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Britney Spears: Queen of Heaven?
9 January, 2008 (06:31) | Uncategorized |
Our Lady of Britney
I have other things in the works but in my last post I suggested that “Eve” was setting up the idea that Britney Spears was a Project Monarch victim…perhaps leading a “double life”. Apparently, Britney continues to act as if this is the case. ET reports (yet another phrase I thought would never appear on my blog) that Britney was speaking in a British accent when she was admitted to the psych ward. Perez Hilton…also included on the list of names I though would never appear here (in fact, I’m still not exactly sure who Perez Hilton is and used to assume there was some relation to Paris Hilton), speculated that Britney had “schizophrenia” by which, of course,he meant “multiple personalities”.
I had suggested just yesterday that the blonde/brunette Britney appearances, including BOTH at the same time in her “Gimme Moore” video seemed designed to support the impression of multiple personalities as well.
The artwork above on PH’s site seems to tie it all in together but I have no idea where Hilton got the image. There are lots of pink flowers, Starbucks of course, and plenty of butterflies. Monarchs, in fact. The picture was uploaded as “abritney-and-a-boymini__oPt.jpg” but I don’t know if that’s Hilton’s title or the one that was originally on the image. I tried searching on those terms and didn’t get much. Maybe someone who knows this territory can help us out.
Later today I will post a bit about my conversation with Melinda Hunt, who was dating Frank Morales at the time of the Duncan incident and who passes along an email she says if from Jeremy Blake’s mother.
Britney Spears: A Study in Pink
7 January, 2008 (11:18) | Duncan/Blake Mystery |
If you had asked me three days ago if the words “Britney Spears” would ever appear on this blog…well, I won’t even finish that sentence except to let people know who come here via search engines that there are no nipple slips or crotch shots here. But in the forum we had some discussion going about Spears and what, for all the world, looks like a sort of public sacrifice being choreographed in real time.
I think, really, one headline is all I need to illustrate the point as it is already being made elsewhere:
Grab a front-row seat for Britney breakdown
I chose that particular headline because it doesn’t come to us via some catty, online celeb rag but via MSNBC. MSNBC inviting us to watch a woman self-destruct. MSBNC inviting us to watch US self-destruct.
And watch, we will. Well, admittedly, I actually never followed much of this celebrity gossip business. I’ve had to turn to my wife and especially my step-daughter to get up to speed. And my step-daughter put it in perspective for me. How could anyone expect to recover from drugs or mental illness when there are press following you 24 hours a day, photographing your every move? “They even had HELICOPTERS over her house when she got out of rehab,” she told me in horror. Indeed, you can google a bit and find even more morbid headlines speculating on how much time is left before Britney takes her own life.
But there’s something else going on here, too. Something that if I had any credibility left I probably wouldn’t mention. But in some ways, the Duncan business has been rather freeing. I’ve simply lost my mind, right? So I can say whatever I want.
And here’s what I want to say: The word “ARG” is beginning to seem awfully confining to me these days. Someone, or a variety of someone’s (or someTHING?) seems to be hijacking the “spectacle” that is our entertainment media (formerly the “news” media).
I don’t know how it’s being done. Many in my forum prefer to think of all of this as a kind of “synchomysticism”, as deeper meaning
and patterns emerging from the noise of our popular culture, with various symbols (signifiers) emerging like “strange attractors” in a chaotic system. I, on the other hand, think there are people behind this who know what they are doing.
But what I happen to think is going on seems impossible. It’s too big. Too complicated. Events that could never be staged, one would think, nevertheless happen at just the right time and in just the right way. Obviously, I’m aware of how subjective interpretation of such events must be.
Unless the events are predicted in advance.
Remember Eve? We saw that she was actually a paralegal in Jacksonville, playing secret agent on company time. It looked very much as if she was either engaged in an extended role playing exercise, for which the internet is an ideal medium, or simply grabbing onto me as the latest victim in some sort of long-running practical joke.
How did she do this, then:
December 6, a short entry on Eve’s odd little blog:
Pink piece of Shit
Starbuck's cross
Crucify your thirst with a bunch of shit. Star Buck shit.
You don’t see Duncan Doe nuts doing this shit.
That’s because Iraq. Duncan Doe nuts is kill-her coffee!
I should say that it seemed that most of the time, “pink” for Eve was a sort of symbol for homosexuals whom she didn’t like much. Or, as she would prefer it, whom she feels had chosen a sinful path. And that’s exactly how I interpreted the above entry…yet another reference to some closeted gay Republican taking part in the satanic conspiracy.
But then, only five days later, this image went all over the internet:
Britney in Pink
I realize Britney had, for some reason, taken to wearing a pink wig before this, and she seems to be a regular at Starbucks, but hang on for just a bit longer. First off, in case you needed evidence of the fact, it should be clear that should Britney Spears INTENTIONALLY want a particular image of her being spread all over the world, she can easily insure that it does. Here’s the reverse of the above image:
britneypink-thumb-320×282.jpg
I hadn’t really thought much about this Britney connection on Eve’s blog as she never brought her up at all. But there was this image:
thx1138
from a post with more cryptic clues about “Project Monarch”. In this case, the post was made well after the actual incident in which Britney shaved her head. In case you don’t recognize that image, it comes from George Lucas’s early film, THX1138, about a dystopian, authoritarian society and the struggle of some to free themselves from it.
It also brings to mind the character of “Evey” from V is for Vendetta.
If you look at the rest of this post there’s yet another mystery.
July 30, 2007 - Monday
Such is the life of Arcadia Eve. Reporter by day psychic spy by night.
Oh Dev-id….you have no idea how badly I long to hear your voice.
Will I ever hear your voice again?
I am safe now…the useful idiot protects me from the “Secret Service.” (note: apparently I am the useful idiot. Always glad to help. -DE)
Word of the Day for Monday, July 30, 2007
punctilious ..puhnk-TIL-ee-uhs.., adjective:
Strictly attentive to the details of form in action or conduct; precise; exact in the smallest particulars.
The convert who is more punctilious in his new faith than the lifelong communicant is a familiar figure in Catholic lore.– Patrick Allit, Catholic Converts
Nicholas showed us his butterfly collection. He had done a splendid job of spreading them (better than I ever have, let alone at his age). I tried to impress upon him the need for punctilious labeling, a tedious business that raises a butterfly from a mere curio to a specimen of scientific value.– Robert Michael Pyle, ChASINg Monarchs
Cooper had always been very punctilious about observing the rules laiddown in the . . . brochure.– Josef Skvorecky, Two Murders in My Double Life
Punctilious derives from Late Latin punctillum, “a little point,” from Latin punctum, “a point,” from pungere, “to prick.”
Pointblank magic.
The date above, July 30, 2007 was not the date the post was made. That was October 18. What Eve is referring to is the July 30, 2007 Word of the Day from Dictionary.com. And the question is, how did Dictionary.com end up having a word of the day with all three example sentences supporting the Eve storyline? Even the weird capitalization in “ChASINg Monarchs” is there. We have “Monarch” and we have the “Catholic convert” idea, important to Eve, and then we also have the idea of a “double life” and murders.
It gets even weirder. Britney herself seems to be setting up some kind of “double life” motif..at least in this video for the song “Gimme More.” You see her in a dark wig dancing, sort of, around a stripper pole but watch carefully…the blonde woman who is watching the dance, alternately amused and shocked, is ALSO Britney Spears. That’s also interesting because the “blonde Britney” evidently couldn’t remember the choreography or even the song itself when she attempted to perform it on the MTV Music Awards. This was provided as further evidence of her “deterioration.” (Indeed, her album is called “Blackout”.)
In other words, what I’m suggesting is that “Eve” is telling us that Britney Spears is a Project Monarch victim and somehow or other, Britney seems to be playing along. Synchromysticism? Or hijacked spectacle? We’ll leave that an open question for now.
Is there a Duncan connection? Well, of course there is. Back on June 1 of 2007, Duncan posted a poem from Sarah Hannah, a forty-year-old writer who somewhat resembled Duncan, who had just committed suicide. Here’s the poem:
The Colors Are Off This Season
by Sarah Hannah
I don’t want any more of this mumble—
Orange fireside hues,
Fading sun, autumnal tumble,
Stricken, inimitable—Rose.
I want Pink, unthinking, true.
Foam pink, cream and coddle,
Miniskirt, Lolita, pompom, tutu,
Milkshake. Pink without the mottle
Or the dying fall. Pink adored, a thrall
So pale it’s practically white.
A tinted room beneath a gable—
Ice pink, powder, feather-light—
Untried corner of the treble.
I want the lift, not the lower.
Bloodless pink stalled at girl,
No weight, no care, no hour.
And here is the image that accompanies it:
pinkwots
Reread the poem. Miniskirt. Milkshake (”news” reports tell us it was a frappuccino…very much like a milkshake).
And, of course, perhaps the modern world’s most famous “Lolita.”
I don’t know that much about Britney Spears. I know she got her start alongside Justin Timberlake on Disney’s “Mickey Mouse Club”. And I know Eve links to a Justin Timberlake video in her “about page”.
I know Timberlake and a variety of other boy stars and boy groups allegedly were abused by their manager, Lou Pearlman. And I know that Britney’s own career was about sexualizing a teenage girl. A famous pornographer, Gregory Dark, was even brought in to help in this effort. I read somewhere that he was actually asked to DOWNPLAY her sexuality in the video he directed. Here’s the video he directed of Spears in schoolgirl attire for “Baby One More Time.” You can let me know if you think he succeeded in downplaying the Lolita aspect of her image.
Here’s his latest project:
“Little Fish, Strange Pond” stars Matthew Modine, Callum Blue and Adam Baldwin, with Liza playing Norma. According to Variety, Helmer Gregory Dark has completed production on the independent film, which is a dark comedy. The story centers on a Puck-like character who wanters the streets of LA philosophizing about life, death and free will. Beautiful women are found dead and dismembered in his wake “leading to a true criminal uncovering the misdeeds.”
I can’t help but wonder if somehow, we are to understand what’s going on differently. If it’s not part of some grand storyline in the ‘ARG’ I’ve speculated about, perhaps it is Britney herself, trying to find a way to signal the world that there’s a darkness here she can’t really talk about openly. In fact, her public antics remind me a bit of this scene from David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks.”
Signals don’t work, though, unless someone knows how to read them.
Alice in Space
6 January, 2008 (11:00) | Uncategorized |
Serious Fantasy
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Star Fucker
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Melinda Hunt Speaks
6 January, 2008 (01:07) | Duncan/Blake Mystery |
The SoMA Blog decided the Hunt/Sales feud was too controversial and seem to have pulled the posts. A quick summary would be that Melinda Hunt pretty much laid waste to Frank Morales’s entire story and called into even starker relief the very odd choice of Nancy Jo Sales to write the article for Vanity Fair since she and Frank were “spiritually married”. Hunt informed all of us that Morales also had a plain old legal marriage to one “Lisa Walker” who appeared to be, for awhile, the woman who went around claiming to be a Saudi Princess and ripping off jewelers. Kate Coe now says it’s a different Lisa Walker and I have no way to sort that out at the moment except to say that according to Coe, this woman was ALSO A magazine writer, who met Morales, was swept off her feet and now, apparently, is in a squat somewhere shooting heroin. Needless to say, I can’t confirm one iota of that sad tale.
So back to Melinda Hunt. Ms. Hunt actually contacted me just to alert me that the SoMA posts had been pulled. You can read most of that interaction over at our hoppin’ forum here.Please don’t read too much in the forums, however, or you’ll figure out how much of this I crib off other people.
I basically asked Ms. Hunt just a few questions to start but hopefully we’ll learn more from her. I asked if she’d seen the body when Duncan was removed from the building, how well known Duncan and Blake were at St. Mark’s and was there a memorial and a question about Morales performing last rites. Here is the full text of her reply The end of it includes a little summary of her previous email that basically recapped her relationship to Morales but removed a few personal details.
I can’t verify what Hunt is saying, though Morales and Sales actually admitted to some of the facts as alleged by Hunt. Here’s the email.
No, I did not see the body. I went home after Frank went back up to
the apartment. I called the Priest-In-Charge from home. Then I called
Frank later in the evening to see how Jeremy was doing. He said John
the Priest in charge had called him and they decided that Frank would
stay with Jeremy until his mother and step-father arrived from
Washington by car.
I spoke with Canon Osgood at the Cathedral St. John the Divine this
week about the last rites issue. He said that in the Episcopal Church
it is OK to offer a prayer for the person if they have already died
by the time the priest gets there. He said they were much more
concerned about Frank’s failure to obtain a divorce from one woman
and his “spiritual marriage” to another as well as unresolved child
custody issues. They agree that it is wrong for a priest to perform
last rites and then to violate the confidence of the family. Many
people are really offended that Frank became a key source for his ex-
wife. There are conflicts of interest on both sides. I am only coming
forward because I have answers to specific questions that indicate
larger flaws in the way the story was put together.
Jeremy and Theresa did not attend church every weekend. Jeremy was
Jewish and never took communion. Theresa said they would be awakened
to the bells before the Sunday service. St. Mark’s has good jazz
musicians and singers so it is a nice way to wake up on a Sunday.
They would show up and stay for coffee. Jeremy would often go to work
on Sundays right after the service. He had a full schedule of
deadlines. They would go out in the evenings.
I recall them attending some of the larger 9/11 events. I don’t think
they were regulars but they were heavily into the politics. That was
their connection to Frank. That is the context where you might call
them a “trio.” But Jeremy and Theresa had many other friends in New
York who are connected to art and music. It wasn’t just Frank who
they spent time and went out with. The 9/11 meetings were too early
in the evening for Jeremy. He got home later on Sundays.
There was no memorial at St. Mark’s. The families and close friends
planned the memorials. By the end of August, family and friends
expressed unhappiness with how Frank was handling the press. I told
him he should be working with the Diocese press office if he found
the job overwhelming. These were not just deaths within the
congregation they were deaths of people in residence at the church. I
was probably the only member of the congregation that was a personal
friend and I had left the St. Mark’s by the time the memorials happened.
You will have to ask SOMA who they are and why they removed
statements that others had linked to. Jeremy’s mother sent me a
letter to post in response to Nancy Jo claiming that I was not
invited to Theresa’s memorial and I was not a friend of the two. My
first post was a response to a question from the editor John Spalding
who had problems with the timeline in the Vanity Fair article as well
as the last rites. I know about those specific issues because I was
there. Frank was not invited up for a drink with Jeremy. He performed
last rites because I remembered that Theresa was Catholic and I
wanted for her family to be able to give her a Catholic burial.
Here’s what you can say in addition to above:
Nancy Jo Sales admitted in an earlier blog that she was, in fact,
never married to Frank Morales. Then, she claimed that I had nothing
to do with her story about Jeremy and Theresa. She did not interview
me. However, she had called me up on September 23 introducing herself
as Frank’s wife. (I have already described that phone call in the
earlier blog.)
I had met Nancy Jo Sales once before, August 6, when Frank and I were
walking along 10th Street near his apartment. He introduced her to
me as Nancy who was helping him ” to manage the press.” Nancy then
told me that Frank was in her apartment when he passed out late at
night on July 31. She said that she called 911 and then called
Frank’s friend Michael to accompany him to the Beth Israel
Emergency. She said when Frank returned the next morning to get his
keys and phone they had sex. She wanted to me to know this.
On these two occasions, Nancy Jo Sales represented to me that they
were more than “just friends.” On the earlier blog and in the article
they maintain that it is not a current relationship. Certainly, for
some of the time that Frank was used as a source, their relationship
was current.
An actual friend of Duncan and Blake, apparently. I hope we’ll hear more from her soon.
For Rollo
6 January, 2008 (00:21) | Duncan/Blake Mystery |
Bang Bang
Poker Without Cards
5 January, 2008 (23:54) | Mind Control/MKULTRA |
Charlie plays toward the end.
Chop Suey
5 January, 2008 (23:41) | Duncan/Blake Mystery |
You Don’t Trust in my Self Righteous Suicide
Marilyn Manson and the Woman Who Doesn’t Exist
4 January, 2008 (22:46) | Duncan/Blake Mystery |
evan rachel wood
Somehow I had missed this post from Duncan. It is titled, “The Woman Who Doesn’t Exist.”
“In this paper, the uncanniness of Hitchcock’s Vertigo is examined in terms of the relation between man (John) and woman (Madeline), of power, and of the gaze. The construction of Madeline reveals that she is not a woman, but John’s object-of-desire, she does not exist as such. When the mystery of Madeline is unveiled at the end of the film, she turns out to be an ordinary woman. John is cured from his vertigo, but at the cost of the woman’s life, for a real relation turns out to be impossible.”
A brilliant analysis of a bit of celebrity gossip we would otherwise have absolutely no interest in, in which a famous rock star discards his female mates, only to insist his new date transform, Vertigo-like into her predecessor….
“Never underestimate the power of Lacanian analysis; or rather, of the logic of desire that can be graphed using Lacan’s methods. Take Marilyn Manson as a for instance. Does the end of his relationship with Dita Von Teese signal a problem with my supposition of a McGowan Effect? The apparent difficulty was Manson’s taking up with the wholesome Evan Rachel Wood. But not for long; I say. Oh, the relationship may last, I would suggest for approximately the same time as each of Manson’s previous relationships. His psychic defenses appear to be capable of misrecognizing his beloved in another through a specific series of operations whose telos is as predictable as Rachel’s forthcoming change of hair colour.”
I was not particularly familiar with Marilyn Manson and I admit his music is not a style I particularly enjoy. But as I explored his world, I realized that no matter what I think of his music, the guy is a genius. So interesting that his appearance on Duncan’s blog would be in a post about a woman who doesn’t exist.
There are some things about Manson I need to tell you very quickly before you dismiss me entirely. First off, his career was given a big boost by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. NiN (can’t make a backwards “N”…sorry) happen to have an ARG running alongside their current album, both of which are called “Year Zero.”
Year Zero is an alternate reality game based on the Nine Inch Nails concept album of the same name, its expected follow-up, and a possible accompanying film or television project.[1] Although the album was released on April 16, 2007 in Europe, and the following day worldwide,[2] the game has been underway since roughly February 12, 2007 and is expected to continue for approximately eighteen months.[3] The game was created by 42 Entertainment, the same group responsible for the Halo 2 promotional alternative reality game I Love Bees.[4][5] Trent Reznor, frontman and sole member of the band has called the game “a new entertainment form.”[4], and also stated, in response to criticism regarding the promotion of the album,[6]
The term ‘marketing’ sure is a frustrating one for me at the moment. What you are now starting to experience IS ‘year zero’. It’s not some kind of gimmick to get you to buy a record - it IS the art form… and we’re just getting started. Hope you enjoy the ride.[7]
The second thing you should know is that Manson himself has already employed a few ARGish tricks in the past. Hidden places on his websites. Secret codes embedded in videos. Fake organizations.
In fact, in the spirit of the Situationist “Bernadette Corporation” , Manson created the “Celebritarian Corporation.” As with almost all of the Manson information in this story, I rely very heavily on the most amazing and elaborate fan site I’ve ever seen: Nachtkabarett.
Celebritarianism can be described this way:
…(a) reality Manson satirized where violence is the religion of the masses and the patron saints are dead stars. Where dying on camera makes one a star. It’s the idea and reality that in death we’re remembered much more profoundly than we were in life. And if famous and are killed in the spotlight it acts as a Christ-like immortalization, just as in the case of JFK and John Lennon. This is the meaning behind Celebritarian / Celebritarianism, that our religion is based on death…
The word itself, Celebritarian and Celebritarianism at base can accurately be defined by the literal play on words, much like vegetarian, the worship and subsequent devouring of celebrities which if anything has exponentially increased in recent years via satellite tv, the internet and the “CELEBREALITY” phenomenon courtesy of VH1.
You can go to the Celebritarian.com website. Small spoiler…when you take the quiz, here’s the charming Biblical quote that is your reward:
HAPPY SHALL HE BE, THAT TAKETH AND DASHETH THY LITTLE ONES AGAINST THE STONES.
PSALM 137:9
As we’ve seen, the only way to reconcile the Theresa Duncan who wrote the animated film which subverted the “cult” of celebrity, with the Theresa Duncan who wrote obsessively about supermodel Kate Moss and her on again/off again boyfriend Pete Doherty is as satire, though perhaps satire that is not meant to be easily decoded or call attention to itself as satire. Manson’s own lovelife is also scrutinized in great detail as the article quoted by Duncan indicates, though I wonder how much of his public love life was really performance.
As I learn more about Manson, I see that every detail he includes, every costume, image, even every tattoo he uses (and et in arcadia ego from the Rigorous Intuition forum has said he has done tattoo work for Manson..another fascinating Theremicity) are chosen carefully as symbols and artistic allusions. The only way to get the full idea is to read the Nachtkbarret site in its entirety.
Let’s start with his name. Marilyn Monroe, archetypal sex object/celebrity and JFK lover plus Charles Manson, who was not only the leader of a mind controlled group of killers, but also hung out with a surprising number of celebrities.
Duncan, too, gave Charles Manson thematic prominence. To start with, she named the main character of her animated film after Manson’s sons, Charles and Valentine. She also referred to Manson on her blog, even once suggesting that her “Lunar Society” was engaged in “white ops” to offset certain “black ops” which referenced by hyperlink an article at RI about the Manson family.
The Wit Of The Staircase staff, as I have already explained, is travelling again on important Los Angeles Lunar Society business.
The L.A.L.S. is creating an intelligence arm–The Lunar Society Irregulars–in order to counter the likes of these Black Ops…:
Rigorous Intuition (v. 2.0): We Are Family.
….with our patented new Lunar Society White Ops.
The real story of these times is weird beyond our ken, children of the Staircase, and White Ops is the sort of mental kung fu we’ll need this year to pierce the United States goverment’s chocolaty Magic Shell coating of the truth and wade through our culture’s dense nougaty Celebrity Center.
We’ll be posting a bit more today, and an extensive guide here to White Ops is in the works!
Notice the play on words here. Celebrity Center references the central importance of celebrities in our culture as well as the elite Scientology facility where the likes of you and me ain’t welcome. Manson went through Scientology training while in jail.
We could tangle ourselves up just in the Manson references alone, but we must move on. I suppose I don’t have to tell anyone that Marilyn Manson has an interest in the occult. What people seem to overlook…ESPECIALLY the media….is that Duncan’s blog is absolutely chock full of occult references. To get an idea, you can click on her category link marked “esoteric”, but I don’t think that gets all of them. Aleister Crowley is there. Marjorie Cameron who was “conjured up” by L. Ron Hubbard and Jack Parsons. Film-mage Kenneth Anger. Again, I could do several posts just on the occult references in WoTS.
But another oddity I’d already pointed out was the strange attitude on Duncan’s part towards the sexualization of children and young adults, particularly those who were or are celebrities. On the one hand, given her horror at the idea of “Project Monarch”, an alleged and at least partly mythical government project to abuse children and turn them into sex slaves, and on the other she had many posts that seemed to wink at the idea of older men and underage girls, even penning liner notes to the album by Barron von Luxxury celebrating the incredible feeling of fucking a sixteen-year-old girl. I’ve written about that extensively here
Manson has this same sort of dichotomy in his attitude. One the one hand, songs like “Disposable Teen” express anger at how young people are seen as exactly that. And yet the…complex, shall we say…view of Manson, as with Duncan, can best be found in how much both have been influenced by Nabokov and his novel, Lolita.
Manson has a song called “Heart Shaped Glasses”, a reference to the heart shaped glasses worn by Lolita in this poster from the 1962 Stanly Kubrick film of Lolita:
Lolita poster
That exact poster appears in Duncan’s History of Glamour, and is outside the building in which Charles Manson is “discovered” by her future agent. But Duncan has many references to Nabokov and Lolita such as this reference to Lolita as containing one of the “top ten literary murders”:
10. Humbert Humbert, Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
Unlike other killers on the list, Humbert Humbert kills so that he can keep Lolita his. At once monstrous and urbane, erudite and depraved, Humbert’s dazzling power over his written narrative is as persuasive as his imagination is perverted…
Or this mention in the poem by Sarah Hannah quoted by Duncan. Hannah, of similar age and appearance to Duncan, killed herself just weeks before Duncan’s alleged suicide.
Here she tells you where you can buy your own heart-shaped glasses.
heart glasses
Back to Manson. It was likely around the time of the very post above that Manson began dating young Evan Rachel Wood, who would have only been 18 or 19 at the time.
The most prevalent literary influence of the album and Manson’s state of being is that of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, one of the most notorious books of the Twentieth Century. The song ‘Heart Shaped Glasses’ is the most obvious nod to Lolita as according to Manson, Evan Rachel Wood is also a huge fan of Nabokov and had deliberately worn heart shaped sunglasses upon meeting for a tryst when their relationship became romantic.
Connections to the novel are much deeper than simply the “inside joke” between Manson and Evan of the obvious age difference and it should be noted that the heart shaped sunglasses as associated with Lolita appear only in the promotional poster and cover of Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of the novel, not actually in the movie itself nor in Nabokov’s novel.
Here is Wood in a still from the album mentioned above.
Evan as Lolita
And here’s how the video ends up:
bloody kiss
The album itself is titled, Eat Me, Drink Me and serves as a kind of sound track to a planned film by Manson called Phantasmagoria: The Vision of Lewis Carroll.
Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll is an upcoming fantasy horror film by Marilyn Manson with Anthony Silva and Geoff Cox. It is directed by Marilyn Manson as part of his Celebritarian Corporation art movement, and is his directorial debut as a feature filmmaker. It is being produced by Blue Light for Wild Bunch and has estimated budget of $42,000,000. In the leading roles are Marilyn Manson as Lewis Carroll, English model Lily Cole as Alice and Evan Rachel Wood as Alice’s alter ego.
Alter ego, indeed. As you’d suspect, this ain’t yo mama’s Alice in Wonderland.
Recall, if you will, that Alice in Wonderland imagery appears on Duncan’s blog, but more importantly, eerie images of 12-year-old girls in Alice costumes are a staple of artist Anna Gaskell, in images that hint at fear and abuse. And Gaskell also likes to use twins for her Alice pics. This one is not quite as scary as the Manson image in the link above, but it’s close:
Gaskell Alice twins
There was even some talk that this film might be web based. Cooler heads prevailed, I take it.
Oh…I could go on and on about this…way too much material. For example, it turns out Manson had a small role in a film called “The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things” based on the novel written by JT Leroy, whom the clever reader will recall, does not, in fact, exist.
Here’s the poster:
Heart is Deceitful poster
That pretty young girl the front is actually an 11-year-old boy, prostituted out in drag by his mother. The character’s name is Jeremiah.
This is really just skimming the surface. Alchemy? Check. Freemasonry? Check.
What about perfume, you ask? Manson is launching his own.
Oh…remember in the last piece when I asked you to hang on to the idea of “soma”? Yet another motif for Manson, only he created his own fictional drug called Coma. Even named a character Coma White.
Did you know that coma, in Latin, can translate as “stalker”?
This may be a shocker,
But you’re dealing with a stalker,
Who’s completely off his rocker.
In this crazy building,
There will be a gruesome killing,
So beware, beware!
I am lurking, lurking, lurking,
Somewhere!!
Out there!!!
Beware!!!
Well, enough theremicity for today. I think it’s much easier to think about it in these terms than as an ARG, don’t you? I realize that from an ARG standpoint,despite a few speculative fits and starts I haven’t really even been able to answer the question “what is this game anyway? ”
And if I could, then I’d have to wonder if it had already started.
Do you ever wonder?
cuckoo clock
Tick tock.
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