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.
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.
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?
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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'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.
a local Washington, D.C. television station, in those days WTOP, a CBS affiliate. I was a director/writer/producer on a weekly Sunday morning magazine show titled Capital Edition.
I have to admit, I thought John Waters just might have decorated one part of a wall with self adhesive shelf lining paper from the late 1960s. I need to get more therapy to navigate this disappointment, or a shipment of Dolls.
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
John Waters' apartment looks exactly like you would imagine.
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.
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"
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 😂
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.
He is so fun and entertaining. It's never boring when John Waters is involved.
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”
This man is a national treasure… He’s one of the few good things about this country anymore
the og home tour. 30 years ahead of time.
well said. thanks for checking it out!
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
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
It was exactly how I expected his apartment to look like
thanks for watching!
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.
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?
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!
Thank you for sharing this!
My pleasure!
Always a fan of his wit, talent and style. A story of art everywhere! ❤
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!
Thanks for this! John, his apartment and all his wonderful quirkiness!
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. :)
i LOVE it! thanks for posting!!! 😍😍😍
my pleasure glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks for this!
thanks for watching.
Wow.
Years after watching _Once Upon a Time In Hollywood,_ 1980s John Waters tells me Spahn Ranch has been turned into condos.
John is living proof that you cannot consider yourself as being gay unless you own multiple candelabras !
"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!
This is epic! I love John Waters! ❤️❤️
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.
i'm moving into a new apartment in a couple months so i'm watching this for decorating tips
JW chic style. nice.
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!! 😂
Brilliant! Love John Waters.
I love how this video came up after I was watching a clip from Fargo because he looks exactly like Steve buscemi here
He seems like a good guy, Great personality
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.
This whole video was simply hypnotic.
thanks so much. it was a treat to have the opportunity.
He keeps you on your toes for sure
Best cribs tour ever (only second to Redmans apartment tour on MTV. Must locate).
I'm surprised he didn't have a lot more video tapes.
Love ya John! Thanks Tod!
John is a gem!!
I love how he stella his new book to the audience. Learned something new there 😅👍
I loved his role in The Seed of Chucky as the Paparazzi guy. 😂 loved it!
I would like to see the 2023 tour. Wonder how his collection expanded
He's so smart. I love him!
My God he's fantastic.
Surprisingly good image quality for 1986, especially compared the sound.
One of the best of all time.
Prison Trivia: The average age of corrections officers when they die is 59.
Good
I don't know who he is but my recommendation page sure does know me
that's great.
This. Is. AWESOME!!!!😃❤❤❤
thanks for watching!
He’s hilarious, I love him ❤
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.
this. is. amazing.
I love that man!
Never clicked so freaking fast.
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.
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.
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 might actually be the coolest person ever
John Waters is my spirit animal
Thanks for sharing, but now I'm jealous.
I actually have a copy of Crackpot and it's one of my favorite books.
love this man
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.
Instead of walking us to the front door, he pushes us out the window. Mr. Waters where are your manners?
Well, this is the Charm City? What else was he to do with us?
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
How can we not have a shot of his wardrobe? Or is that like a whole 'nother video?
His Waters still living in Baltimore’s Hampden neighborhood? That’s a very nice area.
Love him!
i need this edited into a cribs episode
John Waters rocks!
Awesome
That was very entertaining, he must have had the most interesting apartment in Baltimore
I'd chill with JW seems like a cool dude
Always loved him. When I was in college I did what he did.
Oh Johnny. We are closer than you think
I watched this whole damn thing
nice to hear. thanks for watching.
Love.
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.
Interesting guy
Legend
huge apartment!
Was he still using in '86 or is that au naturale?
What fabulous taste this man has.
Fabulously bad taste!
" i like the idea of fake food everywhere" impossibly funny
Where is this from?
a local Washington, D.C. television station, in those days WTOP, a CBS affiliate. I was a director/writer/producer on a weekly Sunday morning magazine show titled Capital Edition.
a national treasure 🇺🇸
No a national disaster.
How about asking the parents of the children he had contact with what they think of him?
god he rules
"I only collect books" continues to show entire house filled with other things he collects
Looks like a Baltimore City apt
Love
I have to admit, I thought John Waters just might have decorated one part of a wall with self adhesive shelf lining paper from the late 1960s. I need to get more therapy to navigate this disappointment, or a shipment of Dolls.
I like to think of it as understated otherness. it's the provenance of a lot of the items that struck me. yes it's just a broom. but not ANY broom....
So, this is the MicroMachines guy, back in 1986. Cool
Spahn Ranch never had condos on it. There is nothing there now…
The King of oddities!!!!
You can’t say he doesn’t have an aesthetic.
agreed. one of a kind.
Brave enough living in Baltimore