that's the hell of it.
the existence of a divine feminine implies the existence of a john waters masculine
No more sanity‼️ (theres sort of a suggestive??drawing in the mix of this, so be careful if you don’t want to see that type of thing!!)
just gonna plug this fan restoration here - dr. saperstein restores a lot of original footage and uncensors those ugly bird mattes throughout the film, which were edited in last-minute to conceal any trace of the "Swan Song" label (of which Death Records is a subsidiary), as the copyright for Swan Song Records was nabbed by Led Zeppelin a mere five months before the film's release.
The restoration itself has some video editing/color grading issues but they're not too hard to get past
you can read more about the whole debacle here
phantom of the paradise for free on the internet archive my love
Paul Williams with one of the swan plushies I made. He now owns a little twerp. Thank you Ari for the help delivering him, I’m glad little Swan didn’t burn your suitcase 🫡
I could've sworn I read somewhere that "sweet" in Elizabethan parlance is essentially the Old English version of "queer". I can't find any reliable sources to back up that claim but if that context is to be believed, Faust calling Meph "sweet mephistopheles" gives off the same vibes as "gay bowser"