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Have you ever lived with somebody?
I have a very, very nice life as a single man. I've had long-term boyfriends and we've lived together in the summer, but I’m really bad at living with someone. You've never seen my house. Who could live in it but me? I could see someone saying, "I think I'll hang this up." No you won't.

From http://www.buttmagazine.com/Issues/13_johnwaters.html

Summer boyfriends! Best idea ever!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:48 (twenty years ago)

I love me John Waters.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:50 (twenty years ago)

I could never sneer if I had Botox.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:00 (twenty years ago)

oh man, I want a summer boyfriend.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:01 (twenty years ago)

Who doesn't?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:03 (twenty years ago)

it’s like, if God invented sex, why couldn’t there be sex miracles? Aren’t we all looking for sex miracles? I am. Aren’t you? Every time we have sex, do you hope it will the best time ever? That you will levitate or that something explodes in the apartment. Or that somebody spontaneously combusts or flames break out? Surreal things happen when you have good sex. We can hope.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:18 (twenty years ago)

I have his autograph! I have his autograph! I have his autograph!

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:27 (twenty years ago)

I was going to click on that link to read the interview and then I read the URL.

― Dan (SOME OF US ARE AT WORK, DUDE) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

The link is safe except for the word "penis" in the headline. And the screaming pink background color.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:33 (twenty years ago)

one of the funniest men in America - his books are teh awesome

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 22:34 (twenty years ago)

Summer boyfriend! I am still juiced on this idea.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 22:55 (twenty years ago)

What a great interview. I love John Waters.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 23:11 (twenty years ago)

i saw him at the ottobar this past friday! quite possibly the coolest thing ive encountered in my life, ever. he was just hanging out upstairs.

― mts (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 23:33 (twenty years ago)

what a great interview!

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 23:52 (twenty years ago)

...done by a friend and colleague of mine from AN Other Magazine. Very funny - I've still never met JW.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 30 March 2006 06:04 (twenty years ago)

"living with someone" -- have never gotten that either. Wouldn't they just be, y'know, in the way?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:40 (twenty years ago)

Summer boyfriends! Best idea ever!

Amen. Single-use significant other/otter.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Thursday, 30 March 2006 15:19 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...

I almost made a thread about this but it might as well go here. Might have been done before anyway.

That list of magazines he mentions at the end of the interview:

Nest/LA. Weekly/Provincetown Arts Press/Hollywood Reporter/The New York Observer/National Enquirer/Time Out New York/Los Angeles/Jet/New Art Examiner/Frontier Magazine/London Review of Books/WI Cooks Illustrated/Boston Phoenix/New Republic/Us Weekly/Sculpture/Star/Art in America/GQ/Art On Paper/Art & Antiques/Billboard/Unzipped/Blind Spot/Filmmaker/Sotheby's/Rolling Stone/Bomb/Boxoffice/Details/Vogue/Daily Variety/Psychotronic/Baltimore Guide/Frieze/Coagula/In Style/TLS/Vogue/Christie's/Modem Painters/Esquire Elle Decor/Aperture/Villager/Honcho/Globe New York Gallery Guide/Metropolitan Home/New York Press/Moviemaker/Nation/Dazed and Confused/Shout New York/People/Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review/Flash Art/Art & Auction/Advocate/Photo/Publishers Weekly/Ocean Drive/Hamptons/Gourmet/Entertainment Weekly Newsweek/Premiere/Gotham/Out/Interview/Talk/New York/Teen People/Saveur/Town & County/Hellol/Provincetown Banner/Index/Genre/Fangoria/American Photo/Parkett/Spin/ARTnews/New York Review of Books/Adult Video News/Paper/Movieline/Issue/Time/Harper's Bazaar/Variety/Vanity Fair/Baltimore Artforum/Film Comment/Village Voice/List/The New Yorker/Ben Appetit/Shenandoah Journal/Playboy/Video Business/Grand Street Straight to Hell/Videoscope/Detour/Cut

I've had subscriptions to Us Weekly, Rolling Stone, Details, Aperture, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, Premiere, Spin, Time and Film Comment but never all at once. I've never even heard of a few of these.
So yeah, comments on John Waters' subscriptions?

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 5 January 2007 04:12 (nineteen years ago)

A bunch of those magazines are long defunct 90s culture rags. I fucking love that he subscribes to Fangoria.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Saturday, 6 January 2007 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

he details his magazine pathology in that book collection of his essays (which is also teh awesome)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 6 January 2007 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

but yeah, "Shenandoah Journal"? uh.. what?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 6 January 2007 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

That's just the new edition of Crackpot though, right? I have the old one without it, but I remember seeing a similar (possibly identical) list in the Utne reader or something years ago.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Saturday, 6 January 2007 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://colophon.com/privatelibrary/interviews/waters.html

This link's a guided tour through John Waters' library, told in first person.

It's from a few years ago but one of the best things I ever found on the web while bored at work...

― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

I loved his description of a Dream Date -- told to Terry Gross on NPR:

Knock over a 7-Eleven

Get away

Count the money

Have sex

Sleep

Eat bacon

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

I love money, bacon and sex!

― Jesse, Monday, 26 March 2007 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

and sleep?

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 26 March 2007 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

I think John Waters just may be my all time favorite person.

― Nicole, Monday, 26 March 2007 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

I do love sleep too! But I snore, so I don't know if this would be a good idea until I can get some throat-fixin'.

― Jesse, Monday, 26 March 2007 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

"I think John Waters just may be my all time favorite person."

same here.

― scott seward, Monday, 26 March 2007 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

'here, take this hat. it was worn by yale summers in daktari!'

― and what, Monday, 26 March 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

He is up there with Jesus, and my mom, and whoever invented getting high.

― Pye Poudre, Monday, 26 March 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

i like this summer significant other business

― river wolf, Monday, 26 March 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

just for turning me on to james purdy alone i will forever be in his debt. and then there is all the other stuff...

― scott seward, Monday, 26 March 2007 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

If it weren't for John Waters I might have had to learn about "teabagging" from the internet.

― nickalicious, Monday, 26 March 2007 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

i wonder who he gave my blow pop to, or if it just ended up in the trash.

― lauren, Monday, 26 March 2007 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

I still love that story, Lauren. He had to have given it to someone.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 March 2007 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Has anyone else watched his new Court TV show?

― marmotwolof, Monday, 26 March 2007 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in NYC this summer = I should totally try for a summer boyfriend!

Except I will be too busy for a boyfriend. And living at my parents' house. But whatever, details.

― Casuistry, Monday, 26 March 2007 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YnpofBtijF8

― rps, Monday, 26 March 2007 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

That interview linked at the top is hilarious. Every interview with him is hilarious.

― Hurting 2, Monday, 26 March 2007 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

ok that library thing mike linked is awesome too, reading it now. I missed that post on the last revival.

― marmotwolof, Monday, 26 March 2007 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

John Waters Court TV Show?!? No fucking way.

― nickalicious, Monday, 26 March 2007 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

the court tv show was pretty cheesy not in a good way. :(

― chaki, Monday, 26 March 2007 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah nicka it's called Till Death Do Us Part and it's corny reinactments of spousal murders with Waters hosting as "The Groom Reaper".

― marmotwolof, Monday, 26 March 2007 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.courttv.com/onair/shows/til_death_do_us_part/index.html

― marmotwolof, Monday, 26 March 2007 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

The show is basically Court TV-by-way-of-Passions soap opera. It's OK, but the Waters bits are the best.

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 26 March 2007 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

I've had summer boyfriends. It's great! All sex and listening to the radio and cooking up frozen lasagnas. Eating cereal, fucking, sleeping, looking at the pet store. Fun and pressure-free. And if you don't tell them where you live or move to, they can never track you down again. Ha!

― Abbott, Monday, 26 March 2007 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

The guest room is arranged like this: terrorism, sex psychiatric problems, Nazis, religion, severe weather and pornography. It starts with terrorism and moves to the Nazis. The book on Lord Ha-ha, that's my personal favorite. He was the Tokyo Rose of Germany. His wife was Lady Ha-ha. That's the best name I've ever heard in my life.

― marmotwolof, Monday, 26 March 2007 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

He was the Tokyo Rose of Germany.

I thought that was Axis Sally??

the Court TV thing seemed very ... Canadian.

― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 02:00 (nineteen years ago)

His recent appearance on the Daily Show was very nice.

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 02:25 (nineteen years ago)

The male Axis Sally, then:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Haw-Haw

I just like the idea that his guest room is full of Nazi books and porn, and I laughed for about 2 minutes straight thinking about "Lady Ha-ha".

― marmotwolof, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

Oh John, how could you -- that's Mickey Frickin' Avalon next to him:

http://myspace-528.vo.llnwd.net/01516/82/50/1516650528_l.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 03:03 (nineteen years ago)

but, ned:

how many people have the ability to be right next to a flash-in-the-douche such as mickey avalon and still look insanely cool?

― Mike McGooney-gal, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 03:42 (nineteen years ago)

That's one of the most flattering pics of M. Avalon I've seen, not saying much, but...

― marmotwolof, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 03:47 (nineteen years ago)

how many people have the ability to be right next to a flash-in-the-douche such as mickey avalon and still look insanely cool?

You raise a good point.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 03:48 (nineteen years ago)

but he loves freaks and geeks! and if mickey is anything...

― scott seward, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

twelve years pass...

This man is a national treasure. We should have John Waters Day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbSRQUuLE2c

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 29 September 2019 04:20 (six years ago)

The only person I’ve ever seen order a martini at Ottobar. With instructions, politely delivered. The best.

― circa1916, Sunday, 29 September 2019 05:34 (six years ago)

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