"You stand convicted of Assholism!" -- in praise of John Waters

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Got around to seeing Polyester a few weeks back and the snooty drive-in alone slew me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 27 July 2003 17:41 (twenty years ago) link

My mum used to work with his cousin. He told her that JW was from a very posh Catholic family in Baltimore and that although they thought he was a total nutter, his whole family absolutely loves him.

― suzy (suzy), Sunday, 27 July 2003 17:44 (twenty years ago) link

He seems perfectly polite and very well spoken, what family wouldn't love him?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 27 July 2003 17:44 (twenty years ago) link

:) I think it's great that Baltimore loves him too, the Sun declared him Marylander of the Year last year, I believe.

― daria g (daria g), Sunday, 27 July 2003 18:10 (twenty years ago) link

I can't figure who beset represents America-John Waters or David Lynch...

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 27 July 2003 19:28 (twenty years ago) link

If only all Americans were one or the other....

― Tag (Tag), Sunday, 27 July 2003 19:43 (twenty years ago) link

dontcha think? ;-)

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 27 July 2003 19:44 (twenty years ago) link

Surely your economy would collapse with only two people?

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 27 July 2003 22:41 (twenty years ago) link

Nah.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 27 July 2003 22:59 (twenty years ago) link

kephm is that asterisk supposed to be a picture of a asshole like in that vonnegut book or are you worried about attracting creeps who do goog searches for the word "asshole"?

― duane, Monday, 28 July 2003 00:38 (twenty years ago) link

No, Nick, lots of people, but all David Lynch or John Waters. And let's say...oh, Kirsten Dunst.

― Tag (Tag), Monday, 28 July 2003 07:54 (twenty years ago) link

whoa, this thread is quite timely - i'm actually seeing a showing of Polyester at the local arthouse on Wednesday - complete with Scratch n' Sniff card handouts or whatever, I guess a number pops on the screen and you are supposed to scratch off the card and smell it at that point.

― jason m. (jason m), Monday, 28 July 2003 16:27 (twenty years ago) link

Exactly. Be prepared for a bit of vileness.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 July 2003 16:29 (twenty years ago) link

breathe deeply!

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 28 July 2003 19:04 (twenty years ago) link

I liked the way they tricked you into the vileness, too => This is how it works, smell this good smell...now smell this one.

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 28 July 2003 21:26 (twenty years ago) link

audience by Pavlov

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 28 July 2003 22:56 (twenty years ago) link

I am timely.

What is the trick of being an adorable asshole?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 00:45 (twenty years ago) link

Don't try it--it doesn't work in the long run

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 00:52 (twenty years ago) link

I've seen John Waters speak live twice and he essentially just talks about his career for an hour or so, but being as his career consists of John Waters films, it's essentially like standup comedy. John Waters = Classic. Make certain to check out A Dirty Shame when it comes out next year.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 03:01 (twenty years ago) link

the documentary on him is good, don't know the title--sorry for the useless, content-less post.

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 06:21 (twenty years ago) link

You mean Divine Trash?

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 06:24 (twenty years ago) link

Yes!

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 31 July 2003 04:05 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah. I don't like Steve Yeager. He was kinda a bit too nebbish for my tastes.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 31 July 2003 05:18 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

"Fashion can change!"
"No, it CAN'T!"

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 19 September 2004 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link

ok, what's with all the John water's revives?

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 19 September 2004 18:17 (nineteen years ago) link

When's A Dirty Shame coming out?

― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 19 September 2004 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I wished I loved his movies as much as I love him. Still, he is clearly one of the people who makes the planet a better place. My absolute favorite thing about him is response he gave in a NY Times interview about ten years back, when asked about his own sex life. As I remember it: "I've tried everything short of necrophilia and discovered I like kissing best."

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Sunday, 19 September 2004 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link

And yes Divine Trash is great. I wouldn't mind a sequel talking about the rest of the seventies films up through Polyester.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 September 2004 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I like the interview with him on the special edition of Pink Flamingos "'Cunt Eyes!' What was I thinking?"

that had me laughing for days. he gives the best sheepish little chuckle/snort as he says it.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 19 September 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link

i met him at a book signing, and my tongue was like turquoise from a blue raspberry blow pop i'd just been eating. he said, "oh my god! look at your mouth? what is that?"
i offered him the other blow pop i had in my bag and he pocketed it, saying "ooh, i'm going to give this to someone i really hate!"

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 19 September 2004 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link

not fair!

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 19 September 2004 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link

When's A Dirty Shame coming out?

it had a limited release for baltimore on the 17th and is nationwide (but only 100 prints!) on the 24th.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 19 September 2004 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link

That is a great story, lauren.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:03 (nineteen years ago) link

lauren, you have the best famous people stories!

― rainy (rainy), Monday, 20 September 2004 02:28 (nineteen years ago) link

i dropped a lit cigarette on robyn hitchcock's foot.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 20 September 2004 02:50 (nineteen years ago) link

awesome.

yeah i wish i liked his movies half as much as i like the guy.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 20 September 2004 02:54 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

The outrageous joke in Polyester of the high-end drive-in showing Marguerite Duras films and the stop-motion animation promo with the caviar and the Piper-Heidsieck bottle = John Waters, I love you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:22 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.sfstation.com/event.php?eventId=877

― adam... (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 November 2004 19:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I have that CD! Just got it on Wednesday and it's a treat.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 November 2004 20:24 (nineteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

"Thank you from the bottom of my black little heart! You came here for some excitement tonight and that's just what you're going to get! Take a good look at ME because I'm going to be on the front of every newspaper in this country tomorrow! You're looking at crime personified AND DON'T YOU FORGET IT! I framed Leslie Bacon! I called the heroin hot line on Abby Hoffman! I bought the gun that Bremmer used to shoot Wallace! I had an affair with Juan Corona! I blew Richard Speck! AND I'M SO FUCKING BEAUTIFUL I CAN'T STAND IT MYSELF!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I am watching pecker right now and obviously not paying too much attention. i've already seen it a few times though, it's still great.

― jeffrey (johnson), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:21 (eighteen years ago) link

One of the few left I still need to get. The idea that one can have John Waters-penned rants playing at any time you choose = I love the continual repercussion of the home video transformation.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:30 (eighteen years ago) link

my voicemail message has been mink's screed against the wrong number in desperate living for over a year now.

"HELLO? WHAT NUMBER ARE YOU CALLING? YOU'VE DIALED THE WRONG NUMBER! SORRY?? WHAT GOOD IS THAT?? HOW CAN YOU EVER REPAY THE THIRTY SECONDS YOU HAVE STOLEN MY LIFE?? I HATE YOU, YOUR HUSBAND, YOUR CHILDREN, AND YOUR RELATIVES!!! (click)"

― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:44 (eighteen years ago) link

stolen FROM. ahem.

― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:44 (eighteen years ago) link

I was saved from a drunken depressed stupor on election night 2004 around 3 in the morning when I finally changed the channel from election returns to Female Trouble.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 10 November 2005 05:40 (eighteen years ago) link

this is my favorite ilx post of all time, easy.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 10 November 2005 08:05 (eighteen years ago) link

same here, walter!

― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 10 November 2005 08:07 (eighteen years ago) link

i wonder who ended up getting that blow pop.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 10 November 2005 13:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Tonight it is Serial Mom. Not as good as Pecker but enjoyable nonetheless.

― jeffrey (johnson), Friday, 11 November 2005 04:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, shit. Why did I skip out on most of the film series AND HIS LECTURE when they/he played at the student union last year? *sighs*

― Chris F. (servoret), Friday, 11 November 2005 08:03 (eighteen years ago) link

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I still have my card from when I saw it in the 80s. Haven't sniffed it recently, wonder if it's still got the aromas.

― nickn, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link

four months pass...

A hero has passed.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/obituaries/bs-md-ob-david-gluck-20200619-tgunh2dcazbl5pvymnvho2ecvy-story.html

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 June 2020 02:09 (three years ago) link

Also rewatched Female Trouble the other day having finally gotten the Criterion Blu-ray and man, that thing's more crazily prescient than ever.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 June 2020 02:16 (three years ago) link

four months pass...

But of course

John Waters bequeaths his art collection to Baltimore Museum of Art, whose bathrooms will be named in his honor https://t.co/BqVZPKx74z
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) November 12, 2020

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:06 (three years ago) link

perfect

― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:07 (three years ago) link

my house appeared in pecker for two seconds and i am trying to remember if the house at the end of my street was pecker's house or if i made that up, either way i feel part of this

― superdeep borehole (harbl), Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:50 (three years ago) link

ten months pass...

Lovely new feature

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a37460247/john-waters-cover-story-interview-2021/

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 September 2021 15:09 (two years ago) link

two months pass...

Just saw the first date of this year’s Christmas tour here in SF, great as ever. Some news:

*4K of Cry-baby on Kino Lorber next year

* Possible Criterion of Pink Flamingos in the works.

* First novel next year! Liarmouth — about a woman who steals luggage from airports.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 05:51 (two years ago) link

Seeing the Xmas show tonight

― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 18:25 (two years ago) link

three months pass...

And it's happening

https://www.criterion.com/films/31320-pink-flamingos

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:49 (two years ago) link

Pink Flamingos is one of the films, like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, that I saw numerous times when I was younger, and agree is culturally or historically significant (!) yet have no desire to watch again.

― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 17 March 2022 18:31 (two years ago) link

I have Pink Flamingos on a VHS videotape somewhere and honestly watching it on a 4K Blu-Ray seems like an example of comically missing the point.

― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Thursday, 17 March 2022 19:45 (two years ago) link

Luckily it's just a normal BR.

― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Thursday, 17 March 2022 19:47 (two years ago) link

two months pass...

New book, new interview etc.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/scaachikoul/john-waters-book-liarmouth

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 22:41 (one year ago) link

Great read! Thanks Ned!

― BrianB, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 11:05 (one year ago) link

one year passes...

omg omg omg

John Waters to make first film in 20 years with Aubrey Plaza set to star

― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 18:34 (two months ago) link

Here's hoping!

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 18:57 (two months ago) link

Wow, can't believe it's been that long. By a weird coincidence I am currently reading Liarmouth and it very much feels like one of his films.

― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 19:12 (two months ago) link

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