House of Dioxin

Tonight's viewing: In Bad Taste, a documentary on John Waters. Fabulous! The mere existence of John Waters just makes my world a better place. One of the fun things about this docu was realizing that several of the interviews were done at the American Visionary Art Museum (in Bawlmer, hon). Including this log castle, which I blogged (on Sarah's site) back in 2003. I was also interested that, to a person, Waters and all the Dreamland regulars, referred to Divine as "he" but in part of the interview with Jane and Michael Stern, she refers to Divine as "she". And I wish they'd talked some more about Flamingos Forever. Waters mentions that he spent years trying to get the movie made, which is why it was 7 years between Polyester and Hairspray. There's a clip of Lloyd Kaufman saying that Troma was the only studio interested but it just never worked out. Followed by Waters telling a story about how Flamingos Forever almost ended up at Troma, until he got a look at their editing room, a line delivered with all the horror he can muster.
Alas, the frikkin recording cut off about 5 minutes before the end, right in the middle of Waters explaining the curtain of irony that you pass thru just south of Philly (I think he was about to locate it specifically at the Delaware Memorial Bridge) -- this was in context of talking about Pecker and the relationship between the Bawlmer-based protagonist and the NYC art scene.
Anyway, the movie (which I recorded off IFC and which doesn't seem to be available on DVD) brought back many happy John Waters memories. Including seeing Polyester at NYU back in the 80s, complete with Odorama cards and Waters speaking after the movie.
...oh, and leave us not forget -- funniest episode ever?