Items related to Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America
A cross-country hitchhiking journey with America’s most beloved weirdo
John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads “I’m Not Psycho,” he hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving lonely roads and treacherous drivers. But who should we be more worried about, the delicate film director with genteel manners or the unsuspecting travelers transporting the Pope of Trash?
Before he leaves for this bizarre adventure, Waters fantasizes about the best and worst possible scenarios: a friendly drug dealer hands over piles of cash to finance films with no questions asked, a demolition-derby driver makes a filthy sexual request in the middle of a race, a gun-toting drunk terrorizes and holds him hostage, and a Kansas vice squad entraps and throws him in jail. So what really happens when this cult legend sticks out his thumb and faces the open road? His real-life rides include a gentle eighty-one-year-old farmer who is convinced Waters is a hobo, an indie band on tour, and the perverse filmmaker’s unexpected hero: a young, sandy-haired Republican in a Corvette.
Laced with subversive humor and warm intelligence, Carsick is an unforgettable vacation with a wickedly funny companion—and a celebration of America’s weird, astonishing, and generous citizenry.
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Review:
Fantastical and plush . . . Carsick becomes a portrait not just of America's desolate freeway nodes - though they are brilliantly evoked - but of American fame itself. --(The New York Times Book Review)
In [Carsick] John Waters - the evil genius of Baltimore, the living, breathing embodiment of camp, the man with the bristling pencil-thin mustache and vocabulary that would make a drill sergeant blush - betrays his deepest and darkest secret. In these pages the apostle of outrage - the actor, writer and director whose contributions to cinematic glory include Pink Flamingos, Mondo Trasho and Hairspray - reveals himself to be a . . . sentimentalist . . . Underlying it all is a highly developed sense of fun, a desire to amuse more than to shock . . . Funny engaging and - of course - occasionally outrageous . . . A cool trip and a delightful book. --(Washington Post)
This is all good, dirty subversive fun. --(San Francisco Chronicle)
Book Description:
In [Carsick] John Waters - the evil genius of Baltimore, the living, breathing embodiment of camp, the man with the bristling pencil-thin mustache and vocabulary that would make a drill sergeant blush - betrays his deepest and darkest secret. In these pages the apostle of outrage - the actor, writer and director whose contributions to cinematic glory include Pink Flamingos, Mondo Trasho and Hairspray - reveals himself to be a . . . sentimentalist . . . Underlying it all is a highly developed sense of fun, a desire to amuse more than to shock . . . Funny engaging and - of course - occasionally outrageous . . . A cool trip and a delightful book. --(Washington Post)
This is all good, dirty subversive fun. --(San Francisco Chronicle)
From the Pope of Trash himself, John Waters, Carsick is his hilarious (if not always 100% true) account of hitchhiking fearlessly into the heart of middle America.
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- PublisherMacmillan Audio
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 142724393X
- ISBN 13 9781427243935
- BindingAudio CD
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