IS ADULT ENTERTAINMENT KILLING
OUR CHILDREN? OR IS KILLING OUR CHILDREN ENTERTAINING ADULTS?
“The title of our forthcoming
album is “In the Shadow of the Valley of Death.” We have written over 100
songs that tell the story that will be presented in my upcoming film HOLY
WOOD. We are recording in parts of Death Valley as well as other undisclosed
residences. The band is working with seminal electronic mastermind Bon
Harris (Nitzer Ebb) and Dave Sardy (Bark Market, Slayer). I am producing
the album. It is being co-produced and mixed by Dave Sardy.
This record finishes what
ACSS began and its sound is unlike any of our other albums. I can say,
however, it is the most violent, yet beautiful creation we have accomplished.
My inspirations are being drawn from alchemy, my association with the O.T.O.,
JFK and our very own Holy Bible. This is a soundtrack for a world that
is being sold to kids and then being destroyed by them. But maybe that’s
exactly what it deserves.
I have a hope for a new,
stronger humanity. An age of enlightenment, an Age of Horus. The “great”
are only “great” because we are on our knees. It is time to rise and time
to create.
We are now the people our
parents warned us about. And we should be, because they were naïve.
We truly sit in the shadow
of death, or rather the billboard that advertises it. We’re all going to
die…and if enough people are taking photos, we will all be stars.
But it’s all really a popularity
contest now.
How you die.
How many people you take
with you.
What your cause was.
How good is your sound byte.
We even make martyrs where
others, equally and brutally murdered fall as just statistics.
Murder sells, grief sells
but boy does Jesus Christ sell. “Well, she died for God. Because if she
had denied her faith she would have lived!”
SURE.
So if this school-shooting
victim had said, “No spare me, I hate God,” the deranged killer would have
followed his own “Christian values” and turned the other pimply cheek.
Right, maybe on the WB NETWORK made-for-TV version we can expect any day
now. Sadly and simply that poor girl and her classmates didn’t die for
Christ or anyone else. She died because her head was where Dylan Klebold
had his rifle aimed. We can all agree these deaths were unnecessary. So
was my grandfather’s and your brother or dad or JFK or Christ himself.
But let’s not make martyrdom a popularity contest based on cash, guilt
and fear. I’m sure if they could bottle every tear we’ve shed in these
events, they’d sell it back to us as bottled water. The crucifix is already
the highest grossing mass-market piece of merchandise sold worldwide in
the history of mankind. So where does that leave us? I say our art. That
is all that makes us worth being alive. It’s surely not what drives us
to death. Each artist is a duality. On one hand he has human feelings and
on the other he is an impersonal machine or process. But you cannot understand
his psyche; you can only understand his creative achievements. I am a vehicle.
An artist cannot be expected to interpret what he does for us. It must
change us and in the change, we become the interpretation. The answer.
There is a thin line between
psychosis and creation. Who’s to say madness isn’t pure enlightenment?
YOU CAN ONLY DO!
Everything you do is part
of a plane plummeting towards our pitiful, dying earth. But your art, what
you create is stepping onto the burning wing and forgetting silly things
like life and death for a moment. Just to enjoy for one second a glimpse
of beauty before you are reduced to ashes.”
MARILYN MANSON
THE THIRD AND FINAL BEAST
