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###### Music|A Dark Prince Steps Into the Light

Marilyn Manson, last month in West Hollywood, Calif., is releasing his new album, "The Pale Emperor," on Tuesday.

His last album soured critics and undersold, but he has more recently been taking acting seriously.

— "We're drinking wodka," Marilyn Manson said, pronouncing the word like he was a fur-hatted Russian cartoon character, and filling a tumbler.

Two tumblers: Like any peacocking musician, he knew that a drinking buddy makes for a ready audience.

He loped from the peach-colored kitchen of a borrowed house here — it belongs to his pal Johnny Depp — through the dining room, past a bin of masks and costumes.

There was a horse, a longhaired woman, silver faceplates.

"This is my Max Ernst stuff; it's private," he said.

Onward to the living room, where he paused to show off a 1927 theremin, then settled into a velvet sofa, clutching his drink with black-polished fingers.

He wore buttoned-up black and the dregs of eye makeup, with choppy hair.

The room was kept cold, the way he likes it, fitting for a performer known for his graveyard tastes and collection of Nazi-era weaponry.

There was a time, years ago, when being one-on-one with him might have induced a shiver, given his cultivated prince of darkness aura, occasional unhinged behavior and citations for assault and battery.

Now, he had just stepped out from a video shoot in another room brightly singing "The Thong Song."

"The 'Thong Song' is a strong song," he said, employing his favorite kind of goofy wordplay.

Marilyn Manson, as it happens, really enjoys a pun.

Mr. Manson, shown with Charlie Hunnam, played a white supremacist in the final season of the FX hit "Sons of Anarchy."

Born Brian Warner, Marilyn Manson, as he's been known for more than half his life, is facing a bit of an identity crisis.

At 46, with a career as a best-selling goth rock star and agitator behind him, he has been battered by a changed music industry, a culture less tolerant of inflammatory songwriting and stagecraft, and the onset of much-delayed maturity.

"I do admit to myself, I was not as great as I wanted to be the past couple of years — as a person, as a musician, as an artist," he said.

Now he's trying to give his life and career a Manson-style overhaul.

After years of drug abuse and a short stint in rehab, he's at last a law-abiding pothead, thanks to a doctor's note for a broken toe.

And though he's long been making film and TV cameos, recently he's taken his acting more seriously, playing a white supremacist in the final season of the FX hit "Sons of Anarchy" last year.

That show's buff star, Charlie Hunnam, inspired him to work out, and he's even given up his beloved absinthe to help his figure.

His new album, "The Pale Emperor" (Loma Vista Recordings), due Tuesday, is the biggest leap.

It was written with a new collaborator, the soundtrack composer Tyler Bates, known for adventure and sci-fi epics like "300" and "Guardians of the Galaxy."

Though lyrically it trolls familiar dark territory — he declares himself the "Mephistopheles of Los Angeles" — musically it leans toward crunchy, spare blues rock riffs and away from industrial-sounding overproduction.

The record is dedicated to his mother, Barbara, who died in May after a long battle with dementia, which affected him deeply.

His role on "Sons" was in part a tribute to his dad, Hugh, a thriving fan of the show.

Tom Whalley, founder of Loma Vista and a former top executive at Interscope, Mr. Manson's original label, said he was quickly persuaded to sign him now, based mostly on the music.

"When I heard it, I was like, wow, that's fresh," Mr. Whalley said.

"I really felt that he was having a creative moment later on in his career that most people don't find."

Personally, too, "the guy has gone through a cathartic year," said his friend, the musician Shooter Jennings.

"I definitely think there's a phoenix-rising type scenario happening with him," he added,

If that's the case, it's due in large part to Mr. Bates, 49.

They met and hit it off when Manson, as his friends call him, appeared on the Showtime series "Californication," which Mr. Bates was scoring.

"I was asking him about his life and his career," Mr. Bates recalled.

Marilyn Manson performing, clockwise from top left, in 1996; 1998; 2007; and 2005.

Clockwise from top left: Rahav Segev; Rahav Segev; Markus Stuecklin/Associated Press; Alessandro Della Bella/Associated Press

They began meeting in Mr. Bates's home studio, even during daylight hours — a new experience for Marilyn Manson.

"Because around 3 a.m. is when my brain starts going really" crazy, he said, using filthier language, "I used to think that that was the time that was best to record at.

But I realized that I don't have that anymore, if I get it out of me early.

Daytime is more effective for me to function as a — ah, I wouldn't say as a normal human being.

I would just say as a more effective villain; a more effective, destroying, chaos element in the world.

Left untethered, Marilyn Manson will go on like this, proclaiming himself chaos incarnate and T.M.I.-ing his way through his life story.

("I tangent a lot," he said, understating broadly.)

"He circles the drain of an idea for quite a while," Mr. Bates said.

"But if you have the patience, you'll see that he is making a point, that he is pretty funny and pretty smart at the same time.

Sometimes he doesn't make a point, but I found him to be interesting."

He also made it clear that there would be no wasting of studio time.

"He realized that him walking in the room and being Marilyn Manson didn't matter to me," said Mr. Bates, a married father of two daughters, whose email auto-signature is "kindest regards."

For Marilyn Manson, the collaboration felt less like work than a conversation, he said.

"I've never really had that sort of musical brotherhood in the same way," he said.

Mr. Bates also provided lyrical direction.

"I said, 'I'm not going to do this with you if it's an angry manifesto,' " he recalled.

" 'The only thing you have left is to inspire people with your words.' "

For his fans, inspiration comes in the embrace of darkness.

As always, he found material in his sometimes-combative relationship — his girlfriend, Lindsay Usich, with whom he shares a newly acquired home in the Hollywood Hills, is a photographer and model — freely cribbing from their fights.

"Don't bring your black cloud to bed," he texted her, in what became a lyric in "The Devil Beneath My Feet."

Gustavo Fidanza/Agence-France Presse, via Getty Images

The album's closing song, "Odds of Even," which begins with the sounds of coyotes attacking in the hills outside Mr. Bates's studio (as recorded by Marilyn Manson) is perhaps the most introspective.

"My dagger and swagger/Are useless in the face of the mirror," he sings in a deep, emo register.

It wasn't all emotional drudgery and death.

"If I didn't hold the creative process so sacred," Mr. Bates said, "and I had just been a whore and put cameras in my studio, I would have had the greatest reality show of all time," tracking his star's eccentricities and visits by the likes of Keanu Reeves and Mr. Depp.

On the subject of Mr. Depp, whom he first met as a 19-year-old extra on the set of the series "21 Jump Street," Marilyn Manson is as effusive as a schoolboy.

"It's a bromance," he said, lifting his shirt to reveal a florid tattoo across his back, one of several matching pieces he and Mr. Depp have.

(Another, on his wrist, says "No Reason," an answer for why they got it.)

They solidified their friendship jamming together — one of Mr. Depp's other houses is filled with musical instruments — and high-jinksing with Hunter S. Thompson in his later years.

(Mr. Depp did not respond to requests for comment.)

Otherwise, Marilyn Manson is a bit of a homebody, preferring to watch TV and movies or paint.

His dearest companion is his 11-year-old danderless cat, Lily White.

"She is definitely the one true center of my universe," he said, scrolling through photos of her on his phone.

"It's the closest thing, I guess, to having a child."

Promoting "The Pale Emperor" means a tour, scaled down from the arenas he once played, with his longtime on-off bassist, Twiggy Ramirez, and Mr. Bates on guitar.

But after his last album, "Born Villain," in 2012, the first not released by a major label, soured critics and undersold, his professional standing is murky.

A run of concerts in Russia last summer was canceled, over protests and bomb threats, even before he set foot on stage.

("Luckily, my manager was very conscious of getting paid in advance," Marilyn Manson said.)

With just two weeks to go, his Jan. 26 show at Terminal 5, a midsize New York club, still hadn't sold out.

And a recent controversy over a leaked, sexually explicit video clip involving the singer Lana Del Rey and the filmmaker Eli Roth left him uncharacteristically muted, repeating only that he was not in charge and meant no harm.

"Going out on this tour is a pretty huge precipice for him," Mr. Bates said.

"He's got some heavy-hearted things going on," with his family, "and some tumult, and some extreme happiness, and it's all happening at one time."

A few hours into our conversation, his glass empty, Marilyn Manson went upstairs, to a bedroom with rumpled black sheets, for a break.

He emerged with some makeup removed, and bloodshot eyes, ready to offer some hard-earned wisdom, which he delivered in a deep, I'm-pontificating tone.

"Try to drink and do drugs when you're in a good mood, not in a bad mood," he suggested.

Also, "don't make songs that confuse strippers and don't make movies without nudity."

And with actual gravitas, he added: "There's a difference between a man who has everything to gain and a man who has nothing to lose.

If you have nothing to lose, you're dangerous in a bad way.

If you have everything to gain, you're dangerous in a good way."

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# MARILYN MANSON's Mother Dies After Battle With Dementia

Barbara J. Warner, the 68-year-old mother of shock rocker Marilyn Manson (a.k.a. Brian Warner), died on May 13 after a long battle with dementia.

The singer wrote on his Facebook page earlier today: "Mother, to the first and greatest believer in me …

But not now, because I have more things I promised I would do.

I'll make you proud and satisfied that you know that you made the son you wanted.

A May 18 obituary posted by CantonRep.com reads as follows: "Barbara J. Warner, age 68, passed peacefully on Tuesday after a long battle with dementia.

She was a wife, lover, mother and friend who will be missed forever.

Survived by her husband, Hugh A. Warner; and a son, Brian H. Warner.

The Lamiell Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Association.

Condolences may be made to www.lamiellfuneralhome.com."

Speaking to The Guardian in July 2012, Manson stated about his mother, "My mom has dementia so she doesn't know who I am now, but when she did, she'd say, 'Gentlemen prefer blondes.'

He also told Revolver magazine earlier that year: "I don't have the same ambition and drive, the determination, the fearlessness, the anger and relentlessness that I had when I started this.

I have some of it, different elements of it, different percentages of it, and I'm not saying the stuff I did before I came to this realization was irrelevant.

But I guess part of it was coming to terms with family things, like my mother being ill and diagnosed with dementia, being faced with that concept.

Coming to terms with mortality — not of my own, because I've always been fearless of that, and I'm never afraid to die for what I believe in.

But while I'll always make jokes and deny t in a ['American Psycho' protagonist] Patrick Bateman sort of sense, I'm not completely devoid of human emotions.

I do have feelings, and I have a lot more feelings than people probably imagine, and that's what makes me so guarded.

So it was a lot of me coming to terms with that.

I had to prove to the people that already know and care about me that I'm worth caring about, and that I'm a motherfucker to be reckoned with.

And I wanted to show the rest of the world exactly what I showed them.

Whatever it was that got people's attention, what made them want to listen to my first album, I just wanted to have that gleam in my eye, that fire in me."

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Gil Sharone, of The Dillinger Escape Plan and Stolen Babies, performed live drums on the album. Sharone was first contacted by Bates about the project in January 2014, three days before he was due to begin a tour with Stolen Babies. He developed and recorded his drum work over two days at Igloo Studios in Burbank, California. Long-time bassist – and Manson's chief collaborator – Twiggy did not take part in the writing and recording process, as he was busy recording his own material. It was the first release since his return to the band in 2008 to not feature Twiggy's involvement. His collaborator on the Goon Moon project, Fred Sablan, departed Marilyn Manson on good terms. Manson's "Sons of Anarchy" co-star Walton Goggins appears as a preacher on album track "Slave Only Dreams to Be King", reciting two verses from James Allen's early 20th-century essay "As a Man Thinketh". Manson announced that the band's new album was "prepared for landing" in early September.


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###### Music|A Dark Prince Steps Into the Light

Marilyn Manson, last month in West Hollywood, Calif., is releasing his new album, "The Pale Emperor," on Tuesday.

His last album soured critics and undersold, but he has more recently been taking acting seriously.

— "We're drinking wodka," Marilyn Manson said, pronouncing the word like he was a fur-hatted Russian cartoon character, and filling a tumbler.

Two tumblers: Like any peacocking musician, he knew that a drinking buddy makes for a ready audience.

He loped from the peach-colored kitchen of a borrowed house here — it belongs to his pal Johnny Depp — through the dining room, past a bin of masks and costumes.

There was a horse, a longhaired woman, silver faceplates.

"This is my Max Ernst stuff; it's private," he said.

Onward to the living room, where he paused to show off a 1927 theremin, then settled into a velvet sofa, clutching his drink with black-polished fingers.

He wore buttoned-up black and the dregs of eye makeup, with choppy hair.

The room was kept cold, the way he likes it, fitting for a performer known for his graveyard tastes and collection of Nazi-era weaponry.

There was a time, years ago, when being one-on-one with him might have induced a shiver, given his cultivated prince of darkness aura, occasional unhinged behavior and citations for assault and battery.

Now, he had just stepped out from a video shoot in another room brightly singing "The Thong Song."

"The 'Thong Song' is a strong song," he said, employing his favorite kind of goofy wordplay.

Marilyn Manson, as it happens, really enjoys a pun.

Mr. Manson, shown with Charlie Hunnam, played a white supremacist in the final season of the FX hit "Sons of Anarchy."

Born Brian Warner, Marilyn Manson, as he's been known for more than half his life, is facing a bit of an identity crisis.

At 46, with a career as a best-selling goth rock star and agitator behind him, he has been battered by a changed music industry, a culture less tolerant of inflammatory songwriting and stagecraft, and the onset of much-delayed maturity.

"I do admit to myself, I was not as great as I wanted to be the past couple of years — as a person, as a musician, as an artist," he said.

Now he's trying to give his life and career a Manson-style overhaul.

After years of drug abuse and a short stint in rehab, he's at last a law-abiding pothead, thanks to a doctor's note for a broken toe.

And though he's long been making film and TV cameos, recently he's taken his acting more seriously, playing a white supremacist in the final season of the FX hit "Sons of Anarchy" last year.

That show's buff star, Charlie Hunnam, inspired him to work out, and he's even given up his beloved absinthe to help his figure.

His new album, "The Pale Emperor" (Loma Vista Recordings), due Tuesday, is the biggest leap.

It was written with a new collaborator, the soundtrack composer Tyler Bates, known for adventure and sci-fi epics like "300" and "Guardians of the Galaxy."

Though lyrically it trolls familiar dark territory — he declares himself the "Mephistopheles of Los Angeles" — musically it leans toward crunchy, spare blues rock riffs and away from industrial-sounding overproduction.

The record is dedicated to his mother, Barbara, who died in May after a long battle with dementia, which affected him deeply.

His role on "Sons" was in part a tribute to his dad, Hugh, a thriving fan of the show.

Tom Whalley, founder of Loma Vista and a former top executive at Interscope, Mr. Manson's original label, said he was quickly persuaded to sign him now, based mostly on the music.

"When I heard it, I was like, wow, that's fresh," Mr. Whalley said.

"I really felt that he was having a creative moment later on in his career that most people don't find."

Personally, too, "the guy has gone through a cathartic year," said his friend, the musician Shooter Jennings.

"I definitely think there's a phoenix-rising type scenario happening with him," he added,

If that's the case, it's due in large part to Mr. Bates, 49.

They met and hit it off when Manson, as his friends call him, appeared on the Showtime series "Californication," which Mr. Bates was scoring.

"I was asking him about his life and his career," Mr. Bates recalled.

Marilyn Manson performing, clockwise from top left, in 1996; 1998; 2007; and 2005.

Clockwise from top left: Rahav Segev; Rahav Segev; Markus Stuecklin/Associated Press; Alessandro Della Bella/Associated Press

They began meeting in Mr. Bates's home studio, even during daylight hours — a new experience for Marilyn Manson.

"Because around 3 a.m. is when my brain starts going really" crazy, he said, using filthier language, "I used to think that that was the time that was best to record at.

But I realized that I don't have that anymore, if I get it out of me early.

Daytime is more effective for me to function as a — ah, I wouldn't say as a normal human being.

I would just say as a more effective villain; a more effective, destroying, chaos element in the world.

Left untethered, Marilyn Manson will go on like this, proclaiming himself chaos incarnate and T.M.I.-ing his way through his life story.

("I tangent a lot," he said, understating broadly.)

"He circles the drain of an idea for quite a while," Mr. Bates said.

"But if you have the patience, you'll see that he is making a point, that he is pretty funny and pretty smart at the same time.

Sometimes he doesn't make a point, but I found him to be interesting."

He also made it clear that there would be no wasting of studio time.

"He realized that him walking in the room and being Marilyn Manson didn't matter to me," said Mr. Bates, a married father of two daughters, whose email auto-signature is "kindest regards."

For Marilyn Manson, the collaboration felt less like work than a conversation, he said.

"I've never really had that sort of musical brotherhood in the same way," he said.

Mr. Bates also provided lyrical direction.

"I said, 'I'm not going to do this with you if it's an angry manifesto,' " he recalled.

" 'The only thing you have left is to inspire people with your words.' "

For his fans, inspiration comes in the embrace of darkness.

As always, he found material in his sometimes-combative relationship — his girlfriend, Lindsay Usich, with whom he shares a newly acquired home in the Hollywood Hills, is a photographer and model — freely cribbing from their fights.

"Don't bring your black cloud to bed," he texted her, in what became a lyric in "The Devil Beneath My Feet."

Gustavo Fidanza/Agence-France Presse, via Getty Images

The album's closing song, "Odds of Even," which begins with the sounds of coyotes attacking in the hills outside Mr. Bates's studio (as recorded by Marilyn Manson) is perhaps the most introspective.

"My dagger and swagger/Are useless in the face of the mirror," he sings in a deep, emo register.

It wasn't all emotional drudgery and death.

"If I didn't hold the creative process so sacred," Mr. Bates said, "and I had just been a whore and put cameras in my studio, I would have had the greatest reality show of all time," tracking his star's eccentricities and visits by the likes of Keanu Reeves and Mr. Depp.

On the subject of Mr. Depp, whom he first met as a 19-year-old extra on the set of the series "21 Jump Street," Marilyn Manson is as effusive as a schoolboy.

"It's a bromance," he said, lifting his shirt to reveal a florid tattoo across his back, one of several matching pieces he and Mr. Depp have.

(Another, on his wrist, says "No Reason," an answer for why they got it.)

They solidified their friendship jamming together — one of Mr. Depp's other houses is filled with musical instruments — and high-jinksing with Hunter S. Thompson in his later years.

(Mr. Depp did not respond to requests for comment.)

Otherwise, Marilyn Manson is a bit of a homebody, preferring to watch TV and movies or paint.

His dearest companion is his 11-year-old danderless cat, Lily White.

"She is definitely the one true center of my universe," he said, scrolling through photos of her on his phone.

"It's the closest thing, I guess, to having a child."

Promoting "The Pale Emperor" means a tour, scaled down from the arenas he once played, with his longtime on-off bassist, Twiggy Ramirez, and Mr. Bates on guitar.

But after his last album, "Born Villain," in 2012, the first not released by a major label, soured critics and undersold, his professional standing is murky.

A run of concerts in Russia last summer was canceled, over protests and bomb threats, even before he set foot on stage.

("Luckily, my manager was very conscious of getting paid in advance," Marilyn Manson said.)

With just two weeks to go, his Jan. 26 show at Terminal 5, a midsize New York club, still hadn't sold out.

And a recent controversy over a leaked, sexually explicit video clip involving the singer Lana Del Rey and the filmmaker Eli Roth left him uncharacteristically muted, repeating only that he was not in charge and meant no harm.

"Going out on this tour is a pretty huge precipice for him," Mr. Bates said.

"He's got some heavy-hearted things going on," with his family, "and some tumult, and some extreme happiness, and it's all happening at one time."

A few hours into our conversation, his glass empty, Marilyn Manson went upstairs, to a bedroom with rumpled black sheets, for a break.

He emerged with some makeup removed, and bloodshot eyes, ready to offer some hard-earned wisdom, which he delivered in a deep, I'm-pontificating tone.

"Try to drink and do drugs when you're in a good mood, not in a bad mood," he suggested.

Also, "don't make songs that confuse strippers and don't make movies without nudity."

And with actual gravitas, he added: "There's a difference between a man who has everything to gain and a man who has nothing to lose.

If you have nothing to lose, you're dangerous in a bad way.

If you have everything to gain, you're dangerous in a good way."

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# MARILYN MANSON's Mother Dies After Battle With Dementia

Barbara J. Warner, the 68-year-old mother of shock rocker Marilyn Manson (a.k.a. Brian Warner), died on May 13 after a long battle with dementia.

The singer wrote on his Facebook page earlier today: "Mother, to the first and greatest believer in me …

But not now, because I have more things I promised I would do.

I'll make you proud and satisfied that you know that you made the son you wanted.

A May 18 obituary posted by CantonRep.com reads as follows: "Barbara J. Warner, age 68, passed peacefully on Tuesday after a long battle with dementia.

She was a wife, lover, mother and friend who will be missed forever.

Survived by her husband, Hugh A. Warner; and a son, Brian H. Warner.

The Lamiell Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Association.

Condolences may be made to www.lamiellfuneralhome.com."

Speaking to The Guardian in July 2012, Manson stated about his mother, "My mom has dementia so she doesn't know who I am now, but when she did, she'd say, 'Gentlemen prefer blondes.'

He also told Revolver magazine earlier that year: "I don't have the same ambition and drive, the determination, the fearlessness, the anger and relentlessness that I had when I started this.

I have some of it, different elements of it, different percentages of it, and I'm not saying the stuff I did before I came to this realization was irrelevant.

But I guess part of it was coming to terms with family things, like my mother being ill and diagnosed with dementia, being faced with that concept.

Coming to terms with mortality — not of my own, because I've always been fearless of that, and I'm never afraid to die for what I believe in.

But while I'll always make jokes and deny t in a ['American Psycho' protagonist] Patrick Bateman sort of sense, I'm not completely devoid of human emotions.

I do have feelings, and I have a lot more feelings than people probably imagine, and that's what makes me so guarded.

So it was a lot of me coming to terms with that.

I had to prove to the people that already know and care about me that I'm worth caring about, and that I'm a motherfucker to be reckoned with.

And I wanted to show the rest of the world exactly what I showed them.

Whatever it was that got people's attention, what made them want to listen to my first album, I just wanted to have that gleam in my eye, that fire in me."

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Gil Sharone, of The Dillinger Escape Plan and Stolen Babies, performed live drums on the album. Sharone was first contacted by Bates about the project in January 2014, three days before he was due to begin a tour with Stolen Babies. He developed and recorded his drum work over two days at Igloo Studios in Burbank, California. Long-time bassist – and Manson's chief collaborator – Twiggy did not take part in the writing and recording process, as he was busy recording his own material. It was the first release since his return to the band in 2008 to not feature Twiggy's involvement. His collaborator on the Goon Moon project, Fred Sablan, departed Marilyn Manson on good terms. Manson's "Sons of Anarchy" co-star Walton Goggins appears as a preacher on album track "Slave Only Dreams to Be King", reciting two verses from James Allen's early 20th-century essay "As a Man Thinketh". Manson announced that the band's new album was "prepared for landing" in early September. He dedicated the record to his mother, Barbara Warner.


Barbara Warner was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease eight years before she died.

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###### Music|A Dark Prince Steps Into the Light

Marilyn Manson, last month in West Hollywood, Calif., is releasing his new album, "The Pale Emperor," on Tuesday.

His last album soured critics and undersold, but he has more recently been taking acting seriously.

— "We're drinking wodka," Marilyn Manson said, pronouncing the word like he was a fur-hatted Russian cartoon character, and filling a tumbler.

Two tumblers: Like any peacocking musician, he knew that a drinking buddy makes for a ready audience.

He loped from the peach-colored kitchen of a borrowed house here — it belongs to his pal Johnny Depp — through the dining room, past a bin of masks and costumes.

There was a horse, a longhaired woman, silver faceplates.

"This is my Max Ernst stuff; it's private," he said.

Onward to the living room, where he paused to show off a 1927 theremin, then settled into a velvet sofa, clutching his drink with black-polished fingers.

He wore buttoned-up black and the dregs of eye makeup, with choppy hair.

The room was kept cold, the way he likes it, fitting for a performer known for his graveyard tastes and collection of Nazi-era weaponry.

There was a time, years ago, when being one-on-one with him might have induced a shiver, given his cultivated prince of darkness aura, occasional unhinged behavior and citations for assault and battery.

Now, he had just stepped out from a video shoot in another room brightly singing "The Thong Song."

"The 'Thong Song' is a strong song," he said, employing his favorite kind of goofy wordplay.

Marilyn Manson, as it happens, really enjoys a pun.

Mr. Manson, shown with Charlie Hunnam, played a white supremacist in the final season of the FX hit "Sons of Anarchy."

Born Brian Warner, Marilyn Manson, as he's been known for more than half his life, is facing a bit of an identity crisis.

At 46, with a career as a best-selling goth rock star and agitator behind him, he has been battered by a changed music industry, a culture less tolerant of inflammatory songwriting and stagecraft, and the onset of much-delayed maturity.

"I do admit to myself, I was not as great as I wanted to be the past couple of years — as a person, as a musician, as an artist," he said.

Now he's trying to give his life and career a Manson-style overhaul.

After years of drug abuse and a short stint in rehab, he's at last a law-abiding pothead, thanks to a doctor's note for a broken toe.

And though he's long been making film and TV cameos, recently he's taken his acting more seriously, playing a white supremacist in the final season of the FX hit "Sons of Anarchy" last year.

That show's buff star, Charlie Hunnam, inspired him to work out, and he's even given up his beloved absinthe to help his figure.

His new album, "The Pale Emperor" (Loma Vista Recordings), due Tuesday, is the biggest leap.

It was written with a new collaborator, the soundtrack composer Tyler Bates, known for adventure and sci-fi epics like "300" and "Guardians of the Galaxy."

Though lyrically it trolls familiar dark territory — he declares himself the "Mephistopheles of Los Angeles" — musically it leans toward crunchy, spare blues rock riffs and away from industrial-sounding overproduction.

The record is dedicated to his mother, Barbara, who died in May after a long battle with dementia, which affected him deeply.

His role on "Sons" was in part a tribute to his dad, Hugh, a thriving fan of the show.

Tom Whalley, founder of Loma Vista and a former top executive at Interscope, Mr. Manson's original label, said he was quickly persuaded to sign him now, based mostly on the music.

"When I heard it, I was like, wow, that's fresh," Mr. Whalley said.

"I really felt that he was having a creative moment later on in his career that most people don't find."

Personally, too, "the guy has gone through a cathartic year," said his friend, the musician Shooter Jennings.

"I definitely think there's a phoenix-rising type scenario happening with him," he added,

If that's the case, it's due in large part to Mr. Bates, 49.

They met and hit it off when Manson, as his friends call him, appeared on the Showtime series "Californication," which Mr. Bates was scoring.

"I was asking him about his life and his career," Mr. Bates recalled.

Marilyn Manson performing, clockwise from top left, in 1996; 1998; 2007; and 2005.

Clockwise from top left: Rahav Segev; Rahav Segev; Markus Stuecklin/Associated Press; Alessandro Della Bella/Associated Press

They began meeting in Mr. Bates's home studio, even during daylight hours — a new experience for Marilyn Manson.

"Because around 3 a.m. is when my brain starts going really" crazy, he said, using filthier language, "I used to think that that was the time that was best to record at.

But I realized that I don't have that anymore, if I get it out of me early.

Daytime is more effective for me to function as a — ah, I wouldn't say as a normal human being.

I would just say as a more effective villain; a more effective, destroying, chaos element in the world.

Left untethered, Marilyn Manson will go on like this, proclaiming himself chaos incarnate and T.M.I.-ing his way through his life story.

("I tangent a lot," he said, understating broadly.)

"He circles the drain of an idea for quite a while," Mr. Bates said.

"But if you have the patience, you'll see that he is making a point, that he is pretty funny and pretty smart at the same time.

Sometimes he doesn't make a point, but I found him to be interesting."

He also made it clear that there would be no wasting of studio time.

"He realized that him walking in the room and being Marilyn Manson didn't matter to me," said Mr. Bates, a married father of two daughters, whose email auto-signature is "kindest regards."

For Marilyn Manson, the collaboration felt less like work than a conversation, he said.

"I've never really had that sort of musical brotherhood in the same way," he said.

Mr. Bates also provided lyrical direction.

"I said, 'I'm not going to do this with you if it's an angry manifesto,' " he recalled.

" 'The only thing you have left is to inspire people with your words.' "

For his fans, inspiration comes in the embrace of darkness.

As always, he found material in his sometimes-combative relationship — his girlfriend, Lindsay Usich, with whom he shares a newly acquired home in the Hollywood Hills, is a photographer and model — freely cribbing from their fights.

"Don't bring your black cloud to bed," he texted her, in what became a lyric in "The Devil Beneath My Feet."

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The album's closing song, "Odds of Even," which begins with the sounds of coyotes attacking in the hills outside Mr. Bates's studio (as recorded by Marilyn Manson) is perhaps the most introspective.

"My dagger and swagger/Are useless in the face of the mirror," he sings in a deep, emo register.

It wasn't all emotional drudgery and death.

"If I didn't hold the creative process so sacred," Mr. Bates said, "and I had just been a whore and put cameras in my studio, I would have had the greatest reality show of all time," tracking his star's eccentricities and visits by the likes of Keanu Reeves and Mr. Depp.

On the subject of Mr. Depp, whom he first met as a 19-year-old extra on the set of the series "21 Jump Street," Marilyn Manson is as effusive as a schoolboy.

"It's a bromance," he said, lifting his shirt to reveal a florid tattoo across his back, one of several matching pieces he and Mr. Depp have.

(Another, on his wrist, says "No Reason," an answer for why they got it.)

They solidified their friendship jamming together — one of Mr. Depp's other houses is filled with musical instruments — and high-jinksing with Hunter S. Thompson in his later years.

(Mr. Depp did not respond to requests for comment.)

Otherwise, Marilyn Manson is a bit of a homebody, preferring to watch TV and movies or paint.

His dearest companion is his 11-year-old danderless cat, Lily White.

"She is definitely the one true center of my universe," he said, scrolling through photos of her on his phone.

"It's the closest thing, I guess, to having a child."

Promoting "The Pale Emperor" means a tour, scaled down from the arenas he once played, with his longtime on-off bassist, Twiggy Ramirez, and Mr. Bates on guitar.

But after his last album, "Born Villain," in 2012, the first not released by a major label, soured critics and undersold, his professional standing is murky.

A run of concerts in Russia last summer was canceled, over protests and bomb threats, even before he set foot on stage.

("Luckily, my manager was very conscious of getting paid in advance," Marilyn Manson said.)

With just two weeks to go, his Jan. 26 show at Terminal 5, a midsize New York club, still hadn't sold out.

And a recent controversy over a leaked, sexually explicit video clip involving the singer Lana Del Rey and the filmmaker Eli Roth left him uncharacteristically muted, repeating only that he was not in charge and meant no harm.

"Going out on this tour is a pretty huge precipice for him," Mr. Bates said.

"He's got some heavy-hearted things going on," with his family, "and some tumult, and some extreme happiness, and it's all happening at one time."

A few hours into our conversation, his glass empty, Marilyn Manson went upstairs, to a bedroom with rumpled black sheets, for a break.

He emerged with some makeup removed, and bloodshot eyes, ready to offer some hard-earned wisdom, which he delivered in a deep, I'm-pontificating tone.

"Try to drink and do drugs when you're in a good mood, not in a bad mood," he suggested.

Also, "don't make songs that confuse strippers and don't make movies without nudity."

And with actual gravitas, he added: "There's a difference between a man who has everything to gain and a man who has nothing to lose.

If you have nothing to lose, you're dangerous in a bad way.

If you have everything to gain, you're dangerous in a good way."

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# MARILYN MANSON's Mother Dies After Battle With Dementia

Barbara J. Warner, the 68-year-old mother of shock rocker Marilyn Manson (a.k.a. Brian Warner), died on May 13 after a long battle with dementia.

The singer wrote on his Facebook page earlier today: "Mother, to the first and greatest believer in me …

But not now, because I have more things I promised I would do.

I'll make you proud and satisfied that you know that you made the son you wanted.

A May 18 obituary posted by CantonRep.com reads as follows: "Barbara J. Warner, age 68, passed peacefully on Tuesday after a long battle with dementia.

She was a wife, lover, mother and friend who will be missed forever.

Survived by her husband, Hugh A. Warner; and a son, Brian H. Warner.

The Lamiell Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Association.

Condolences may be made to www.lamiellfuneralhome.com."

Speaking to The Guardian in July 2012, Manson stated about his mother, "My mom has dementia so she doesn't know who I am now, but when she did, she'd say, 'Gentlemen prefer blondes.'

He also told Revolver magazine earlier that year: "I don't have the same ambition and drive, the determination, the fearlessness, the anger and relentlessness that I had when I started this.

I have some of it, different elements of it, different percentages of it, and I'm not saying the stuff I did before I came to this realization was irrelevant.

But I guess part of it was coming to terms with family things, like my mother being ill and diagnosed with dementia, being faced with that concept.

Coming to terms with mortality — not of my own, because I've always been fearless of that, and I'm never afraid to die for what I believe in.

But while I'll always make jokes and deny t in a ['American Psycho' protagonist] Patrick Bateman sort of sense, I'm not completely devoid of human emotions.

I do have feelings, and I have a lot more feelings than people probably imagine, and that's what makes me so guarded.

So it was a lot of me coming to terms with that.

I had to prove to the people that already know and care about me that I'm worth caring about, and that I'm a motherfucker to be reckoned with.

And I wanted to show the rest of the world exactly what I showed them.

Whatever it was that got people's attention, what made them want to listen to my first album, I just wanted to have that gleam in my eye, that fire in me."

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Ex-GUNS N' ROSES Guitarist RON 'BUMBLEFOOT' THAL Wishes His Former Bandmates Well

SLASH Gets New GUNS N' ROSES Guitar Pick (Photo)

KITTIE: Title Of Upcoming Career-Spanning Documentary Revealed

Gil Sharone, of The Dillinger Escape Plan and Stolen Babies, performed live drums on the album. Sharone was first contacted by Bates about the project in January 2014, three days before he was due to begin a tour with Stolen Babies. He developed and recorded his drum work over two days at Igloo Studios in Burbank, California. Long-time bassist – and Manson's chief collaborator – Twiggy did not take part in the writing and recording process, as he was busy recording his own material. It was the first release since his return to the band in 2008 to not feature Twiggy's involvement. His collaborator on the Goon Moon project, Fred Sablan, departed Marilyn Manson on good terms. Manson's "Sons of Anarchy" co-star Walton Goggins appears as a preacher on album track "Slave Only Dreams to Be King", reciting two verses from James Allen's early 20th-century essay "As a Man Thinketh". Manson announced that the band's new album was "prepared for landing" in early September. He dedicated the record to his mother, Barbara Warner. Barbara Warner died on May 13, 2014.


She is a public advocate of increasing the number of female founders in the Silicon Valley.

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# VC Aileen Lee just offered some very specific advice to female founders looking for funding

In May, at TechCrunch's Disrupt event in New York, researchers from Harvard Business Review were in the audience, and they were taking notes.

Using their findings, along with the help of a linguistic software program that scanned video transcriptions of Q&A sessions between onstage venture capitalists and startup founders, they came to an interesting — and disturbing — conclusion.

They discovered the investors (and 40 percent of them were women) tended to ask men questions about the potential for gains at their startups, while they asked women about the potential for losses.

That wasn't a surprise to longtime venture capitalist Aileen Lee, who spent nearly 13 years with Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers before leaving in 2012 to start her own seed-stage venture firm, Cowboy Ventures.

Lee has funded male founders (August, Dollar Shave Club, Philz Coffee), as well as women founders (Textio, Brit & Co., Accompany); she has also sat around many tables with her mostly male VC peers as they've discussed where best to steer startups as they've sought follow-on funding.

At Y Combinator's fourth Female Founders Conference in San Francisco last week, Lee talked about that HBR study and the bias she sees every day.

She also shared very specific advice to female founders who are looking to raise capital (along with one observation for male-heavy venture firms).

Among her suggestions for women founders:

1) Be a good storyteller, and don't fret if storytelling doesn't come naturally to you.

"If you are not a great storyteller, you can become one.

It's just a matter of feedback and practice."

2) Each story has basic but important elements.

Make sure you include these, beginning with:

a) what the mission and vision is of your company, to

b) how big the market is that you are chasing, to

c) the problem that you are trying to solve, to

d) who is on your team and why they are relevant, to

e) the product that you've built ("or what the wireframes look like," Lee said), to

f) what kind of traction or feedback you've received from the market, to

g) what your economic model looks like, to

h) what you are going to do with the money you are raising.

3) Remember that your narrative should also include your personal story and why you're the best person to be starting your company right now.

"If you're a little too arrogant or you puff things up a little too much, [male investors] will ding you for being an exaggerator."

The advice may make you cringe, but women have to walk a fine line here, she noted.

"Guys," noted Lee, "can get away with [being shy].

It's like, 'Oh, he's just an introvert.' "

Unfairly, women who are too quiet may face a bigger upward battle, she suggested.

Frustratingly, women have to work twice as hard to convince men that they are quantitative, she noted, adding that "if someone asks you, 'What's the CAC, what's the LTV, what are the margins, what's the revenue plan for next year,' just know it.

As Lee told the audience, "If someone asks you questions [during a pitch meeting], take notes, and send a follow-up the next day saying, 'These are the things that we discussed; I wanted to follow up on these points.'

Show that you're super-conscientious, and you're on it."

8) Get networked, especially with other female founders and female investors.

Lee was addressing a largely female audience at the conference, and she centered her talk on ways for women founders to get ahead in tech, despite the micro-aggressions that many face every day.

(Said Lee of the growing number of reports of women founders who've been mistreated by male VCs, "I"m pretty pissed off.")

She also talked about constructive solutions to the problem, and one of these should alarm more traditional venture firms whose general partners remain all or nearly exclusively male.

Sharing that she'd had breakfast last week with women partners at other firms, Lee said that the group had discussed how to help bring more women into the general partner ranks.

She also said that these VCs, along with her own firm, have more actively begun steering their most promising companies to "modern venture firms that have women and people of color in investing positions."

Partly, she admitted, it's these investors' personal preference to do so.

But she added that most of Cowboy's portfolio CEOs feel the same way, that, "if they have the choice, they would rather work for a modern firm."

"Why should we make money for assholes?" she asked.

Lee joined Kleiner Perkins in 1999 and was the founding CEO of RMG Networks, a company backed by KPCB. Lee worked at Kleiner Perkins for 13 years and left in 2012.
 In 2012, she left KPCB to start seed-stage venture firm, Cowboy Ventures. In 2017, Lee added Ted Wang to the firm as a general partner.
 Cowboy Ventures is one of the first female-led venture capital firms. Over the past six years, Cowboy Ventures has received three large funds, the most recent reaching $95 million.
 Through Cowboy Ventures, Lee has made investments in many early-stage companies, including August, Dollar Shave Club, Accompany and Tally Technologies.


She is a public advocate of increasing the number of female investors in the Silicon Valley.

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# VC Aileen Lee just offered some very specific advice to female founders looking for funding

In May, at TechCrunch's Disrupt event in New York, researchers from Harvard Business Review were in the audience, and they were taking notes.

Using their findings, along with the help of a linguistic software program that scanned video transcriptions of Q&A sessions between onstage venture capitalists and startup founders, they came to an interesting — and disturbing — conclusion.

They discovered the investors (and 40 percent of them were women) tended to ask men questions about the potential for gains at their startups, while they asked women about the potential for losses.

That wasn't a surprise to longtime venture capitalist Aileen Lee, who spent nearly 13 years with Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers before leaving in 2012 to start her own seed-stage venture firm, Cowboy Ventures.

Lee has funded male founders (August, Dollar Shave Club, Philz Coffee), as well as women founders (Textio, Brit & Co., Accompany); she has also sat around many tables with her mostly male VC peers as they've discussed where best to steer startups as they've sought follow-on funding.

At Y Combinator's fourth Female Founders Conference in San Francisco last week, Lee talked about that HBR study and the bias she sees every day.

She also shared very specific advice to female founders who are looking to raise capital (along with one observation for male-heavy venture firms).

Among her suggestions for women founders:

1) Be a good storyteller, and don't fret if storytelling doesn't come naturally to you.

"If you are not a great storyteller, you can become one.

It's just a matter of feedback and practice."

2) Each story has basic but important elements.

Make sure you include these, beginning with:

a) what the mission and vision is of your company, to

b) how big the market is that you are chasing, to

c) the problem that you are trying to solve, to

d) who is on your team and why they are relevant, to

e) the product that you've built ("or what the wireframes look like," Lee said), to

f) what kind of traction or feedback you've received from the market, to

g) what your economic model looks like, to

h) what you are going to do with the money you are raising.

3) Remember that your narrative should also include your personal story and why you're the best person to be starting your company right now.

"If you're a little too arrogant or you puff things up a little too much, [male investors] will ding you for being an exaggerator."

The advice may make you cringe, but women have to walk a fine line here, she noted.

"Guys," noted Lee, "can get away with [being shy].

It's like, 'Oh, he's just an introvert.' "

Unfairly, women who are too quiet may face a bigger upward battle, she suggested.

Frustratingly, women have to work twice as hard to convince men that they are quantitative, she noted, adding that "if someone asks you, 'What's the CAC, what's the LTV, what are the margins, what's the revenue plan for next year,' just know it.

As Lee told the audience, "If someone asks you questions [during a pitch meeting], take notes, and send a follow-up the next day saying, 'These are the things that we discussed; I wanted to follow up on these points.'

Show that you're super-conscientious, and you're on it."

8) Get networked, especially with other female founders and female investors.

Lee was addressing a largely female audience at the conference, and she centered her talk on ways for women founders to get ahead in tech, despite the micro-aggressions that many face every day.

(Said Lee of the growing number of reports of women founders who've been mistreated by male VCs, "I"m pretty pissed off.")

She also talked about constructive solutions to the problem, and one of these should alarm more traditional venture firms whose general partners remain all or nearly exclusively male.

Sharing that she'd had breakfast last week with women partners at other firms, Lee said that the group had discussed how to help bring more women into the general partner ranks.

She also said that these VCs, along with her own firm, have more actively begun steering their most promising companies to "modern venture firms that have women and people of color in investing positions."

Partly, she admitted, it's these investors' personal preference to do so.

But she added that most of Cowboy's portfolio CEOs feel the same way, that, "if they have the choice, they would rather work for a modern firm."

"Why should we make money for assholes?" she asked.

Lee joined Kleiner Perkins in 1999 and was the founding CEO of RMG Networks, a company backed by KPCB. Lee worked at Kleiner Perkins for 13 years and left in 2012.
 In 2012, she left KPCB to start seed-stage venture firm, Cowboy Ventures. In 2017, Lee added Ted Wang to the firm as a general partner.
 Cowboy Ventures is one of the first female-led venture capital firms. Over the past six years, Cowboy Ventures has received three large funds, the most recent reaching $95 million.
 Through Cowboy Ventures, Lee has made investments in many early-stage companies, including August, Dollar Shave Club, Accompany and Tally Technologies. She is a public advocate of increasing the number of female founders in the Silicon Valley.


He set up the Araniko White Dagoba Gallery in Kirtipur, Kathmandu.

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A Nepali lad looks straight into the eyes of a Chinese emperor.

Startled by the demeanor of the lad, the emperor asks, "Hey guy, people do not even dare standing in front of me with their heads up, and you are not afraid of even staring at me."

With no trace of scare on his face, the lad replies, "Does any one fear to look up to their dads' faces?

Awe-struck by his astuteness, the emperor bestows upon the lad with the task of repairing a twisted bronze statue in a bid to judge his architectural skills.

The lad repairs the statue so perfectly that the emperor offers him with more jobs.

This is all what students have been reading about Araniko, one of the 15 national luminaries declared by the government, in their text books while at schools for over the years.

But, once they step out of a narrow sphere of schools and join a large public domain, they never get to know about their hero who fascinates them in their childhoods by bowling over Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan dynasty in Mongolia, with his skills.

Whether they rummage through the shelves of a number of libraries or search in Google, they know only a bit about Araniko.

In an attempt to help those who like to study more about Araniko, Satya Mohan Joshi, an octogenarian scholar of Nepali language and culture, has set up a gallery of images of Araniko's works.

Besides, the gallery contains a range of items including books, newspaper articles and dissertations about Araniko.

The gallery is useful in understanding ancient social structure of Beijing as well.

Joshi claims that the gallery is the first of its kind throughout Nepal and China.

"I have collected most of these items from China," he says.

After the coup of 1960 by the then king Mahendra, the government stripped him of his post of director of the archaeology department.

Then, he went to China to teach Nepali language to a group of Chinese people poised to launch a Nepali radio program.

"While staying in China for six years, I collected whatever I came across," he says.

He continued with his search even after coming back to Nepal.

"Years after I set out searching about Araniko, it turned out to be so huge collection that I no longer found enough space in my house to properly pile it up," he says.

"Then, I decided to make it public by setting up an exclusive gallery of Araniko."

Located half a kilometer off the ring road of Kirtipur, Araniko White Dagoba Gallery is in fact a museum as it not only consists of paintings and sculptures of him but every thing that sheds light on his life and works.

It particularly focuses on the white dagoba, the magnum opus of Araniko's architectural works.

Erected in the middle of Miao Ying Temple in Beijing, the 50.9 meter tall dome-shaped stupa has been declared a world heritage site by UNESCO.

What could be an added feather to the cap of the gallery is Joshi himself.

Having studied about Araniko for years, the prolific literary figure has been able to explain the philosophical aspects of he White Dagoba.

Even at the age of 88, Joshi seems to be pretty enthusiastic and relentless to help others understand Araniko's significance.

He steps out of his Patan home and goes to Kirtipur every day by a bus cramped with passengers in the scorching sun.

The gallery, however, has failed to attract visitors owing to lack of publicity.

"Only a few persons have visited our gallery so far", says Joshi, "it is mainly because we have not focused on publicity."

Established in the building of Nepal Bhasa Academy as a non profit institution, the gallery has no regular fund to hire even an office bearer for its maintenance.

As a result, most of the items have lost their captions that cause confusion among visitors.

And, the walls have already begun peeling off.

I have a great respect for Sir Satya Mohan Joshi.

He is the living legend of Nepalese culture.

His knowledge and care for the culture of Nepal is outstanding.

I urge, to the one, whose philosophy toward Nepalese culture matches with Mr. Joshi, Please learn from him and let the knowledge remain immortal in Nepal.

Samit Raj Shilakar By: Samit Raj Shilakar, Buddhanagar, Kathmandu (2011-05-01)

I really would love to visit the gallery.

Could anybody help me with the address and contact of Mr. Satya Mohan Joshi?

I would like to offer my heartful of respect for his dedication in finding our legendary artist Araniko.

By: Bikash Singh, Gyanehwor (2011-03-30)

ARTalk with Sujan Chitrakar Paubha or Thanka painting of Nepal Mithila Paintings: Past, Present and Future A defence of the arts Paubha Paintings Aripan: Folk paintings of Mithila

Satyamohan was born in 1920 to Shankar Raj and Rajkumari Joshi, in Lalitpur district of Nepal. Having learnt his alphabets at home, he later enrolled at Durbar High School in Kathmandu. He completed his bachelor's degree at Trichandra College.
Joshi became the first director of the Archaeological and Cultural Department in 1959, and immediately established the Rastriya Naachghar – National Theatre in Kathmandu, Archeological Garden in Patan, Archeological Museum in Taulihawa and the National Painting Museum in Bhaktapur. After King Mahendra's coup in 1960, Joshi flew to China where he began to teach Nepali at the Peking Broadcasting Institute. During his stay in China, he carried out research on Arniko, a sculptor of the Malla dynasty who migrated to China in early 1260 AD.


The gallery was set up using historical artifacts related to Arniko.

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A Nepali lad looks straight into the eyes of a Chinese emperor.

Startled by the demeanor of the lad, the emperor asks, "Hey guy, people do not even dare standing in front of me with their heads up, and you are not afraid of even staring at me."

With no trace of scare on his face, the lad replies, "Does any one fear to look up to their dads' faces?

Awe-struck by his astuteness, the emperor bestows upon the lad with the task of repairing a twisted bronze statue in a bid to judge his architectural skills.

The lad repairs the statue so perfectly that the emperor offers him with more jobs.

This is all what students have been reading about Araniko, one of the 15 national luminaries declared by the government, in their text books while at schools for over the years.

But, once they step out of a narrow sphere of schools and join a large public domain, they never get to know about their hero who fascinates them in their childhoods by bowling over Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan dynasty in Mongolia, with his skills.

Whether they rummage through the shelves of a number of libraries or search in Google, they know only a bit about Araniko.

In an attempt to help those who like to study more about Araniko, Satya Mohan Joshi, an octogenarian scholar of Nepali language and culture, has set up a gallery of images of Araniko's works.

Besides, the gallery contains a range of items including books, newspaper articles and dissertations about Araniko.

The gallery is useful in understanding ancient social structure of Beijing as well.

Joshi claims that the gallery is the first of its kind throughout Nepal and China.

"I have collected most of these items from China," he says.

After the coup of 1960 by the then king Mahendra, the government stripped him of his post of director of the archaeology department.

Then, he went to China to teach Nepali language to a group of Chinese people poised to launch a Nepali radio program.

"While staying in China for six years, I collected whatever I came across," he says.

He continued with his search even after coming back to Nepal.

"Years after I set out searching about Araniko, it turned out to be so huge collection that I no longer found enough space in my house to properly pile it up," he says.

"Then, I decided to make it public by setting up an exclusive gallery of Araniko."

Located half a kilometer off the ring road of Kirtipur, Araniko White Dagoba Gallery is in fact a museum as it not only consists of paintings and sculptures of him but every thing that sheds light on his life and works.

It particularly focuses on the white dagoba, the magnum opus of Araniko's architectural works.

Erected in the middle of Miao Ying Temple in Beijing, the 50.9 meter tall dome-shaped stupa has been declared a world heritage site by UNESCO.

What could be an added feather to the cap of the gallery is Joshi himself.

Having studied about Araniko for years, the prolific literary figure has been able to explain the philosophical aspects of he White Dagoba.

Even at the age of 88, Joshi seems to be pretty enthusiastic and relentless to help others understand Araniko's significance.

He steps out of his Patan home and goes to Kirtipur every day by a bus cramped with passengers in the scorching sun.

The gallery, however, has failed to attract visitors owing to lack of publicity.

"Only a few persons have visited our gallery so far", says Joshi, "it is mainly because we have not focused on publicity."

Established in the building of Nepal Bhasa Academy as a non profit institution, the gallery has no regular fund to hire even an office bearer for its maintenance.

As a result, most of the items have lost their captions that cause confusion among visitors.

And, the walls have already begun peeling off.

I have a great respect for Sir Satya Mohan Joshi.

He is the living legend of Nepalese culture.

His knowledge and care for the culture of Nepal is outstanding.

I urge, to the one, whose philosophy toward Nepalese culture matches with Mr. Joshi, Please learn from him and let the knowledge remain immortal in Nepal.

Samit Raj Shilakar By: Samit Raj Shilakar, Buddhanagar, Kathmandu (2011-05-01)

I really would love to visit the gallery.

Could anybody help me with the address and contact of Mr. Satya Mohan Joshi?

I would like to offer my heartful of respect for his dedication in finding our legendary artist Araniko.

By: Bikash Singh, Gyanehwor (2011-03-30)

ARTalk with Sujan Chitrakar Paubha or Thanka painting of Nepal Mithila Paintings: Past, Present and Future A defence of the arts Paubha Paintings Aripan: Folk paintings of Mithila

Satyamohan was born in 1920 to Shankar Raj and Rajkumari Joshi, in Lalitpur district of Nepal. Having learnt his alphabets at home, he later enrolled at Durbar High School in Kathmandu. He completed his bachelor's degree at Trichandra College.
Joshi became the first director of the Archaeological and Cultural Department in 1959, and immediately established the Rastriya Naachghar – National Theatre in Kathmandu, Archeological Garden in Patan, Archeological Museum in Taulihawa and the National Painting Museum in Bhaktapur. After King Mahendra's coup in 1960, Joshi flew to China where he began to teach Nepali at the Peking Broadcasting Institute. During his stay in China, he carried out research on Arniko, a sculptor of the Malla dynasty who migrated to China in early 1260 AD. He set up the Araniko White Dagoba Gallery in Kirtipur, Kathmandu.


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# Alex Neil: Preston North End appoint ex-Norwich boss as manager

Alex Neil won promotion to the Premier League as manager of Norwich in 2015

Championship club Preston have appointed former Norwich and Hamilton boss Alex Neil as their new manager.

The 36-year-old has replaced Simon Grayson, who left North End to join Sunderland on 29 June.

The Scot will take up the role officially on Thursday after being given a one-year rolling contract.

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The club has made progress and I am looking forward to trying to continue that progress," said Neil.

Neil has been out of the game since March, when he was sacked by Norwich after 27 months at Carrow Road.

He led Norwich into the Premier League via the Championship play-offs in 2015, but the Canaries lasted only one season in the top flight before being relegated.

Preston finished 11th in the Championship last season but Neil believes he has a squad with the ability to challenge for a higher position in the table.

"The ultimate aim for any club in the Championship is to try to get promoted at some stage," said Neil.

"The club has been stable in the Championship for the last two years and you never know what is going to happen in the next year or two, but we want to try to build a side and a squad that is capable of competing at the top end of the Championship."

Previously, Neil had spent two years at Hamilton, guiding the club into the Scottish Premiership in his first full season.

He becomes Preston's youngest permanent manager since fellow Scot David Moyes, who was 34 when he took over as player-manager at Deepdale in 1998.

Preston flirted with a play-off push last season before finishing comfortably in mid-table

Alex Neil joins a club that has enjoyed great stability over the past four years under Simon Grayson.

established themselves as a top-half Championship club and the aim must be to maintain that under a manager who already has a promotion to the Premier League on his CV.

Neil inherits a solid squad, a terrific team spirit, but one which needs additions if they are to really challenge for a top-six spot.

Central defenders and a replacement for Aiden McGeady will no doubt be on Neil's shopping list.

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# Alex Neil: Preston North End appoint ex-Norwich boss as manager

Alex Neil won promotion to the Premier League as manager of Norwich in 2015

Championship club Preston have appointed former Norwich and Hamilton boss Alex Neil as their new manager.

The 36-year-old has replaced Simon Grayson, who left North End to join Sunderland on 29 June.

The Scot will take up the role officially on Thursday after being given a one-year rolling contract.

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We'll work with squad we've got - Alex Neil

The club has made progress and I am looking forward to trying to continue that progress," said Neil.

Neil has been out of the game since March, when he was sacked by Norwich after 27 months at Carrow Road.

He led Norwich into the Premier League via the Championship play-offs in 2015, but the Canaries lasted only one season in the top flight before being relegated.

Preston finished 11th in the Championship last season but Neil believes he has a squad with the ability to challenge for a higher position in the table.

"The ultimate aim for any club in the Championship is to try to get promoted at some stage," said Neil.

"The club has been stable in the Championship for the last two years and you never know what is going to happen in the next year or two, but we want to try to build a side and a squad that is capable of competing at the top end of the Championship."

Previously, Neil had spent two years at Hamilton, guiding the club into the Scottish Premiership in his first full season.

He becomes Preston's youngest permanent manager since fellow Scot David Moyes, who was 34 when he took over as player-manager at Deepdale in 1998.

Preston flirted with a play-off push last season before finishing comfortably in mid-table

Alex Neil joins a club that has enjoyed great stability over the past four years under Simon Grayson.

established themselves as a top-half Championship club and the aim must be to maintain that under a manager who already has a promotion to the Premier League on his CV.

Neil inherits a solid squad, a terrific team spirit, but one which needs additions if they are to really challenge for a top-six spot.

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# Atlético de Madrid agree deal with Atlético de San Luis over the transfer of Nicolás Ibáñez

## The Argentine is to be registered once the summer transfer window opens on July 1.

Atlético de Madrid and Atlético de San Luis have reached an agreement over the transfer of Nicolás Ibáñez.

The striker is to be registered once the summer transfer window opens on July 1.

The 24-year-old is a product of the Lanús academy, and he also played at Argentine teams Club Comunicaciones and Gimnasia y Esgrima.

Ibáñez then moved to Atlético de San Luis, with which he achieved promotion to the Liga MX this season.

The striker played 43 games this season and scored 22 goals.

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Gaskell was born Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson.

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Celebrating the life and work of Elizabeth Gaskell

"To begin with the old rigmarole of childhood…" Wives and Daughters (1866) (Chapter 1)

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-65) was born on 29 September 1810 in Lindsey Row, Chelsea, at the house which is now 93 Cheyne Walk.

She was the daughter of William Stevenson – a treasury official and journalist – and his wife Elizabeth Stevenson (née Holland).

Mrs Stevenson died on 29 October 1811, and so at the age of just 13 months, the baby Elizabeth (later known as Lily) was sent to Knutsford in Cheshire to spend her childhood with her mother's sister, Aunt Hannah Lumb, whom she was later to describe as her 'more than mother'.

Their house, then named The Heath but now Heathwaite House, still stands on what is now called Gaskell Avenue.

Knutsford, a small country town, later became the inspiration for Cranford, and also for Hollingford in Wives and Daughters.

Elizabeth also spent some time in Edinburgh and Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Her father had remarried when she was four, and her stepmother, Catherine Thomson, was a sister of the Scottish miniature artist, William John Thomson.

He painted the famous portrait of Elizabeth in 1832 (pictured, left).

It was this lively and attractive young woman who married William Gaskell in 1832.

He was the assistant minister at Cross Street Unitarian Chapel in Manchester at the time.

They settled in the city and she helped with his work, offering support to the poor and teaching in the Sunday School, where reading and writing were taught, as well as scripture.

During the early part of their married life, the Gaskells lived in Dover Street, just off the busy Oxford Road in the Chorlton-on-Medlock district.

Their daughters Marianne, Margaret Emily (Meta) and Florence were born in 1834, 1837 and 1842, and later that year, the family moved to a larger house at 121 Upper Rumford Street, nearby.

In 1845, Elizabeth's only son, William, died of scarlet fever at the age of nine months.

She had already had a few short stories published and her husband suggested that she wrote a novel as a distraction from her grief.

The Gaskells' Manchester was a great cultural and intellectual centre, boasting institutions like the Literary and Philosophical Society, the Mechanics Institute and the Athenaeum.

It was at the forefront of the new industrial age, but this rapid growth, as well as generating much wealth, also led to uncontrolled urban development and appalling squalor.

In 1844, Friedrich Engels described the homes of the factory operatives in The Conditions of the Working Class in England: 'The workers dwellings of Manchester are dirty, miserable and wholly lacking in comforts.

In such houses only inhuman, degraded and unhealthy creatures would feel at home.'

Manchester was at the centre of great political change and much radical activity.

Elizabeth observed these social tensions and used what she saw in her novels

In the preface to Mary Barton (subtitled A Tale of Manchester Life), published anonymously in 1848, Elizabeth says that she was inspired by thinking, 'How deep might be the romance in the lives of some of those who elbowed me daily in the busy streets of the town in which I resided.

I had always felt a deep sympathy with the careworn men, who looked as if doomed to struggle through their lives in strange alternations between work and want.'

Mary Barton had a huge impact on the reading public and provoked widespread discussion.

Its subject matter – the appalling state of impoverished workers in the industrial centres of the North and her sympathetic treatment of their plight – pricked the conscience of a nation.

With its sensational plot and social realism, Mary Barton attracted the attention of Charles Dickens.

It was at his invitation that much of her work was first published in the periodicals he edited: Household Words and All the Year Round.

Elizabeth became a popular author, writing numbers of stories for Dickens.

These stories (which include Cranford) are very varied and are quite distinct in style from her industrial fiction.

In 1846 a fourth daughter, Julia, had been born, and in 1850 the Gaskells took up residence at 42 (now 84) Plymouth Grove, a large, rather imposing house outside the grimy manufacturing district, with a view of open fields.

Elizabeth was thrilled with her new home, though a little alarmed at its size and cost.

In a letter to her friend Eliza (Tottie) Fox in April 1850, she wrote:

And if I had neither conscience nor prudence, I should be delighted, for it certainly is a beauty….

I must try and make the house give as much pleasure to others as I can and make it as little a selfish thing as I can.

It's 150 a year and I dare say we shall be ruined; and I've already asked after the ventilation at the new Borough Gaol.'

Elizabeth was true to her word and was a sociable and energetic hostess; the house was always bustling, with a stream of visitors which included many eminent people of the day.

She also tried to bring some countryside to the town by keeping a vegetable garden, a cow, pigs and poultry.

She had an exceptionally busy and active family and social life, and was still engaged in many works of charity.

Elizabeth was an active humanitarian; her novels convey many messages about the need for social reconciliation, for better understanding between employers and workers and between the respectable and the outcasts of society.

Her writing was carefully researched, and she took particular care in reproducing northern dialects accurately.

Despite her occasional tendency towards melodrama, Elizabeth had a natural gift for storytelling and Dickens referred to her as his 'dear Scheherazade'.

She originally published anonymously but, according to Victorian conventions, her readers came to know her as 'Mrs Gaskell' a name which made her sound matronly and safe.

Elizabeth Gaskell (as we prefer to call her) was actually courageous and progressive in her style and subject matter, and often framed her stories as critiques of Victorian attitudes (particularly those towards women).

She braved the opprobrium of her husband's Unitarian congregation, in part for her depiction of prostitution and illegitimacy, particularly in her novel Ruth, and also for her challenge to the traditional view of women's role in society.

Her celebrated biography of her friend Charlotte Brontë added to her fame but also caused a furore as it was considered to contain libellous statements, which were later withdrawn

Elizabeth Gaskell loved to travel and was always keen to escape the smoky atmosphere of Manchester.

Some of her favourite British destinations were North Wales, the Lake District and Silverdale in Lancashire.

She always wanted to meet new people and her trips away provided locations, plots and material for her writing.

An independent spirit, she also ventured abroad most years, travelling to France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy.

She was usually accompanied by at least one of her daughters, rather than her husband, as William preferred to holiday alone..

She was, at the same time, a caring wife and mother, attractive and well-liked.

At ease in any company, she was chatty, sociable and a prolific writer of letters.

She had a wide circle of friends, which included Charlotte Brontë, John Ruskin, the Carlyles, Charles Kingsley and Florence Nightingale.

Although they shared many artistic concerns, Elizabeth had a difficult working relationship with Charles Dickens who, as editor, often wanted to alter what she wrote.

On one occasion, exasperated by her perceived waywardness as a contributor, he exclaimed to his sub- editor, 'Oh! Mrs Gaskell-fearful-fearful!

If I were Mr G. Oh heavens how I would beat her!'

It's easy to see why they didn't always get on.

Elizabeth wrote many vivid and warm hearted short stories and novellas, of which the finest is said to be Cousin Phillis (1863).

Her other full-length novels were Cranford (1853) Ruth (1853) North and South (1855) Sylvia's Lovers (1863) and finally Wives and Daughters (1866), which was never finished.

Elizabeth Gaskell died suddenly on 12 November 1865 at The Lawn, a house in Holybourne in Hampshire that she was secretly buying as a post-retirement surprise for her husband and family.

Wives and Daughters was being published in the Cornhill Magazine, a high quality literary periodical specialising in the serialisation of novels.

It appeared posthumously in volume form in 1866.

In the early twentieth century, her writing appeared old-fashioned and provincial, but today Elizabeth Gaskell ranks as one of the most highly-regarded British Victorian novelists.

In this new century she is recognised as the accomplished artist that she was, and for the past thirty years or more has increasingly attracted the attention of literary theorists, academics and readers who just enjoy a good story.

Consequently, more subtle and penetrating accounts of Gaskell's life and writings are now being published for her growing readership.

The image of Elizabeth Gaskell by William John Thomson, of Edinburgh, 1832 is reproduced here by courtesy of the University Librarian and Director, The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester

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