John Waters Insists Bad Taste, Cultural Sensitivity are Compatible

Movie director and author John Waters is championing his position as the "Pope of Trash" through a sharp cultural turn that would do away with his feifdom all together were it not for his leadership.

"Total Trash Productions", the event planners behind an annual music festival in Oakland for which Waters MC'd, is undergoing sensitivity training, the SF Chronicle reports:

Marc Ribak and Amy Carver of Total Trash Productions severed ties with the festival’s former namesake Burger Records after dozens of women took to social media to share their experiences of sexual coercion by older musicians from a long list of bands on the Southern California garage rock label, including the East Bay punk band SWMRS, which features drummer Joey Armstrong (son of Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong), the Buttertones, Cosmonauts, the Growlers and the Black Lips, among others.

Waters told Marc Maron this week that while he himself is a liberal, "I fear liberal censorship today more than conservative censorship. Because conservatives don't care about me, I'm a lost cause."

"We made fun of the hippies, but I was one," Waters told Maron. He's a pillar of distinction and differentiation. "Divine was thought up to scare hippies."

"I was a Weathermen hag, I wasn't a Weatherman." But he liked them and hung around them. "I thought they were cute, basically."


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Further Reading:

2017 - "It’s hard to make good satire that stands the test of time, but, as cheap as it was to make, Baltimore filmmaker John Waters’ satire has aged like a fine wine."   dazeddigital.com




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