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Novelist Jim Kalin lives in Los Angeles, writes a monthly column for Amateur Wrestling News, and has traded in his speargun for a banjo. His wife and son sing harmony.

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LUXURIOUS INTERIOR

February 23, 2009
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I’m proud of my life
But don’t ask me why
-Lux Interior in ‘Primitive’

Lux Interior, vocalist of The Cramps, died at 4:30 am on February 4 of an existing heart condition. And it’s fitting that the Mad Daddy went precisely at a time that if anyone asked “what were you doing when Lux Interior died?” the answer would be a unanimous SLEEPING!

Lux was a creature of the night. He sang about it. Wallowed in it. Slathered the thing all over his body. He was corpse-twitch, a combination Bride of Frankenstein and Iggy Pop. When Lux sashayed, bolts clanked and worms moaned.

I snatched a strand of pearls from Lux Interior’s neck in the mid 1980’s in Cleveland while he was leaning from the stage far out over us devotees in the slam-pit. I turned it over to my sister for her birthday. She always claimed that they were cold as death when she put them on. That would seem right, being that they originally belonged to Lux.

Los Angeles writer and legend Jim Krusoe never saw The Cramps perform live, but upon hearing of Lux’s death, he logged onto YouTube and viewed the Napa Mental Hospital footage.  “That is one of the most transcendentally joyous and generous concerts I’ve ever witnessed,” wrote Krusoe.

Indeed.

The first time I ever saw The Cramps was in 1979 in Columbus, Ohio at a bar called Crazy Mama’s. They had just released their first recording and were touring small venues. Lux ended the show bleeding and naked.

If you never got to see The Cramps perform, you sure missed out. Nobody raged onstage like Lux. He gyrated nonstop and jerked like a man on the toxic end of a noose. His voice was cattle prod and his demeanor werewolf.

In The Human Fly, Lux sang “I have 96 tears and 96 eyes.” Unfortunately for us, he only had one heart.

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