1 00:00:11,750 --> 00:00:13,622 ♪ I'm the little killer ♪ 2 00:00:13,752 --> 00:00:15,798 ♪ I'm the lonely one ♪ 3 00:00:15,885 --> 00:00:17,495 ♪ I'm the chill creeping up your spine ♪ 4 00:00:17,626 --> 00:00:19,671 ♪ Telling you to run ♪ 5 00:00:19,758 --> 00:00:21,717 ♪ I'm a hanging shadow ♪ 6 00:00:21,804 --> 00:00:23,762 ♪ I'm a lost love ♪ 7 00:00:23,893 --> 00:00:25,286 ♪ I'm the past and the future ♪ 8 00:00:25,373 --> 00:00:27,679 ♪ The last of the sutures, the cooing dove ♪ 9 00:00:27,766 --> 00:00:29,681 ♪ We're the rock and rollers ♪ 10 00:00:29,768 --> 00:00:31,683 ♪ We're the good time ♪ 11 00:00:31,770 --> 00:00:32,815 ♪ We're the heart pumping blood ♪ 12 00:00:32,902 --> 00:00:33,859 ♪ We're the face in the mud ♪ 13 00:00:33,990 --> 00:00:36,993 ♪ We're this stupid rhyme ♪ 14 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:39,256 ♪ Bang, bang - ♪ Bang, bang ♪ 15 00:00:39,387 --> 00:00:40,692 - ♪ Bang, bang - ♪ Bang, bang ♪ 16 00:00:40,779 --> 00:00:42,303 ♪ Bang, bang ♪ 17 00:00:42,390 --> 00:00:46,481 ♪ All fall down ♪ 18 00:00:46,611 --> 00:00:50,354 ♪ Burn the ground ♪ 19 00:00:50,485 --> 00:00:54,184 ♪ All fall down ♪ 20 00:00:54,271 --> 00:00:56,969 ♪ Burn the ♪ 21 00:00:57,057 --> 00:00:59,059 ♪ Bang, bang - ♪ Bang, bang ♪ 22 00:00:59,102 --> 00:01:01,148 - ♪ Bang, bang - ♪ Bang, bang 23 00:01:01,191 --> 00:01:04,542 ♪ Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang ♪ 24 00:01:10,461 --> 00:01:12,942 You are listening to "The Failures"... 25 00:01:13,029 --> 00:01:17,338 Album 57, Side A. 26 00:01:19,601 --> 00:01:22,647 Could be nice, says Louis. 27 00:01:22,778 --> 00:01:26,042 Could be, I say. 28 00:01:26,086 --> 00:01:29,263 And our hands touch. 29 00:01:29,350 --> 00:01:34,268 I am staring at Alex in his plastic Dracula mask. 30 00:01:34,311 --> 00:01:38,968 And then I think, why is he here? 31 00:01:39,055 --> 00:01:42,406 And then the world pivots. 32 00:01:42,450 --> 00:01:45,061 And I see stars in the sky. 33 00:01:45,192 --> 00:01:47,542 Boots upside down. 34 00:01:47,629 --> 00:01:51,720 My blood, a half-painted moon. 35 00:01:51,807 --> 00:01:53,374 And then I'm dreaming. 36 00:01:58,770 --> 00:02:01,556 I'm walking a path. 37 00:02:01,686 --> 00:02:04,689 I am listening to hidden birds in a forest 38 00:02:04,733 --> 00:02:09,172 and transcribing their chatter into music on paper. 39 00:02:09,216 --> 00:02:11,218 It's the same dream I've been having 40 00:02:11,348 --> 00:02:13,742 since I finished the album and faked my death, 41 00:02:13,785 --> 00:02:18,877 except now I'm hungry and it's daylight all around. 42 00:02:18,921 --> 00:02:21,358 And as I'm a vampire, confirmed by the glass nails 43 00:02:21,489 --> 00:02:24,056 on my fingers, I should be burning, 44 00:02:24,144 --> 00:02:26,189 but I'm not. 45 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:28,670 The birds' music becomes repetitive. 46 00:02:28,713 --> 00:02:31,107 And then the forest goes quiet. 47 00:02:31,238 --> 00:02:33,849 No birds singing. 48 00:02:33,936 --> 00:02:36,765 I am left with my hunger, 49 00:02:36,852 --> 00:02:40,595 a feeling like my stomach is eroding from the inside. 50 00:02:40,638 --> 00:02:45,121 And then, as if the forest has heard my thoughts, 51 00:02:45,165 --> 00:02:48,385 a murder of waiters carrying silver-domed trays 52 00:02:48,472 --> 00:02:49,778 take over my path. 53 00:02:49,908 --> 00:02:51,780 Come now, Lestat. 54 00:02:51,910 --> 00:02:53,999 No falling behind. 55 00:02:57,177 --> 00:03:00,310 And I follow my hunger into the wood. 56 00:03:01,790 --> 00:03:05,097 And I begin to hear sounds of a city, 57 00:03:05,185 --> 00:03:07,709 and that little song they play for the blind 58 00:03:07,796 --> 00:03:10,407 at crosswalks throughout Montreal 59 00:03:10,494 --> 00:03:13,889 carries my hunger to the table of my youth, 60 00:03:13,976 --> 00:03:16,326 where my selves sit with the abbot of Haute-Loire... 61 00:03:16,370 --> 00:03:17,849 Circles us as God... 62 00:03:17,936 --> 00:03:20,983 Instructing from my father's chair. 63 00:03:23,681 --> 00:03:26,771 Encircles us with his love. 64 00:03:26,902 --> 00:03:28,251 The hood? 65 00:03:28,295 --> 00:03:30,471 Limits our view and cuts out the world 66 00:03:30,558 --> 00:03:32,864 so we gaze ahead towards God. 67 00:03:32,951 --> 00:03:35,040 And the length of our habit trips us up 68 00:03:35,171 --> 00:03:36,694 and gets in our goddamn way. 69 00:03:40,307 --> 00:03:42,700 - Lestat. - Lestat. 70 00:03:42,831 --> 00:03:44,702 - Lestat. - Lestat. 71 00:03:44,746 --> 00:03:47,096 Have a seat, Lestat. 72 00:03:47,139 --> 00:03:49,577 There's seven waiters and only four of us. 73 00:03:49,664 --> 00:03:50,621 both: Have a seat. - Have a s-- 74 00:03:52,667 --> 00:03:54,234 Seat. Seat. 75 00:03:57,715 --> 00:04:01,110 The light's gone out of your blue eyes. 76 00:04:01,197 --> 00:04:06,550 all: As if all the summer days are gone. 77 00:04:06,594 --> 00:04:09,814 Course 187, the soul. 78 00:04:26,266 --> 00:04:28,920 I have been enduring intense conversations 79 00:04:29,007 --> 00:04:32,750 with myself in the three years since our companionship ended. 80 00:04:32,837 --> 00:04:36,058 And as part of that journey, I wish to say something 81 00:04:36,145 --> 00:04:39,366 from the deepest regions of my soul. 82 00:04:39,453 --> 00:04:40,671 Ar-- 83 00:04:40,802 --> 00:04:45,197 Two grievous lies, gross betrayals. 84 00:04:45,241 --> 00:04:48,244 The first is a well-trod pit of hot coals 85 00:04:48,331 --> 00:04:51,726 I blistered my feet on for 77 years. 86 00:04:51,856 --> 00:04:53,597 Arm... 87 00:04:53,641 --> 00:04:55,295 I chose my coven over you, 88 00:04:55,382 --> 00:04:57,427 lured you into a production of a play, 89 00:04:57,558 --> 00:05:01,344 in which your death would act as the grotesque climax. 90 00:05:01,388 --> 00:05:03,128 The coven was twisting my arm, but... 91 00:05:03,172 --> 00:05:04,304 Ar... 92 00:05:04,434 --> 00:05:06,741 I took aesthetic pleasure 93 00:05:06,828 --> 00:05:08,569 in making your death visually exhilarating. 94 00:05:08,699 --> 00:05:10,353 ...mand. 95 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:12,573 All of which was made worse by our heady lovemaking 96 00:05:12,660 --> 00:05:15,706 throughout this period of betrayal, and... 97 00:05:15,837 --> 00:05:16,881 the second. 98 00:05:18,622 --> 00:05:21,321 I shamefully took credit when Lestat saved your life. 99 00:05:21,408 --> 00:05:23,540 Where am I? 100 00:05:23,671 --> 00:05:26,674 That lie bound you to me, and it lay like a corpse 101 00:05:26,804 --> 00:05:28,719 in the boiler room of our companionship. 102 00:05:28,763 --> 00:05:30,808 Many times, I told myself the lie did not matter 103 00:05:30,852 --> 00:05:32,636 because what we had built, 104 00:05:32,723 --> 00:05:35,291 a love that served as a bunker against time, 105 00:05:35,378 --> 00:05:37,206 was weightier and more consequential 106 00:05:37,337 --> 00:05:38,773 than the lie, but it wasn't true. 107 00:05:38,860 --> 00:05:40,427 Can't move... 108 00:05:40,557 --> 00:05:43,299 The lie did matter because the corpse was there, 109 00:05:43,430 --> 00:05:44,822 calling forth the facts. 110 00:05:44,866 --> 00:05:49,218 Can't move my body. 111 00:05:51,873 --> 00:05:53,657 And as for the many boys 112 00:05:53,744 --> 00:05:56,181 you drugged, drained, and lay with, 113 00:05:56,268 --> 00:05:59,576 I feigned resentment when, in fact, 114 00:05:59,663 --> 00:06:01,535 I welcomed your straying 115 00:06:01,665 --> 00:06:04,755 because your guilt in their aftermath 116 00:06:04,886 --> 00:06:06,627 bound you to me all the more tightly 117 00:06:06,757 --> 00:06:10,979 and allowed me my hours of observation with Daniel. 118 00:06:11,066 --> 00:06:12,937 I told you I loved you, but did I? 119 00:06:13,068 --> 00:06:15,462 Hmm? Did I? 120 00:06:15,549 --> 00:06:16,985 Or was it a clinging to the underside 121 00:06:17,072 --> 00:06:18,813 of anyone who would help me survive? 122 00:06:18,900 --> 00:06:20,423 And when I look back on who I've deceived, 123 00:06:20,554 --> 00:06:22,686 how I've deceived, how easy it was 124 00:06:22,773 --> 00:06:25,472 for me to lead a cult for 400 years, 125 00:06:25,559 --> 00:06:28,823 to burn in ritual any who broke the archaic laws 126 00:06:28,866 --> 00:06:31,434 we lived by, I-- 127 00:06:31,521 --> 00:06:36,352 I think I might be a room without walls, 128 00:06:36,483 --> 00:06:38,789 floors, a ceiling. 129 00:06:38,876 --> 00:06:41,966 An infinite nothing. 130 00:06:42,010 --> 00:06:43,011 Also, yes. 131 00:06:45,622 --> 00:06:48,408 I put the Fred Steins in your photo collection 132 00:06:48,538 --> 00:06:51,149 just to fuck with your head. 133 00:06:51,280 --> 00:06:54,849 And that is my full and heartfelt "Armends." 134 00:06:54,936 --> 00:06:55,893 Now... 135 00:07:00,463 --> 00:07:02,117 It's your turn. 136 00:07:05,555 --> 00:07:09,690 I am the chair, the maker, 137 00:07:09,777 --> 00:07:11,866 the Vampire Magnus. 138 00:07:11,996 --> 00:07:14,912 Fledglings, state your names for the record. 139 00:07:14,956 --> 00:07:17,785 The Vampire Nicolas de Lenfent. 140 00:07:17,872 --> 00:07:21,092 The Vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac. 141 00:07:21,179 --> 00:07:23,747 The Vampire Gabriella Vecce. 142 00:07:23,834 --> 00:07:26,358 The Vampire Antoinette Brown. 143 00:07:26,489 --> 00:07:29,710 The Vampire TC. 144 00:07:29,797 --> 00:07:32,103 And where's Claudia? 145 00:07:32,190 --> 00:07:35,846 She said all she needs to say to you is what she said. 146 00:07:35,933 --> 00:07:37,761 Her actual words were, 147 00:07:37,805 --> 00:07:40,068 "Fuck him, fuck y'all, go burn 148 00:07:40,198 --> 00:07:42,549 like that dumb nine-fingered bitch, Antoinette." 149 00:07:45,029 --> 00:07:47,249 Antoinette, hello. 150 00:07:47,336 --> 00:07:48,772 Don't you "Antoinette, hello," me. 151 00:07:48,859 --> 00:07:51,862 Restrain yourself, Ms. Brown. 152 00:07:51,949 --> 00:07:55,431 So... I'm dead. 153 00:07:57,128 --> 00:07:58,608 This is death? 154 00:07:58,695 --> 00:08:01,872 My father's ugly table in your shitty tower? 155 00:08:01,959 --> 00:08:02,873 Dying. 156 00:08:02,917 --> 00:08:04,571 This is you dying. 157 00:08:04,658 --> 00:08:08,531 This is the reminiscence, the deliberation 158 00:08:08,575 --> 00:08:11,403 and mastication of the early risings 159 00:08:11,534 --> 00:08:15,451 and nightly failures of the vampire. 160 00:08:15,538 --> 00:08:17,409 - How? - "How" is not his name. 161 00:08:17,453 --> 00:08:18,802 His name is Lestat. 162 00:08:18,846 --> 00:08:20,717 - How did I die? - I'ma type Lestat. 163 00:08:20,804 --> 00:08:22,240 Dying. 164 00:08:22,327 --> 00:08:23,633 Not yet dead. 165 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:26,070 Wasting time. 166 00:08:26,114 --> 00:08:29,465 Much like you've wasted your lives. 167 00:08:29,509 --> 00:08:31,554 - Could be nice. - Could be. 168 00:08:31,641 --> 00:08:33,077 Hands touch. 169 00:08:33,164 --> 00:08:34,470 Second time's the charm. 170 00:08:34,557 --> 00:08:38,126 Keep typing, Ms. Brown. 171 00:08:42,086 --> 00:08:46,787 So you're all here to judge me. 172 00:08:46,874 --> 00:08:49,485 We are the failure finders. 173 00:08:49,616 --> 00:08:52,575 Judgment comes from God, Satan, the Simulation. 174 00:08:52,706 --> 00:08:55,230 We don't know. No one ever tells us. 175 00:08:55,317 --> 00:08:58,929 And yet here we are on course number 205. 176 00:08:59,016 --> 00:09:00,278 all: The soul. 177 00:09:08,199 --> 00:09:09,592 This is a dream. 178 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:12,639 I am not here. 179 00:09:12,769 --> 00:09:13,944 You are here. 180 00:09:14,031 --> 00:09:15,685 And also in a bowling ball bag 181 00:09:15,772 --> 00:09:18,079 walking west on Avenue Van Horne. 182 00:09:18,166 --> 00:09:19,776 A bowling bag. 183 00:09:22,387 --> 00:09:24,955 And also lying on the sideboard 184 00:09:25,042 --> 00:09:26,783 in the back room of a butcher shop. 185 00:09:29,525 --> 00:09:30,961 It's November 1st. 186 00:09:31,092 --> 00:09:33,137 All Saints Day, a Saturday morning. 187 00:09:33,268 --> 00:09:34,922 Which means we won't be disturbed, 188 00:09:35,009 --> 00:09:39,709 as it's an observant butchery, and it's their Shabbos. 189 00:09:39,796 --> 00:09:42,451 All the shops along this avenue are closed. 190 00:09:42,538 --> 00:09:46,063 And anyone who might possibly think of coming to your rescue 191 00:09:46,150 --> 00:09:47,630 is asleep. 192 00:09:49,719 --> 00:09:51,939 Or otherwise engaged. 193 00:10:02,645 --> 00:10:04,342 I was hoping time and perspective 194 00:10:04,386 --> 00:10:06,910 would have made you eager to repent. 195 00:10:06,997 --> 00:10:09,870 - Don't care. - My blunder. 196 00:10:09,957 --> 00:10:12,307 I haven't properly laid out your predicament. 197 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:17,399 This is your sundered head. 198 00:10:17,486 --> 00:10:19,096 And this is your petulant body. 199 00:10:19,140 --> 00:10:23,100 And this is the glorious air between 200 00:10:23,187 --> 00:10:25,886 on which the two of you still manage to communicate 201 00:10:25,973 --> 00:10:29,933 a good 2 hours and 12 minutes since uncoupling. 202 00:10:30,020 --> 00:10:31,239 I don't care. 203 00:10:31,326 --> 00:10:32,632 If you weren't Lestat's progeny, 204 00:10:32,762 --> 00:10:33,807 this would not be happening. 205 00:10:33,937 --> 00:10:36,200 You would be dead, which is why 206 00:10:36,244 --> 00:10:39,551 this is being live-cast to a very important room 207 00:10:39,639 --> 00:10:41,249 gathered in Budapest. 208 00:10:41,336 --> 00:10:44,687 You are special, Louis. 209 00:10:44,774 --> 00:10:46,384 Fareed. 210 00:10:46,515 --> 00:10:48,560 Yes, our former doctor, 211 00:10:48,648 --> 00:10:50,780 back in research where he thrives, 212 00:10:50,911 --> 00:10:53,348 studying us, analyzing us. 213 00:10:53,391 --> 00:10:54,828 But was he doing that all along? 214 00:10:54,915 --> 00:10:56,438 Hmm? In Dubai? 215 00:10:56,568 --> 00:10:57,700 See you, Fareed. 216 00:10:57,744 --> 00:10:59,571 In Lestat's bus? 217 00:10:59,702 --> 00:11:01,138 I don't care. 218 00:11:01,182 --> 00:11:02,792 He will say he was not here. 219 00:11:02,879 --> 00:11:05,752 And if you reconsider your amends and survive, 220 00:11:05,839 --> 00:11:08,058 you most probably won't remember him. 221 00:11:08,145 --> 00:11:11,671 Or this. 222 00:11:13,150 --> 00:11:15,065 Don't print the obituary just yet. 223 00:11:15,109 --> 00:11:17,589 Getting some much needed rest before the big concert, 224 00:11:17,677 --> 00:11:18,982 aren't we? 225 00:11:19,069 --> 00:11:21,202 I backdoored myself into his band, 226 00:11:21,289 --> 00:11:24,422 enjoyed ruining for the sake of ruining. 227 00:11:28,688 --> 00:11:30,211 Where is his-- 228 00:11:30,298 --> 00:11:32,039 Where is his--where is his-- 229 00:11:32,126 --> 00:11:35,390 where is his head? 230 00:11:35,477 --> 00:11:37,871 It's with my companion. 231 00:11:39,699 --> 00:11:42,136 Snuck out before the wife woke up, did you? 232 00:11:42,266 --> 00:11:43,572 Told me to take my head 233 00:11:43,615 --> 00:11:45,661 as far away from her body as I could. 234 00:11:45,792 --> 00:11:47,619 Well, never question the boss. 235 00:11:47,750 --> 00:11:50,448 What size shoe? 236 00:11:50,579 --> 00:11:52,537 10 1/2. 237 00:11:52,624 --> 00:11:55,279 I think you know you've wronged me. 238 00:11:55,410 --> 00:11:57,151 And I think you know the specific ways 239 00:11:57,238 --> 00:11:58,326 in which you've done it. 240 00:11:58,413 --> 00:11:59,806 Don't care. 241 00:11:59,849 --> 00:12:02,286 Yes, you seem to be caught in that sentiment. 242 00:12:02,373 --> 00:12:05,507 Regrettably, your maker's body has not induced you to own it. 243 00:12:05,550 --> 00:12:10,077 So one additional motivation. 244 00:12:13,689 --> 00:12:15,256 We broke in yesterday afternoon, 245 00:12:15,343 --> 00:12:16,997 glamoured the kindly brisket-carving butcher 246 00:12:17,127 --> 00:12:18,520 early home to Shabbos. 247 00:12:18,650 --> 00:12:21,044 We owe him new knives and a deep clean. 248 00:12:21,131 --> 00:12:23,133 You may own the night, Louis, 249 00:12:23,264 --> 00:12:26,223 but you're as kosher as clams casino. 250 00:12:26,310 --> 00:12:28,704 Also, we brought her. 251 00:12:28,748 --> 00:12:30,967 - No, no, no. - Waitress, sister, daughter. 252 00:12:31,054 --> 00:12:32,752 - No, no. - None of those things. 253 00:12:32,839 --> 00:12:34,971 No, no, no. 254 00:12:35,102 --> 00:12:37,017 She didn't know. 255 00:12:37,104 --> 00:12:38,801 Armand! 256 00:12:41,151 --> 00:12:44,285 Setting aside opinions of the coven master in place, 257 00:12:44,372 --> 00:12:46,678 his destruction of the children of darkness was... 258 00:12:46,766 --> 00:12:48,768 Impulsive, reckless. 259 00:12:48,855 --> 00:12:50,291 Overdue. 260 00:12:50,378 --> 00:12:51,858 Thank you. 261 00:12:51,945 --> 00:12:54,251 His abandonment of the Paris coven? 262 00:12:54,338 --> 00:12:56,036 Selfish, cowardly. 263 00:12:56,123 --> 00:12:58,473 Generous to a fault. 264 00:12:58,560 --> 00:13:00,780 I did what my maker showed me, 265 00:13:00,867 --> 00:13:03,260 throw money at the problem and run away. 266 00:13:03,347 --> 00:13:05,088 Magnus gifted you immortality. 267 00:13:05,219 --> 00:13:07,699 Magnus gifted you boundless lucre. 268 00:13:07,787 --> 00:13:08,875 Magnus speaks in the third person 269 00:13:08,918 --> 00:13:10,441 when he's on the back foot. 270 00:13:12,835 --> 00:13:15,751 Fledgling Lestat gave meaning to his players 271 00:13:15,795 --> 00:13:18,406 and absconded with it when he ran. 272 00:13:18,449 --> 00:13:20,147 A failure of leadership. 273 00:13:20,277 --> 00:13:23,628 The plays ran for a century and a half. 274 00:13:23,715 --> 00:13:25,108 That's longer than "Wicked." 275 00:13:25,195 --> 00:13:29,069 Course 214, the soul. 276 00:13:29,156 --> 00:13:30,766 Why is he the chair? 277 00:13:30,897 --> 00:13:33,073 I am your maker! 278 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:35,249 I knew you for a week. 279 00:13:35,379 --> 00:13:37,947 What do you know of me? 280 00:13:37,991 --> 00:13:40,384 "Ask for it, wolf killer, and you shall love forever." 281 00:13:40,471 --> 00:13:41,864 I refused! 282 00:13:41,995 --> 00:13:44,780 Consent is a 20th-century concern. 283 00:13:44,824 --> 00:13:48,175 Showed me a coffin, some money. 284 00:13:48,262 --> 00:13:50,438 Told me to scatter his ashes. 285 00:13:50,525 --> 00:13:53,397 And then he lit himself on fire, 286 00:13:53,484 --> 00:13:55,225 dancing as he burned! 287 00:13:58,750 --> 00:14:01,536 I have two makers. 288 00:14:01,666 --> 00:14:03,930 Ah. 289 00:14:04,017 --> 00:14:05,061 You want her. 290 00:14:05,148 --> 00:14:07,890 You want mommy in the chair? 291 00:14:13,330 --> 00:14:15,332 Yes. 292 00:14:15,419 --> 00:14:18,466 Failure continues in the astral plane. 293 00:14:20,207 --> 00:14:23,993 Ms. Brown, please note for the record 294 00:14:24,037 --> 00:14:25,952 a change in the chairmanship. 295 00:14:35,918 --> 00:14:39,356 Ms. Brown, the next item on the agenda. 296 00:14:47,712 --> 00:14:49,279 Let her go. 297 00:14:49,366 --> 00:14:50,977 OK, getting our bearings back. 298 00:14:51,064 --> 00:14:52,630 Good. 299 00:14:52,717 --> 00:14:54,110 A pedigreed vampire, as you know, 300 00:14:54,197 --> 00:14:56,069 he can endure a great deal. 301 00:14:56,156 --> 00:14:57,940 How are his vitals, Fareed? - Not good. 302 00:14:58,027 --> 00:14:59,594 I ask about your vitals, Louis, 303 00:14:59,681 --> 00:15:02,292 because I don't think it's landed yet 304 00:15:02,379 --> 00:15:03,641 who sits before you. 305 00:15:03,728 --> 00:15:05,208 She ain't part of us. 306 00:15:05,295 --> 00:15:07,080 Please. I don't want to die. 307 00:15:07,123 --> 00:15:08,298 No, he doesn't want you to die, 308 00:15:08,385 --> 00:15:11,258 but let's see if that holds. 309 00:15:11,345 --> 00:15:13,738 You two met by chance, yes? 310 00:15:13,825 --> 00:15:16,306 The merciful universe acknowledging 311 00:15:16,437 --> 00:15:21,790 your need to grieve and her need for saving. 312 00:15:21,877 --> 00:15:24,706 Or was she conceived 313 00:15:24,793 --> 00:15:27,361 the instant you hurled me into the supporting wall 314 00:15:27,448 --> 00:15:29,145 of our Dubai penthouse? 315 00:15:29,232 --> 00:15:31,931 Brought to life when I used an old photo of Claudia 316 00:15:32,018 --> 00:15:34,803 in her Baby Lu blues and facial recognition software 317 00:15:34,934 --> 00:15:39,677 on my iPad to find a 7 out of 10 in Berlin, 318 00:15:39,808 --> 00:15:44,508 an 8 1/2 in Tunis, or this zone 2 girly 319 00:15:44,595 --> 00:15:45,857 with a grifter's résumé. 320 00:15:45,945 --> 00:15:47,381 - Don't. Don't. - No. 321 00:15:47,468 --> 00:15:48,948 There's a years-long tale of seduction 322 00:15:49,035 --> 00:15:50,645 and cold commerce... - He told me he had a friend... 323 00:15:50,732 --> 00:15:52,212 In East London, the setting her up in New York-- 324 00:15:52,299 --> 00:15:53,822 Who Lost his daughter. I didn't think he was booky. 325 00:15:53,953 --> 00:15:55,650 The 19 times she passed in front of you 326 00:15:55,737 --> 00:15:57,304 before you noticed. 327 00:15:57,391 --> 00:16:01,090 But your withering vitals suggest I speed ahead. 328 00:16:01,177 --> 00:16:03,266 You walk into a Brooklyn diner. 329 00:16:03,353 --> 00:16:06,356 I would say, "Shh, calm yourself. 330 00:16:06,443 --> 00:16:08,184 "He's here for you. 331 00:16:08,271 --> 00:16:10,012 Easy mark." 332 00:16:10,099 --> 00:16:12,493 And she would walk up and say... 333 00:16:12,580 --> 00:16:14,190 "Best thing to do with our burgers, 334 00:16:14,321 --> 00:16:16,410 let it cool till the grease is all soaked, bread's all wet." 335 00:16:16,540 --> 00:16:19,152 He got--he was in my head, but he wasn't there. 336 00:16:19,239 --> 00:16:21,154 I would say, "Endear yourself to him." 337 00:16:21,241 --> 00:16:23,678 And she'd say, "Had a few more hopes for New York, 338 00:16:23,765 --> 00:16:25,985 "but so far it's been, like, six flatmates, one toilet. 339 00:16:26,072 --> 00:16:28,161 "And it's like, do I want to take my tampon out 340 00:16:28,291 --> 00:16:30,859 in front of the podcaster been with us since Tuesday?" 341 00:16:30,990 --> 00:16:32,295 And you'd say... 342 00:16:32,382 --> 00:16:35,472 But you caught me at a--a lonely hour. 343 00:16:35,559 --> 00:16:37,518 And I--I don't want to put this on you. 344 00:16:37,605 --> 00:16:39,259 And I'd say, "He's tender. 345 00:16:39,346 --> 00:16:41,043 Back off." 346 00:16:41,130 --> 00:16:43,176 But she knew better. 347 00:16:43,219 --> 00:16:46,483 Sure you do. It's right there on your jaw. 348 00:16:46,570 --> 00:16:47,919 What is it? 349 00:16:48,050 --> 00:16:49,269 I remind you of your sis? 350 00:16:49,356 --> 00:16:52,272 And then I knew she had you. 351 00:16:52,359 --> 00:16:54,752 And her mastery allowed me to drop in and out. 352 00:16:54,839 --> 00:16:59,061 I was in other business with Lestat, with Daniel. 353 00:16:59,148 --> 00:17:00,758 I'm sorry, Louis. 354 00:17:00,845 --> 00:17:03,152 All to say, there has been extraordinary effort 355 00:17:03,239 --> 00:17:05,720 put forth towards this reunion. 356 00:17:05,807 --> 00:17:07,722 What I gone and done to us? 357 00:17:07,852 --> 00:17:11,508 - Just kill me. - No, no. 358 00:17:11,595 --> 00:17:13,249 You're going to make your amends 359 00:17:13,380 --> 00:17:15,121 so we can both get on with our lives. 360 00:17:18,559 --> 00:17:20,517 Or I'm going to lop her head off 361 00:17:20,604 --> 00:17:23,564 with this same blade I did yours 362 00:17:23,651 --> 00:17:28,221 and sew your head onto her body. 363 00:17:28,308 --> 00:17:29,874 ♪ They said I was dead ♪ 364 00:17:30,005 --> 00:17:31,398 ♪ They tried to save me ♪ 365 00:17:31,485 --> 00:17:33,052 ♪ They cut off my head ♪ 366 00:17:41,060 --> 00:17:45,586 Lestat, Lestat, Lestat, Lestat, Lestat, Lestat. 367 00:17:45,673 --> 00:17:48,458 You took one look at me, had me all figured out. 368 00:17:48,545 --> 00:17:50,939 Yeah, question mark? 369 00:17:51,026 --> 00:17:52,723 Smarter than me? 370 00:17:52,810 --> 00:17:54,334 Maybe. 371 00:17:54,421 --> 00:17:56,771 Better looking than me? 372 00:17:56,858 --> 00:17:58,555 I'll give you that. 373 00:17:58,642 --> 00:18:01,428 More talented? Hmm. 374 00:18:01,515 --> 00:18:02,994 You go do what I did with my life. 375 00:18:03,082 --> 00:18:04,344 You go knock down those doors. 376 00:18:04,387 --> 00:18:06,302 You go get some. 377 00:18:06,433 --> 00:18:09,566 Oh, that's right, you were in a rock band. 378 00:18:09,653 --> 00:18:13,004 Wow, big dick deal. 379 00:18:13,092 --> 00:18:14,484 He gave me the gift 380 00:18:14,615 --> 00:18:16,051 rather than tell me he love me. 381 00:18:16,138 --> 00:18:18,184 I begged him to say it, say, "Nikki, 382 00:18:18,271 --> 00:18:20,142 I will never love you the way that you love me." 383 00:18:20,273 --> 00:18:21,839 Gotta say that shit a mile up in the air 384 00:18:21,926 --> 00:18:23,363 if you want it to stick. 385 00:18:23,450 --> 00:18:26,496 He told you he loved you a thousand times. 386 00:18:26,583 --> 00:18:27,671 10,000. 387 00:18:27,802 --> 00:18:28,977 But now that I've gotten over 388 00:18:29,020 --> 00:18:30,892 my transformational trauma and find myself 389 00:18:31,022 --> 00:18:33,373 in my day-walking yaoi manther phase... 390 00:18:33,460 --> 00:18:34,722 There's a hole in your roof. 391 00:18:34,809 --> 00:18:37,159 I only give a shit about Dan. 392 00:18:37,290 --> 00:18:40,075 Thought you were better than me, didn't you? 393 00:18:40,162 --> 00:18:44,297 Gave me a little camera crew, a laminated backstage pass, 394 00:18:44,340 --> 00:18:46,777 and then you laughed in my face 395 00:18:46,864 --> 00:18:48,779 and jerked off on my lens. 396 00:18:48,866 --> 00:18:52,174 Well, look at you now, spending your last hours 397 00:18:52,261 --> 00:18:56,309 in a fucking bowling bag, listening to Wheelchair Jimmy. 398 00:18:56,396 --> 00:18:57,875 Blow me. 399 00:18:57,962 --> 00:18:59,355 Oh. 400 00:18:59,399 --> 00:19:02,576 There is a lot coming at you, mon cher. 401 00:19:02,663 --> 00:19:04,665 Just remember, you are the only one 402 00:19:04,752 --> 00:19:06,362 who can control the volume. 403 00:19:14,718 --> 00:19:16,894 Oh, you. 404 00:19:16,981 --> 00:19:20,550 What are you doing here? 405 00:19:20,637 --> 00:19:22,857 Armand tell you to meet me? 406 00:19:24,772 --> 00:19:27,557 Oh, yeah, he's in there. 407 00:19:27,644 --> 00:19:30,560 It's in there. 408 00:19:30,647 --> 00:19:33,302 Lestat's mom made you, yeah? 409 00:19:37,263 --> 00:19:39,265 She give you the autism gift? 410 00:19:41,702 --> 00:19:43,443 You bowl? 411 00:19:43,530 --> 00:19:47,186 I'm a lot of bad things, but I'm not, like-- 412 00:19:47,273 --> 00:19:49,623 - Vitals, Fareed? - Waning. 413 00:19:49,710 --> 00:19:51,842 I wouldn't have done it had I known he was full fiend, 414 00:19:51,929 --> 00:19:55,324 gonna cut you up like he done. 415 00:19:55,455 --> 00:19:57,500 I was in the grip of it and couldn't get myself out. 416 00:19:57,544 --> 00:19:59,720 Fareed assured me it would work. 417 00:19:59,763 --> 00:20:01,678 Pop it back on. Let the blood do its magic. 418 00:20:01,765 --> 00:20:03,114 On a work visa, signed by him. 419 00:20:03,202 --> 00:20:04,812 Not sure it would work on a mortal, 420 00:20:04,899 --> 00:20:06,553 but this is how progress... - Walk into a police precinct 421 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:08,598 - Is made--trial and error. - And say, "In some trouble. 422 00:20:08,685 --> 00:20:10,905 It's weird. He's a vampire," 423 00:20:10,992 --> 00:20:12,820 gonna end up on a grippy sock holiday. 424 00:20:12,907 --> 00:20:14,822 I listened in on your séance last night. 425 00:20:14,952 --> 00:20:17,520 I think Claudia would approve of this scientific risk. 426 00:20:17,607 --> 00:20:19,827 We ain't coming out of this. 427 00:20:19,957 --> 00:20:21,524 We're gonna die. 428 00:20:21,611 --> 00:20:23,178 They gonna sell a snuff tape, Louis. 429 00:20:23,222 --> 00:20:25,224 Don't give it to them. 430 00:20:25,354 --> 00:20:28,009 Ah, he's shut us both out. 431 00:20:32,883 --> 00:20:35,146 You know, I've known for some time 432 00:20:35,277 --> 00:20:38,062 Claudia was the aperture through which 433 00:20:38,149 --> 00:20:43,285 I could rip his innards out. 434 00:20:43,372 --> 00:20:46,723 I understood his obsession for forgiveness. 435 00:20:46,854 --> 00:20:49,248 I lived it with him. 436 00:20:49,335 --> 00:20:52,120 He was my Claudia. 437 00:20:52,207 --> 00:20:56,385 But I wasted a near century. 438 00:20:56,516 --> 00:20:57,821 And that is not nothing. 439 00:20:57,908 --> 00:20:59,649 That deserves amends. 440 00:20:59,736 --> 00:21:01,825 He said to the head on the skewer. 441 00:21:01,912 --> 00:21:03,523 You think I'm bluffing? 442 00:21:05,873 --> 00:21:07,962 Tell me your name again. - Nelson. 443 00:21:08,049 --> 00:21:10,356 Nelson. Nelson. 444 00:21:10,443 --> 00:21:12,401 Nelson here is one of my followers. 445 00:21:12,488 --> 00:21:14,185 Pick up that knife. 446 00:21:14,273 --> 00:21:15,665 I have about a hundred of them now. 447 00:21:15,752 --> 00:21:19,930 Nelson, rest. 448 00:21:26,763 --> 00:21:29,505 Nelson thinks he was here to stop the Great Conversion, 449 00:21:29,592 --> 00:21:31,507 to return to the Five Laws. 450 00:21:31,594 --> 00:21:34,771 I needed him to stuff your head in a cooler and drive me here. 451 00:21:39,515 --> 00:21:42,257 Rest. 452 00:21:50,657 --> 00:21:53,964 I liked you, Louis. 453 00:21:54,051 --> 00:21:56,924 You're a bit messed up, but I liked you. 454 00:22:00,667 --> 00:22:02,843 Please. 455 00:22:02,930 --> 00:22:04,801 I don't wanna die. 456 00:22:09,632 --> 00:22:11,330 Paper. 457 00:22:13,636 --> 00:22:15,595 Paper. 458 00:22:20,426 --> 00:22:22,166 You failed to fill the Ryan Center 459 00:22:22,253 --> 00:22:23,603 of Kingston, Rhode Island. 460 00:22:23,690 --> 00:22:26,606 Van Gogh sold one painting in his lifetime. 461 00:22:26,693 --> 00:22:28,782 - Thank you, Mother. - Lover. 462 00:22:28,869 --> 00:22:30,697 "An intransigent Crypt Keeper 463 00:22:30,827 --> 00:22:32,438 in the hokiest light imaginable," 464 00:22:32,525 --> 00:22:33,917 "Billboard" magazine. 465 00:22:34,004 --> 00:22:36,442 "If this is the mind, heart, liver 466 00:22:36,529 --> 00:22:38,574 "of someone looking down the barrel of immortality, 467 00:22:38,661 --> 00:22:41,447 then kill me now," theneedledrop. 468 00:22:41,534 --> 00:22:43,579 "A cross between a self-absorbed 469 00:22:43,666 --> 00:22:46,234 "Robert Plant impersonator and an '80s hot dog, 470 00:22:46,321 --> 00:22:47,627 embalmed with hair gel." 471 00:22:49,193 --> 00:22:51,326 "Only the drummer escapes alive." 472 00:22:51,413 --> 00:22:53,023 - Woof. - Stereogum. 473 00:22:53,154 --> 00:22:54,938 You saw me front it in Toronto, and you in Detroit, 474 00:22:55,025 --> 00:22:56,592 and I killed it both nights. 475 00:22:56,679 --> 00:22:58,333 Yes, but we did not see you at Potawa Tommie's 476 00:22:58,420 --> 00:22:59,987 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. 477 00:23:00,117 --> 00:23:02,119 ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah 478 00:23:02,206 --> 00:23:04,861 Turn to page 3, measure 95. 479 00:23:06,341 --> 00:23:08,604 State your name for the record. 480 00:23:08,691 --> 00:23:10,824 Marco Piemontessi. 481 00:23:10,911 --> 00:23:13,566 You were murdered by the Vampire Lestat 482 00:23:13,653 --> 00:23:16,133 after a performance of "Don Pasquale." 483 00:23:16,220 --> 00:23:17,613 And him. 484 00:23:17,744 --> 00:23:20,268 - As an expert in your field... - Ha. 485 00:23:20,355 --> 00:23:23,227 As an unwitting meal of the Vampire Lestat... 486 00:23:23,314 --> 00:23:25,012 And him. 487 00:23:25,142 --> 00:23:29,059 Walk us through the May 5, 2025, performance of... 488 00:23:29,146 --> 00:23:31,322 - Waiter. - "When I Call Out Your Name." 489 00:23:31,410 --> 00:23:33,368 Already behind. 490 00:23:33,455 --> 00:23:35,631 You should be anticipating the beat. 491 00:23:35,718 --> 00:23:39,374 And now we are rushing. My, my. 492 00:23:39,461 --> 00:23:41,071 And swallowing our consonants. 493 00:23:41,158 --> 00:23:42,812 Tête. 494 00:23:42,899 --> 00:23:44,684 You could learn something from your Italian mother. 495 00:23:44,814 --> 00:23:47,730 Grazie bello. 496 00:23:47,817 --> 00:23:50,907 Always disappearing when she has the chance. 497 00:23:50,994 --> 00:23:52,996 Ms. Brown, your turn is coming. 498 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:54,563 Keep typing. 499 00:23:54,650 --> 00:23:56,391 Flat again. 500 00:23:56,478 --> 00:23:57,958 At least we don't have to listen 501 00:23:58,045 --> 00:23:59,046 to his violin playing on this one. 502 00:23:59,133 --> 00:24:00,526 Flat. 503 00:24:00,656 --> 00:24:02,963 The control of a child with your vibrato. 504 00:24:03,093 --> 00:24:04,747 ♪ Gabriella, Gabriella ♪ 505 00:24:04,834 --> 00:24:06,662 Again, flat. 506 00:24:06,793 --> 00:24:09,491 Screaming like a witch at the stake, 507 00:24:09,578 --> 00:24:12,233 the hem of your devil's dress catching fire. 508 00:24:12,363 --> 00:24:17,194 - ♪ Gabriella, Gabriella - ♪ Mama, mama ♪ 509 00:24:17,281 --> 00:24:20,502 ♪ Mama ♪ 510 00:24:31,644 --> 00:24:34,734 Come now, Lestat, no falling behind. 511 00:24:42,524 --> 00:24:47,486 The Lord is a jealous and avenging God! 512 00:24:47,573 --> 00:24:50,706 He is avenging, and He is wrathful! 513 00:24:50,750 --> 00:24:53,709 He takes vengeance on His adversaries 514 00:24:53,796 --> 00:24:57,583 and keeps wrath for His enemies! 515 00:24:57,670 --> 00:25:01,717 The Lord is slow to anger but great in power. 516 00:25:01,804 --> 00:25:03,371 Why did you take me there? 517 00:25:03,502 --> 00:25:07,418 His way is the whirlwind and the storm. 518 00:25:07,506 --> 00:25:10,073 The clouds are the dust of His feet! 519 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:11,988 Why did you take me there? 520 00:25:12,075 --> 00:25:14,469 I wanted you to see who they were. 521 00:25:14,556 --> 00:25:17,603 He rebukes the sea and makes it dry! 522 00:25:17,690 --> 00:25:19,996 You say we are the witches? 523 00:25:20,127 --> 00:25:21,911 You are the witches! 524 00:25:21,998 --> 00:25:24,392 You are all the witches! 525 00:25:24,479 --> 00:25:26,394 You are the witches! 526 00:25:26,481 --> 00:25:28,091 You are the witches! 527 00:25:30,180 --> 00:25:31,921 You are the witch-- 528 00:25:32,008 --> 00:25:34,533 You are the-- 529 00:25:34,663 --> 00:25:38,014 you are-- 530 00:25:38,101 --> 00:25:40,887 Who can stand before His indignation? 531 00:25:41,017 --> 00:25:44,455 Who can endure the heat of His anger? 532 00:25:44,586 --> 00:25:47,546 His wrath is poured out like fire! 533 00:25:47,676 --> 00:25:51,071 No one who conceals transgressions will prosper. 534 00:25:51,158 --> 00:25:54,161 But one who confesses and forsakes them 535 00:25:54,248 --> 00:25:55,684 will obtain mercy. 536 00:25:55,771 --> 00:25:57,556 They have confessed! 537 00:25:57,686 --> 00:25:59,470 Even the Marquis stayed home. 538 00:25:59,558 --> 00:26:03,779 I wanted you to escape Auvergne. 539 00:26:03,866 --> 00:26:05,651 Marguerite Doree. 540 00:26:05,781 --> 00:26:09,829 Ceased her prayers. Adored the devil in ceremony! 541 00:26:09,916 --> 00:26:12,483 Putrid throats she caused in her father through spells. 542 00:26:12,571 --> 00:26:14,616 The father favored the daughter. 543 00:26:14,703 --> 00:26:17,967 The mother mixed death cap mushrooms in his cassoulet. 544 00:26:18,054 --> 00:26:19,316 Jean Bodin. 545 00:26:19,403 --> 00:26:21,188 Ceased her prayers. 546 00:26:21,275 --> 00:26:24,017 Spied by our schoolmaster swallowing... 547 00:26:24,147 --> 00:26:25,932 The schoolmaster cleans up his transgressions-- 548 00:26:26,019 --> 00:26:27,586 most cowardly. 549 00:26:27,673 --> 00:26:29,936 Chanting the black mass in the breaks between! 550 00:26:30,023 --> 00:26:34,549 And the twin witches, Marthe and Aimée Roulet, 551 00:26:34,636 --> 00:26:38,945 nine years each. 552 00:26:39,032 --> 00:26:40,773 - Aimée Roulet. - What did they cease doing? 553 00:26:40,860 --> 00:26:42,209 She used to play in our home, Mother. 554 00:26:42,339 --> 00:26:43,906 Run from this place. 555 00:26:43,993 --> 00:26:45,516 A bag of gunpowder tied around her neck 556 00:26:45,604 --> 00:26:46,996 so she could burn hot. - Did you run? 557 00:26:47,127 --> 00:26:48,519 - Aimée? - No. 558 00:26:48,607 --> 00:26:52,349 Did you stay home until you were 30? 559 00:26:52,393 --> 00:26:54,743 - Aimée? - Cabbage! 560 00:26:54,874 --> 00:26:58,094 God, see us again! 561 00:26:58,181 --> 00:26:59,530 all: God, see us again! 562 00:26:59,661 --> 00:27:01,054 Cabbage! 563 00:27:01,141 --> 00:27:04,927 God, see us again! 564 00:27:05,014 --> 00:27:07,713 all: God, see us again! 565 00:27:07,843 --> 00:27:09,715 No! No! 566 00:27:17,984 --> 00:27:20,334 I love you. 567 00:27:20,421 --> 00:27:22,205 - Mother? - I love you. 568 00:27:22,292 --> 00:27:23,729 Mother! 569 00:27:23,816 --> 00:27:26,732 - I love you. - Mother! 570 00:27:41,660 --> 00:27:44,837 Did the same thing to Claudia in New Orleans. 571 00:27:44,924 --> 00:27:47,056 Called it tough love then. 572 00:27:47,143 --> 00:27:50,669 Then he kills the wolves. 573 00:27:50,799 --> 00:27:54,629 And then your hands wander, Madam Chair. 574 00:27:54,716 --> 00:27:56,805 He did not have a problem with these hands 575 00:27:56,849 --> 00:27:58,851 for the next 200-odd years. 576 00:27:58,938 --> 00:28:01,157 Handsome, noble, 577 00:28:01,288 --> 00:28:05,248 with considerable considerables. 578 00:28:05,379 --> 00:28:07,947 Lestat's makers love their Lestat. 579 00:28:08,034 --> 00:28:09,818 This is not about his vampire life. 580 00:28:09,949 --> 00:28:11,646 Why are we even discussing this? 581 00:28:11,777 --> 00:28:13,300 Strike it from the record. 582 00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:18,000 Moving on. 583 00:28:37,237 --> 00:28:42,938 There were 1,600 of you when we first met, Daniel. 584 00:28:43,025 --> 00:28:46,855 - Oh, you. - 290,000 of you now, 585 00:28:46,942 --> 00:28:50,206 averaging approximately 1.3 meals a day, 586 00:28:50,293 --> 00:28:52,121 that's more deaths 587 00:28:52,208 --> 00:28:54,210 than there are births in the world. 588 00:28:54,297 --> 00:28:55,342 That's a tipping point. 589 00:28:55,429 --> 00:28:57,648 You beat peak oil. 590 00:28:57,736 --> 00:28:58,954 Hello. 591 00:28:59,041 --> 00:29:00,521 Raglan, this is Alex. 592 00:29:00,608 --> 00:29:02,653 He's on the vampire spectrum. 593 00:29:02,784 --> 00:29:04,307 Alex, this is Raglan. 594 00:29:04,438 --> 00:29:05,961 He's a watcher. 595 00:29:06,048 --> 00:29:07,397 He watches. 596 00:29:07,484 --> 00:29:09,835 He's watchful. He's always watching. 597 00:29:09,965 --> 00:29:11,532 He's a watcher. 598 00:29:14,578 --> 00:29:15,884 Hmm. 599 00:29:15,971 --> 00:29:17,756 You might want to alter your angle of entry 600 00:29:17,843 --> 00:29:20,454 or switch to a ball that reads earlier. 601 00:29:20,541 --> 00:29:22,891 How about that one? 602 00:29:23,022 --> 00:29:24,588 You roll, Raglan? 603 00:29:24,675 --> 00:29:27,026 Mentor for the junior fun bunch, yes. 604 00:29:27,113 --> 00:29:29,637 I also came for a particular outdoor concert. 605 00:29:29,724 --> 00:29:34,642 Didn't purchase event cancellation insurance. 606 00:29:34,773 --> 00:29:36,513 We want the bag. 607 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:38,211 You usually send Rashid in first. 608 00:29:38,298 --> 00:29:39,560 He's crosstown, 609 00:29:39,690 --> 00:29:41,344 waiting for the butcher to open. 610 00:29:43,782 --> 00:29:45,479 No, no, no, no, no, no, no. 611 00:29:45,566 --> 00:29:46,872 This is nothing. 612 00:29:47,002 --> 00:29:48,221 Artifice. 613 00:29:48,308 --> 00:29:50,397 I used you to punish. 614 00:29:50,484 --> 00:29:52,181 I never forgave you for Par-- 615 00:29:52,268 --> 00:29:53,574 Paris. 616 00:29:53,704 --> 00:29:55,706 Never. I never did. 617 00:29:55,794 --> 00:29:57,273 And now? 618 00:29:59,841 --> 00:30:02,061 Nope. 619 00:30:02,148 --> 00:30:03,366 Rest. 620 00:30:03,497 --> 00:30:06,065 Can't. Won't. 621 00:30:06,152 --> 00:30:09,808 Then what are you sorry for? 622 00:30:12,332 --> 00:30:17,903 Love of my life was him. 623 00:30:20,949 --> 00:30:23,865 Rest. 624 00:30:23,996 --> 00:30:26,433 We want him to play the concert. 625 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:27,695 I want to play the concert. 626 00:30:27,782 --> 00:30:29,828 Alex wants to play the concert. 627 00:30:29,915 --> 00:30:31,438 Why? 628 00:30:31,525 --> 00:30:33,179 We've been planning it for a year. 629 00:30:33,266 --> 00:30:34,833 Excuse me? 630 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:40,055 Nudging it, urging it on, on the periphery, as we do. 631 00:30:40,142 --> 00:30:41,970 "Make more"? 632 00:30:42,101 --> 00:30:43,406 We came up with that. 633 00:30:43,493 --> 00:30:45,756 You want the Great Conversion. 634 00:30:45,887 --> 00:30:49,021 Loss of motor skills, jaw control... 635 00:30:49,108 --> 00:30:51,153 Blood deprivation. 636 00:30:51,284 --> 00:30:53,634 Heard the witch. 637 00:30:53,764 --> 00:30:57,594 Must've heard bench. 638 00:30:57,681 --> 00:31:01,685 Me, him. 639 00:31:01,772 --> 00:31:03,209 Then. 640 00:31:04,993 --> 00:31:06,821 Nutrient loss equivalence. 641 00:31:06,908 --> 00:31:12,435 Even now, still thinking about him. 642 00:31:14,133 --> 00:31:16,962 S-sorry. 643 00:31:17,049 --> 00:31:18,746 No. 644 00:31:18,833 --> 00:31:21,357 No, Louis, you're declining. 645 00:31:23,664 --> 00:31:28,364 Use your telepathy. I'll repeat, for posterity. 646 00:31:28,451 --> 00:31:32,194 Too many of us for what's left in the ground. 647 00:31:32,281 --> 00:31:34,109 Cradle your cell phone. 648 00:31:34,196 --> 00:31:36,851 Sell your Range Rover while you can. 649 00:31:36,938 --> 00:31:38,461 A desperate hour. 650 00:31:38,505 --> 00:31:41,464 There was a breakout room at the last G7 conference. 651 00:31:41,551 --> 00:31:43,902 They called it 652 00:31:43,989 --> 00:31:46,948 May the Vamps Safely Graze. 653 00:31:47,035 --> 00:31:49,037 Rescue the head, save the planet. 654 00:31:49,168 --> 00:31:50,778 It's a bit of a stretch. 655 00:31:50,821 --> 00:31:53,824 Can't see your kind governing, but then 656 00:31:53,912 --> 00:31:55,304 you and I have our own reasonings. 657 00:31:55,391 --> 00:31:56,653 He pissed me off. 658 00:31:56,740 --> 00:32:00,701 Evidence of the soul's existence. 659 00:32:00,788 --> 00:32:02,050 Soul? 660 00:32:02,181 --> 00:32:04,052 The alchemist Magnus 661 00:32:04,096 --> 00:32:05,619 chooses him to carry on the blood. 662 00:32:05,706 --> 00:32:07,795 And what does he do? 663 00:32:07,882 --> 00:32:10,363 He gifts it to his ailing mother. 664 00:32:10,450 --> 00:32:11,712 Noble. 665 00:32:11,799 --> 00:32:13,975 But the tailor's son? 666 00:32:14,062 --> 00:32:15,934 Stupid and wasteful. 667 00:32:16,021 --> 00:32:18,284 I was mad. 668 00:32:18,371 --> 00:32:20,634 I got lies to account for. 669 00:32:20,764 --> 00:32:22,679 I've got lies to account for. 670 00:32:22,766 --> 00:32:24,594 - Lies to myself. - Lies to myself. 671 00:32:24,725 --> 00:32:27,380 - To others. - Lies to others. 672 00:32:27,467 --> 00:32:29,208 I know what it's like to build a house... 673 00:32:29,338 --> 00:32:31,079 I know what it's like to build a house... 674 00:32:31,166 --> 00:32:32,646 A cathedral on top of a lie. 675 00:32:32,733 --> 00:32:35,301 Cathedral on top of a lie. 676 00:32:35,388 --> 00:32:39,000 No biological rationale for head here and body there. 677 00:32:39,087 --> 00:32:42,047 That's the soul fighting, Daniel. 678 00:32:42,134 --> 00:32:45,528 Romps with my rotten boy. 679 00:32:45,659 --> 00:32:49,184 A--a cat-burgling stint on the devil's road 680 00:32:49,271 --> 00:32:54,798 with Gabriella, Sofia, mother, lover, Madam Chair. 681 00:32:54,929 --> 00:32:58,715 Live that lie so fully that it might as well be true. 682 00:32:58,846 --> 00:33:03,155 To live the lie so fully, might as well be true. 683 00:33:03,285 --> 00:33:06,723 Meaning beyond mortality. 684 00:33:06,767 --> 00:33:08,943 Wonder returned. 685 00:33:12,077 --> 00:33:15,341 Alex, I think you should open with "Big Boss." 686 00:33:18,344 --> 00:33:21,738 Raglan. 687 00:33:21,825 --> 00:33:23,436 Daniel? 688 00:33:26,613 --> 00:33:28,571 A straight man. 689 00:33:28,702 --> 00:33:29,790 Straight man. 690 00:33:29,877 --> 00:33:31,574 Good Negro, an artist. 691 00:33:31,661 --> 00:33:34,316 Good Negro, an artist. 692 00:33:34,447 --> 00:33:35,926 Things I wasn't. 693 00:33:36,014 --> 00:33:37,754 Things I was not. 694 00:33:37,841 --> 00:33:41,106 And you got some reason to be dark-sided, Armand. 695 00:33:41,236 --> 00:33:44,674 And you-- 696 00:33:44,761 --> 00:33:48,678 you have some reason to be dark-sided, Armand. 697 00:33:48,765 --> 00:33:50,550 You were sold by who you were sold by. 698 00:33:50,637 --> 00:33:52,552 You were sold by who you were sold by. 699 00:33:52,639 --> 00:33:54,423 Sold into what you were sold into. 700 00:33:54,510 --> 00:33:56,208 Sold into what you were-- 701 00:33:56,338 --> 00:33:59,080 I saw a lot of that in New Orleans. 702 00:33:59,211 --> 00:34:01,213 Saw a lot of that in New Orleans. 703 00:34:01,300 --> 00:34:03,650 - On the opposite shore. - On the opposite shore. 704 00:34:03,737 --> 00:34:06,348 Running houses I ran. 705 00:34:06,435 --> 00:34:09,003 You and I didn't... - You and I... 706 00:34:09,090 --> 00:34:11,310 Didn't talk about it much... 707 00:34:11,397 --> 00:34:14,313 We didn't talk about it much. 708 00:34:14,443 --> 00:34:16,967 With you... 709 00:34:17,055 --> 00:34:18,447 Shut it off. 710 00:34:22,495 --> 00:34:25,628 'Cause I didn't want to think on my own sins. 711 00:34:25,759 --> 00:34:29,197 Or picture you at 12. 712 00:34:29,284 --> 00:34:31,765 At 12. 713 00:34:31,852 --> 00:34:34,985 You were 12. 714 00:34:35,073 --> 00:34:37,423 Scared. 715 00:34:37,510 --> 00:34:40,034 Poor boy, 716 00:34:40,121 --> 00:34:42,558 Arun. 717 00:34:42,645 --> 00:34:45,692 You need a love that'll cradle you. 718 00:34:48,303 --> 00:34:52,351 You should have that. 719 00:34:52,438 --> 00:34:57,051 And I was never that for you. 720 00:34:57,138 --> 00:34:58,574 And I'm sorry. 721 00:35:04,493 --> 00:35:08,149 My coldness, 722 00:35:08,236 --> 00:35:11,979 my denial 723 00:35:12,066 --> 00:35:14,199 drove you to this. 724 00:35:18,116 --> 00:35:23,077 I saw good in you... 725 00:35:26,820 --> 00:35:28,387 For a while. 726 00:36:05,250 --> 00:36:07,556 Bad things happen to girlies who talk. 727 00:36:23,224 --> 00:36:24,747 Using a standard suture kit. 728 00:36:26,401 --> 00:36:30,536 2.0 absorbable nylon suture to reaffix the head, 729 00:36:30,623 --> 00:36:32,538 close the wound. 730 00:36:32,625 --> 00:36:35,018 Isn't going to do much other than hold the head in place 731 00:36:35,105 --> 00:36:36,411 while it fuses through the blood. 732 00:36:38,718 --> 00:36:40,894 I am not a plastic surgeon. 733 00:36:40,981 --> 00:36:43,592 This is not my field of expertise. 734 00:36:50,208 --> 00:36:53,472 And when she told him that she wanted more darkness, 735 00:36:53,559 --> 00:36:57,258 he looked at her with the eyes of a juvenile. 736 00:36:57,345 --> 00:36:59,391 A great abandonment. 737 00:36:59,478 --> 00:37:01,871 And he threw himself on the shore. 738 00:37:02,002 --> 00:37:06,920 And he let the gravediggers fish him from the tide 739 00:37:07,007 --> 00:37:09,618 and bury him in the sands of anonymity. 740 00:37:09,705 --> 00:37:11,794 Now that's acting. 741 00:37:11,925 --> 00:37:16,973 And there he lies for 80 years, 742 00:37:17,060 --> 00:37:20,020 heaved out of the dirt because the mother of all of us 743 00:37:20,107 --> 00:37:23,937 chooses him, lets him drink of her, 744 00:37:24,024 --> 00:37:26,461 makes him a godling. 745 00:37:26,548 --> 00:37:28,202 And what does he do with this honor? 746 00:37:28,289 --> 00:37:30,857 Hops the "SS Abandoned" in New Orleans. 747 00:37:30,944 --> 00:37:34,077 Gives the gift to a pimp 748 00:37:34,164 --> 00:37:36,471 who lives to make him miserable, 749 00:37:36,602 --> 00:37:39,213 daddy-traps him, slits his throat, 750 00:37:39,300 --> 00:37:41,302 and fucks his ex. 751 00:37:41,433 --> 00:37:42,521 A lot. 752 00:37:42,608 --> 00:37:44,174 Could be nice. - Could be. 753 00:37:44,262 --> 00:37:45,698 all: The soul! 754 00:37:45,785 --> 00:37:47,961 The failed progeny of Magnus. 755 00:37:48,048 --> 00:37:51,094 Unworthy chosen of Akasha. 756 00:37:51,181 --> 00:37:52,618 all: The soul! 757 00:37:52,705 --> 00:37:57,405 Kills the daughter, saves the pimp, 758 00:37:57,492 --> 00:38:01,191 rots in a rotting robe in a rotting shack 759 00:38:01,279 --> 00:38:02,628 in the rotting city. 760 00:38:02,715 --> 00:38:05,152 A tragic crippled thing, 761 00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:08,634 playing a plank for a piano, 762 00:38:08,721 --> 00:38:11,463 waiting for a hug. 763 00:38:11,550 --> 00:38:12,812 all: The soul! 764 00:38:12,899 --> 00:38:15,902 - A book. - A band. 765 00:38:15,989 --> 00:38:18,208 An album and a cause. 766 00:38:18,296 --> 00:38:20,080 all: The soul! 767 00:38:20,167 --> 00:38:22,604 But does failure finally fail to find him? 768 00:38:22,735 --> 00:38:24,911 No. all: The soul! 769 00:38:25,041 --> 00:38:29,916 He sits on a bench like a stupid idiot 770 00:38:30,003 --> 00:38:34,224 in a fog he mistakes for love. 771 00:38:34,312 --> 00:38:35,878 - Could be. - Could be nice. 772 00:38:35,965 --> 00:38:37,793 Whack! 773 00:38:37,924 --> 00:38:40,579 Reckless. Self-sabotaging. 774 00:38:40,666 --> 00:38:41,928 Vain. 775 00:38:42,015 --> 00:38:43,582 A brat. 776 00:38:43,669 --> 00:38:44,844 Stupid. 777 00:38:44,931 --> 00:38:47,063 Trashy. Tawdry. 778 00:38:47,194 --> 00:38:49,152 A rotten boy. 779 00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:51,067 Failure. 780 00:38:51,154 --> 00:38:53,374 Impulsive. Imprudent. 781 00:38:53,461 --> 00:38:56,856 And st-st-stutterer. 782 00:38:56,943 --> 00:38:58,858 Cowardly. Selfish. 783 00:38:58,945 --> 00:39:00,555 Wretched. 784 00:39:00,642 --> 00:39:02,252 A waste. 785 00:39:02,340 --> 00:39:04,124 A failure. 786 00:39:04,211 --> 00:39:07,606 The Bimbo Himbo of Hambone. 787 00:39:07,693 --> 00:39:09,912 Did you stay home until you were 30? 788 00:39:10,043 --> 00:39:11,218 Cabbage! 789 00:39:11,305 --> 00:39:12,828 A great abandonment. 790 00:39:14,177 --> 00:39:18,660 Your whole damn life 791 00:39:18,747 --> 00:39:21,620 a failure. 792 00:39:21,707 --> 00:39:23,143 Unworthy. 793 00:39:23,230 --> 00:39:24,231 Uncharitable. 794 00:39:24,318 --> 00:39:25,754 Manipulative. 795 00:39:25,885 --> 00:39:27,016 Miserable. 796 00:39:27,103 --> 00:39:28,627 - Idiot. - Ignorant. 797 00:39:28,714 --> 00:39:31,499 A careless caretaker. 798 00:39:31,586 --> 00:39:32,935 A crooning cartoon. 799 00:39:33,066 --> 00:39:34,110 A prima donna. 800 00:39:34,197 --> 00:39:35,416 A peacock. 801 00:39:35,547 --> 00:39:38,724 Your whole 802 00:39:38,811 --> 00:39:42,815 goddamn life 803 00:39:42,902 --> 00:39:46,775 a pathetic failure! 804 00:40:08,449 --> 00:40:09,711 Well done. 805 00:40:09,842 --> 00:40:11,626 Good show. A bit shit. 806 00:40:11,757 --> 00:40:13,976 But that's why you're opening and I'm headlining. 807 00:40:14,107 --> 00:40:17,502 The Vampire Lestat, one life only. 808 00:40:17,589 --> 00:40:18,894 Tickets through Ticketmaster. 809 00:40:18,981 --> 00:40:22,028 Inevitable complaints to Roget and Associates. 810 00:40:24,944 --> 00:40:27,990 Bonjour, St-Germain, 811 00:40:28,077 --> 00:40:30,602 Vieux Carré, Tontreal! 812 00:40:30,732 --> 00:40:33,039 Let's hear it for Sofia Gabs 813 00:40:33,126 --> 00:40:35,345 and the Fledglings of Failure! 814 00:40:36,999 --> 00:40:41,134 You are all here tonight because I murdered you, 815 00:40:41,221 --> 00:40:43,832 made you, or memorably traumatized you. 816 00:40:43,963 --> 00:40:48,358 Congratulations for your historical proximity to me. 817 00:40:48,446 --> 00:40:51,187 No doubt it was the defining moment of your life. 818 00:40:51,274 --> 00:40:52,798 We love you, Lestat! 819 00:40:52,885 --> 00:40:54,843 - I love you too. - Play "Long Face"! 820 00:40:54,930 --> 00:40:57,193 Fuck that song! 821 00:40:57,280 --> 00:40:59,631 That is a song you wash your car too. 822 00:41:01,371 --> 00:41:05,941 Perhaps that's the purposeful life of Lestat. 823 00:41:06,072 --> 00:41:07,552 He made more clean cars. 824 00:41:09,902 --> 00:41:11,643 Should've said that at the long table. 825 00:41:13,601 --> 00:41:15,081 Has that ever happened to you? 826 00:41:15,124 --> 00:41:16,952 You think of the perfect thing to say to the Pope 827 00:41:17,039 --> 00:41:18,650 an hour after you leave the Vatican? 828 00:41:22,349 --> 00:41:24,351 I know you. 829 00:41:24,438 --> 00:41:26,962 I drained you in Vienna. 830 00:41:27,049 --> 00:41:29,878 Christmas Market, 1953. 831 00:41:31,445 --> 00:41:33,447 What's your name? 832 00:41:33,534 --> 00:41:35,188 - Enzo. - Enzo. 833 00:41:36,842 --> 00:41:38,452 Quite the sharp suit. 834 00:41:40,846 --> 00:41:43,544 I spilled a lot of your blood. 835 00:41:43,675 --> 00:41:46,199 I was in a foul mood that evening. 836 00:41:46,286 --> 00:41:47,809 You deserved better. 837 00:41:53,423 --> 00:41:56,426 A lot of familiar faces in the audience tonight. 838 00:41:56,557 --> 00:41:58,428 More than a lot. 839 00:41:58,516 --> 00:42:00,082 All familiar. 840 00:42:03,477 --> 00:42:07,307 Janice. 841 00:42:07,394 --> 00:42:10,658 - CeCi. - Lestat! Lestat! 842 00:42:10,789 --> 00:42:13,356 Baggage Man, New York Limited. 843 00:42:13,487 --> 00:42:15,663 How's the head? Tickets, please! 844 00:42:15,750 --> 00:42:18,666 "Black Licorice." I wrote a song about you. 845 00:42:18,753 --> 00:42:20,929 I killed you in the Lower Ninth. 846 00:42:21,016 --> 00:42:22,931 Thank you for coming. 847 00:42:27,196 --> 00:42:28,241 Love you, Lestat! 848 00:42:33,812 --> 00:42:37,293 We've got a great show for you tonight 849 00:42:37,380 --> 00:42:42,516 in a venue of overwhelming sentiment, 850 00:42:42,603 --> 00:42:44,866 because, well, this is the place 851 00:42:44,953 --> 00:42:48,217 that music first wrapped its belt 852 00:42:48,348 --> 00:42:51,177 around my aorta and yoked me 853 00:42:51,264 --> 00:42:53,701 through two centuries plus of vampiric life. 854 00:43:00,186 --> 00:43:02,144 What a life it's been. 855 00:43:02,231 --> 00:43:04,625 Play "Long Face"! 856 00:43:04,712 --> 00:43:06,409 Is that you, Dad? 857 00:43:15,288 --> 00:43:18,900 Regarding life, 858 00:43:18,987 --> 00:43:22,425 recent findings of the many I love most 859 00:43:22,556 --> 00:43:25,777 found my life to be a failure. 860 00:43:30,782 --> 00:43:32,087 Right? 861 00:43:32,174 --> 00:43:35,221 Right? 862 00:43:35,351 --> 00:43:36,918 I took your blood. 863 00:43:37,049 --> 00:43:39,617 I did my vampire duty. 864 00:43:39,704 --> 00:43:42,445 I brought death, spread fear, 865 00:43:42,532 --> 00:43:45,013 fostered superstition and paranoia. 866 00:43:47,189 --> 00:43:50,497 Moral complaints all fall on the idea that humanity is-- 867 00:43:50,584 --> 00:43:52,412 - Failure! - I don't agree. 868 00:43:52,499 --> 00:43:54,501 No one asked you, lady! 869 00:43:54,588 --> 00:43:57,983 I think in the end-- 870 00:43:58,070 --> 00:43:59,201 in the end... 871 00:44:01,334 --> 00:44:03,205 I think 872 00:44:03,292 --> 00:44:05,251 I was pretty fucking great! 873 00:44:12,650 --> 00:44:15,130 But... 874 00:44:15,217 --> 00:44:18,307 if I failed, 875 00:44:18,438 --> 00:44:22,224 if--if I failed... 876 00:44:22,311 --> 00:44:26,402 Then that means I actually attempted something. 877 00:44:28,056 --> 00:44:29,841 Which is more than I can say for most of those 878 00:44:29,928 --> 00:44:31,712 I love the most. 879 00:44:31,799 --> 00:44:33,279 I don't know if I mean that. 880 00:44:35,020 --> 00:44:37,892 That was performative. 881 00:44:37,979 --> 00:44:39,938 I loved you. 882 00:44:41,940 --> 00:44:43,071 I did. 883 00:44:49,034 --> 00:44:54,604 As grotesque as that love appeared to you, 884 00:44:54,692 --> 00:44:55,867 I did. 885 00:45:07,835 --> 00:45:08,967 Thank you for coming. 886 00:45:10,403 --> 00:45:12,666 We love you, Lestat! We love you! 887 00:45:12,753 --> 00:45:14,363 We've got a great show for you tonight. 888 00:45:16,061 --> 00:45:18,759 We're gonna play a new song for you tonight! 889 00:45:18,846 --> 00:45:22,545 We've got TC on the drums, Salamander on the bass, 890 00:45:22,589 --> 00:45:25,418 Plastic Dracula Alex on the guitar, 891 00:45:25,505 --> 00:45:27,768 and I am the Vampire Lestat! 892 00:45:31,772 --> 00:45:33,600 I was supposed to stage dive just then. 893 00:45:36,951 --> 00:45:39,214 Could be. 894 00:45:39,301 --> 00:45:40,607 Hands touch. 895 00:45:43,392 --> 00:45:45,351 I'm feeling a little-- 896 00:45:52,271 --> 00:45:54,882 You need to get your snooze fixed, Lestat. 897 00:46:04,413 --> 00:46:05,545 What else? 898 00:46:08,287 --> 00:46:09,854 I'm failing. 899 00:46:13,509 --> 00:46:14,772 My blood. 900 00:46:18,645 --> 00:46:21,343 My blood. 901 00:46:21,430 --> 00:46:22,910 I did my best with it. 902 00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:28,786 No. 903 00:46:31,876 --> 00:46:35,575 No, I let--I let too much spill too often. 904 00:46:40,406 --> 00:46:42,103 I did not always honor it. 905 00:46:45,628 --> 00:46:48,196 Enzo. 906 00:46:48,283 --> 00:46:50,938 Can--can someone tell-- 907 00:46:54,986 --> 00:46:57,597 Can someone tell Enzo that I'm sorry? 908 00:46:57,684 --> 00:47:01,253 He had... 909 00:47:01,340 --> 00:47:05,866 a package with the most beautiful wrapping. 910 00:47:05,953 --> 00:47:09,217 And I hope it got to who... 911 00:47:09,304 --> 00:47:14,701 whom it was meant for. 912 00:47:16,659 --> 00:47:18,096 Grammar. 913 00:47:41,728 --> 00:47:45,079 He has a hard time saying it. 914 00:47:45,166 --> 00:47:46,733 Got that from our daddy. 915 00:47:49,518 --> 00:47:51,042 It doesn't mean he doesn't. 916 00:47:51,129 --> 00:47:53,392 It's just his way. 917 00:47:56,569 --> 00:48:00,138 Thank you for loving him, 918 00:48:00,268 --> 00:48:02,575 for loving him the way he needs to be loved. 919 00:48:08,711 --> 00:48:10,409 I still wish you were a woman. 920 00:48:13,151 --> 00:48:14,979 Me too, sometimes. 921 00:48:28,514 --> 00:48:31,734 Wow. 922 00:48:31,821 --> 00:48:33,998 It's not all that once you get there. 923 00:48:41,048 --> 00:48:42,789 Silver threads. 924 00:48:47,185 --> 00:48:50,666 Silver threads stretched out over other threads. 925 00:48:55,671 --> 00:48:58,326 OK. You sure about that? 926 00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:03,549 Yes, ma'am. 927 00:49:07,292 --> 00:49:08,684 OK. 928 00:49:27,529 --> 00:49:29,314 Would you believe me if I said 929 00:49:29,444 --> 00:49:32,708 the next thing I remember is waking up on my tour bus, 930 00:49:32,795 --> 00:49:34,101 parked in the woods 931 00:49:34,188 --> 00:49:37,061 several hundred yards away from the stage, 932 00:49:37,148 --> 00:49:41,543 where 45,000 frenzied and impatient vampires 933 00:49:41,630 --> 00:49:45,895 and 10,000 naive and beautifully unwell mortals 934 00:49:46,026 --> 00:49:49,638 gathered from all corners of the savage garden 935 00:49:49,682 --> 00:49:53,729 to hear me sing "Make More"? 936 00:49:53,816 --> 00:49:59,213 It was disorienting, my return to the physical world, 937 00:49:59,300 --> 00:50:02,956 her kind and caring words so very different 938 00:50:03,043 --> 00:50:05,132 from her words at the long table. 939 00:50:05,219 --> 00:50:07,178 The shoe leather of how I got there 940 00:50:07,265 --> 00:50:10,746 was explained to me by a man I did not recognize 941 00:50:10,833 --> 00:50:13,227 but who I now call a friend. 942 00:50:13,314 --> 00:50:16,143 He told me his watchful operatives were in the park 943 00:50:16,274 --> 00:50:20,278 the night Armand and Daniel cut through the fog of love 944 00:50:20,365 --> 00:50:22,976 and the flesh of our necks. 945 00:50:23,107 --> 00:50:26,197 They trailed our parts to their destinations 946 00:50:26,284 --> 00:50:29,287 and followed their protocols of engagement. 947 00:50:29,374 --> 00:50:32,203 He was vague about Alex's role. 948 00:50:32,290 --> 00:50:35,336 There was, however, nothing vague 949 00:50:35,423 --> 00:50:37,686 about whose idea it was to bring me 950 00:50:37,773 --> 00:50:40,689 from my immortal brush with mortality 951 00:50:40,776 --> 00:50:45,999 directly to the now infamously catastrophic gig. 952 00:50:46,086 --> 00:50:48,262 And as I talked over their absurd persuasions 953 00:50:48,349 --> 00:50:50,830 for me to perform, 954 00:50:50,917 --> 00:50:53,789 a second thought saved them all from my provoked rage. 955 00:50:59,273 --> 00:51:02,624 He didn't go into the details of his day. 956 00:51:02,711 --> 00:51:05,975 I would only hear of them later, 957 00:51:06,019 --> 00:51:08,369 after the concert, 958 00:51:08,500 --> 00:51:11,198 after the mayhem. 959 00:51:11,285 --> 00:51:14,201 Should have quit right then and there. 960 00:51:14,288 --> 00:51:17,204 I know. I know. 961 00:51:17,335 --> 00:51:20,164 This is you, right? 962 00:51:20,294 --> 00:51:21,991 Right? This is your idea? - You want to go out 963 00:51:22,079 --> 00:51:23,645 and tell them that there is going to be no show? 964 00:51:23,732 --> 00:51:25,604 You want to put me in a coffin, let me have a nap, 965 00:51:25,647 --> 00:51:27,345 and then you put me on fucking stage? 966 00:51:27,475 --> 00:51:29,216 You want to see what happens when you go out there 967 00:51:29,303 --> 00:51:30,739 and tell them that? - Are you insane? 968 00:51:30,870 --> 00:51:32,785 You tell whoever the fuck brought you back into my life-- 969 00:51:32,872 --> 00:51:34,656 You think that there is going to be a safe mile anywhere... 970 00:51:34,743 --> 00:51:36,571 That I am not fucking delivering! 971 00:51:36,658 --> 00:51:38,095 - In this sacred garden... - You go onstage! 972 00:51:38,138 --> 00:51:39,966 You get torn apart! - If you do that? 973 00:51:40,009 --> 00:51:42,403 You do it because I am not going onstage! 974 00:51:42,490 --> 00:51:45,754 I am not fucking singing, you fucking monster! 975 00:51:52,718 --> 00:51:56,765 Struggle to articulate is something. 976 00:51:56,852 --> 00:51:59,594 I look around my living room, where I record this now, 977 00:51:59,681 --> 00:52:04,295 and everything just feels off. 978 00:52:07,820 --> 00:52:11,606 I imagine you're here with me, 979 00:52:11,693 --> 00:52:13,652 my patron. 980 00:52:13,782 --> 00:52:15,001 Whoever you are. 981 00:52:18,918 --> 00:52:20,093 Do you hate me? 982 00:52:22,878 --> 00:52:25,620 Do you smoke? 983 00:52:28,841 --> 00:52:31,713 Have I scaled the walls of your privilege, 984 00:52:31,844 --> 00:52:33,628 made you feel how I felt in the summer, 985 00:52:33,672 --> 00:52:36,501 spring, and fall of 2025? 986 00:52:40,113 --> 00:52:44,291 Or have I failed at auction, 987 00:52:44,335 --> 00:52:46,859 these reels returned to me unsold? 988 00:52:51,385 --> 00:52:53,039 Am I talking to myself? 989 00:53:00,307 --> 00:53:02,483 You are listening to "The Failures," 990 00:53:02,614 --> 00:53:05,617 Album 58, Side A. 991 00:53:13,015 --> 00:53:15,453 What did I say at the start of this, 992 00:53:15,583 --> 00:53:20,153 as to the Queen, 993 00:53:20,197 --> 00:53:23,635 as to destruction unleashed? 994 00:53:26,551 --> 00:53:31,208 Something about the regretful dead 995 00:53:31,338 --> 00:53:33,775 and the... hmm, what was it? 996 00:53:33,819 --> 00:53:36,430 Traumatized alive. 997 00:53:38,127 --> 00:53:40,173 That I had made a contribution. 998 00:53:42,436 --> 00:53:43,959 Let me take that back. 999 00:53:46,745 --> 00:53:49,051 The fault was mine. 1000 00:53:50,357 --> 00:53:51,793 All mine.