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Image:LydiaLunch.jpg Lydia Lunch (born Lydia Koch on June 2, 1959 in Rochester, New York) is an American singer, poet, writer, and actress.

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Biography

After arriving in New York City at the age of 16, Lunch moved into a large communal household of artists and musicians, including Kitty Bruce, daughter of Lenny Bruce, where post-punk No Wave bands such as DNA and MARS frequently played. She immediately saw this form of music as the proper forum for her angry poetry and rants, and founded the short-lived but influential No Wave band Teenage Jesus & the Jerks in 1976 with her then romantic and artistic partner, No Wave punk-funk-jazz musician James Chance. The duo later recorded the album Off White (credited to James White and the Blacks, with 'Stella Rico') in 1978, before splitting up permanently.

She appeared in two films directed by the husband and wife film-making team of Scott B and Beth B; In the short film Black Box (1978) she played an unnamed torturer, and in the feature length, neo-noir thriller Vortex (1983) she played a private detective named "Angel Powers".

A self-avowed 'confrontationalist' identified by the Boston Phoenix as "one of the 10 most influential performers of the 90's", Lunch's solo career featured collaborations with musicians such as J. G. Thirlwell, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Nick Cave, Billy Ver Plank, Steven Severin, Robert Quine, Sadie Mae, Rowland S. Howard, Michael Gira, The Birthday Party, Einstürzende Neubauten and Die Haut. She also acted in, wrote, and directed underground films, sometimes collaborating with underground film maker and musician Richard Kern (including several films such as Fingered in which she performed unsimulated sex acts), and more recently has recorded and performed as a spoken word artist, again collaborating with such artists as Exene Cervenka, Henry Rollins, Don Bajema, Hubert Selby Jr., and Emilio Cubeiro, as well as authoring both traditional books and comix (with award-winning graphic novel artist Ted McKeever).

Simon Reynolds, author of Rip It Up and Start Again : Postpunk 1978-1984 , wrote

And although "affection" is possibly an odd word to use in reference to a bunch of nihilists, I do feel fond of the No Wave people. ... there are great moments throughout Lydia Lunch's long discography. [1]
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Selected quotations

I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet.

I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success.

There’re enough happy assholes out there, why should I be another one in the line...

It seems to me, that for over two thousand years now; mad-men, maniacs, and would be messiahs have been pilfering, have been pillaging, have been plundering, and have been raping the entire planet; and the way I see it, Mother Nature is getting pretty pissed off.

No pornography exploits women. It exploits men. It’s the men that are made to look stupid, silly and ridiculous, chasing after the golden elixir. Women look beautiful, do what they wanna do and get paid for it.

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Discography

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Music

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Spoken word

  • Better An Old Demon Than A New God, Giorno Poetry Systems comp. f/ William S. Burroughs, Psychic TV, Richard Hell and others (1984)
  • The Uncensored, solo (1984)
  • Hard Rock, solo (split cassette w. Michael Gira / Ecstatic Peace, 1984)
  • Oral Fixation, solo (12", 1988)
  • Our Fathers who Aren't in Heaven, w. Henry Rollins, Hubert Selby Jr. and Don Bajema (1990)
  • Conspiracy of Women, solo (1990)
  • South of Your Border, w. Emilio Cubeiro (1991)
  • POW, solo (1992)
  • Crimes Against Nature, solo spoken-word anthology (Tripple X/Atavistic, 1994)
  • Rude Hieroglyphics, w. Exene Cervenka (Rykodisc, 1995)
  • Universal Infiltrators, (Atavistic, 1996)
  • The Devil's Racetrack (2000)
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Filmography

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Actor

  • She Had Her Gun All Ready (1978)
  • Guerillere Talks (1978)
  • Black Box (1979)
  • Beauty Becomes the Beast (1979)
  • The Offenders (1979-1980)
  • Liberty's Booty (1980)
  • Subway Riders (1981)
  • The Wild World of Lydia Lunch (1983)
  • Like Dawn to Dust (1983)
  • Vortex (1983)
  • Submit to Me (1985)
  • The Right Side of My Brain (1985)
  • Fingered (1986)
  • Submit to Me Now (1987)
  • Mondo New York (1987)
  • Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread (1987)
  • Penn & Teller's BBQ Death Squad (198?)
  • Thanatopsis (1991)
  • Visiting Desire (1996)
  • Power of the Word (1996)
  • The Heart is Deceitful Above all Things (2004)
  • Psychomentsrum (unreleased)
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Director

  • Men in Orbit (1981)
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Writer

  • The Right Side of My Brain (1985)
  • Fingered (1986)
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Composer

  • The Offenders (1980)
  • Vortex (1983)
  • The Right Side of My Brain (1985)
  • Goodbye 42nd Street (1986)
  • Fingered (1986)
  • I Pass for Human (2004)
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Subject

  • Rome 78 (1978)
  • The Wild World of Lydia Lunch (1983)
  • Penn & Teller's Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends (1987)
  • Put More Blood into the Music (1987)
  • The Gun is Loaded (1988-1989)
  • The Road to God Knows Where (1990)
  • Malicious Intent (1990)
  • The Thunder (1992)
  • Totem of the Depraved (1996)
  • Paradoxia (1998)
  • Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock (2001)
  • DIY or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist (2002)
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Narrator

  • American Fame Part 1: Drowning River Phoenix (2004)
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Bibliography

  • Adulterers Anonymous (1982 with Exene Cervenka)
  • Incriminating Evidence (1992)
  • Paradoxia; a Predator's Diary (1997)
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Comixography

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Miscellany

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External links

fr:Lydia Lunch

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