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<p><b>Juliana Luecking</b></p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/72288264@N00/ 924945028"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/1060/924945028_81bc1088b6.jpg" border="0" title="Juliana Luecking" alt="Juliana Luecking"/></a><p class="foxytunes-signature" style="font-size: 12px;">[via <a href="http://www.foxytunes.com">FoxyTunes</a> / <a href="http://www.foxytunes.com/artist/ juliana_luecking">Juliana Luecking</a>]</p>
- PRESS CONTACT
- Juliana Luecking (aka Queen Juliana) jluecking@hotmail.com MySpace.com/QueenJulianaRules YouTube.com/QueenJuliana
- BIO
- I'm a videomaker, writer, and freedom of speech activist. My video series, "People Are a Trip", began on YouTube, was featured in several European indie film festivals, and now it's here. There's also a new series here called, "Ricochet". You can download my spoken-word recordings everywhere (they're a riot!), and on Kill Rock Stars Records. Search iTunes for "Juliana Luecking". I also received numerous media arts grants, and I'm looking for more ... if you have a lead, please let me know. jluecking@hotmail.com
- The reviews are in.
- Sometimes, reviewers are my heroes... REVIEW: "Luecking is one, if not the brightest performance artists/spoken worders around, just about annihilating everyone else in the field with a quiet, biting sense of stark reality." [Groundbelly] REVIEW:"The first piece, 'Oh!' on Juliana Luecking's full length CD of spoken word, 'Big Broad', works well as an introduction to what follows: gritty, biting, and expressionist works, framed by erotic musings and common sense truths. As a poet, Ms. Luecking's voice represents the alleys and sidewalks, parks and boroughs of the city. What makes these poems and stories interesting is the intelligence with which they are written. What value they have for us is a functional look at lesbian culture." [Box Boy, Oya #15] REVIEW:"Luecking is the Mother Teresa, the Aesop, and the Lily Tomlin of punk rock." [Village Voice]
- Are you still doing spoken word records?
- You know there's loads of riotious stuff to download from Kill Rock Stars records, or search "Juliana Luecking" where you download music.
- What's your other job?
- I'm a licensed massage therapist, and reiki practitioner. (Ah, what is reiki, you ask?) What's reiki? It's a healing modality, kind of a laying-on-of hands way of transferring energy from one person to another. Sometimes I explain it as love. Hospice patients I visit prefer it because the touch is very light and comforting.
- You're a blogger now?
- When I was a kid, teachers didn't know what to do with me. Comments on my report cards read, "Excellent student, but an instigator!" That's because I couldn't stop asking questions. I still can't. My MOLI blog is about finding out what's happening in the worlds of love, health, spirituality, and relationships. Actually, I could be the person you are stuck with in an elevator during a blackout, who, in the midst of unwanted confinement and darkness, manages to enlighten your life with engaging, challenging, and intimate conversation.
- What's up with your videos?
- I ask people blunt questions, and people answer with the truth of the moment. That's what my videos are about. They are hilarous. No, they're poetic. Well, maybe they're quite philosophical,I ask people blunt questions, and people answer with the truth of the moment. That's what my videos are about. They are hilarous. No, they're poetic. Well, maybe they're quite philosophical. And, the Ricochet series is, well, how would you describe it?
- What's it all about, Alfie?
- I know, Dionne Warwick says it best. How about this? I learn from you, and you learn from me. It's an exchange of information and ideas - maybe that's what it's all about. Thanks for stopping by, QJ