Lisa Carver began her career in the 1980s as a founding member of the touring performance troupe Suckdog, notorious for their noise music operas that involved aggressive audience participation. 

In the 1990s she published the seminal zine Rollerderby, which highlighted the works of many prominent underground artists and musicians, myself included. 

In the 21st century she has written 15 books, including Dancing Queen: A lusty look at the American Dream, her autobiography Drugs Are Nice, and most recently I Love Art, which contains 105 reflections on phenomena ranging from Shia Leboeuf to Legos to the Bible. 

Lisa Carver is a living legend and was a personal inspiration to me as a young writer in the 1990s. We met via a fateful phone call in 1994, and reconnected in Las Vegas in 2019, where we conducted this in-person a year later.

While Lisa has always been extremely public about her private life, we dive even deeper, and discuss: 

-How we met (Lisa asked Venus for a drawing of her genitalia)

-The erotic appeal of Willem Dafoe's wizened chest 

-Is it better to not be friends with the people you fuck? 

-Lisa's complicated relationship with guided meditations

...and much more

Relevant links:

The Lighthouse (Movie): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7984734/

I Love Art, Lisa's newest book: https://www.tigerbeepress.com/store/p20/I_Love_Art.html

Lisa's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LisaCarver

Venus’s Instagram: @bbwvenusvalentine

Venus’s other projects: https://linktr.ee/VenusValentine

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Email: [email protected] 

Big thanks to our Sound Engineer Kirstin Johnson, our graphic designer Pedro Recio, and Decek, who composed our sexy theme song "Euphoria".