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I knew I recognized him from somewhere.
I have no idea who he is, but this is my favorite quote ever, as someone who’s both a goth/punk poser and works in cybersecurity.
he wrote and directed the musical Hairspray and the movie Pink Flamingos. Both of which are worth it if you don’t have a predisposition to hating campy, lgbtq+ or musicals.
I’ll take a look. This is the second quote from him that resonates with me prety deeply, he seems like a cool guy.
If you find his films a bit too much (which is fair), he’s also done a standup show called This Filthy World which you would probably enjoy.
If you have that predisposition you should hatewatch them
John waters. As a young straight kid in a religious household in the south he was the first person that showed me there can be humor that involves lgbtq+ people that isn’t hateful or dismissive, followed by David Sedaris. And strangely enough it was through comedy that I first felt empathy for people I had been indoctrinated to hate. He’s definitely out there and quite honestly a lot of his stuff isn’t to my taste but he’s got some great material
What does he mean, there is no look to that. Sure there is…
I still love how a movie about hackers completely made up what they thought hacker culture might look like, but instead of laughing off a bad Hollywood film hacker culture embraced this invented asthetic and hasn’t really let go since
I recently watched that film for the first time and holy shit that movie has aged like fine wine and makes me nostalgic for a bygone subculture that never really existed in the first place
The ludicrously tragic? The tragically ludicrous?
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000691/
Definitely worth knowing.
He made the greatest No Smoking in the movie theater spots ever made.
Hey, my favorite coffee shop has at least two comfy chairs at each of their… Five? I think they have five locations now. Way to go dudes. Anyways I can shrimp up whenever I visit. I don’t want to say they did it just for me but I am a regular and if I can’t shrimp I have to go home. They are the best for looking out for me.
If you want a movie of his that’s very accessible, I recommend Pecker. The stuff he’s most known for was just a bit too out there for my tastes.
Legend
Keep your condoms behind the books, impress me
My last three books read have been on a Kindle. I am considering dumping all my books because I can fit a whole library on the Kindle and saves so much space in the (very small) house. Have I become unfuckable?
If you buy your books on amazon too, yes.
You guys buy your books? Haven’t you heard of anna’s archive?
May I remind you of the first rule of (lib) genesis.
No.
Yes
Says the man that hasn’t moved homes a lot.
Fuck them book boxes. All hail the public library where you most importantly give the book back!
Well it’s kinda hard to fuck the books when they don’t exist, so yeah that makes sense
Once I offered to buy John Waters a drink, and the bartender got offended
Edit: at the very idea that John Waters would ever be charged for a drink
Some people read ebooks, especially if they’re in a small apartment
Or are poor and have to obtain them creatively™
Can confirm lol
Soulseek FTW!
Yeah, I have zero in my house now. I have over 1k on my ereader, in my pocket, and on my tablet. Even when I read physical books I never had this many, every time I got to a couple hundred I’d take them to Goodwill for others to enjoy. My reading list is so long, it’s not like I’m likely to reread anything. Every book I reread is one other book I won’t get to read before I die.
I see bookshelves like this these days it’s like someone with a lot of vinyl. They’re either old (old to me and I’m almost 50), or just into an old format for some reason. Nothing wrong with that, it just doesn’t mean the same thing it used to.
I have a similar mentality, but I do have some that are particularly memorable that I like to return to, like Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy for example. I also have certain books which are less for reading, like the Onion’s our dumb century or I have some railroad and travel books that have tons of cool pictures, but once I’ve read a book (especially fiction) if I dont forsee rereading it I’ll pass it along to someone or donate it to free up more space on my shelf for future books. And then my e-reader has a subset of my ebook library on it, with a mix of both re-reads and to-be-reads because that 32GB of storage will easily hold thousands of ebooks so there’s no stress to perfectly curate what I’m carrying with me on it
I like books but its media in a different form. It could be great or it could be trash. The book format says nothing. I’d consider someone who watches the YouTube channel Angela Collier as more educated than someone who has a bookshelf full of Danielle Steel novels.
sure, but the point is if they don’t have any books at all
the former person would and should have books
Someone with no books but watches Angela Collier is more educated than a person with a bookshelf of Danielle Steele.
You know, I’m not so sure I agree, actually.
It is really, really, really easy to engage with content on Youtube passively. That is, without really paying attention.
If a person watches Angela Collier on a side screen while playing a video game or something, and can’t really recall anything she’s talked about, I don’t know if that really counts.
You could say that people who watch Angela corrolate with people who do pay attention, but then I’d say that people who watch Angela corrolate with people who own books.
If no books, a well worn library card is a sexy substitute.
That person will have books, they will be overdue.
what if i’ve drastically reduced my physical books, but have thousands of epubs?
Dry humping only.
Mormon style soaking?
You can soak, but no jumper.
that’s why you get a friend to bounce the bed 😂
HE SAID NO JUMPER🗣️
It’s spelled “pubes” and having a couple thousand really isn’t that impressive, though showing them off at the end of a date might still get you laid…
I dunno, can’t see them in a bookshelf. He didn’t say anything about making reading cool, just books. “If they don’t have books, don’t fuck them.”
I don’t think digital versions count, at least not for John.
This is perfect for me as I have a lot of chess books that I never read
Playing chess against people who have read chess books is the worst… you make one move and they go “ah… the Toledo-Salamanca opening, I can checkmate in 34 moves.”
But that is my favorite way to play chess!
I just haven’t actually read any books and an making up the names of moves. I hope my wife hasn’t caught on (she caught on the first time didn’t she)
I have yet to experience that even when playing against a fide master, but talking at the board is bad form. They do however know their way in the opening and it usually ends in disaster sooner or later
That opening is worth about a million bucks.
I find it’s best to play ridiculous moves then that don’t show up in any books, you may end up in a strategically worse position but they have to work for their win now instead of just doing memorised plays. It’s better to burn out, than to fade away!
Heterodox style. It’s the only fun way to play left
True, but I imagine a well-organized Calibre library will flood most basements, genitally speaking.
I guess they don’t for me, either, because when I read or listen to a book and really, really like it, I buy a physical copy.
just virtual sex for you.
So my steam library isn’t enough hur?
It better be at least 51% visual novels
Visual “novels”
Most of them are probably closer to novellas by word count, that’s a good point.
I use the presence books or an e-reader in a home as a barometer for how much have in common with the people in it. I’m not a snob about it, either. I don’t care if its Harry Potter or obscure volumes of post-structural literary criticism. Just read, please.
But I can’t afford to keep books! They take up a lot of space that requires large rooms with shelves and shit. I can’t even afford a decent apartment!
What if I show you my Chinese e-reader with my digital collection of pirated books instead? You like Terry Pratchett?
Boox. Absolutely fascinating for pirated books and comics.
Sure, the guy has a ton of books in the shelves. But how many mysterious badly sorted storage boxes of books he has? Now that’s the real test of character.
Also ask probing questions about how many obsolete programming books he has. It may get awkward but it has to be done.
My friends have an Estonian book that teaches fortran 77 and BASIC if I remember correctly. It’s a truly wondrous tome.
I think books are cool. Anyone who read books is a cool person and not yet lost to social media addiction. They can still be in the moment with themselves.
I had a period when I could not read a single page in a book because my mind was constantly wanting to use the phone instead. Many people are like that right now.
