Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Signature one...john waters

so having decided to get filmmaker tattoos John waters made sense...see with John I first realized the concept of filmmakers.
see I grew up with a minimal world view on cinema. See movies had no connection aside from sequels. There was no "hey lets see the newest Spielberg movie!" no concept of personal style. Now I won't tell how I met John waters cinema (http://www.dreamlandnews.com/fans/zero_p.shtml
) see I'll tell you the story of Sonya orloff.
one day as I was waiting for a tram to take me up to college (it was on a hill) a lady I would now state was very much like Valerie solanis struck up a conversation with me. She saw me reading a magazine with John on it and suddenly she was grilling me on his other work. I felt inferior having only seen serial mom. I told her I'd check out the rest. I met a new world.
I've always been attracted to the more eccentric parts of life. But in John waters I found with a similar taste of the absurd.
if my filmmaker tattoos represent a specific time in my life I think John waters's signature represents a transition period for me. I got into John as I was discovering my queer identity. Meeting him, having iconic LA punk legend jenny Lenz take a picture of him signing my arm..just surreal. Since meeting him it seems like every unique and interesting person I've met has somehow involved John waters (not to say I haven't met people that haven't). One time someone struck up a conversation with me because I was reading a John waters book on the redline...and I had a Sonya orloff flashback.

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