So this makes you realize is one of most free country no matter your sex, race or religion? I'd go read the Constitution & Bill of Rights if you don't understand.
Waters has a house in Baltimore now. According to an article that appeared in the New York Times a few years back, Waters devoted one of the rooms in the house to an art installation he calls "The Bomb Room" - actually, it's a full-room installation by artist Gregory Green (who called it “Work Table #7”) that depicts the den of a mad bomber/terrorist, with a work bench strewn with paraphernalia resembling an in-progress explosive device, along with Christmas cards, junk food wrappers, etc, etc - basically all the crap and detritus that people typically litter their desks with. How's that for cheeky?
@@peka__ Actually, you're right on the mark, because that's exactly what Waters goes through every time he has a big party - usually there are politicians from DC attending - and security has to do a sweep of the house first.
@@tommydurkin213 Awww... don't know what you're dreaming of, little troll. You seem so eager to share some of your personal fantasies with us. I love all of his movies and he is one of the few artists who managed to become even better when he switched from underground to mainstream.
Just came here from a video of Werner Herzog saying (paraphrasing), "After knowing John Waters for 35 years, I turned to my wife and said, I think he might be gay"
I too have a weird affection for fake food. In the tattoo shop I’ve worked at for 20+ years, i have systematically placed plastic sandwiches to confuse my clients.
He actually lives more modest than i expected as i assumed he had a nice big house somewhere in a Baltimore suburb. Reminds me of an old MTV Cribs episode showing Moby's N.Y. apartment
This recording is quite old, from before he found massive commercial success. He now owns a home in a Baltimore neighborhood called Tuscany Canterbury, which is about as suburban as you can get while still living in the city bounds, and as the name suggests it is a very nice neighborhood. He also owns properties in San Francisco and Provincetown I believe. So yea, definitely living that life now. Good for him! He is the GOAT!!!
The point I wanted to make was that he isn't ostentatious. He wants comfortable place to live but he's so not Beverly Hills. He did write a book about himself hitchhiking across America and he did that well past his success. He roughed it.
A guy with more weird books than I have - whew! I thought I was nuts, though he is John Waters. It reminds me of how desperately I need a bookshelf, I've been using tables - shelving was easier to find in the good ol' days. Now it's cheap and expensive all at the same time.
Start going to flea markets and you'll amass a collection in no time, for very little money. Although everything there has some value as collectibles, the audience for that type of thing will die with this generation, and prices will get lower and lower. Do you really think that modern kids care about kitsch and vintage collectibles?
In my world, he is considered Sir John Waters! He's got to be one of the most coolest and real entertainment behind the scenes people around and think-out-of-the-box filmmaker artist.
"Hairspray," which wasn't too far into the future from this point, made John Waters mainstream. It's almost a shame; he was kind of more fun before. I'd forgotten how cute he was when he was younger.
Wow what a time to be alive. People lived interesting lives and passionately persued their interests without any though of promoting themselves by taking photos of their breakfast or showing off their boring vacations on social media. There were lots of exceptional people, so only the most exceptional among them were deemed worthy of celebrity. Now it is the opposite. Now influencers would only have that many books if it was for a decorative wall.
@@nightstalkerck Yeah, but you'd think a guy like him would've spent the money. Plus I don't think they were really that prohibitively expensive, anyway.
@@Melissa0774 Believe me, someone who's always collected many films, they were very expensive, I had two vcrs which cost me around $450 apiece just so I could rent and copy them, movies didn't start getting cheaper until the early 90's.
Hi Tod. This is WJZ-TV here in Baltimore. We saw your hilarious posting with John Waters touring his home in 1986. Is that your footage? We were hoping to use some of that in a story we are doing with him and didn't know who owned it and if we could use it with courtesy?
Thanks for watching and I’m glad you enjoyed the piece! I was working for what is now WUSA, and was at the time WTOP, the CBS affiliate in Washington, D.C. as a director/writer/producer on a weekly series called Capital Edition, that aired on Sunday mornings after the CBS News series Sunday Morning, then hosted by Charles Kuralt. My guess is that the station owns the copyright on the story, unless the host of the show, John Goldsmith, bought the series from them. I’m not monetizing the piece, and I don’t claim any rights to it - I put it up because I always enjoyed the opportunity to meet and film John Waters, and I’m happy it’s been up thus far without issue. That’s all I know about the rights and ownership.
@@TodMesirow I'm trying to pinpoint the location of this place. I know John has lived in a few locations in Baltimore and the ones that he mentions don't seem to match the view he shows at the end of the segment. It appears much more spacious and higher up than his E 25th and Greenmount Ave residences.
I'm in love. He's so DADA. Would have totally married him. Books, research, and tongue-in-cheek design. YES. That's me as a man. Style, dear sir. STYLE.
I saw that in a theater with 500 people in like 81-82. They had scratch and sniff cards for everyone. When number 2 flashed on the screen, you could HEAR all the scratching of the whole audience, then 500 people sniffing deeply, followed by groans and shrieks. I've only once in my life been in such a crowd that collectively smelled a sulphurous rotten egg fart at the same instant. It was hilarious, vile and glorious at the same time. Plus It only cost me 99 cents. Waters totally gets what's behind the facade of the American dream like nobody else.
Maybe that old movie about the woman giving birth was one my mother mentioned watching and she got faint at the sight of blood and had to be carried out of the theater.
80's Mt Vernon Baltimore. The soul of the neighborhood beat strong...days now gone...where now does the soul go? Are such days fading away? Eclipsed by the lure of the screens? The focus on self and Caesar's coin and a time when truth means what we choose to believe?
I love him. For some reason it's reminding me of Megan Thee Stallion's videos where she's narrating her day-in-my-life. It's the lack of any pauses between sentences and the tongue-out "ahhh!" 🤪🤪 🤣
@@lutello3012 the part with the image is 4x3; I'm guessing the RUclips system shows it with the black on either side because most things are 16x9. it's definitely not stretched. the 3/4" tape was digitized without changing the aspect ratio.
"I have fake meat. I collect fake meat." Me trying to explain my collection of shitty "movie" video games I've collected since I was four. A Bugs Life, Dinosaur (2000), The Matrix etc.
we recorded this on 3/4" videotape, the Sony, and the camera was a state of the art three tube beast with a zoom lens. the ratio was 4:3, long long long before HD and 16x9. I'm not sure why RUclips auto-crops - maybe it's my error in uploading it. thanks for watching.
Every video of him showing his apartment is gold.
I didn’t know it was a whole sub genre….glad you enjoyed it!
Anytime John Waters is talking on film is gold.
@@tommydurkin213 go to sleep, Tommy Tot
i'm moving into a new apartment in a couple months so i'm watching this for decorating tips
JW chic style. nice.
I miss seeing him in the dive bars in Baltimore. Such an amazing human with a one of a kind aura. He gives Baltimore it's charm.
Did you move or did he stop going out?
@@RobertornGar He probably isn't around as much as some dive places closed and the others have been yuppified.
Can confirm. A delightful man to run into. Gracious and friendly AF. Love that guy.
When I am struggling to think of anything that makes America great, John Waters comes to mind. He is a national treasure.
The Bill of Rights
And Danny McBride
Right off the top of my head
@@lockandloadlikehell
* The *John* of Rights
The Billy Jean of Rights
Well said.Totally agree all of his work gives me 100% entertainment one of our greatest american directors
So this makes you realize is one of most free country no matter your sex, race or religion? I'd go read the Constitution & Bill of Rights if you don't understand.
John Waters' apartment looks exactly like you would imagine.
He is so fun and entertaining. It's never boring when John Waters is involved.
Waters has a house in Baltimore now. According to an article that appeared in the New York Times a few years back, Waters devoted one of the rooms in the house to an art installation he calls "The Bomb Room" - actually, it's a full-room installation by artist Gregory Green (who called it “Work Table #7”) that depicts the den of a mad bomber/terrorist, with a work bench strewn with paraphernalia resembling an in-progress explosive device, along with Christmas cards, junk food wrappers, etc, etc - basically all the crap and detritus that people typically litter their desks with. How's that for cheeky?
"Don't worry, officer. This is just an... art... yeah and art installation. Absolutely just for art!"
@@peka__ Actually, you're right on the mark, because that's exactly what Waters goes through every time he has a big party - usually there are politicians from DC attending - and security has to do a sweep of the house first.
@@orpheus9037
I love the man - and I constantly wish for another movie to come.
@@peka__ is it peka or p3do what movie are you waiting for exactly. Just wondering if I can get a hold of it for evidence.
@@tommydurkin213
Awww... don't know what you're dreaming of, little troll.
You seem so eager to share some of your personal fantasies with us.
I love all of his movies and he is one of the few artists who managed to become even better when he switched from underground to mainstream.
That was brilliant! Possibly the fastest 7 minutes of my life so far.
thanks for watching!
'Liberace the personification of everything I believed in as a young man.' Classic.
Just came here from a video of Werner Herzog saying (paraphrasing), "After knowing John Waters for 35 years, I turned to my wife and said, I think he might be gay"
the og home tour. 30 years ahead of time.
well said. thanks for checking it out!
I too have a weird affection for fake food. In the tattoo shop I’ve worked at for 20+ years, i have systematically placed plastic sandwiches to confuse my clients.
perfect. what's your favorite plastic sandwich?
I hope you have real sandwiches too 😉
"systematically". Moves from one shelf to the other...
Wow clutter 😂
he might actually be the coolest person ever
Him and Jimi Hendrix are up there
Watching this has made me love John more than ever before wow ❤
I just want Buscemi to play John Waters before it's too late.
maybe they could be in a film together, playing brothers....
Well he hasn't played him yet, but he has posed as him on one of John's christmas cards!
Perfect casting!
What a gem. I'm so grateful to have met him on many occasions at the Club Charles. Thanks for posting this!
Ok this guy buggers young boys.
You are a gem dude. You disgust me.
@@tommydurkin213 troll
@@tommydurkin213 proof? What are you doing here, then?
@@tommydurkin213 QAnon isn’t real
Read most of his books and seen most of his films, and I needed this more than I thought...
🎥 🎞 🎦 🎬 📽 📚 📖
thanks, that's a really great comment.
This is the best video I’ve ever seen
glad you enjoyed it!
Always a fan of his wit, talent and style. A story of art everywhere! ❤
He actually lives more modest than i expected as i assumed he had a nice big house somewhere in a Baltimore suburb. Reminds me of an old MTV Cribs episode showing Moby's N.Y. apartment
This recording is quite old, from before he found massive commercial success. He now owns a home in a Baltimore neighborhood called Tuscany Canterbury, which is about as suburban as you can get while still living in the city bounds, and as the name suggests it is a very nice neighborhood. He also owns properties in San Francisco and Provincetown I believe. So yea, definitely living that life now. Good for him! He is the GOAT!!!
That Moby episode was my favorite.
Nah, he's a city boy through and through
The point I wanted to make was that he isn't ostentatious. He wants comfortable place to live but he's so not Beverly Hills. He did write a book about himself hitchhiking across America and he did that well past his success. He roughed it.
@@jeffb587 well obviously he needed more room for his books, the shelves in his apartment in this video were already overloaded
This man is a national treasure… He’s one of the few good things about this country anymore
It was exactly how I expected his apartment to look like
thanks for watching!
Thanks for this! John, his apartment and all his wonderful quirkiness!
thanks for watching!
And I'm thinking the whole time I was watching this....."Divine was still alive at this time". Always love watching and listening to John.
What a genius! Love the fake food and his wonderful sense of humor.
thanks for watching!
And its all over the house!
I think there is a psychological reason for collecting fake food, but I’m not a psychiatrist so I can’t really say what that reason is
@@justindawson5930 Well, in the profession we diagnose it as...
... loving fake food 🙂
@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 you should call it, “Waters’ Syndrome”
Thank you for sharing this!
My pleasure!
A guy with more weird books than I have - whew! I thought I was nuts, though he is John Waters. It reminds me of how desperately I need a bookshelf, I've been using tables - shelving was easier to find in the good ol' days. Now it's cheap and expensive all at the same time.
No it's just cheap friend. TBH you just sound lazy. I know because I am too. 🤝
I expected nothing less. I wish I had so much cool stuff in my apartment and enough space for it.
thanks for watching!
Start going to flea markets and you'll amass a collection in no time, for very little money. Although everything there has some value as collectibles, the audience for that type of thing will die with this generation, and prices will get lower and lower. Do you really think that modern kids care about kitsch and vintage collectibles?
I would like to see the 2023 tour. Wonder how his collection expanded
Has anyone mentioned the many hilarious books John has written? The man really is multi-talented.
He did, three times to make his publicist happy!! 😂
He keeps you on your toes for sure
awesome video, thanks for uploading!
thanks for the kind words, and for watching!
I love how this video came up after I was watching a clip from Fargo because he looks exactly like Steve buscemi here
This whole video was simply hypnotic.
thanks so much. it was a treat to have the opportunity.
He seems like a good guy, Great personality
In my world, he is considered Sir John Waters! He's got to be one of the most coolest and real entertainment behind the scenes people around and think-out-of-the-box filmmaker artist.
Best cribs tour ever (only second to Redmans apartment tour on MTV. Must locate).
Wow.
Years after watching _Once Upon a Time In Hollywood,_ 1980s John Waters tells me Spahn Ranch has been turned into condos.
"Hairspray," which wasn't too far into the future from this point, made John Waters mainstream. It's almost a shame; he was kind of more fun before. I'd forgotten how cute he was when he was younger.
such a tough issue. thanks for watching!
Wow what a time to be alive. People lived interesting lives and passionately persued their interests without any though of promoting themselves by taking photos of their breakfast or showing off their boring vacations on social media. There were lots of exceptional people, so only the most exceptional among them were deemed worthy of celebrity. Now it is the opposite. Now influencers would only have that many books if it was for a decorative wall.
And they would be arranged by the colour of their spines.
Ok boomer.
@@HOTD108_ oof... Even the gen z comebacks are generic and uninspired.
@@mandadick7093 Yes. :)
Baltimore Royalty
🤘🏼
i LOVE it! thanks for posting!!! 😍😍😍
my pleasure glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks for this!
thanks for watching.
I'm surprised he didn't have a lot more video tapes.
Videos were very expensive in the late 80's
@@nightstalkerck Yeah, but you'd think a guy like him would've spent the money. Plus I don't think they were really that prohibitively expensive, anyway.
@@Melissa0774 Believe me, someone who's always collected many films, they were very expensive, I had two vcrs which cost me around $450 apiece just so I could rent and copy them, movies didn't start getting cheaper until the early 90's.
I loved his role in The Seed of Chucky as the Paparazzi guy. 😂 loved it!
Grossly under appreciated legend.
agreed! thanks for watching.
Surprisingly good image quality for 1986, especially compared the sound.
Hi Tod. This is WJZ-TV here in Baltimore. We saw your hilarious posting with John Waters touring his home in 1986. Is that your footage? We were hoping to use some of that in a story we are doing with him and didn't know who owned it and if we could use it with courtesy?
Thanks for watching and I’m glad you enjoyed the piece! I was working for what is now WUSA, and was at the time WTOP, the CBS affiliate in Washington, D.C. as a director/writer/producer on a weekly series called Capital Edition, that aired on Sunday mornings after the CBS News series Sunday Morning, then hosted by Charles Kuralt. My guess is that the station owns the copyright on the story, unless the host of the show, John Goldsmith, bought the series from them. I’m not monetizing the piece, and I don’t claim any rights to it - I put it up because I always enjoyed the opportunity to meet and film John Waters, and I’m happy it’s been up thus far without issue. That’s all I know about the rights and ownership.
@@TodMesirow I'm trying to pinpoint the location of this place. I know John has lived in a few locations in Baltimore and the ones that he mentions don't seem to match the view he shows at the end of the segment. It appears much more spacious and higher up than his E 25th and Greenmount Ave residences.
@@jasonthornton3874 I don't have my records from those days, so I'm sorry not to be any help about the exact location. thanks for watching.
I'm in love. He's so DADA. Would have totally married him. Books, research, and tongue-in-cheek design. YES. That's me as a man. Style, dear sir. STYLE.
Prison Trivia: The average age of corrections officers when they die is 59.
Good
"I only collect books" continues to show entire house filled with other things he collects
I was hoping he would have one of the scratch n sniff strips from Polyester lol I kept mine for years and mourn its loss. Sheer genius.
I saw that in a theater with 500 people in like 81-82. They had scratch and sniff cards for everyone. When number 2 flashed on the screen, you could HEAR all the scratching of the whole audience, then 500 people sniffing deeply, followed by groans and shrieks. I've only once in my life been in such a crowd that collectively smelled a sulphurous rotten egg fart at the same instant. It was hilarious, vile and glorious at the same time. Plus It only cost me 99 cents.
Waters totally gets what's behind the facade of the American dream like nobody else.
I went to high school in Baltimore. Too young to have known of him then. 😢
I don't know who he is but my recommendation page sure does know me
that's great.
I absolutely adore this man❤😊
it was definitely a treat to film with him.
Brilliant! Love John Waters.
His Waters still living in Baltimore’s Hampden neighborhood? That’s a very nice area.
My God he's fantastic.
Maybe that old movie about the woman giving birth was one my mother mentioned watching and she got faint at the sight of blood and had to be carried out of the theater.
I hope that one day he makes a video with Scott Michaels they're definitely two of a kind with their dark showbiz and crime obsessions.
I actually have a copy of Crackpot and it's one of my favorite books.
This is so awesome to see seriously ❤
Whats that pink huge poste behind himr??5:12
good question - "(somthing) Living?" Desperate? I'm not sure, but good question.
@@TodMesirow at.first.glance..it.appear.to.me.it.might.the.."Ordinary.people."movie.ad.as.i.remember.correctly.with.the.picture.od.the.gamely.framed.on.it.at.first.glance..it.appear.to.me.it.might.the.."Ordinary.people."movie.ad.as.i.remember.correctly.with.the.picture.od.thefamely. framed.in.it.
Desperate living.
@@dennisspence-dr7fm good eye that right thannx
John Waters was the first to do MTV Cribs
I love how he stella his new book to the audience. Learned something new there 😅👍
Waters drinking water hahha. He was so handsome ❤❤. Are there anymore devine movies coming out please?
@@halitosis75 glad you enjoyed it! That’s all I have sadly, and I have no inside information on more Devine movies.
Wow I never connected him being insecure about drinking water in public to folks making jokes about his last name 😅 he probably hated that 😂
How can we not have a shot of his wardrobe? Or is that like a whole 'nother video?
80's Mt Vernon Baltimore. The soul of the neighborhood beat strong...days now gone...where now does the soul go? Are such days fading away? Eclipsed by the lure of the screens? The focus on self and Caesar's coin and a time when truth means what we choose to believe?
Never clicked so freaking fast.
John is a gem!!
sure would be nice if you didn't chop this to fake widescreen
I struggled with the choice, sorry you didn't like it.
I love him. For some reason it's reminding me of Megan Thee Stallion's videos where she's narrating her day-in-my-life. It's the lack of any pauses between sentences and the tongue-out "ahhh!" 🤪🤪 🤣
awesome, thanks for watching. love the comparison.
Thanks for sharing, but now I'm jealous.
He’s great ❤
agreed. thanks for watching.
Posters and art on the walls, plenty of interesting books and tchotchke, yeah. About what I was expecting.
so impressive that you spelled “tchotchke” correctly
2:30 This explanation of Japan’s failure in censorship is hilarious 😂
Video cropped for no good reason, only 3/4 of his apartment.
no cropping at all. filmed with a tube video camera, 3/4" videotape, 4/3 ratio. many many years before HD and 16/9 ratio.
@@TodMesirow Then why is it 16x9? Doesn't look stretched. Head is chopped off in places.
@@lutello3012 the part with the image is 4x3; I'm guessing the RUclips system shows it with the black on either side because most things are 16x9. it's definitely not stretched. the 3/4" tape was digitized without changing the aspect ratio.
@@TodMesirow Weird. Definitely getting widescreen in the video file itself. The only time I'm seen RUclips mess with the ratio is in thumbnails.
I love John Waters! Odd, offbeat, eccentric, funny... just wonderful. That apartment could belong to no-one else!
This is not funny. I know funny. This is deprived.
@@tommydurkin213 deprived? You are deprived of grey matter
He’s hilarious, I love him ❤
Love ya John! Thanks Tod!
I'd totally chill with John Waters, and make crude jokes together.
how dare he not show his bathroom
that's funny. I blame myself for not asking.
He's so smart. I love him!
This. Is. AWESOME!!!!😃❤❤❤
thanks for watching!
But where are the bodies? The families deserve to know sir.
John Waters is my spirit animal
John is living proof that you cannot consider yourself as being gay unless you own multiple candelabras !
This is just the best
thanks for watching!
This was filmed 2 yrs before Devine died. I guess she was sending John Waters little shoes.
"I have fake meat. I collect fake meat."
Me trying to explain my collection of shitty "movie" video games I've collected since I was four. A Bugs Life, Dinosaur (2000), The Matrix etc.
Move on to crappy FPS like the Chek Cereal FPS they put a CD-ROM in limited boxes.
@@TuriyanGold I need some of those badly
Spahn Ranch never had condos on it. There is nothing there now…
I'd chill with JW seems like a cool dude
It’s too bad this was cropped to 16:9 instead of showing the full picture.
we recorded this on 3/4" videotape, the Sony, and the camera was a state of the art three tube beast with a zoom lens. the ratio was 4:3, long long long before HD and 16x9. I'm not sure why RUclips auto-crops - maybe it's my error in uploading it. thanks for watching.
@@TodMesirow ah, typical RUclips messing things up. Thanks for sharing this.
@@UnbornApple my pleasure, I'm glad people seem to be enjoying it.
What fabulous taste this man has.
Fabulously bad taste!
i need this edited into a cribs episode
Looks like a Baltimore City apt
Oh Johnny. We are closer than you think
The book he promotes, "Crackpot", is actually sitting on my desk as I watch this
One of the best of all time.
That was very entertaining, he must have had the most interesting apartment in Baltimore
his apartment is so fascinating, what a strange guy..its so charming to me, I like the idea of fake food i find it hilarious