Significance of Valentine's Day to Marilyn Manson

This article is about the holiday. For other uses see Valentine's Day (song) and Valentine's Day (painting)

Manson's spiral heart tattoo, inked on Valentine's Day 2007.

Valentine's Day is a holiday celebrated each year on February 14. It is the most significant and recurring day within Marilyn Manson's music and artwork. Its most obvious references are the song "Valentine's Day", featured on the 2000 album Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death), and a painting of the same name. Yet, there are several less apparent references in Manson's art, which are listed below.

Events

• On February 14, 1991, Marilyn Manson and Missi attempted to get arrested at a club so they could spend Valentine's Day together in jail. To do this, Missi donned a mask, went topless and fellated Manson. Ultimately the two were not arrested, however.
• On February 14, 2007, Manson had a new tattoo depicting a spiral heart inked on his left wrist (pictured above) as a result of his relationship with current girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood.

Performances

• "Deformography" and the piano version of "Mister Superstar" were played live for the first time, in Dayton, Ohio on February 14, 1997. According to their respective album credits, both 1996's "Irresponsible Hate Anthem" and 2000's "Born Again" were also recorded on this date, although in reality this is false. The former is especially curious, since it was released on an album which saw its official release over six months prior to February 14, 1997. It is often said that the song "I Want to Disappear" from 1998's Mechanical Animals was recorded on this date as well. This, however has never been officially confirmed by Manson himself.

Release dates

• On February 14, 2000, a cover of Charles Manson's "Sick City" was released through a podcast via MarilynManson.com.
• On February 14, 2001, Chapter 10 of the as-of-yet unreleased Holy Wood novel was released through ThisAsValentinesDay.com.
• On February 14, 2002, two video clips entitled "I Love You With All of My Heart" and "I Will Love You Until I Die" respectively were released though MarilynManson.com. Both clips depicted Manson's cat Lily White.
• On February 14, 2003, the first picture of the band's new appearance during The Golden Age of Grotesque era were presented on the band's official website. The photo was accompanied by a short movie clip named "The Mechanism of Desire", which depicted the band's new look but also Manson's then fiancée Dita Von Teese.
• On February 14, 2005, the remake of the "The Nobodies" video that would accompany the 2005 re-release of the single was leaked on the Universal Music website. It remains unknown whether this was meant as a gift or if the leak was accidental.
• Although these plans did not materialize, Manson had expressed interest in releasing the band's 2009 album The High End of Low on February 14, 2009.

See also

• Valentine's Day article on The NachtKabarett.
• Marilyn Manson's journal archive on The NachtKabarett in which both the 2002 and 2003 gifts can be seen.