When it comes to kiss/kill is it always mutual, or can one person get kiss while the one they have kiss to has kill to them? Or can someone get both kiss and kill and become some epically screwed up yandere as a result?
Also is kiss always sexual? Like if a pair of siblings were in a cluster trigger would pull an Amy or Flowers in the Attic. Or would they just become particularly close and (probably violently) opposed to being separated from each other? Or if one person 8 or something and is too young to feel sexual attraction? And would an older cluster member become attracted to said 8 year old or start viewing them as some kid brother/sister?
This is my weekly series for subscribers only, where I\u2019ll share things that caught my eye this week in a fun and flirty way (kiss), a sustainable way (marry), or a not-so-good way (kill). And yes, this trendy game is technically \u201Cf***, marry, or kill\u201D but we run a family-friendly-ish show around here.
By now the police have discovered Doyle's participation in a pedophilia ring and are pursuing him as well as Nikki and Al. When Doyle sees a roadblock he begins issuing commands to Nikki who is in the driver's seat. Nikki ignores him and drives straight into the roadblock. Doyle is killed in the crash, the lovers are only wounded. In a concluding voice-over, Nikki explains who was responsible for the murders on the road and how they got off for the death of the patent attorney (always wipe your prints and only target pedophiles).
Bill Bennett originally got the idea to make the film while shooting Backlash at Broken Hill. He was talking with a crew member who started sharpening a Rambo knife and joked that he could easily kill Bennett and no one would ever know. The encounter unsettled Bennett and inspired him to write a story about a relationship where you did not completely know the other person. He worked on this 18 or 20 times over the next ten years but could never get the story right. Then he wrote it in three weeks and was satisfied.[1]
Aileen Wuornos might once have had all you need in this life, but when police finally tracked her down to the Last Resort in January, she had only her purse, a tan suitcase, and her black temper. She was thirty-four. She had less than twenty dollars. Her twenty-eight-year-old lover, Tyria Moore, had fled. Aileen Wuornos was a rough-skinned blonde on the lam and the prime suspect, along with Moore, in the serial killings of as many as ten middle-aged men in north-central Florida.
The Wuornos case is highly unusual. Out of more than 170 serial killers estimated in the United States since 1977, there have been fewer than a dozen women. Many of those worked in home care or health care. Often they acted with a partner, many used poison, they usually knew their victims, and sex was rarely an aspect of the crime. But Wuornos allegedly performed like her male counterparts. She is believed to have acted alone. She didn't know the men she killed. She may have had sex with some and tortured at least one. She shot them, then robbed them. And after each killing she returned to Tyria Moore, the woman she called her wife.
There are no charges against Moore in the killings. Police accept her claim that she was never directly involved. Moore's story was that Wuornos told her about the first one back in December 1989, but Moore refused to talk to Wuornos about it further. Police say she put the killing out of her mind. As for the cars Wuornos allegedly stole from her victims, along with more than forty-five personal items, Moore claimed she thought it was all just what Wuornos had taken in trade from her johns.
The math is this: nine or ten men died. Seven cases have been linked to Wuornos through confessions and, in six of those cases, forensic evidence and stolen items. The other three fit the crime profile: they were middle-aged men driving on Florida highways, their cars were stolen, and they were robbed. Wuornos denies any involvement in these three killings. Still other cases are under investigation. She has been indicted for five murders in four counties.
After that Lee lived in the woods near her house, or in a neighbor's junked car, or occasionally in the homes of friends. She hustled pool, went to the racetrack, and hitchhiked everywhere. She got a job as a maid, but she made most of her money from prostitution. Wuornos says she gave money to her brother and her aunt, Lori, and at least once she reportedly told her grandfather, "If you don't leave Lori and Keith alone, I'll kill you.''
In South Daytona in 1986, she met Tyria Moore. "We became lovers," Moore told police, "and it later turned into a sister-like relationship." Wuornos told people that Ty was her wife, and when she was drunk she sometimes threatened to kill anyone who bothered Tyria.
Charles Carskaddon, a thirty-nine-year-old former rodeo rider, was driving from his mother's home in Missouri to Tampa to pick up his fiancee. He was carrying a .45 automatic, though his killer couldn't have known that his mother had removed the clip and persuaded him to sell the gun once he reached Florida.
After Wuornos was arrested in January, she called Moore. Crying and upset, Moore complained that the police were harassing her and her parents. Wuornos has given this version of the incident: "I was sure it was being taped. The way she was talking. I felt it. The way she was able to come back to Florida so quickly. She was staying in a motel for fifty dollars a night. Where'd she get fifty dollars a night? But she kept crying, 'They're going to destroy me. I might as well kill myself. I need you to talk to the cops so they'll leave me alone.' So I went and told the police that she had nothing to do with the crimes. But I also told them thirty-seven times that it was in self-defense."
Just a few weeks after the phone call the police arranged, there was talk with CBS and other companies of a movie deal that might involve Moore, Sergeant Munster, and two other detectives from the Marion County sheriff's office. They even hired a lawyer. The idea was to tell how the police had solved the case and what it was like to live with a serial killer.
Giroux fears that if the film is finally made it will be a good deal more violent than she has written it. "People keep saying to me, 'It's a great screenplay, but we need the killings,' " she said. "That's what people are interested in."
"It got completely out of control," Pralle admitted. "The people stayed on and on. The woman beat me up physically. I had gotten so wrapped up in their lives that I didn't see how it was affecting me. Eventually, Robert left. He didn't want anything more to do with me. The marriage was over. I was devastated. I went to stay with my father, but that didn't work out. I came back to my house for the purpose of killing myself. And that was when I found out they'd left, taking all our credit cards, jewelry, and some horse equipment. About $12,000 in all.
"I was completely at wit's end," she said. Pralle attempted to kill herself, and was placed in an institution. Her husband, who was in Florida at the time, refused to go and sign her out. "It was his revenge for the financial debt we incurred. As a result, my father had to leave my ailing mother in the middle of the night alone and drive from New York to Connecticut to sign me out."
Nevertheless, Pralle pays for her obsession. Because of all the publicity surrounding her friendship with an accused serial killer, her breeding business is declining. Clients have withdrawn their horses. The dealer wants to repossess the tractor. She has lost some friends, been derided by others, and castigated by strangers. "How could you become involved with such a woman?" a man asked her in a grocery store shortly after a local paper told the story. Asked how he felt about his wife's involvement in the Wuornos case, Robert Pralle replied, "I'm not totally for this, because of the publicity. If she puts my job in jeopardy, I'm going to be upset."
She absolutely loved making all the decisions, who to kill and who to kiss. Her words: this routine is great because there is a lot of interaction with the audience. I asked her if she liked the first reveal more or the kicker ending, she chose the kicker ending. The reveal of the two cards as bride and groom made me laugh, she said.
Recall that I'm adept at cutting away anything I perceive to be holding me back. I've used the knife on my country, my family, and finally-with no small amount of hesitation and fear-my wife. It wasn't clean; it wasn't pretty. I killed a part of me when I did us in. I slapped convention and everyone who believed in us in the face. I soiled the proud institution of marriage beneath my selfish feet and think about it every single day.
Some people criticised the band for the move, whilst others have praised their stance on the issue. Healy has since made a statement on the kiss during a 10 minute speech he gave at a show in Texas on 9 October.
The last 2 decades in the world of rock music have been rather pathetic. Let's see, we've suffered the arrival of "grunge", a genre that was invented to accommodate the musical limitations of those involved. Then there's "metal", where everyone completely missed the point and confused cheesy distorted guitars and double-kick drumming with being heavy. And I think there's something called "emo" - don't really know, or care, what it is. The bottom line is that all of it gave "artists" a license to be lame, mediocre and lazy. Just turn on your radio and you'll hear what I'm talking about.
Somewhere in the back of my mind and deep in my heart, I truly believed that we might one day be blessed with a new band with enough of the right stuff to bring back some good-times rock 'n' roll. You can imagine just how excited I was to have stumbled across EndeverafteR.
Led by Michael Grant (vocals & lead guitar), this band sends out a nice big F-U. to the music industry with their debut, "Kiss Or Kill". My first exposure to the band was through YouTube, where I saw the video for the album's opening track, "I Wanna Be Your Man". Thunderous drums, crunchy guitars, cocky vocals and catchy hooks - was I dreaming? Or was this just a tease? Another one-off on a CD otherwise filled with ... well, filler?
The next day I had been to, not one, not two, but three different retail outlets before I found a copy of the album. Once in my car, I popped the CD into the player and simply could not believe my ears! Each and every one of the eleven songs made me grin with satisfaction. When was the last time a band put out an album packed to the seams with nothing but gems? (Uh, that would've been 1980 ... the band was AC/DC and the record was Back In Black).
All the elements of a classic are here. You've got your hard-driving anthems; there's a couple of pop-sensible party tunes; the token arena ballad; a cinematic epic and, just to shut up the non-believers, a sweet acoustic piece complete with mandolin and guest female vocalist. What really becomes obvious with "Kiss OR Kill" is that great songwriting is a craft that, until now, has been lost. But these guys get it. Whenever I'm driving with this CD cranked, I feel like I'm going to the beach (and it's the middle of winter) - THAT's the power of great songwriting!
Favourites for me include "I.W.B.Y.M" , "Baby, Baby, Baby", "Gotta Get Out", "Poison", "Tip Of My Tongue", "All Night" and "Slave". They're great songs to jam along to, with meaty riffs and killer licks. The guitar tones are fantastic - very organic-sounding and not over saturated (which reminds me to mention that I believe we're witnessing the arrival of a new guitar hero in Michael Grant). Oh, and there's something else that catches the listener's attention - melody! Yeah. Melody in the vocal lines ... melody in the solos. And there's harmony too!
So, let me say thank you to Michael Grant for having a vision and turning it into a reality. There was Queen, The Beatles, Kiss and now we've got EndeverafteR. Do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of "Kiss Or Kill" today.
Thanks for reading.
JT