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Marilyn Manson’s Blog

Goth 'shock-rocker' infamous for his wild stage antics and genre-bending, Manson's songs aim to critique conservative 'middle' American values. Raised as a Christian, and a student of Journalism, he quickly evolved/mutated into what he is today. Albums by his eponymous band include: Holy Wood, Eat Me Drink Me, and Antichrist Superstar. His autobiography, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, discloses the many subversions he is known for, including sexual fetishism, drug addiction, nihilism, and his ambivalent contract with Revlon.

Cannot wait for hell to freeze over

By Marilyn Manson

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I’ve heard it all my life: I’ll get inducted to the Rock Hall of Fame when ‘hell freezes over’. I’ll get to show off my shiny balls on the cover of Newsweek when ‘hell freezes over’. M.I.T will finally agree to run mercury through my veins when—yup—hell freezes over. As a reverend at the Church of Satan I can say this: hell is very hot, and doing just fine.

They say hell is on earth, which (if you’ve heard the current American Idol candidates sing) is not a stretch. With global warming and all, earth is also unlikely to freeze. What is a man to do?

Sit in a fridge all day. If both hell and earth are not to freeze over, at least my ass will. Miles Davis move over—this is the birth of cool.

(p.s. Coke is sponsoring me now. The revolution is on hold.)

3/7/2008 3:29 PM, Dayton, Ohio
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Intro to Dadaism for hicks

By Marilyn Manson

Bio & Blog

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How wonderful—Duchamp sticks a urinal in a museum, and changes the world. I talk my ass off for five hours to a bunch of hicks and they still don’t get it.

Some southern university invited me to present a seminar at their Intro to Dadaism class, and needless to say, I was met with either half-lobotomized faces, or pricks—most notably, a frat boy named Carter who kept saying ‘queer’ under his breath every time I spoke.

I told Carter he’s probably a Dadaist without even knowing it, and encouraged him to eat his own feces. “You can call it performance art,” I said. “That’s sick bro,” he said—which reminded me of the guy who kept asserting “Don’t tase me bro!” as the very imminence of his tasing grew sadly near.

3/6/2008 7:00 PM, Chattanooga, Tennessee
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Rejected Playgirl spread

By Marilyn Manson

Bio & Blog

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Well it’s official: the editors at Playgirl don’t even look at their slush-pile. Who do they think they are, The New Yorker? I submitted 79 photos to them a while back, and just received this more than likely template rejection letter:

3/5/2008 6:00 PM, Dayton, Ohio
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Homage to John Cage

By Marilyn Manson

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I was thinking about John Cage’s 4’33” avant garde ‘silent’ piece in which the audience listens to their own murmurs and disenchantment for four minutes and thirty-three seconds. Well, I decided to appropriate it; It was fairly easy, I just took a nap in the dressing room.

It’s called 107’13”—one hour, forty-seven minutes and thirteen seconds of avant garde silence. The audience didn’t seem to get it. They just group chanted “This blows!” over and over again. I don’t think the public (even my fans) are ready for completely mind-shattering concepts. Looks like I’ll go back to verse-chorus-verse ‘pop’ songs, which incidentally, I sing half-mockingly as a way to expose and/or implicate the artifice of the music industry.

All I really want is a little silence, a long nap, and a couple of million dollars in royalties. I think the avant garde deserves at least that much:

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3/3/2008 5:12 PM, Dayton, Ohio
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Back-up spatula mic

By Marilyn Manson

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I accidentally punctured myself with my ‘knife mic’, and will be using my back-up ‘spatula mic’ for the rest of my tour. I sliced my femur artery and man o’ man—Gene Simmons eat your heart out. First of all, the blood was real, and second, it was mine. Ozzy, take your tablespoon of bat blood and go to hell.

Initially, my set-designer came up with a ‘ladle mic’ idea, but I’ve never been a fan of soup, and did not want to bear the constant evocations.

2/28/2008 3:00 PM, Dayton, Ohio
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My hip hop/marsupial phase

By Marilyn Manson

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I’m always brainstorming new ways to blend genres together: goth/metal, masculine/effeminate, sacred/profane, and now — hip hop/marsupial. Now before everyone starts feeling worried for Nietzsche (our pet koala bear), just for the records my bestiality inclinations are limited to seals. (I like the slippery challenge of grabbing one.) As for Nietzsche, I see our relationship as strictly platonic — since he could claw off my testicles.

Dita Von Teese, Nietzsche and I spend careless afternoons sipping Mojitos while I practice my free-stylin’ — which isn’t working out so well. I’m too self-conscious about looking like Vanilla Ice or Weird Al Yankovic. I don’t look like them, do I? You’d tell me, wouldn’t you?

It’s these insecurities I can’t stand, the thought of being just another white guy who likes to spoon endangered species’. Just to clarify, spooning is NOT sexual. Neither is masturbating in front of a bear. I just need Nietzsche for the visuals. That bear is soooo adorable.

2/27/2008 3:38 PM, Queensland, Australia
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1-800-Dentist

By Marilyn Manson

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manson1.jpgCan someone tell me what the number for 1-800-Dentist is? I can’t move my neck to look down at the dial. I hate it when agencies try to be all fancy by creating either acronyms or words that correspond with an arbitrary number. It’s easier just to dial in the number.

I need a new orthodontist. The one I had resigned — mid-way through a procedure — after I told him I become sexually fixated with anyone who touches my mouth. The mouth and anus are simply two ends of one tube. We are nothing more than a digestive track with nerve endings. To trace the concavity of my mouth with your finger is the same as tickling my prostrate. Love at first pinch.

2/25/2008 8:21 PM, Dayton, Ohio
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Does this United States flag make me look like Waldo?

By Marilyn Manson

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My agent and I were going through some live show photos and we stumbled upon one of me wearing a United States flag like a sari, and I immediately thought of Waldo—with his striped red shirt and all. I think of the Where’s Waldo series as a metaphor for the American condition: the unrecognizable individual embedded into an obscure void of gentrified tasteless society.

The last thing I want to evoke is that, so no more United States flags for me. Brazil’s lime green could play off my mascara, and Japan’s red-dot sun on my ass would look really sexy, so I got many options. Definitely not the French flag though. I’m against the ‘red, white, and blue’ concept in general—even if their legal age of consent is 14; which reminds me, my flight to Paris leaves in half an hour. Later guys, time to get existential on their ass.

2/21/2008 7:00 PM, Dayton, Ohio
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Seeking: Inspiration and ideas for ironic regalia

By Marilyn Manson

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I’m running out of ideas for decorations and insignia to hang from my jacket. So far I got two chicken bones (went to KFC last night), and this weird Thai thing that looks like testicles. There’s an odd number of them, which is cause for concern for me. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for anatomical anomalies, but even I want two kids in my sack. Just think of me as the fifth ‘ghost’ member of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

2/20/2008 8:40 PM, Dayton, Ohio
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Audition for ‘The Office’ didn’t go so well

By Marilyn Manson

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Tried out for a cameo appearance for The Office but the producers wouldn’t have any of my antics. I was to play an intern at Kinko’s who accidentally shows up at Dunder Mifflin. I even wore a tie.

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I tried to spice it up by piercing my cheeks with a stapler remover and clipping my eyes shut with medium-sized binder clips. That’s when Steve Carrell shows up all diplomatic n’ shit and says this might not be such a great idea—that while he applauds my ‘aesthetic’ transgressions in life—he’s just worried that audience isn’t as well acclimated to sadomasochism as both he and I are. The only thing sadomasochistic about him is Evan Almighty. That movie sucked, and besides, there is no god. Jesus.

2/19/2008 3:53 PM, Dayton, Ohio
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