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Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
) is best known for appearing on the cover of the Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...
album EVOL
EVOL
Evol is the third studio album by American alternative rock band Sonic Youth, released in 1986 on SST Records, and recorded and mixed by New York recording icon Martin Bisi. The album cover features a picture of Lung Leg, a still taken from Submit to Me, a film by Richard Kern...
. During the 1980s, she gained fame as a pin-up girl
Pin-up girl
A pin-up girl, also known as a pin-up model, is a model whose mass-produced pictures see wide appeal as popular culture. Pin-ups are intended for informal display, e.g. meant to be "pinned-up" on a wall...
and as the star of films made by the transgressive
Cinema of Transgression
The Cinema of Transgression is a term coined by Nick Zedd in 1985 to describe a New York City, United States based underground film movement, consisting of a loose-knit group of like-minded artists using shock value and humor in their work...
movement.
Film career
Lung Leg appeared in several Richard KernRichard Kern
Richard Kern is a New York underground filmmaker, writer and photographer. He first came to underground prominence as part of the underground cultural explosion in the East Village of New York City in the 1980s, with erotic and experimental films featuring underground personalities of the time...
films, notably starring in one of his longest features, the 1985 film You Killed Me First, and appearing in Worm Movie (1985) and Fingered (1985). She also appeared in his music videos for the Butthole Surfers
Butthole Surfers
Butthole Surfers is an American alternative rock band formed by Gibby Haynes and Paul Leary in San Antonio, Texas in 1981. The band has had numerous personnel changes, but its core lineup of Haynes, Leary, and drummer King Coffey has been consistent since 1983. Teresa Nervosa served as second...
song "Concubine" (1984) and for the Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...
song "Death Valley '69" (1985).
After her film career in the 1980s, Lung Leg left the public sphere for several years. Nick Zedd
Nick Zedd
Nick Zedd is an American filmmaker and author based in New York City. He coined the term Cinema of Transgression in 1985 to describe a loose-knit group of like-minded filmmakers and artists using shock value and black humor in their work...
writes in his autobiography, Totem of the Depraved
Totem of the Depraved
Totem of the Depraved is an autobiography by Nick Zedd released in 1983 and published by Henry Rollins' 2.13.61 publishing company. A rare autobiography to emerge from the Cinema of Transgression film movement of the early 1980s, it provides a venomous, bitter view of his collaborations with New...
, that she moved to Minneapolis, then moved back to New York City
New York City
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after a short romance with German musician Blixa Bargeld
Blixa Bargeld
Blixa Bargeld is a composer, author, actor, singer, musician, performer and lecturer in a number of artistic fields...
of Einstürzende Neubauten
Einstürzende Neubauten
Einstürzende Neubauten is a German post-industrial band, originally from West Berlin, formed in 1980. The group currently comprises Blixa Bargeld , Alexander Hacke , N.U...
and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are an Australian alternative rock band, formed in Melbourne in 1983. The band is fronted by Nick Cave and has featured international personnel throughout their career.-Formation and early releases :...
.
She resumed her film career in 2005, appearing in a Mike Etoll film entitled Sewer Baby. In it she plays a bartender dealing with Tiny Tim
Tiny Tim (musician)
Tiny Tim , , born in Manhattan, was an American singer and ukulele player. He was most famous for his rendition of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" sung in a distinctive high falsetto/vibrato voice.-Rise to fame:Born to Lebanese parents in 1932, Khaury displayed musical talent at a very young age...
, various monsters, special effects and a primordial dwarf. In 2011, Lung Leg appeared in The Hagstone Demon
The Hagstone Demon
The Hagstone Demon is an American horror film directed by Jon Springer and starring Mark Borchardt as a drunken ex-reporter plagued by demonic forces...
, a film directed by Jon Springer
Jon Springer
Jon Springer is an American independent filmmaker whose science fiction and horror films combine explicit imagery with religious subtext.- Biography :...
.
Lung Leg recently appeared in the documentary Blank City.
The only known interview with her, in Film Threat
Film Threat
Film Threat is a former print magazine and, now, webzine which focuses primarily on independent film, although it also reviews DVDs of mainstream films and Hollywood movies in theaters. It first appeared as a photocopied zine in 1985, created by Wayne State University students Chris Gore and André...
s "Film Threat Classic #12", is out of print.
External links
- Film Threat A synopsis of Film Threat Classic #12, which featured the only known Lung Leg interview
- Official Myspage page
- Official Myspage page for "Llik your idols", a documentary about the Cinema of Transgression featuring Lung Leg
- SEWER BABY Selected Scenes - Scenes from the film SEWER BABY by Mike Etoll starring Lung Leg.
- Official Sewer Baby Trailer on Youtube - The official trailer for Mike Etoll's Sewer Baby. Featuring Lung Leg, Mike Etoll, and others.
- Crepuscular Planet WCCO 4! - A goofy prank played live and on the air during a Minneapolis news broadcast in 2002. Featuring Lung Leg, Mike Etoll, and others.