[All red text, Roni Horn. All green text, John Waters' annotations. Block quotes clearly labeled. Video and music found by me, inspired by John Waters.]
Anatomy and Geography
English opera about an imperious but sexy gynecologist directed by Peter Greenaway
Being Purple
Sad musical about the decline and paranoia of rock star Prince
Dictionary of Water
Elegantly maddening wordplay exercise featuring a script including only nouns beginning with the letter “w”
Doubt by Two
True-crime mystery focusing on the deliberations of two holdout jurors in the second trial of Leslie Van Houten
Key and Cue
The fictitious biography of the Clue board game’s Colonel Mustard
Molly’s Other Bloom
Lesbian punk coming-out picture that dares to concentrate on anal sex
Puff
The Magic Dragon gets throat cancer
Untitled (Flannery)
Lupus, peacocks, and blue-chip fame—how she did it and why it will last
“‘And rest in peace, William Inge (22), why did you have to do it? Jean Rhys (23), Jane Bowles (24), Witold Gombrowicz (25), I miss you too. Flannery O’Connor (26), you’re the tops.’ Anybody who wrote of being so obsessed with collecting chickens that she actually made clothes for them is A-OK with me. She may be famous for later raising peacocks but I’ll always imagine her dreaming up Wise Blood (27) as she stitched away on evening gowns for her darling little birdies.”
—John Waters, The Obsessions of, “Puff Piece (101 Things I Love),” p. 59
Water, Still
John Waters’s third autobiography told from beyond the grave
“I’d better get home beause I’m thirsty, and drinking water is too personal to do anywhere but in th eprivacy of your own kitchen.”
—John Waters, The Obsessions of, “Puff Piece (101 Things I Love),” p. 65
When Dickinson Shut Her Eyes
The story of Michael Cunningham’s surprise bestseller
When the How and the What are the Same
Italian retitling of third sequel to The Hulk
You are the Weather
Recruiting film for the revival of ’60s hippie terrorist group
