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Heart-Shaped Glasses Single Tracklist

To be released 28th May (in the UK)

01. Heart-Shaped Glasses (When The Heart Guides The Hand) (Album Version)
02. Putting Holes In Happiness (Album Version)
03. Heart-Shaped Glasses (Penetrate The Canvas Remix)

7' Vinyl Picture Disc
01. Heart-Shaped Glasses (When The Heart Guides The Hand) (Album Version)
02. Heart-Shaped Glasses (Penetrate The Canvas Remix)

The Catalogue number is '1735997'.

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LP 'Was My Salvation'. Marilyn Manson Interviewed by MTV.com

May 4 2007 4:05 PM EDT
Marilyn Manson Reveals He Came Close To Suicide; LP 'Was My Salvation'
'This was me realizing who I am, so this is the most important record I've ever made, in every possible way,' rocker says.

By Chris Harris

There was a point not too long ago — but before news of the dissolution of his marriage to Dita Von Teese went public in late January — that Marilyn Manson realized he just didn't want to live anymore. His life was in utter turmoil, he had hit a wall creatively, and the idea that he didn't "have somebody to hold hands with through hell" was too much to handle.

"I was clearly at the point where I was ready to give up, and it wasn't that I didn't have the motivation to ... it was almost as if I couldn't bring myself to make a conclusion," Manson explained. "I can look back on it now like it was a different person, and I refuse to ever get to that place again. But it was mostly because I didn't feel that I had someone who was going to walk with me through the horrible reality that we live in. Did I want to kill myself? Yes. Did I come close to doing that? More than I'd like to think. The only thing I can say about it is, I feel like maybe I wasn't strong enough to make that choice. I guess I was just more lost than anything. I didn't have anything to attach myself to. I didn't have any emotions or fears — nothing to have hope for.

"There's a big difference, I discovered, between wanting to die and not wanting to live," he continued. "When you want to die, you at least have a goal. When you don't want to live, you're really just empty. That's the point I was at before I was able to make [his new LP, Eat Me, Drink Me]."

Manson said he needed to find a reason to want to live, and in time, did so in actress Evan Rachel Wood, who eventually became the rocker's girlfriend. "Finding someone who's willing to drown with you creates a situation where you no longer want to drown," he said.

It was meeting Wood, he said, that helped him salvage his muse and finish Eat Me, Drink Me (see "Marilyn Manson Likens His New Guitar God To A Naked Woman"). He recorded the effort — which follows 2003's The Golden Age of Grotesque, leaked online Tuesday and hits stores June 5 — in a Hollywood studio with guitarist/bassist Tim Skold. "It would be an understatement to say this record saved me," Manson said. "This record was my salvation. This was my rebirth. This was me realizing who I am, so this is the most important record I've ever made, in every possible way."

The album title can be interpreted to hold several meanings, not the least of which are the obvious references to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" — he's been fascinated with the book and its author, Lewis Carroll, for years — vampires and the Catholic Eucharist. Manson also said the title was partly inspired by German cannibal Armin Meiwes.

"Once you've been in a position where you don't want to live, and you find a reason to live, you're perfectly justified to decide how you would chose to die," Manson said. "And if I had a choice, being devoured and devouring the person you're obsessed with is the most romantic idea possible. The only complication is the practicality of it, that one person just gets full and the other person's dead. I mean it in a literal sense and a metaphorical sense, but I think that I don't plan on being eaten anytime soon. I clearly want people to consume me with this record. I am offering myself as a sacrifice, and letting people see what's inside of you is really the same thing to me."

For the first time in Manson's career, he has written songs not about ideas, issues or his own beliefs, but about himself — a personal diary, if you will, spread out across 11 tracks. They include "The Red Carpet Grave," "They Said That Hell's Not Hot" and "Mutilation Is the Most Sincere Form of Flattery."

"I always probably chose ... I wouldn't say the wrong way, but I chose a different way of defining myself," he said of his previous studio efforts. "I didn't realize to prove that I believed in everything I was saying, or prove my powers as an artist, I always chose the most difficult thing. Whatever fit. I didn't realize just being me is the most difficult f---ing thing possible, and just making a record simply about how I'm feeling, it felt so perfect that I was able to finally realize that I didn't want to run away from music.

"I hadn't lived up to my capability," he continued. "I was trying to put all of these emotions or ideas or just energy into painting and cinema because I felt strangled with music — felt I couldn't do what I wanted to do. I didn't realize I was doing it wrong. By not trying to defend myself with my music, I'm simply letting it represent me. This is probably the way everybody starts out writing songs, and of course, I worked backwards. It's like going from heroin to Diet Coke — neither of which I'm a fan of."

Manson tried things with Eat Me, Drink Me that he'd never tried before by truly collaborating with Skold, who infused guitar solos into the songs — something Manson previously tried to shy away from. Working with Skold also encouraged Manson to take his vocals in new directions.

"The music led me to feel like I had to step up to a different level of doing what I do," he said. "It's very bizarre when I think about the fact that I wanted to make a very romantic record. That's been something in me, and I just made a mistake of trying to express my emotions and dedication and my idea of romance — I made the mistake of choosing marriage as the gesture to say it, when I realize now that a song can say it much stronger.

"It's not a negative comment on my past relationship, because I think the biggest mistake of it was marriage," he continued about Von Teese (see "Marilyn Manson Marries Longtime Girlfriend Dita Von Teese"). "But it allowed me to see who I really was, and I've finally realized a lot of things that I started to slowly believe were false in who I am, including being a singer and a rock star. I started to see when I became friends with [Wood] that these were things that are what make me likeable, or make up my personality, and I somehow was completely oblivious to that. The fact that this record is something that people are identifying with so much on a basic emotional level is because I was trying to identify with one person, which I guess makes the simplest universal way of speaking to everyone. ... I am sharing some part of me that I've always hidden."

Starting in July, Manson will team up with Slayer for a run of U.S. co-headlining gigs. He said the pairing was inspired by a book he knew as a child.

"It was [Hal Lindsey's] 'Satan Is Alive and Well on Planet Earth,' and that was my theory with this tour ... now you know exactly where to find him," he explained. "I think our differences complement each other, and the uniting element in all of it is the darkness that both bands represent."

Fans can expect a more ostentatious stage show from Manson this time around, and they'll also be seeing a different backing band taking the stage: Skold, former Prodigy bassist Rob Holliday and drummer Ginger Fish.

"The show isn't going to be something that is basic or unimaginative in any way," he said. "This show will be probably my greatest undertaking in theatrics, and me trying to really bring back the power of rock star."

http://www.marilynmanson.com/news/index.html
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MarilynManson.com Updated & Bizarre New Homepage

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Heart Shaped Glasses Video Premier

MarilynManson.com Premiers HSG With New Video Reviews

Watch Official video premier of Heart Shaped Glasses on MarilynManson.com: Click Here

Video reviews:

Marilyn Manson decided to premiere his new video on the Web, and after watching it's easy to see why. This is one clip that definitely falls under the "Not Safe for Kids" category. Just like Mr. Manson.

The video for the single "Heart Shaped Glasses," stars Manson and his new squeeze, 19-year-old actress Evan Rachel Wood. And they are getting it on, I mean really getting it on. (The camera never ventures below the waist, but Wood's screams seem rather, um, genuine.) The eight-minute clip made its world premiere on the German Web site Sevenload on Tuesday.

Aside from the shock value of simulated sex (some of which features the two lovebirds drenched in blood), the clip certainly has some aesthetic merit, featuring rich, red visuals and a Lynchian tone -- think of it as a homage to hearts: Wild at Heart, Angel Heart, and Lolita. Ms. Wood's heart-shaped glasses of the title are an obvious homage to Mr. Nabokov.

Then again, many will come away thinking it's just cheap shlock.

Whatever your opinion, you'll probably agree that Ms. Wood's days as a cherubic Hollywood teen are certainly in the rearview mirror.

Marilyn Manson's new music video looks set to cause a stir with graphic sex scenes of the shock rocker romping with his new teenage girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood.

Actress Evan Rachel, 19, appears to climax in a provocative opening sequence as Marilyn, real name Brian Warner, passionately kisses and caresses the actress.

The video, for the rocker's new single Heart-Shaped Glasses, begins with something of an understatement as a warning flashes up that the video might not be appropriate for people under the age of 16.

The steamy action continues with the couple taking a drive in a convertible.

While Marilyn takes candid shots of the Evan Rachel, the actress is seen caressing and kissing a carving knife.

Cue more writhing around on a bed, this time with some fake blood smeared around, before the video ends Thelma and Louise-style with the odd couple driving their flame-engulfed car off the road high above Hollywood.

Evan Rachel is no stranger to controversy herself, having starred in 2003 movie Thirteen, in which she played a 13-year-old savouring the allure of a sex, drugs and rock'n'roll lifestyle.

Marilyn has said in various interviews that his upcoming album Eat Me, Drink Me (due to be released this summer 2007) was inspired by his private problems after his break-up with former wife Dita Von Teese.

The video is being promoted on his website: www.marilynmanson.com.

A spokeswoman for the video distribution said edited versions of the video are being worked on to make it 'more appropriate' for commercial TV channels.

Red Carpet Grave: Interivew with MansonUSA

Just how deep does the rabbit hole go? The Heirophant interviews Marilyn Manson for the third time; exploring in detail the creation process behind the new album, EAT ME, DRINK ME.

The Red Carpet Grave

NACHTKABARETT: THE THIRD & FINAL BEAST

Today the Golden Age of Grotesque is 4 and The NACHTKABARETT is 3 years old today.

666,

NK

'Video Sex Is Real Deal' Radar Online / AM New York

Publicity stunt or not? That's the question surrounding the latest news about Marilyn Manson and 19-year-old lover Evan-Rachel Wood. Radar Online reports the couple's sex scenes in Manson's new video "Heart-Shaped Glasses," might be the real thing. Though their privates are concealed by strategic positioning and sheets throughout the video, Wood becomes rather vocal.

A source close to the production crew tells Radar the couple didn't want to fake their way through the scene, which was originally meant to be shot in 3-D. They performed the act three times before it was awrap.

Manson's rep insists "it was simulated sex."

Marilyn Manson's Sex Scene: 'Stellar Acting' Or The Real Deal?

 

By Chris Harris
MTV News

Did they or didn't they?

That's the question Marilyn Manson fans have been asking themselves since the full version of the rocker's self-directed video for "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)" first appeared on YouTube and the like last week. The song is the first single from his upcoming studio LP Eat Me, Drink Me, (see "Marilyn Manson Reveals He Came Close To Suicide; LP 'Was My Salvation' ").

So are the sex scenes in the dark and disturbing clip between Manson and actress/girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood the real deal, or just frighteningly convincing simulations?

While a "source" close to the production allegedly told Radar magazine the couple didn't fake the scenes — stirring loads of online speculation about the on-camera coitus — Manson himself remained fairly neutral about the cause célèbre during a recent interview with MTV News.

"Let's say there were some conservative people involved [with the video] that got a little upset about things that were taking place, and there's been rumors back and forth, but I will not confirm or deny them," he said. "I did insist that Evan be paid the most that any actress has ever been paid in music-video history to be in this, even though she wouldn't have asked for it. There's no one else that could've been in it, because it was inspired by her."

The sex scene, which kicks off the first two-and-a-half minutes of the clip, depicts Manson and Wood violently kissing while writhing around locked in a passionate embrace, making purposeful love. The scene then cuts to Manson and Wood driving down a highway in the dark, with Wood daring Manson to go faster. The rocker takes his hands off the wheel to snap numerous pictures of Wood, 19, who lifts her leg up to the wheel and holds a knife to her mouth while wearing heart-shaped glasses. Manson has said the song was directly inspired by Stanley Kubrick's 1962 rendition of Vladmir Nabakov's notorious, pedophilic novel "Lolita."

In the next scene, Manson is seen performing the tune before a huge audience, and Wood — still donning the glasses — watches him intently from the crowd. Shots of the couple driving continue to flash throughout the video, and the scene shifts to the bedroom, where the two seem to be drenched in blood. In another scene, Wood seductively massages her nether regions while watching Manson's onstage performance.

"Anyone who is lazy or, I guess, has the lack of depth to expect [a video from me] to be shocking and then say it's not shocking, is essentially the same as saying your partner is bad in bed when you're a masturbator," Manson explained. "I wasn't intending to be shocking — I was intending to make something romantic, in the tradition of 'Bonnie and Clyde' and 'Rebel Without a Cause.' It's a dark video — I'll say that. It begins with a very explicit sex scene and ends with this sort of thunderstorm of blood and driving a Corvette off of Mulholland Drive, on fire. So, I think it's one of those 'buyer beware' situations. You can't be mad at me when you know what you're asking for."

The video was shot using 3-D technology developed by "Titanic" director James Cameron, which Manson said is "essentially like reality — it's like sitting in a room with the person, and its more of a surreal experience. It's sort of a hyper reality — that's what Cameron referred to it as."

Shooting the clip proved challenging, Manson said, as he needed multiple crews to shoot the action from different angles in order to ensure the video's 3-D effect. "This camera technology is uncharted territory," he continued. "There were two crews there: one that was mine and one that hated me. Everything that I wanted to do was technically wrong to the people who hated me, because of the stellar acting and performances that took place in the sex scenes. They considered it to be pornographic, because they thought there may or may not have been too much realism to what was being filmed."

And Manson admits the scenes — in which Wood moans like a banshee, at times — seem very realistic but wouldn't confirm fans' suspicions one way or the other. "It does look real," he said, with a telling snicker.

A spokesperson for Manson's label would not confirm whether the scenes were legit or, as Manson contends, just prime examples of "stellar acting." It should be noted, though, that rumors of steamy onscreen sex being real is a tried and tested publicity ploy. In fact, it was rumored that actor Mickey Rourke had actual sex with co-star Kim Basinger in 1986's "Nine 1/2 Weeks" and Carré Otis in 1990's "Wild Orchid." More recently, Sienna Miller denied she had sex with Hayden Christensen in the film "Factory Girl."

EAT ME, DRINK ME Album Artwork Viewable on MarilynManson.com

 

By following a newly clickable thumbnail of the album cover, the full EAT ME, DRINK ME CD booklet is now viewable on MarilynManson.com.

 

 

http://www.marilynmanson.com/booklet/

 

 

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On May 13, 2007 AD The Golden Age of Grotesque celebrated its fourth birthday and The NACHTKABARETT celebrated its third. To commemorate the date is an exhaustive new update accompanied by a brand new site format. All technical issues are also fully known and are being effaced in the order of importance.

The CELEBRITARIAN CORPORATION extensively updated with various connections to EAT ME, DRINK ME, a history and overview of the Victorian Era and its imagery as evoked by Manson up to current as well as the theatrics of the AGAINST ALL GODS tour.

MARILYNMANSON.com section updated with an analysis of the symbolism of the then-new site from November 2006 to April 2007.

New section, LITERARY VICES, which will be devoted to the various authors, books and literary figures which Manson has evoked or cited as inspiration. At current it discusses in essay form the many key literary figures referenced in Marilyn Manson history but expect it to evolve as a repository list of reading recommendations that have taken shape in Manson's works.

Other features in the brand new NACHTKABARETT is a Marilyn Manson news listing, an optimized interface, a site search engine and a soon to be implemented function for the automatic publishing of article translations for our international readers who wish to contribute. Additional features as well as a very special inclusion to be coming soon.

TO NOTE: the update text was predominantly written between February and early March 2007 and therefore encompasses materials relating to the previous "Celebritarian" incarnation of MarilynManson.com and prior to many of the details of EAT ME, DRINK ME were revealed. The newly dawned EAT ME, DRINK ME era and all connected facets will be following at-length next update.

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NK

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EAT ME, DRINK ME Promotional Website

Contained within the European Union release of the Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand) single is a link to a new promotional website for EAT ME, DRINK ME. The site contains the lyrics for all eleven tracks, a gallery of promotional pictures for EM,DM along with a mosaic puzzle game, which, when unlocked, will offer up exclusive content.

Head on over to http://www.marilynmansonvault.com to try it out for yourself. Source: Heart-Shaped Glasses European Release Click to join discussion

Manson Mentioned in May 2007 Rolling Stone Issue

Manson's Bloody Fantasy

Marilyn Manson has unveiled his kinky short kilm for "Heart-Shaped Glasses," the first single from his upcoming epic, Eat Me, Drink Me (out June 5th). "It's a very True Romance, Bonnie and Cylde, Badlands sort of story," says Manson, who stars in the video with his girlfriend, actress Evan Rachel Wood. In the film, Manon and Wood wreck a 1967 Corvette and get it on while the sky rains blood. "It goes from the very realistic to a twisted inner vision, and will probably be viewed as sick by some people in its extent of eroticism," Manson says. After the shoot in downtown Los Angeles, the couple checked into a hotel to wash up, much to the dismay of its employees. "It looked as if we just fornicated in a thunderstorm of blood," Manson says. "Oh, wait. We did." Source: ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE Click to join discussion

Manson Interview and Acoustic Performance on Radio 1's Live Lounge

Marilyn Manson and Tim Skold stop by Radio 1's Live Lounge in the UK for an interview with an accoustic performance of Heart Shaped Glasses and a surprise cover of Justin Timberlake's What Goes Around

Many thanks to herr>D0kter of Celebritarian.co.uk for post and download link. Source: Celebritarian.co.uk Click to join discussion