My friend is watching Serial Mom for the first time, and chatting with me occasionally while he does it. I'm honestly having a ball seeing his reactions.

"When people say your work is terrible, keep going."

#JohnWaters on Punk, Serial Mom, and Liarmouth

https://www.lpm.org/music/2024-12-24/john-waters-dont-listen-when-people-say-your-work-is-terrible-keep-going

Born on this day in 1946, filmmaker extra ordinem, John Waters.
#JohnWaters

Today in Labor History April 22 April 22, 1946: Writer and director, John Waters, was born. Among his many classic films are his early low budget trash films, staring Divine, like Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and Polyester (filmed in “odoroma” with scratch and sniff cards). His later, higher budget films include Pecker, Dirty Shame, Cecil B. Demented, and Hairspray. In the Cockettes documentary, he said the famous drag performers were an early influence on his films.

https://youtu.be/AIPF8mk1a4Q

We need to be queer-as-f**k in the face of overwhelming oppression. Those of us who feel called to be visible can stand as lights for those trapped in the darkness of their closets. We will meet fear with pride, and a healthy dose of fabulous silliness. Because silly is a superpower.

https://wildhunt.org/2025/04/divine-subversion-as-queer-resistance.html

AMAZING birthday stuff from Friday. 2017 Low repress & check the rad shit from inside the Criterion Pink Flamingos!

Today in Labor History February 4, 1974: The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) kidnapped Patty Hearst, granddaughter of American publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, in Berkeley, California. One of the SLA’s demands for releasing Hearst was for her family to pay for millions of dollars’ worth of food to be given out free the poor and unhoused of the San Francisco Bay Area. The Hearst complied, with various community organizations distributing 100,000 bags of groceries at 16 sites in 4 counties, before violence brought the program to a halt. The violence occurred because the crowds were bigger than expected and workers started throwing boxes of food off of moving trucks. As a captive, Patty Hearst was held in a closet, blindfolded, with her hands tied, raped and threatened repeatedly with death. She was later offered the choice of freedom, or joining the SLA. She chose the latter. Consequently, she was later sentenced to 35 years in prison for her complicity in SLA robberies. After several years in prison, her sentence was commuted by President Carter. President Clinton pardoned her. Congressional Representative Leo Ryan was murdered by the Jim Jones cult in Guyana several weeks after collecting signatures for her release. Actor John Wayne, of all people, expressed frustration that everyone accepted the idea that Jones had brainwashed hundreds of his followers into mass suicide, but wouldn’t accept that the SLA could have brainwashed a teenage girl. After her release, Hearst went on to become an actress, appearing in several John Waters films, as well as many others.

Staff pick:
The #typography for the #JohnWaters Collection on Criterion Channel brings together Flyer, Red Top, and a whole bunch of styles from House Industries’ Sign Painter series. These choices evoke lettering as seen in the US in the mid-20th century, the era in which films like Hairspray, Female Trouble and Cry-Baby are set.
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/65390/john-waters-collection-on-criterion-channel

John Waters on Ivy Compton-Burnett, from his marvellous book "Role Models"

The Best Movies of 2024, According to John Waters

An enthusiastic recollection of the outré offerings you should have seen this year

#Film #Movies #2024 #JohnWaters

https://www.vulture.com/article/john-waters-best-movies-of-2024.html

Speaking of #JohnWaters, someone linked me to this.

And if #WernerHerzog isn't autistic *I'll* jump into a cactus patch. Which is a reference to my favorite Werner Herzog moment (linked in the next post).

https://youtu.be/m9P_sxaaMJE?si=M_YFeLfS7z83nLqM

Today, October 29, the mayor of Baltimore declares it “Honey Whitlock Day” in honor of the A-list actress. Shortly after, she is kidnapped by director Cecil B. Demented and forced to star in his independent film (Cecil B. Demented, 2000)

Today, October 5, a Baltimore jury hears the closing arguments in the trial of unassuming middle-class mom and accused serial killer Beverly Sutphin (Serial Mom, 1994)

I just just made my record player like 10x cooler. #JohnWaters makes everything cooler.

Today, June 2, Baltimore TV viewers elect Little Inez Stubbs as Miss Hairspray, making her the lead dancer on the Corny Collins Show and racially integrating the show (Hairspray, 2007)

https://www.salon.com/2024/06/01/john-waters-reveals-on-real-time-the-one-shot-of-he-hopes-to-see-post-sentencing/

#JohnWaters
#Icon
#Pride

Today in Labor History April 22 April 22, 1946: Writer and director, John Waters, was born. Among his many classic films are his early low budget trash films, staring Divine, like Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and Polyester (filmed in “odoroma” with scratch and sniff cards). His later, higher budget films include Pecker, Dirty Shame, Cecil B. Demented, and Hairspray. In the Cockettes documentary, he said the famous drag performers were an early influence on his films.

BREAKING!!!!

raine
@thegorezone
"john waters, paul verhoeven and david cronenberg are all working on new movies right now. it’s like they saw all the anti-sex scene discourse and assembled the pervert film elder avengers"

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2024/2/26/aubrey-plaza-set-to-star-in-john-waters-liarmouth

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/feb/27/john-waters-to-make-first-film-in-20-years-with-aubrey-plaza-set-to-star

Whoa

#JohnWaters is going to make a film with #AubreyPlaza

His first in 20 years

Today in Labor History February 4, 1974: The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) kidnapped Patty Hearst, granddaughter of American publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, in Berkeley, California. One of the SLA’s demands for releasing Hearst was for her family to pay for millions of dollars’ worth of food to be given out free the poor and unhoused of the San Francisco Bay Area. The Hearst complied, with various community organizations distributing 100,000 bags of groceries at 16 sites in 4 counties, before violence brought the program to a halt. The violence occurred because the crowds were bigger than expected and workers started throwing boxes of food off of moving trucks. As a captive, Patty Hearst was held in a closet, blindfolded, with her hands tied, raped and threatened repeatedly with death. She was later offered the choice of freedom, or joining the SLA. She chose the latter. Consequently, she was later sentenced to 35 years in prison for her complicity in SLA robberies. After several years in prison, her sentence was commuted by President Carter. President Clinton pardoned her. Congressional Representative Leo Ryan was murdered by the Jim Jones cult in Guyana several weeks after collecting signatures for her release. Actor John Wayne, of all people, expressed frustration that everyone accepted the idea that Jones had brainwashed hundreds of his followers into mass suicide, but wouldn’t accept that the SLA could have brainwashed a teenage girl. After her release, Hearst went on to become an actress, appearing in several John Waters films, as well as many others.