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Update January 22, 2008 Anno Domini
NACHTKABARETT Update just in time for the newest leg of The Rape of the World tour with Twiggy.
EAT ME, DRINK ME and LOGOS & SYMBOLOGY .·. Updated to explore the visual and symbolic connotations of Manson's twisted heart logo. This dark and romantic symbol stemming predominantly from the poster of a 1935 horror film named 'Mad Love' which depicts these very themes.
http://www.nachtkabarett.com/EatMeDrinkMe
THE THIRD & FINAL BEAST .·. Updated with a new article on Manson's identification with Nero Caesar during the Holy Wood era. Nero was the grand persecutor of the first Christians, who martyred untold hundreds and who is believed by certain scholars to be the Beast whose number is 666 found in the Book of Revelation. Contains visuals, quotes and still frames of Manson's allusion to Nero onstage during the Guns, God & Government tour. The section also updated with a handful of images and quotations from occult texts illustrated by Manson's various personifications of Christ and dually as the Beast & the Antichrist.
http://www.nachtkabarett.com/theThirdAndFinalBeast
THE DEVIL'S NOTEBOOK .·. Updated with image and video (expect more throughout the site to follow) on Manson's references to the dark, comedic & esoteric David Lynch TV series Twin Peaks of the early 90's. Photos and a video clip of the final episode of the series which was sampled in the song 'Wrapped in Plastic' off Portrait of an American Family in 1994. And also a subtle allusion found in the video for 'Tourniquet' two years later.
http://www.nachtkabarett.com/theDevilsNoteBook
Expect a massive update circa The Ides of March with much more on Manson (hopefully imagery from the new leg of the tour) and the Coil & Nine Inch Nails sections updated. Also an entire minisite on the occult & alchemical imagery used by The Smashing Pumpkins in their album Machina: The Machines of God, much of which coincides with Manson and Holy Wood, to be filled with archives, the origins of images used by the band with video and sound clips.
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Update November 20, 2007 Anno Domini
HEART SHAPED GLASSES, VAMPIRISM & BLOOD RITUAL .·. Eat Me, Drink Me section updated, outlining some of the inspirations behind the new era's macabre aesthetic:
http://www.nachtkabarett.com/EatMeDrinkMe#vampirism
RAPE OF THE WORLD TOUR (Addendum) .·. Compendium update to last August detailing both new as well as early / discarded stage theatrics on the Eat Me, Drink Me Tour. This section will be summarily and thoroughly updated as new visuals are performed:
http://www.nachtkabarett.com/EatMeDrinkMe#tour
NINE INCH NAILS | OCCULT IMAGERY, INFLUENCES & SAMPLES .·. Another expansion of The NACHTKABARETT on another personal favourite of mine, detailing the origins of many of NIN's visual and thematic inspirations of the Self Destruct era. Featuring all original images, the origins of visual inspirations behind 'Closer' and playable movie clips from films which have been sampled in songs (a trend which will follow throughout The NK in the future).
http://www.nachtkabarett.com/nin
Stay tuned for another update before 2008 on another prominent band which have heavily referenced the occult, coinciding and even overlapping with even that of Manson's occultism; other articles on Manson's visual evocations; and dozens of entries into The Devil's Notebook section.
HAPPY AUTUMN EQUINOX | SAMHAIN | HALLOWEEN
October 31, 2007 Anno Domini
All Hail Nero, Caligula & the Pagan Gods! On this day, as one should everyday, remember when we had the glorious upper hand over Christendom.
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NACHTKABARETT UPDATE
- Eat Me, Drink Me & The Rape of the World
August 30, 2007 Anno Domini
Just as the name 'Marilyn Manson' is a dichotomy of opposing elements, the term 'Eat Me, Drink Me' is itself a union of opposites in the context of Alice in Wonderland. 'Eat Me', the cake, made Alice grow while 'Drink Me', the bottle, made her shrink. In other words, the album title can dually act as an extension of the black/white, good/evil dichotomy that Manson continually portrays.
Eat Me, Drink Me can be seen, to philosophize on a deeper level, as the union of expansion and contraction; dichotomy of opposites, Marilyn and Manson. And the theme which is directly illustrated in the live performance.
With the American and first European leg of the tour closing comes a brand new NACHTKABARTT.com update on EAT ME, DRINK ME and THE RAPE OF THE WORLD TOUR. The live theatrics, and artistic influences behind them, are presented with the three most prominent elements evoked by Manson are Alice in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll, Vampirism and Manson's hero, David Bowie. All are detailed presented within:
http://www.nachtkabarett.com/EatMeDrinkMe#tour
Included as well is the inspirational origin behind the surreal heart-headed, outlaw in the News section of MarilynManson.com, a painting by the co-founder of the Berlin Dada movement:
http://www.nachtkabarett.com/EatMeDrinkMe#online
Lyrical allusions contained with the album are also outlined, with further entries to be added between site updates:
http://www.nachtkabarett.com/EatMeDrinkMe#lyrics
Additionally, a new feature of The NACHTKABARETT has recently been launched; in cooperation with Markus Lion of Absinthe.de, creator of Mansinthe, a promotional minisite on the new line of absinthe, Manson's past evocations of the emerald spirit and the history behind it's insidious active ingredient, Wormwood.
http://www.nachtkabarett.com/Mansinthe
Lastly, keep checking back to The DEVIL'S NOTEBOOK section for new entries regularly added on miscellaneous aspects of Manson's art along with the hidden elements of PORTRAIT OF AN AMERICAN FAMILY and SMELLS LIKE CHILDREN.
http://www.nachtkabarett.com/theDevilsNoteBook
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Featured On MTV Germany's Marilyn Manson Special
Last June of 2007 MTV Germany aired a retrospective hour-long feature entitled 'MTV Masters - Marilyn Manson' which overviewed Manson from childhood to present with EAT ME, DRINK ME. Circa 5 minutes 30 seconds into the special are three images from and credited NACHTKABARETT.com. Two of the three images are from the March 2006 issue of Vogue, the issue that covered Manson's alchemical wedding which The NACHTKABARETT was the first to provide online.
Danke, MTV Deutsch!
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UPDATE July 2007: EAT ME, DRINK ME, et al.
New and in-depth NACHTKABARETT Update on EAT ME, DRINK ME and all of Manson's imagery, underlying and overt, in the new era.
http://www.nachtkabarett.com/EatMeDrinkMe
An expansion will be following on next update on lyrical references and tour theatrics when the full-fledged solo shows in the US begin and the entire vision is actualized in front of an audience.
Also included within the update is Marilyn Manson's Journal from The Golden Age of Grotesque era MarilynManson.com. For the first time online again, the complete image and video archive in its original format (with slight multimedia viewing improvements).
http://www.nachtkabarett.com/Journal
Also, keep checking back to THE DEVIL'S NOTEBOOKS section as entries are being added semi-daily, including references on SMELLS LIKE CHILDREN & PORTRAIT OF AN AMERICAN FAMILY which don't necessarily fit within the existing sections of the site.
http://www.nachtkabarett.com/theDevilsNoteBook
NEW FEATURES:
An expansion of The NACHTKABARETT. Though no other present day artists / musicians have as much efficacy and intricacy as Manson, with his endless layers of multidimensional connections, there are many other bands, films and other artists who do evoke influences in the imagery of what they present.
Though I certainly cannot claim to be a fan, or necessarily, even enjoy -some- of the acts which will be contained herein (aside from a core handful) this section will be rapidly expanding and will bring to light such elements, nods and invocations in pop culture, be the allusions occult, esoteric or simply references to the past.
The introductory article for this section will be about a personal favorite group who are very deep into the occult sciences and often utilizes esoteric imageries, all discussed within this section.
http://www.nachtkabarett.com/Coil
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