Metal Dad - Hardcore for Life

Lydia, Oh Lydia

Thanks and a tip o' the hat to Alex at Flaming Pablum for the link to a New York Press article/review of Ms. Lunch's ninth book, Will Work For Drugs. "Like most artists from the punked-out No Wave movement, Lunch’s reputation is based upon being an enfant terrible, rebel and provocateur, so talking to her for an hour and discovering she’s actually personable and considerate came as a pleasant surprise."

I had the same reaction when I met and briefly spoke with her after a spoken word performance at the Empty Bottle in Chicago last year.

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Lydia Lunch Quote(s) of the Day

 

"I'm grateful for every moment I'm alive. I've been granted numerous stays of execution. I've courted DEATH, who always wins in the end, but truly I wanted LIFE. In the Extreme. I needed experiences which would force me to truly appreciate everything. I wanted to take nothing for granted,"

“You gotta straighten out eventually or you’re going to fucking die. But to write, you have to be able to tap into the universal vein of frustration, anger, pain and love. I consider myself a juggler first and foremost, because I’ve danced around the abyss but never been sucked in. I’ve been surrounded by many creative people who have been. The perverse thing about me is that I do have this incredible optimism and hope ... I never give up and I won’t give up.”


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Putting The Fun Back In Fundamentalism

"I’m beginning to see that prophetic speculation is taking place on the fringes of the Christian publishing industry. Of course, you will still find the occasional prophetic pot-boiler. Mark Hitchcock writes a couple of prophecy books a year. They are mostly exercises in 'newspaper exegesis,' driven more by current events than the Bible. Consider these three, all to be published in 2009: The Late Great United States (Multnomah), 2012, the Bible, and the End of the World (Harvest House), and Cashless: Bible Prophecy, Economic Chaos, and the Future Financial Order (Harvest House). How do you go from The Late Great Planet Earth, Hal Lindsey’s mega-best seller from the 1970s, to the end of America? It seems to me that The Late Great Planet Earth would have included the United States. Anyone familiar with Lindsey’s timetable will remember that it was all to happen before 1988. Of course, these publishers are counting on people not remembering or not even knowing of past failed predictions. As P.T. Barnum is reportedly to have said (it was actually David Hannum), 'There’s a sucker born every minute,' and these suckers make money for companies that continue to publish out-of-date prophecy books that end up being an embarrassment to the Christian faith." 
- Gary Demar

I remember sitting in a Sunday School class where the instructor was making the point that a pre-millenial, dispensational hermeneutic was the only one which does justice to the biblical text because it is a literal hermeneutic. He then went on to elaborate how the seventy weeks of Daniel were not really weeks.

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May Giveaway at Challies.com

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Lydia Lunch Quote of the Day

"No names have been changed to protect the innocent. They're all fucking guilty."

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Literary Quote for the Day

If I should cast off this tattered coat,
And go free into the mighty sky;
If I should find nothing there
But a vast blue,
Echoless, ignorant --
What then?

- Stephen Crane

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The Kindle

Venomous Kate writes about the Kindle being #1 on her Christmas Wish List. I have to admit that I don't usually lust after tech stuff. I guess I get my fill playing with cool, new tech tools at work. I didn't get an MP3 player until last year.

But this Kindle looks amazingly cool. The idea that I could walk around with this electronic thingy that contains part of my library is quite tempting, although I would miss the tactile thrill that comes from actually holding a book in my hot, little hands. Mrs. Metal Dad often asks when I buy books or balk at giving away any not-read-recently volumes, "What's wrong with taking them out of the library?"

A fair question for which I have no real logical or reasonable answer. I just like the idea of being able to go down to the family room and pull a book off the shelf whenever I want.

 

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Check Out This Giveaway at Challies Dot Com

And check out his blog while you're at it. Always a good read.

Lydia Lunch

"I tell the truth as I know it. I don't glamorize the nightmare and horror that I witness, I just digest it and spew it back, with venom." - Lydia Lunch

Lydia is making the rounds with "Hangover Hotel - sick poems and twisted grooves" as well as book signings and readings with Arthur Nersesian. Here are the dates and places.

 

 

Nov 4: Joe's Pub NYC

Nov 5: Barnes and Noble Astor Place NYC

Nov 7: Quimby's Bookstore / The Empty Bottle Chicago

Nov 8: City Lights Bookstore San Francisco

Nov 9: The MakeOut Room San Francisco

Nov 10: Moe's Books Berkeley

Nov 11: Elliott Bay Bookstore Seattle

Nov 12: Neumo's Seattle

Nov 13: SkyLight Books LA

Nov 14: Hammer Museum LA

Nov 15: Largo LA w/ Susan Tyrrell and Mary Woronov

Nov 20: Emo's Austin TX

Nov 21: SOO Visual Art Center Mnpls MN

 

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