Absinthe is some nasty and potent shit… Tried once, and have never before that struggle to put a drink down like that. Always wanted to try it too. Disappointing.
the selling point is that it makes you trip. but then I’ve heard that’s complete bullshit. mitch hedberg has a funny bit about it.
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grmpysmrf
Absinthe is no big deal in my book. You can feel it trickle down through your system and it swims on your stomach for a while. No tripping. Boring.
Some cases that if you drink way past excess you can trip out. I think the case with absinthe is just that it’s so potent, you’ll trip out easier. I didn’t trip out when I had it.
The real question is why I am even bothering reading a Manson thread. The guy and band - what’s left of it are completely irrlevant and haven’t but anything out even remotely listenable in well over a decade.
+1
I never really carried for Manson. A song or two was good but he hit with a lot in the alt/goth crowd more for the way he looked than the music.
Is the absinthe any different than normal beer/wine/liquor? I have heard that it is but don’t know if it is true or not.
I got into Manson from a cassette a friend asked me to tape the Crow soundtrack over when I was 14-15. Had never heard of MM before had no idea what he looked like, listened to the tape and ended up finding something else to tape over. It wasn’t until months later I found out what the image was, being a 15 year old that was just a bonus lol.
I remember thinking at first listen… “Marilyn Manson… this chick has a fucked up voice!!” hahaha.
RE: Absinthe… pretty sure the “trip” element is the wormwood as someone else mentioned… also pretty sure only some European villages that wouldn’t sell it commercially still even put enough of it in to give it that “trip” effect. Anything you buy from a bottle shop will just be really strong alcohol that you can show off your new sugar cube strainer thing with.
as far as absinthe goes the part that makes you trip is banned in the US version, and in some of the european countries too.
I don’t know, I got into manson when I saw the dope hat video and thought it was really cool and different and back then manson was a bit more interesting with more intelligent things to say… But he kinda ran out of gas I think. You know what they say, you have your whole life to write your first cd, then maybe a few weeks to a year or so to write the follow up (depending on the label/situation)
The earlier music up untill antichrist was all i think, mostly gidget and daisy… Acs obviously had trents fingers in the pie, and mechanical animals was really when the post daisy/gidget influence of twiggy started (remember he didn’t even play on the first cd). So I think basically his albums are as strong as his collaboraters at the time.
So I think basically he’s albums are as strong as his collaboraters at the time.
Sounds like somebody else we know!
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grmpysmrf
I think Zim Zum was involved with a lot of the tracks on Mechanical Animals as well, so could be why that album sounds a bit different to all the rest.
Zim Zum?
Someone in the band is called Zim Zum???
Zim Zum?
Someone in the band is called Zim Zum???
Was. And like the others, he was shit-canned.
[reply]Zim Zum?
Someone in the band is called Zim Zum???
Was. And like the others, he was shit-canned.[/reply]
he was kinda pretty too! if he’s the one I think he is on the “Smells Like Children” group photo. I actually thought Zim Zum was a girl for a bit their.
Scratch all of that, Daisy was the pretty one on the smells like children photo
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grmpysmrf
Heh, I thought Zim Zum was a girl too. Pulled it off too well. Last I heard of Zim, he had a project called Pleistoscene, which wasn’t half bad from what I heard from it. Don’t think much else really materialized from it though… Zim might have been my favorite of them all. Daisy was easily the most “creative”. Zim was creative and could play the fuck out of the guitar.
Heh, I thought Zim Zum was a girl too. Pulled it off too well. Last I heard of Zim, he had a project called Pleistoscene, which wasn’t half bad from what I heard from it. Don’t think much else really materialized from it though… Zim might have been my favorite of them all. Daisy was easily the most “creative”. Zim was creative and could play the fuck out of the guitar.
Have you ssen his first live performance with the band on the Night Of Nothing bootleg that surfaced last year (I think)? He looks so awkward and stiff.
Then when Ginger gets knocked out he’s sorta standing around like “hmmm… should I … umm, are we, finished? This is real… ok… leaving the stage now…”
Dead to the World and the Bizarre Fest videos show him in all his glory…
In the words of Henry Rollins re: manson @ Bizaare fest
" the smoke machines are going and they have this amazing light show that nobody can see because it’s the middle of the day… it looked like a bunch of dead guys up on stage having a cookout"
I’m under the impression that Zim was a total nobody before and I guess after manson. Some nervousness would be about right in that situation.
I’m under the impression that Zim was a total nobody before and I guess after manson. Some nervousness would be about right in that situation.
after manson he joined a band with Lief Garret (yes the 70’s dude) and was seen playing in his behind the music. So he really set off on the right foot. may as wellhave joined corey feldman’s band
Ha ha, these Manson posts on Prongs run like clockwork. Every few months someone posts something about Manson, followed by a chorus of a few who are interested and a greater chorus of people saying “Manson fucking sucks”. Then there is a debate over the Merits of Manson, followed by “why are we debating this, Manson is old and irrelevant?”
yawn
Every few months someone posts something about Manson, followed by a chorus of a few who are interested and a greater chorus of people saying “Manson fucking sucks”.
Don’t look at me. I was the one who called for more discussion on boobies.
My brother said Manson came into the restaurant where he works last night with his girlfriend. The only thing my brother had to say was that he’s fat.
Imagine what Marilyn Manson is going to look like when he’s 65!!
I wonder what he’ll try and do to incite ‘controversy’ then? Appear in public with his stomach bulging out through a filthy, pudding stained shirt? Date girls who weren’t even born when The High End Of Low was released? Pee his pants…alot?