{"id":1065,"date":"2010-06-22T09:33:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T14:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2012-02-25T12:52:05","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T17:52:05","slug":"john-waters-bss-342","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/john-waters-bss-342\/","title":{"rendered":"John Waters (BSS #342)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Waters is most recently the author of <i>Role Models<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/johnwaters.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"504770_01.tif\" align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3971\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1065-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo342.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo342.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo342.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo342.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=1065-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo342.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo342.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 39:22 &#8212; 36.0MB)<\/p>\n<p>(Considerable gratitude to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/daskinkaid\">Wayman Ng<\/a>, who resuscitated this conversation from the data grave.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Condition of Mr. Segundo:<\/b> Comparing himself to unspecified reference groups in Mertonian social situations.<\/p>\n<p><b>Author:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamlandnews.com\/\">John Waters<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Subjects Discussed:<\/b> [List forthcoming]\n<p><b>EXCERPT FROM SHOW:<\/B><\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> You observe that listening to what Tennessee Williams has to say could save the reader&#8217;s life too.  But how can Tennessee Williams save the life of, say, a humorless tax auditor?<\/p>\n<p><b>Waters:<\/b> They won&#8217;t read him. So I&#8217;m not saying he can save anybody&#8217;s life.  But if the humorless tax auditor &#8212; and I actually know one tax auditor who does have a sense of humor.  <\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><b>Waters:<\/b> If they read Tennessee Williams, maybe they could save their life.  Maybe they would overlook one receipt that wasn&#8217;t exactly deductible for business if they thought the person was doing art.  <\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> Yeah.  That&#8217;s true.  In <i>Role Models<\/i>, you note that you drink every Friday night.  Now in <i>Crackpot<\/i>, you observe that in your final year of smoking, you smoked only on Fridays.  <\/p>\n<p><b>Waters:<\/b> Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> Why would you confine vice to one day of the week?<\/p>\n<p><b>Waters:<\/b> Well, because the cigarette thing.  Didn&#8217;t smoke.  I used to.  I haven&#8217;t smoked in &#8212; I write it down every day.  I could tell you how many days.  I&#8217;d have to look at my file card.  But today &#8212; and even before then, I only smoked for three days.  I fell off the wagon.  But when I smoked every Friday night, it got to be &#8212; I couldn&#8217;t do that.  Because at Thursday night at 11:59, I would light up and hotbox.  Do you know what that means?  Where you take one drag on a cigarette burn.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> Oh yeah.<\/p>\n<p><b>Waters:<\/b> A carton!  Like right in a row.  So I learned that I can&#8217;t chip.  I am an addict with cigarettes.  So that&#8217;s why.  Friday nights?  Because I don&#8217;t work on Saturday.  And every other ngiht&#8217;s a schoolnight to me.  I write in the morning.  I can&#8217;t write with a hangover.  I can&#8217;t.  And when I drank on Friday &#8212; I did smoking on Friday night because I knew that I didn&#8217;t have to work the next day. I was going to drink too.  I might as well do it all.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> This is your answer to Shabbos?<\/p>\n<p><b>Waters:<\/b> No.  It&#8217;s just how I get through life really.  That I&#8217;m very organized during the week.  And as I said, I believe if you&#8217;re going to have a hangover, it should be planned on your calendar three weeks in advance.  <\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> But you can&#8217;t plan everything.<\/p>\n<p><b>Waters:<\/b> I do plan everything.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> You do plan everything.<\/p>\n<p><b>Waters:<\/b> Everything!  I never have a spontaneous moment.  I don&#8217;t want a spontaneous moment.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> Really.<\/p>\n<p><b>Waters:<\/b> Order is important to me.  It brings me happiness.  Which makes my assistants insane.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> Really?<\/p>\n<p><b>Waters:<\/b> Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> What do you do when a curveball shows up?<\/p>\n<p><b>Waters:<\/b> I plan.  Well, a curveball?  I deal with it.  But I&#8217;m saying that I won&#8217;t not do something that&#8217;s going to be great fun because I didn&#8217;t plan it.  <\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><b>Waters:<\/b> But I make sure that I have great fun planned so I don&#8217;t wait around for someone to knock on my door and give me great fun.  <\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> (<i>laughs<\/i>)  <\/p>\n<p><b>Waters:<\/b> I go out to have great fun.  And plan it.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> Well, how rigidly do you plan your life?<\/p>\n<p><b>Waters:<\/b> Rigidly enough.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> Are you like a senator?<\/p>\n<p><b>Waters:<\/b> Let&#8217;s just say&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> Do you schedule when you shit?  I mean&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Waters:<\/b> No. But I usually do that around the same time too.  And I get on an airplane.  And I can adjust my watch to whatever time it is.  Get off and be on that time.  I&#8217;m organized, yes.  But if something &#8212; you know, when I go out on Friday nights, something can happen.  It&#8217;s not like I know what&#8217;s going to happen.  But I have certain people I go with to different places.  Because I don&#8217;t want to drink and drive.  So I have a great pool that I go out with.  And they&#8217;ll go to any weird bar.  You&#8217;ve seen the bars I like to go to. There&#8217;s a whole chapter on that.  <\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> But I&#8217;m curious.  Do you allot a two hour time to just go out and observe people?  Or something along those lines?<\/p>\n<p><b>Waters:<\/b> Well, I&#8217;m always observing people. It doesn&#8217;t matter.  On the subway, I&#8217;m observing people.  I take the bus in San Francisco a lot to observe people.  I watch people in airports get off the plane.  I make up stories about every person.  And if you look, the ugliest people get off first.  They aren&#8217;t first class.  The cuter they are, the worse seats they have on an airplane.  It&#8217;s awful.  It almost is foolproof.  I know that sounds ridiculous.  The poorest planners.  The ones that lasted till the last minute and got the middle seat in the last row?  <\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><b>Waters:<\/b> They&#8217;re cuter than the ones who are rich or smart enough to plan to use their frequent flyer miles to get one of the few seats available in first class.  They&#8217;re never that good looking.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3972\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1065-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo342.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo342.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo342.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo342.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=1065-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo342.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo342.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 39:22 &#8212; 36.0MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Waters is most recently the author of Role Models. (Considerable gratitude to Wayman Ng, who resuscitated this conversation from the data grave.) Condition of Mr. Segundo: Comparing himself to unspecified reference groups in Mertonian social situations. Author: John Waters Subjects Discussed: [List forthcoming] EXCERPT FROM SHOW: Correspondent: You observe that listening to what Tennessee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3973\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1065-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo342.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo342.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo342.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo342.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=1065-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo342.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo342.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 39:22 &#8212; 36.0MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1085,1087],"tags":[16,578,165,991,9,988,990,989],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions\/2116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}