Q: Boys and girls of every age, would you like to hear something strange?

A: Me too. And what's stranger than Northeast Ohio's homegrown freakshow, Brian Warner, on a soundtrack for kids?

Okay, a soundtrack for kids and stoned adults.

Marilyn Manson - This is Halloween
The Nightmare Before Christmas {OST | Special Edition}, 2006

Speaking of stoned adults, what are the chances that within a month of me quitting smoking weed, they would release The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3-freaking-D! God, what a travesty. I think it's time for a relapse.

Anyway, the Manson track is really pretty damn good. I apologize, Mr. Warner, for selling you short. The rest of the soundtrack is interesting, too, both in terms of how awesome Danny Elfman's songs still are and also for the remarkable terribleness of Fall Out Boy (who murders "What's This?") and She Wants Revenge ("Kidnap the Sandy Claws"). Honest to God, what the fuck is wrong with you, America's youth?

You can stream the whole thing at the soundtrack's official web site, but here's one more track, just because I really want to do her.

Fiona Apple - Sally's Song
The Nightmare Before Christmas {OST | Special Edition}, 2006

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DID YOU KNOW? The character Sally was originally voiced by comedy genius Catherine "Not just the mom from Home Alone" O'Hara! Her impressive vocal talent, you may recall, was also featured in A Mighty Wind, in her swell duets with the surprisingly tuneful Eugene "Not just the dad from American Pie" Levy.

In Nightmare, O'Hara also voices one of the trio of nasties who kidnap the Sandy Claws, along with Paul "Mostly just Pee Wee Herman" Reubens and the talented Mr. Elfman. God, I love this movie!! Does anyone please have any weed???

Q: Who likes it freakier, Marilyn Manson or Bill O'Reilly?

TEMP. Q: Why, God, why can't I get YouTube videos to work?
TEMP. A: As of this writing (3:20pm EST), YouTube remains down for maintenance. Everything should be working normally now.

If you're here looking for the Bill O'Reilly/Marilyn Manson interview, bookmark this page and try back in a few hours. In the meantime, perhaps you might consider checking out the rest of my blog, The Answer May Surprise You, where mirth meets whimsy meets arousal meets mild brain damage.

All Andrew Sullivan readers under the age of seven receive a free balloon and/or Matt Yglesias bobblehead.

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A: Hold on, Marilyn Manson is still famous? Like, he makes records and goes on tour and people pay dollars to see him? Huh. This is the most shocking development since Leah revealed people still "FUCKING LOVE ALICE IN CHAINS."

Anyway, read more after the proverbial jump...

CLICK ME for Manson vs. O'Reilly | Plus free MP3s from Blur, Supergrass

Because I'm always happy to support a nice Ohio boy, here's Mr. Manson face-to-face with an even dirtier man, Bill O'Reilly.

[hat tip to Andrew Sullivan for the video]

O'Reilly featured Manson as part of his "Children at Risk" feature, in which he imagines that his viewers are young enough to have children. As surprised as I am to discover that people are still listening to Marilyn Manson, I would be even more shocked if anyone under 16 even knows who he is¹. He wasn't even that cool when I was 16.

Anyway, the interview is disappointly cordial -- I was hoping Marilyn would, you know, bite the head off a live dove or whatever -- but check out this exchange from around the two-minute mark (especially Bill's classic facial expression at 2:13):

BOR: They tell me that you engaged in a sex act with another man in a stage in Miami. Is that true?
MM: To a certain degree. To a certain degree. It wasn't, ah...
BOR: [face frozen in hilarious disgust]
MM: ...so much a formal sex act. No one was aroused... [describes incident, in which fan jumped on stage, dropped pants, was mock blown or something...]
BOR: But it was shocking.
MM: It was entertaining. To me.
BOR: To you.
MM: To me.
BOR: But if kids saw that, if they saw you simulating, or actually doing, whatever happened, a sex act with another man, maybe they would go out and do it too.
MM: Well, I can't be blamed for something like that. You'd have to blame Richard Simmons, and, uh, [laughing] and Liberace and people like that...

Sorry, Bill. It's going to take a lot more than that to goad Marilyn Manson; he's been answering preposterous questions from reporters since before you were a Factor.

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RELATED: I do have one Marilyn Manson song in my collection, a decent David Bowie cover from the surprisingly unterrible (Dust Brothers-produced) Dead Man on Campus soundtrack. Check it out.

MARILYN MANSON
Golden Years [link expired]

Just for kicks, here are a couple unrelated-but-excellent tracks from that album. T.A.M.S.Y. loves 90s Brit-pop!

BLUR
Cowboy Song [link expired]

SUPERGRASS
We Still Need More (Than Anyone Can Give) [link expired]
[Dead Man on Campus: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, 1998]

OBTAIN: Dead Man On Campus | Dissecting Marilyn Manson [Amazon]

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¹ I am far too lazy to verify that, but if you know something I don't, feel free to drop me a comment.

UPDATE: Added fancier jump image, because I'm obsessed with Photoshop.