Jake Brennan

And I don't like to hate anything.

But, you know, it's tough.

Anyways, in response to our Marilyn Manson episode, E. Shosted on Disgraced Land writes, Hey, I saw Marilyn Manson at a Dave & Buster's a few years ago.

That's why I wanted to read this.

Just the idea of Marilyn Manson out of Dave and Buster's is hysterical to me.

And he looked like he was over his own gimmick 25 years ago.

To be in your mid-50s but role-playing 1999 forever, too much even for him.

Which brings me to this thing I've been thinking about.

How some artists just get stuck in that caricature of themselves that they created years ago.

I was watching this Liza Minnelli documentary over the weekend and

She talked about it where she was the sequined girl.

She had to be that girl whenever she was out in public, even socially with people who were not just extremely close with her.

But even like acquaintances, that's who she had to be.

And, you know, I think she transcended that in a lot of ways, but it must suck for people.

Well, actually, I don't give a shit about Marilyn Manson, Brian Warner, but you know what I'm saying?

Like, it just must suck as an artist to be stuck in that thing forever.

And I think certain artists find ways to transcend it and move beyond it and to grow and

And to not get stuck in, I don't know, I don't know the trick.

I don't know what the trick is.

I don't know how they do it.