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   From: superstar@deadcelebrity.org   
      
   I just got back from the Marilyn Manson concert in Concord, California.   
   It was awesome, but I thought it ended way too soon.  There were two   
   opening bands, some obscure band called Blood-Stained Pavement or   
   something and then the hardcore death metal band Slayer.  That left   
   less time for Manson and then the show had to end to coincide with the   
   shuttle buses to the train station for the last train.   
      
   He started off with "If I was Your Vampire" and then "Disposable Teens"   
   and then a mix of new album stuff with classics like "mOBSCENE" and of   
   course "Antichrist Superstar" where he set a bible on fire.  The new   
   stuff wasn't as familiar and maybe that's why I found it uninspiring,   
   and he didn't even perform my new favorite tune "You and Me and the   
   Devil Makes 3."  The audience went wild during "The Dope Show" and the   
   screen displayed colorful pill animations.  He concluded his performance   
   with "The Beautiful People," which I thought I remembered him declaring   
   that he would never perform in concert again.  I waited for an encore,   
   rumor had it that he had planned to kill himself on stage, but he didn't.   
      
   As for Slayer, it was loud, very very very loud, even with earplugs.  I   
   appreciate their Satanic imagery, though it seems a bit cliché, and I   
   honestly don't have the youthful energy to bang my head to it.  Lots of   
   really cute young metalhead boys were dancing around in a big circle in   
   the mosh pit, a level of energy that seemed almost cultish in nature.   
   Then outside were the xian protesters with placards screaming Jebus and   
   damnation etc., and I shouted "We don't hate God, we just hate you!"   
      
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   "Drugs should be freely distributed.  That way the people who want to   
   kill themselves will do it, leaving more room for the people who can   
   do the rest of the drugs."   
   -- Marilyn Manson   
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   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)