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The New Symbolism of Marilyn Manson's Stage Show Since 2024

   Since Marilyn Manson returned to the stage in the summer of 2024 with the One Assassination Under God tour, pulsating illuminated upside-down double crosses have been a consistent part of the stage design. The double cross itself is nothing new in Manson's work. It has been part of his imagery for many years and became particularly prominent again after the Heaven Upside Down era. What is new since 2024 is the way the symbol has been incorporated into the lighting of the performance. Rather than functioning simply as a static emblem, the crosses now pulsate and change as part of the stage itself, becoming one of the most noticeable elements of every concert. Manson's return to the stage has also involved bringing back many features and images from earlier periods of his career, which has naturally given the performances a nostalgic quality for longtime fans. What interests me for this analysis, however, is what has actually been added during this new period that has not be...

Was Evan Rachel Wood Really in the Junior Olympics?

On November 7, 2022, Evan Rachel Wood appeared on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen alongside Daniel Radcliffe to promote their new Weird Al biopic. It opened with Andy Cohen introducing them like this: It's #WWHL with Evan Rachel Wood & Daniel Radcliffe now! pic.twitter.com/feKMLDdaMR — WWHL (@BravoWWHL) November 8, 2022 Andy Cohen brought up a "fun fact" about Evan that she has been saying since she was a teenager, basically that at the age of 12 she received a black belt in Taekwondo. The claim is that she took Taekwondo lessons with her mother, and became so proficient in it that she received a black belt (which usually takes 3 to 5 years of training) and eventually competed in the Junior Olympics. It is difficult to determine if Evan is being truthful that she took Taekwondo lessons and eventually earned a black belt. As far as I know, there are no photos or videos circulating that shows her practicing or competing or even just wearing the belt or the ou...

Was Evan Rachel Wood Really a Magician's Assistant?

Evan Rachel Wood promoted her biopic Weird: The Al Yankovic Story on Live With Kelly and Ryan on November 4, 2022, in which she plays a parody of Madonna. During the interview, Evan was asked about a very strange personal story recalling a time in her life when she was a magician's assistant. Here is how she told the story: She essentially describes a time in the past where she toured with a magician as his assistant, was confined in a small space (for a trick), had her head removed (for a trick), but was all the while behind the scenes and not part of the stage show directly. As someone who knows the life story of Evan Rachel Wood pretty well, I could not recall a time in her life when this would have been true. So I did a little research and found this quote on her IMDB from an interview in 2020 for USA Today that I must have overlooked:   "I was a magician's assistant for a little bit when I was 20, just for fun and to have a break (from acting). No one ever saw my f...

October 31, 2007 - A Halloween That Forever Changed Evan Rachel Wood

  October 31, 2007 was a memorable night for Evan Rachel Wood. It was a Halloween she would forever remember as one that changed her. However, was it memorable for the abuse she suffered that night or the fun she had? On this night in 2007, Marilyn Manson played his Halloween Show at the Pearl Concert Theater at Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. Evan Rachel Wood attended this concert of her then new boyfriend Marilyn Manson, and many of Manson's personal friends were also in attendance. Among the songs played that night was 'This Is Halloween', which Manson closed the show with. You can watch his performance below: After the concert the party was taken to Manson's penthouse. This is the infamous party where Evan dressed as a transvestite Adolf Hitler with the name "Eva Braun of the Dead" (Eva Braun was Hitler's companion and wife, she being 17 when she met him and he being 40), and her brother Ira Wood was a transvestite Nazi. Manson's friend M...

A Major Contradiction in Evan Rachel Wood's Sexual Assault Testimony: Did She Suffer From Tonic Immobility or Was She Drugged?

In Evan Rachel Wood's 2018 testimony before Congress about surviving sexual assault from her domestic partner, who was not named at the time but we were later told in 2021 was Marilyn Manson, she describes experiencing something that she calls a "freeze response" when she was sexually assaulted. She elaborated on this as follows: After doing more research on this "freeze" response, I found the following information on something called "Tonic Immobility." This is a trauma response that animals will exhibit during an attack, they will freeze or "play dead," perceiving it as the best option when the animal sees little immediate chance of escape or winning a fight. The animal initially reacts by struggling and attempting to escape, but after a brief period of continued restraint these reactions subside and it assumes a catatonic-like posture which persists in the absence of further contact. A special issue of The Psychological Record , from 1977,...

Marilyn Manson in the News (September 12 - September 30, 2022)

 - Los Angeles District Attorney Gives Unexpected Update On the Marilyn Manson Case On September 12th I received a direct video response to a question I submitted on Evan Rachel Wood's birthday (September 7th - per her request through her Instagram stories) directly to the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office in their #AskTheDA series on Instagram. I figured since they weren't answering questions submitted to their website, maybe I can humor Evan and get a direct response from District Attorney George Gascón himself. And it worked! See the video below for his response:   Apparently it is a rare thing for the LA District Attorney to make such an announcement regarding such a case, which is why this story was reported everywhere: FOX LA , LA Times , Rolling Stone , Huffington Post , The Daily Beast , Metal Injection , Loudwire , among many others. It seemed as if every news outlet jumped at the chance to report how rare this was, adding to the fact that it was announced the...

Why I Decided To Investigate the Marilyn Manson Case

Yesterday evening I was driving to a movie theatre to see a movie, when I came upon an accident involving a vehicle with a student driver and a traffic light pole. It was the funniest car accident I had ever seen, with a vehicle that said STUDENT DRIVER in the back crashed into a pole, just one block away from a police station. In itself, it was like something out of a comedy movie. As I was stopped at the traffic light watching two fire trucks and an ambulance on the scene, and the student driver with his teacher to the side unharmed, I couldn't help but laugh at the possible backstory my mind conjured up for the scene in front of me (sorry for the bad photo above, there were too many flashing lights everywhere and I was driving). I arrived at the movie theatre, a nearly century old favorite hang out of mine, to see for the sixth or seventh time on the big screen since it came out in 2007, the film Zodiac , which brilliantly tells the story of the unknown Zodiac killer, who operat...

When Patricia Arquette Called Out Marilyn Manson on March 1, 2018

When Patricia Arquette won the best supporting actress statue for her role in Boyhood at the 2015 Oscars, she accepted her award with an empowering speech on women’s rights and equality. Since then, and especially after the rise of MeToo, she and her sister Rosanna Arquette have become very vocal activists on behalf of women and been very much criticized for targeting powerful white men, daily posting multiple tweets espousing left-wing liberalism and denouncing right-wing conservatism. In fact, Rosanna Arquette was one of the first women to come out against Harvey Weinstein in 2017 as a victim of his abuse, and all the way back in 2010, Rosanna Arquette became Goodwill Ambassador for The Womanity Foundation. With such a background, among many other similar things, it should be no surprise that it would be Patricia Arquette who would be the first to name Marilyn Manson as an abuser of Evan Rachel Wood. Patricia Arquette targeting Marilyn Manson as an abuser on March 1, ...