I was getting these warnings that the satanists would be beating me up or killing me on the west coast due to what I wrote about some of them in the book. So last night before the show they got me when I'd walked out of Mondo Video and was more alone than I had been previously. A red=haired gal said, "Are you Lisa Carver? I'm Szandora and this is Stanton LaVey and" something like we want to know why you'd write something like that and you're a stupid bitch and we're going to kick your ass. So she lunges for me, we pull each others hair out, I kick her in the crotch a couple times, she scratches my neck up. I'm fine with that part. Stanton is her boyfriend and I wrote things about him and she announced her intentions and I could have run back in the store if I'd wanted to avoid it and it was fair because it was one on one. Then Stanton yells at me to get off his girlfriend, who was actually on top of ME, but I think I was hurting her, and so she's holding me down and he's kicking me on the pavement! And then my friend Pat Glamorous yells at him and tries to pull me out from under Szandora and two more satanists come up and I don't know if they were kicking me because I was in a fetal position at that point clawing and kicking at any flesh I could. Then my friends come up and Stanton yells "You're gonna get it even worse in San Francisco tomorrow!"
Well it would have to be worse, because that was the wimpiest beating I ever got. A six foot tall guy kicking me while someone else holds me down and I'm not even sore at all today. I wonder if those people have ever been in a fight in their life, as they don't seem to know where or how to hurt someone. If they had hung around just 60 seconds longer, the pavement would have been kicking Stanton instead, because some of those friends do know where and how to hurt someone. But anyway, it was fun. This whole tour we've been trying to illustrate the crazy times in the late 80s underground, and that's back when I was getting in fights, so not only are we doing it onstage, but outside Mndo Video too.
I hate to do it, but I think I have to press assault charges because Stanton is suing me for libel and Soft Skull to stop printing my books. But I'm in a hurry to get to San Francisco. I got a hunk of Szandora's red hair I picked up off the sidewalk in my pocket. I could do voodoo now. But I don't mind about her. Just about Stanton.