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"Tell me something beautiful,
Tell me something free,
Tell me something beautiful
And I wish that I could be."
You've been an inspirational influence on me for six years in counting. I could speculate "what if"'s all day long on how things might be different if my dad hadn't played The Matrix soundtrack for me when he did, but the truth is I'm not sure where I'd be right now had he not.
People—my dad included, interestingly enough—have frequently claimed I would have found you anyway eventually, found atheism, found critical and analytical thinking. Even if that were true I'd be pushed back a lot farther than I am now, and although my discovery was up to chance I feel a compelling need to credit you—and my few other influences, not all of celebrity status, one being Maynard—in some way to shaping me what I have become so far and will become in the future. I don't think they realize perhaps I want to bestow you with this honor, I choose to, shall I become something great, something credible. Hopefully I will do enough of the "right" things to craft my person into something incredible, as that's where my sights are set.
So I thank you Manson, for opening my eyes when they so desperately needed to be peeled back and blinded by white. I especially thank you for prying them open every day of agony I have ever faced in reminiscence of my childhood, showing me the truth in my horrors although it made me weep on countless occasions. I can recall every pang of pain I have endured inspired by your music, art, work, etc., being welcomed with conscious open arms.
"I hate what I have become to escape what I hated being. . .
. . .Here is my real head, here is my real head
I wear this fucking mask because you cannot handle me."
Thank you for songs like "Kinderfeld" and "Organ Grinder", thank you for recognizing sexual childhood abuse, self mutilation, the faults of Christianity and religion, thank you for being brave when I couldn't, when we couldn't. Thank you for saying "shoot up the mall, the school, the president of whatever, and whoever else wants to fights", despite them censoring the capabilities of your statement. As juvenile as the line can come across, I'm sure those of us that have heard the real version of "Blank and White" can recognize the strength and importance in what you were saying. I'm sure we—those that wish to fight—all hope and strive to live in the light of your legacy, I hope we won't disappoint by standing in your shadow that you've sold to millions of others. I hope I won't disappoint. Your help and guidance, although accepted by me for it to lend my heart a holding hand, has changed my life forever. I knew from the very moment I heard "Rock is Dead" that things would never be the same. I felt something powerful, something new to me and the world. You were something I wanted to be near, or be just like.
Just yesterday my friend Sarah pointed out that I idolized you, Manson, and commented on how that was silly. In actuality, I don't idolize you at all and the idea of idolizing you has never crossed my mind. I do not idolize anyone because I know any place of standing in the world is within my steps if only I move my feet. Idolizing is for the weak and blind, idolizing is also for the even sadder individuals who do not want to work hard enough to get what they could claim. Not doing what one is capable of is worse by personal opinion than not being capable at all.
My feelings of you are that of an influence, which I regard as the highest honor you can hold someone. I allow you to influence me, something I wish the parents of Denver, CO and the rest of the world would recognize, in ways that I choose. You influence me to be strong when I feel my weakest, but you do not influence me to do drugs, for two simple examples amongst many. The elaboration could continue on, but my point is we all pick and choose what to do with our influences, there is no force within the spectrum. Blindness for any reason is not a plausible, defensible force that I'll believe in, either.
You may not need or want it, but I felt defense of my influence was necessary today. Everyone deserves to relax one day a year, and if a little slack comes with a birthday, so be it— I'd take advantage, I do every year in fact. Happy birthday.
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MARILYN MANSON - OMEGA MESSAGE 015
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It is time for their world to be destroyed. It is time for a new age, the Age of Horus. It is time for a new standard, a new canvas, and a new artist. We must forget this wasted generation and amputate it before the mind rots away with it. Paint it, record it, write it down before they kill you with their slow poisonous stupidity. Make yourself heard.
This Internet is your middle finger to the universe, don't let them break it.
Fuck their world. Let's make our own.
The third and final Beast
Marilyn Manson
Marilyn Manson
8 comments:
I think Manson and Nietzsche often get unjustly criticized by people who have never heard/read their work.
Christians often condemn Nietzsche of putting forth a philosophy of hopelessness and meaninglessness - but in reading Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" - the story of a holocaust survivor, it was actually Nietzche's writing that gave him strength to endure his suffering.
I enjoy watching Manson's music videos for the social commentary.
Great post.
I had no idea the guy was still alive. The last I heard from him was in "Bowling for Columbine."
Can't say I know much about the him. Too much theatrics for me (reminds me of Kiss and Alice Cooper). I knew about him just from his singles and public criticism, so he wasn't too bad in my eyes.
Odd that he would mention Horus, since Jesus (especially as a baby suckling at his mother) is comparable to Horus.
@ Samuel: I agree, Nietzsche is another writer I adore. I have not read Man's Search for Meaning (adding that to my mental list now), but that is very interesting.
Manson does have great videos. Have you seen his latest, "Running to the Edge of the World"? It got quite a bit of backlash from the ignorant.
@ Ginx: Yep, still alive and kicking. He does have quite a bit of theatrics, but you'd be quite shocked I think to discover how many artistic references are within his work. The Nachtkabarett is the best place on the web to learn of all things Manson—that matter, not how old he is, what color his eyes are, etc.—and it might explain your curiosity about why he said Horus instead of Jesus. ;)
You shared some of art with me at different times we were together. I can see into his words also, he does share his inter thoughts with who is willing to really listen. You are the one that opened my eyes to what he has to say to us, and he does it so well. He is a gift to those who will except him for who he is, and not to judge him by his choice of outer wear. I like reading these pieces you put into your work. They do make me think about certain things. Thank you for sharing his words with me!
@ kissafrog69: I'm really glad his art gets your gears a turnin'! ;) If I can promote his art to those willing to comprehend, that makes me happy. I hope one day people do the same for whatever I create.
I'm absolutly in love with Marilyn Manson;and i love this site.
if anyoneone doesnt like him FUCKKK OFFF.
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MMFWCL
@ Sammy, SellYourSoul卐: Sure, sure. :)
Very enlightening and beneficial to someone whose been out of the circuit for a long time.
- Kris
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