Outsiders: Not One Of Us: Interviews with unique, extraordinary and misunderstood people

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I think I was just bored with it. In the aftermath of the school shooting, Manson was blamed — by politicians, by the media, by what seemed like a witch hunt — for inciting Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris to violence. If you were to talk directly to the kids at Columbine and the people in that community, he asks him, what would you say to them right now?

It was a stand-out moment in the documentary. It seems a deliberate piece of provocation. But I felt like I needed to change myself. And what brought that on was that right before I had to fly to Ohio and see my father because my mother died. I think that was her way of letting go of my father and me. Then, a few months after her death, his father came to visit. And there was a thing he asked me. He said… It was the first time I ever heard him cry — when he called me before I went to see this happen, take place, whatever.

It was the first time. He was in Vietnam before I was born, and when he showed up at my house I had Apocalypse Now on the projector on my wall paused right there when he walked in, which was awkward. He had just arrived. And he walked in and he saw this and said: His father did kill strangers.

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And Manson, and his mother, lived with the aftermath. In the same way as the character that Martin Sheen plays in Apocalypse Now. I think my father was selected to do a job. He never talked to me about it.

When you realise that he spent the first 18 years of his life in a household dominated by the after-effects of violence, Marilyn Manson and his music, his obsessions, his sense of alienation, his fascination with killing, his insistence on living outside the strictures of mainstream American society, suddenly makes much more sense. His father had told him not to write.

And he went to journalism college anyway. There was Marilyn Manson, but there was no music yet.

You, Brian, gave them all to Marilyn Manson? How he lashed out at his mother as a teenager. How he was sent to a Christian school he hated. How he was beaten up by other children who thought he was gay. How his grandfather was allegedly into bestiality. But he has not, to my knowledge, talked about the effect of the hows and whys of it. It reminds me of Sam Shepard , literary high priest of dysfunctional American families, who I once interviewed and who told me a very similar story of his father returning from the Second World War in trauma, unable to relate to his family, and the impact that the violence had on everyone else.

For Shepard, violence and secrets and the American family are all of a piece.

And so it seems with Manson, too. I had to become this homunculus of sorts for my mother. And then I wanted to get away from it. I became his placeholder. My mother would even call me by his name. It also seems less surprising that Marilyn Manson has continued to speak to, and articulate the concerns of, alienated young men. Has it made you think differently about parenthood, I ask him. Is it more circle-of-life stuff?