Incriminating Evidence

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Summary: Know This
Review: Lydia Lunch is an artist. Read and buy everything she does. There will ALWAYS be something special in everything she does regardless if you 'like' or 'don't like' it.

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Summary: South of your Border and Smell of Guilt compensate.
Review: This confessional will be interesting to fans but it is really an obscure collection. Some of it is scripts from spoken word performances and does not have any connection to the surrounding prose. Because Lydia Lunch is such an accomplished public speaker its interesting to see bits of Oral Fixation etc on paper. It is script for spoken word performance. As prose, Incriminating Evidence looks barely like there was a first draft. Reading her song lyrics it is obvious Lunch can write well, but the rants just dont make good reading.

Kristian Hoffman's drawings are good, there are some nice photos of Lydia Lunch.

The collaborations between Lunch and Emilio Cubiero are the saving grace of this book. They make sense because the reader does not need to know about Lydia in order to understand what is being said.

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Summary: DEEPLY CONFRONTATIONAL
Review: This is Lydia Lunch at the height of her power, a chronicle of conflicts, abuse, strife, hatred. misery and obsession. As she says in the introduction: "... the need to document my personal insanity is an affliction I haven't yet cured myself of .... Read it and weep." Includes the play "South Of Your Border", lovely pics of Lydia and lots of humorous illustrations by Kristian Hoffman. Definitely not for sensitive readers, since there's a lot that will offend here, but people who like Georges Bataille will love this book.