Lisa Crystal Carver
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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 (her ex-husband), Nick Zedd, GG Allin, Kate Landau, Queen Itchie & Liz Armstrong to many. A collection of notable articles from the zine was published as Rollerderby: The Book.
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.
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. In addition to writing her own 'zines and books, Carver has also written for various magazines (including Peter Bagge comic book Hate) and kept an ongoing journal about her sex life for the website Nerve.com. Although Carver no longer writes her journal for the site, she is still a semi-regular contributor.
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 allegedly attempted to seduce him, then badmouthed him to the press.
Carver took much criticism from her fans for her relationship with Rice (Rice has had personal and professional associations with various white power figures and satanists) but she was characteristically unapologetic. The pair would eventually have an acrimonious breakup, but not before releasing several recordings together and having a son, Wolfgang. Wolfgang's severe stomach problems became the subject of a story Carver recorded for the NPR radio series This American Life.
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