Lisa Crystal Carver
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Lisa Crystal Carver's visionary writing in Rollerderby, made her perhaps the most famous writer of the zine boom in the early '90s, along with scribes like Pagan Kennedy. Through her interviews, she was responsible for introducing the work of Vaginal Creme Davis, Dame Darcy, Cindy Dall, Boyd Rice, Costes, Nick Zedd, GG Allin, Kate Landau, Queen Itchie & Liz Armstrong to many.
Her Suckdog Circus shows are also legendary, bringing the artists above to basement shows in nearly every state of the union, where they would perform noise music soap operas, hurling themselves sexually and violently upon the audience, and forcing individual audience members to take part.
In addition to the previously mentioned achievements, Carver is the literary supernova responsible for "Dancing Queen: a Lusty Look at the American Dream", in which she expounds upon various relics of pop culture past, including Lawrence Welk, roller rinks, and Olivia Newton John.
External links
- Official Rollerderby site -- rarely updated, but fun. (http://slick.org/Rollerderby/)
- Recent description of Carver's past and future projects. (http://www.girltalkback.org/profiles/profiles_Lisacarver.htm)