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

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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

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 (warmleatherette...), September 19th, 2004.

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

It happened because you embraced FILTH!

I don't know how his post-Divine comic rhythms completely deserted him in A Dirty Shame.

Doesn't Ebert say everything before Polyester aren't "real movies," or some such? Very weird coming from a former Russ Meyer collaborator.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link

John Waters, I love you:

After his new Court TV show comes on the air, the wedding invitations will probably start drying up for filmmaker John Waters.

The pencil-mustached Waters is developing a series, "'Til Death Do Us Part," that will dramatize the events of a married couple where one spouse eventually kills the other.

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Waters will star as "the groom reaper," appearing as an unexpected guest at the couple's wedding, then guiding viewers through the story as the relationship disintegrates. The series doesn't have a start date.

Court TV General Manager Marc Juris said Tuesday that Waters is expecting some fringe benefits from the role.

"He hates going to weddings," Juris said, "and figures by doing this show he'll never get invited to weddings."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 04:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Ignore that 'ADVERTISEMENT' bit, I forgot to trim it out.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 04:42 (eighteen years ago) link

I will read all of this later. I just came to support this fine thread.

I recently bought Pink Flamingoes on DVD and am a much happier man because of it.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 05:19 (eighteen years ago) link

I was so disappointed that the cartoon series he was trying to make never went anywhere.

― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 05:34 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Waters interview on his current Chelsea Unwatchable show, running through Saturday. (I think Giuliani would've closed it down for the 9/11-Earth vs the Flying Saucers content if he were still mayor.)

http://www.greencine.com/article?action=view&articleID=297&pageID=540

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link

what msicheif!

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Thursday, 18 May 2006 02:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I just watched Desperate Living. Classic.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 18 May 2006 02:57 (seventeen years ago) link

eight months pass...

A Date With John Waters(!)

Also this:
An occasional actor himself, Mr. Waters will play the Groom Reaper, the Alfred Hitchcock-like host of Court TV’s first scripted series, “ ’Til Death Do Us Part,” beginning March 19.

― g00blar (gooblar), Sunday, 11 February 2007 12:02 (seventeen years ago) link

"Hi stupid! Hi ugly!"

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Patience & Prudence get another post-career bump.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

"The pencil-mustached Waters". Pah! Everyone knows it's a crack in a china teacup mustache.

― everything, Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Steve Buscemi says that his wife is turned on by the fact that he looks like John Waters. Buscemi has grown the Waters mustache just for her.

― Fluffy Bear, Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:38 (seventeen years ago) link

how rotten.

― estela, Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought the only people attracted by mustaches were cops and bears

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 22 February 2007 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, how do you know Mrs. Buscemi is neither?

― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Waters sent out a Christmas card in the late nineties that had a picture of Buscemi impersonating Waters. Great chuckles ensued.

― EZ Snappin, Friday, 23 February 2007 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link

did anyone in nyc see this filthy world when it played for, like, a week?

― impudent harlot, Friday, 23 February 2007 03:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I had a dream my Waters CD was missing a second disc. How...dull!

― Abbott, Friday, 23 February 2007 03:26 (seventeen years ago) link

He's one of my favorite interviewees ever - good bit on Terry Gross recently when he was promoting the Valentines Day comp he put out.

― Hurting 2, Friday, 23 February 2007 05:03 (seventeen years ago) link

this filthy world looked redundant after seeing him do stuff live. Duras 'seminar' above, etc.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm reading the memoirs of tennessee williams, with an excellent introduction from waters. he's such a reliably funny and charming interviewee/speaker/writer-for-hire.

― lauren, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I saw the DVD of This Filthy World, it's mostly stuff you've read/heard elsewhere.

― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 23 February 2007 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link

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