Saturday miscellany

You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it’s evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don’t you know that you can count me out
Don’t you know it’s gonna be all right
all right, all right

You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We’d all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We’re doing what we can
But when you want money
for people with minds that hate
All I can tell is brother you have to wait
Don’t you know it’s gonna be all right
all right, all right
Ah
ah, ah, ah, ah, ah…

You say you’ll change the constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it’s the institution
Well, you know
You better free you mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow
Don’t you know it’s gonna be all right
all right, all right
all right, all right, all right
all right, all right, all right

JOHN WATERS: Yeah, I mean, I’m all for capitalism, I own three homes plus I’m for the kids. I’m for the kids down there and they go for the same reason I went to riots in the ‘60s, they go to get a date, you know. They look cute, those kids. It’s good fashion. They’re having fun. BO is a problem down there cause they never can wash and stuff but I’m all for them. They’re having a good time. I went – it is like going to a rave.
TONY JONES: Scratch and sniff protestors.
JOHN WATERS: It’s like going to a rave, really. I understand it and I understand they should be angry. You’re 20 years old, you should be angry. When you’re 65 you’re a jerk if you’re angry.

JOHN WATERS: In my country it’s like Obama is basically – he is being criticised so much because he inherited the exact opposite of when he came into office and now everybody wants to say he’s not selling. He’s not selling. And my country right now, the next election is split right down the middle. The election could be won by one vote and they hate Obama as much as I hated Bush and it is like that and it’s really tough because nobody listens. They fan all this talk radio stuff of everybody screaming and yelling. No one listens. And liberals are fascists too because – I’m a bleeding heart Liberal, but all the Liberals I know, they never think someone’s in the room might not agree with them. You know, it’s really true.
TONY JONES: You don’t…
MULTIPLE SPEAKERS TALK AT ONCE
TONY JONES: You mean American liberals in the American seats rather than the conservative liberals that we have here.
CHRISTOPHER PYNE: Small L liberals.
JOHN WATERS: Well, but everybody thinks I mean I think in the circle that I’m in, in the arts, it usually is left wing but nobody ever imagines that someone might not agree with them, which I find hard too, even though – my assistant’s a Republican and, God knows, we don’t talk about it but she runs my filth empire, you know, and I’m sure it must be tough for her because I’m sure that she doesn’t totally agree with my politics.

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