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LOUISE URBAN VULTER (b. 1968)Radio talk-show host. Senator from Arizona.

LUX DELUXE (b. Lionel Bradshaw, 1969)Founding member of the Insatiables.

MALCOLM TEUMER (b. 1921)Father of Moses. Husband of Hannah.

MARCEL DUCHAMP (b. 1887)Artist and chess player.

MARLENE PASSANT (b. 1956)French writer, gallerist, and supporter of Salome.

MARTY (b. 1970)Bodyguard and roadie for the Insatiables.

McFINN FAMILYfrom Flushing, Queens. Sister: Bonnie, brother: Lenny.

MURRAY GIBBON (b. 1935)Gallerist. Salome’s longtime art dealer.

MYRON HORRWICH (b. 1932)Conceptual artist and early lover of Salome’s.

NATHANIEL BROCKTON (b. 1937)Political activist. Salome’s longtime companion.

PARNELL PALMER (b. 1980)Government investigator with the Committee on Anti-American Activities.

PHILIP BENT (b. 1947)Lead singer of British band The Baddists. Alchemy’s father.

RAPHAEL URSO (b. 1930)Poet and friend of Nathaniel and Salome.

ROBERT SLOCUM (b. 1960)Dean of Moses’s department at SCCAM.

SHEIK FAMILY (b. Sheikstein)Founders of Kasbah Records, the Insatiables’ first record company. Buddy (b. 1945), Randy (b. 1948), and Walter (b. 1953)

SIDONNA CHERRY (b. Date unknown — and likes it that way)L.A.-based detective.

SILKY TRESPASS (b. 1976)Member of Come Queens. Lead guitarist of the Insatiables 2004–08. Played with Absurda in the Mendietas.

SOMERSBY (b. 1953)Friend of Salome’s when she lived in Virginia.

SPENCER FRIEBERG (b. 1988)Cofounder of riteplay.com, which was funded by Alchemy.

STEPHAN SONTAG (aka Shockula, b. 1921)Salome’s first therapist at Collier Layne.

SUE WARFIELD (b. 1960)Beverly Hills native. Cofounder of Surface-to-Air group that managed the Insatiables.

TRUDY CHAMOUN (b. 1963)Former photographer. Yoga instructor who lives in Jerome, Arizona.

TRYX (b. 1960)Dutch curator and late-life lover of Salome.

WILLIAM (BICKS) BICKELY, SR. (b. 1893)Founding partner of Bickley & Schuster. Conservator of Salome’s estate.

WILLIAM (BILLY) BICKELY, JR. (b. 1926)Partner in Bickley & Schuster. Second conservator of Salome’s estate.

WILLIAM BICKLEY III (b. 1956)Partner in Bickley & Schuster.

XTINE BLACK (b. 1940)Photographer. Lover/friend of Salome. Lives in Chelsea Hotel.

Z (b. 1959)Czech exile living in Berlin. Friend of Salome.

ZOOEY BELLOWS (b. 1982)Salome’s last doctor at Collier Layne.

RELEASE DATES

1993–1994 (single in ’93; CD in ’94)

More (Is Never Enough) (CD and song)

• “Chicks and Money” (’93)

• “Face Time Is the Right Time”

• “Licentious to Kill”

• “I Wanna Be Seen (at the Scene)”

• “Futurific”

1996

The Insatiables Get Large (CD)

• “Get Large”

• “Papa’s Gun”

• “Eight Is Just Enuf” (sung by Absurda Nightingale & Alchemy)

• “Saturnalia on My Lap”

• “Black Holes and Bum Fucks”

• “Loverrs”

1998

Blues for the Common Man (CD and song)

• “No Destiny”

• “Invisible Party”

• “The Ruling Class”

• “E Pluribus Unum Wampum/(Money, That’s What I Want)”

• “The Sleep of Faith”

2000

Multiple Coming (CD and song)

• “Six Times Tonight”

• “No Master, No Messiah”

• “Adam and Lilith”

• “Zim Zum Blues”

• “Eve of Deconstruction”

Recorded in 2000, 2001; released in 2003

The Noncommittal Nihilists for Nuthin’ (CD)

• “La Pantera Rosa (Falstaffa Nights/Martian Days)”

• “Friendsy for You”

• “Fuck Like a Woman” (sung by Absurda Nightingale)

• “You Coulda Been but You Ain’t”

• “The Nihilist’s Prayer”

• “Outrage … Big Deal”

• “Mystic Fool” (added after Absurda’s death)

U.S. Tour 2003–2004

Euro Tour 2005–2006

2006

Dieseasee (Alchemy, Silky, and Lux; Mindswallow on about half the tracks)

• “Dieseasee”

• “Knot My Neck”

• “The Meth House Around the Corner”

• “Viagral Newmoanya”

• “Mysteries and Enemies”

2008

The Great Awakening (their last studio record)

• “Saturnalia Gone Down”

• “Exile’s Revenge”

• “Shake, Shimmy, and Shibboleth”

• “Hungrier, Harder, Sadder”

• “Too Free to Be Free”

• “A Theist Falls”

2012, recorded in 2010

More or Less, Alive (Mindswallow rejoins; Laluna joins)

• “Live at the Grand Canyon”

• “Beat Attitudines”

2016

Oeuvre and Out (boxed set)

Two new songs:

• “The Harmony of Doing Nothing”

• “Savant Sensation Bluz”

OTHER PROJECTS

1970

Fast Enough (the Baddists)

1975

Chain Saw Disco Massacre (the Baddists)

1989

The Slo Learners (Absurda and Alchemy’s first band)

1991

I’m Your Black Doorman (cowritten by Alchemy; recorded by the Hip Replacements)

1997

Puttin’ the PFunk in FPunk (Lux Deluxe solo album)

Down on Me (the Come Queens, guerrilla-girl band with Absurda, Silky Trespass, Dress Shields)

1999

Mah Dude Was a Slut from Tulsa (and He Made a Slut Outta Me) (recorded by Tammy “No Win” Flynn aka Absurda, and Jimmy “Bad Breath” Davis aka Alchemy; written by Alchemy)

2007

Songs for Pedestrian Tastes (CD of cover songs done by Mindswallow)

Alchemy, American Style (Alchemy solo; ltd. edition vinyl EP)

“Goin’ Down with George” (single released in ’04; backed with “Between Iraq” and “My Heart Place”)

“Dyin’ to Be Your Hero”

“Zombie” (cover of Fela)

“I Ain’t a Marchin’ Anymore” (cover of Phil Ochs)

“Fixin’ to Die Blues” (cover/mashup of Bukka White and Country Joe tunes)

“Whitey on the Moon” (cover of Gil Scott-Heron)

“Once I Was a Soldier” (cover of Tim Buckley)

“American Ruse” (cover of MC5)

2009, 2013–2015

Ferricide (Mindswallow’s heavy metal band)

Smeltdown (2009, CD)

Pedd-o-file (Performance-Enhanced Death Drugs) (2013, CD)

Ferricoshus (2015, CD) (with Alchemy uncredited on “Irony’s Maiden”)

2015–2016

Chansons (Alchemy and Laluna) (only as download; no vinyl or CD)

• “Liquid Love”

• “Mirror Me”

• “Dreaming Double/Nightmaring Alone”

• “The Harmony of Being One as Two”

2009–2018

33 Visitations (recorded but never released by Alchemy)

REBIRTHDAY

September 21, 1966