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Profile of Lydia Lunch on Famous Like Me

 
Name: Lydia Lunch  
   
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Date of Birth: 2nd June 1959
   
Place of Birth: Rochester, New York, USA
   
Profession: Actress
 
 
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Lydia Lunch (born Lydia Koch on June 2, 1959 in Rochester, New York, also the birthplace of female rock musicians Kim Gordon and Wendy O. Williams) is an American rock singer, poet, writer, and actress.

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.

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 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).

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.

Discography

Music

  • Babydoll b/w Freud In Flop, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks (7" / Lust/Unlust, 1979)
  • Try Me b/w Staircase, Beirut Slump (7" / Lust/Unlust, 1979)
  • Orphans b/w Less of Me, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks (7" / Migraine, 1979)
  • Pink, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks (12" / Lust/Unlust, 1979)
  • Pre-Teenage Jesus, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks (12" / ZE, 1979)
  • Off White, James White and the Blacks (LP / ZE, 1979; credited as Stella Rico)
  • Queen of Siam, solo (LP / ZE, 1979)
  • Diddy Wah Diddy b/w Dead Me You B-Side, 8-Eyed Spy (7" / Fetish, 1980)
  • 8-Eyed Spy, 8-Eyed Spy (LP / Fetish, 1981)
  • Live, 8-Eyed Spy (cassette / ROIR, 1981)
  • Devil Dogs (live in Italy / unreleased, 1981)
  • 13.13, solo (LP / Ruby, 1981)
  • The Agony is the Ectasy, solo (split 12" EP w. The Birthday Party / 4AD, 1982)
  • Some Velvet Morning, w. Rowland S. Howard (12" EP / 4AD, 1982)
  • Der Karbische Western, Die Haut (12" EP, 1982)
  • Thirsty Animal, Einstürzende Neubauten (12" EP, 1982)
  • Boy-Girl, Sort Sol (7", 1983)
  • Dagger & Guitar, Sort Sol (LP, 1983)
  • In Limbo, w. Thurston Moore (12" EP / Widowspeak, 1984)
  • The Drowning of Lucy Hamilton, w. Lucy Hamilton aka China Berg of MARS (12" EP / Widowspeak, 1985)
  • A Dozen Dead Roses, No Trend (LP, 1985)
  • Heart of Darkness, w. No Trend (10" EP / Widowspeak, 1985)
  • Death Valley '69, w. Sonic Youth (12", 1986)
  • Hysterie, best-of compilation (LP, 1986)
  • The Crumb, w. Thurston Moore (12" EP / Widowspeak, 1987)
  • Honeymoon In Red, w. members of The Birthday Party (LP, 1987)
  • Stinkfist, w. Clint Ruin (12" EP, 1987)
  • Naked In Garden Hills, Harry Crews (1987)
  • Don't Fear the Reaper, w. Clint Ruin (12" EP, 1991)
  • Shotgun Wedding, w. Rowland S. Howard (CD, 1991)
  • Head On, Die Haut (CD / Triple X, 1992)
  • Sweat, Die Haut (CD / Triple X, 1992)
  • Twisted, solo (7", 1992)
  • Unearthly Delights, solo (7", 1992)
  • Transmutation + Shotgun Wedding Live in Siberia, w. Rowland S. Howard (CD, 1994)
  • Everything, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks (CD re-issue/ Atavistic, 1995)
  • Luncheone, 8-Eyed Spy (CD re-issue/ Atavistic, 1995)
  • No Excuse b/w A Short History of Decay, w. Lee Ranaldo) (7" / Figurehead, 1997)
  • The Desperate Ones, w. Glyn Styler) (CD EP / Atavistic, 1997)
  • York (First Exit To Brooklyn), w. The Foetus Symphony Orchestra (CD, 1997)
  • Matrikamantra, solo (CD, 1997)
  • Widowspeak: The Orginal Soundtrack, solo best-of compilation (2CD / NMC, 1998)
  • Smoke In The Shadows, solo (CD / Atavistic, 2004)

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)

Filmography

Actor

  • Like Dawn to Dust (197?)
  • 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)
  • 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)

Director

  • Men in Orbit (1981)

Writer

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

Composer

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

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)
  • 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)

Narrator

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

Bibliography

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

Comixography

  • AS-FIX-E-8 (1990 with Mike Matthews)
  • Bloodsucker (1992 with Bob Fingerman)
  • Toxic Gumbo (1998 with Ted McKeever)

Miscellany

  • Featured as the Ace of Hearts in Post-Modern Pin-Ups: Pleasure Activist Playing Cards by Annie Sprinkle (1995)

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