Wear eyeliner. That's about it. Recent interviews with Evan Rachel Wood, Manson's muse for Eat Me, Drink Me, kind of read like "Banging Naive Goth Chicks For Dummies."
For one, when asked what attracted her to him, she simply said, "eyeliner." She seemed to ignore the nasty face, the bad tattoos, and the fact that he is old enough to be her father. Eyeliner. That's all it takes.
Of course, being crazy helped his case, too, as she told the British magazine Elle, "And crazy, by the way, is the highest compliment I pay. Manson is definitely crazy. Hopefully I am, too."
Yes, dear. It is good to have aspirations. Some of us want to be astronauts, or cure cancer, and then there's you. People who want to date married rock stars, trigger their mid-life crisis, and be "crazy."
But she's doing well, you see, thanks to good ol' Manson. She told the magazine, "You should see his house, omigod, it's a hurricane of creativity. And it's making me feel more creative than ever before! I'm writing poetry, songs, taking photographs, experimenting with fashion, everything."
Like, omigod! I guess this relationship did raise her "starpower" somewhat -- since how much coverage was Evan Rachel Wood getting prior to this relationship? And it definitely keeps Manson in the news, long after the anticipation of, then disappointment in, his new album faded from the headlines. But really, when it's based on "eyeliner" and "crazy," how long does it really have?
I'm placing my money on 8 months, tops.
