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"Interview" John Waters has done more than any living American to give bad taste a good name.
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The writer, creator and director of such cult classics as Pink Flamingos, Hairspray and Pecker, John Waters 'has done more than any living American to give bad taste a good name' (Interview). Now this hilarious collection of essays by the man himself reflects his skewed but often thought-provoking worldview. With advice on how not to make a movie, how to become famous, and how to have a sense of humour even if you've been sentenced to life in prison, alongside an assessment of the current state of indie films and much more, this is kooky comedy at its best.
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Los Angeles is everything a great American city should be: rich, hilarious, of questionable taste, and throbbing with fake glamour. Read the first page
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John's wry and dry sense of the absurd blazes its flame through the pathways of this book. Coupled to a deep empathy for the outcast, John takes the telescope and gazes through the middle.Balancing absurdity and alliance with the outsider creates new perspectives disrupting, distorting and fragmenting middle class fixed moral stances. Disruption is Johns stock in trade and nothing is more thought shifting than his film classes for people who have committed the most horrendous crimes as an antidote to switch and burn.
Connecting Dada, Surrealism and American pop, John brings shock to awe creating new art forms in his wake. The man who put more into the Balti. His work will stand over a greater longevity because his conceptualistation still stands as he has connected to a surreal legacy of the dream world. Modern forms will inevitably turn yellow in the sunlight, then fade into obscurity, as a pale pastiche of this proto hippy stroke punk aesthete.
John's humour is not for the sensitive or those who want to live linearly. His bizarre notions only appear that way because the norms of current society are so odd, any form of critique gets labelled.
Wince exudes from each crafted piece as each is a observation and story in itself. You can pick and choose.
If you enjoyed the earlier films, the book will be no surprise in content. Laughed out loud and wincing ricochet from the pages.
Connecting Dada, Surrealism and American pop, John brings shock to awe creating new art forms in his wake. The man who put more into the Balti. His work will stand over a greater longevity because his conceptualistation still stands as he has connected to a surreal legacy of the dream world. Modern forms will inevitably turn yellow in the sunlight, then fade into obscurity, as a pale pastiche of this proto hippy stroke punk aesthete.
John's humour is not for the sensitive or those who want to live linearly. His bizarre notions only appear that way because the norms of current society are so odd, any form of critique gets labelled.
Wince exudes from each crafted piece as each is a observation and story in itself. You can pick and choose.
If you enjoyed the earlier films, the book will be no surprise in content. Laughed out loud and wincing ricochet from the pages.
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This is brilliant! Very well observed and unusual examinations of the world. John Waters is a very funny writer, what catches his eye is superbly amusing If you like his films you'll love this, if you don't know them, check 'em out!
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I got to admit a bit of bias behind this review. I love John Waters and his work so I was bound to love this book. It is a collection of articles that he wrote for various publications. They cover a wide range of subjects including Serial Killers, Films, Life and even Christmas. Always funny and at times quite thought provoking. John Waters is as good a non fiction writer as he is film maker. If your a fan this is the best book you can by for a true insight into the mind of John Waters and he is a lot more normal than you would think. And contradictory he is much odder in some ways than you would imagine. Just wish it was longer. Still he as got two other books out there.
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