![]() When I walk into a bookstore and there’s a lot of greeting cards, I’m suspicious. It’s well-curated, has a bar in the back and doesn’t stock anything middle of the road, or greetings cards. That’s what people call each other there. I had “I’m not psycho”, but maybe something like “Visiting town” or “Looking for a Balti-moron” would work. Especially if you have a sign that’s funny. If you’re hitchhiking, Charles Street is a safe place to do it. They know who I am but I can do anything. I’ve got an apartment in San Francisco and one in New York but if I had to pick one place to live it would definitely be Baltimore. She said: “Divine was licking my bannister!” Then she moved. I said, “Well you should see it!” She freaked out afterwards. The woman that owned it ran a fancy wine shop and had never seen Pink Flamingos. It’s exactly the same – and I’ve gone back in since, which was weird. And the house where the Marbles lived is on Greenmount Avenue. Well, maybe the Unitarians … Multiple Maniacs premiered in a Unitarian church.įans of Pink Flamingos who want to find some filming locations should visit the corner of West Read Street and Tyson Street. Today there isn’t a church that’s as liberal. In the 1960s, churches were liberal: they used to have Black Panther meetings in them. That’s when we were in theatres … I used to premiere in churches and rented halls. Then there’s another theatre, the Senator, that’s like Radio City Music Hall. The Charles Cinema is our arthouse cinema. Kids in Baltimore have it great, it’s jumping these days. I like to just see what the kids are doing. I like that it’s in a union hall in a bad part of town. They’re 20 and they’re listening to music I know. It’s so weird – this isn’t even their grandparents’ music. It’s on the first Friday of every month at Lithuanian Hall and it’s just really young kids dancing to soul music. Photograph: Greg Pease/Getty Imagesįor a party I usually go to this place that’s called Save Your Soul. What lurks beneath … the pleasant-looking Baltimore skyline and inner harbour. There’s also a real biker bar I like called the Holiday House, where I filmed A Dirty Shame. The Charles has been Baltimore’s favourite cool hipster bar forever. Start your night at the Club Charles and then you can meet people to go other places. Any gay people I know go to the hipster bars they don’t go to the gay bars. The nightlife in Baltimore is very mixed. It got turned into a restaurant and got better and better and better. Believe me, when it was Motorcycle Pete’s, that was fun. I first went there when it was an old biker bar. I’m not saying I don’t like kale, but it is ever-present.įor a meal out my number one restaurant is Peter’s Inn. They do good homemade turkey and it’s not just kale all the time. It’s unpretentious and it’s not a foodie place. Then I’d go eat at my favourite little blue-collar diner, the Wyman Park. I have to think of fucked-up things every morning and sell ’em in the afternoon. My perfect day in Baltimore begins with getting my five newspapers. The ‘pope of trash’, film director and writer John Waters.
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