As usual, and not so surprisingly, I don't have a great deal of spare time, so this will be fairly brief. I just wanted to get a few things out before this version of the list dies in order to save myself from having to mail 9 billion people this coming week.

In no particular order...

If I would have had the chance to read mail sooner, I'm sure I could have prevented all the seemingly heartbroken letters coming through as of late. I can easily get the mailing list going elsewhere if Veg actually wants to have a life again. But, it would appear that someone has already paid $100 to have it moved elsewhere, so I'll hold off on doing anything for the time being. If that falls through, someone let me know and I'll set one up.

Someone, somewhere, whether it was on IRC, the list, or wherever, took it upon themselves to notify the world of both my affiliation (for lack of a better word) with the tour and my "other Marilyn Manson mailing list". So, to decrease the volume of incoming mail, especially before the next leg of the U.S. tour, I will handle the first part right now by letting everyone interested know that the answer is no. No, I can not give you tickets for sold out shows, No, I can not give you free merchandise, No, I will not send you Twiggy's used spoons or cups or Cheez-Whiz cans, No, I can not make Marilyn call you on Tuesday at 4:15 pm, No, I can not ask the band to come to your class party, No, I can not tell you what hotel they will be staying at next time they play Wissiminissuaggua or wherever the hell you live, No, I can not put your Uncle Cooter on the guest list, No No No. If you want after show passes, my best suggestion is to either find Captain Conversation (Dum Du... er Zim Zum), or play spot the honky. The whitest of all white dudes is the key. Find the guy who looks like he was head of the Huey Lewis fan club (and probably still is) and you're set.

As far as the mailing list goes, yes, we have another Manson list running at the moment, but it is not currently set up for mass use, nor is it open to the public. This is definitely not the list that would ever take this one's place. It is basically only a handful of people closely associated with the band and the tour who discuss only extremely pertinent and important information regarding Manson. There is absolutely no talk of (or intertest in) dreams, your school life, your home life, the mall, your life at the mall, your mother, your problems, your mother's problems, why your mother sucks, dragons, 311, how goth you are, why you hate Sara Lee, how cute Daisy is, the X-Files, Sam from Different Strokes who later went on to front Bad4Good, how everyone at your school are a bunch of poseurs cause they all bought Manson shirts 3 days after you did, how nobody understands you, your cyber love life, Erik Estrada, No Doubt, hair colouring tips, where to buy clothes, lunchboxes, KoRN, Menudo, lik-em-stix, Saved by the Bell, Snoopy Sno Cone machines, song interpretations, cosmic predictions, or 9 page, neverending, personal sagas about that time last summer when you ran away from home cause your (insert parental figure here) didn't approve of your kick ass heavy metal alternateen love partner so you hitchhiked to Jupiter and then battled the Centurian X15 clan single handedly and stole the secret plans for the Xygor ray that was to be used to destroy the Earth but when you warped back home, the President demanded a government cover up so he could take credit of your work so you had to kill 7800 secret service agents with a spud gun and then swim to Antartica where you died upon arrival but were brought back to life by a pack of polar bears whom you lived with from thereon until one day you returned from fishing to find all of them dead, killed by Boba Fett who had come looking for you in order to claim the $10,000,000 bounty on your head, so you built a radio out of a speak and spell and come Fresca cans and teamed up with E.T. and Gary Coleman and blew up the Death Star and defeated the Empire and now you live undercover as a 15 year old geek in your first year of high school. Therefore, most of you would not be interested anyway.

More later, this is taking too long. Tour diary soon.

Drunkfux/dFx