The driver said, “He began to tell me who he was, but I didn’t believe him. But when we stopped and he left the car, I Googled him, and everything popped up.”
Waters told the couple that he’s “preparing to write a book about his adventures of hitchhiking across America.”
This morning the bassist for Here We Go Magic, Jen Turner, spoke with us about their magical experience with hitchhiking John Waters.
Indie director John Waters was reportedly hitchhiking in Ohio today when he was picked up by an indie rock bank, Here We Go Magic. Sources say he bought everyone lunch and taught them new words!
Your one-stop shop for the best concerts around the area this week, featuring a solid Tuesday night local bill at the Cat, your chance to drink beer and do something good for the community and, of course, the Wu-Tang Clan invades Falls Church.
DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Pink Flamingos It’s often said that we’ve become so desensitized as a culture that the things that once shocked us have now become routine. John Waters’ first movie must have been decades ahead of its time, because even in an age when any number of perversions are only a mouse click away, Pink Flamingos still feels…
>> Head out to H Street tonight to catch a free, jam-packed line-up in the Captial Fringe Festival’s first official preview. The festival itself kicks off July 19, but tonight at Palace of Wonders you can see 20 of the more than 200 productions that will be on offer during Cap Fringe. Performances will include The Lesbian and the Flying Pig, Speakeasy, Love and War: Bard’s Broads, Cautionary Tales for Adults, Arts United, Pretty…
MONDAY: >> We’ve been hearing an awful lot about certain journalists who’ve spent superfluous time in jail for ideals they supposedly believe in — but, before you make any contributions to that gravy train, why not hear from Marie-Helene Carleton, who’ll be in town discussing the travails of her filmmaker partner Micah Garen, who was taken hostage in Iraq in 2003. Even if you’re an avid news junkie, there’s still a lot you don’t know…
( Editor’s Note: This preview of the SILVERDOCS film festival comes to us from Sommer Mathis, who has joined our staff to write about arts.) Just when you were certain that downtown Silver Spring will never be as hip as it wishes it was, SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival returns for its 3rd year to challenge your deeply held beliefs. This year’s opening night gala alone is enough to make any film geek perspire with…