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A sex and dating columnist, Catherine Townsend published her first novel Sleeping Around: Secrets of a Sexual Adventuress in 2007, and followed up with Breaking The Rules: Confessions of a Bad Girl in 2008. She also appeared in How To Have Sex After Marriage on Five, and is now writing a third book. Born in Arkansas, Catherine was a gossip columnist for New York Magazine before moving to London in 2003, since when she has had a very interesting - and pretty public - private life...

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The Marilyn Manson Guide to Surviving a Break-Up

Posted by Catherine Townsend
  • Friday, 6 November 2009 at 07:29 pm
Marilyn Manson doesn't believe in hoovering tubs of Ben and Jerry's after a split. He goes straight for the medicine cabinet, and channels his rage into art. So his new video for 'Running to the Edge of the World' is, surprise surprise, pretty graphic. He kills a bikini-clad girl who looks a LOT like his ex-girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood. Guess talking to Spin magazine  about how about how he called her 158 times after they broke up, and  took a razor blade and cut himself on his face or his hands--because he, um, wanted to show her the pain she put him through wasn't cathartic enough for him. Oh, and he admits  that 'every day' he has 'fantasies about smashing her skull in with a sledgehammer.' 

Celebrities often act out elements of their doomed love affairs to sell singles (Justin Timberlake, Peter Andre) but adding murder to the mix definitely ups the weirdness factor. Then again, we've all had dark thoughts after a break-up and Manson isn't acting on any of his homicidal impulses. So, is making a video about murdering a look-alike of your ex therapeutic, or disturbing? 

Comments

[info]andrewducker wrote:
Saturday, 7 November 2009 at 09:26 am (UTC)
Didn't Eminem do this multiple times about his wife?
[info]andrewducker wrote:
Saturday, 7 November 2009 at 09:35 am (UTC)
[info]erinnorman wrote:
Saturday, 7 November 2009 at 12:00 pm (UTC)
that is nauseating. and he wonders why people blame him for inspiring violence in others. I'm all for personal accountability but you have to say there is some truth in a man young boys look up to glamorising this. The images are far too graphic in my opinion.
[info]turk_diddler wrote:
Saturday, 7 November 2009 at 10:03 pm (UTC)
I should imagine therapeutic and disturbing in equal measure. Hardly Visions Of Johanna though, is it?

Always important to attempt to find the meaning behind artistic expression. So far I can make out for around 99.9% of us Manson throughout his career has embodied one of the prices of freedom - it means putting up with crass bullshitters like him.
There's not much
[info]airmarshall wrote:
Sunday, 8 November 2009 at 12:24 pm (UTC)
... in it, the geometry to such expressions is nought more than caudle to vanities, indulge, baby, humor, spoil...

could you imagine what might have to be endured had he a toothache?
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