(Regan Books, New York, 1998)

"People don't keep journals for themselves. They keep them for other people, like a secret they don't want to tell but they want everyone to know. The only safe place for your thoughts is your memory, which people can't take and read when you're not looking-at least not yet. I'm starting to think that if the internet is the CB radio of the nineties, then the home computer is the trailer park of the soul, a dangerous tool in the hand of idiots. Eventually self-imposed fascism will destroy man as he convinces himself he doesn't think anymore." (Marilyn Manson, "Tour Diary", undated)

A very funny book by a guy called Brian Warner who dresses up as a spook. Brian tells it like it is and how he met Anton LaVey and all this stuff. It's also an honest description of what it's like growing up as a geek in ultra-christian America.

"If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeon and Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours." (p.26)

Way to go, Brian! Thumbs up! You may fuck the homecoming queen now!