Perous Secret Diary - Keep Out: December 07, 2005

enough stuff

having tidied up the house a bit,  and blown the fallen autumn leaves from the gardens in readiness for a meeting with the surveyor, he didn't turn up.
apparently stuck in a traffic jam on the m11.
happens a lot apparently: would be the downside of moving to cambridgeshire.

our planning consultant, steve came round anyway to discuss our legal representative who will appeal against our compulsory purchase.

faffed around the factory sorting out things that needed to be sorted.
like the forms for the police investigating the card fraud on my current account.
ate another packet of chocolate jelly stars.
and watched 3hrs of 'downfall' which felt very decadent as it was daytime (and i should be working).

in the afternoon, i got the perou-mobile washed at the russian place on cambridge heath road.
got dressed 'properly' as manson only receives people dressed correctly...which was a problem as i lost a cufflink.
and drove over to see manson at the honeymoon suite of the ritz (where my dad used to be a chef) where him and dita are staying.

dita wasn't there at first as she was doing a shoot during the day.
(it amazes me that marilyn manson fans could ever consider that she is less than amazing: she truly is the most beautiful woman i have ever met and the world's top fashion photographers are tripping over themselves to photographer her).
ordered room service: absynthe and foie gras for manson, strongbow and a chicken ceaser salad for myself.
read manson's script for 'phantasmagoria' the film he's written about lewis carroll.
and bitched about how i can't write what i want on my diary anymore...

so here's some more:
although madonna and the osbournes were not part of the 73 invited guests to the wedding, they both did send video messages (like people who can't attend award ceremonies) with their well wishes.
as did snoop, pharell and some guy i didn't know who scared the shit out of me and was talking in a bizarre language.
(i felt too stupid to ask who it was: everyone else seemed to know).
i believe these video bits have already found their way onto the internet but i can't find a link for them to post here.
true: christian dior died in 1957 but there was a medium there interceeding and he made a physcic appearance just before dinner...which was nice.

there were black helicopters with the 'marilyn manson' MM's ferrying people from dublin to the castle and around.
me and mrs.perou sadly just caught the bus from kilshane house (we had arrived late).

all of us there had to wear black on the outside with white underneath and after the 2hr long ceremony we all had to take off out black outer clothes.
after dinner we were encouraged to take off our white clothes too but me and mrs.perou kept ours on: castles can be a bit chilly.
all the children there (22 of them) were made up to look like some of helnwein's art: bandaged and pasty.
i don't know whose children they were: they were also foreign (ie. not english speaking).

the whole event was filmed and will be available for a pay-per-view online download from i-tunes in the new year.
i was paid roughly $1million to photograph the weekend but have signed an exclusivity deal where i wasn't even allowed to see the pictures: i had to hand the unprocessed films to manson at the end of the weekend.

all in all a very strange occassion.
feels soo much better to have got it off my chest.