"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 (April 22) is John Waters' birthday. He's a personal weird, filthy hero of mine (since I was about 16, despite me being cis), and I have a bit of a Waters collection going.

On my birthday this year, I found a KILLER deal for the Blu-ray Criterion Collection version of Pink Flamingos, and this is what is included inside of it- mini newspaper!

Happy birthday to John, and may he continue to be a huge inspiration to so many of us.

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

One of my favorite directors and also and incredibly writer and monologist I've had the pleasure to see a few times now.

His absurd early work. His tamer later work. It is all great.

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

I've just seen someone argue that Pink Flamingos ruined Divine's reputation.

Babe. No.

Born 19 October 1945, died 7 March 1988: #Divine (Harris Glenn Milstead) revolutionized drag queen artistry. She is a saint of #Antinous. "She started as a homicidal maniac and ended playing a loving mother."-- #JohnWaters

Have a sudden urge to watch #JohnWaters films, so starting with Cry-Baby, which is a personal fave despite how far Depp has fallen.

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.

Originaria de Baltimore, Harris Glenn Milstead, (1945-1988) fue víctima de acoso escolar debido a su peso y su forma de ser.
Pero todo cambió cuando en los años 60 se mudó a Nueva York y empezó a frecuentar la escena underground de la ciudad. Ahí es donde nació Divine: un personaje excéntrico y provocador, actriz, cantante y un símbolo de libertad y de expresión individual.
#cine #cinema #pelicula #cinematoday #queer #dragqueen #drag #queerculture #culturaqueer #Johnwaters #divine

Hoy en #cinemastodon una joya de lo camp y el mal gusto: Pink Flamingos de John Waters.
Abro hilo:
#cine #cinema #pelicula #cinematoday #queer #dragqueen #drag #queerculture #culturaqueer #Johnwaters #divine

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"

Costume designer Van Smith, who worked with John Waters on every movie from "Pink Flamingos" to "A Dirty Shame", will be inducted posthumously into the Costume Designers Guild's Edith Piaf Hall of Fame February 6, with Waters presenting the honor.

I watched MULTIPLE MANIACS for the first time last night and subsequently had John Waters-esque dreams as bizarre and extreme as the film itself.

I'm very excited to welcome the iconic #JohnWaters as my guests on tonight's show! We'll be talking about #Christmas (in ways that only he can), as well as his 1994 movie #SerialMom.

I'll also be visited by 3 ghosts; #TheSmashingPumpkins' Billy Corgan (Past), Michael Franti (Present), and Lacey Guthrie (Future), and we'll dig into the theme song for #Futurama.

6p ET on 91.9 WFPK