Nerdlinger

John Waters is right - as always

I have just finished reading the latest Waters book. Role Models.  Publishers Weekly describes it like this (and I can’t improve on the description):

The director of the gross-out epic Pink Flamingos and other cinematic provocations salutes the people he finds inspiring—himself foremost among them—in these self-regarding essays. Waters’s role models range from icons like Johnny Mathis and Tennessee Williams to a gay reality-porn auteur, a lesbian stripper called Lady Zorro, and ex-Charles Manson groupie and murderer Leslie Van Houten. When he pays attention to them, Waters produces vivid portraits of his subjects, especially those with really lurid backstories, but he’s happier when the spotlight is on him and his studied outrageousness. He discusses celebrity and the graphic pornography on his walls, and regales readers with scatological scandals, disdaining religious beliefs while graciously tolerating people who hold them. 

I recommend the book.

Somebody made this image macro of a quote by John Waters and it just makes me happy.
 

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