It just so happens that I’m in Rochester today. I hear the good things include Frozen Custard, and getting high on the roof of the Times Square building. What do you recommend?
How the hell should I know? I’ve been there twice in the last 20 years. The best times I had there, which were probably before you were born…were doing mescaline, hanging out with the Hell’s Angels, going to concerts and visiting The House of Guitars, begging to be on their outrageous commercials at the age of 13. Never happened ! And leaving there for good at 16.
Do you think women should refuse to do emotional labor? Revel in it? Does it matter?
I think anyone who has more experience should for a while at least, try to make anyone else’s life a little easier if they can lend comfort. Male or female. You can’t save anyone from themselves though.
Would love any tips on voice screeching, esp as you age. Tea? Beer? Don’t do or do do things that stress your voice muscles?
I stress other peoples muscles…Cognac, hot toddies…ginger, lemon, Ceylon cinnamon, and whiskey.
Who’s the funniest person you know/knew?
That would be me
Should people who want to make interesting stuff move to New York? Is it still there? Does it matter where you are or who you’re with?
FUCK NO! DO NOT FOR ANY REASON MOVE TO NYC. You will end up living with 5 other creeps in a shit hole in Bushwick and working 3 low paid jobs for the …mmmm…privilege. That’s just moronic. If you have a band you will be playing to 10 people and paying to do it. Why bother? I left NYC in 1980, came back in 1984, left for good in 1990. There are any number of better places to live…that you might be able to afford. If you think music will pay your rent you are delusional. If you MUST do music…do it hoping you will find a coven of other people who get it, that are also creative that you might be able to do shows with …AS A HOBBY. Become an architect. A chemist. A civil rights lawyer. Do music or art in your spare time. I am a master juggler, full time hustler, chronic pimp, booking agent, curator…and even then I was nomadic until 6 months ago for 4 years…refusing to pay rent…ON A MORAL BASIS. Good luck kids…Do what you must to to let the poison out. Be glad you might be able to reach some like minded people online.
photo by Jasmine Hirst
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7/15 Lydia Lunch RETROVIRUS featuring Weasel Walter, Tim Dahl & Bob Bert, Doomsday Student, New England Patriots, Peach Ring @ Cambridge Elks Lodge $15 7pm ALL AGES
https://www.facebook.com/events/1713120078988819/
Spawn of NYC’s late 70s no wave situation (w/ Teenage Jesus and the Jerks), Lydia Lunch has been challenging audiences with her often sexually charged, anti-commercial experimental rock and noise concoctions ever since. With deep excursions into both industrial experimentation and spoken word Lunch’s output has been varied but always confrontational. Here with Retrovirus, alongside the properly seasoned Weasel Walter (Lake of Dracula), Tim Dahl (Child Abuse), and Bob Bert (Sonic Youth/Pussy Galore), she tears her perma-dangerous old material a new one, and we the audience are the beneficiaries.
Also on the bill are Providence’s just pummeling Doomsday Student (born of the ashes of Arab On Radar), Boston’s ecstatically freaky heavy (New England) Patriots, and newer louder Boston weirds Peach Ring. Let’s just say each and every one of these other stellar bands on the bill has listened to their fair share of Lydia Lunch over the years…
*This event is part of BRAIN Arts’ Boston Hassle Cultural Exchange Program which is made possible with a Live Arts Boston grant from The Boston Foundation*
