Me like John Waters. John Waters=Good...The man is a dyed-in-the-wool, obsessive eccentric. He is a man who has no absolutely no qualms about trumpeting his quirky fascinations through a metaphorical megaphone. He is a fascinating lunatic. He is a man I admire. He is a man after my own weird heart. I am a man of many obsessions, and so I do take great delight when these obsessions cross paths...when my heroes join forces to form a kind of truly twisted gestalt...and John Waters, above all else has delighted me to no end in this fashion.
He has become a cross-reference among so many of my obsessions and heroes that it has become difficult to keep track of just how many of my favorite humans that Mr. Waters has collaborated with. Not only has he appeared as a character on The Simpsons, but has also suffered a hideous death at the hands of Chucky the killer doll as sleazy tabloid reporter "Pete Peters" in "Bride of Chucky". He portrayed Sean Penn's slightly sleazy, musical benefactor, Mr. Haynes, in Woody Allen's "Sweet and Lowdown", employed one of my all-time favorite bands, L7 , as the band "Camel Lips" in "Serial Mom", and also appeared as a perverted priest in Herschell Gordon Lewis' and David F. Friedman's exploitation swansong, "Blood Feast 2: All You Can Eat". ...now that is a goddamn filmography to be reckoned with in my book. Something more akin to P.T. Barnum than Steven Spielberg on the Internet Movie Database. And that is only the tip of the nutty John Waters iceberg....for I am only naming the films in which one of my favorite lunatics has crossed paths with some of my other favorite loonies . When an obsession meets another obsession, something magical can happen. John Waters, Chucky, Herschell Gordon Lewis, David F. Friedman, L-7, Woody Allen, The Simpsons....tis' the stuff of magic
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