December 9, 2008

Manson Revisited

You’ll want to know everything. How it all began, how it ends and every other degraded detail experienced throughout. Well I won’t tell you, simply because I have a sustained belief in the advanced knowledge gained from your own involvement, the encounters you endure and the way you endure them, this is all exposure to life, a life you must lead through your own eyes. I am unwavering on this.

Thus, I will decline from showing and telling anything crucial or definite. What I will say, you need to pay very close attention to.
If you are in pursuit of answers of a certain, absolutely unequivocal nature, stop here and scroll away.

Our infamous villain dispenses none. The enlightenment I received from him came from myself, together with the realisation that there is, in fact, no unanimous answer. Everyone’s is different. And like everything else, there are things you actively agree with and there are things that you don’t. It’s hard to say which rules in this case, the former or the latter.
I read through Brian Warner’s words at first as though they were pearls of wisdom to devour, to absorb, simply because I like that he dares to go against the grain and bothers to have his own opinion rather than just mindlessly believing in things, I have fallen into that trap myself. But very soon I discovered that was the antithesis of what he was trying to do. This was not his vision and pretty early on in this memoir of sorts I understood this and then began upon a journey into the mind of this self proclaimed Antichrist.
This together with a peek into his childhood, relationships and career make up Marilyn Manson’s The Long Hard Road out of Hell.

Written almost a decade ago, before the Columbine witch hunt commenced, this book will see you divulge in a world of grotesque confessions, debatably inhuman acts of sodomy and nihilism and uncover the secret but unconcealed life of rock stars, unveiled like you have never seen before.

To end off this quasi review of a life that can only be described as horrifically intriguing, I will leave you with a quote from Mr Warner which sums up the overall message of the book, “I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.”

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