Marilyn Manson

MES: A Memoir (Sample) The Birth of a Big Ball of Goo My nana always told me I was bound for great things. Ever since she found out I was going to be a girl, she knew I would be blessed. Both of those, I’m not so sure about. Let’s be honest: my conception was not planned. My father was a high school drop out (he failed ninth grade three times, then met my mother when she was a junior). My mother had been a former honor roll student, that is, until she met Brad. Brad. That bad-boy with a…

The disco era, which spanned from the late 1970s through the early 1980s, was defined by heavy drug use, in particular cocaine. The “hair bands” of the 1980s, such as Van Halen and Guns N’ Roses, became notorious for their execissive aclochol and drug abuse. Many of the 1990s’ most promising musicians’ lives were cut short by drug induced deaths. Although the most famous musician death of the decade was the suicide of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobaine, it has been widely reported that he was using…