Henry Rollins on the road with John Waters’ memoir, ‘Mr. Know-It-All’

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While Henry Rollins was on tour with Iggy Pop in Australia, he brought along John Waters' new book. Here's what he thought:

“Mr. Know-It-All” by John Waters takes us through the innermost workings of the mind of the writer, director and provocateur.

Waters spends a lot of time on airplanes. He insists on first class now after so many years of circling the globe on promotion duty in coach. Waters has earned it; he also keeps a sharp eye on his fellow first-classers. “Just the sight of a family of four sitting in first class is enough to make me see red,” he writes.

I recently chose to bring “Mr. Know-It-All” with me on a several-thousand-mile trip as I thought it was the perfect traveling companion for where I was going and what I was about to do.John WatersLife is short and gets boring quick. If you don’t put incredible amounts of effort in, life can become an existential Sargasso Sea of mortal machinations.

“I didn't know it yet but ‘Hairspray’ was a Trojan horse,” Waters writes. “It had the power to sneak into middle-class homes and espouse gay marriage and teenage race mixing without anybody noticing. We were soon to find out that the test results were wrong. Even racists loved Hairspray!”Unfortunately, Savoy Pictures lost millions on his 1994 film “Serial Mom,” and went out of business a few years later. Around this time, Waters figured his best days in Hollywood were likely behind him.

 

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John Waters and henryrollins, two of my favorites. ❤️❤️

Is it strange that the great John Waters could easily get away with playing the villainous Jared Kushner in the no-doubt-to-be-made Hollywood biopic?

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