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NONE OF THE SUNS: Marilyn Manson Between Light and Darkness

  “None of the Suns” is the most explicitly post-punk and gothic song on One Assassination Under God – Chapter 2 . Its imagery seems almost designed for that genre: demons, blood, darkness, blackness, angels, Heaven, and the disappearance of daylight. Yet the song becomes much more interesting when those images are placed alongside Manson's own explanation of it. He has connected the song to his love of post-punk and goth music, but also to his fascination with Lewis Carroll and Carroll's relationship with nighttime. Manson has described “outrunning daylight” as a way of cheating death, which gives the night a meaning beyond gothic atmosphere. He has also cited Federico Fellini's Toby Dammit as an inspiration for the atmosphere of the song. The painting accompanying the song, which Manson calls “We're in the Black Now,” is his own image caught somewhere between day and night. That may be the most useful place to begin with the song, because the darkness here does not s...

Accused Con Artist and Forgerer Evan Rachel Wood Caught in Awkward Moment on 'The Tonight Show'

 

On September 19, 2020, Evan Rachel Wood appeared on The Tonight Show to promote her new film Kajillionaire
 
During the interview she was asked by Jimmy Fallon if she has ever been involved in a con or forgery in real life, like her character. The reason this is awkward is because during the time of this interview, Evan and Illma Gore were involved in a con against Marilyn Manson and they impersonated an FBI agent as well as forged an FBI letter. 
 
For more on these allegations and to see a copy of the forged letter, read the complaint of Marilyn Manson (Brian Warner) vs Evan Rachel Wood and Illma Gore at this link.
 
 
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