MARILYN MANSON QUOTES FROM HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY "LONG ROAD OUT OF HELL": EXCERPTS FROM TELL-ALL BOOK.
Ah, summer… the perfect time to relax in the shade with a good book. What have you been reading? I recently finished (and loved) The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, Marilyn Manson’s autobiography with Neil Strauss. Let’s just say that if you think the Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days is a riot, then you’ll find Manson’s book hilarious and compelling.
For kicks, I used a random number generator to come up with three numbers (between 1 and 269). I then flipped to the appropriate page in The Long Hard Road Out of Hell and jotted down the funniest passages.
† PAGE 94: “In an attempt to reiterate the lesson of Willy Wonka in my own style during other shows, I hung a donkey piñata over the crowd and […] would warn, “Please, don’t break this open. I beg you not to.” Human psychology being what it is, kids in the crowd would invariably grab the stick and smash the piñata apart, forcing everyone to suffer the consequence, qhich in this case was a shower of cow brains, chicken livers and pig intestines from a disembowelled donkey.”
† PAGE 193: “As if having eaten the fruit of knowledge, I realized I had to cover my nakedness. So I took the cardboard tube from a roll of paper towels and duct-taped it around my dick. In an attempt to turn it into a crude jockstrap, I drunkenly tore the television out of the wall and wrapped the cable around my waist like a belt.”
† PAGE 121: “So we had to content ourselves with side projects like Satan on Fire, a fake Christian death metal act with songs like “Mosh for Jesus.” Our goal was to infiltrate a the Christian community (a fantasy I still harbour) but the local Christian club would never book us.”
I leave you with an inspirational quote from page 154: “What nobody understood then is this: The only way that you achieve what you want and fulfill your dreams and become great is by demanding that sort of attention. You have to make it happen.”
Have you read Manson’s autobiography? Can you recommend any other good reads? (I recently enjoyed Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential and Haruki Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.)
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La Carmina, I don't understand how cute fashion and animal innards mix? This made me want to cry. < a shower of cow brains, chicken livers and pig intestines from a disembowelled donkey. rel="nofollow"> Please please keep talking about cute things and no more horror, especially not animal horror. I thought you loved animals? Manson sure doesn't.
I think that's part of the reason Manson pushes so many buttons… I think of him (and de Sade) as jokesters. Their writings/music/existence are horrifically disturbing at face value, but I see it as camp… a whack-in-the-face that get people thinking (or laughing or screaming). Many parts of the book are exaggerated for the sake of fun (Hunter S. Thompson does the same)… As far as I know, Manson and his band have never harmed animals on stage, or I certainly wouldn't be giving them any space on my site. :)
ah thanks for the pull quotes. it perked my interest and now i want to get the book. :)
La Carmina, I don’t understand how cute fashion and animal innards mix? This made me want to cry. Please please keep talking about cute things and no more horror, especially not animal horror. I thought you loved animals? Manson sure doesn’t.
I think that’s part of the reason Manson pushes so many buttons… I think of him (and de Sade) as jokesters. Their writings/music/existence are horrifically disturbing at face value, but I see it as camp… a whack-in-the-face that get people thinking (or laughing or screaming). Many parts of the book are exaggerated for the sake of fun (Hunter S. Thompson does the same)… As far as I know, Manson and his band have never harmed animals on stage, or I certainly wouldn’t be giving them any space on my site. :)
I've never really liked Marilyn Manson. But what I DO like is Haruki Murakami, and after hearing about Hard-Boiled Wonderland in a Japanese Society class at uni, I've always wanted to read it. Was it good?
As for other good reads… hmm have you read The Otori Tales by Lian Hearn?
ah thanks for the pull quotes. it perked my interest and now i want to get the book. :)
I’ve never really liked Marilyn Manson. But what I DO like is Haruki Murakami, and after hearing about Hard-Boiled Wonderland in a Japanese Society class at uni, I’ve always wanted to read it. Was it good?
As for other good reads… hmm have you read The Otori Tales by Lian Hearn?
Hard-Boiled Wonderland is excellent. Full of surrealism and quirky characters, sort of like Wind-Up Bird. I think you’ll like it.
I haven’t heard of Otori Tales – what’s it about?
Cool! I must look for the Japanese version though, as I terribly need to practice my 読み物 >_<
The Otori Tales is a fictional series set in feudal Japan. It's an immensely good book, try out the first book, "Across the Nightingale Floor". I daresay it's one of the best Japanese series I've ever read that's written by a non-Japanese author :)
Hard-Boiled Wonderland is excellent. Full of surrealism and quirky characters, sort of like Wind-Up Bird. I think you'll like it.
I haven't heard of Otori Tales – what's it about?
Cool! I must look for the Japanese version though, as I terribly need to practice my 読み物 >_<
The Otori Tales is a fictional series set in feudal Japan. It's an immensely good book, try out the first book, “Across the Nightingale Floor”. I daresay it's one of the best Japanese series I've ever read that's written by a non-Japanese author :)
Ah! GO MARILYN MANSON! Well, I borrowed the book from a friend and loved it! Well actually, I only had enough time to read a couple of chapters untill I had to return it. >.< But Im hoping to save enough money to buy my own copy!
Ah! GO MARILYN MANSON! Well, I borrowed the book from a friend and loved it! Well actually, I only had enough time to read a couple of chapters untill I had to return it. >.< But Im hoping to save enough money to buy my own copy!
I don't know if I'll be reading Manson's biography any time soon, but I simply love Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (so much so that I forced my beau to read it!). He in turn forced me to read Tom Robbin's Still Life with the Woodpecker which was also phenominal. The writing style is a bit similar to Lemony Snicket, and very witty. The story was great and I had trouble putting the book down.
I don’t know if I’ll be reading Manson’s biography any time soon, but I simply love Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (so much so that I forced my beau to read it!). He in turn forced me to read Tom Robbin’s Still Life with the Woodpecker which was also phenominal. The writing style is a bit similar to Lemony Snicket, and very witty. The story was great and I had trouble putting the book down.
Ohhh I love Tom Robbins! I’ve read at least 6 of his books. I started getting into him in my mid-teens… I love how he’ll take the most mundane action and turn it into a LSD trip!
I'm actually reading Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. He's the man right now, I think most of the bookworms I know are either reading something of his or just finished reading.
hahah I'm one of those bookworks… I also read South of the Border, Elephant Vanishes, and After the Quake in the past 2 months… all are gorgeous books!
Ohhh I love Tom Robbins! I've read at least 6 of his books. I started getting into him in my mid-teens… I love how he'll take the most mundane action and turn it into a LSD trip!
I’m actually reading Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. He’s the man right now, I think most of the bookworms I know are either reading something of his or just finished reading.
hahah I’m one of those bookworks… I also read South of the Border, Elephant Vanishes, and After the Quake in the past 2 months… all are gorgeous books!
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Marilyn is the kind of guy that writes what he is feeling and what is on his mind. I think that if every one was like this the world wouldn't be that phucked up. He writes(and sings) what true artists feel but can't create, what is meant to be a secret but unvaled in the most horrific state that most don't understand.
the book was a great pleasure and very intruging…
Marilyn is the kind of guy that writes what he is feeling and what is on his mind. I think that if every one was like this the world wouldn’t be that phucked up. He writes(and sings) what true artists feel but can’t create, what is meant to be a secret but unvaled in the most horrific state that most don’t understand.
the book was a great pleasure and very intruging…
Marilyn is the kind of guy that writes what he is feeling and what is on his mind. I think that if every one was like this the world wouldn't be that phucked up. He writes(and sings) what true artists feel but can't create, what is meant to be a secret but unvaled in the most horrific state that most don't understand.
the book was a great pleasure and very intruging…