Apr 7, 2017
Movie Meltdown - Episode 390
This week we talk with the one,
the only - John Waters. Now is
he intrinsically evil? Well, we'd say no.
But the Censor Board may have a different answer. Or The Baltimore
Police Department. Or certain Canadian film distributors. Or...
well, there's probably a lot of people.
Listen as we revisit stories of his
early days of shooting films in his hometown, specifically, the
newly restored and rereleased Multiple Maniacs. And just
how this kid from Baltimore got together with his friends and
inadvertently came to offend so many people over the years. But
along with these crazy stories comes some wisdom. So as John goes
out into the world and talks to people today... does he hold the
key to living an interesting and fulfilling life? Listen and find
out for yourself.
And as we bask in the cultured
luster of Janus
Films presents, we also discuss... The Cavalcade Of
Perversion... on their front lawn, shooting on 16mm, it's like a
hostage video, smoking pot and taking acid, lobsters are scary, the
Theatre of the Absurd, tawdry, they look like snuff movies, it was
my monster movie and Divine was the monster,there was no art
direction in there, Edward Albee, in black and white, we were all
kids that were in trouble in suburbia, There
were no laws really
against that, the Theatre of the Absurd, that was a friend of mine
that was a junkie, I was just so thrilled you could see it and hear
it, oh God no wonder my parents were uptight, she started sobbing
and screaming, we weren't really like that... but our humor was
really like that, the judge read us a poem, in my LSD'ed mind at
the time, with those two big Mickey Mouse ears, we wanted to be
hippies and beatniks, magnetic stripe sound, which at that time was
fairly radical, the stations of the cross, it was a joke on an
exploitation movie, she was kind of goth before there was such a
thing, Conspiracy To Commit Indecent Exposure and
Lobstora.
Spoiler Alert: While we talk
extensively about Multiple Maniacs, I'm pretty sure you
can't really 'spoil' that movie. You just need to see it yourself
to truly experience it. So go watch Multiple
Maniacs!
"We didn't have permits, we
didn't ask to shoot. We just hit and run!"