Theatre de l’Ange Fou

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bohemea:

Five Questions for John Waters

1. Why did you decide to write a book about your role models?
These are stories that I can no longer shut up about. The people I write about have had to overcome great success as much as great failure.

2. Which role model had the biggest influence on you?
I can’t just pick one, but as a child, I knew I didn’t fit in. And I didn’t want to, either. Tennessee Williams gave me the confidence that I didn’t have to try. And Pencil (a local drag queen). I never once met him, but I think about him almost every day.

3. What’s a day in your life like?
From Monday to Friday, I get up at 6 a.m., read six or seven papers and then by 8, I think of something weird. And then I get together with my office and try to sell it. On Friday nights, I go to bars and drink.

4. What is it about Baltimore that you find so inspiring?
The city is full of insane people who think they’re normal.

5. Of the 8,425 books that you’ve read, which ones are your favorites?
Here are five: Denton Welch’s In Youth Is Pleasure, Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk About Kevin, Christina Stead’s The Man Who Loved Children, Jane Bowles’ Two Serious Ladies and any novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett.

photo by Greg Gorman

I will be seeing John Waters live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on Dec 3rd 2010!

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/literature-spoken-word/tickets/john-waters-54687