Month: September 2022

Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch a “partial mobilization” of Russia’s reservists has been met with such forceful resistance that even his most prominent supporters are worried he might have a mutiny on his hands.

After several humiliating defeats and the loss of tens of thousands of soldiers, Putin’s military is in dire need of more bodies to be sacrificed in his badly failing invasion of Ukraine. He first tried recruiting convicts to fight his war but it seems that strategy didn’t play out because now, everyday citizens are being drafted to the front lines. And the people are pissed (and breaking their arms).

Unconfirmed reports claim that a quarter of a million Russians have fled the country following the mobilization announcement while nationwide protests against the draft led to over 1,200 arrests.

Now, as the Daily Beast’s Julia Davis reports, two of Putin’s biggest cheerleaders, pro-Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov and head of Russia Today Margarita Simonyan, are openly criticizing the regime’s handling of the mobilization, warning it may lead to even more rioting in the streets.

“There are panicked calls on my phone, on Margarita’s phone, which shows that a number of people involved have forgotten how to do their jobs,” Solovyov said on his Sunday night show. Simonyan, who guested on the program, complained about conflicting reports as to whom the draft would affect. She initially believed only those with prior military experience would be mobilized. Still, after learning that recruits included “students, those outside the age limit, people with serious illnesses, barbers, teachers, musicians, and a single mother of two young children” not to mention citizens aged 60 and over, she became worried, questioning whether those in power knew what they were doing. To make matters worse, both TV pundits relayed stories of rusty weapons being handed to new recruits.

“All of them have phones and they won’t stay silent. If they’re being handed rotten things, if they have no helmets, no body armor, no one is going to hide it… I will tell you very politely: don’t play games with people… This isn’t some liberal riff-raff, these are our people and I refuse to be silent about it,” Simonyan said. “Comrades, Commanders, this is not the time for this… don’t anger the people!”

The news anchor then relayed the story of a mutiny that occurred on the Russian battleship Potemkin after sailors were fed maggot-infested meat.

“Let me remind you that in 1905, small things like these led to the first mutiny of an entire military unit in the history of our country. Is that what you want?” She asked. “You’re toying with armed people.”

(Via The Daily Beast)

Nicki Minaj isn’t happy about her new video for “Likkle Miss (Remix)” featuring Skeng being age-restricted on YouTube. In fact, she’s so unhappy that she’s convinced it’s a conspiracy against her to keep her from getting views on it (and receiving coveted ad revenue), masterminded by execs at another label. Despite the “Likkle Miss” video featuring copious close-ups of gyrating posteriors, she insists that there are videos “a million f*cking times worse” on YouTube, positing that YouTube’s executives are in cahoots with a rival record label to stop her bag.

She laid out her case in a pair of Instagram posts showing a screenshot of the notice of age restriction on YouTube.

Imagine this. They restricted my fucking video but have things a million fucking times worse on their BOGUS FKNG PLATFORM. this is what they do to keep you from winning while doing ads for other ppl and posting FAKE FKNG STATS. because the same ppl who run YouTube are in bed with a certain record label and mngmnt company. GO SUCK OUT YA MUDDA BIG PUM PUM. LYOR IT BETTER NOT BE YOU.

This was done to stop us from getting a lot of views in the first 24 hours. The DUDS at my label allow ppl to use my videos all the time to promote weak shit but said we can’t buy promo for my videos. @youtube @youtubemusic it’s time y’all tell ppl that you’re in bed with a whole RECORD LABEL & MNGMNT COMPANY!!!!! HOW LONG HAVE YALL BEEN PLAYING THE NUMBERS GAME TO LIE & PRETEND PPL R DOING “GOOD” WHEN THEY R NOT?!?!! HOW MUCH AD SPACE DID THESE DUDS PURCHASE TO BE PROMOTED ON MY CHANNEL IN THE LAST 5 YEARS?!??!!!

This isn’t the first time that Ms. Minaj has made a case about industry malfeasance. In 2018, after she was disappointed by the success of her album Queen, she launched a multimedia tirade against partners such as Spotify, accusing them of blackballing her. In any event, the video for “Likkle Miss” is out now and you can watch it here.

Now that Kendrick Lamar finally released his long-awaited new album in Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, the internet hive mind can turn its full attention to whenever Frank Ocean finally decides to put out the follow-up to Blonde. It’s been six years since Ocean released an album and something happened today that indicated that we might finally be headed towards the promised land.

As of today, September 26th, Frank Ocean took the liberty of clearing all of the posts from his Instagram page (@blonded). Take that with a grain of salt, but if there was ever a sign that a Frank Ocean album is coming soon, this is it. But there have been some other indicators as of late that Frank Ocean SZN is approaching.

Back in July, Ocean released two new episodes of his Blonded Radio show on Apple Music out of the blue. The episodes were unconventional, to say the least, including a 35-minute original score that Ocean wrote atop a conversation about psychedelics and micro-dosing and another score set to a talk on Qi Gong. A year ago, a rumor was floating around that Ocean was taking meetings with label execs as he shopped around a completed new album. But that could very well be rendered baseless, because what the heck does Frank Ocean need to “shop a record” for? In the meantime, Ocean released a luxury sex toy last month.

As with all good TV shows, it’s natural to want to create some sort of spinoff or sequel that takes place in the same universe but with a new cast of fun characters. It worked for Better Call Saul, it worked for Frasier and it might be working for House of the Dragon, though the jury is still out. So why shouldn’t it work for a reality trivia show?!

The folks behind Jeopardy are looking to expand the universe with a new “masters league.” Michael Davies, Jeopardy’s newest executive producer, is already bringing back the fan-favorite Celebrity Jeopardy competition this year, but he is also looking out for other possible spinoff ideas. In a new interview with The New York Times, Davies said that there has been talk of a new Jeopardy game featuring the best of the best.

“What we really need to develop is the pro-level version of the game,” Davies explained, implying that the trivia competition should be as notable as, say, Sunday Night Football or that one week in October when everyone is really excited about baseball. Of course, Jeopardy already brings back its top competitors throughout the season, but fans have been begging for a dedicated series.

“It seemed ridiculous to me that we have this sport where every single year we take all of our best players — we take our LeBrons and our Dwyanes — and we switch them all out,” Davies added.

This new prospect could also open up the Jeopardy universe into tongue-in-cheek, sports-adjacent brand deals. Maybe there will be some Jeopardy-blue electrolyte drink on the way, or Ken Jennings will team up for some standing-focused sneakers. Who knows!

(Via The New York Times)

Chris Rock made Christian Bale laugh so hard on the set of Amsterdam, that The Dark Knight actor actually had to stop hanging out with the comedian between takes or he couldn’t keep it together. According to Bale, Amsterdam director David O. Russell caught him off guard by having the comedian tell him stories, and it was all downhill from there.

“I was excited to meet him, I’m a big fan of his standup,” Bale told IndieWire. “Then he arrives, and he’s doing some things. … David [O. Russell] told him to tell me some stories that I didn’t know he was gonna tell me, which is the way David works often. And I was loving it.”

However, Bale was laughing so hard that he literally couldn’t get back into character:

“But Chris is so bloody funny and I found that I couldn’t act, because I was just becoming Christian laughing at Chris Rock,” Bale said. “So I had to go to him, I went ‘mate, I love talking to you, and we have mutual friends, but I can’t do it anymore. Because David didn’t ask me to make this film so he could just watch me giggle. He wants me to be Burt, and I’m forgetting how to be Burt.’”

As Bale explains, he’s not big on socializing on set even when the person doing it is making him giggle so much that he forgets how to act. It’s a real curse when he gets to meet “incredible people” all the time.

“If I get to know people too much, I find I just don’t believe what I’m doing in the scene,” the Thor: Love and Thunder star said.

Amsterdam opens in theaters on October 7, 2022.

(Via IndieWire)

Pete Davidson has ruined all other men for Kim Kardashian.

That’s my 100 percent accurate takeaway from the model and law school graduate‘s appearance on Live with Kelly and Ryan on Monday. When asked about what kind of man she eventually sees herself with, Kardashian, who dated the former-SNL star for nine chaotic months before breaking up in August, replied, “Absolutely no one.”

Co-host Kelly Ripa later suggested that Kardashian “stay off dating apps” (unlike Ben Affleck) when she’s ready to date again because “you need a titan of industry… That is what you are, and that is what you need. It’s a very small field but he’s out there, sitting here, watching this.” Kanye is out there, sitting, watching, but he ain’t it.

But The Kardashians star admitted she’s considered the possibility of dating someone outside of the entertainment industry. “I did say before, maybe I should try to date a doctor or a scientist. So maybe a bunch of attorneys or scientists would reach out,” she said. “But I’m just not ready… I’m not looking for anything. I think I really just need to be by myself and focus and finish school. And spend time with my kids.”

Good luck to all the doctors, scientists, and attorneys out there. We’re rooting for you.

(Via People)

Two years ago, when we were all still trying to make sense of what our futures would look like in the wake of the pandemic, The War On Drugs appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. They performed an unreleased song called “Oceans Of Darkness,” but as was the custom in those times, each of the band’s members were in their respective homes and playing the tune on Zoom. It was a gorgeous glimmer of hope through music and now, “Oceans Of Darkness” is out as one of two new additions (along with “Slow Ghost”) to the deluxe edition of I Don’t Live Here Anymore.

The deluxe album is streaming now and a vinyl box set edition will be out on September 30th featuring an art book with photos, a poster, a 7″ record of “Oceans Of Darkness” and “Slow Ghost,” and other goodies. Singer Adam Granduciel of The War On Drugs — who are currently on tour — shared a statement about making “Oceans Of Darkness” and the circumstance that led up to it’s eventual release today:

“One night in LA, while we were many months into working on what would be I Don’t Live Here Anymore, Dave [Hartley] uncovered a stripped down demo in my dropbox called ‘Oceans Of Darkness,’ and insisted we try recording it. We were frustrated and exhausted at the time, but we set up in a circle after dinner and worked it out as the tape was rolling. It’s rare that a song of ours could feel this complete after only a few takes, but it had all the desperation and urgency that we had been looking for. Ultimately I didn’t include it on the record because I couldn’t find a home for it among the other songs. We’re happy we can share it with you now.”

You can listen to “Oceans Of Darkness” above and “Slow Ghost” below.

I Don’t Live Here Anymore (Deluxe Edition) is out now via Atlantic Records. Listen to it here.

The War On Drugs is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

This article originally appeared on 02.25.21

Middle school has to be the most insecure time in a person’s life. Kids in their early teens are incredibly cruel and will make fun of each other for not having the right shoes, listening to the right music, or having the right hairstyle.

As if the social pressure wasn’t enough, a child that age has to deal with the intensely awkward psychological and biological changes of puberty at the same time.

Jason Smith, the principal of Stonybrook Intermediate and Middle School in Warren Township, Indiana, had a young student sent to his office recently, and his ability to understand his feelings made all the difference.

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The child was sent to the office for refusing to remove his hat in class. “So, I sat down with him and asked him why, what was going on,” Smith told WRTV. “He said he just got his haircut, he didn’t like the way it looked, and he thought his hairline look a little funny.”

Having a haircut that’s a little off can be like waving a red flag at middle school bullies. So, Smith decided to fix the situation by offering the child a haircut.

“I’ve been cutting hair most of my life. I played college basketball and I cut my teammates’ hair before games and I’ve been cutting my son’s hair for 17 years so I had professional clippers and edgers at home, so I said, ‘If I go home and get my clippers and line you up, will you go back to class,’ and he said, ‘Yeah, I will,'” Smith said.

A photo of the cut was posted to Facebook where it’s been seen over 21,000 times.

After Smith fixed the child’s hairline, the student kept up his end of the bargain and returned to class.

“You know that age is a time for peer acceptance. It’s huge. And So a young man, especially an African-American young man the barbershop is a big deal in the community. Looking good a representing and presenting yourself is huge for kids,” Smith said.

A few days later, Smith posted a photo on Facebook of some memorable cuts he’s given in the past. “Who knew a skill that helped me survive in college would be useful 20 years later?” he captioned the post.

via Jason Smith / Facebook

Smith saw the situation as a way to help the child in the moment instead of having to resort to disciplinary actions. From the child’s perspective what’s worse — being ridiculed in front of your peers or having a parent get angry?

“We’re not disciplining with a hard fist. You could call and have the parent pick up the kid up for defiance. Or you can sit and get to the root of the problem and see what can I do to help you? What do you need right now?” Smith said.

Imagine what the world would be like if more people simply asked each other, “What do you need?”

“He really was not trying to get out of class. He just thought that he would be laughed at. So, we took the time and did what we could to help him,” Smith said.

Smith recently posted a quote by professor Brené Brown on Facebook that serves as a great reminder of the practical power of solving problems at the root through compassion and direct action. “Leaders must either invest a reasonable amount of time attending to fears and feelings, or squander an unreasonable amount of time trying to manage ineffective and unproductive behavior.”

Like many spirits, the tequila marketplace is dominated by big names. We’re talking the likes of Don Julio, Jose Cuervo, and Patrón. Those tequila brands (and some other big hitters) are popular for many reasons. They produce high-quality tequilas, they brand well, and they’re available almost anywhere. But while we’ll throw back a Patrón shooter or enjoy a glass of Don Julio any day of the week, we also like to broaden our horizons whenever possible.

That’s why we decided it was time to seek out some lesser-known, underrated tequilas. Luckily, with the popularity of the spirit in recent years, there are a lot of brands and expressions just waiting to be discovered. To find some of these hidden gems, we turned to the professionals for help — asking a handful of well-known distillers and spirits experts to tell us their picks for the most underrated tequilas to drink right now.

Keep scrolling to see all of their sweet agave picks!

La Gritona Reposado

Melissa Katrincic, founder of Conniption Gin in Durham, North Carolina

ABV: 40%

Average Price: $45

Why This Beer?

I am going to highlight La Gritona Reposado Tequila based on word of mouth and my admiration of a fellow woman owner and distiller, Melly Barajas. Like my team here at Durham Distillery being majority women, Melly built and runs her distillery with a team of only women in Jalisco. Their meticulous processes ensure their tequila’s reputation for quality and authenticity. She also supports her local community by donating the agave remnants to local farmers for cattle feed, and she uses hand-blown recycled Mexican glass for her bottles.

I admire Melly and hope to meet her someday.

Espolòn Blanco

Josh Miller, co-founder of Owen’s Craft Mixers in New York City

ABV: 40%

Average Price: $25

Why This Tequila?

Espolòn makes the best value tequila, and I’m a big fan of value especially when it comes to tequila. The tequila is very mixable, but I don’t necessarily recommend drinking it straight. It’s really at the right price point if you’re going to make or order a mixed cocktail. Especially, the always reasonably priced Espolòn Blanco is made with 100% Blue agave to give it a vegetal sweet, clean flavor profile that mixes well.

Lalo Blanco

Rob Masters, head distiller at The Family Jones Spirit House in Denver

ABV: 40%

Average Price: $42

Why This Tequila?

Lalo Blanco. There is such a great lineage of distillers behind Lalo, starting with Don Julio. I’ll take that over a celebrity endorsement any day. No additives, no barrels, no BS, just plain world-class, excellent tequila. It’s highlighted by simple, clean flavors like cooked agave, vanilla, and light spices.

Ayate Añejo

Wael Deek, beverage director partner at Alice and Osteria 57 in New York City

ABV: 40%

Average Price: $89

Why This Tequila?

Ayate Añejo is my pick because it’s a really smooth sipping tequila. It also has a great-looking bottle and design for your shelf. It’s underrated because they don’t have different profiles or expressions, so they’re focused on just the aged tequila. In addition, the founders were winemakers originally, so the product is produced in Mexico and then aged in chardonnay barrels on the West Coast which produces a sweet and oaky flavor.

Even though they’re not heavily represented in the market, I like it and we serve it at the restaurant.

Santo Tequila Mezquila

Jackie Zykan co-owner and whiskey blender at Hidden Barn Whiskey in Sparta, Kentucky

ABV: 40%

Average Price: $45.99

Why This Tequila?

Santo tequila. Don’t let the frosted tips celebrity endorsement fool you. Every expression is balanced and well structured, capturing the quintessential profile of clean, quality-made agave spirits. A personal favorite of mine is their Mezquila. Try it in a Paloma, thank me later. This blend of mezcal and tequila is sweet, smoky, and surprisingly complex.

Hiatus Reposado

Clayton Harper, beverage director and manager at JaJaJa Plantas Mexicana in New York City

ABV: 40%

Average Price: $49.99

Why This Tequila?

I’m a big fan of tequilas that have a robust flavor that is true to its origins. You can taste the flavors and aromas in Hiatus Tequila without the bite that’s associated with tequila, therefore it’s smooth in a cocktail but also great on its own. Since the owner lived in Mexico for several years, the brand is developed the way that tequila should be made, slowly so that the agave is ripe before going through the process of creating the tequila. My favorite expression is the reposado which is the perfect balance of sweetness and smokiness from the aging process.

I love sipping this tequila on its own but at the restaurant, we sometimes use it in cocktails that would normally require a brown spirit. The reposado happens to be awarded a few times, so I know that I have great taste.

IXA Reposado

Dr. Nicola Nice, founder and CEO of Pomp & Whimsy in Los Angeles

ABV: 40%

Average Price: $42.99

Why This Tequila?

My favorite organic tequila is IXA, which is a highland 100% organic blue agave tequila produced by Greenbar Distillery in Jalisco. The Silver has an incredibly rich, herbal, almost vegetal flavor profile with a mineral quality similar to wine, which is due to the white wine yeasts that are used in its fermentation and the oxygen-rich steel tanks that the tequila rests in for two weeks before bottling.

The reposado and añejo are aged in toasted American oak, which gives them an almost cognac-like quality.

Writer’s Picks:

Casa Noble Añejo

ABV: 40%

Average Price: $52.99

Why This Tequila?

Casa Noble has made a name for itself in the tequila world in the last few years. But it still deserves more acclaim and notoriety than it gets. It starts with its Añejo. It’s matured for at least two years in new, French oak casks. The result is a complex, rich tequila with notes of dried fruits, vanilla beans, toffee, vegetal agave, and rich oak.

Mijenta Reposado

ABV: 40%

Average Price: $65.99

Why This Tequila?

For a younger tequila, Mijenta Reposado is surprisingly well-balanced and complex. It’s only aged for around six months in a mixture of American oak, French oak, and French acacia barrels. But this is long enough to impart flavors like sweet honey, vegetal, cooked agave, butterscotch, and bold oak.

An ancient tale lives again: the TV gods decided to regurgitate another franchise, this time with the late Anne Rice’s gothic fantasy saga, Interview With The Vampire, taking another whirl on AMC. Hollywood cannot resist a formerly profitable endeavor, and more often than not, these revivals aren’t worth their weight in blood. Yet occasionally, the practice works, and I’m pleased to report that this vampy revamp is well worth the outing. I use that last word literally, so hang tight for elaboration, but this show is not only a horror tale befitting October but also a dramedy. It’s a pulpy but not (as much as the original) campy ride, and it’s an extremely bloody relationship soap-opera that’s fully watchable. Amazingly, the show soars further than the film. Let’s talk this out.

Back in 1994, the Interview With The Vampire movie gave us a very different Tom Cruise character than we’d ever seen. The role was a leap from his string of golden-boy blockbusters like Top Gun, Days of Thunder, Cocktail, and so on. To put it mildly, Cruise as the Vampire Lestat de Lioncourt seemed like an unlikely casting decision, one that even upset Anne Rice. And it’s easy to see why given that the generally straight-laced Tom (well before he was leaping off buildings and mountains and perching atop speeding trains) didn’t sound believable as wild Lestat. His antagonist was a merciless creature who sucked the life out of humans and gave Louis de Pointe (Brad Pitt) little choice but to vamp out in a pairing that felt maybe homoerotic and closeted.

Even in a film that felt frustratingly muted, Tom did give one of his most interesting performances. He seduced New Orleans and threw fiery tantrums and then, after he was seemingly defeated, he swooped back into view, invigorating himself with a drink of blood and whining about Louis’ “whining.” He ended the movie by firing up Guns ‘n’ Roses’ “Sympathy of the Devil” cover and roaring off into the distance while Christian Slater’s hapless journalist languished in the passenger seat. It was fun. (This even inspired me to pick up The Vampire Chronicles books, which took me as far as horrible The Tale of the Body Thief, the only time I’ve literally thrown a book across the room.)

For all of the movie’s enjoyability, however, there was a major problem: this was still a Tom Cruise juggernaut, which lost much meaning on the big screen. The story got shortchanged (oddly, in a script by Rice) and emphasized star power with Brad Pitt (in the midst of his heartthrob phase). And yes, the performances were fine — Pitt portrayed Louis with wild-eyed abandon as the story’s so-called moral center (very awkward, since he owned slaves). Kirsten Dunst chilled as the unruly young Claudia who met a tragic end while attempting to acquire a mother. Yet the show makes it very apparent that the movie kept things comparatively subtle, not only with the new male-lead vamps (Jacob Anderson as Louis and Sam Reid as Lestat) but also with Claudia (now played by Bailey Bass). She gets fleshed out beyond brattiness here, and the show explicitly makes Lestat and Louis an actual romantic couple, and a randy one at that. Louis’ story gets updated to being a Black business owner who’s wrestling with the difficulties of being a Black business owner (albeit of an illicit business) in 1910 and beyond. All of this, and especially the out-in-the-open queerness, adds more layers.

The show has the luxury of time to do all this, and to give Lestat and Louis’ relationship many phases, and it paces itself well (I’ve watched the 5 episodes released for critics out of the 7 that will make up the first season). Mind you, they are not a dream couple. They have significant issues, but the vampire duo takes on a full-on romance, one that will thrill fans, and Anderson gets to do so much more here as he did as Grey Worm in Game of Thrones, whereas Reid confidently parades around as the mesmerizing Lestat. Oh, and about Claudia: her diary becomes a secondary narrative framing device.

Granted the first framing device remains the journalist who’s hearing Louis’ story. Here, he’s portrayed by Eric Bogosian as a much more world-weary version of the Slater character. In 2022, this isn’t his first rodeo with Louis, who wants to update the situation in Dubai. Yes, you read that correctly. Louis now lives in the endlessly sunny Dubai and is probably richer than Jeff Bezos while living in a high-rise (that’s not unlike one that Tom Cruise scaled for the Mission: Impossible franchise) that somehow keeps him safe from the scorching rays. It’s one of the least likely places to find a vampire, and it’s a place of effective contrast between the present and those rollicking NOLA years.

Mr. Journalist has a full-on personality and life outside of interviewing vampires, and he’s kind-of had enough of Louis’ sh*t, but not quite enough to not be curious about what a vampire’s doing in a world that’s even more messed up than it was a century ago. So, we get a whole modern spin with much of the story still taking place in early 1900s New Orleans. And boy, Louis has some marginalized community sh*t to deal with (being undead actually doesn’t solve the societal pressures involved with being Black and queer) through the decades. These diverse angles don’t get too heavy but do help to ground the fantasy while it still soars.

Speaking of those great heights: ironically, a sky-high scene takes characters to rock bottom; the real flying takes place on the ground. That includes a scene where Louis begins to fall for Lestat, who has frozen time during a scene that will be talked about by fans for its beauty and splendor and hypnotic qualities. These supernatural detours provide a respite from horror, when the ugly parts of vampire life loom large in blood-spattered conquests. We’ve also got telepathic conversations, which lead to tweaked family dynamics, and of course, the story’s as decadent as one can imagine.

And thank god for debauchery when it comes to the undead. These are pretty vampires, but this ain’t Twilight. Lestat and Louis climb into coffins together, and there’s no secret about what they’re doing. This sexual spin on the story also extends to Claudia, who’s older in this show but eternally of her late teens. This presents its own troubles, for which her fathers are ill-equipped to help her. Claudia’s quest for love takes her in a different direction than it did in the movie, and her stumbles are heartbreaking as she narrates her family’s adventures. It’s both a blast and a gut punch to see her character expanded in a way that shows how she’s as tragic than the Dunst character and how Lestat, as marvelous as he can outwardly be, is essentially a terror to all.

This project’s one of a few (including The Lives Of The Mayfair Witches) Anne Rice adaptations that will soon hit AMC, and ultimately, bringing Lestat and Louis back is an effort that more than justifies its existence. The series is a once much more complex and frivolous than the cinematic predecessor, and it’s thrilling to watch all of the soap operatics and the spectacle with new shades of relevance. It’s worth noting that Rice, who passed away last December, is listed as an executive producer here, so she must have enjoyed Anderson’s presence more than the Tom Cruise casting. And again, Tom did alright! Yet things work out much better with the show, which is a more enthralling (and sensual) sight to witness.

AMC’s ‘Interview With The Vampire’ premieres on Sunday, October 2 at 10:00pm EST.