1 00:00:02,741 --> 00:00:04,134 -Watch "The Vampire Lestat: After Dark" 2 00:00:04,221 --> 00:00:04,874 on AMC or wherever you get your podcasts. 3 00:00:12,012 --> 00:00:13,926 -Previously on the show formerly titled 4 00:00:14,101 --> 00:00:15,537 "Interview With the Vampire"... 5 00:00:15,711 --> 00:00:17,843 So, Mr. du Lac, how long have you been dead? 6 00:00:17,974 --> 00:00:20,324 -The year was 1910. 7 00:00:20,498 --> 00:00:23,284 -Louis, let me introduce you to Mr. Lestat de Lioncourt. 8 00:00:23,458 --> 00:00:25,112 -What exactly is the nature of your relationship 9 00:00:25,242 --> 00:00:27,027 with my brother, Monsieur Lioncourt? 10 00:00:27,201 --> 00:00:28,985 -I can swap this life of shame, 11 00:00:29,159 --> 00:00:31,074 swap it out for a dark gift. 12 00:00:31,205 --> 00:00:33,729 Be my companion for all eternity. 13 00:00:33,903 --> 00:00:35,557 -He had a way about him. 14 00:00:35,731 --> 00:00:37,602 Preternaturally charming, occasionally thoughtful. 15 00:00:37,776 --> 00:00:40,170 He was my murderer, my mentor, my lover, and my maker. 16 00:00:40,344 --> 00:00:41,737 All of those things at once. 17 00:00:41,911 --> 00:00:43,956 Claudia was everything. 18 00:00:44,131 --> 00:00:45,784 -The life of a vampire has its challenges. 19 00:00:45,958 --> 00:00:48,700 -[Roaring] 20 00:00:48,874 --> 00:00:51,138 [Gasping] 21 00:00:51,268 --> 00:00:53,575 -Can an immortal meet mortality? 22 00:00:53,749 --> 00:00:55,577 -Theoretically, it can be done. 23 00:00:55,751 --> 00:00:58,362 But could it be done by us to him? 24 00:00:58,536 --> 00:01:00,843 -Paris was an awakening for Louis. 25 00:01:00,973 --> 00:01:02,801 -Paris was many things in those days. 26 00:01:03,019 --> 00:01:04,934 ♪♪ 27 00:01:05,065 --> 00:01:07,980 -Bonjour, mon amour. -Are you schizophrenic, Louis? 28 00:01:08,155 --> 00:01:10,853 -I could feel the movement of air with his movements, 29 00:01:11,027 --> 00:01:13,029 his breath on the back of my neck. 30 00:01:13,203 --> 00:01:15,075 We were on trial for murder. 31 00:01:15,249 --> 00:01:17,686 -Love has always been difficult for me. 32 00:01:17,860 --> 00:01:20,167 My first paramour, Nicolas de Lenfent, a violinist. 33 00:01:20,341 --> 00:01:21,994 -[Speaking French] 34 00:01:22,212 --> 00:01:23,300 ♪♪ 35 00:01:23,431 --> 00:01:24,475 -Nicky! 36 00:01:24,693 --> 00:01:27,652 ♪♪ 37 00:01:27,826 --> 00:01:29,393 -[Speaking French] 38 00:01:29,524 --> 00:01:30,829 -You led him there so he could destroy it. 39 00:01:31,003 --> 00:01:33,136 -Yes. -You saved Louis. 40 00:01:33,310 --> 00:01:34,833 -Banishment. 41 00:01:35,007 --> 00:01:37,184 -But not her. -[Screams] 42 00:01:37,358 --> 00:01:38,576 -Who made you? 43 00:01:38,707 --> 00:01:41,318 -His name was Magnus. 44 00:01:41,449 --> 00:01:44,539 He took me from my room in Paris as I kicked and screamed. 45 00:01:44,713 --> 00:01:47,150 The light's going out of your blue eyes. 46 00:01:47,324 --> 00:01:48,673 -I've come to kill you. 47 00:01:48,804 --> 00:01:51,285 -I have the blood of Akasha in me. 48 00:01:51,414 --> 00:01:53,113 -He didn't save you. 49 00:01:53,243 --> 00:01:55,158 Lestat did. 50 00:01:55,332 --> 00:01:57,420 I'm guessing you haven't heard from my maker. 51 00:01:57,551 --> 00:01:58,988 -I shouldn't have left you alone with him. 52 00:01:59,162 --> 00:02:00,729 -Make it up to me. We'll do a follow-up book. 53 00:02:00,859 --> 00:02:02,644 -I'm companion enough for myself now. 54 00:02:02,818 --> 00:02:04,341 -I'm sorry, I don't have much time. 55 00:02:04,515 --> 00:02:06,343 I'm in the middle of rehearsing. I'm going on tour. 56 00:02:06,517 --> 00:02:09,651 Just need about 50 more years of practice. 57 00:02:11,653 --> 00:02:14,743 ["All Fall Down"] 58 00:02:14,830 --> 00:02:21,663 ♪ ♪ 59 00:02:23,708 --> 00:02:25,579 - ♪ I'm the little killer 60 00:02:25,667 --> 00:02:27,712 ♪ I'm the lonely one ♪ 61 00:02:27,843 --> 00:02:29,453 ♪ I'm the chill creeping up your spine ♪ 62 00:02:29,584 --> 00:02:31,803 ♪ Telling you to run ♪ 63 00:02:31,847 --> 00:02:33,718 ♪ I'm a hanging shadow 64 00:02:33,805 --> 00:02:35,851 ♪ I'm a lost love ♪ 65 00:02:35,894 --> 00:02:37,548 ♪ I'm the past and the future ♪ 66 00:02:37,635 --> 00:02:39,811 ♪ The last of the sutures, the cooing dove ♪ 67 00:02:39,942 --> 00:02:41,639 ♪ We're the rock and rollers ♪ 68 00:02:41,683 --> 00:02:43,989 ♪ We're the good time 69 00:02:44,076 --> 00:02:44,947 ♪ We're the heart pumping blood ♪ 70 00:02:45,077 --> 00:02:46,122 ♪ We're the face in the mud ♪ 71 00:02:46,209 --> 00:02:49,212 ♪ We're this stupid rhyme ♪ 72 00:02:49,343 --> 00:02:51,127 ♪ Bang, bang - ♪ Bang, bang ♪ 73 00:02:51,214 --> 00:02:53,129 - ♪ Bang, bang - ♪ Bang, bang ♪ 74 00:02:53,216 --> 00:02:54,652 - ♪ Bang, bang ♪ 75 00:02:54,696 --> 00:02:58,395 ♪ All fall down 76 00:02:58,482 --> 00:03:02,269 ♪ Burn the ground ♪ 77 00:03:02,356 --> 00:03:06,447 ♪ All fall down ♪ 78 00:03:06,577 --> 00:03:09,189 ♪ Burn the ♪ 79 00:03:09,232 --> 00:03:11,321 ♪ Bang, bang - ♪ Bang, bang 80 00:03:11,408 --> 00:03:13,367 - ♪ Bang, bang - ♪ Bang, bang ♪ 81 00:03:13,454 --> 00:03:17,284 - ♪ Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang ♪ 82 00:03:17,327 --> 00:03:20,939 Hmm. C'est cool. 83 00:03:21,026 --> 00:03:23,812 [somber piano music] 84 00:03:23,899 --> 00:03:30,862 ♪ ♪ 85 00:03:33,996 --> 00:03:36,825 [indistinct chatter] 86 00:03:36,912 --> 00:03:43,875 ♪ ♪ 87 00:03:49,098 --> 00:03:50,142 - Good evening. 88 00:03:50,186 --> 00:03:51,970 [all greeting] 89 00:03:52,057 --> 00:03:54,668 The house wishes to extend its gratitude to the gathering 90 00:03:54,756 --> 00:03:58,368 for your compliance with the unorthodox prerequisites 91 00:03:58,454 --> 00:04:00,631 of tonight's event. 92 00:04:00,718 --> 00:04:03,243 Furthermore, we wish to reiterate 93 00:04:03,330 --> 00:04:05,288 that the anonymity that you have granted us 94 00:04:05,419 --> 00:04:07,203 will be given to you individually 95 00:04:07,334 --> 00:04:11,381 as well as to any institutions that you are representing. 96 00:04:11,512 --> 00:04:13,427 Stating the obvious, 97 00:04:13,514 --> 00:04:15,777 we are not here and neither are you. 98 00:04:18,692 --> 00:04:22,043 Lot one of two, the master recordings 99 00:04:22,087 --> 00:04:24,960 of "The Complete Works of the Vampire Lestat de Lioncourt," 100 00:04:25,003 --> 00:04:28,050 which includes his 2025 self-titled album 101 00:04:28,093 --> 00:04:29,878 "The Vampire Lestat," 102 00:04:29,965 --> 00:04:32,010 additional session tracks that were discarded 103 00:04:32,097 --> 00:04:34,361 in the final assemblage of the album, 104 00:04:34,404 --> 00:04:37,189 original handwritten scores, and private recordings 105 00:04:37,277 --> 00:04:39,931 by the Vampire Lestat himself, which include 106 00:04:40,018 --> 00:04:42,760 a song cycle in the classical vein 107 00:04:42,847 --> 00:04:47,939 set to the poetry of Baudelaire. 108 00:04:48,026 --> 00:04:52,596 Before we begin the bidding, I perform the following action. 109 00:04:52,683 --> 00:04:55,382 [clicks] 110 00:04:55,425 --> 00:04:57,253 [crowd gasping] 111 00:04:57,297 --> 00:04:58,689 - Are you kidding me? 112 00:04:58,776 --> 00:05:00,343 - Are you serious? 113 00:05:00,430 --> 00:05:02,171 - This is very insulting. 114 00:05:02,258 --> 00:05:03,999 Shame on you. 115 00:05:04,086 --> 00:05:07,872 - We will begin the bidding at 1 yuan. 116 00:05:08,003 --> 00:05:11,049 Do I hear 1 yuan? 117 00:05:11,180 --> 00:05:13,313 - Yi yuan. 118 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:16,577 - Sold to the gentlewoman in the third row 119 00:05:16,620 --> 00:05:19,319 of good spirit. 120 00:05:19,406 --> 00:05:23,801 Lot number two, a music box 121 00:05:23,888 --> 00:05:26,761 curated by the Vampire Lestat himself. 122 00:05:26,891 --> 00:05:31,505 A 1978 Ferdinando Meccani Corinto sideboard. 123 00:05:31,548 --> 00:05:34,769 Inside, a Rossner and Sohn MOTT turntable 124 00:05:34,899 --> 00:05:38,512 with BeoLab 90 speakers, 125 00:05:38,599 --> 00:05:41,471 two temperature-controlled wine cabinets, 126 00:05:41,515 --> 00:05:45,909 one holding a bottle of Niepoort 1863 port wine, 127 00:05:45,997 --> 00:05:47,999 the other with a magnum of blood 128 00:05:48,130 --> 00:05:50,654 from the curator himself. 129 00:05:50,741 --> 00:05:55,006 The upper level, a singular vinyl pressing 130 00:05:55,093 --> 00:05:58,009 of "The Complete Works of the Vampire Lestat de Lioncourt," 131 00:05:58,096 --> 00:06:02,579 previously delineated, along with 111 albums of audio 132 00:06:02,666 --> 00:06:06,801 best described as an omniscient history 133 00:06:06,844 --> 00:06:10,457 of the events of the 2025 album and supporting tour 134 00:06:10,544 --> 00:06:12,850 and the consequential global catastrophes 135 00:06:12,894 --> 00:06:15,462 that sprung from said album and tour 136 00:06:15,549 --> 00:06:19,466 as narrated by the Vampire Lestat himself. 137 00:06:19,553 --> 00:06:24,122 The collection has been named "The Failures." 138 00:06:24,253 --> 00:06:28,431 We will begin the bidding at 50 million yuan. 139 00:06:28,518 --> 00:06:29,693 [record scratches] 140 00:06:29,780 --> 00:06:32,261 - If you are hearing this now, 141 00:06:32,348 --> 00:06:35,395 you must be a very privileged individual. 142 00:06:35,482 --> 00:06:37,440 You could have fed a small nation for years 143 00:06:37,527 --> 00:06:39,747 while they paved over the rubble. 144 00:06:39,834 --> 00:06:41,879 You bought my box instead. 145 00:06:42,010 --> 00:06:44,360 I like you already. 146 00:06:44,447 --> 00:06:46,188 So let's begin in the middle, 147 00:06:46,275 --> 00:06:49,365 for I could and should have ended it there, 148 00:06:49,409 --> 00:06:54,762 my tour, my hedonistic pursuit of extremity, all of it. 149 00:06:54,892 --> 00:06:57,939 And had I done so, the regretful dead 150 00:06:57,982 --> 00:07:00,028 and the traumatized still alive 151 00:07:00,158 --> 00:07:03,074 would be somewhere other than they are today. 152 00:07:03,161 --> 00:07:05,207 And I am not saying that the attempted extinction 153 00:07:05,294 --> 00:07:07,209 of the Y chromosome across the continents 154 00:07:07,339 --> 00:07:08,993 was all my fault. 155 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:11,213 No, that would suggest a level of self-importance 156 00:07:11,300 --> 00:07:12,823 even I'm not comfortable with. 157 00:07:12,910 --> 00:07:17,654 But upon reflection-- yeah, made a contribution. 158 00:07:17,741 --> 00:07:20,962 It was the spring of 2025. 159 00:07:21,049 --> 00:07:24,574 A good nation was making itself great again, 160 00:07:24,661 --> 00:07:25,923 again. 161 00:07:26,010 --> 00:07:27,925 [rock music building] 162 00:07:28,056 --> 00:07:29,449 And every vampire, 163 00:07:29,536 --> 00:07:32,539 those converting and those enduring, 164 00:07:32,626 --> 00:07:36,717 well, they were doing exactly as they pleased. 165 00:07:36,804 --> 00:07:39,676 [cheers and applause] 166 00:07:39,763 --> 00:07:46,640 ♪ ♪ 167 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:51,993 ["Long Face" playing] 168 00:07:52,036 --> 00:07:58,826 ♪ 169 00:08:03,657 --> 00:08:06,398 [cheers and applause] 170 00:08:06,486 --> 00:08:08,531 ♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh ♪ 171 00:08:08,618 --> 00:08:10,751 ♪ Wah-ahh ♪ 172 00:08:10,838 --> 00:08:12,579 ♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh ♪ 173 00:08:12,709 --> 00:08:14,798 ♪ Wah-ahh ♪ 174 00:08:14,842 --> 00:08:16,539 ♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh 175 00:08:16,626 --> 00:08:18,193 ♪ Wah-ahh ♪ 176 00:08:18,236 --> 00:08:21,109 ♪ 177 00:08:21,196 --> 00:08:23,590 ♪ Why the long face? ♪ 178 00:08:23,677 --> 00:08:25,592 ♪ My pretty baby ♪ 179 00:08:25,722 --> 00:08:27,594 ♪ I got long fangs ♪ 180 00:08:27,724 --> 00:08:29,770 ♪ Come appraise me ♪ 181 00:08:29,857 --> 00:08:31,815 ♪ Bring your long stakes ♪ 182 00:08:31,859 --> 00:08:33,600 ♪ That doesn't faze me 183 00:08:33,687 --> 00:08:36,994 ♪ ♪ 184 00:08:37,081 --> 00:08:38,996 ♪ I'm an actor ♪ 185 00:08:39,082 --> 00:08:41,085 ♪ In my makeup ♪ 186 00:08:41,172 --> 00:08:43,087 ♪ I'll get fatter ♪ 187 00:08:43,217 --> 00:08:45,002 ♪ When we break up ♪ 188 00:08:45,046 --> 00:08:47,309 ♪ What does it matter 189 00:08:47,352 --> 00:08:49,964 ♪ Who I take up? 190 00:08:50,051 --> 00:08:53,097 Naturally, I named the band after myself, 191 00:08:53,184 --> 00:08:55,447 and the four that backed me played their parts 192 00:08:55,491 --> 00:08:57,232 as instructed. 193 00:08:57,275 --> 00:09:00,104 There was Larry, the front man made sideman 194 00:09:00,191 --> 00:09:01,671 choking his guitar neck nightly 195 00:09:01,802 --> 00:09:03,891 wishing it was mine. 196 00:09:03,978 --> 00:09:07,068 Brother Alex, the more talented seedling, 197 00:09:07,111 --> 00:09:09,157 straight-edged and half the fun. 198 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:12,290 Salamander, bassist, dumb. 199 00:09:12,377 --> 00:09:14,466 - [screams] - Shockingly dumb. 200 00:09:14,510 --> 00:09:17,644 And TC, the abandoned bride of a dozen 201 00:09:17,687 --> 00:09:19,254 "should have died in art school" bands 202 00:09:19,341 --> 00:09:22,213 keeping us all in the dirty pocket. 203 00:09:22,300 --> 00:09:24,389 We dropped songs on the streams and booked 204 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:28,437 intimate venues to induce what Gen Snooze called FOMO. 205 00:09:28,568 --> 00:09:30,787 They came for cosplay, left converted, 206 00:09:30,831 --> 00:09:33,485 and I baptized them the Beautiful Unwell. 207 00:09:33,573 --> 00:09:35,836 And yet here we were 208 00:09:35,966 --> 00:09:38,795 in the inn of the Stooges and the Stripes, 209 00:09:38,839 --> 00:09:41,319 30 performances notched, and already resting 210 00:09:41,450 --> 00:09:43,887 on the alps of adequacy. 211 00:09:43,974 --> 00:09:45,236 Unacceptable. 212 00:09:45,323 --> 00:09:47,238 ♪ I'm piano ♪ 213 00:09:47,282 --> 00:09:49,023 ♪ And you're forte 214 00:09:49,110 --> 00:09:51,373 ♪ You're allegro ♪ 215 00:09:51,460 --> 00:09:53,418 ♪ I'm andante ♪ 216 00:09:53,505 --> 00:09:55,420 ♪ We're bolero ♪ 217 00:09:55,507 --> 00:09:57,335 ♪ Prostitué ♪ 218 00:09:57,466 --> 00:10:01,209 [grunting] 219 00:10:01,252 --> 00:10:03,211 ♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh 220 00:10:03,298 --> 00:10:04,821 ♪ Wah-ahh ♪ 221 00:10:04,908 --> 00:10:07,694 ♪ ♪ 222 00:10:07,781 --> 00:10:09,304 ♪ Another taste ♪ 223 00:10:09,391 --> 00:10:12,046 - [telepathically] Hello. Welcome to Detroit. 224 00:10:12,133 --> 00:10:13,351 - [telepathically] Lovely city. 225 00:10:13,438 --> 00:10:14,614 - [telepathically] Your song sucks. 226 00:10:14,744 --> 00:10:16,311 - Thank you for the feedback. 227 00:10:16,354 --> 00:10:18,618 ♪ Pick up the pace, pack up the gear ♪ 228 00:10:18,705 --> 00:10:20,576 ♪ Gimme some face, a souvenir ♪ 229 00:10:20,707 --> 00:10:22,796 ♪ Here come the gays, here comes the fear ♪ 230 00:10:22,883 --> 00:10:25,929 ♪ Now we're having fun ♪ 231 00:10:26,016 --> 00:10:30,934 ♪ Fun ♪ 232 00:10:31,065 --> 00:10:36,157 ♪ Now we're having fun ♪ 233 00:10:36,244 --> 00:10:39,508 [vocalizing] 234 00:10:39,551 --> 00:10:41,641 ♪ Ooh 235 00:10:41,728 --> 00:10:43,294 ♪ Ah, ah ♪ 236 00:10:43,381 --> 00:10:45,688 ♪ Ooh ♪ 237 00:10:45,819 --> 00:10:47,472 ♪ Ah, ah ♪ 238 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:49,431 ♪ Oh, yeah, we're coming ♪ 239 00:10:49,561 --> 00:10:51,563 ♪ Yeah, we're coming ♪ 240 00:10:51,651 --> 00:10:55,611 ♪ Oh, yeah, we're coming ♪ 241 00:10:55,655 --> 00:10:57,613 ♪ Oh, yeah, we're coming 242 00:10:57,700 --> 00:10:59,615 ♪ Yeah, yeah, we're coming ♪ 243 00:10:59,746 --> 00:11:02,183 ♪ Oh, yeah, I'm coming ♪ 244 00:11:02,270 --> 00:11:04,011 ♪ Oh, yeah, oh, yeah ♪ 245 00:11:04,098 --> 00:11:05,969 ♪ Oh, yeah, oh, yeah ♪ 246 00:11:06,100 --> 00:11:08,102 ♪ Oh, yeah, oh, yeah ♪ 247 00:11:08,232 --> 00:11:09,277 ♪ Oh, yeah, oh ♪ 248 00:11:12,672 --> 00:11:14,717 [cheers and applause] 249 00:11:14,804 --> 00:11:16,719 Well, that was boring. - They seem to like it. 250 00:11:16,763 --> 00:11:18,547 - Harmonies on "Plastic Fiends" were trash. 251 00:11:18,634 --> 00:11:20,070 - He's right. 252 00:11:20,157 --> 00:11:21,419 - And the front head on your kick is shimmering. 253 00:11:21,506 --> 00:11:23,291 Tune it up a step. - Singer's right. 254 00:11:23,334 --> 00:11:25,685 - And you left your tambourine in its stand, Larry. 255 00:11:25,772 --> 00:11:27,034 - Yeah, well, I was feeling the guitar. 256 00:11:27,121 --> 00:11:29,166 - No one is coming to hear your guitar, Larry. 257 00:11:29,253 --> 00:11:30,602 - No, they come for the Ozzy shtick. 258 00:11:30,646 --> 00:11:32,430 - "Dude, rage call to the Harmony Room. 259 00:11:32,517 --> 00:11:35,477 "Larry Slater's shredding it tonight," said no one ever. 260 00:11:35,564 --> 00:11:36,913 - You sign the checks, singer. 261 00:11:37,044 --> 00:11:38,872 - I do. I do sign the checks. - Sign this. 262 00:11:39,002 --> 00:11:41,439 - The tambourine tomorrow, as rehearsed and perfected. 263 00:11:41,526 --> 00:11:43,050 - Suck it, singer! - What am I signing? 264 00:11:43,180 --> 00:11:44,616 - Your night in Corvallis. - Ah. 265 00:11:44,704 --> 00:11:45,879 - You're buying the wife early retirement 266 00:11:45,966 --> 00:11:47,141 and her lawyer a lake boat. 267 00:11:47,228 --> 00:11:48,316 Use the pen. [fans screaming] 268 00:11:48,403 --> 00:11:49,534 - But it's funny because it's blood, 269 00:11:49,621 --> 00:11:51,406 and I'm a vampire. 270 00:11:51,493 --> 00:11:53,974 - Notaries in Oregon don't notarize in red ink. 271 00:11:54,061 --> 00:11:56,280 - There's the band, and there's the shell 272 00:11:56,367 --> 00:11:59,806 that protects the band from the world's envy. 273 00:11:59,849 --> 00:12:02,852 Our band shell was Christine Claire. 274 00:12:02,939 --> 00:12:06,682 She hired, fired, dictated, and castrated 275 00:12:06,769 --> 00:12:08,249 with extreme prejudice. 276 00:12:08,379 --> 00:12:09,859 - Try your best not to be you tonight. 277 00:12:09,903 --> 00:12:11,731 - We want the car. - No. 278 00:12:11,774 --> 00:12:13,863 - We'll be good. - Corvallis. 279 00:12:13,950 --> 00:12:17,127 - [chuckles] Who do you think? 280 00:12:17,214 --> 00:12:18,302 You. - Her. 281 00:12:18,389 --> 00:12:19,651 - [gasps] Me? 282 00:12:19,739 --> 00:12:21,305 - All right, sluts, out you go. 283 00:12:21,392 --> 00:12:24,656 - So I'm going into my vampire dressing room now. 284 00:12:24,744 --> 00:12:27,137 A little draining, both ways. 285 00:12:27,268 --> 00:12:28,748 You'll have to guess who gets the fangs 286 00:12:28,835 --> 00:12:30,924 and who gets the vodka bottle. 287 00:12:31,011 --> 00:12:33,013 And yes, it's a vodka bottle. 288 00:12:33,056 --> 00:12:34,405 [playful music] 289 00:12:34,492 --> 00:12:37,147 - He did it again. Fucking asshole. 290 00:12:37,234 --> 00:12:39,715 - Did I mention that I was filming a documentary 291 00:12:39,802 --> 00:12:41,761 at the time, a bootless errand 292 00:12:41,804 --> 00:12:44,024 helmed by a first-time director. 293 00:12:44,154 --> 00:12:46,722 I've seen a rough cut-- truthful and daring 294 00:12:46,809 --> 00:12:48,028 with less Warren Beatty. 295 00:12:48,158 --> 00:12:49,769 - Anyone see Jarda? - Hey, Jarda, heads up. 296 00:12:49,856 --> 00:12:51,945 - ♪ From the land of sky-blue waters ♪ 297 00:12:52,032 --> 00:12:53,816 [grunts] 298 00:12:53,903 --> 00:12:56,514 Ahoj. - Missing a contact again. 299 00:12:56,558 --> 00:12:58,255 - Oh, sakra. 300 00:12:58,342 --> 00:13:00,301 - How many drinks have you had? 301 00:13:00,344 --> 00:13:02,216 - 1 1/2. - Drive to the burbs. 302 00:13:02,303 --> 00:13:03,695 Sit by yourself in a booth at Applebee's. 303 00:13:03,739 --> 00:13:05,828 Order the usual. Big tip. 304 00:13:05,915 --> 00:13:07,221 Meet us back in the city. 305 00:13:07,308 --> 00:13:09,310 - Now, you'd think a 54-city rock tour 306 00:13:09,397 --> 00:13:11,486 would be a wonderful cover for a blood drinker. 307 00:13:11,616 --> 00:13:13,227 Hide your kill, hop on the bus, 308 00:13:13,357 --> 00:13:15,359 wave to the morgue reports in the rear view mirror, 309 00:13:15,446 --> 00:13:16,839 that kind of thing. 310 00:13:16,926 --> 00:13:19,276 But niche celebrity is a hunter's handicap, 311 00:13:19,363 --> 00:13:21,801 and a sloppy night in Corvallis made urgent 312 00:13:21,888 --> 00:13:23,106 the need for a body double. 313 00:13:23,237 --> 00:13:24,325 - Ahoj! [laughs] 314 00:13:24,455 --> 00:13:25,935 - His name was Jarda Klapek, 315 00:13:26,022 --> 00:13:27,937 and the Albanian gangsters Christine hired 316 00:13:28,024 --> 00:13:29,634 to find my doppelganger 317 00:13:29,721 --> 00:13:32,812 found him working construction in the Czech Republic. 318 00:13:32,942 --> 00:13:35,553 Three inches shorter than your velvet-mouth narrator, 319 00:13:35,597 --> 00:13:39,514 we fit him for lifts, blue eye contacts, and a wig 320 00:13:39,601 --> 00:13:42,386 and otherwise let him be Neanderthal me. 321 00:13:42,473 --> 00:13:44,780 I hunted this way, and we send him that way, 322 00:13:44,824 --> 00:13:48,001 and every sad photograph uploaded to Reddit or Discord 323 00:13:48,131 --> 00:13:51,091 of Jarda eating a tuna melt by himself 324 00:13:51,178 --> 00:13:54,572 only confirmed for most what they already believed... 325 00:13:54,703 --> 00:13:56,009 - Let's go! 326 00:13:56,139 --> 00:13:57,662 - That I, the Vampire Lestat, 327 00:13:57,749 --> 00:14:01,057 was Daniel Molloy's fictitious creation, 328 00:14:01,144 --> 00:14:03,059 and The Vampire Lestat, the band, was fronted 329 00:14:03,146 --> 00:14:06,454 by a bricklaying karaoke fanatic from Ostrava, 330 00:14:06,584 --> 00:14:08,456 nothing but a desperate cash grab at the end 331 00:14:08,543 --> 00:14:10,588 of a cheugy vampire fad. 332 00:14:10,675 --> 00:14:12,373 And I've only myself to blame for the timing, 333 00:14:12,503 --> 00:14:14,027 having locked us in an attic 334 00:14:14,157 --> 00:14:16,333 for a year-plus perfecting our sound, 335 00:14:16,464 --> 00:14:19,684 a sound I hoped would counter Mr. du Lac's portrayal of me 336 00:14:19,815 --> 00:14:22,600 as a mayonnaise villain with sociopathic tendencies. 337 00:14:22,687 --> 00:14:24,428 [laughs] 338 00:14:24,515 --> 00:14:26,778 All beside the point, because the point was, 339 00:14:26,866 --> 00:14:28,171 the point forever is... 340 00:14:28,302 --> 00:14:29,651 - I know you're real. 341 00:14:29,738 --> 00:14:32,436 - Most of humanity moved on from vampires, 342 00:14:32,523 --> 00:14:33,785 and rather quickly. 343 00:14:33,873 --> 00:14:36,092 Congratulations. 344 00:14:36,179 --> 00:14:38,486 Now go make friends. 345 00:14:38,573 --> 00:14:39,790 They lifted their heads 346 00:14:39,879 --> 00:14:41,793 from their algorithmic hand masters, 347 00:14:41,837 --> 00:14:45,972 uttered a collective "huh," and swiped left. 348 00:14:46,059 --> 00:14:48,583 I am the Vampire Lestat. 349 00:14:48,670 --> 00:14:50,498 I am a god. 350 00:14:50,628 --> 00:14:54,589 Gods are not swiped. 351 00:14:54,676 --> 00:14:56,156 - The Cuntessa. 352 00:14:56,199 --> 00:14:57,940 - The useful idiot. 353 00:14:58,027 --> 00:14:59,594 - Great show. 354 00:14:59,681 --> 00:15:02,118 - [grunts] You left before we started. 355 00:15:02,162 --> 00:15:04,338 - Yeah, I figured, Spotify some T. Rex 356 00:15:04,381 --> 00:15:06,644 and drag a little O neg from Dr. Fareed-Good here, 357 00:15:06,775 --> 00:15:07,819 same diff. 358 00:15:07,863 --> 00:15:09,169 - I am not here. 359 00:15:09,299 --> 00:15:10,518 - Can we mic you? 360 00:15:10,648 --> 00:15:12,172 TC punched the boom again. 361 00:15:12,302 --> 00:15:14,000 Yeah. OK. 362 00:15:14,087 --> 00:15:15,392 [phone pings] 363 00:15:19,527 --> 00:15:23,357 So, uh, you and Louis talking again? 364 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:25,837 He doesn't return my texts 365 00:15:25,968 --> 00:15:28,928 or my telepathy. 366 00:15:28,971 --> 00:15:31,104 I hear he's back in the States. 367 00:15:32,844 --> 00:15:34,629 We good? - We're good. 368 00:15:34,716 --> 00:15:36,761 Slate. [claps] 369 00:15:36,805 --> 00:15:40,548 - OK. 370 00:15:40,635 --> 00:15:43,899 You've been alive and undead for 265 years. 371 00:15:44,030 --> 00:15:46,989 You witnessed the French Revolution firsthand, 372 00:15:47,076 --> 00:15:48,730 the electric light, penicillin, 373 00:15:48,860 --> 00:15:50,950 two World Wars, the atomic bomb, 374 00:15:50,993 --> 00:15:52,821 the moon landing, the Berlin Wall-- 375 00:15:52,952 --> 00:15:54,257 - Joey Chestnut. 376 00:15:54,301 --> 00:15:55,476 - What? 377 00:15:55,606 --> 00:15:57,086 - He eats hot dogs for a living. 378 00:15:57,217 --> 00:15:58,870 He's extraordinary. I hope to meet him one day. 379 00:15:58,958 --> 00:16:00,394 Was there a question? 380 00:16:00,437 --> 00:16:02,352 - Having accumulated profound wisdom and experience 381 00:16:02,396 --> 00:16:04,659 through the dark gift of immortality, 382 00:16:04,702 --> 00:16:07,705 why have you chosen to waste it singing music 383 00:16:07,792 --> 00:16:09,316 no one wants to hear 384 00:16:09,359 --> 00:16:11,709 in pants no one should ever squeeze into? 385 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:13,363 - You ask this question every night. 386 00:16:13,407 --> 00:16:14,799 - And I get a different answer every night. 387 00:16:14,886 --> 00:16:17,063 - You'll get me to repeat myself soon enough, I am sure, 388 00:16:17,106 --> 00:16:19,282 once you confront your transformational trauma. 389 00:16:19,369 --> 00:16:21,415 - I don't have transformational trauma. 390 00:16:21,458 --> 00:16:23,983 - Mm, that's why these movie producers hired you, 391 00:16:24,070 --> 00:16:26,420 Daniel Molloy, Vampire Slayer. 392 00:16:26,507 --> 00:16:28,117 - They said you requested me. [phone pings] 393 00:16:28,161 --> 00:16:29,336 - [laughs] Absurd. 394 00:16:29,466 --> 00:16:31,120 - Oh, as absurd as a documentary 395 00:16:31,207 --> 00:16:34,167 about a rock band posing as vampires 396 00:16:34,297 --> 00:16:36,212 fronted by an actual vampire? 397 00:16:36,256 --> 00:16:38,606 - Directed by a vampire passing as a human. 398 00:16:38,693 --> 00:16:41,174 - You tell him, Fareed. 399 00:16:41,261 --> 00:16:44,568 - Is it true you were a stutterer as a child? 400 00:16:44,655 --> 00:16:47,223 Louis said you were. 401 00:16:47,310 --> 00:16:49,704 [light music] 402 00:16:49,790 --> 00:16:51,401 - [chuckles] 403 00:16:51,532 --> 00:16:53,621 Was he there in 18th-century Auvergne? 404 00:16:53,708 --> 00:16:54,883 - He said you told him that. 405 00:16:54,926 --> 00:16:57,233 - Did I threaten Claudia with rape on a train? 406 00:16:57,320 --> 00:16:58,495 Was I in the room 407 00:16:58,582 --> 00:17:01,455 when Donizetti wrote "Don Pasquale"? 408 00:17:01,542 --> 00:17:04,240 No, no, and impossible, 409 00:17:04,371 --> 00:17:06,676 because I had buried myself underground 410 00:17:06,763 --> 00:17:08,679 for the vast majority of the 1800s. 411 00:17:08,723 --> 00:17:10,464 - I wrote what he told me. 412 00:17:10,550 --> 00:17:13,467 I don't have trauma, I love being a vampire, 413 00:17:13,554 --> 00:17:16,165 and can you drop the Fledgling Speak and Spell? 414 00:17:16,252 --> 00:17:22,998 ♪ ♪ 415 00:17:23,085 --> 00:17:26,696 - The dark, dreary industrial world 416 00:17:26,784 --> 00:17:31,050 has finally submitted to automation. 417 00:17:31,093 --> 00:17:34,009 Laborers stand in their doorways 418 00:17:34,053 --> 00:17:37,230 hitting their pipes as their children half-pipe 419 00:17:37,317 --> 00:17:40,450 in their drained, empty swimming pools. 420 00:17:40,537 --> 00:17:44,193 Drug stores locked up baby formula and shaving cream 421 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:48,632 while Saks ate Barneys and someone told everyone 422 00:17:48,719 --> 00:17:51,983 that Lululemon was sexy. 423 00:17:52,071 --> 00:17:55,117 Facts are irrelevant. 424 00:17:55,204 --> 00:17:58,294 Feels are everything. 425 00:17:58,381 --> 00:18:01,297 And the value of human life, 426 00:18:01,384 --> 00:18:05,040 it has never been more arbitrary. 427 00:18:05,127 --> 00:18:10,350 David, Freddie, Prince Rogers, they're all gone, 428 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:13,657 and the lights on Tay Tay's eras have dimmed. 429 00:18:13,744 --> 00:18:16,443 Fire coming down the hill, 430 00:18:16,573 --> 00:18:20,969 water moving in on Nantucket. 431 00:18:21,056 --> 00:18:25,016 No more safe spaces. 432 00:18:25,060 --> 00:18:27,715 It's my era now. 433 00:18:30,805 --> 00:18:33,547 - Post Malone and Jelly Roll playing there tonight. 434 00:18:33,634 --> 00:18:36,376 60,000 for Face Tattoo Palooza. 435 00:18:36,463 --> 00:18:38,900 You played an 800-seat venue. - [laughs] 436 00:18:38,943 --> 00:18:40,206 - How is it your era? 437 00:18:43,383 --> 00:18:45,341 - I'm vain and shallow and fear an empty seat. 438 00:18:45,428 --> 00:18:47,996 Ask me an easy one. 439 00:18:48,083 --> 00:18:52,609 - Is it true your band was formed on Halloween? 440 00:18:57,962 --> 00:18:59,877 - You are listening to "The Failures"... 441 00:18:59,921 --> 00:19:01,444 [rock music playing] 442 00:19:01,531 --> 00:19:03,533 Album 2, Side B. 443 00:19:03,620 --> 00:19:05,883 ♪ ♪ 444 00:19:05,970 --> 00:19:08,930 - [vocalizing] 445 00:19:09,060 --> 00:19:11,846 [soft piano music] 446 00:19:11,976 --> 00:19:18,853 ♪ ♪ 447 00:19:24,337 --> 00:19:26,817 [plays discordant notes] 448 00:19:26,904 --> 00:19:28,428 What do you think? 449 00:19:28,515 --> 00:19:29,994 - It's nice. 450 00:19:30,125 --> 00:19:32,432 - Nice? - Yeah. It's nice. 451 00:19:32,562 --> 00:19:34,260 I don't--I don't see Beyoncé covering it. 452 00:19:34,303 --> 00:19:37,132 [dings] But it's nice. 453 00:19:37,219 --> 00:19:38,525 - Nice is nothing. 454 00:19:38,568 --> 00:19:40,918 - Oh, it--it's nice... - Nice is a balloon. 455 00:19:41,005 --> 00:19:41,963 - That you're back writing music. 456 00:19:42,006 --> 00:19:43,530 - A flower box is nice. 457 00:19:43,617 --> 00:19:45,401 - It's nice that you got yourself a nice place. 458 00:19:45,488 --> 00:19:47,142 It's a nice word, 459 00:19:47,273 --> 00:19:49,231 and it says everything I wanted to express. 460 00:19:49,318 --> 00:19:52,713 Don't be a bitch about it. - [chuckles] 461 00:19:52,756 --> 00:19:54,889 You should come visit. - [chuckles] 462 00:19:54,976 --> 00:19:57,718 - I have a space above the bed in one of the guest rooms 463 00:19:57,848 --> 00:19:59,502 I can't find a painting for. 464 00:19:59,546 --> 00:20:01,330 - Oh, the guest room. 465 00:20:01,461 --> 00:20:03,593 You want me to come and see your guest room. 466 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:05,508 - It's an affluent neighborhood. 467 00:20:05,595 --> 00:20:08,076 Old money, young professionals, 468 00:20:08,163 --> 00:20:10,252 a smattering of criss-de-trust-fund-bébé. 469 00:20:10,383 --> 00:20:14,213 - Mmm, good eating. - [chuckles] 470 00:20:14,343 --> 00:20:18,042 Same potholes, but no hurricanes, 471 00:20:18,129 --> 00:20:20,262 no witches. 472 00:20:20,306 --> 00:20:23,744 And everyone mangles French just like you do. 473 00:20:23,831 --> 00:20:24,962 Come to me. 474 00:20:25,006 --> 00:20:26,703 - Montreal. 475 00:20:26,790 --> 00:20:29,184 I am he, and he is me. 476 00:20:29,271 --> 00:20:31,882 [dings] - Less baggage here. 477 00:20:31,926 --> 00:20:34,711 - I get it. I get it. 478 00:20:34,798 --> 00:20:39,238 - Besides, there's an Olmsted park nearby if I get homesick, 479 00:20:39,325 --> 00:20:42,893 and there's a garage band rehearsing across the street 480 00:20:42,980 --> 00:20:47,855 who call themselves, of all things, Satan... 481 00:20:47,942 --> 00:20:50,553 - They call themselves Of All Things Satan? 482 00:20:50,597 --> 00:20:52,076 - Satan's Night Ou... 483 00:20:52,207 --> 00:20:53,556 - Sat--Satan's Night Owl? 484 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:55,732 - Out. Satan's Night Out. 485 00:20:55,819 --> 00:20:57,473 - OK. Makes sense. 486 00:20:57,604 --> 00:21:01,477 - Louis, do you know someone called Daniel Molloy? 487 00:21:01,608 --> 00:21:03,044 - Uh... 488 00:21:03,174 --> 00:21:04,698 I burned his laptop! 489 00:21:04,785 --> 00:21:06,526 I didn't know he had it saved in the cloud. 490 00:21:06,656 --> 00:21:08,267 I only found out it was coming out a month ago. 491 00:21:08,397 --> 00:21:09,442 - You've known for a month? 492 00:21:09,572 --> 00:21:11,008 And you talk about me in it to a mortal? 493 00:21:11,139 --> 00:21:12,401 - Well, yeah. 494 00:21:12,488 --> 00:21:14,795 Yeah, kind of--but, you know-- 495 00:21:14,882 --> 00:21:16,579 - No, I don't know, Louis. 496 00:21:16,710 --> 00:21:18,538 Please explain yourself. 497 00:21:18,668 --> 00:21:20,366 - It's gonna be here and gone in a minute. 498 00:21:20,496 --> 00:21:21,671 No one reads anymore. 499 00:21:21,758 --> 00:21:24,587 [both speaking French] 500 00:21:29,244 --> 00:21:32,595 [card reader beeping] 501 00:21:41,038 --> 00:21:42,649 - Mm. 502 00:21:46,392 --> 00:21:47,480 [card reader dings] 503 00:22:02,625 --> 00:22:03,670 - Oh. 504 00:22:05,802 --> 00:22:07,021 - No, thank you! 505 00:22:11,721 --> 00:22:14,768 Oh. 506 00:22:14,855 --> 00:22:17,858 Oh, I know what infinitesimal means! 507 00:22:19,381 --> 00:22:20,382 It was raining. 508 00:22:20,426 --> 00:22:21,383 No! 509 00:22:21,470 --> 00:22:22,515 No. 510 00:22:22,602 --> 00:22:27,737 Never fucking... 511 00:22:27,824 --> 00:22:29,043 Liar! 512 00:22:29,130 --> 00:22:31,262 I'm not a harlequin. 513 00:22:31,393 --> 00:22:33,700 - Your sources are your sherpas. 514 00:22:33,787 --> 00:22:36,311 Your editor is your priest. 515 00:22:36,442 --> 00:22:37,530 - Don't go to the F. 516 00:22:37,617 --> 00:22:38,879 [distant rock music playing] 517 00:22:38,966 --> 00:22:41,490 G sus out. Why must you complicate it? 518 00:22:41,621 --> 00:22:43,405 [doorbell rings] Mm. 519 00:22:43,492 --> 00:22:45,581 all: Trick or treat. 520 00:22:45,712 --> 00:22:48,062 - Candy, please. - [speaking French] 521 00:22:48,105 --> 00:22:50,673 - Hello. 522 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:52,066 - Bon Halloween. 523 00:22:52,109 --> 00:22:54,764 - Oh, I wanted the full-size bar. 524 00:22:54,895 --> 00:22:55,939 - Is that it? - [speaking French] 525 00:22:56,026 --> 00:22:57,811 [children chattering] 526 00:22:57,898 --> 00:23:00,422 - Thank you. - Oh. 527 00:23:00,509 --> 00:23:03,382 Your camera is not period correct. 528 00:23:03,469 --> 00:23:04,818 - I have a peanut allergy. 529 00:23:04,905 --> 00:23:07,690 - Well, allergies are delusional. 530 00:23:07,734 --> 00:23:08,996 - I'll take the Mounds. 531 00:23:09,083 --> 00:23:11,172 - You'll take whatever I give you! 532 00:23:11,215 --> 00:23:12,956 - That guy was mean. 533 00:23:13,043 --> 00:23:15,872 - [breathing heavily] 534 00:23:15,959 --> 00:23:23,010 ♪ ♪ 535 00:23:23,097 --> 00:23:25,882 [guitar wailing discordantly] 536 00:23:25,969 --> 00:23:28,972 ♪ ♪ 537 00:23:29,059 --> 00:23:31,975 [moaning] 538 00:23:32,019 --> 00:23:35,457 Not--not the F! 539 00:23:35,501 --> 00:23:39,026 [growling] 540 00:23:39,113 --> 00:23:42,290 [guitar wailing] [clattering] 541 00:23:42,333 --> 00:23:45,511 ♪ 542 00:23:45,554 --> 00:23:48,557 - [shouting] 543 00:23:48,644 --> 00:23:49,732 Come on, Larry! 544 00:23:49,776 --> 00:23:52,518 [laughing] Yeah! 545 00:23:52,605 --> 00:23:55,521 [playing guitar solo] 546 00:23:55,608 --> 00:23:58,611 [band fades out] 547 00:23:58,741 --> 00:24:03,572 ♪ ♪ 548 00:24:03,616 --> 00:24:04,878 - Dude, what the fuck? 549 00:24:05,008 --> 00:24:10,840 - G minor sus out! 550 00:24:10,927 --> 00:24:12,581 This isn't 1979. 551 00:24:12,712 --> 00:24:14,540 Bela Lugosi is not dead. 552 00:24:14,583 --> 00:24:18,021 You don't need to finger her for five bars. 553 00:24:18,065 --> 00:24:20,023 You're hurting her. 554 00:24:20,154 --> 00:24:22,461 - Is that our neighbor? - Um, yeah. 555 00:24:22,548 --> 00:24:24,680 - Apologies for the Squier. 556 00:24:24,811 --> 00:24:27,204 My man Arturo will come in the morning 557 00:24:27,248 --> 00:24:28,945 with a replacement 558 00:24:28,989 --> 00:24:31,731 and a new front door. 559 00:24:31,818 --> 00:24:34,734 More frequent showers. 560 00:24:34,777 --> 00:24:35,996 - Thank you. 561 00:24:39,216 --> 00:24:40,609 - What was the question again? 562 00:24:40,653 --> 00:24:41,567 [gentle guitar music] 563 00:24:41,610 --> 00:24:42,829 - Why music? 564 00:24:42,916 --> 00:24:44,874 - Hey. Hey. 565 00:24:45,005 --> 00:24:46,702 - Why now? 566 00:24:46,789 --> 00:24:48,051 - Dude, that was sick. 567 00:24:48,138 --> 00:24:51,446 - What are we doing here? 568 00:24:51,577 --> 00:24:54,405 - We're doing a rewrite. 569 00:24:54,536 --> 00:24:58,845 - So this whole tour is just some Byronic reaction 570 00:24:58,932 --> 00:25:00,150 to my book? 571 00:25:00,194 --> 00:25:02,413 Who better to refute the book 572 00:25:02,501 --> 00:25:04,198 than the man who wrote the book? 573 00:25:04,241 --> 00:25:06,983 - Mm, well, the songs are my story, 574 00:25:07,070 --> 00:25:08,681 your documentary the liner notes. 575 00:25:08,768 --> 00:25:09,943 - [laughs] Liner notes? 576 00:25:09,986 --> 00:25:11,901 I won two Pulitzers. 577 00:25:11,988 --> 00:25:14,730 I'm taking this thing to Cannes, OK? 578 00:25:14,817 --> 00:25:16,732 I'm gonna be slapping Chris Rock 579 00:25:16,819 --> 00:25:19,082 and stroking my Oscar. 580 00:25:19,213 --> 00:25:21,432 - The brat sings, the brat dies. 581 00:25:21,563 --> 00:25:22,999 The Great Laws are clear on this. 582 00:25:23,086 --> 00:25:24,784 - [speaking Farsi] 583 00:25:24,871 --> 00:25:27,569 - More exposure for us, more risk for us. 584 00:25:27,656 --> 00:25:29,832 - [speaking Farsi] 585 00:25:29,876 --> 00:25:31,834 - [speaking Spanish] 586 00:25:31,921 --> 00:25:33,662 - He sings for himself. 587 00:25:33,749 --> 00:25:35,403 - [speaking Japanese] 588 00:25:35,534 --> 00:25:36,883 - Make more! 589 00:25:36,970 --> 00:25:38,580 - Only a coven leader can make more. 590 00:25:38,711 --> 00:25:40,669 The Great Laws are clear on that. 591 00:25:40,756 --> 00:25:43,150 First the book, now the singer. 592 00:25:43,237 --> 00:25:44,325 This is chaos uncaged. 593 00:25:44,412 --> 00:25:46,153 - [speaking Farsi] 594 00:25:46,196 --> 00:25:48,851 - [speaking Spanish] 595 00:25:48,938 --> 00:25:51,071 ♪ ♪ 596 00:25:51,201 --> 00:25:55,684 - ♪ My little heart's reflection ♪ 597 00:25:55,771 --> 00:25:59,601 ♪ You've got a confession ♪ 598 00:25:59,688 --> 00:26:01,821 ♪ You used to find ♪ 599 00:26:01,908 --> 00:26:04,693 [distant shouting and honking] 600 00:26:08,697 --> 00:26:11,570 [keyboard tapping] 601 00:26:14,398 --> 00:26:17,271 [distant sirens wailing] 602 00:26:24,060 --> 00:26:26,280 [tires squeal] 603 00:26:41,512 --> 00:26:44,428 [distant cheering] 604 00:26:57,616 --> 00:27:00,531 [energetic violin music] 605 00:27:00,619 --> 00:27:07,626 ♪ ♪ 606 00:27:09,323 --> 00:27:12,152 ["Black Licorice" playing] 607 00:27:12,195 --> 00:27:19,159 ♪ 608 00:27:34,261 --> 00:27:37,133 - ♪ I caught a real live one ♪ 609 00:27:37,220 --> 00:27:38,569 ♪ Didn't blink ♪ 610 00:27:38,657 --> 00:27:40,180 ♪ Didn't try to run ♪ 611 00:27:40,310 --> 00:27:42,530 ♪ I caught a real live one ♪ 612 00:27:42,573 --> 00:27:44,575 ♪ 613 00:27:44,663 --> 00:27:46,186 ♪ Sucking on the sun ♪ 614 00:27:46,273 --> 00:27:47,666 ♪ No time for glowing up ♪ 615 00:27:47,796 --> 00:27:49,276 ♪ No time for throwing up ♪ 616 00:27:49,363 --> 00:27:50,669 ♪ No time for vibing out ♪ 617 00:27:50,799 --> 00:27:52,192 ♪ Your phone is blowing up ♪ 618 00:27:52,322 --> 00:27:55,282 ♪ I caught a real live one ♪ 619 00:27:55,369 --> 00:27:57,284 ♪ No time for "I ride my stepbrother ♪ 620 00:27:57,414 --> 00:27:58,589 ♪ Till he come" ♪ 621 00:27:58,677 --> 00:28:00,896 ♪ Doo, doo, doo, dah, dah, dah ♪ 622 00:28:00,940 --> 00:28:02,202 ♪ Don't wanna smash your Slack ♪ 623 00:28:02,332 --> 00:28:04,465 ♪ Or be your morning star ♪ 624 00:28:04,508 --> 00:28:07,207 ♪ Don't wanna learn another TikTok dance ♪ 625 00:28:07,294 --> 00:28:08,774 ♪ Wanna stay in bed ♪ 626 00:28:08,861 --> 00:28:14,083 ♪ Eating black licorice ♪ 627 00:28:14,170 --> 00:28:15,781 ♪ ♪ 628 00:28:15,911 --> 00:28:17,347 ♪ Ooh ♪ 629 00:28:17,478 --> 00:28:19,959 [distant music and cheering] 630 00:28:20,046 --> 00:28:21,787 - Beef House in the Twin Oaks Mall. 631 00:28:21,830 --> 00:28:23,310 Order at the bar this time. 632 00:28:23,353 --> 00:28:25,747 Take some photos with the fans I've planted there. 633 00:28:25,878 --> 00:28:26,835 - ♪ Keep 'em scrolling, rolling ♪ 634 00:28:26,922 --> 00:28:28,271 ♪ Fire emojin', aubergines ♪ 635 00:28:28,358 --> 00:28:29,882 - [sniffs] 636 00:28:32,711 --> 00:28:34,495 Hi, papi. 637 00:28:34,538 --> 00:28:36,236 - ♪ I've been a bad boy 638 00:28:36,323 --> 00:28:37,759 ♪ Deep down in my heart ♪ 639 00:28:37,846 --> 00:28:39,543 ♪ I kept a really dark secret ♪ 640 00:28:39,630 --> 00:28:40,849 ♪ From the very start ♪ 641 00:28:40,936 --> 00:28:42,982 ♪ Give me a million more screams ♪ 642 00:28:43,025 --> 00:28:44,505 [crowd screaming] 643 00:28:44,592 --> 00:28:46,768 ♪ Means exactly what you think it means ♪ 644 00:28:46,855 --> 00:28:49,640 ♪ Doo, doo, doo, dah, dah, dah ♪ 645 00:28:49,684 --> 00:28:50,729 ♪ Don't wanna smash your Slack ♪ 646 00:28:50,859 --> 00:28:52,948 ♪ Or be your morning star ♪ 647 00:28:53,035 --> 00:28:55,646 ♪ Don't wanna learn a fucking TikTok dance ♪ 648 00:28:55,734 --> 00:28:57,431 ♪ Wanna stay in bed ♪ 649 00:28:57,518 --> 00:28:58,824 ♪ Eating black licorice ♪ 650 00:28:58,911 --> 00:29:05,526 ♪ ♪ 651 00:29:06,614 --> 00:29:09,312 Pick up the fucking tambourine! 652 00:29:09,399 --> 00:29:13,664 From the alps of adequacy to the canyon of coup d'etat, 653 00:29:13,752 --> 00:29:17,233 two nights in a row, my violin competing with his guitar 654 00:29:17,364 --> 00:29:18,800 for the solo break. 655 00:29:18,844 --> 00:29:22,064 Two centuries waiting to share my music, 656 00:29:22,151 --> 00:29:25,285 two years as Mr. du Lac's B-movie brute. 657 00:29:25,372 --> 00:29:27,374 [distorted chord] 658 00:29:27,461 --> 00:29:30,072 But just as I was about to bridge the bridge 659 00:29:30,116 --> 00:29:32,683 with murder and mayhem, 660 00:29:32,771 --> 00:29:35,774 something quite surprising happened. 661 00:29:35,861 --> 00:29:39,995 My music wrapped itself around me like a jungle snake 662 00:29:40,082 --> 00:29:41,997 constricting its prey, 663 00:29:42,128 --> 00:29:44,217 and a lifetime of blood bartering 664 00:29:44,304 --> 00:29:47,437 overwhelmed the temporal lobe. 665 00:29:47,568 --> 00:29:51,050 Muses appeared in my mind and in the now around me. 666 00:29:51,137 --> 00:29:53,704 [gasps] 667 00:29:53,792 --> 00:29:56,795 Memories taking their turn. 668 00:29:56,838 --> 00:29:59,406 [gasping] 669 00:29:59,536 --> 00:30:03,279 Blood in, blood out. 670 00:30:03,366 --> 00:30:06,152 [ambient ringing] 671 00:30:06,239 --> 00:30:09,242 Hammering away at the performative vampire persona 672 00:30:09,372 --> 00:30:11,635 I had welded into armor. 673 00:30:14,551 --> 00:30:15,944 The armor cracked. 674 00:30:16,075 --> 00:30:18,599 [clanks] [gasping] 675 00:30:18,642 --> 00:30:21,602 The bridge buckled. 676 00:30:21,645 --> 00:30:26,389 And the bona fide vampire emerged center stage. 677 00:30:26,476 --> 00:30:30,480 It was I who had been adequate. 678 00:30:30,567 --> 00:30:34,658 It was I who had been holding us back, 679 00:30:34,789 --> 00:30:38,271 and now, exposed in the raw 680 00:30:38,358 --> 00:30:41,578 under the white hot lights, 681 00:30:41,665 --> 00:30:44,364 my bandmates began to feed. 682 00:30:44,451 --> 00:30:46,801 - ♪ I wanna stay in bed eating black licorice ♪ 683 00:30:46,888 --> 00:30:49,804 - And that sound I had been grinding them for 684 00:30:49,848 --> 00:30:52,285 was finally unleashed, 685 00:30:52,415 --> 00:30:56,115 a euphoric grottiness spilling into the crowd, 686 00:30:56,202 --> 00:30:59,379 into their bodies, enveloping the venue. 687 00:30:59,466 --> 00:31:01,990 [vocalizing] 688 00:31:02,034 --> 00:31:03,949 ♪ I wanna stay in bed 689 00:31:04,036 --> 00:31:05,254 ♪ Eating black licorice ♪ 690 00:31:05,385 --> 00:31:08,388 [vocalizing] 691 00:31:08,475 --> 00:31:09,868 ♪ I wanna stay in bed ♪ 692 00:31:09,955 --> 00:31:11,608 ♪ Eating black licorice ♪ 693 00:31:11,739 --> 00:31:14,394 [vocalizing] 694 00:31:14,481 --> 00:31:16,048 ♪ I wanna stay in bed ♪ 695 00:31:16,178 --> 00:31:17,614 - ♪ Eating black licorice ♪ 696 00:31:17,745 --> 00:31:20,400 [vocalizing] 697 00:31:20,487 --> 00:31:21,880 ♪ I wanna stay in bed - [gasping] 698 00:31:22,010 --> 00:31:23,620 - ♪ Eating black licorice ♪ 699 00:31:23,751 --> 00:31:26,232 [crowd screaming] 700 00:31:26,319 --> 00:31:28,016 ♪ I wanna stay in bed ♪ 701 00:31:28,060 --> 00:31:29,626 ♪ Eating black licorice 702 00:31:29,757 --> 00:31:32,542 [vocalizing] 703 00:31:32,629 --> 00:31:34,196 ♪ I wanna stay in bed ♪ 704 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:35,589 ♪ Eating black licorice 705 00:31:35,676 --> 00:31:37,156 [door slams] 706 00:31:37,243 --> 00:31:38,418 - [breathing heavily] 707 00:31:38,548 --> 00:31:42,335 Which one of you's OD'd before? 708 00:31:42,422 --> 00:31:44,032 What do you do? 709 00:31:44,163 --> 00:31:45,468 - What did she take? 710 00:31:45,555 --> 00:31:47,035 - Not her. 711 00:31:47,122 --> 00:31:48,210 Me. 712 00:31:48,341 --> 00:31:50,082 - Get her on the ground. 713 00:31:50,169 --> 00:31:53,128 - Her blood. 714 00:31:53,215 --> 00:31:54,825 Ecstasy. - You dead man'd her, man! 715 00:31:54,913 --> 00:31:56,610 - LSD. 716 00:31:56,697 --> 00:31:58,220 - [distantly] What the hell happened up there? 717 00:31:58,351 --> 00:31:59,526 - [breathing heavily] 718 00:31:59,569 --> 00:32:01,920 - Can't OD on a candy plate. 719 00:32:02,050 --> 00:32:04,313 - What the hell were you doing? 720 00:32:04,357 --> 00:32:07,012 - I should have quit right there and then. 721 00:32:07,099 --> 00:32:10,450 Would have been a lovely footnote to my life, the band, 722 00:32:10,537 --> 00:32:13,192 but the muses were just beginning. 723 00:32:13,322 --> 00:32:14,671 [moaning] 724 00:32:14,758 --> 00:32:16,891 - You done this to me? 725 00:32:16,978 --> 00:32:19,241 - What are you doing? - Calling 9-1-1. 726 00:32:19,328 --> 00:32:22,549 - I lost myself on stage for a moment. 727 00:32:22,636 --> 00:32:26,553 - [chuckles] Seems you still lost. 728 00:32:26,596 --> 00:32:28,816 These songs gonna kill you. You know that, don't you? 729 00:32:28,947 --> 00:32:30,339 - I can't die. 730 00:32:30,426 --> 00:32:32,254 - [laughs] Everything dies. 731 00:32:32,341 --> 00:32:35,127 You die. I die. 732 00:32:35,214 --> 00:32:36,867 She dies. 733 00:32:36,998 --> 00:32:38,391 She dies. 734 00:32:38,434 --> 00:32:39,870 Oh, he dies bad. 735 00:32:39,914 --> 00:32:42,090 [light music] 736 00:32:42,177 --> 00:32:43,874 - I'm immortal. - [laughs] 737 00:32:44,005 --> 00:32:46,399 Yeah, you kill some wolves and fall in love. 738 00:32:46,442 --> 00:32:48,488 Get the gift, fall in love. 739 00:32:48,575 --> 00:32:51,404 Go to ground, get dug up, and fall in love. 740 00:32:51,447 --> 00:32:53,797 You're like some wet clothes in a coin op dryer, 741 00:32:53,928 --> 00:32:57,366 just 265 years round and round. 742 00:32:57,497 --> 00:32:58,541 [laughs] 743 00:32:58,585 --> 00:33:00,935 Why you so sad? 744 00:33:00,979 --> 00:33:02,763 Thousands of fans loving you. 745 00:33:02,893 --> 00:33:05,113 - I want millions. 746 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:09,335 - And that'll top off that heart of yours? 747 00:33:09,422 --> 00:33:11,119 - Billions. 748 00:33:11,206 --> 00:33:13,992 - Then why you always gotta make it so hard 749 00:33:14,122 --> 00:33:15,558 for someone to give it to you? 750 00:33:15,645 --> 00:33:17,604 - Huh? 751 00:33:17,691 --> 00:33:18,779 Who told you that? 752 00:33:18,822 --> 00:33:20,520 - [laughs] Don't worry. 753 00:33:20,607 --> 00:33:22,739 They comin'. 754 00:33:22,783 --> 00:33:24,045 - Who's coming? 755 00:33:24,176 --> 00:33:26,221 - Oh, they gonna tell you themselves. 756 00:33:26,265 --> 00:33:27,788 [laughing] 757 00:33:27,875 --> 00:33:28,963 - Who's coming? 758 00:33:29,094 --> 00:33:29,920 - Great show tonight. 759 00:33:30,051 --> 00:33:30,921 - Who? 760 00:33:31,009 --> 00:33:32,010 - [gasps] 761 00:33:35,187 --> 00:33:37,102 - You are listening to "The Failures," 762 00:33:37,232 --> 00:33:38,929 Album 5, Side B. 763 00:33:39,060 --> 00:33:40,714 [distant moaning] - [breathing heavily] 764 00:33:40,844 --> 00:33:44,152 If you take nothing else away from your exorbitant purchase, 765 00:33:44,283 --> 00:33:46,024 heed this advice. 766 00:33:46,111 --> 00:33:49,636 Never play two nights in Detroit. 767 00:33:49,679 --> 00:33:52,204 You'll wind up in Windsor with a broken orbital bone 768 00:33:52,334 --> 00:33:54,771 listening to transactional sex through the adjoining walls. 769 00:33:54,815 --> 00:33:56,295 [indistinct moaning and shouting] 770 00:33:56,382 --> 00:33:58,384 How I came to this squalid real estate 771 00:33:58,427 --> 00:34:01,126 is the premise of Side B, Album 5, so... 772 00:34:01,213 --> 00:34:02,997 [phone pings] [sighs] 773 00:34:03,084 --> 00:34:05,173 Uh-huh, come! 774 00:34:05,260 --> 00:34:06,653 [funky music] 775 00:34:06,783 --> 00:34:08,393 Now, the boutique hotel we were staying at 776 00:34:08,481 --> 00:34:10,744 was having a grand-ish opening that night, 777 00:34:10,831 --> 00:34:12,833 and the band was asked to lend its celebrity status 778 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:14,007 to the event. 779 00:34:14,052 --> 00:34:15,618 - Don't tell me to pose. 780 00:34:15,748 --> 00:34:17,141 Fuck you. 781 00:34:17,228 --> 00:34:19,231 - There was a red carpet, a pap line, 782 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:21,536 and a vampire DJ of some renown 783 00:34:21,668 --> 00:34:24,149 seducing corporate employees, provincial influencers, 784 00:34:24,235 --> 00:34:25,933 and party crashing Beautifully Unwell. 785 00:34:26,063 --> 00:34:27,674 - Move faster. Thank you. Thank you. 786 00:34:27,804 --> 00:34:30,329 - I was having sex in an elevator with Dee 787 00:34:30,371 --> 00:34:32,940 and the girl I had just overindulged myself with 788 00:34:33,027 --> 00:34:34,594 earlier in the night. 789 00:34:34,637 --> 00:34:38,554 Actually, that happens... later. 790 00:34:38,641 --> 00:34:39,815 A lot of things happened that night. 791 00:34:39,902 --> 00:34:41,121 Huh. 792 00:34:41,253 --> 00:34:42,428 - Come on. Come on, come on, come on! 793 00:34:42,514 --> 00:34:44,125 [tires screeching] 794 00:34:44,212 --> 00:34:45,692 - [clears throat] 795 00:34:45,779 --> 00:34:49,652 The band is inside with Dan in the VIP perch. 796 00:34:49,739 --> 00:34:52,481 I'm giving the paps my pussycat 797 00:34:52,525 --> 00:34:54,222 with no idea that I would be in a fang fight 798 00:34:54,309 --> 00:34:55,440 less than an hour later. 799 00:34:55,527 --> 00:34:56,485 [screaming] 800 00:34:56,616 --> 00:34:57,965 No, no, no, no. 801 00:34:58,052 --> 00:35:00,010 I'm getting ahead of myself again. 802 00:35:00,054 --> 00:35:02,752 I arrive fashionably late, of course. 803 00:35:02,839 --> 00:35:04,014 - State your name for the camera. 804 00:35:04,102 --> 00:35:05,581 - Baby Jenks. 805 00:35:05,712 --> 00:35:09,716 - OK, Baby, tell me, why do you like The Vampire Lestat? 806 00:35:09,803 --> 00:35:11,239 - Like, I'm gonna be in the movie? 807 00:35:11,326 --> 00:35:12,806 - Oh, you're in it now. 808 00:35:12,893 --> 00:35:16,375 - I am feeling good. 809 00:35:16,462 --> 00:35:18,681 Surfing the sublime candy-flipped wave 810 00:35:18,768 --> 00:35:19,813 of the girl's blood. 811 00:35:19,943 --> 00:35:22,250 - You're him. You're that voice. 812 00:35:22,337 --> 00:35:24,644 - The girl is feeling good... Wow. 813 00:35:24,687 --> 00:35:26,689 Riding the wonders of Dr. Fareed's 814 00:35:26,776 --> 00:35:29,083 blood transfusion quick pick-me-up cocktail. 815 00:35:29,170 --> 00:35:30,867 - Who's that guy, 'cause, like, 816 00:35:30,911 --> 00:35:32,782 rock and roll, it's dying. 817 00:35:32,869 --> 00:35:35,655 - I sat there soaking up her praise 818 00:35:35,698 --> 00:35:37,918 along with the band, still somehow blind 819 00:35:38,005 --> 00:35:40,790 to the vampiric mysteries of their front man. 820 00:35:40,877 --> 00:35:42,966 So what if the dead and buried past 821 00:35:43,053 --> 00:35:45,317 was now a fresh and eager groupie? 822 00:35:45,447 --> 00:35:47,014 It's rock and roll, you know? 823 00:35:47,101 --> 00:35:48,842 Have a nervous breakdown onstage, 824 00:35:48,885 --> 00:35:50,191 chat it up with the floating girl 825 00:35:50,278 --> 00:35:51,845 on the ceiling you almost killed, 826 00:35:51,975 --> 00:35:53,673 have sex with her in the elevator-- 827 00:35:53,803 --> 00:35:54,848 ah, I'm still not there yet. 828 00:35:54,935 --> 00:35:56,110 [chuckles] 829 00:35:56,197 --> 00:35:58,808 MDMA and LSD, 830 00:35:58,895 --> 00:36:00,984 the Torvill and Dean of hallucinogenics. 831 00:36:01,071 --> 00:36:02,203 - And so then everybody's like, 832 00:36:02,290 --> 00:36:04,205 is rock and roll actually dying? 833 00:36:04,292 --> 00:36:06,729 - [telepathically] Were you a stutterer as a child? 834 00:36:06,860 --> 00:36:08,644 - They walk into the ER. 835 00:36:08,731 --> 00:36:12,735 They are, like, the doctor, and Lestat's the scalpel. 836 00:36:12,779 --> 00:36:15,434 - I'm the scalpel. Print the T-shirts. 837 00:36:15,564 --> 00:36:18,872 - And so he, the scalpel, 838 00:36:18,959 --> 00:36:23,442 cuts into rock and roll's heart like he cut into mine tonight. 839 00:36:23,529 --> 00:36:26,314 And he has the heart in his mouth. 840 00:36:26,401 --> 00:36:29,665 He's like, "Do you wanna fuck?" 841 00:36:29,752 --> 00:36:32,712 And rock and roll is like, "Yes, bitch!" 842 00:36:32,842 --> 00:36:35,541 - I excused myself to the men's room. 843 00:36:35,671 --> 00:36:37,847 Didn't read about vampire physiology 844 00:36:37,934 --> 00:36:39,893 in Mr. du Lac's memoir, did you? 845 00:36:39,980 --> 00:36:42,765 No mention of the scars on my chest either. 846 00:36:42,809 --> 00:36:45,420 Hair stopping way above my shoulders. 847 00:36:45,507 --> 00:36:47,727 And just for the record, no ticket pocket of mine 848 00:36:47,814 --> 00:36:49,729 ever had his initials inscribed onto them. 849 00:36:49,816 --> 00:36:51,774 I mean, these are the editorial wags 850 00:36:51,861 --> 00:36:53,472 of an insane person. 851 00:36:53,515 --> 00:36:55,387 [clears throat] 852 00:36:55,517 --> 00:36:58,303 Note to self, edit that out in the final version. 853 00:36:58,433 --> 00:36:59,652 Starting again. 854 00:36:59,695 --> 00:37:01,436 Vampires pee. 855 00:37:01,567 --> 00:37:03,003 We don't do it as often as you do, 856 00:37:03,090 --> 00:37:04,831 assuming you're not one of us. 857 00:37:04,874 --> 00:37:07,877 And we generally avoid eco-friendly urinals. 858 00:37:07,964 --> 00:37:11,359 [phone pings] 859 00:37:11,490 --> 00:37:12,969 Mm. 860 00:37:13,100 --> 00:37:15,972 [upbeat music playing] 861 00:37:16,059 --> 00:37:17,322 ♪ ♪ 862 00:37:17,409 --> 00:37:20,890 Detroit. 863 00:37:22,936 --> 00:37:26,766 [door creaking] 864 00:37:33,033 --> 00:37:36,297 [both sigh] 865 00:37:36,428 --> 00:37:38,691 - Name's Tim. 866 00:37:38,734 --> 00:37:42,390 She's Rus. - They're Rus. 867 00:37:42,521 --> 00:37:44,479 - Pronouns. - Mm. 868 00:37:44,610 --> 00:37:49,745 - And yet it's respectful, like silence at a urinal. 869 00:37:49,876 --> 00:37:52,879 - Things got a bit crossed 870 00:37:52,966 --> 00:37:54,837 when we were minding each other the other night. 871 00:37:54,968 --> 00:37:57,884 Rus here has a hot mouth. 872 00:37:57,927 --> 00:38:00,756 - And a strong pelvic floor. 873 00:38:00,843 --> 00:38:02,628 I admire your aim. 874 00:38:02,758 --> 00:38:03,977 - Mm. 875 00:38:04,020 --> 00:38:05,413 "Long Face" sucks. 876 00:38:05,544 --> 00:38:08,329 - Rus wanted to apologize. 877 00:38:08,416 --> 00:38:09,330 [grunting] [elevator dings] 878 00:38:09,417 --> 00:38:11,898 - But "Black Licorice," 879 00:38:11,941 --> 00:38:15,641 "Why Do I Have to Feel," 880 00:38:15,728 --> 00:38:17,817 I like those ones. 881 00:38:17,860 --> 00:38:20,210 - "Frankly, Mr. Shankly" almost ruined "The Queen Is Dead." 882 00:38:20,341 --> 00:38:23,953 Apology accepted. 883 00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:26,608 - We have a coven out here in Detroit. 884 00:38:26,739 --> 00:38:28,567 - Do you? - The Fang Gang. 885 00:38:28,610 --> 00:38:29,916 [elevator dings] 886 00:38:30,046 --> 00:38:31,657 - You want to see a real vampire bar, come with us. 887 00:38:31,744 --> 00:38:32,875 [grunting] [elevator dings] 888 00:38:32,962 --> 00:38:34,529 We have a huge house out past Brightmoor. 889 00:38:34,616 --> 00:38:37,315 - Our own farm under the floorboards. 890 00:38:37,402 --> 00:38:40,709 - Hmm, sure. What about tomorrow night? 891 00:38:40,796 --> 00:38:42,798 - You're on the road tomorrow night. 892 00:38:42,929 --> 00:38:46,019 - Yes. That was me being polite. 893 00:38:46,106 --> 00:38:48,326 - No, that was you lying. 894 00:38:48,413 --> 00:38:49,588 - [chuckles] 895 00:38:49,718 --> 00:38:51,198 Eco-friendly urinals. 896 00:38:51,285 --> 00:38:53,635 Good for the planet, so we're told. 897 00:38:53,722 --> 00:38:56,246 Good for vampires? Hmm. 898 00:38:56,334 --> 00:38:58,292 We chardonnay them. 899 00:39:03,036 --> 00:39:06,474 And then there's regional vampires. 900 00:39:06,605 --> 00:39:10,130 Always trying to make a name for themselves. 901 00:39:10,217 --> 00:39:11,958 I chardonnay them, too. 902 00:39:12,088 --> 00:39:13,655 Obligations, I'm afraid. 903 00:39:13,742 --> 00:39:16,223 But please do send my most sincere bonjour 904 00:39:16,310 --> 00:39:17,964 to your Brightmoorish coven. 905 00:39:21,359 --> 00:39:23,317 Lilac. 906 00:39:32,195 --> 00:39:35,111 [energetic jazz music] 907 00:39:35,198 --> 00:39:36,939 ♪ ♪ 908 00:39:37,070 --> 00:39:38,941 - I have a blind spot 909 00:39:38,985 --> 00:39:40,987 when it comes to blood poisoning. 910 00:39:41,074 --> 00:39:42,336 You'd think a vampire 911 00:39:42,423 --> 00:39:43,859 of my stature would know better. 912 00:39:43,946 --> 00:39:45,034 But then there's that old saying. 913 00:39:45,121 --> 00:39:46,906 You fool me once, shame on me. 914 00:39:46,993 --> 00:39:51,780 You fool me twice, MDMA and LSD are excellent drugs. 915 00:39:51,867 --> 00:39:53,521 Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce. 916 00:39:53,608 --> 00:39:55,915 Twirl, twirl. 917 00:39:56,002 --> 00:39:57,090 Overshare. 918 00:39:57,220 --> 00:39:58,700 I saw your soul. 919 00:39:58,831 --> 00:40:00,920 - [distorted] I saw yours, too. 920 00:40:01,007 --> 00:40:04,227 [distorted laughter] 921 00:40:04,358 --> 00:40:08,623 - Still feeling good, I went looking for my band, 922 00:40:08,754 --> 00:40:11,191 looking for sex, looking for anything 923 00:40:11,278 --> 00:40:13,019 that radiated the fun that I sang about 924 00:40:13,106 --> 00:40:16,196 in my song, "Long Face." 925 00:40:16,326 --> 00:40:18,416 And then... [laughs] 926 00:40:18,503 --> 00:40:20,896 Regionals. 927 00:40:20,983 --> 00:40:22,942 Wait, did she say that "Long Face" sucked? 928 00:40:23,029 --> 00:40:24,683 - "Long Face" sucks. 929 00:40:24,813 --> 00:40:26,075 - Does it suck? 930 00:40:26,162 --> 00:40:27,337 I wondered. 931 00:40:27,468 --> 00:40:29,296 Did she have a point? 932 00:40:29,383 --> 00:40:32,734 And then I thought, ooh, they want a little scrap 933 00:40:32,865 --> 00:40:34,388 with the scalpel. 934 00:40:34,475 --> 00:40:35,650 No worries, I thought. 935 00:40:35,737 --> 00:40:37,173 I have the Queen's blood in me. 936 00:40:37,260 --> 00:40:38,871 [distorting] I could take 20 regionals at once 937 00:40:39,001 --> 00:40:41,264 with the Queen's blood. 938 00:40:41,395 --> 00:40:44,354 [telepathically, distorted] Where's the band, Dan? 939 00:40:44,398 --> 00:40:45,486 - [telepathically, distorted] They called 940 00:40:45,573 --> 00:40:48,228 corporate bullshit. 941 00:40:48,315 --> 00:40:51,840 Went to party upstairs. 942 00:40:51,884 --> 00:40:54,495 - So I'm scoring dick pills in Mogadishu 943 00:40:54,582 --> 00:40:56,192 for a UN peacekeeper 944 00:40:56,279 --> 00:40:58,368 when in walks Stewart Copeland 945 00:40:58,499 --> 00:41:01,067 wearing a kufi and a mouthful of ammo. 946 00:41:01,154 --> 00:41:02,155 - [normally] So I thought about 947 00:41:02,242 --> 00:41:03,765 having sex with Christine, 948 00:41:03,852 --> 00:41:06,507 and then I thought, that's all the way upstairs. 949 00:41:06,638 --> 00:41:09,379 And then I thought, I'm the scalpel. 950 00:41:09,467 --> 00:41:12,861 What does the scalpel do between here and upstairs? 951 00:41:12,948 --> 00:41:15,168 [elevator dings] 952 00:41:15,255 --> 00:41:20,086 Mr. du Lac's memoir tiptoed around vampire sex, didn't it? 953 00:41:20,216 --> 00:41:22,610 He and Dan made it out to be this tortured act 954 00:41:22,654 --> 00:41:25,744 or obligational foreplay before blood drinking. 955 00:41:25,831 --> 00:41:28,660 [laughing] That is not the case at all. 956 00:41:28,747 --> 00:41:30,879 It's not the capstone of vampiric desires. 957 00:41:30,923 --> 00:41:32,315 That would be the taking of life, 958 00:41:32,402 --> 00:41:34,100 and next would be a good draining, 959 00:41:34,230 --> 00:41:36,276 leaving your victim near death and paralyzed 960 00:41:36,363 --> 00:41:38,234 for an unhurried escape. 961 00:41:38,278 --> 00:41:40,541 And after that, there's thepetit coup, 962 00:41:40,628 --> 00:41:42,804 the little drink, the sip. 963 00:41:42,891 --> 00:41:45,720 And after those three, it's sex. 964 00:41:45,764 --> 00:41:48,288 So now you know, the fourth best thing 965 00:41:48,418 --> 00:41:51,291 a vampire can do to avoid thinking about the past 966 00:41:51,378 --> 00:41:52,466 is to have sex. 967 00:41:52,597 --> 00:41:54,512 [distorted] Sex. Sex. Sex. 968 00:41:54,555 --> 00:41:56,688 [normally] And I have had a lot of sex over the years. 969 00:41:56,731 --> 00:41:58,559 It's not all pain and toxicity. 970 00:41:58,646 --> 00:42:00,648 I have an immortal life, and I carry with it 971 00:42:00,735 --> 00:42:01,867 an immortal erection. 972 00:42:01,997 --> 00:42:04,347 And I am not ashamed of it. 973 00:42:04,434 --> 00:42:07,916 Sex is fun, like the fun I sing about in "Long Face," 974 00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:10,963 which, looking back on it now, does suck. 975 00:42:11,050 --> 00:42:12,486 [clears throat] 976 00:42:12,617 --> 00:42:14,053 I still have residuals coming in, actually. 977 00:42:14,183 --> 00:42:16,011 [elevator dings] 978 00:42:16,098 --> 00:42:20,015 Carnal pleasure is essential to a vampire's survival, 979 00:42:20,102 --> 00:42:22,627 if only to keep time's baggage from burying you. 980 00:42:22,757 --> 00:42:24,542 [laughs] 981 00:42:24,672 --> 00:42:29,503 Sex with the bellman and Dee and honey-trapping Baby Jenks. 982 00:42:29,634 --> 00:42:31,244 Probably should have gotten off the seventh floor 983 00:42:31,331 --> 00:42:32,637 when I had gotten off. 984 00:42:32,767 --> 00:42:34,073 [light music] 985 00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:35,335 [elevator dings] 986 00:42:35,422 --> 00:42:36,510 But I didn't. 987 00:42:36,597 --> 00:42:39,687 ♪ ♪ 988 00:42:39,774 --> 00:42:42,037 - I'm getting married in a week. 989 00:42:42,168 --> 00:42:44,997 I'll never forget you. 990 00:42:45,084 --> 00:42:49,610 ♪ ♪ 991 00:42:49,741 --> 00:42:51,264 [elevator dings] 992 00:42:51,307 --> 00:42:54,789 - Law 4: no vampire shall ever reveal 993 00:42:54,833 --> 00:42:56,835 his or her true nature to a mortal 994 00:42:56,922 --> 00:42:58,837 and let the mortal live. 995 00:42:58,924 --> 00:43:01,753 - You do know it's 2025? 996 00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:03,885 [laughing] 997 00:43:03,972 --> 00:43:05,017 Face the wall, my dear. 998 00:43:05,060 --> 00:43:08,020 You'll not want to see this. 999 00:43:08,107 --> 00:43:09,674 Mmm. 1000 00:43:09,804 --> 00:43:11,632 The Tooth Team. 1001 00:43:11,763 --> 00:43:13,982 - The Fang Gang. 1002 00:43:14,069 --> 00:43:15,157 - [hisses] 1003 00:43:15,288 --> 00:43:16,898 [both grunt] 1004 00:43:16,942 --> 00:43:20,162 I killed a pack of wolves when I was a mortal. 1005 00:43:20,249 --> 00:43:21,816 I'll most likely tell you about that later, 1006 00:43:21,860 --> 00:43:23,992 as I let it define me for a time. 1007 00:43:24,036 --> 00:43:26,604 And normally, confining architecture 1008 00:43:26,691 --> 00:43:29,258 and a thrift store coven galvanized by medieval dogma 1009 00:43:29,345 --> 00:43:31,043 wouldn't faze me in the least. 1010 00:43:31,130 --> 00:43:33,611 - I am building a career that supports my well-being. 1011 00:43:33,698 --> 00:43:37,266 - But the drug blood and my sex legs 1012 00:43:37,353 --> 00:43:39,965 and the distracting past my music had unleashed on me 1013 00:43:40,052 --> 00:43:43,185 put me at a momentary disadvantage. 1014 00:43:43,316 --> 00:43:45,361 - I'm in charge of my work-life balance. 1015 00:43:45,448 --> 00:43:47,973 - Law 4, as if the du Lac-Molloy memoir 1016 00:43:48,060 --> 00:43:50,628 hadn't outed us all two years ago, 1017 00:43:50,715 --> 00:43:54,109 as if my entire stage show wasn't a bawdy burlesque 1018 00:43:54,196 --> 00:43:56,111 of "is he or isn't he," 1019 00:43:56,198 --> 00:43:57,896 as if half the vampire population 1020 00:43:58,026 --> 00:44:01,160 outside the ruined port of Detroit wasn't waving 1021 00:44:01,247 --> 00:44:04,119 the dark gift like red cups in a piss bar, 1022 00:44:04,250 --> 00:44:06,861 collecting fledglings like they were Labubu dolls. 1023 00:44:06,992 --> 00:44:08,558 I mean, I haven't even told my band 1024 00:44:08,689 --> 00:44:10,299 I was an actual vampire. 1025 00:44:10,386 --> 00:44:12,998 I was just singing my songs and fucking my food 1026 00:44:13,085 --> 00:44:15,130 and defending myself from the vibrant life choices 1027 00:44:15,261 --> 00:44:18,264 I had made on my way from the Auvergne countryside 1028 00:44:18,394 --> 00:44:20,962 to the eighth floor of this "why bother" hotel. 1029 00:44:21,006 --> 00:44:23,312 And this is how it was all going to end for me? 1030 00:44:23,399 --> 00:44:26,272 - We are the Fang Gang. [elevator dings] 1031 00:44:26,402 --> 00:44:29,057 - We are the children of the darkness reborn. 1032 00:44:29,188 --> 00:44:32,060 - [laughing] Jesus fucking Christ. 1033 00:44:32,147 --> 00:44:34,193 [elevator dings] 1034 00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:36,978 "Armand told the truth"? Have you met him? 1035 00:44:37,022 --> 00:44:38,806 What the fuck does that even mean? 1036 00:44:38,937 --> 00:44:40,155 [elevator dings] [screams] 1037 00:44:40,286 --> 00:44:41,417 - Heard there was an after-party 1038 00:44:41,504 --> 00:44:43,289 on the asshole floor. 1039 00:44:43,419 --> 00:44:46,379 - I like to think I was owed the reinforcements, 1040 00:44:46,509 --> 00:44:49,425 Dan and the oddly familiar DJ, 1041 00:44:49,512 --> 00:44:51,993 but that's me looking back on it now. 1042 00:44:52,124 --> 00:44:54,430 Anything I had done to deserve their timely rescue 1043 00:44:54,517 --> 00:44:56,389 hadn't happened yet. 1044 00:44:56,476 --> 00:44:58,913 I'd be dead, I think, without Dan. 1045 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:00,567 But then maybe more of the world 1046 00:45:00,610 --> 00:45:02,482 would still be alive had Dan not 1047 00:45:02,525 --> 00:45:04,310 rallied his army downstairs. 1048 00:45:04,397 --> 00:45:06,007 [both grunting] 1049 00:45:06,094 --> 00:45:09,097 Consider this sliding door of Dan 1050 00:45:09,141 --> 00:45:11,621 as you decant my blood and devour my words. 1051 00:45:11,709 --> 00:45:13,885 [crowd shouting and screaming] 1052 00:45:13,972 --> 00:45:16,844 [growling] 1053 00:45:16,931 --> 00:45:22,763 ♪ ♪ 1054 00:45:22,850 --> 00:45:24,634 [squelches] [screaming] 1055 00:45:24,722 --> 00:45:27,550 It's hard hiding you're a god. 1056 00:45:27,637 --> 00:45:28,769 - You're for real? 1057 00:45:28,856 --> 00:45:31,816 - CCTV, eco-flush toilets, 1058 00:45:31,903 --> 00:45:33,948 IMF freezing your accounts because you have the blood 1059 00:45:33,992 --> 00:45:35,428 of a patricidal queen inside you. 1060 00:45:35,515 --> 00:45:38,518 [growls] - Hello again. 1061 00:45:38,648 --> 00:45:40,563 - Théâtre des Vampires. 1062 00:45:40,650 --> 00:45:42,652 - Talamasca dragged me into that. 1063 00:45:42,740 --> 00:45:43,871 - And once you reveal yourself, 1064 00:45:43,958 --> 00:45:46,569 you have to be on all the time 1065 00:45:46,656 --> 00:45:48,876 and remember every face you've ever met. 1066 00:45:48,963 --> 00:45:50,878 And everywhere you go, everyone remembers 1067 00:45:50,965 --> 00:45:54,795 the thing they said to you in the room that you shared. 1068 00:45:54,882 --> 00:45:57,319 - Were you a stutterer as a child? 1069 00:45:57,450 --> 00:46:00,061 [music building] 1070 00:46:00,148 --> 00:46:03,717 - This is why gods prefer hiding in the clouds. 1071 00:46:03,804 --> 00:46:05,023 There's nothing there... 1072 00:46:05,110 --> 00:46:06,328 [crowd gasps] 1073 00:46:06,415 --> 00:46:08,374 But water waiting to fall. 1074 00:46:10,724 --> 00:46:13,640 [distant moaning] 1075 00:46:15,729 --> 00:46:20,299 So many opportunities to call it a night that night. 1076 00:46:20,386 --> 00:46:23,476 After the song unleashed the muses. 1077 00:46:23,563 --> 00:46:27,001 After I saw my first soul. 1078 00:46:27,088 --> 00:46:31,136 After I was nearly decapitated in a boutique hotel hallway. 1079 00:46:31,266 --> 00:46:32,746 [phone pings] 1080 00:46:32,877 --> 00:46:35,793 After my vampire nature was revealed to the band 1081 00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:38,230 and my vampire gift winged me away 1082 00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:40,885 north of the river, south of the country. 1083 00:46:40,928 --> 00:46:44,236 [gentle music] 1084 00:46:44,366 --> 00:46:48,153 But I was saved from such rational thought. 1085 00:46:48,240 --> 00:46:51,373 Love will do that to you. 1086 00:46:51,504 --> 00:46:58,424 ♪ ♪ 1087 00:47:00,992 --> 00:47:02,428 [door clicks] 1088 00:47:02,558 --> 00:47:05,387 [distant shouting] 1089 00:47:05,518 --> 00:47:09,304 ♪ ♪ 1090 00:47:09,391 --> 00:47:12,481 Ma chère. 1091 00:47:12,525 --> 00:47:14,744 Very kind of you to come. 1092 00:47:14,832 --> 00:47:17,704 [chuckles] 1093 00:47:20,228 --> 00:47:23,014 I got myself into something I can't get out of. 1094 00:47:25,668 --> 00:47:27,801 Music's opened up the batch oven, 1095 00:47:27,888 --> 00:47:30,238 and I'm not sure if I can close it again. 1096 00:47:30,369 --> 00:47:35,287 ♪ ♪ 1097 00:47:35,374 --> 00:47:37,202 I'm not really at my best, but-- 1098 00:47:42,642 --> 00:47:45,558 It's very nice to see you again. 1099 00:47:49,779 --> 00:47:54,088 I like what you've done with your hair, my Ga-- 1100 00:47:54,219 --> 00:47:56,134 my Ga-- 1101 00:47:56,264 --> 00:47:59,746 [stammering] 1102 00:48:01,226 --> 00:48:04,969 My Gabriella. 1103 00:48:05,056 --> 00:48:07,623 [laughs] 1104 00:48:07,667 --> 00:48:10,496 It's not much of a reveal, I guess. 1105 00:48:10,583 --> 00:48:12,628 I know it's common gossip now, 1106 00:48:12,715 --> 00:48:13,978 the first thing one thinks about 1107 00:48:14,108 --> 00:48:17,068 when my name comes up. 1108 00:48:17,198 --> 00:48:20,506 I assume a privileged individual such as yourself 1109 00:48:20,593 --> 00:48:22,943 enjoys a little dirt in their sandwich. 1110 00:48:23,030 --> 00:48:25,163 [chuckles] 1111 00:48:25,250 --> 00:48:29,428 So I serve it to you now how it felt then. 1112 00:48:31,865 --> 00:48:34,215 Fledgling, 1113 00:48:34,259 --> 00:48:37,175 lover, 1114 00:48:37,262 --> 00:48:38,611 mother. 1115 00:48:43,007 --> 00:48:43,877 -Listen to tracks from "The Vampire Lestat" 1116 00:48:44,008 --> 00:48:45,357 wherever you stream music. 1117 00:48:48,186 --> 00:48:49,274 -If you're still listening after the last hour, 1118 00:48:49,404 --> 00:48:50,710 welcome back. 1119 00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:52,581 Bring on the muses. 1120 00:48:52,668 --> 00:48:54,888 ♪ Give me a million more screams ♪ 1121 00:48:55,019 --> 00:48:57,847 -Do you kill people? 1122 00:48:57,978 --> 00:49:00,154 -♪ Give me a million more screams ♪ 1123 00:49:00,285 --> 00:49:01,590 -[Screams] 1124 00:49:01,721 --> 00:49:04,115 -Let's talk about your mother. 1125 00:49:04,202 --> 00:49:06,987 -♪ I've been a bad boy, deep down in my heart ♪ 1126 00:49:07,118 --> 00:49:09,990 -My maker called for his mama and I came. 1127 00:49:10,121 --> 00:49:12,471 -♪ Give me a million more screams ♪ 1128 00:49:12,558 --> 00:49:13,951 [ Cheering ] 1129 00:49:15,996 --> 00:49:18,912 -You are caught in great danger with Lestat. 1130 00:49:18,999 --> 00:49:21,001 -You stole my personal physician. 1131 00:49:21,132 --> 00:49:22,611 You hired my biographer. 1132 00:49:24,309 --> 00:49:25,963 -The songs are not about you. 1133 00:49:27,138 --> 00:49:31,055 ♪ I want to stay in bed eating black licorice ♪ 1134 00:49:31,185 --> 00:49:34,101 Shall we do it? Shall we scorch the mortal world? 1135 00:49:34,188 --> 00:49:38,105 ♪ I want to stay in bed eating black licorice ♪ 1136 00:49:38,236 --> 00:49:40,020 -What do you think about the great conversion? 1137 00:49:40,151 --> 00:49:42,283 -Fucking stupid. 1138 00:49:42,370 --> 00:49:45,678 ♪ I want to stay in bed eating black licorice ♪ 1139 00:49:48,550 --> 00:49:50,378 -You are listening to The Failures -- 1140 00:49:50,465 --> 00:49:52,250 album eight, side A. 1141 00:49:52,424 --> 00:49:57,516 ♪♪ 1142 00:49:57,646 --> 00:50:00,084 -At the top of our first episode, 1143 00:50:00,171 --> 00:50:05,611 we show a scene that is probably happening in real time 1144 00:50:05,741 --> 00:50:10,050 after a bunch of catastrophic events have happened. 1145 00:50:10,137 --> 00:50:12,922 [Audience murmuring] 1146 00:50:13,010 --> 00:50:16,361 -If you are hearing this now, 1147 00:50:16,448 --> 00:50:19,842 you must be a very privileged individual. 1148 00:50:19,929 --> 00:50:24,238 ♪♪ 1149 00:50:24,325 --> 00:50:27,285 -What makes this season special is that it's still 1150 00:50:27,372 --> 00:50:28,764 the same characters that you love and know 1151 00:50:28,851 --> 00:50:30,592 from the previous seasons. 1152 00:50:30,679 --> 00:50:32,551 We're just putting them in an entirely new world. 1153 00:50:32,638 --> 00:50:35,293 And as they do in the books and as we do in the show, 1154 00:50:35,380 --> 00:50:39,210 the world continues to crack open larger and larger. 1155 00:50:39,340 --> 00:50:42,256 -♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh [Exhales deeply] 1156 00:50:42,343 --> 00:50:44,084 -Just like the plot changes, 1157 00:50:44,215 --> 00:50:47,348 the whole attitude of the show changes, 1158 00:50:47,479 --> 00:50:50,873 and we move into this completely crazy rock-'n'-roll world. 1159 00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:53,963 ♪♪ 1160 00:50:54,094 --> 00:50:55,748 -He did it again. 1161 00:50:55,878 --> 00:50:57,837 -A lot of the beauty and elegance 1162 00:50:57,967 --> 00:51:01,536 that you would usually see him surrounded by is gone. 1163 00:51:01,623 --> 00:51:04,974 It feels really grungy and really rough and really raw. 1164 00:51:05,062 --> 00:51:08,326 So it was a very fun environment to be putting him in. 1165 00:51:08,500 --> 00:51:12,808 ♪♪ 1166 00:51:12,895 --> 00:51:15,202 -Come to me. -Montreal. 1167 00:51:15,333 --> 00:51:18,031 I am he, and he is me. 1168 00:51:18,118 --> 00:51:19,598 -Louis and Lestat are FaceTiming, 1169 00:51:19,728 --> 00:51:21,165 and you're probably gonna get the sense 1170 00:51:21,252 --> 00:51:22,992 that Louis is gonna come over pretty soon. 1171 00:51:23,123 --> 00:51:25,038 They'll probably get back together or work it out. 1172 00:51:25,169 --> 00:51:27,214 -Nice? -Yeah. It's nice. 1173 00:51:27,301 --> 00:51:29,608 -One of the first conversations I had 1174 00:51:29,738 --> 00:51:32,045 with Rolin and Hannah and the writers 1175 00:51:32,176 --> 00:51:36,397 was that I think Louis has watched just a ton of YouTube 1176 00:51:36,484 --> 00:51:41,185 in his time off -- you know, like cat videos. 1177 00:51:41,272 --> 00:51:44,362 Probably hungrily. [Cat meows] 1178 00:51:44,449 --> 00:51:47,234 -Louis, do you know someone called Daniel Malloy? 1179 00:51:47,321 --> 00:51:48,888 -Lestat finds out about the book, 1180 00:51:49,018 --> 00:51:50,542 and then that completely throws all those plans 1181 00:51:50,672 --> 00:51:52,283 out of the window. 1182 00:51:52,413 --> 00:51:54,763 -One of my favorite things about the second season 1183 00:51:54,850 --> 00:51:56,548 of "Interview With the Vampire" is... 1184 00:51:56,635 --> 00:51:58,245 -I burned his laptop. 1185 00:51:58,332 --> 00:52:00,204 I didn't know he had it saved in the cloud. 1186 00:52:00,291 --> 00:52:04,295 -...Louis sets fire to a laptop to try and erase the book. 1187 00:52:04,425 --> 00:52:07,646 But, like, no one told him about the cloud. 1188 00:52:07,733 --> 00:52:10,127 -I only found out it was coming out a month ago. 1189 00:52:10,214 --> 00:52:11,824 -You've known for a month, 1190 00:52:11,911 --> 00:52:13,260 and you talk about me in it to a mortal? 1191 00:52:13,391 --> 00:52:14,740 -Well, yeah. Uh, yeah. 1192 00:52:14,870 --> 00:52:16,829 Kind of -- But...you know? 1193 00:52:16,916 --> 00:52:20,528 -No, I don't know, Louis. Please explain yourself. 1194 00:52:20,615 --> 00:52:23,227 -Both Louis and Lestat are not necessarily happy 1195 00:52:23,357 --> 00:52:25,794 with the way that either of them were portrayed in the book. 1196 00:52:25,881 --> 00:52:27,535 -It's like a mix of guilt 1197 00:52:27,666 --> 00:52:29,842 and probably a sense of vengeance about it. 1198 00:52:29,972 --> 00:52:32,714 -Lestat sees that book come out, 1199 00:52:32,845 --> 00:52:38,067 sees what he perceives are lies and distortions, mistruths, 1200 00:52:38,155 --> 00:52:39,504 and he's like, "You know what? 1201 00:52:39,634 --> 00:52:41,027 I'm gonna set the record straight." 1202 00:52:41,158 --> 00:52:42,637 -Was he there in 18th-century Auvergne? 1203 00:52:42,768 --> 00:52:44,291 -He said you told him that. 1204 00:52:44,378 --> 00:52:46,554 -Did I threaten Claudia with rape on a train? 1205 00:52:46,685 --> 00:52:49,078 No. And impossible. 1206 00:52:49,209 --> 00:52:51,646 -Daniel Molloy is an investigative journalist 1207 00:52:51,777 --> 00:52:53,779 of the absolute top shelf. 1208 00:52:53,909 --> 00:52:57,609 -Who better to refute the book than the man who wrote the book? 1209 00:52:57,696 --> 00:53:01,961 -He has an incorrigible need to find out what the truth is. 1210 00:53:02,048 --> 00:53:04,050 -Why do you like the vampire Lestat? 1211 00:53:07,271 --> 00:53:10,448 Heard there was an after-party on the asshole floor. 1212 00:53:10,578 --> 00:53:13,451 -This isn't just sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. 1213 00:53:13,538 --> 00:53:15,192 It's sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, 1214 00:53:15,322 --> 00:53:17,368 and sucking blood out of people's necks. 1215 00:53:17,498 --> 00:53:20,197 [Crowd screaming] -You're for real? 1216 00:53:22,373 --> 00:53:25,898 [Guitar playing, laughter] 1217 00:53:28,814 --> 00:53:33,253 ♪♪ 1218 00:53:33,384 --> 00:53:35,037 [Crowd cheering] 1219 00:53:35,124 --> 00:53:37,344 ♪♪ 1220 00:53:37,431 --> 00:53:39,216 -Black Licorice is a great song. 1221 00:53:39,303 --> 00:53:42,654 It's about the first kill that Lestat made 1222 00:53:42,784 --> 00:53:45,700 after he reconciled with Louis in New Orleans. 1223 00:53:45,787 --> 00:53:49,051 -♪ Didn't blink, didn't try to run ♪ 1224 00:53:49,182 --> 00:53:51,924 ♪ I got a real live one ♪ 1225 00:53:52,011 --> 00:53:53,578 -Particularly in Episode 1, 1226 00:53:53,665 --> 00:53:56,058 you do see that he's pushing and pushing 1227 00:53:56,145 --> 00:53:58,583 to get this sort of moment of grace, 1228 00:53:58,670 --> 00:54:01,934 to be completely engulfed in the music. 1229 00:54:02,021 --> 00:54:05,111 -But just as I was about to bridge the bridge 1230 00:54:05,242 --> 00:54:07,722 with murder and mayhem, 1231 00:54:07,809 --> 00:54:10,334 something quite surprising happened. 1232 00:54:10,464 --> 00:54:12,727 -And that's what he gets from Black Licorice. 1233 00:54:12,814 --> 00:54:16,035 He does have his first breakdown of many. 1234 00:54:16,165 --> 00:54:20,169 -Muses appeared in my mind and in the now around me. 1235 00:54:20,257 --> 00:54:23,956 -He realizes that he was the one that was holding them back. 1236 00:54:24,086 --> 00:54:25,610 So then, all of a sudden, it cracks open, 1237 00:54:25,740 --> 00:54:28,003 and the real thing starts to appear. 1238 00:54:28,134 --> 00:54:31,180 -And that sound I had been grinding them for 1239 00:54:31,268 --> 00:54:34,227 was finally unleashed. 1240 00:54:34,358 --> 00:54:37,709 -He started it to be "I'm gonna go and tell my story. 1241 00:54:37,839 --> 00:54:40,277 I'm gonna do a rewrite. This is my version of events." 1242 00:54:40,407 --> 00:54:42,627 And it's evolved into something different. 1243 00:54:42,714 --> 00:54:45,107 He's tapped into his past. 1244 00:54:45,282 --> 00:54:49,373 ♪♪ 1245 00:54:49,503 --> 00:54:53,333 -♪ I want to stay in bad, eating black licorice ♪ 1246 00:54:53,464 --> 00:54:54,813 [Crowd cheering] 1247 00:54:54,943 --> 00:54:58,730 -Which one of you has OD'd before? 1248 00:54:58,817 --> 00:55:03,256 ♪♪ 1249 00:55:05,650 --> 00:55:08,522 [light music] 1250 00:55:08,653 --> 00:55:15,573 ♪ ♪