I know that I usually blog about my own family, but this one is about someone else's. I watched a documentary the other night about this family (clan would be more accurate) from Boone County, West Virginia. The most notoriously rough and rowdy family in this area of Appalachia........... And that's saying a lot considering this is the same area that spawned the Hatfields and McCoys.
This family is a bunch of hard-drinking, hard-livin' hillbillies. They do drugs, sell drugs, drink copiously, fight regularly, kill occasionally, and spend a great deal of time in and out of courtrooms, hospitals and prisons. Let's put it this way, even the law doesn't f@#k with the Whites in Boone County. They stay the hell outta the way.
I really don't know what fascinated me the most about these people. Maybe the sight of the most famous member, Jesco White, dancing in his daddy's "horseshoe clogs" on a picnic table in front of the old homestead while Hank Williams III strums his guitar and sings a song he wrote about the White clan. Or maybe it's the scene where daughter, Kirk, (Apparently, all the girls have boy's moninkers. To, I suppose, give them a tougher appearance. Completely unnecessary, as these girls can hold their own in a bar fight) snorts Oxycotin in her hospital room only hours after giving birth....... On second thought, it would have to be when Sue Bob, Mamie, Bo (that's another girl, btw), and Derek White smoke pot at Bertie Mae's 85th birthday party while the long-suffering clan matriarch sits under a portrait of Jesus Christ muttering, "Git that sh!t outta my house!" .................. No, no, wait! .............. The cherry on top of this nightmare of a cake would have to be ....... <drumroll> ........ hearing Kirk's (the daughter who was doing drugs in front of her newborn ... remember?) 5- year old son, Tylor, cussing like a sailor and telling his aunt to take him to find his dad so he could "kill that f*@king son of a b#tch!" ...... while in the family mini-van driving his mother to rehab...........
I couldn't make this shit up.
I'd laugh if it weren't so tragic............. No, I take that back............. I was laughing despite my disbelief and horror................. I couldn't help myself.
What else can you do when the family mantra is (according to Maime) "Coming into this world is nothing, going out is nothing... but at least the world knows who the f&@k we are!"
And now you do too.
Check them out at: http://www.wildandwonderfulwhites.com/
"Add this remarkable movie to your must-see list." - Variety
"[it is] the story of the Whites, the most badass family in West Virginia. They’re the Hatfields and McCoys all rolled into one, fired up on every pill in the medicine chest." - New York Magazine
"The Appalachian clan is notorious for criminal activity and reckless, larger-than-life characters. They tap-dance, shoot and stab people (including each other), and sell (and do) a lot of drugs. Think Soprano smeets Coal Miner's Daughter." - boingboing
"It’s a vividly nihilistic counterpoint to the reality-TV era..." - Movieline
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