The Henry Rollins Show Season 2 Episode 1 - 04/13/2007

EPISODE 301 - FRIDAY, APRIL 13TH 2007

CELEBRITY GUEST: MARILYN MANSON

MUSICAL GUEST: PEACHES

In this week's Teeing Off, Henry reminds us that for all the good that has transpired in politics, pop culture, and business since the end of last season, our nation is far from OK and thus we all need to exercise our first amendment rights in addressing the issues at hand. Our premiere guest is Marilyn Manson who drops in to discuss his first new album in four years and we revisit the media's mishandling of the Columbine tragedy. In the first edition of Janeane Garofalo's free-form musings, The Disquisition, she explains why she's an anti-email Luddite who'd rather get her information from books instead of the porn-infested internet. And, in her first ever television performance, Peaches plays Boys Want To Be Her off her latest album, Impeach My Bush. Peaches also performs another song, Hit it Hard, exclusively on IFC.com.

Marilyn Manson met Trent Reznor when he worked as a music journalist for a local magazine in Florida and convinced him to sponsor his upstart band (originally named "Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids"). The band toured with Nine Inch Nails and Reznor eventually produced their first three albums ("Portrait of an American Family," "Antichrist Superstar," and "Mechanical Animals.") Infamous for his shocking stage persona and the anti-Christian message in his songs, Manson is also a writer, painter and filmmaker.

http://www.marilynmanson.com/

Tradução Entrevista http://whiplash.net/materias/entrevistas/060565-marilynmanson.html

Tiros em Columbine (Bowling for Columbine, 2002, Dir. Michael Moore)

On Tuesday, April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, two students embarked on a killing spree, taking the lives of 12 students and a teacher, injuring 21 others (other 3 were injured as they were attempting to escape), and then committed suicide. “Dark” music groups, such as Marilyn Manson and Rammstein, were blamed for the fourth-deadliest massacre in US history, but it was so because people wanted a scapegoat, Manson tells the latest issue of Kerrang! magazine. (...)

“Blaming me for [Columbine] was ridiculous. It’s a lack of responsibility from everyone. If you want to blame something, well, I went to a Christian school. That’s why I write what I write. Shall we blame the Christians?” Manson explains in the interview. At the same time, the rocker believes that things would be completely different if, hypothetically speaking, the same scenario were to happen again today. Still, he admits that he lost almost everything when people started pointing fingers at him for the murders.

“I essentially lost everything because of Columbine but, if it happened now, it just wouldn’t have the same impact.” Manson says. “There has to be that first person who takes the arrows in the back and I guess that was me. If there was a Grammy Award for death toll, it would be mine. I don’t think anyone has been blamed for as much violence as me.” the rocker adds, hinting that people still fail to perceive the difference between art and real life, as he argued on many other occasions before. (...)

By Elena Gorgan, Life & Style Editor