Episode 645: Schloctoberfest 2024 #4 (Pink Flamingos & Desperate Living)

October 26, 2024

Episode 645: Schloctoberfest 2024 #4 (Pink Flamingos & Desperate Living)

On this week’s show, Jeff Shuster and I delve into two miraculously trashy John Waters films from the 1970s, Pink Flamingos (1972) and Desperate Living (1977), to cap off our annual Schloctoberfesting.

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Check out my interview with John Waters back on episode 133.

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3 responses to “Episode 645: Schloctoberfest 2024 #4 (Pink Flamingos & Desperate Living)”

D J Rout

October 26, 2024 at 7:20 pm

How do you pay such close attention to stuff like this?

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1. thedrunkenodyssey
  
  October 28, 2024 at 3:23 pm
  
  1. I can’t help it.
  2. This is my PhD training at work.
  3. Outré cinema such as this can serve as an antidote to overdosing on mainstream film and television.
  
  And here you might ask, “Why watch things that will feel toxic?”
  
  Unfortunately, in my life, I accepted too much stupid entertainment in my life before I knew not to watch.
  
  Plus other people insist I sometimes absorb stupid entertainment.
  
  Plus stupid entertainment I don’t watch ends up in the zeitgeist anyway, which means I feel like I watch some stupid entertainment that I
  haven’t even watched.
  
  The films of John Waters may be crazy, but are not boring. They represent good bad taste. Without bad bad taste, I wouldn’t need good
  bad taste. But America teems with bad bad taste.
  
  Reply
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