How to Live Without Irony

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by nailer

There's a good chance I bought more than a few drinks from you. Remember the blizzard? BTW, I road the Temple Garden elevators a few times with John Waters and his entourage and attended the premiere of Desperate Living at the UoB law library auditorium.

Did you leave me a tip?

Like Waters, I grew up in Towson and we had mutual friends. One day these friends and I went over to John's house (on La Paix Lane next door the the house F. Scott Fitzgerald lived in while Zelda was in Sheppard Pratt). I suppose I was maybe 15 or so and Waters is about my age. (I thought a year or two older but his bio says he's a year younger.)

Anyway, he was already making movies and that day he was editing some footage he'd shot earlier. Suddenly gifted with a "cast", he quit editing, grabbed his camera and led us all up to the Towson courthouse (the one in "Serial Mom"). There he set about directing us all in some scenes he wanted to shoot. My scene was to be gunned down as I stepped off the #8 streetcar outside the courthouse.

Years later, I ended up going out with a woman who had been part of his entourage and I related this story to her. "Oh!" she said, "That's 'Hag in a Black Leather Jacket!'" I've never been able to see this very obscure short film so I don't know whether the scene in the film is with me or whether Waters re-shot the scene later with a different (real) actor.

John

[nailer]

I'm the guy who said "keep the change."

[icenine]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

Even in Detroit. The problem is that so many of these "hipsters" are just dope head party animals that really don't contribute much after Mom and Dad cut off the cash flow. Any positive effect they have on a blighted community is temporary at best. Remember; They are there because they think it's "hip" to live in a blighted shithole. They're slumming. And when they leave, they pretty much leave it the way they found it, or even worse.

Dave

Translation: I am not cool no matter how hard I tried to fit in.

[donquixote99]

An ironic life may be one in which you know you don't contribute, and you know that's hip.