| LYDIA LUNCH Nooo Yawks high priestess of sleaze 'n' extreme confrontation has been peddling her ego via rock 'n' roll, film and in print over the last 25 years. She's been described as a perceptive barb in our psycho-sexual subconsciousness by some and in other circles a pretentious, whinging bitch! Whatever you think of her she's certainly entertaining. Here's what inspired her pen and ink during the 8 year span from 1982-89 reprinted here for your entertainment from the trivia vaults of the Don't Care files. BOOKS Justine - De Sade Demon Flower - Jo Imog Will You Die For Me - Tex Watson The Painted Bird - Jerzy Koszinski All Short Stories - Charles Bukowski Revelations - The Bible LIKES Skinny boys with black hair Coney Island Puerto Ricans Butcher knives and shotguns Anything between 12 and 17 Exene HATES Liars Jealous girls All the clubs in London Most musicians, singers or anyone generally pompous All music papers, anyone who works for them and a thousand other things. FILMS The Night Porter The Haunting 13 Ghosts The Last House On The Left Salo (uncut) Mother's Day SONGS Groove Me - King Floyd I Fall To Pieces - Patsy Cline Heart Attack and Vine - Tom Waits Various Times - The Fall Imitation Of Christ - Psychedelic Furs (Howuncool)! Black Is The Colour Of My True Love's Hair -Patty Waters HEROES Ted Bundy Lizzie Borden Whoever invented cotton candy FAVOURITE SAYINGS You wish Gnarrly Drop dead POET Wanda Coleman PUBLIC SPEAKERS Jimmy Swaggart Hitler MUSICIANS Caspar and Peter Brotzmann Steven Brown (Tuxedo Moon) JG Thirlwell Erik Satie Penderecki Stockhausen John Coltrane Albert Ayler Duke Ellington LYDIA'S JUKEBOX CHOICE 'Harlem Nocturne' - The Viscounts 'Penetration' - The Stooges 'Out There' - Henry Rollins 'I Can Do Any Goddamn Thing I Want' - Foetus 'She's In A Bad Mood' - Sonic Youth '3E' - Mars 'Don't Fear The Reaper' - Blue Oyster Cult 'Black Is The Colour Of My True Love's Hair' - Patti Waters LYDIA'S VCR VIEWING Videodrome Santa Sangre Repulsion Dead Ringers The Devil In Miss Jones Cape Feartling Vol 3 PHOTOGRAPHERS MarcViaplano JanSaudek Joel-Peter Witkin PAINTERS David Womarowicz Man Ray Marcel Duchamp, His 'Illuminating Gas And Waterfall' is the best piece of art I've ever seen. RELIGION Satanism. It's probably the most honest. TOOLS OF THE TRADE A camera: In order to stimulate certain anxieties in people, a good device is to take the audience's photo before and alter a performance from the stage. A Police Mag flashlight: Especially good for trapping rats in the audience, if there are any hecklers out there you can zero in on them. WORST PERFORMANCE On the'Agony Is The Ecstasy' tour where I opened for The Cure. One of these particular dates was the worst piece of shit I ever heard or did in my life. lt was so terrifying I had to run into the bathroom and hide for half an hour. BEST PERFORMANCE The 'Why You Murder Me' production's tag-team duo of me and Henry Rollins in the pitch black room at The Fetish Club, Los Angeles in 1982. PETS Yeah. . .They're all about 14 to 20 years old! PERFORMANCE ARTISTS The Viennese Performance Group from Austria during the '60s. They'd fill a room with 200 people and then release an equivalent number of rats or bees. Karen Finlay. Through comedy and horror she deals with the abuse of reality in her life experiences. LYDIA'S LIBRARY The Loser George Konrad Sanatorium Under The Guise Of The Hour Glass Bruno Shultz Last Exit To Brooklyn Hubert Selby Jr Marks Of Identity, Landscapes After The Battle, Forbidden Territory all by Juna Goytisola Insatiability Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz Complete Works Of The Marquis de Sade (Grove Press editions only) FlanneryO'Connor Harry Crews |
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