Lung Leg

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Lung Leg lurking in the mirror in her 2005 self-portrait entitled Lurking in the Mirror.
Lung Leg lurking in the mirror in her 2005 self-portrait entitled Lurking in the Mirror.
Lung Leg in her 2005 ghastly self-portrait entitled Ghastly Self-Portrait.
Lung Leg in her 2005 ghastly self-portrait entitled Ghastly Self-Portrait.
This article is about the pin-up and actor. For the rock band, see Lungleg (band).

Born Elizabeth Carr, Lung Leg (born July 8, 1963[1] in Minneapolis, Minnesota) 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.

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.

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.[cite this quote]

Later a band from Glasgow, Scotland named themselves Lungleg, 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.

In 2007, Lung Leg appeared in The Hagstone Demon, a film directed by Jon Springer.[citation needed]

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  1. ^ http://www.birthdatabase.com/query.php Birthdatebase.com

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