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

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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

I was so pissed that i missed his lecture when he came to ann arbor/ypsilanti. My buddy went and reported later that he was on stage, going on about gay porn and folks had brought their kids to the show. Something about, "You never just see an asshole, you know? It's always something going in or something coming out."

― kingfish orange creamsicle (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 11 November 2005 08:16 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Serial Mom is way better than Pecker.

Last night I watched a torrent of an old Incredibly Strange Film Show episode on John Waters, made just after Hairspray and Divine's death. It was really good. Jonathan Ross' shoes were awful.

― Soledad (nordicskilla), Saturday, 3 December 2005 00:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Adam OTM. Pecker's better than the most recent one though.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 3 December 2005 00:28 (eighteen years ago) link

I've never seen you say "Adam OTM"!

That brought a tear to my eye.

― Soledad (nordicskilla), Saturday, 3 December 2005 00:31 (eighteen years ago) link

You are making feel like an unsupportive father figure now.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 3 December 2005 00:34 (eighteen years ago) link

his writing pieces in "Crackpot" are fucking hilarious.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 3 December 2005 00:36 (eighteen years ago) link

You are making feel like an unsupportive father figure now.

I just want to make you proud!

― Soledad (nordicskilla), Saturday, 3 December 2005 00:57 (eighteen years ago) link

I think it's hysterical that he introduced Brigid Berlin and Patty Hearst to each other.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Saturday, 3 December 2005 02:49 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

At the post-screening discussion of Marguerite Duras' The Truck the other night, Waters described MD's onscreen intimidation of Gerard Depardieu with "She's topping from the bottom."

I wonder what he's thinking about Travolta following in Divine's footsteps:

http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=10546

And with the director of Bringing Down the House -- WATCH OUT!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link

I think avoiding that film will be a high priority.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

I bought this box set of JW films for my girlfriend. It is awesome. John Waters is perhaps the greatest guy ever.

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 17 March 2006 11:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Agreed. A Dirty SHame is a Masterpiece. I just watched Pink Flamingos the other day. Gross at times, but so loveable mostly. Licking the furniture to curse it is priceless. Mink Stole is so cute.

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know how it happened, but I've gone from being pretty washy on this guy (liking Serial Mom and not much else) to thinking he was basically The Filmmaker of the '70s.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:08 (eighteen years ago) link

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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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