Well, when I got in last night I noticed a few people anxious to hear about my evening with the Manson family....so here goes.

I got to the auditorium and was a little dissapointed at first...Interscope had given me free tickets, but there was something they couldn't control- where the tickets were. I had tickets for the upper balcony and there is no direct access from the balcony to the floor, luckily a friend of mine was with and she had two main floor tickets, so we played this lovely game of cat and mouse having two people go onto the floor then one would come back out with both ticket stubs give one to one person they'd both go on the floor, one would come out...etc...thankfully, it worked out well...If I had to watch the Reverend from a seat there was going to be hell to pay. By the time I got settled the lights went dim and Korn came on stage...One of the guys at the station kept telling me how great these guys were and I had never checked them out...I wish I did, cause they were really good, although I think the lead singer had a little too much of something because nobody has that much energy on stage....but we're not here for Korn...Finally the lights are about to go dim for Marilyn Manson, I get my appropriate spot right up front (halfway to the auditorium I realized I forgot my dictaphone so I wasn't bootlegging the show) there was one person between me and teh stage...there weren't too many people there so I didn't have to be worried about being crushed...The band filed on to the stage first, Ginger (who i didn't get a good look at through the entire show), then Twiggy who was wearing a cute little orange dress, Madonna came on stage with what had to be the funkiest makeup job (it made him look way too happy) Daisy came out and then The Reverend came out on stage...they immediately broke into Cake and Sodomy...at this point this fucker behind me who had enough room behind him to take three steps back decided to start shoving into me digging his elbow in my back (WHY DO PEOPLE HAVE TO BE SUCH PRICKS...AAAARRRRGH) so I had to take a moment and stop looking at the Reverend to throw him flat on his ass...then I got a look at him...all I can say is taht MM has already picked up the posers...He was doing a bad imitation of a goth...it was just horrid, how is it that people now think goths are cool...I mean, I don't necessarily consider myself a goth but I'm pretty emerged into the *subculture* and realize that everyone involved either has been or is really depressed- do people want to be depressed? Have they grown tired of mommy and daddy spoiling them rotten and think that it would be cool to be depressed? I'm sorry but depression, to me, is one of the worst things a person can go through...I've been there and it's not fun...but, I digress...The Reverend was going through his normal antics during the song, when Cake and Sodomy finished they immediately went into Cyclops and just as fast someone landed on my head (there's another thing I can't stand- bodysurfing) For the rest of the evening I made it a plan to hurt anyone who bodysurfs over me...I bit one guy in the side hard enough to draw blood, another guy I grabbed by the neck threw on the ground and kiked a few times....They're putting theirlives in my hands by getting that close to me, I'm trying to watch the Reverend and they're pulling me away...I was getting more and more pissed off...just a total "KILL, KILL, KILL" feeling and I wasn't afraid to act with it (in case you haven't noticed the crowd took away from a big part of my enjoyment) Cyclops was over before I noticed and they started playng organ Grinder without missing a beat...I started realizing that these fucks around me who were screaming the phrase "I am the god of fuck" with mr. Manson didn't know any other words to any other song (NOOOOOOOO....CLOSER FANS- ARGH) The Reverend was incredibly quiet that evening, after Organ Grinder he said "and all the children are singing, We Hate Love, We Love Hate...." and that was about it for the evening he took that into Dogma (what an incredible live song) it was about this time that I realized the marks on The Reverend's stomach...it seems he's been cutting himself a little too much lately, there must have been a good forty or fifty scars on his stomach...after Dogma the stage went dark and quiet...Mr. Manson was right in front of me when I shouted "I WANNA FUCK DADDY" his head turned my way looking to see where that came from, so I shouted it again, when he looked directly at me and half-smiled/half-grinned then he pulled out his little light (you know the type that auto mechanics use when working on cars) and started singing Sweet Dreams...directly to my right there was this couple standing together arms around each other looking like they were dancing to some slow love song at their grade school dance (repulsive) then I saw something even scarrier...both of them and their three friends around them all smeared themselves with Red lipstick...Why do these fools have to imitate every little thing that they see? Why can't they jsut find their own little fucking niche? back to the show, Sweet Dreams was amazing as it was the last time I saw them...They then performed Lunchbox and Misery machine...Snake Eyes and Sissies and it was all pretty much nothing too notable just the usual antics on stage...finished off with Dopehat and My Monkey....Three notable things during these songs...one, they started to play Come Together by the Beatles, they sang about the first four lines then broke into My Monkey....During My Monkey Mr. Manson pulled down his leather rock star pants and broke his g-string in the process...and there was Mr. Manson, as his mom first saw him, only a little larger I suppose....He ended up collecting himself and zipping his pants back up then he went over to Twiggy, now, last time I saw them he proceeded to masturbate Twiggy then hit the mic on Twiggy's penis...well, this time he pulled down Twiggy's pantyhose and started drawing all over Twiggy's penis with some red lipstick...The song ended with Mr. Manson throwing his Mic stand into the drums and then Madonna threw his keyboard to one side and jumped right on top of the drum set, while Ginger just stood up half-kicked/half-threw a portion of his drum set out of his way and they all walked off stage...that was it...I do have to say that while i enjoyed their show it was definitely worse than the other two I've seen...I think it's that they're just getting tired of touring and want to go back home...anyway, after their set only Daisy came out...the rest of the band stayed backstabge...here's where the highlight of my evening came...Seeing as how I used to live in the St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN area I knew a lot of people there, and sure enough I even ran into an ex-girlfriend of mine who ad just had Daisy sign her ticket stub...she was actually licking the ticket stub at this point (I personally think that she could use a good psychiatric evaluation, but that's for reasons other than that)...Her friend started talking to me and I just had to try and make her jealous, so Ilooked past her friend and said, so what ya got there? and she said Daisy's signature...I'm like oh, big deal...she's like why can you do any better...I said, well yeah, remember that last show you sa me at...well, during MVM I was sitting in the back of their tour bus talking to the reverend....The look on her face was priceless...Anyway, Glenn "Pretty Boy" Danzig came on the stage (I like a lot of his music but I just can't stand him) and thta wasn't bad but it was nothing compared to the first two bands (pretty sad when you're blown away by your opening acts but then agin I can think of another example of that happening- Bile opening for Gwar)...and tht was the extent of the evening...I finally got home at tensaturday night in order to go on the air and have drunk fucks call up and act immature as usual...

Probably wasn't the best reiew but oh well...

on another note, did someone say that they caught Bile opening for MM and MVM...shit when I saw tht show it was Haloblack, who didn't impress me at all, which is ok, cause when I heard their album a couple of weeks ago it didn't impress me either....

have a fucking day...

ed duffy esmrcka4321@vax2.winona.msus.edu
"Is everybody happy?"
-PWEI