Marilyn Manson 4/29/2012
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transemacabreJust got home from the concert in Huntington, NY! Some observations:
1. Opening act was The Pretty Reckless, who were actually okay. The frontwoman is apparently someone famous, but since I haven't watched TV regularly in several years, I got no clue what she's famous for. She was about the size of my pinky finger, and as any of my flisties who've met me in person can attest, I am about as big around as the average American's wrist, so you can imagine how tiny she was.
2. Manson looked fabulous. He was not fat at all, and trust me, I was looking. No, he is not heroin thin AntiChrist Superstar-era Manson, but for a 43-year-old man, I think he's in good shape. He should fire his wardrobe person though, as they dressed him in this kind of frilly jacket thing with about three layers, which makes him look puffier than he is.
3. Manson sounded fabulous. This surprised me, because you can clearly tell how years of singing plus substance abuse have done to his voice on the albums. I was expecting his voice to be shot. While he's not as powerful as he was 20 some odd years ago, he still sang his ASS OFF.
4. Twiggy looked fetching in his dress. I was in the third row, so I was only about 20 feet away from him for most of the show. He was very animated, mouthing along to the lyrics in "Antichrist Superstar" and bouncing around on the stage and doing his "Twiggyisms", which are odd sort of jerky moves that probably look cool in his head, but look adorkable in real life. Fred was on the other side of the stage, so I couldn't see much of him, but I yelled "We love you Twiggy! We love you Fred!" anyway.
5. No Marilyn-on-Twiggy molestation this concert, but they had several cute moments. Marilyn used the micstand to mime a fishing rod and pretended to reel Twiggy in. <3 During "Personal Jesus", when he got to the lyric "Someone to hear your prayers, someone who cares", Marilyn grabbed ahold of Twiggy and gave him this INTENSE LOOK and it was like WHOA.
6. During "Disposable Teens", some girl behind me grabbed me by the skirt and humped me. She then fled the scene before I could defend my honor.
7. Marilyn threw a bunch of water bottles into the crowd. I saw Twiggy throw at least one pick, and after the show Jason threw his drumsticks into the crowd, but alas I caught none of them. :(
8. Someone threw a cup of beer and so my hair smells like beer. I saw several cups flung onstage, but as they were all plastic no one was hurt. Manson, Twiggy, and Fred stayed professional and simply ignored them.
9. Manson seemed completely sober and was chatty, which was nice since I don't like it when a band trudges out, plays a bunch of songs, then shuffles off stage, like Tool did when I saw them back in January.
10. Marilyn blew kisses at us at the end!
1. Opening act was The Pretty Reckless, who were actually okay. The frontwoman is apparently someone famous, but since I haven't watched TV regularly in several years, I got no clue what she's famous for. She was about the size of my pinky finger, and as any of my flisties who've met me in person can attest, I am about as big around as the average American's wrist, so you can imagine how tiny she was.
2. Manson looked fabulous. He was not fat at all, and trust me, I was looking. No, he is not heroin thin AntiChrist Superstar-era Manson, but for a 43-year-old man, I think he's in good shape. He should fire his wardrobe person though, as they dressed him in this kind of frilly jacket thing with about three layers, which makes him look puffier than he is.
3. Manson sounded fabulous. This surprised me, because you can clearly tell how years of singing plus substance abuse have done to his voice on the albums. I was expecting his voice to be shot. While he's not as powerful as he was 20 some odd years ago, he still sang his ASS OFF.
4. Twiggy looked fetching in his dress. I was in the third row, so I was only about 20 feet away from him for most of the show. He was very animated, mouthing along to the lyrics in "Antichrist Superstar" and bouncing around on the stage and doing his "Twiggyisms", which are odd sort of jerky moves that probably look cool in his head, but look adorkable in real life. Fred was on the other side of the stage, so I couldn't see much of him, but I yelled "We love you Twiggy! We love you Fred!" anyway.
5. No Marilyn-on-Twiggy molestation this concert, but they had several cute moments. Marilyn used the micstand to mime a fishing rod and pretended to reel Twiggy in. <3 During "Personal Jesus", when he got to the lyric "Someone to hear your prayers, someone who cares", Marilyn grabbed ahold of Twiggy and gave him this INTENSE LOOK and it was like WHOA.
6. During "Disposable Teens", some girl behind me grabbed me by the skirt and humped me. She then fled the scene before I could defend my honor.
7. Marilyn threw a bunch of water bottles into the crowd. I saw Twiggy throw at least one pick, and after the show Jason threw his drumsticks into the crowd, but alas I caught none of them. :(
8. Someone threw a cup of beer and so my hair smells like beer. I saw several cups flung onstage, but as they were all plastic no one was hurt. Manson, Twiggy, and Fred stayed professional and simply ignored them.
9. Manson seemed completely sober and was chatty, which was nice since I don't like it when a band trudges out, plays a bunch of songs, then shuffles off stage, like Tool did when I saw them back in January.
10. Marilyn blew kisses at us at the end!
