And the bloggings go rolling along...
Ann Magnuson's two-parter on the JT LeRoy saga, published here in thegazz.com this Monday and Tuesday, has been getting a little link love in some lit/culture/media circles on the web. Like this one , a blog about books, and this one at Paper mag in NYC, for whom Ann sometimes writes.
Meanwhile, watch for an interview on the books page of the Sunday Gazette-Mail this Sunday with Lilly Bright, executive producer of the movie based on LeRoy's "The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things," due out in March. (Yep, they're moving forward with releasing to theaters the flick, which stars Peter Fonda, Winona Ryder and goth rocker Marilyn Manson). Bright, it turns out, is a Summersville, W.Va., native who met the supposed fellow Mountaineer at the 2004 Cannes filmfest, where the movie premiered. The recent news about LeRoy not being LeRoy, caught Bright by surprise, shall we say. "This is a hoax that went on for 10 years. How do you keep this up? How did it start?" she tells Sunday Gazette-Mail books writer Regina Davis. Good questions, all: and this one? Where did all the money go from this hoax?
PS-- Check out the weirdness when you click through to Marilyn Manson's website. What's up with THAT?
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scoop city:
Celebritarian Corporation is the name that Marilyn Manson has given to his new art movement. Manson has coined a slogan for the movement: “We will sell our shadows to those who stand within it.”
Celebritarian first arose as a secret website, Celebritarian.com, which although it was first discovered during the Holy Wood period (2000) its web counter dates back to 1996, the year Antichrist Superstar was released.
The website was hinted at in the lyrics to "The Fall Of Adam" from Holy Wood:
The Abraham Lincoln town cars
arrive to dispose of our king and queen
they orchestrated dramatic new scenes
for Celebritarian needs
And in the liner notes to Holy Wood were the words "Celebritarian™ used by permission". It has since been revealed that Manson coined and trademarked both the terms 'Celebritarian' and 'Celebritarianism'.
Then on 1 October 2005 it was reported that several Celebritarian websites had surfaced including celebritarian.com, celebritarian.net, celebritarians.com and celebritarianism.com all of which feature the Cross of Lorraine which when clicked on forwards you to the official Marilyn Manson website. There is some doubt over whether these sites are legitimate, as the domains are registered with a Yahoo! email address.
MarilynManson.com ScreenshotOn 28 November 2005, in an article on MTV's website, the Celebritarian Corporation was said to have been "incubating for seven years"1 which if correct would indicate that Celebritarian Corporation, in some form, started in 1998.
On 16 January Marilyn Manson's official website was taken down and replaced with the following message on the front page which makes reference to the Celebritarian Corporation.
By novel and EXPERIMENTAL inquests
Not the product of abstract SPECULATIONS
Nor vindicative legalist theories
This website and all contents herein have
Been SEIZED by order of the Celebritarian Corporation
There has been much speculation over this as previously other updates had occured on the website, starting on 3 January. Each update has been archived and discussed at The Heirophant Council.2
EDNOTEI'm not necessarily a Manson fan, although I did see him in Wheeling.
I have a lot of time on my hands to cup and paste stuff out of wikipedia.
Marilyn Manson is a freak. He has a good voice, though. I remember in one interview he put hip-hop down, talking about drum machines and stuff.
Oh.
So, here's question. Who was better at what they do: Alice Cooper? Or Marilyn Manson? I say Cooper, if only because Marty Connors got permission from the principal to blast Cooper's "School's Out for Summer" over the PA at Forest Park High School on the last day of my senior year 15 minutes before school was let out for the summer: and it was way cool. Cooper seemed to take himself less seriously than Marilyn.
I don't care which was better. They're both jokes. Maybe Manson will blow his own head off on TV. That would save him from the charity golf 30 years down the road.
Seriously, whatever your views on religion (the Fascism of Christianity -- Brian Warner's words) or the divinity of Jesus, when you tear the pages out of a bible and throw them up in the air for shock at your concert, you've either:
A. Sold your soul (If you believe)
B. Reached the bottom of the barrel
C. Made enough money to not care.
D. All of the above.
I would say that Brian Warner is smarter than Alice Cooper, though.
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