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Columbine: Whose Fault Is It?

by Marilyn Manson


Posted May 28, 1999 12:00 AM

It is sad to think that the first few people on earth needed no books, movies, games or music to inspire cold-blooded murder. The day that Cain bashed his brother Abel's brains in, the only motivation he needed was his own human disposition to violence. Whether you interpret the Bible as literature or as the final word of whatever God may be, Christianity has given us an image of death and sexuality that we have based our culture around. A half-naked dead man hangs in most homes and around our necks, and we have just taken that for granted all our lives. Is it a symbol of hope or hopelessness? The world's most famous murder-suicide was also the birth of the death icon -- the blueprint for celebrity. Unfortunately, for all of their inspiring morality, nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue.

A lot of people forget or never realize that I started my band as a criticism of these very issues of despair and hypocrisy. The name Marilyn Manson has never celebrated the sad fact that America puts killers on the cover of Time magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars. From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes. They just created two new ones when they plastered those dipshits Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris' pictures on the front of every newspaper. Don't be surprised if every kid who gets pushed around has two new idols.


We applaud the creation of a bomb whose sole purpose is to destroy all of mankind, and we grow up watching our president's brains splattered all over Texas. Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised. Does anyone think the Civil War was the least bit civil? If television had existed, you could be sure they would have been there to cover it, or maybe even participate in it, like their violent car chase of Princess Di. Disgusting vultures looking for corpses, exploiting, fucking, filming and serving it up for our hungry appetites in a gluttonous display of endless human stupidity.


When it comes down to who's to blame for the high school murders in Littleton, Colorado, throw a rock and you'll hit someone who's guilty. We're the people who sit back and tolerate children owning guns, and we're the ones who tune in and watch the up-to-the-minute details of what they do with them. I think it's terrible when anyone dies, especially if it is someone you know and love. But what is more offensive is that when these tragedies happen, most people don't really care any more than they would about the season finale of Friends or The Real World. I was dumbfounded as I watched the media snake right in, not missing a teardrop, interviewing the parents of dead children, televising the funerals. Then came the witch hunt.


Man's greatest fear is chaos. It was unthinkable that these kids did not have a simple black-and-white reason for their actions. And so a scapegoat was needed. I remember hearing the initial reports from Littleton, that Harris and Klebold were wearing makeup and were dressed like Marilyn Manson, whom they obviously must worship, since they were dressed in black. Of course, speculation snowballed into making me the poster boy for everything that is bad in the world. These two idiots weren't wearing makeup, and they weren't dressed like me or like goths. Since Middle America has not heard of the music they did listen to (KMFDM and Rammstein, among others), the media picked something they thought was similar.


Responsible journalists have reported with less publicity that Harris and Klebold were not Marilyn Manson fans -- that they even disliked my music. Even if they were fans, that gives them no excuse, nor does it mean that music is to blame. Did we look for James Huberty's inspiration when he gunned down people at McDonald's? What did Timothy McVeigh like to watch? What about David Koresh, Jim Jones? Do you think entertainment inspired Kip Kinkel, or should we blame the fact that his father bought him the guns he used in the Springfield, Oregon, murders? What inspires Bill Clinton to blow people up in Kosovo? Was it something that Monica Lewinsky said to him? Isn't killing just killing, regardless if it's in Vietnam or Jonesboro, Arkansas? Why do we justify one, just because it seems to be for the right reasons? Should there ever be a right reason? If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn't as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old?


America loves to find an icon to hang its guilt on. But, admittedly, I have assumed the role of Antichrist; I am the Nineties voice of individuality, and people tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity. Deep down, most adults hate people who go against the grain. It's comical that people are naive enough to have forgotten Elvis, Jim Morrison and Ozzy so quickly. All of them were subjected to the same age-old arguments, scrutiny and prejudice. I wrote a song called "Lunchbox," and some journalists have interpreted it as a song about guns. Ironically, the song is about being picked on and fighting back with my Kiss lunch box, which I used as a weapon on the playground. In 1979, metal lunch boxes were banned because they were considered dangerous weapons in the hands of delinquents. I also wrote a song called "Get Your Gunn." The title is spelled with two n's because the song was a reaction to the murder of Dr. David Gunn, who was killed in Florida by pro-life activists while I was living there. That was the ultimate hypocrisy I witnessed growing up: that these people killed someone in the name of being "pro-life."


The somewhat positive messages of these songs are usually the ones that sensationalists misinterpret as promoting the very things I am decrying. Right now, everyone is thinking of how they can prevent things like Littleton. How do you prevent AIDS, world war, depression, car crashes? We live in a free country, but with that freedom there is a burden of personal responsibility. Rather than teaching a child what is moral and immoral, right and wrong, we first and foremost can establish what the laws that govern us are. You can always escape hell by not believing in it, but you cannot escape death and you cannot escape prison.


It is no wonder that kids are growing up more cynical; they have a lot of information in front of them. They can see that they are living in a world that's made of bullshit. In the past, there was always the idea that you could turn and run and start something better. But now America has become one big mall, and because of the Internet and all of the technology we have, there's nowhere to run. People are the same everywhere. Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do. I've always tried to let people know it's OK, or better, if you don't fit into the program. Use your imagination -- if some geek from Ohio can become something, why can't anyone else with the willpower and creativity?


I chose not to jump into the media frenzy and defend myself, though I was begged to be on every single TV show in existence. I didn't want to contribute to these fame-seeking journalists and opportunists looking to fill their churches or to get elected because of their self-righteous finger-pointing. They want to blame entertainment? Isn't religion the first real entertainment? People dress up in costumes, sing songs and dedicate themselves in eternal fandom. Everyone will agree that nothing was more entertaining than Clinton shooting off his prick and then his bombs in true political form. And the news -- that's obvious. So is entertainment to blame? I'd like media commentators to ask themselves, because their coverage of the event was some of the most gruesome entertainment any of us have seen.


I think that the National Rifle Association is far too powerful to take on, so most people choose Doom, The Basketball Diaries or yours truly. This kind of controversy does not help me sell records or tickets, and I wouldn't want it to. I'm a controversial artist, one who dares to have an opinion and bothers to create music and videos that challenge people's ideas in a world that is watered-down and hollow. In my work I examine the America we live in, and I've always tried to show people that the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue -- it's been happening every day for a long time.


MARILYN MANSON
(May 28, 1999)

http://www.audioleaf.com/maplesamurai1/

Ihanaa että joskus törmää niin täysin puskista johonkin näin hyvään! Niitten laulaja, Yousuke, oli käyny mulla mixissä ja kattelin sitte niitte sivut etc. kun jätkä on 22... shit XD Älytön ääni, saan harvoin kylmiä väreitä pelkästä äänestä ja kun kyseessä on vielä joku jota kuulen ihan ensimmäistä kertaa.... katotaan ymmärtääkö se englantia kun jtn höpötin sille mixillä*^_^*

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heräten tänään, syvyyksistä taas
koska katsoin liikaa myöhäisillan tv-ohjelmia
kesken kaiken unohdan kappaleen jota olen juuri hyräilemässä itselleni
miten se menikään?
jos pysähdyn, jätetään minut jälkeen
mitä menetän tässä kaupungissa, mitä minulta vietiin?
aamunkajo maalaa kaupungin punaiseksi
näkymä joka ei ole muuttunut ikuisuuksiin

naapurin koira haukkuu kuin hullu jälleen kerran
puhaltaen läpi rauhan, jota pitää pystyssä vain paperinohut seinä
sotken huoneen
ja maailman, tehden törkeän paluun
myrtyneenä
peitä maa, kaupunki jossa kenkäsi eivät koskaan likaannu
tämä kaupunki muutti minut, tappoi sydämeni
yhtäkkinen kaatosade, jos se kastelee kaupungin ja minut
olen tiennyt alusta saakka, se oli tekosyy

mikä saa minut surulliseksi?
etten kykene itkemään, luulisin

aamunkajo maalaa kaupungin punaiseksi
päivät menevät menojaan, huusin huomista
tämän inhoamani kaupungin nurkassa
yritän, tämän hetken, hymyillä ihan vähän

No, ainakin voitettiin Ruotsi.

And we're back in the game.

Kone edelleen paskana, jos pääsiäisen jälkeen sais sen kuntoon. Ilmeisesti sitte kovalevy rikkikki joten keskiviikkona mennään Nooran ja Miian kans ostaan ulkonen 250Gb että kiva atk-setä pelastaa mein yaoit ja korvaamattomat sendaikamotsut...
Yh. Lainatkaa mulle 100€?
Onneks mulla on mun uskollinen nokia että pääsee kuiski galtsuun vaikka se onki sellasta vitun töpöttämistä ._. Kiitos Miialle nyt koneen lainauksesta!

Eve

Oli aivan vitun mahtava keikka!!! ja nimmaritilaisuus... <3 halasin kaikkia *^_^* Tatsuro on kovin pieni sylissä, YUKKE tuoksu aivan jumalaiselle (enkä kyenny ajatteleen mitn muuta ku sen käsiä mun ympärillä... siis YUKKE...! <3), Miya on niin ROCK ja se koski mun tukkaa ja sano "Cool hair!" \m/ SATOchi poses mulle sen sen patentti-dorka-posen XD Kuvia sitte joskus kun KONE ON PASKANA! >.< kun ei vaan menis kaikki mitä siellä on ;__; Huolimatta kaikesta paskasta (also known as life) mulla on aivan järkyttävän hyvä olo :D Ja kiitos kagero:lle yöpaikasta ja seurasta, next one is Ayabie!

It is done.

Kunhan värjätään mun hiukset niin koitan sitten laittaa kuvaa molemmista.

13.3. klo 11 \m/

Jotain uutta:

Jos X (Japan) tulee takas niin no matter when and where niitten keikalle on päästävä!
Aina kun Yoshiki kirjottaa lisää blogia niin mun kunnioitus ja sen arvostaminen nousee miljoona pykälää ylöspäin. Se on jotain aivan omaa luokkaansa.

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Mä tahdon tän http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=010&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBI%3AIT&viewitem=&item=200085030625&rd=1&rd=1 -___-; Se on niin upee ja siinä on viime vuoden molemmilta keikoilta ja mulla on 85% mahollisuus että näytään siinä Kölnin pätkässä kun ne kuvaili siellä aivan innoissaan jo sillon aamulla kun me tultiin sinne... Pitää nyt kattoo mitä siitä pitäis maksaa. Ihan perseestä kun ne tekee nuo aina vaan [a knot]:lle XC

Iskä lähti tänään takas Kokkolaan ja äiti on täällä Roissa vissiin nyt koko viikon, ye! Kiva nähä niitäkin ^^ mennään nyt vasta ennen Muccua Klaan.

Noora menee kampaajalle huomenna ja taistelen tässä halua vastaan että menisin ja leikkaisin tukkani.. ei kokonaan tms mut jotain tekis mieli... mut ajattelin et jos kasvattas vähän.. emt.

En saanu työpaikkaa :< fuck it, en olis menny vaikka oisivat rukoilleet.

Alotin taas lukeen The Vampire Lestat:ia... ehkä joku miljoonas kerta että luen sitä mutta se nyt vaan on niin hyvä. Se on jotenki vielä parempi englanniks, mistäköhän johtuu? (siitä ku oon niin pro että luen kirjani englanniks :DD right.)

Mukkulaan vaan "pari" päivää enää \m/ Vittu että mulla ja Nooralla on niille niin huiput lahjat että ei parempaa XD En oo koskaan ostanu kellekkään mitään mutta ムック on sellanen 'Even spessut'-tapaus <3 Ja due to "someone special" meiän ei tarvi mennä hostelliin (ja näin ollen maksaa) yöpaikasta sillon ja saadaan käyä ostaan muutamat astiat ja kaikkee muuta ihanaa Tokyokanista kotiin <3 Arigato~~ you know who you are :)

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Jotain vanhaa:


Take your top ten bands and find a googlism for them from www.googlism.com, Pick your favorite one.


1. Dir en grey - Dir en grey is crawling under your skin.
2. DéspairsRay - Despair is contrary to hope / Ray is performing
3. 蜉蝣 - 蜉蝣 is no longer there.
4. ムック - ムック is really just damn good.
5. KoЯn - KoЯn is one of those bands that do it on their own merit.
6. Alice nine - alice is wonderland / nine is that it's one less than ten.
7. ドレミ團 - Sorry, Google doesn't know enough about ドレミ團 yet.
8. Sadie - sadie is providing counselling down the hall.
9. BLOOD - BLOOD is running in the streets.
11. ANTI FEMINISM - anti is currently streaming the video for the track god's away on business / feminism is for everybody.

(I kinda cheated 'cos I didn't want every other one to say "Sorry, Google doesn't know enough about [band] yet." so... yay for not sleeping!)


FYI ---->

Nykynen Top10:

Dir en grey
D'espairsRay
ANTI FEMINISM
蜉蝣
ムック
KoЯn
アリス九號
ドレミ團
BLOOD
Sadie

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Jotain lainattua (Sirian:lta):

A= seksikäs
B= yllätyksellinen
C= asioitaan jakava ihminen
D= varma
E= kekseliäs
F= cool
G= hauska
H= on aina siellä
I= enkeli
J= kaunis
K= saa aina kaiken sen mitä hän haluaa
L= itsepäinen
M= pahis
N= fantisoiva
O= suojelee kavereitaan
P= pehmeä
Q= ei valehtele melkein koskaan
R= saa tarpeekseen pojista/tytöistä
S= ylläpitää yhteyden hyvin
T= kiusallinen
U= mukava
V= ei valehtele koskaan
W= paljon kärsvällisyyttä
X= hassu
Y= äänekäs
Z= hyvä kuuntelemaan
Ã…= kohtelias
Ä= ei mene selän taakse
Ö= kiva
A= seksikäs
B= yllätyksellinen
C= asioitaan jakava ihminen
D= varma
E= kekseliäs
F= cool
G= hauska
H= on aina siellä
I= enkeli
J= kaunis
K= saa aina kaiken sen mitä hän haluaa
L= itsepäinen
M= pahis
N= fantisoiva
O= suojelee kavereitaan
P= pehmeä
Q= ei valehtele melkein koskaan
R= saa tarpeekseen pojista/tytöistä
S= ylläpitää yhteyden hyvin
T= kiusallinen
U= mukava
V= ei valehtele koskaan
W= paljon kärsvällisyyttä
X= hassu
Y= äänekäs
Z= hyvä kuuntelemaan
Ã…= kohtelias
Ä= ei mene selän taakse
Ö= kiva


u= mukava
n= fantisoiva
d= varma
e= kekseliäs
c= asioitaan jakava ihminen
i= enkeli
d= varma
e= kekseliäs
d= varma

Onhan tossakin jtn I guess, omallani ei tosin hirveesti tuu vaihtelua XDDD

Työhaastattelu pejantaina XD jos vaan sais sen paikan, olis tossa tien toisella puolella, Ärrä XDDD
Jouduin kirjottaan ihan oikeen työhakemuksen ja kaikki, en oo joutunu kirjotteleen sellasta vielä koskaan vaikka oon ollu 16v asti koko ajan töissä (go me!), well... there's first time for everything.
[Työpaikkani sijaitsi ravintolan baarin ja hotellin välittömässä läheisyydessä, joten olen tottunut tulemaan toimeen erilaisten, erimaalaisten ja välillä hyvinkin vaativien ja hankalien asiakkaiden kanssa. -----> aka kusipäät ja känniset kävi pelaamassa, tai parhaassa (ja useimmassa) tapauksessa the combo x_x)]


KORN. Miks vitussa nyt? enkä ees tienny vasta kun eilen ;____; ei niin et olis rahaa ja tuntuu jotenki vitun tyhmältä lähtee kun bändistä on vaan reilu puolet siellä kun se fuckin Pää lähti ja David on lomalla :o ei kai siinä mitn, Despaa ja Dirua sitte. Eka kerta jättää KoRn väliin though.


Uus kuva. Muoksin vanhasta eilen kun netti oli down suurimman osan päivästä. Oon niin pro.


Alle kk Mukkulaan, parentsit tulee perjantaina ja pääsee Kokkolaan ens viikolla \o/ ja mulla on toivottavasti tekemistä vk:lla 11 mutta ilmottelen siitä sitte sillon.


Bai bai~~