Mike would be mad...

...if he knew I was doing this post. He would say "Why bother!?!" But I don't care...I have feelings and I think it's important to express them...and maybe some people won't agree but hey, that's fine. This is my blog afterall and I can do what I want! So there! :P

OK, this is what just happened. I was reading something on Yahoo or AOL about the new (atleast I believe it is) Marilyn Manson video "Running to the Edge of the World." And there's a lot of speculation/controversy on it I guess. So what I got out of the article was that he did this music video, a girl is in it who looks very very VERY similar to his past girlfriend (Evan Rachel Wood), and basically she gets extremely beat up by him. At the end...like the last 2 minutes. So you just see him singing into the camera for 4 minutes (zzzz...and the point is what?) and then this crazy violence involving a girl...a woman.

And so we watched it and I knew what my reaction would be during and after it from the article. I hated it. I don't understand what the reaction besides "WTF!?!" I'm supposed to have. I don't know if it's different for a guy or what but there's almost nothing I hate more than watching a woman get abused...be it in a film or video. I just don't like it and I don't find it "artsy" or meaningful most the times. Well, 95% of the time. It's just something I feel strongly about and honestly I lose respect for people when they choose to do something that I find very distasteful. I mean it's just ridiculous when you choose a girl who looks pretty freakin' identical to your past girlfriend. People can put the pieces together Marilyn, duhhhh!

Don't get me wrong, I think he's a good artist. I've actually been listening to my fave album by him, Golden Age of Grotesque, quite often lately. I read some comments on the YouTube page for the video and people went both ways...some said it was just not right while others said it's artistic, bla bla bla. And then Mike said something that actually did make sense while I was complaining about the video while watching it...he said "Well, Marilyn Manson shouldn't be singing ballads to begin with." LOL. That's true...he's gone very soft over the past several years (his more recent work has not been very impressive to Mike or me)...but then when he goes off the deep end, he REALLY gets insane.

I'm not even going to link the video here. I actually would not recommend it to anyone to watch. But if you're curious, go ahead...but be prepared to see some terrible violence. I don't care if it's "not real"...because that's really not the point in my eyes...the point is it's not funny, artistic, or amusing...and you look like an a$$hole and therefore you probably are if you have no other way to express your inner pain than to resort to that for the world to see. It's not entertainment whatsoever to me and it's insults me as a woman...again, I know it's fake but that is really not the point. I hate violence in any aspect but when it comes to a woman getting beat by a man, that's where I have serious issues.

Questions...thoughts...views???....please share and if you don't want me to post it, I won't (just tell me in your post cuz I do moderate 'em). I just really don't understand this bs and when it's a person I like, I get completely confused on how to think about their "art." Ahh....maybe I just really did not need to see something like that right before bed. Gets me in a frenzy...but on the plus side....Heidi should be receiving her prizepack any day now. And she'll be posting pics, yay! Can't wait to see if she likes the stuff.

Take care friends and followers.