Badlands Redux

I love this picture of us. We were both obsessed with Badlands, and I think that somehow informed how we presented ourselves.

We have that vaguely frightening and immediately-recognizable mixture of expressions on our faces:

1. We dig each other
2. We just rolled out of bed
3. We are about to go on a killing spree
4. And we don’t care.

MeMichael

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10 Responses to Badlands Redux

  1. Cara Ellison says:

    Oh yeah. I see latent Bonnie and Clyde. Definitely.

  2. De says:

    I vote #3, totally.

  3. red says:

    It looks like we’re already on the run from the law, and hiding out in the woods, like the two murderous lovers did in Badlands.

  4. red says:

    And we are NOT SORRY for killing all of those people!!!

  5. mutecypher says:

    I saw her standin’ on her front lawn,
    Just a-twirlin’ her baton,
    Me and her went for a ride, sir,
    And ten innocent people died.

  6. red says:

    Mutecypher – Ha! Exactly!

    Or how about:

    This here’s a story about Billy Joe and Bobbie Sue
    Two young lovers with nothin’ better to do
    Than sit around the house, get high, and watch the tube
    And here is what happened when they decided to cut loose

    They headed down to, ooh, old El Paso
    That’s where they ran into a great big hassle
    Billy Joe shot a man while robbing his castle
    Bobbie Sue took the money and run

    Go on, take the money and run

  7. mutecypher says:

    On the page that works so well with your picture.

    But I have a hard time taking Steve Miller as seriously as Bruce Springsteen when he rhymes “El Paso” with “great big hassle.” Okay, it also rhymes with “castle” but he’s doing a lot of jumping with the scheme.

    My quirk.

    You and Michael need a sparse, twangy guitar and a lonely harmonica and a rhyme scheme that’s artfully broken.

    And you may also need therapy. Or incarceration.

  8. red says:

    We need to die in a slo-mo rain of bullets!

  9. mutecypher says:

    That could be the title of your movie: Reign of Bullets.

  10. mutecypher says:

    Just checked Netflix and IMDB, there aren’t any movies with that title. We need to register http://www.reignofbullets.com and start the viral marketing campaign.

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