When I Get Old
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When I Get Old is a painting by Marilyn Manson. It depicts a melancholic colored elderly man preparing to sip from a goblet of absinthe.
Properties
- 30" × 22"
- Absinthe
- Watercolor
Trivia
- The painting is used on the label of Manson's official marketed line of absinthe, called Mansinthe.
- The painting was unveiled on Late Night With David Letterman, where Manson explained that it depicted him as he imagined himself after a few more years of drinking absinthe.
- The painting's working title was When I Get Old (I would like to have a drink).
- The painting is "William S. Burroughs inspired." According to the 2002 MTV interview, Marilyn Manson Gets Hanged.