Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson – Buriedfed
Tilly & the Wall – Lost Girl
The Gay Blades – Bob Dylan’s 115^th Nightmare
Rufus Wainwright – Hallelujah
Bright Eyes - Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh
The Blow – True Affection
Johnny Cash – Hurt
Paul Baribeau – Brown Brown Brown
L7 – Hanging On The Telephone
Neutral Milk Hotel – Oh Comely
Bomb The Music Industry! – Big Plans Of Sleeping In
The Mountain Goats – Oceanographer’s Choice
Manic Street Preachers – Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
Empires – Spit In The Dark
The Smiths – You’ve Got Everything Now
Lady GaGa – Pokerface (Acoustic)
Letters To Cleo – I Want You To Want Me
Regina Spektor – Somedays
The Dresden Dolls – The Mouse & The Model

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Florence and the Machine – Kiss With A Fist

The New Pornographers – The Laws Have Changed

Otis Redding – Try A Little Tenderness

World/Inferno Friendship Society – Only Anarchists Are Pretty

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – Biomusicology

Beirut – Elephant Gun

Bob Dylan – Don’t Think Twice, Its Alright

Oasis – Don’t Look Back In Anger

The Ramones – She’s The One

They Might Be Giants – Don’t Let It Start

Mika – Grace Kelly

Neutral Milk Hotel – Holland, 1945

Edith Paif – La Vie En Rose

The Dresden Dolls – Sing

The Foundations – Build Me Up Buttercip

The Smiths – Shakespeare’s Sister

The B-52’s – Love Shack

The Wombats – Let’s Dance To Joy Division

Nina Simone – Feeling Good

Laura Marling – Ghosts

Cold War Kids – We Used To Vacation

Ima Robot – Creeps Me Out

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A long time passed before I ever set eyes on the box set again. In the winter of my senior year of high school me & my friends decided we were going to have a BBQ. (Yes, in January. This has to do with John Waters’ do you expect this to make sense?) After most of the guests had left the only people that remained was myself & my two insane friends Sean & Wriston. I don’t know if it was late but I know it was dark & cold so we had little business outside (also Wriston had decided to piss on the charcoals & the smell was too unbearable to stay in the yard). So we took refuge in my living room, raiding through old videos in hopes of something interesting. We found some old tape about dragons that Wriston said he remembered being awesome from his youth. After about a half hour we decided his younger self was an idiot & continued in search for something better. That is when Sean pulled out Pink Flamingos. Both boys had heard good things about the movie & I had always wanted to see it, so we popped the taped hoping to get better result than our last. What we got was the best possible results.
To this day there is nothing that can match what I felt when I first watched Pink Flamingos. Both tasteless & hilarious, the movie changed my definition of cool in 93 minutes. Only Glenn Milstead could dress like a woman, eat dog shit off the street & call himself Divine. He was in every single way. He made filth chic & destroyed how I saw the world. Nothing was sacred, nothing was taboo.  Not gays, Nazis, cannibalism, murder, incest, nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Everything was up for grabs. Nothing was normal anymore. Nothing was safe.
Soon after I showed the movie to my friend Jen & we become obsessed. For the next few months we went on a John Waters binge, renting every movie he was involved with. Cry-Baby, Pecker, Desperate Living, Serial Mom, A Dirty Shame, Female Trouble. & everyone we were close to became susceptible to it. You couldn’t be friends with us without having to sit through at least Pink Flamingos. Those who couldn’t were rarely around much longer. If you couldn’t accept the John Water’s lifestyle then you wouldn’t worth knowing. I still hold that truth to this day, along with everything else John Waters has taught me.
Embrace your weirdness. Live without shame. & never ever keep any perception of time.