This Geek

I haven’t listened to Marilyn Manson in a long time, so, this morning while at work, I pulled out my iPod, selected the artist, and since I was in the mood for it, just pressed play so that everything would be queued, rather than refining my selection to one of the albums.

A while later, I headed home, so I plugged the iTrip into the iPod, and continued listening to Marilyn Manson. On my drive home, I was contemplating the album art for “Smells Like Children”, which, to my mind is quite garish and ugly, so I was wondering what his usual fan base response would have been to a more artistic type album cover, perhaps something along the lines of an image of stylized hands praying, or perhaps a potentially blasphemous (yet artistic) image of old Marilyn hanging on a cross. Not even 30 seconds passed when all of a sudden his cover of “Personal Jesus” started playing.

Very weird.