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− | |Title = | + | |Title = The Last Rock Star? |
|Date = May 17, 2007 | |Date = May 17, 2007 | ||
− | |Source = | + | |Source = [http://www.spin.com/articles/cover-marilyn-manson SPIN Magazine] |
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− | + | '''The Last Rock Star?'''<br> | |
− | '''Return of the Living Dead'''<br | + | '''Return of the Living Dead'''<br> |
− | '''''"People would say that drugs and alcohol wrecked my marriage. But buyer beware"'''''<br | + | '''''"People would say that drugs and alcohol wrecked my marriage. But buyer beware"'''''<br> |
− | '''SPIN Interview By Jonathan Ames on May 17, 2007'''<br | + | '''SPIN Interview By Jonathan Ames on May 17, 2007'''<br> |
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Black metal gates swing open, and I steer my car up [[Marilyn Manson]]'s driveway. It's a small hill, and there are odd, looming trees on both sides, forming a canopy, a scary dark tunnel. Manson lives in Chatsworth, a suburb of Los Angeles, it's around 9 P.M. on a moonless March night, and I feel like I'm in a goth version of ''Sunset Boulevard''. Will I end up dead in some swimming pool, like the writer played by William Holden? | Black metal gates swing open, and I steer my car up [[Marilyn Manson]]'s driveway. It's a small hill, and there are odd, looming trees on both sides, forming a canopy, a scary dark tunnel. Manson lives in Chatsworth, a suburb of Los Angeles, it's around 9 P.M. on a moonless March night, and I feel like I'm in a goth version of ''Sunset Boulevard''. Will I end up dead in some swimming pool, like the writer played by William Holden? | ||
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"Arvin," he says. | "Arvin," he says. | ||
− | We lapse into silence. Sipping my absinthe, I try to gather my thoughts. I've spent the last few days reading Manson's excellent autobiography, Googling him, and listening to his music. I review what I know: Manson, born in 1969, was raised in Ohio, where he attended a Christian school, which was meant to frighten him into obedience but had the opposite effect, sort of like the therapy in ''A Clockwork Orange'' gone haywire. His real name is Brian Warner and his grandfather was a cross-dresser who enjoyed dildos. His father poured Agent Orange on the jungles of Vietnam and dressed up as Gene Simmons when he took little Brian to a Kiss concert in 1979. Manson has put together his own philosophy of hedonism, nihilism, and self-fulfillment, merging such disparate thinkers as Nietzsche and Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan. He began his postcollege life as a journalist in Florida, but then started playing music and broke out nationally, with | + | We lapse into silence. Sipping my absinthe, I try to gather my thoughts. I've spent the last few days reading Manson's excellent autobiography, Googling him, and listening to his music. I review what I know: Manson, born in 1969, was raised in Ohio, where he attended a Christian school, which was meant to frighten him into obedience but had the opposite effect, sort of like the therapy in ''A Clockwork Orange'' gone haywire. His real name is Brian Warner and his grandfather was a cross-dresser who enjoyed dildos. His father poured Agent Orange on the jungles of Vietnam and dressed up as Gene Simmons when he took little Brian to a Kiss concert in 1979. Manson has put together his own philosophy of hedonism, nihilism, and self-fulfillment, merging such disparate thinkers as Nietzsche and Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan. He began his postcollege life as a journalist in Florida, but then started playing music and broke out nationally, with Trent Reznor as his mentor, in 1994. Then, in 1999, he was partially blamed for the Columbine High School shootings, but resuscitated his career with an appearance in Michael Moore's film ''Bowling for Columbine''. Moore asked him what he would say to the kids of Columbine, and Manson answered brilliantly, "I wouldn't say a single word to them. I would listen to what they have to say, and that's what no one did." Now he's releasing a new album, ''[[Eat Me, Drink Me]]'' -- his first in four years -- and will embark on a [[Rape of the World (tour)|co-headlining tour]] with [[Slayer]] in July. |
The door swings open and Manson lopes in, carrying his own goblet of absinthe. He's wearing a black T-shirt, black leather pants, and gigantic Frankenstein boots. He's six-foot-three and looks to be all narrow torso and legs. I'm middle-aged and completely bald and immediately assess that Manson's black hair is beginning to thin, probably from multiple dyeings. His face is sweet, and his eyes, without his usual colored contacts, are kindly. | The door swings open and Manson lopes in, carrying his own goblet of absinthe. He's wearing a black T-shirt, black leather pants, and gigantic Frankenstein boots. He's six-foot-three and looks to be all narrow torso and legs. I'm middle-aged and completely bald and immediately assess that Manson's black hair is beginning to thin, probably from multiple dyeings. His face is sweet, and his eyes, without his usual colored contacts, are kindly. | ||
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We start to talk, and Manson is sniffling a little. Right away, he starts to tell me about the breakup of his marriage to burlesque queen [[Dita Von Teese]]. They were together for six years and then, in their seventh year, they got married. "It's the old cliché," he says. "Marriage changes everything." | We start to talk, and Manson is sniffling a little. Right away, he starts to tell me about the breakup of his marriage to burlesque queen [[Dita Von Teese]]. They were together for six years and then, in their seventh year, they got married. "It's the old cliché," he says. "Marriage changes everything." | ||
− | The behavior he had manifested for the first six years | + | The behavior he had manifested for the first six years -- such as living like a vampire -- became unacceptable to Von Teese, he says. But he wasn't willing to give up his vampire's hours. "I'm my most creative between 3 and 5 A.M.," he says. "That's the way I've always been." |
Going to sleep at dawn and rising at dusk was not the only issue of contention, though. Before they were wed, Manson and Von Teese were never separated for more than five days; after they got married, he wasn't seeing her three out of every four weeks, due to her own hectic schedule. Manson is very needy, and with Von Teese on the road all the time, he started losing his mind. And he started believing her when she said that the way he lived was wrong. | Going to sleep at dawn and rising at dusk was not the only issue of contention, though. Before they were wed, Manson and Von Teese were never separated for more than five days; after they got married, he wasn't seeing her three out of every four weeks, due to her own hectic schedule. Manson is very needy, and with Von Teese on the road all the time, he started losing his mind. And he started believing her when she said that the way he lived was wrong. | ||
− | "But then I realized that what's wrong about me is right," he says. "To play devil's advocate | + | "But then I realized that what's wrong about me is right," he says. "To play devil's advocate -- but that doesn't really work, since I'm the devil -- people would say that drugs and alcohol wrecked my marriage. But buyer beware. She said she had tolerated the lifestyle because she hoped I would change and threatened to leave if I didn't. I was sleeping on the couch in my own home. I was no longer supposed to be a rock star. I was someone who had to be apologized for. I wasn't prepared to be alone. I came out of this naked, a featherless bird. I needed to get my wings back by making this record." |
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'''How did Manson finally get his wings? Read the complete Marilyn Manson cover story in the June 2007 issue of ''Spin'', on newsstands May 29.''' | '''How did Manson finally get his wings? Read the complete Marilyn Manson cover story in the June 2007 issue of ''Spin'', on newsstands May 29.''' | ||
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