JOHN WATERS TAKES THE CLOSET `

 

THE RETRO MAN CAVE ~

(Wisconsin)

(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/travel/john-waters-on-hitchhiking-across-america.html?hpw&rref=travel

 (Arcade)

(Chicago)

(Ecco)

"We humans have always defined ourselves by narration.  What's happening today is that we're allowing multi-national corporations to tell our stories for us.  The theme of corporate stories (and millions drink them in every day) seldom varies: to be happy you must consume, to be special you must conform.  Absurd, obviously, yet our identities have become so fragile, so elusive, that we seem content to let advertisers provide us with their version of who we are, to let them recreate us in their image: a cookie-cutter image based on market research, shallow sociology, and insidious lies.  Individualism is bad for business  --  though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent.  And yes, it's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism."

Tom Robbins

Robbins is a direct descendant of Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)

Think about that a moment.

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THE ROAD ~
(& hope)

John Waters traveling with members of the band Here We Go Magic as he hitchhiked from Baltimore to San Francisco.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/john-waters-tries-some-desperate-living-on-a-cross-country-hitchhiking-odyssey/?hp



By the way — this photograph of real time travelers on the road, looks far more true than any film still I've seen from the new film On the Road. As in the classic novel:
a guy, a guy & a girl.




photo : Here We Go Magic/Secretly Canadian
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