John Waters, steps away
John Waters and most of humanity are within 6 degrees of each other. This matrix combines the small-world principle behind this seemingly magical fact with inter-artist recommendations-in-series in order to make all artists potential curators and discoverable within a handful (or two) of steps from everywhere on the planet. It works like this:
I RECOMMEND people (do you?)John Waters & degrees of proximity
Why again is John Waters mere steps away from other artists in here, and by extension, most everybody on the planet?
WHO CURATES "I RECOMMEND" ABOVE?
- Vertex/Edges Out by: me, the Artist
Artist & Where
- Name: John Waters
- City/Place: Dublin
- Country: Ireland
- Hometown: Castlerea, Co. Roscommon
Current News
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What's Up?
From the real source of religion to the infinite reach of rock ‘n’ roll; from the puzzle of the human ‘I’ to the true meaning of money, John Waters speaks and writes about his exhilarating, totally original reflections on the meaning of life in the modern world.
Having started his career in 1981 with the Irish Music journal Hot Press, John Waters later wrote in The Irish Times from 1990 to 2014. His first book, Jiving at the Crossroads (1991), about the cultural underbelly of Irish politics at the height of the Haughey era, became a massive best-seller.
He went on to write and publish eight other books, including An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Modern Ireland (Duckworth, 1997) and Was it for this? Why Ireland lost the plot (Transworld Ireland, 2012).
He has written a number of plays for stage and radio and currently writes a fortnightly essay for the American magazine of religion in the public square, First Things.
He is a Permanent Research Fellow at the Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.
Life & Work
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Bio:
John Waters, Irish writer and formerly newspaper columnist, was born in Co Roscommon, in the West of Ireland, where he grew up in the town of Castlerea. His first book, Jiving at the Crossroads (1991), about the cultural underbelly of Irish politics, became a massive bestseller and was reissued by TransWorld in 2012.
His other publications include Race of Angels (1994) a study of the roots of U2’s music in Irish history and culture. He has written two books about the religious and spiritual imagination of modern Ireland (such as it is), entitled Lapsed Agnostic and Beyond Consolation (On How We Became too Clever for God and Our Own Good), He is currently completing a third book in this series y, provisionally entitled Men Without Chests. His book, Give us Back the Bad Roads, will be published in October, 2018.
His award-winning plays include Long Black Coat (1994) and Easter Dues (1997). He is also a songwriter and secret musician. He has a daughter, Róisín, and oscillates between Dublin and Lislary, Co Sligo, close to where his father was born in what is nowadays known as Yeats Country.
He married Rita Simons in December, 2014
Contact Information
- Email: info@johnwaters.ie
Media & Markets
- ▶ My Substack: http://johnwaters.substack.com
- ▶ Book Purchases: http://www.johnwaters.ie/content/books
- ▶ Website: http://www.johnwaters.ie
- ▶ Articles: http://www.johnwaters.ie/articles
My Writing
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Publications:
Books include:
Beyond Consolation
Feckers: 50 People Who Fecked Up Ireland
Jiving at the Crossroads (Blackstaff,1991);
Race of Angels (4th Estate/Blackstaff,1994):
Every Day Like Sunday? (Poolbeg, 1995);
An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Modern Ireland (Duckworth 1997);
The Politburo Has Decided That You Are Unwell (Liffey Press, 2004);
Lapsed Agnostic (Continuum, 2007).
Was it for this? (TransWorld 2012)
He has written plays for radio and the stage, including Long Black Coat, (1994), Holy Secrets, (1996), Easter Dues, (1997), and Adverse Possession (1998).
Give us Back the Bad Roads was published in October 2018 (Currach).
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ABOUT THE MATRIX
This matrix is dedicated to creative artists and non-algorithmic discovery.
It was described (to some degree) and can be accessed via this article in British journal The Guardian (which named our radio of matrixed artists as one of ten best in the world):
www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/apr/17/10-best-music-radio-station-around-world
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w/ David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio
The matrix was inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' El Aleph, that in the pillar in Cairo's Mosque of Amr, where the universe in its entirety throughout all time is perceivable as an infinite hum from deep within the stone...
Our logo, per the "spirit" above, is a cortador de cana, a cane cutter. It was designed by Walter Mariano, professor of design at the Federal University of Bahia to reflect the origins of the music the shop specialized in. The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum... it dances and sings.
