Jared Leto’s 30 Seconds to Mars and the Swedish psych band Goat share a penchant for fabricated lore—Goat’s cult-invented backstory mirrors Leto’s claim of an ancient Greek manuscript, Argus Apocryphax, as inspiration. The name’s ties to surveillance (Argus) and secrecy (Apocryphax) hint at Leto subtly referencing a "CIA Manchurian candidate"-style narrative, though the absurdity leaves his motives—and why anyone engages with his music—deliberately murky. [Automatically generated summary]
So 30 Seconds to Mars, the name, like what is that?
Because it's as annoying as the music.
Oh, yeah, right.
The fucking the name, right?
So he has this.
Have you guys heard of a Swedish psych band called Goat?
Call them Goat?
They're called Goat, as in like the animal.
From where?
They're from Sweden, right?
They're actually pretty good, right?
The first album.
From what decade?
There's like a fairly modern band.
I think the first album came out like 2012 or something.
But I bring them up because that's an example of how you do law, right?
You know, if you go into bullshit and make up silly things for like PR purposes.
So their whole thing is that they're part of like a midsummer style cult in this remote part of Sweden.
And they just happened to invent psych rock independently of like San Francisco bands.
And it's like a cult and they happen to be the ones that inherited it just as they signed with like a major label.
So they're performing like the whole masks and costume get up and stuff.
They were a pretty cool band.
Jared has a similar thing going on where he wants to build like the law of 30 seconds to Mars.
So he says that he got the term from the something called, he calls the Argus Apocryphax, right?
And this is a fake manuscript that he's made up that's apparently from ancient Greece or something.
Yeah.
Now, again, sucks.
Human chat GPT.
It's it's yeah, this has gone beyond Redditman as this.
This is GPT.
So I don't know what it means, but what I think it means is that he is trying to tell us something here because I did some digging.
I did some chat GPTing.
And Argus is this all-seeing giant with a hundred eyes and it's a symbol of surveillance and the panopticon, basically.
And Apocryphax could be a play on the word apocrypha.
And that means hidden from the light, secrecy, you know.
So we've got here, we've got like allusions to surveillance and cover activity.
So again, don't know what it means, but I think what it means is he's coming clean here and basically admitting I am a fucking CIA Manchurian candidate type deal in the music industry and in Hollywood.
Complete plant.
He says the name suggests we're so close to something intangible, mysterious, not a tangible idea.
It's a metaphor for the future.
And I think he's righter than he realizes there, to be honest.
I think he's more correct than he realizes.
There is something mysterious and intangible going on here.
I mean, it's definitely intangible to me because I cannot tange why the fuck anyone is listening to this band.