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“I knew that I was supposed to respond with some kind of mannered phrase that ended with "hail Satan," but I couldn't bring myself to do so. It seemed too empty and ritualistic, like wearing a uniform in a Christian school.”

Book:The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

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The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

This autobiography presents a first-person account of Brian Hugh Warner, known professionally as Marilyn Manson, detailing his childhood, formative experiences, and the creation of his provocative stage persona. The narrative covers his journey from a troubled youth in Ohio to becoming the frontman of the industrial metal band Marilyn Manson, exploring themes of rebellion, artistic expression, and the challenges of navigating fame and public scrutiny. The book offers insight into the cultural and musical landscape of the 1990s, as well as the controversies surrounding the artist's work and public image. more

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Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson, born Brian Warner, is an American musician, actor, and visual artist. He is renowned for his unique musical style and stage persona, being one of the key figures in industrial and gothic rock. Marilyn Manson's music blends various musical elements, including rock, metal, electronic, and classical music, often exploring themes of darkness, death, and the supernatural. more

“Again, I call to mind that distant moment in [the prison at] Hermanice when on a hot, cloudless summer day, I sat on a pile of rusty iron and gazed into the crown of an enormous tree that stretched, with dignified repose, up and over all the fences, wires, bars and watchtowers that separated me from it. As I watched the imperceptible trembling of its leaves against an endless sky, I was overcome by a sensation that is difficult to describe: all at once, I seemed to rise above all the coordinates of my momentary existence in the world into a kind of state outside time in which all the beautiful things I had ever seen and experienced existed in a total “co-present”; I felt a sense of reconciliation, indeed of an almost gentle consent to the inevitable course of things as revealed to me now, and this combined with a carefree determination to face what had to be faced. A profound amazement at the sovereignty of Being became a dizzying sensation of tumbling endlessly into the abyss of its mystery; an unbounded joy at being alive, at having been given the chance to live through all I have lived through, and at the fact that everything has a deep and obvious meaning— this joy formed a strange alliance in me with a vague horror at the inapprehensibility and unattainability of everything I was so close to in that moment, standing at the very “edge of the finite”; I was flooded with a sense of ultimate happiness and harmony with the world and with myself, with that moment, with all the moments I could call up, and with everything invisible that lies behind it and has meaning. I would even say that I was somehow “struck by love,” though I don’t know precisely for whom or what.”

Transcendent Experience

Book:Vaclav Havel: Or Living in Truth

Source: Vaclav Havel: Or Living in Truth

“George Walker Bush did not want to allow much research, probably sensing that science would do something awkward with the research. But GWB was right about it.”

Bushism Bush Bush War Bush V Gore

Author:Mr. Alex Mel

“If comedy is tragedy plus time, I need more fucking time. But I would really settle for less fucking tragedy.” ~ Jon Stewart”

Tragedy Jon Stewart

Book:The Daily Show (The Audiobook): An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests

Source: The Daily Show (The Audiobook): An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests

“LIZZ WINSTEAD Instead of Jon playing a character—the news anchor, one of the derelicts in a derelict world of media—Jon made a creative decision to take the show in the direction of the correspondents presenting the idiocy, and then Jon is the person who calls out the idiocy with the eloquence that the viewer wishes they had. And he did it in a way that’s not condescending, it’s not smug. It’s funny, it’s emotional, it’s calling out bullshit. So Jon became the voice of the audience.”