At first I thought basically what everyone said of him. Some evil crazy dude. Whatever, I didn't like that type of music anyways.
So turned out I liked a couple of his songs...I ended up buying the CD "Golden age of grotesque" for the song "This is the new shit" and "Tainted love". I thought this would be like any other CD, I listen to it, and pretty much hate it except for the songs I bought it for. (*cough* paparoach)
Ended up liking not only the tune, but the lyrics to almost the whole CD.
Figured I should know about who I'm listening to. Some freak? idk. I youtube some interviews.... Have you ever seen the interviews from him? If you don't listen to him, and you see him in an interview, he is nothing like what you would expect. He's so oddly normal that it's creepy.
Well, even finding out that he's just a normal guy in the music industry, I still thought that he probably did drugs for SURE. Well, that's what I get for judging. Find out he's actually clean. Did acid once, never wants to do it again. Macauley culkin bought him his first pack of cigarettes.
Also found out he's not only a musician/writer, he's also an artist. While reading one of his comments on one of his pieces, he mentioned how hard columbine was for him, with him being blamed for it and whatnot. I thought "Wtf? how can you blame him for what some kids did?" and googled more about it, and came across this-
Columbine: Whose Fault Is It? : Rolling Stone
^ My jaw dropped. So he's normal AND intellegint. Whod've guessed? Idk. I loved that article though. I have higher respect for him.
Why didn't I listen to his music before though? It's actually very upbeat, puts me in a good mood. o.0