John Waters
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English
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Written by a veteran Web designer, The Real Business of Web Design goes beyond the usual philosophy of simply creating a better customer experience online. Instead, it provides an array of visual design practices and tested business principles for clarifying and simplifying the Web development process and making a Website more customer friendly. Filled with anecdotes from the author's own experiences in the web design trenches, this guide shows readers...
2) Mind Power
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English
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Utilizing and effectively employing the power of your mind and your brain are essential prerequisites for achieving anything great in life. However, when it comes to the development of their own mind power or brain power many people are clueless. They are not even aware that they possess the means of changing their brain's circuitry through neuroplasticity based techniques. Neuroplasticity or brain plasticity refers to the brain's ability to change...
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English
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A vibrant portrait of a Beat Generation icon, WILLIAM S BURROUGHS: A MAN WITHIN explores the brilliant and troubled world of one of our greatest authors. Featuring archival footage of Burroughs, as well as interviews with confidants such as John Waters, Patti Smith and Iggy Pop, the film, set to a soundtrack by Patti Smith and Sonic Youth shows how Burroughs spawned a countercultural movement.
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Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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"[Just] like reading a description of a Waters film is nothing like seeing it on the screen, listening to him tell his own stories brings the context and inflection needed to truly appreciate his art. A singular experience." — Booklist This program is read by the author and includes a bonus conversation.No one knows more about everything—especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling—than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin...
6) Role models
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English
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Examines the life, personality, and humor of American filmmaker John Waters, covering his work, often described as subversive, with various infamous figures from the world of popular culture and entertainment.
7) Make trouble
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English
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"When John Waters delivered his gleefully subversive advice to the graduates of the Rhode Island School of Design in 2015, the speech went viral, in part because it was so brilliantly on point about making a living as a creative person. From an icon of popular culture, here is inspiring advice for artists, graduates, and anyone seeking happiness and success on their own terms. Now we all can enjoy his sly wisdom in a manifesto that reminds us, no...
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English
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The Bar Is Open.
Whether you're looking for to mix a traditional martini or concoct one of today's more trendy cocktails, you'll find everything you need to shake, stir, and serve over 2,000 drinks with style in this easy-to-use Bartender's Guide.
Includes:
Step-by-step mixing instructions.
Proper glassware and garnishes.
Advice on stocking a home bar.
Definitions of mixology terms.
A complete liquor index.
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English
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The Otis family was largely responsible for committing Barnstable to the revolutionary cause, a move that irrevocably undermined the placid, homogenous nature of their society. As he discusses the reactions of the Otises and their community to this crisis, Waters illuminates the causes of the Revolution itself.Originally published in 1968.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available...
10) Carsick
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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"John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads 'I'm not psycho,' he hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving lonely roads and treacherous drivers. But who should we be more worried about: the delicate film director with genteel manners or the unsuspecting travelers transporting the Pope of Trash?"--Dust jacket flap.
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English
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The hardest part of going to war is coming home to face yourself.
The tale of a man and the memory that haunts him, River City One is the poetic and compassionate story of John Walker, a lawyer and ex-Marine adrift in a nameless city. Home from the war, he has become a man on the edge, quietly raging against the people he must now work for and live among-the kind of people incapable of understanding the terror he felt in combat and the guilt he carries...
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New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
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English
Description
Hairspray: Tracy Turnblad, a teenager with huge hair, a big grin, and all the right moves, becomes the queen of Baltimore's number one dance revue.
Pecker: A fun-loving kid from the wrong side of the tracks picks up a second-hand camera and starts snapping his way to freedom. He discovers that fame is both instant and disappointing.
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Video Project
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Decades before the existence of the MPAA and an implemented rating system, the United States had censors. At least seven states and dozens of cities across the country empowered government-employed censors to injudiciously cut films prior to their exhibition or even outright ban them. SICKIES MAKING FILMS uses the nation's longest surviving censor board as a window into the tangled history of American movie censorship.The film explores the question...
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Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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The greatest cult horror and science fiction films of all-time are studied in vivid detail in the second volume of Time Warp. Includes groundbreaking classics like “Night of the Living Dead,” and “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” and sci-fi gems such as “Blade Runner,” and “A Clockwork Orange.”
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Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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From “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” to “The Big Lebowski” and everything inbetween, this fascinating deep-dive documentary begins its celebration of the greatest cult movies of all-time discussing the birth of the midnight movie.
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The final volume of Time Warp digs deep into what makes us laugh over and over again as we reveal the greatest cult comedies and campy classics of all time. From “Fast Time at Ridgemont High” and “Office Space” to “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” and “Showgirls.”
18) Aggie
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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An exploration of the nexus of art, race and justice through the story of art collector Agnes Gund who sold Roy Lichtenstein's painting "Masterpiece" in 2017 for {dollar}165 million to start the Art for Justice Fund to end mass incarceration.
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Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A trippy, cinematic sleighride into the strange & sublime universe of alternative & underground Xmas music, featuring The Flaming Lips, Run-DMC, The Free Design, Low, Miles Davis & Bob Dorough, Clarence Carter, John Waters, and many more. Official Selection at the **San Francisco Documentary Film Festival** and **DOC NYC**.
20) Pecker
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The photographs of a working class neighborhood taken by a Baltimore teenager are discovered by a New York art dealer. When the teen becomes an overnight sensation, his subjects, including his girlfriend, believe they have been exploited.