Lydia Lunch
Lydia Lunch
Lydia Lunch is an American singer, poet, writer, actress and self-empowerment speaker whose career was spawned by the New York No Wave scene. The Boston Phoenix named Lunch "one of the 10 most influential performers of the 1980s."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth2 June 1959
CityRochester, NY
CountryUnited States of America
buildings died ghetto ghost images lead solo towns
Living in Barcelona, I have my own little ghetto utopia. There are 3,000 ghost towns in Spain, and I've used the images of them a lot in my backdrops for my solo spoken-word stuff. The ghost towns could be from two buildings to 40 - things died out, or there were plagues, the roads don't lead there, whatever.
positive
You want positive, go elsewhere. Go find a different lie.
beauty concept represent
Part of what I have to represent is an alternative to this perverted fashion industry concept of what beauty is.
fuels informs watch work
I watch the news. It fuels my rage; it informs my work.
inflict intensely might performers rest separated since society whom
I'm separated by other performers with whom I might be lumped, since what I say is so intensely personal. I'm anti-art and anti-poetry. As much as possible, I want to inflict my personal pain on the rest of society.
bigger henry inspired miller taught truth whatever
I've always been inspired by Genet, Henry Miller and Hubert Selby, Jr., who taught me that you've got to tell a bigger truth in whatever you're doing, but the truth is not popular.
henry
Two of my favourite books are Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' and 'Tropic of Capricorn.'
eye thinking lunch
Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.
bank-accounts considerate be-considerate
Just because my bank account hasn't swelled astronomically I don't consider myself any less of a success.
encouragement thinking lunch
I think it's important to encourage gluttony in all its formats.
insanity affliction needs
The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of...
hate world hate-you
There is so much in the world to hate, why hate yourself?
lunch would-be found
I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success.
musician titles
Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician.