On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Lyonne's own red hair is a powerful motif in her new dark-comedy-slash-existential-drama Russian Doll, now streaming on Netflix; we see it again and again in the bathroom mirror as her character Nadia relives the night of her thirty-sixth birthday. I think the reason to have a character who was facing her own mortality not be older than 36 was so that we didn't have to unpack that endless conundrum of "Should I or shouldn't I consider children?" She was previously married to Lux Interior. Psychotic Reaction The Cramps live in Norway, 2006: Records are so magical because its this little mechanical thing. Ivy went underground and still doesnt get the credit shes due. What may seem amazing when you were there might not come across sonically if you hear the recording later. The men looked like creeps and killers. It can take someone whos been dead for 30 years and then make them alive again. Its just a license to scream and you can be as loud as you want. I dont know. Great article, really enjoyed it Poison Ivy Rorschach. She was smart, but disinterested by typical classroom learning, preferring subjects such as dancing, art, music and the study of various of spiritual and religious disciplines. is so harrowing to consider. Good for her. Natasha Lyonne is grimacing. In Lets Get Fucked Up, we say, `Tomorrow youll feel like you were hit by a truck. But these people that dismiss drugs as bad, period, for everyone and thats the end of that . I think some guitarists get into an ego thing where they want to perform in some technical way, which even if you can its not always the best thing to choose to do. We're all in our own little weirdo fucking bodies with our own little weirdo faces and our own little weirdo ideas. Im the Queen of Rock n Roll and for this to not to be recognized is pure sexism.. Yet, we get called sexist and a joke. 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They played a strange new form of rock n roll that they dubbed psychobilly, a blend of harsh garage rock and punk heavily influenced by Lux and Ivys favored sounds of Fifties rockabilly, doowop, and wicked instrumentals.. I guess when we were making it I was 38. We're obviously living in a time that's appalling as far as injustice and racism and homophobia and misogyny, and it was like saying, "Hey, unless you're kind of connected to the world around you, you're a participating member in all of this. To have this show being received in this way is just about all my heart can take. Lux Interior (born Erick Lee Purkhiser) and Poison Ivy (born Kristy Marlana Wallace) met in Sacramento, California, in 1972. The guy could eat up a stage. I think the biggest idea of Russian Doll would be that we start to talk about removing some shame around the underlying idea of our own brokenness, and realizing that we're all broken in our own ways and that's part of our power and our beauty: our imperfections and our differences. ", The actress, 39, has been a longtime fan of The Cramps because of their self-definition as outsiders. Kristy was given the name Christina Ann McNichol on September 11th, 1962 in Los Angeles, California, U.S. There was never any question in Cramps-land that Lux and Ivy were equal partners in crime. That means people are thinking; theyre not just doing what theyre told. ", If you are so busy thinking about your own self-loathing that you don't think it's necessary for you to participate in the world, and it's okay to just be a full drop-out, there's a part of you that's cosigning a lot of shit that's going on. "My family's story, my years through the ringer of being at death's door and addiction, and the experience of being a weirdo and an outsider in New York and in this business. He produced a lot, and he considered himself more of a piano player, but his guitar playing was totally unique. A big part of my life (as well as my kids). The idea that it's being translated to people and that they're not making fun of it or somethingthat people aren't laughing at it, are in fact identifying with it, means everything to me, you know? Shes more than earned retirement, but Id always be interested in anything else shes involved with. Poison Ivy Rorschach, originally known as Kristy Marlana Wallace, took charge as producer as The Cramps' producer. With us, wed take it right back. Oh my god, I'm late and now I'm overcompensating and making weird jokes. Their last album, Fiends of Dope Island, came in 2003. That we put so much preciousness on the teenage woman's body and the 20-year-old woman's bodyfuck all of that. ", Russian Doll's Nadia has a habit of repudiating the regard of others, toobut not necessarily in the good way. We have been accused of being sexist, sighed Ivy, who co-wrote the songs with Interior. See Kristy's contact info now . From that point on, the Cramps were kaput. Maybe because Im not the same person, maybe I know more from playing longer. Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, Ivy was born as Kristy Wallace in San Bernardino, California, and raised near . I think anytime anybody gets too comfortable or decides to cleverly pigeonhole `the way things should be . But if its warm enough, that guitar will just work with me. Poison Ivy Rorschach They say that behind every good man, there's a good woman. The Cramps - Mad Daddy. What we wanted to explore was this idea of a selfish person, the negatively self-obsessed person, who thinks that they're not selfish. They were unusual for a punk band as their music was mainly inspired by rockabilly. She tookreverb, tremolo, sustain and fuzz those bad, bad boys and whipped em into shape, handcuffing them to licks sharper than stilettos. Bo apparently replaced her with a series of women he called the Duchess, but its possible that the woman Ivy saw that night in Sacramento was actually Lady Bo, who had returned to the touring band that year. Kristy Marlana Wallace was born in 1953, to Dudley Ross Wallace and Eleanor Josephine Wallace (born Knoblock). Early co-guitarists like Bryan Gregory and Kid Congo Powers got more credit than they were due, even though Gregory was really employed for his looks. They only go back to Zeppelin and Aerosmith. I didn't need this." . We're all in our uniforms every day for seven years. Shes faceted like a diamond, Lux said admiringly in a 1998 interview with the Independent. Kristy Marlana Wallace, Age 69. aka Kris M Wallace. Of her relationship with Lux, Ivy said, I think we kind of brought each other up, weve been together so long. It used to be vinyl and now its a CD, but its still amazing that this little thing reproduces a universe of sound. Part of the problem/not problem was Poison Ivy on stage. Everybody who was into the Kinks and the Rolling Stones was also buying all those blues records., The Cramps guitar sound came naturally. Download Audio. It shoulda been me instead / Dont they know that Im Elvis Fucking Christ?, We were watching some awards show and Lux was like, Aw, youre kidding! Offstage she was soft spoken, witty and thoughtful, but always ready to launch into the sex-goddess Bikini Girls with Machine Guns mode that she portrayed in so many Cramps promo videos. "Yeah," she says, "it's because the song, `Poison Ivy,' is `You can look, but you better not touch.' " Initially, she used the surname of Rorschach, taking it from the inventor of the Rorschach test. Diddley had long included a female guitar player in his band. She is an actress, known for The Return of the Living Dead (1985), The Social Network (2010) and Poltergeist (2015). Watching it come to life is an extraordinary process that gives you the strength to go on trying to make things, which is a really hard thing to do. We were 24-hours-a-day rock n rollers.. In 1972, while attending Sacramento State College, Wallace met future Cramps singer Lux Interior. Isn't everybody exhausted? that just kind of glamorizes it to a teen-ager, that just makes em run for it., To get a little heavier about it, Interior said, Ive always thought of us as surrealists right from the very beginning. (Creation crapped on us, Ivy says. Its hard to say what he brought, guitar-wise. Andrea was born in 1982. Though reckless and darkly sinister, the Cramps remained eminently and imminently accessible. I would trick them into teaching me things.. There are just more recognizable women in rock n roll. Beautiful, designer borrowed clothes, but let it be about telling a story that has some sort of personal connection to something I want to say rather than this idea of somebody else getting to determine if I'm worthy, and that they get to choose me or not. Learn how your comment data is processed. For 13 albums and 33 years of live performances, Poison Ivy remained the idol of girls who ate, slept and breathed rock n roll, girls who wanted to infiltrate a predominantly male industry and show that women deserved a place at the table, too. Best Match Powered by Whitepages Premium AGE 70s Kristy Marlana Wallace Glendale, CA (Adams Hill) Aliases Kris Marlana Wallace View Full Report Addresses [2], In 1974, they moved first to Interior's hometown of Akron, Ohio, and then to New York City. Past Addresses: Glendale CA, Glendale CA. Obviously. They remained agitators and outsiders. People are constantly like, "Are you getting married? The future? She's living quietly somewhere in Glendale, California. Offstage, Interior and Ivy were another story, almost the exact reverse of their onstage personae. They were from Cleveland, but relocated to New York. She was like Johnny Ramone that way. Human Fly The Cramps, with short promo film by Alex de Laszlo, 1986, starring Poison Ivy and Lux Interior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33eE1KUNJV8.