Lisa Crystal Carver's (AKA Lisa Suckdog) writing in Rollerderby, made her one of the most well known writers of the zine boom in the early '90s, along with scribes like Pagan Kennedy. Through her interviews, she introduced the work of Vaginal Davis, Dame Darcy, Cindy Dall, Boyd Rice, Costes, Nick Zedd, GG Allin, Kate Landau, Queen Itchie & Liz Armstrong to many. Roller derby is an American contact sport—and historically, a form of sports entertainment—based on formation roller skating around a track. ... Pagan Kennedy is an author and pioneer of the 90s zine movement, along with writer/publishers like Lisa Crystal Carver of Rollerderby, Jim Goad of ANSWER Me! and Larry Crane of Tape Op. ... Vaginal Davis is a punk rock drag queen and an avant-garde performance artist. ... Darcy Megan Stanger, known professionally as Dame Darcy is one of the most popular and well-regarded alternative comics artists today. ... Cindy Dall is a photographer whose murder-glam aesthetic places her work firmly in the canon of other transgressive visual artists like Richard Kern and Nick Zedd. ... Boyd Rice in Portugal, 2004. ... Jean-Louis Costess noise music albums can be described as wild, chaotic screechfests through dark Freudian terrain. One-time husband of Lisa Crystal Carver, he helped write the backing noise-opera music of the Suckdog Circus, and was also a performer in Suckdog, along with Carver, Dame Darcy, Coz... Nick Zedd, a New York City based filmmaker and author, coined the term Cinema of Transgression in 1985 to describe a loose-knit group of like-minded artists using shock value and humor in their work. ... GG Allin (29 August 1956 – 28 June 1993) was a punk rock singer and bandleader for a plethora of groups. ... Queen Itchie is the late 90s pseudonym for writer Jennifer Nixon, who contributed to the zine Rollerderby in the 1990s. ... Liz Armstrong lives in Chicago, Illinois. ...

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. The Suckdog Circus toured every state in the continental United States for several years, performing a mix of wrestling, musical performances, film-screenings and general audience agitation. ... Noise music is music that uses sounds regarded as unpleasant or painful under normal circumstances. ...

Carver is the also the author 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. In 2005, Soft Skull Press released her newest book, Drugs Are Nice, detailing her early childhood and later romantic relationships with GG Allin, Costes, Boyd Rice and Smog's Bill Callahan. Lawrence Welk during a taping of The Lawrence Welk Show Lawrence Welk (March 11, 1903 – May 17, 1992) was a musician, accordion player, bandleader, and television impressario. ... Olivia Newton-John (born September 26, 1948) is a British-born Australian singer and actress. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Soft Skull Press is a independent press, founded by Sander Hicks. ... Drugs Are Nice is the confessional memoir of Lisa Crystal Carver published by Soft Skull Press in the US in 2005 and by Snowbooks in the UK in 2006. ... GG Allin (29 August 1956 – 28 June 1993) was a punk rock singer and bandleader for a plethora of groups. ... Jean-Louis Costess noise music albums can be described as wild, chaotic screechfests through dark Freudian terrain. One-time husband of Lisa Crystal Carver, he helped write the backing noise-opera music of the Suckdog Circus, and was also a performer in Suckdog, along with Carver, Dame Darcy, Coz... Boyd Rice in Portugal, 2004. ... Victorian London was notorious for its thick smogs, or pea-soupers, a fact that is often recreated to add an air of mystery to a period costume drama. ... Bill Callahan is the name of: An American football coach, Bill Callahan A musician that performs under the name Smog A college student known for his blog: [1] blog This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ...

GG Allin is said to have written the song "Suck Dog" (from his 1987 album You Give Love a Bad Name) about Carver, after she attempted unsuccessfully to seduce him, then badmouthed him to the press. 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... You Give Love A Bad Name is the third studio album by the controversial punk rock singer, songwriter, and performance artist GG Allin, and is jointly credited to Allin and a one-time studio band named The Holy Men. ...

External links

• Official Rollerderby site
• Interview

Also Lisa Crystal gave birth to a giraffe