December 19, 2012
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Went to Ximen today. Finally got to go to a Watson’s (which is like the CVS of Taiwan), and bought some stuff I’m not really sure I really need.
I’ve been reading Marilyn Manson’s autobiography, which is actually pretty good. I’ve always known he was an intelligent guy, but he explains himself well in his book. He is more of a performance artist than a musician – this concept is actually very interesting to me because now I see him more as an artist than a musician. All of the things he does is not really necessarily “bad” or “good,” but just symbolic of his reaction to the society that formed him. I guess he is like an allergic reaction to his reality. That’s why he spends most of his time recreating it into something different, something livable for him.
There are other ways of understanding what he is and what he does as well, but I want to finish reading the book before I continue to think about it.