Isn't It Romantic

The other day I heard a misguided youth refer to her girlfriend's relationship being like Sid and Nancy. I immediately thought she meant that they were strung out and bad news but she didn't she went on to say how perfect they were for each other and how punk rock they were. I then moved out of ear shot and shook my head.




This description made me wonder if if she even knew that Sid Vicious most likely murdered his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen? He was never found guilty because he did what any smart junkie would do; he O.D. After all it's better to be dead than do without one's heroin.



So how do a talentless wanker and a skanky groupie become an image of romance? On a punk rock level they do look damn cool together, he with his spiky, jet black hair, comical sneer and his keen fashion sense and her with the bleached blond hair, heavily made up face and torn fishnet stockings do conjure up the archetypes of the era.



Of course the idea might be the attraction to youth, a couple who never got old, died tragically, died violently died stupidly barely similar but totally different than say Romeo and Juliet and all their ill fated, literary contemporaries. Still I guess the iconographic images persist over what was real; hell they even made a movie about them starring Gary Oldman called "Sid and Nancy". They are in fact a very romantic ideal in the whole rock n' roll mythology but let's face it if they weren't famous nobody would have ever known or cared.

I'm now beginning to think that maybe we need a new rock couple to explode upon us in a gruesome rose of death and glorious exposition of pop culture beauty.

This is Life

Escaped insane killer! Man the 70s are back even this guy's hair is 70s


full Story from CNN.com

A legally insane killer was on the loose in the state of Washington on Saturday, two days after he escaped during a field trip to a county fair, authorities said.

Phillip Paul was able to elude a massive manhunt in Spokane County, Washington, after escaping on Thursday, a spokesman for the sheriff's department said.

Though Paul had been confined in a mental institution because of a murder confession, he was allowed to be part of a trip to a county fair Thursday.

Paul, 47, escaped from the fair around noon, which launched the massive manhunt and brought criticism from many, including state government officials. Sheriff's officials told CNN affiliate KREM-TV that Paul also escaped briefly in 1991 and assaulted a law enforcement officer.

A review has been launched on the incident along with the policy that allows patients to take trips, said Susan Dreyfus, secretary of the state's Department of Social and Health Services.

Dreyfus said she was concerned about Paul's escape and another recent brief escape by a patient at a different local mental facility.

"These incidents, separate and coincidental, have raised serious questions about the security readiness of our two state psychiatric hospitals," Dreyfus said.

Paul was committed to Eastern State Hospital after admitting he strangled and slit the throat of community activist Ruth Motley in 1987, KREM-TV reported. According to court documents obtained by KREM, Paul believed Motley was a witch and killed her in response to voices in his head.

He subsequently burned a deer carcass as a sacrifice, according the documents.

The extent of Paul's illness was disturbing even to mental health professionals, KREM reported.

"He's the only paranoid schizophrenic -- I've seen hundreds, maybe thousands of them -- that frightened me," Dr. Frank Hardy, a licensed psychiatrist, says in one of the documents, according to KREM. "The first time I took one look at him -- and I've never done this before or since -- I asked the jailer to remain in the room while I examined him.

"I believe he would respond to his delusions and his voices again" if released, Hardy wrote.

But Paul "Coyote" Neumann, a disc jockey at Spokane radio station Kix 96-FM, has an entirely different view of the escapee. Neumann has known Paul for 12 years through volunteering at the hospital and correspondence by mail.

Paul is a talented artist, Neumann told KREM-TV.

"I was just amazed by his ability. I always took him as a savant," Neumann said. "I never knew that he had murdered somebody until three or four or five years later."

Neumann described Paul as a "gentle soul."

"I've never seen him raise his voice; I've never seen him get frustrated; I've never seen nothing but kindness from him," he told KREM.

"I get mixed emotions because I do see the sweet, softer side of this individual, but I've never seen him unsupervised, I've never seen him not medicated," Neumann said. "But that's not to say in another 12, 15, 20 hours without those medications that he doesn't revert to those demons."

It amazes me that this psycho escaped at a county fair, how crazy is that; it's straight up Hollywood schlock! He also escaped once before back in the 90s, he's a got a friend who says he's a gentle soul yet others are terrified of him, animal sacrifice; it wild stuff.
Write the script, cast it ASAP!