Lung Leg
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Born Elizabeth Carr in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Lung Leg is best known for appearing on the cover of the Sonic Youth album EVOL. The pin-up girl and star of the transgressive movement, she disappeared as quickly as she rose to fame. She appeared in several Richard Kern movies, including the starring role in one of his longest features You Killed Me First, as well as Fingered, and his videos for the Butthole Surfers song "Concubine" and the Sonic Youth song "Death Valley '69."
Immediately following her short film career, she disappeared. The only known interview with her, in Film Threat's "Film Threat Classic #12" Magazine, is out of print. A blurb for the magazine article says that she took a lot of LSD.
IMDB.com states that her father (unnamed) holds the American record for the "Decathalon" [sic].
Nick Zedd writes in his autobiography, Totem of the Depraved, that Lung Leg moved to Minneapolis, then moved back to New York City after a short romance with German musician Blixa Bargeld of Einstürzende Neubauten and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. He further claims that she then became a stripper in Queens, New York and became insane, obsessed with an imaginary German villain named "Ninny" who was trying to spread Communism and destroy Christmas. However, in recent alleged e-mail correspondence with Mike Etoll, Lung Leg disputed Nick Zedd's comments concerning the "Ninny" character.
In a 1993 interview, Richard Kern said this of Lung:
Lung Leg lives in San Francisco and people from time to time see her. Every time a New York band goes there like Cop Shoot Cop just told me they saw her. And she always goes to the shows. And I heard she looks like a witchy California looking drug culture icon, long dirty hair and dresses like some Gothic rocker. I haven't seen her in so long. She called and said she's moving back here but she never showed up.
Later a band from Glasgow, Scotland named themselves Lung Leg, presumably in homage, and performed in some concerts with Sonic Youth.
As of 2005, Lung Leg was living in Minneapolis and had recently appeared in a Mike Etoll film entitled Sewer Baby. In it she plays a bartender dealing with various monsters, special effects and a primordial dwarf.
[edit] External links
- Lung Leg at the Internet Movie Database
- Film Threat A synopsis of Film Threat Classic #12, which featured the only known Lung Leg interview
- Sewer Baby - film by Mike Etoll starring Lung Leg
- 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.
