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Lydia Lunch: ‘There won’t be a funeral. You’ll never find my body’

The Teenage Jesus and the Jerks frontwoman shares her hatred of sandwiches and pop culture, plus her wish to evaporate and return to ‘the ether’

Lydia Lunch: ‘There won’t be a funeral. You’ll never find my body’

TL;DR

  • Lydia Lunch recounts a stage incident where she hit a heckler with a blackjack.
  • She was influenced by Suicide's "mania and musical schizophrenia" and Alan Vega's "thousand-yard stare."
  • Lunch admires Tex Perkins, finding him "adorably funny, sexy, raunchy."
  • She prefers celebrating the lives of deceased friends like Rowland S Howard rather than "missing" them.
  • Lunch dislikes sandwiches, stating bread is "a trick on poor people."
  • She describes pop culture as an "existential vacuum" and expresses no interest in it.
  • Lunch previously wrote a sex advice column called "Tough Love."
  • She wishes to evaporate upon death and has no plans for a funeral or for her body to be found.