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
beauty concept represent
Part of what I have to represent is an alternative to this perverted fashion industry concept of what beauty is.
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I watch the news. It fuels my rage; it informs my work.
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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.
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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.
henry
Two of my favourite books are Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' and 'Tropic of Capricorn.'
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Just because my bank account hasn't swelled astronomically I don't consider myself any less of a success.
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I think it's important to encourage gluttony in all its formats.
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I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success.
lunch facts charm
Part of the charm of what I do is the fact that its completely unrelated to everything that came before.
lunch satisfaction needs
I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are so I can achieve satisfaction.
lunch mad busy
I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.
machines protest one-woman
I'm like a one-woman protest machine.
collective inspirational none says sounds
If someone says 'grunge' or 'punk,' you know what the sound is, but if you say 'No Wave,' it's kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it... here's this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike.