I was watching Guerrilla<\/i> – a documentary about the Symbionese Liberation Army (whatever) and the kidnapping of Patty Hearst. It’s really good – some great commentary from former SLA members – I mean, you want to throw stuff at the screen (at least I did) – but it’s really interesting. The Hearst parents standing on their front steps, poor Steve Weed with his horrendous moustache coming out to the mike stand to talk about his “feelings” – the whole thing was really interesting. Then you listen to Patty’s broadcasts – and you listen to them change. By the end, she is obviously reading prepared statements. The first ones are like: “Mom, Dad …” (big long sigh) “I’m fine … really …” Then when the food drive was a bust (or whatever – seemed like a bust) – she comes on and says, in that creepy deadpan voice, “Dad, it sounds like you’ve made a big mess of things …”<\/p>\n
Uhm, Patty?<\/p>\n
Then you hear the broadcast where she announces she is joining the Siamese Cat Liberation Fuckwads.<\/p>\n
Broadcasts keep coming. There’s the battle with the police which ends up with the house burning down, SLA members trapped inside. Then comes the next broadcast and there’s that deadpan voice, flatlining, “My sister Miznoon … her eyes were cold and full of death” – or something like that – and to Patty – that was a compliment!! She was saying how much she MISSED Miznoon, she was saying what was GREAT about Miznoon. (Imagine: “God, I just love my boyfriend so much. He has so many amazing qualities.” “That is so awesome. What are some of his amazing qualities?” “Oh, his eyes are cold and full of death.” “Man, that is so great.”)<\/p>\n
I got increasingly annoyed with Patty’s broadcasts. Oh, excuse me. Tania’s broadcasts.<\/p>\n
I was in the kitchen washing dishes, listening to one of the broadcasts, emanating from the other room.<\/p>\n
Tania’s creepy flat voice, going on and on. She loves Willie. Or Cujo. Or whatever he calls himself. She loves her cold deathly friends. She is taking the fight to the people. She loves her “brothers and sisters in the Symbiotic Liberace Army” – and then she says something about “And the fascist pig media …”<\/p>\n
She’d said those words before, but I had finally had it.<\/p>\n
I’m rinsing out a glass. I hear her dead voice say the words “and the fascist pig media” – and I promptly shout into the other room, where the movie is playing,<\/p>\n
“Oh shut the fuck UP, Tania!!!!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was watching Guerrilla – a documentary about the Symbionese Liberation Army (whatever) and the kidnapping of Patty Hearst. It’s really good – some great commentary from former SLA members – I mean, you want to throw stuff at the … Continue reading