 --> 00:30:52,633 Thousands of fans loving you. 597 00:30:52,763 --> 00:30:54,983 I want millions. 598 00:30:55,070 --> 00:30:59,205 And that'll top off that heart of yours? 599 00:30:59,292 --> 00:31:00,989 Billions. 600 00:31:01,076 --> 00:31:03,862 Then why you always gotta make it so hard 601 00:31:03,992 --> 00:31:05,428 for someone to give it to you? 602 00:31:05,515 --> 00:31:07,474 Huh? 603 00:31:07,561 --> 00:31:08,649 Who told you that? 604 00:31:08,692 --> 00:31:10,390 Don't worry. 605 00:31:10,477 --> 00:31:12,609 They comin'. 606 00:31:12,653 --> 00:31:13,915 Who's coming? 607 00:31:14,046 --> 00:31:16,091 Oh, they gonna tell you themselves. 608 00:31:17,745 --> 00:31:18,833 Who's coming? 609 00:31:18,964 --> 00:31:19,790 Great show tonight. 610 00:31:19,921 --> 00:31:20,791 Who? 611 00:31:25,057 --> 00:31:26,972 You are listening to "The Failures," 612 00:31:27,102 --> 00:31:28,799 Album 5, Side B. 613 00:31:30,714 --> 00:31:34,022 If you take nothing else away from your exorbitant purchase, 614 00:31:34,153 --> 00:31:35,894 heed this advice. 615 00:31:35,981 --> 00:31:39,506 Never play two nights in Detroit. 616 00:31:39,549 --> 00:31:42,074 You'll wind up in Windsor with a broken orbital bone 617 00:31:42,204 --> 00:31:44,641 listening to transactional sex through the adjoining walls. 618 00:31:46,252 --> 00:31:48,254 How I came to this squalid real estate 619 00:31:48,297 --> 00:31:50,996 is the premise of Side B, Album 5, so... 620 00:31:52,954 --> 00:31:55,043 Uh-huh, come! 621 00:31:56,653 --> 00:31:58,264 Now, the boutique hotel we were staying at 622 00:31:58,351 --> 00:32:00,614 was having a grand-ish opening that night, 623 00:32:00,701 --> 00:32:02,703 and the band was asked to lend its celebrity status 624 00:32:02,790 --> 00:32:03,878 to the event. 625 00:32:03,922 --> 00:32:05,488 Don't tell me to pose. 626 00:32:05,619 --> 00:32:07,012 Fuck you. 627 00:32:07,099 --> 00:32:09,101 There was a red carpet, a pap line, 628 00:32:09,231 --> 00:32:11,407 and a vampire DJ of some renown 629 00:32:11,538 --> 00:32:14,019 seducing corporate employees, provincial influencers, 630 00:32:14,106 --> 00:32:15,803 and party crashing Beautifully Unwell. 631 00:32:15,934 --> 00:32:17,544 Move faster. Thank you. Thank you. 632 00:32:17,674 --> 00:32:20,199 I was having sex in an elevator with Dee 633 00:32:20,242 --> 00:32:22,810 and the girl I had just overindulged myself with 634 00:32:22,897 --> 00:32:24,464 earlier in the night. 635 00:32:24,507 --> 00:32:28,424 Actually, that happens... later. 636 00:32:28,511 --> 00:32:29,686 A lot of things happened that night. 637 00:32:29,773 --> 00:32:30,992 Huh. 638 00:32:31,123 --> 00:32:32,298 Come on. Come on, come on, come on! 639 00:32:35,649 --> 00:32:39,522 The band is inside with Dan in the VIP perch. 640 00:32:39,609 --> 00:32:42,351 I'm giving the paps my pussycat 641 00:32:42,395 --> 00:32:44,092 with no idea that I would be in a fang fight 642 00:32:44,179 --> 00:32:45,311 less than an hour later. 643 00:32:46,486 --> 00:32:47,835 No, no, no, no. 644 00:32:47,922 --> 00:32:49,880 I'm getting ahead of myself again. 645 00:32:49,924 --> 00:32:52,622 I arrive fashionably late, of course. 646 00:32:52,709 --> 00:32:53,884 State your name for the camera. 647 00:32:53,972 --> 00:32:55,451 Baby Jenks. 648 00:32:55,582 --> 00:32:59,586 OK, Baby, tell me, why do you like The Vampire Lestat? 649 00:32:59,673 --> 00:33:01,109 Like, I'm gonna be in the movie? 650 00:33:01,196 --> 00:33:02,676 Oh, you're in it now. 651 00:33:02,763 --> 00:33:06,245 I am feeling good. 652 00:33:06,332 --> 00:33:08,551 Surfing the sublime candy-flipped wave 653 00:33:08,638 --> 00:33:09,683 of the girl's blood. 654 00:33:09,813 --> 00:33:12,120 You're him. You're that voice. 655 00:33:12,207 --> 00:33:14,514 The girl is feeling good... Wow. 656 00:33:14,557 --> 00:33:16,559 Riding the wonders of Dr. Fareed's 657 00:33:16,646 --> 00:33:18,953 blood transfusion quick pick-me-up cocktail. 658 00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:20,737 Who's that guy, 'cause, like, 659 00:33:20,781 --> 00:33:22,652 rock and roll, it's dying. 660 00:33:22,739 --> 00:33:25,525 I sat there soaking up her praise 661 00:33:25,568 --> 00:33:27,788 along with the band, still somehow blind 662 00:33:27,875 --> 00:33:30,660 to the vampiric mysteries of their front man. 663 00:33:30,747 --> 00:33:32,836 So what if the dead and buried past 664 00:33:32,923 --> 00:33:35,187 was now a fresh and eager groupie? 665 00:33:35,317 --> 00:33:36,884 It's rock and roll, you know? 666 00:33:36,971 --> 00:33:38,712 Have a nervous breakdown onstage, 667 00:33:38,755 --> 00:33:40,061 chat it up with the floating girl 668 00:33:40,148 --> 00:33:41,715 on the ceiling you almost killed, 669 00:33:41,845 --> 00:33:43,543 have sex with her in the elevator-- 670 00:33:43,673 --> 00:33:44,718 ah, I'm still not there yet. 671 00:33:46,067 --> 00:33:48,678 MDMA and LSD, 672 00:33:48,765 --> 00:33:50,854 the Torvill and Dean of hallucinogenics. 673 00:33:50,941 --> 00:33:52,073 And so then everybody's like, 674 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:54,075 is rock and roll actually dying? 675 00:33:54,162 --> 00:33:56,599 Were you a stutterer as a child? 676 00:33:56,730 --> 00:33:58,514 They walk into the ER. 677 00:33:58,601 --> 00:34:02,605 They are, like, the doctor, and Lestat's the scalpel. 678 00:34:02,649 --> 00:34:05,304 I'm the scalpel. Print the T-shirts. 679 00:34:05,434 --> 00:34:08,742 And so he, the scalpel, 680 00:34:08,829 --> 00:34:13,312 cuts into rock and roll's heart like he cut into mine tonight. 681 00:34:13,399 --> 00:34:16,184 And he has the heart in his mouth. 682 00:34:16,271 --> 00:34:19,535 He's like, "Do you wanna fuck?" 683 00:34:19,622 --> 00:34:22,582 And rock and roll is like, "Yes, bitch!" 684 00:34:22,712 --> 00:34:25,411 I excused myself to the men's room. 685 00:34:25,541 --> 00:34:27,717 Didn't read about vampire physiology 686 00:34:27,804 --> 00:34:29,763 in Mr. du Lac's memoir, did you? 687 00:34:29,850 --> 00:34:32,635 No mention of the scars on my chest either. 688 00:34:32,679 --> 00:34:35,290 Hair stopping way above my shoulders. 689 00:34:35,377 --> 00:34:37,597 And just for the record, no ticket pocket of mine 690 00:34:37,684 --> 00:34:39,599 ever had his initials inscribed onto them. 691 00:34:39,686 --> 00:34:41,644 I mean, these are the editorial wags 692 00:34:41,731 --> 00:34:43,342 of an insane person. 693 00:34:45,387 --> 00:34:48,173 Note to self, edit that out in the final version. 694 00:34:48,303 --> 00:34:49,522 Starting again. 695 00:34:49,565 --> 00:34:51,306 Vampires pee. 696 00:34:51,437 --> 00:34:52,873 We don't do it as often as you do, 697 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:54,701 assuming you're not one of us. 698 00:34:54,744 --> 00:34:57,747 And we generally avoid eco-friendly urinals. 699 00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:02,839 Mm. 700 00:35:07,279 --> 00:35:10,760 Detroit. 701 00:35:26,298 --> 00:35:28,561 Name's Tim. 702 00:35:28,604 --> 00:35:32,260 She's Rus. - They're Rus. 703 00:35:32,391 --> 00:35:34,349 - Pronouns. - Mm. 704 00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:39,615 And yet it's respectful, like silence at a urinal. 705 00:35:39,746 --> 00:35:42,749 Things got a bit crossed 706 00:35:42,836 --> 00:35:44,707 when we were minding each other the other night. 707 00:35:44,838 --> 00:35:47,754 Rus here has a hot mouth. 708 00:35:47,797 --> 00:35:50,626 And a strong pelvic floor. 709 00:35:50,713 --> 00:35:52,498 I admire your aim. 710 00:35:52,628 --> 00:35:53,847 Mm. 711 00:35:53,890 --> 00:35:55,283 "Long Face" sucks. 712 00:35:55,414 --> 00:35:58,199 Rus wanted to apologize. 713 00:35:59,287 --> 00:36:01,768 But "Black Licorice," 714 00:36:01,811 --> 00:36:05,511 "Why Do I Have to Feel," 715 00:36:05,598 --> 00:36:07,687 I like those ones. 716 00:36:07,730 --> 00:36:10,080 "Frankly, Mr. Shankly" almost ruined "The Queen Is Dead." 717 00:36:10,211 --> 00:36:13,823 Apology accepted. 718 00:36:13,910 --> 00:36:16,478 We have a coven out here in Detroit. 719 00:36:16,609 --> 00:36:18,437 - Do you? - The Fang Gang. 720 00:36:19,916 --> 00:36:21,527 You want to see a real vampire bar, come with us. 721 00:36:22,832 --> 00:36:24,399 We have a huge house out past Brightmoor. 722 00:36:24,486 --> 00:36:27,185 Our own farm under the floorboards. 723 00:36:27,272 --> 00:36:30,579 Hmm, sure. What about tomorrow night? 724 00:36:30,666 --> 00:36:32,668 You're on the road tomorrow night. 725 00:36:32,799 --> 00:36:35,889 Yes. That was me being polite. 726 00:36:35,976 --> 00:36:38,196 No, that was you lying. 727 00:36:39,588 --> 00:36:41,068 Eco-friendly urinals. 728 00:36:41,155 --> 00:36:43,505 Good for the planet, so we're told. 729 00:36:43,592 --> 00:36:46,116 Good for vampires? Hmm. 730 00:36:46,204 --> 00:36:48,162 We chardonnay them. 731 00:36:52,906 --> 00:36:56,344 And then there's regional vampires. 732 00:36:56,475 --> 00:37:00,000 Always trying to make a name for themselves. 733 00:37:00,087 --> 00:37:01,828 I chardonnay them, too. 734 00:37:01,958 --> 00:37:03,525 Obligations, I'm afraid. 735 00:37:03,612 --> 00:37:06,093 But please do send my most sincere bonjour 736 00:37:06,180 --> 00:37:07,834 to your Brightmoorish coven. 737 00:37:11,229 --> 00:37:13,187 Lilac. 738 00:37:26,940 --> 00:37:28,811 I have a blind spot 739 00:37:28,855 --> 00:37:30,857 when it comes to blood poisoning. 740 00:37:30,944 --> 00:37:32,206 You'd think a vampire 741 00:37:32,293 --> 00:37:33,729 of my stature would know better. 742 00:37:33,816 --> 00:37:34,904 But then there's that old saying. 743 00:37:34,991 --> 00:37:36,776 You fool me once, shame on me. 744 00:37:36,863 --> 00:37:41,650 You fool me twice, MDMA and LSD are excellent drugs. 745 00:37:41,737 --> 00:37:43,391 Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce. 746 00:37:43,478 --> 00:37:45,785 Twirl, twirl. 747 00:37:45,872 --> 00:37:46,960 Overshare. 748 00:37:47,090 --> 00:37:48,570 I saw your soul. 749 00:37:48,701 --> 00:37:50,790 I saw yours, too. 750 00:37:54,228 --> 00:37:58,493 Still feeling good, I went looking for my band, 751 00:37:58,624 --> 00:38:01,061 looking for sex, looking for anything 752 00:38:01,148 --> 00:38:02,889 that radiated the fun that I sang about 753 00:38:02,976 --> 00:38:06,066 in my song, "Long Face." 754 00:38:06,196 --> 00:38:08,286 And then... 755 00:38:08,373 --> 00:38:10,766 Regionals. 756 00:38:10,853 --> 00:38:12,812 Wait, did she say that "Long Face" sucked? 757 00:38:12,899 --> 00:38:14,553 "Long Face" sucks. 758 00:38:14,683 --> 00:38:15,945 Does it suck? 759 00:38:16,032 --> 00:38:17,207 I wondered. 760 00:38:17,338 --> 00:38:19,166 Did she have a point? 761 00:38:19,253 --> 00:38:22,604 And then I thought, ooh, they want a little scrap 762 00:38:22,735 --> 00:38:24,258 with the scalpel. 763 00:38:24,345 --> 00:38:25,520 No worries, I thought. 764 00:38:25,607 --> 00:38:27,043 I have the Queen's blood in me. 765 00:38:27,130 --> 00:38:28,741 I could take 20 regionals at once 766 00:38:28,871 --> 00:38:31,134 with the Queen's blood. 767 00:38:31,265 --> 00:38:34,224 Where's the band, Dan? 768 00:38:34,268 --> 00:38:35,356 They called 769 00:38:35,443 --> 00:38:38,098 corporate bullshit. 770 00:38:38,185 --> 00:38:41,710 Went to party upstairs. 771 00:38:41,754 --> 00:38:44,365 So I'm scoring dick pills in Mogadishu 772 00:38:44,452 --> 00:38:46,062 for a UN peacekeeper 773 00:38:46,149 --> 00:38:48,238 when in walks Stewart Copeland 774 00:38:48,369 --> 00:38:50,937 wearing a kufi and a mouthful of ammo. 775 00:38:51,024 --> 00:38:52,025 So I thought about 776 00:38:52,112 --> 00:38:53,635 having sex with Christine, 777 00:38:53,722 --> 00:38:56,377 and then I thought, that's all the way upstairs. 778 00:38:56,508 --> 00:38:59,249 And then I thought, I'm the scalpel. 779 00:38:59,337 --> 00:39:02,731 What does the scalpel do between here and upstairs? 780 00:39:05,125 --> 00:39:09,956 Mr. du Lac's memoir tiptoed around vampire sex, didn't it? 781 00:39:10,086 --> 00:39:12,480 He and Dan made it out to be this tortured act 782 00:39:12,524 --> 00:39:15,614 or obligational foreplay before blood drinking. 783 00:39:15,701 --> 00:39:18,530 That is not the case at all. 784 00:39:18,617 --> 00:39:20,749 It's not the capstone of vampiric desires. 785 00:39:20,793 --> 00:39:22,185 That would be the taking of life, 786 00:39:22,272 --> 00:39:23,970 and next would be a good draining, 787 00:39:24,100 --> 00:39:26,146 leaving your victim near death and paralyzed 788 00:39:26,233 --> 00:39:28,104 for an unhurried escape. 789 00:39:28,148 --> 00:39:30,411 And after that, there's the petit coup, 790 00:39:30,498 --> 00:39:32,674 the little drink, the sip. 791 00:39:32,761 --> 00:39:35,590 And after those three, it's sex. 792 00:39:35,634 --> 00:39:38,158 So now you know, the fourth best thing 793 00:39:38,288 --> 00:39:41,161 a vampire can do to avoid thinking about the past 794 00:39:41,248 --> 00:39:42,336 is to have sex. 795 00:39:42,467 --> 00:39:44,382 Sex. Sex. Sex. 796 00:39:44,425 --> 00:39:46,558 And I have had a lot of sex over the years. 797 00:39:46,601 --> 00:39:48,429 It's not all pain and toxicity. 798 00:39:48,516 --> 00:39:50,518 I have an immortal life, and I carry with it 799 00:39:50,605 --> 00:39:51,737 an immortal erection. 800 00:39:51,867 --> 00:39:54,217 And I am not ashamed of it. 801 00:39:54,304 --> 00:39:57,786 Sex is fun, like the fun I sing about in "Long Face," 802 00:39:57,830 --> 00:40:00,833 which, looking back on it now, does suck. 803 00:40:02,487 --> 00:40:03,923 I still have residuals coming in, actually. 804 00:40:05,968 --> 00:40:09,885 Carnal pleasure is essential to a vampire's survival, 805 00:40:09,972 --> 00:40:12,497 if only to keep time's baggage from burying you. 806 00:40:14,542 --> 00:40:19,373 Sex with the bellman and Dee and honey-trapping Baby Jenks. 807 00:40:19,504 --> 00:40:21,114 Probably should have gotten off the seventh floor 808 00:40:21,201 --> 00:40:22,507 when I had gotten off. 809 00:40:25,292 --> 00:40:26,380 But I didn't. 810 00:40:29,644 --> 00:40:31,907 I'm getting married in a week. 811 00:40:32,038 --> 00:40:34,867 I'll never forget you. 812 00:40:41,177 --> 00:40:44,659 Law 4: no vampire shall ever reveal 813 00:40:44,703 --> 00:40:46,705 his or her true nature to a mortal 814 00:40:46,792 --> 00:40:48,707 and let the mortal live. 815 00:40:48,794 --> 00:40:51,623 You do know it's 2025? 816 00:40:53,842 --> 00:40:54,887 Face the wall, my dear. 817 00:40:54,930 --> 00:40:57,890 You'll not want to see this. 818 00:40:57,977 --> 00:40:59,544 Mmm. 819 00:40:59,674 --> 00:41:01,502 The Tooth Team. 820 00:41:01,633 --> 00:41:03,852 The Fang Gang. 821 00:41:06,812 --> 00:41:10,032 I killed a pack of wolves when I was a mortal. 822 00:41:10,119 --> 00:41:11,686 I'll most likely tell you about that later, 823 00:41:11,730 --> 00:41:13,862 as I let it define me for a time. 824 00:41:13,906 --> 00:41:16,474 And normally, confining architecture 825 00:41:16,561 --> 00:41:19,128 and a thrift store coven galvanized by medieval dogma 826 00:41:19,215 --> 00:41:20,913 wouldn't faze me in the least. 827 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,481 I am building a career that supports my well-being. 828 00:41:23,568 --> 00:41:27,136 But the drug blood and my sex legs 829 00:41:27,223 --> 00:41:29,835 and the distracting past my music had unleashed on me 830 00:41:29,922 --> 00:41:33,055 put me at a momentary disadvantage. 831 00:41:33,186 --> 00:41:35,231 I'm in charge of my work-life balance. 832 00:41:35,318 --> 00:41:37,843 Law 4, as if the du Lac-Molloy memoir 833 00:41:37,930 --> 00:41:40,498 hadn't outed us all two years ago, 834 00:41:40,585 --> 00:41:43,979 as if my entire stage show wasn't a bawdy burlesque 835 00:41:44,066 --> 00:41:45,981 of "is he or isn't he," 836 00:41:46,068 --> 00:41:47,766 as if half the vampire population 837 00:41:47,896 --> 00:41:51,030 outside the ruined port of Detroit wasn't waving 838 00:41:51,117 --> 00:41:53,989 the dark gift like red cups in a piss bar, 839 00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:56,731 collecting fledglings like they were Labubu dolls. 840 00:41:56,862 --> 00:41:58,428 I mean, I haven't even told my band 841 00:41:58,559 --> 00:42:00,169 I was an actual vampire. 842 00:42:00,256 --> 00:42:02,868 I was just singing my songs and fucking my food 843 00:42:02,955 --> 00:42:05,000 and defending myself from the vibrant life choices 844 00:42:05,131 --> 00:42:08,134 I had made on my way from the Auvergne countryside 845 00:42:08,264 --> 00:42:10,832 to the eighth floor of this "why bother" hotel. 846 00:42:10,876 --> 00:42:13,182 And this is how it was all going to end for me? 847 00:42:13,269 --> 00:42:16,142 We are the Fang Gang. 848 00:42:16,272 --> 00:42:18,927 We are the children of the darkness reborn. 849 00:42:19,058 --> 00:42:21,930 Jesus fucking Christ. 850 00:42:24,150 --> 00:42:26,848 "Armand told the truth"? Have you met him? 851 00:42:26,892 --> 00:42:28,676 What the fuck does that even mean? 852 00:42:30,156 --> 00:42:31,287 Heard there was an after-party 853 00:42:31,374 --> 00:42:33,159 on the asshole floor. 854 00:42:33,289 --> 00:42:36,249 I like to think I was owed the reinforcements, 855 00:42:36,379 --> 00:42:39,295 Dan and the oddly familiar DJ, 856 00:42:39,382 --> 00:42:41,863 but that's me looking back on it now. 857 00:42:41,994 --> 00:42:44,300 Anything I had done to deserve their timely rescue 858 00:42:44,387 --> 00:42:46,259 hadn't happened yet. 859 00:42:46,346 --> 00:42:48,783 I'd be dead, I think, without Dan. 860 00:42:48,870 --> 00:42:50,437 But then maybe more of the world 861 00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:52,352 would still be alive had Dan not 862 00:42:52,395 --> 00:42:54,180 rallied his army downstairs. 863 00:42:55,964 --> 00:42:58,967 Consider this sliding door of Dan 864 00:42:59,011 --> 00:43:01,491 as you decant my blood and devour my words. 865 00:43:14,592 --> 00:43:17,420 It's hard hiding you're a god. 866 00:43:17,507 --> 00:43:18,639 You're for real? 867 00:43:18,726 --> 00:43:21,686 CCTV, eco-flush toilets, 868 00:43:21,773 --> 00:43:23,818 IMF freezing your accounts because you have the blood 869 00:43:23,862 --> 00:43:25,298 of a patricidal queen inside you. 870 00:43:25,385 --> 00:43:28,388 Hello again. 871 00:43:28,518 --> 00:43:30,433 Théâtre des Vampires. 872 00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:32,522 Talamasca dragged me into that. 873 00:43:32,610 --> 00:43:33,741 And once you reveal yourself, 874 00:43:33,828 --> 00:43:36,439 you have to be on all the time 875 00:43:36,526 --> 00:43:38,746 and remember every face you've ever met. 876 00:43:38,833 --> 00:43:40,748 And everywhere you go, everyone remembers 877 00:43:40,835 --> 00:43:44,665 the thing they said to you in the room that you shared. 878 00:43:44,752 --> 00:43:47,189 Were you a stutterer as a child? 879 00:43:50,018 --> 00:43:53,587 This is why gods prefer hiding in the clouds. 880 00:43:53,674 --> 00:43:54,893 There's nothing there... 881 00:43:56,285 --> 00:43:58,244 But water waiting to fall. 882 00:44:05,599 --> 00:44:10,169 So many opportunities to call it a night that night. 883 00:44:10,256 --> 00:44:13,346 After the song unleashed the muses. 884 00:44:13,433 --> 00:44:16,871 After I saw my first soul. 885 00:44:16,958 --> 00:44:21,006 After I was nearly decapitated in a boutique hotel hallway. 886 00:44:22,747 --> 00:44:25,663 After my vampire nature was revealed to the band 887 00:44:25,750 --> 00:44:28,100 and my vampire gift winged me away 888 00:44:28,230 --> 00:44:30,755 north of the river, south of the country. 889 00:44:34,236 --> 00:44:38,023 But I was saved from such rational thought. 890 00:44:38,110 --> 00:44:41,243 Love will do that to you. 891 00:44:59,261 --> 00:45:02,351 Ma chère. 892 00:45:02,395 --> 00:45:04,614 Very kind of you to come. 893 00:45:10,098 --> 00:45:12,884 I got myself into something I can't get out of. 894 00:45:15,538 --> 00:45:17,671 Music's opened up the batch oven, 895 00:45:17,758 --> 00:45:20,108 and I'm not sure if I can close it again. 896 00:45:25,244 --> 00:45:27,072 I'm not really at my best, but-- 897 00:45:32,512 --> 00:45:35,428 It's very nice to see you again. 898 00:45:39,649 --> 00:45:43,958 I like what you've done with your hair, my Ga-- 899 00:45:44,089 --> 00:45:46,004 my Ga-- 900 00:45:51,096 --> 00:45:54,839 My Gabriella. 901 00:45:57,537 --> 00:46:00,366 It's not much of a reveal, I guess. 902 00:46:00,453 --> 00:46:02,498 I know it's common gossip now, 903 00:46:02,585 --> 00:46:03,848 the first thing one thinks about 904 00:46:03,978 --> 00:46:06,938 when my name comes up. 905 00:46:07,068 --> 00:46:10,376 I assume a privileged individual such as yourself 906 00:46:10,463 --> 00:46:12,813 enjoys a little dirt in their sandwich. 907 00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:19,298 So I serve it to you now how it felt then. 908 00:46:21,735 --> 00:46:24,085 Fledgling, 909 00:46:24,129 --> 00:46:27,045 lover, 910 00:46:27,132 --> 00:46:28,481 mother. 911 00:46:32,877 --> 00:46:33,747 Listen to tracks from "The Vampire Lestat" 912 00:46:33,878 --> 00:46:35,227 wherever you stream music. 913 00:46:38,056 --> 00:46:39,144 If you're still listening after the last hour, 914 00:46:39,274 --> 00:46:40,580 welcome back. 915 00:46:40,710 --> 00:46:42,451 Bring on the muses. 916 00:46:42,538 --> 00:46:44,758 ♪ Give me a million more screams ♪ 917 00:46:44,889 --> 00:46:47,717 Do you kill people? 918 00:46:47,848 --> 00:46:50,024 ♪ Give me a million more screams ♪ 919 00:46:51,591 --> 00:46:53,985 Let's talk about your mother. 920 00:46:54,072 --> 00:46:56,857 ♪ I've been a bad boy, deep down in my heart ♪ 921 00:46:56,988 --> 00:46:59,860 My maker called for his mama and I came. 922 00:46:59,991 --> 00:47:02,341 ♪ Give me a million more screams ♪ 923 00:47:05,866 --> 00:47:08,782 You are caught in great danger with Lestat. 924 00:47:08,869 --> 00:47:10,871 You stole my personal physician. 925 00:47:11,002 --> 00:47:12,481 You hired my biographer. 926 00:47:14,179 --> 00:47:15,833 The songs are not about you. 927 00:47:17,008 --> 00:47:20,925 ♪ I want to stay in bed eating black licorice ♪ 928 00:47:21,055 --> 00:47:23,971 Shall we do it? Shall we scorch the mortal world? 929 00:47:24,058 --> 00:47:27,975 ♪ I want to stay in bed eating black licorice ♪ 930 00:47:28,106 --> 00:47:29,890 What do you think about the great conversion? 931 00:47:30,021 --> 00:47:32,153 Fucking stupid. 932 00:47:32,240 --> 00:47:35,548 ♪ I want to stay in bed eating black licorice ♪