I got the chance to ring up Mr. Manson who was relegated to the confines of his Los Angeles home as he healed from a recent surgery to repair a broken fibula which left him with ten pins and a metal rod in one leg. Over the course of an hour he divulged some secrets (the next video to drop will be "Kill4Me" which will again star bosom buddy Johnny Depp) and we riffed on the cinematic flow of his new album Heaven Upside Down, superstition, the validity of the moon landing, astrological phenomenon, and whether or not he sleeps in his makeup. See, pure whimsy.

Publicly, Marilyn Manson is a lot of things—most notably the self-proclaimed god of fuck , best friend of Johnny Depp, and the world's reigning rock and roll boogeyman. But what few people may know is he's also a winning conversationalist who's able to bring wit and whimsy, yes whimsy, to just about any topic.

Noisey: Hi there, how are you feeling today?

Marilyn Manson: I'm doing OK I've made a sort of makeshift recovery hospital bed in my TV room so I don't have to walk too far on my crutches to the kitchen or the bathroom and I can watch movies or read books to a limited degree. Unfortunately my bedroom and all my of art items of creation or inspiration are up a set of stairs which I cannot access. So I feel a little bit cagey, cabin fever I guess. I have ten pins in my ankle and a plate from surgery I had last week. It was a really extremely awfully painful ordeal for me. I had never watched the video of what happened until yesterday.

I'm lucky [the stage prop] didn't smash me in the head or I'd be dead right now. So that's something fortunate but people think I was trying to climb up it. I was actually holding it back because it had started to tip over and I was pushing it back but I realized too late it's too heavy for me to hold up. And then it broke my leg in two places.

Man. So, is it safe to assume you'll be in a cast for a while?

I'm going to find out on Tuesday when I see the doctor again. I had this surgery I mentioned in lieu of getting a cast. Instead of the old fashion way where a bone mends itself, I elected to have a metal rod replace it. I'll have that for life and I'll have fun at every airport.

Ha. So what is R&R like at the Manson Manse?

I got my two cats and I've got my projection wall of TV. I watched Mr. Robot today.