{"id":5645,"date":"2014-06-08T16:07:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T23:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5645"},"modified":"2014-06-16T16:13:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T23:13:34","slug":"travels-with-johnny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/08\/travels-with-johnny\/","title":{"rendered":"Travels With Johnny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/gossip\/confidential\/waters-thumbs-u-s-tour-article-1.1812206\" target=\"_blank\">from The NY Daily News<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>John Waters details his cross-country hitchhiking adventure in his new book &#8216;Carsick&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p><em>Cult director began his journey in May 2012 at end of his street to catch a ride to Interstate 70. That began a nine-day, 21-ride odyssey from Baltimore to San Francisco<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PeaXVAww5Ng\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>by\u00a0MARIANNE GARVEY, BRIAN NIEMIETZ AND OLI COLEMAN WITH MOLLY FRIEDMAN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Famed cult director\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: inherit;\">John Waters<\/span>\u00a0was 66 when he decided it would be a great idea to hitchhike across the country and write a book about his experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI make a living thinking up weird things to do,\u201d says Waters, now 68, who directed such camp classics as the original \u201cHairspray\u201d and \u201cPink Flamingos.\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s what I do every morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His nine-day, 21-ride odyssey from Baltimore to San Francisco (he has homes in both cities) is detailed in a road-trippy new book, \u201cCarsick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not mentioned in the memoir is that Waters made it back to New York in time to accept a Council of Fashion Designers of America award on behalf of absentee\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: inherit;\">Johnny Depp<\/span>\u00a0in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Waters, who had directed Depp in \u201cCry-Baby,\u201d was such a hit that the CFDA asked him to host the whole glittering shebang Monday at Lincoln Center. It seems the director \u2014 famous for his pencil mustache \u2014 always had a passion for fashion.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/gossip\/confidential\/waters-thumbs-u-s-tour-article-1.1812206\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYDailyNews.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The NY Daily News John Waters details his cross-country hitchhiking adventure in his new book &#8216;Carsick&#8217; Cult director began his journey in May 2012 at end of his street to catch a ride to Interstate 70. That began a nine-day, 21-ride odyssey from Baltimore to San Francisco by\u00a0MARIANNE GARVEY, BRIAN NIEMIETZ AND OLI COLEMAN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}