Watch a few documentaires with Donna, watched one bout Ed Gein, was crazy shit
Shannon Hoon (dude in my sig) wrote a song about Ed Gein:
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The following is from blindmelon.org
Song Title - Skinned[/u]
Appears on: Soup, Letters From a Porcupine
Recorded at: Kingsway Studios, New Orleans, Ultrasonic Studios, New Orleans
Produced by: Andy Wallace and Blind Melon
Brad: bass
Christopher: guitar
Glen: drums
Rogers: guitar
Shannon: vocals, kazoo
Live Performances: played on the brief Soup tour
Notes:[/u]
The song is about the 1950's serial killer, Ed Gein, from Plainfield, Wisconsin who murdered women and cut off their body parts and wore them. In his house, police found a belt fashioned from carved-off nipples, a chair upholstered in human skin, the crown of a skull used as a soup-bowl, lampshades covered in flesh pulled taut, a table propped up by a human shinbones, and a refrigerator full of human organs. The four posts on Gein's bed were topped with skulls and a human head hung on the wall alongside nine death-masks - the skinned faces of women - and decorative bracelets made out of human skin. Gein confessed that he enjoyed dressing himself in this and other human-skin garments and pretending he was his own mother.
Shannon:[/b] "You know everybody's a lawyer in one way or another I think everybody's just fascinated with the mentality of people who commit these crimes. Did society create this person or was this person born like that. What a guy to have host a party... man I don't know if I would want one of his tables or not. I mean it's disgusting but at the same time can you imagine..."
Shannon:[/b] "Well, I knew the melody line I wanted to sing, but as far as subject matter and lyrical content I hadn't arranged it. And I was sitting there and reading about serial killers — I'm inspired in a surprising way by them — and I was intrigued to read about their mentality. Obviously not condoning what they do, but they're fascinating. Ed Gein — do you remember the movie Silence of the Lambs? Part of his story was used in the film. He was kind of like an indian — he would make use of everything he killed. He would use parts of human bodies for everything. He would make furniture out of their bones and use skin to make lampshades. At the time of his arrest he had three full bodies of skin in his barn! He just peeled them off and he would dress up
in them and dance around.
It was horrible, but I believe there are two sides to everything. To find the humour in things can keep you going. Obviously things like crimes against children I can’t find any humour in, which is the subject of ‘Car Seat.’ Because children are so pure, and being a new father now I can really see it that way."
Glen:[/b] "Shannon's fascinated by that, it's his thing - he's got the encyclopedia of serial killers with him at all times."
The movie Psycho was loosely based on Ed Gein.
Lyrics:[/u]
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.
I'll make a shoehorn outta your shin.
I'll make a lampshade of durable skin.
And oh, don't you know that I'm always feelin' able,
When I'm sittin' home and I'm carving out your navel.
When will I realize that this skin I'm in, it isn't mine.
And when will the kill be too much meat for me to hide.
Hey, I could really use a couple of hands,
To complete one hell of a plant stand.
Oh, don't you know that I'm caught here in the middle,
Making rib cages into coffee tables.
And when I realize that this skin I'm in, it isn't mine.
And when will the thrill be too much meat for me to find.
Oh, because you know I can't hide.
But oh how hard I try.
But this is just the shape I'm in.
And though you know I can't hide.
But oh how hard I try.
But this is just the shape I'm in.
