Band: Marilyn Manson
Album: Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)
Best song: “The Fight Song” is pretty good.
Worst song: The entire second half of the album is disappointing.

I, like most reasonable people, adore The Onion. Not AV Club, which I also love, but rather the proper Onion. My relationship with it goes back, of course. In high school, one of my friend’s siblings went to University of Wisconsin, where it had begun and my friend would get copies of The Onion and laugh at it. This was, of course, before the Internet. I believe, its first foray outside of Madison was into Chicago, where we’d pick up free copies from newspaper boxes. Continue reading →