you may already know that girls bore me. the only thing that bores me more is perfect couples. you know the type. in high school it was the head cheerdancer who sprouted a perfect rack in middle school and the jockstrap quarterback. in college it was … well i smoked too much hash and ate too many mushrooms in college so i don’t remember who it was. and as adults it’s these people:

not fun
do you see an edge here? of course not. they’re perfect and don’t know how to have fun. they’re in training for some marathon. always. and they get all wacky the night before their marathons and and have wild carbo-loading parties. riveting.
no, what i like is a badass couple. a rockstar couple that doesn’t give a flying fuck what people think. they’re just true to their firey desires. they’re a hot mess and fucked everywhichway but loose. and that’s why i study these couples:

she tastes just like a peach
clarence and alabama are the epitome of true romance and living on the edge. clarence is an elvis impersonator and alabama is a hooker. clarence becomes her hero when he kills her pimp and steals his suitcase of coke. these two soul mates head to cali to sell the coke and all along they have the mob on their trail. there’s tons of blood, rape and murder, but in the end, here’s what alabama says:
“Amid the chaos of that day, when all I could hear was the thunder of gunshots, and all I could smell was the violence in the air, I look back and am amazed that my thoughts were so clear and true, that three words went through my mind endlessly, repeating themselves like a broken record: you’re so cool, you’re so cool, you’re so cool.”
speaking of blood, there’s these two:

note his blood necklace. that's hot, motherfucker.
ohmyfuckinggod! wearing each other’s blood on a necklace is so erotic. just shut up, this is my fantasy, bitches. i always imagined them alone in some isolated cabin in the woods doing wicked pagan things like cutting each other and making a suicide pact so they could be together for all of eternity.
and the rad couple who actually pulled off the ultimate suicide pact? romeo and juliet. these two BAMFs couldn’t live without each other so they killed themselves to preserve their forbidden love forever. and delivered a big fuck you to their feuding fams.

hard core elizabethans
then there is the punk romeo and juliet, sid and nancy.

vicious is delicious
ok, so he stabbed her to death, but they were always talking about killing themselves. and after it happened he proclaimed he couldn’t live without her and hadn’t kept his end of the bargain. when he was released from prison he intentionally overdosed to be with her again. their lives were full of violence, volatility, and the ecstasy of heroin. tragically punk and tragically sexy!
alright, alright enough about the seductiveness of suicide pacts. let’s get back to fun. and who had more fun than these gangstas?

guns are a rush
bonnie and clyde. nothing gets the libido pounding like being outlaw bank robbers. i’d seriously like to try this shit. just for the mothefucking rush. or at least i’d like to join these gun-toting, cigar-smoking punks in a bed strewn with stolen cash and a smoking pistol.
more exhilirating than serial bank robbing couples might just be serial killing couples.

psychopaths are sexy
mickey and mallory are natural born killers. he helps her kill her sexual abusing father and enabling mother and they go off on a killing spree across route 666. along the way they tease and tantalize their victims, and kill just for kicks. hey a kick is a kick. never knock a kick because we don’t get enough of them in life. these two were tight and had some trippy, psychedelic sex. tell me this convo isn’t romantic:
Mickey: The whole world’s comin’ to an end, Mal!
Mallory: I see angels, Mickey. They’re comin’ down for us from heaven. And I see you ridin’ a big red horse, and you’re driving them horses, whippin’ ‘em, and they’re spitting and frothing all ‘long the mouth, and they’re coming right at us. And I see the future, and there’s no death, ’cause you and I, we’re angels…
Mickey: I love you, Mal.
Mallory: I know you do baby, and I’ve loved you since the day we met.
and last but most important, fight club’s own tyler and marla.

crazy sex gives me goose bumps
he forms fight clubs where men act out their aggressions and violently beat each other to a pulp. and she is a disturbing, chain-smoking, sex-starved tourist. amongst the blood, violence and xanax overdoses, these two have THE MOST stupendous sex in the world. in one scene she is yelping in ecstasy as they are pounding away and it’s causing plaster to fall from the ceiling in the room below them where jack the narrator (or everyman) sits. marla says:
“My God. I haven’t been fucked like that since grade school.” epic.
who are your favorite badass couples?