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"Yet somehow, every day of my life is still a campaign for popularity, or better yet, a crowded funeral."
-John Waters, Role Models, New York: Farrar. 24.
I went to see Waters be interviewed by Scott Heim on his tour for this book. Waters was great - he kept using lines from the book, so it was like a trailer for the book. And I can hear his voice now when I read the book.
But this sentence made me feel a bit sad for him. He was comparing himself to, of all people, Johnny Mathis. And that sentence is mixed in with lots of him talking about finding his own community when the communities he was supposed to belong to both rejected him and weren't appealing to join, anyway.
So the book is about John Waters' role models. But also, it's about the nature and textures of love and making connections. Which sounds absurdly grandiose if you read almost any other sentence out of this book. But he is talking about the intricacies of the human heart in with all the rest of it. He's sly, that way.
-John Waters, Role Models, New York: Farrar. 24.
I went to see Waters be interviewed by Scott Heim on his tour for this book. Waters was great - he kept using lines from the book, so it was like a trailer for the book. And I can hear his voice now when I read the book.
But this sentence made me feel a bit sad for him. He was comparing himself to, of all people, Johnny Mathis. And that sentence is mixed in with lots of him talking about finding his own community when the communities he was supposed to belong to both rejected him and weren't appealing to join, anyway.
So the book is about John Waters' role models. But also, it's about the nature and textures of love and making connections. Which sounds absurdly grandiose if you read almost any other sentence out of this book. But he is talking about the intricacies of the human heart in with all the rest of it. He's sly, that way.