Monday, March 6, 2017

"Pink Flamingoes" and the History of America

There are few things which document America's history and behavior more than its perversions, few people who manifest such perversions as comprehensively as Divine, and only one with an interest to film The Filthiest Person Alive thus giving us the celluloid portrait of America in the movie "Pink Flamingoes." (WIKI:  Pink Flamingos)

Although Waters' movies were often described as 'filth,' the following type of material is also considered filthy, at least by some, in America.


- Jaime Pressly

We're frequently advised this sort of display is filth.  Therefore, the Rockhouse heartily endorses John Waters' efforts to make a total mockery of anything which tries to make that beautiful woman look dirty.  John Waters is the one who coined the expression, "I'm glad I was born a Catholic since sex will always be dirty."

Censor:  you know that image will provoke the Intellectualites and you will probably get banned for it!

Probably so but Facebook needs to be provoked when Mark Zuckerberg is nothing more than an uncultured and avaricious destroyer of art.

Censor:  so is most of Washington so why pick on him?

Because he made a business out of it and pretends it's something else.

Censor:  so did Washington!


I couldn't hack it with "Pink Flamingoes" since some aspects of my mores became rather more mainstream than any civilized person might have hoped and I have not screened the movie.  There are some acts of depravity in the movie which, even if simulated, are more than my white middle-class background could feature and accommodate.

Most of the plasticized 'I Think I Might Be Gay' starlets of the modern time would likely have wound up the butt of Waters' jokes.  When they try so desperately to be controversial, it just begs for mockery.

Divine:  the answer is to be yourself especially when that self has a fancy for coprophilia

You're one sick fuck, lady, or, well, whatever you are.


Cincinnati:  you're just replaying the Simon Leis / Larry Flynt obscenity trials in which Simon Leis got his fascist ass humiliated and Cincinnati became a laughingstock

Nope, in fact, I'm not since the specific consideration at that time was obscenity but filth isn't precisely the same thing.  The portrait of Ms Pressly above isn't obscene in any way and yet there are some (many?) who would call it filthy.

Censor:  we really don't need to review again how the Puritans were really bad people with twisted ideas about humanity in general and sex in particular?

Nope, this isn't about Puritans being bad people but rather it's about modern bad people using the Puritans as excuses to continue that behavior today.


Thank you, John Waters, as someone has to put those prigs up against the wall and you seem to have enjoyed thoroughly every opportunity to do that.  (WIKI:  John Waters)


Update:  even today, "Pink Flamingoes" scares people.  Quite remarkable.

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