Worth noting that Mary was, among other things, a Violator kind of girl. The songs on Violator hit so many funny-bones on Miss H that one wonders if Depeche Mode, to make the album, hung around Media taking notes. Mary was brought up in a Christian Right context. The tenets of Christianity could, thus, have hit or missed with her. Turns out, Miss H disliked the tenets but found Jesus himself irresistibly fascinating. Yet Mary was pleased just fine with developing her sensual life, too, as a painter and otherwise. Stir into the mix too many drugs, always, and understand how what develops is a Girl, Interrupted streak a mile wide. That's what Riot Grrrl is all about. For Mary to have succeeded in the house she grew up in, there would have to have been a secret hero there, and there was. Miss H, if you look closely, had no trouble finding good luck to bear her along. As to why Mary found both Jesus, and Depeche Mode, so fascinating: she liked the idea of being in touch with higher, cosmic powers. She was always looking for ways to dissolve into something larger than herself. All kinds of roads met freakishly in her. The complex chemistry of the whore/Madonna was in there; the devotee of Renaissance formalism; the good-time get-high party girl; and the daughter who was never quite the black sheep she dreaded being. She was, to say the least, combustible. As of the Aughts, we all were. And Mary always had a copy of Violator handy. Not, ultimately, a woman of the cross, but close.
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