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Blind Gein... the Untold Story of Norman, Leatherface & Buffalo Bill

Posted over 2 years ago
I'll be damned if I don't have a few nightmares tonight. First I figured it would be due to the gent at the bottom of the post - Mr. Ed Gein. The impetus for the characters of Norman Bates, Leatherface & Buffalo Bill... also fodder for multiple songs including one from a band I adore - Blind Melon. Came to also be a thought of mine after watching a video from the outtakes of 120 minutes.As I was watching Biography's segment on the man, Gein - I am sitting there thinking to myself - this guy sounds like the guy in the song Skinned... hmmmmm might have something to do with the fact that it is the same guy. Had a necklace of nipples, skull bowls, a mammary vest & "leggings", lips as the pull for a window screen & these are just from the corpses he stole from cemeteries... all thanks to a mother who spouted verses from the bible & taught her sons that women were whores. It gets better (or worse really) but I'll let you read more by going "*+HERE+*":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_GeinSo I go to the Tube of U to see what I can dig up for the song Skinned... talk about watching something as disturbing... ok, not as disturbing - but not far off either. Shannon seems so far into the world of heroin in this video it's horrific. Breaks my heart anytime I think too long about it, so watching this video was pure torture. That's why I am going to put it up here for you... actually - the song is a fantastic one - I used to think it was just a crazy creation of a character dreamed up by the Melons lacking Sight. Looks like I learned a few things today - not things that make me very happy - but certainly - edumakatin s'portent....
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Comments (17)

  1. Anonymous says Blind Melon yay! that read sounds gruesome, going to look at it right now . . . hesitantly lol
    Permalink posted 07/24/2007
  2. Anonymous says wow, read it . . tragic =(
    Permalink posted 07/24/2007
  3. Jonh Ingham
    Jonh Ingham says Parents can really fuck up their children. And Ed's mother really did a good job.
    Permalink posted 07/24/2007
  4. Lizziegreeneyes
    Lizziegreeneyes says I should think so... that Bio I watched - makes all these movies look like child's play. Disturbed doesn't even begin to cut it.
    Permalink posted 07/25/2007
  5. dermahrk
    dermahrk says Ed Gein is pretty damn creepy. And the fact that this all took place on a farm in a small town in the Midwest somehow makes it a little creepier.
    Permalink posted 07/25/2007
  6. Lizziegreeneyes
    Lizziegreeneyes says My best friend is from Wisconsin - I jokingly asked: did you know that your neighbor was a serial killer who wore women's skins & ate out of scull bowls ???? She wasn't all that thrilled with me - but in typical Deb fashion, she said, "yeah - they're everywhere." Think we have this preconcieved notion that it doesn't happen in the more rural areas... cities - a lot of crazy shite goes down - but not in Wisconsin. I'd be inclined to agree with that statement. I love Wisconsin - love the people. It's not a place where you would invision the kind of horror that Gein created. Described by the people living there who knew him - as a decent guy, kept to himself, quiet, simple, hard working - you pay him a dollar - you'd get a $1.25 back in work from him... but that the women didn't like the way he looked at them.
    Permalink posted 07/25/2007
  7. kat3260
    kat3260 says GREAT POST! I saw that SAME thing on Biography!!! And I love love explode with love that Blind Melon song. It took me quite some time to figure out what Shannon's rambling about in the beginning of the song. This was back before the days when lyrics were all over the Internet, so my friends and I listened to it, like, 20 times in a row (on WEED haha)... "_You know the local made ones would be nice, to see a little Dahmer like you walking around with a couple of hammers like that, at least Ed Gein would, Ed Gein was a very good fellow you know_" There are some cool quotes over at "BeeMelon.com":http://www.beemelon.com/html/lyrics/soup/skinned.html ,a fantastic fansite I found... "Skinned is a happy, skippy kinda song which my Mom loves. This guy, Ed Gein, used to make full-bodied suits from women’s skin, which he’d dance around in. He’d also make lampshades and coffee tables from their remains...It’s disgusting, but the world creates these subjects and I’m just reporting on them. It’s just stuff that fascinates me, even thought it horrifies me at the same time. How do you explain the core of evil that makes people, or even a race of people, wish to perpetrate such acts or barbarism? It’s just tongue in cheek. There are two sides to the same coin, and you can’t take Skinned too seriously. After all, it even features a kazoo solo!..." --Shannon Hoon _(Kerrang!, August 1995)_
    Permalink posted 07/25/2007
  8. Lizziegreeneyes
    Lizziegreeneyes says *Katrina:* You're the best... I have to admit - when I first listened to the song - didn't get it *at all*... kinda like the navel was his stomach talkin... _could use a couple of hands_ he needed some help. _skin I'm in hey it isn't mine_ feels uncomfortable with himself... yeah - I can miss things when I am listening to a song (on WEED) heheh. Now sure the _lampshade of durable skin_ could be animal skin - no getting around the _shoehorn outta your shin_ though... again - thought it was Shannon being a goof - just as he said - how can you take the song too seriously - when there is a kazoo solo & it's such a happy sounding song... Gotta love his take on it & his view of life really... Still - *that video breaks my everlovin heart !!!* It really was _+as disturbing+_ for me in the sense that - with Shannon - we lost such an amazing talent & such a great viewpoint that he was able to express through music, an unbelievably loved & cool person who lived a tortured life of his own - the loss of Gein - not such a great loss...
    Permalink posted 07/25/2007
  9. kat3260
    kat3260 says yeah darlin, i gotta admit your warnings made me steer clear of that video...I'll watch it later when I'm not in the office and in danger of welling up (feeling a little weepy this week, if you catch my drift hehe)
    Permalink posted 07/25/2007
  10. HelenMarie
    HelenMarie says This stuff is *deeply* disturbing and interesting. So very sad to see Shannon in that vid like you said. What a shame that we afflict and inject our bodies with substances for a moment of zen when we’re probably on the road to that zen full destination as it is. Living and breathing on what nature provides just doesn’t cut it for some of us (myself included). We've lost such great talent to shit like that. Now that weed…nature provides!!! ; )
    Permalink posted 07/25/2007
  11. annieander
    annieander says WOW!
    Permalink posted 07/25/2007
  12. Lizziegreeneyes
    Lizziegreeneyes says *SunnyD:* ;) I hear you... a natural high is the best there is... I've been known to get a little green & red on occasion, but these days it's so very rare... the harder stuff was never for me... in large part to seeing what it did to the artists I loved & from the accounts of my friends. Knew a kid into all sorts of shit & had a psychotic break at school - claimed he was JC... came back while I was attending - was 2-3 years ahead of me... guy was a freak - no sooner does he get back - he's back to all the old tricks... that shit keeps calling. My worst addiction (besides sex - heheh) was cigs & I am officially past th 6month mark - can say fairly confidently - I am done with the sticks... I'll be damned if there aren't a few occasions where I could be talked into one or two though...
    Permalink posted 07/25/2007
  13. HelenMarie
    HelenMarie says I've known a few people who went over board too. My saddest recollection is a guy I worked with: had a couple kids, nice friendly guy in his early 30's, rarely even *drank* but got into x all of a sudden and he's dealing and shit, then gets arrested while he's all strung out, goes into cardiac arrest *in jail* and dies. Freckin shocker around town when I and others heard about him. Too sad. Congrads on kicking the sticks! I think there a nasty waste of money and lung capacity, I had a few years of socially smokin the stogs in my 18-20 don't know WTF i was thinkin stage in life. One day I smelt that smell wreakin on my clothes and I was like, BLAH! Now I just go for the green when I feel the urge to look fancy holding a mock cig. Ha!!
    Permalink posted 07/25/2007
  14. HelenMarie
    HelenMarie says Oh crap I used the wrong their, there, they're. "I think THEY'RE a waste of money" I know _there_ are a few grammatically precise people round here. ah fuck it....i'm not stressing over that there shit...Hahaha
    Permalink posted 07/25/2007
  15. kat3260
    kat3260 says Let's face it - the English language and its grammar rules are sillier than a whoopee cushion :O) Still, it's awesome to me that you corrected yourself - that is _so_ something this almost English major would do
    Permalink posted 07/25/2007
  16. HelenMarie
    HelenMarie says Hahaha-whoopee cushion. Thanks for the comfort Kat! : )
    Permalink posted 07/25/2007
  17. Lizziegreeneyes
    Lizziegreeneyes says Yeah... (Eng/Thea major that I am) I'd be getting out my ruler - but you corrected the error... well done !!! Yeah - the smell killed me & if I am around it - I swear I smell it in my hair for DAYS... three showers later I can still smell it - got a really sensitive sniffer ;) Also why I can sniff out anything green at a show & don't think I don't get whiplash when I do...
    Permalink posted 07/25/2007

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