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The Vivian Girls Experience

THE STRANGE HELL OF BEAUTY

About Me

THE VIVIAN GIRLS EXPERIENCE play lo-fi craft-pop. Craft-pop is a brand new genre of music that is focued on creating hand-sewn Vivian Girl dresses and doing embroidery, with the lo-fi pop songs serving as the soundtrack and anthem.

THE VIVIAN GIRLS EXPERIENCE are comprised of ENID CROW, disaster scientist photographer and JUSTIN DUERR, spirit-mind-electricity researcher.

THE VIVIAN GIRLS BAND is thematically related to the stories and paintings of HENRY DARGER, who created the VIVIAN GIRLS characters in a secluded Chicago apartment many years ago. HENRY DARGER exemplified craft-pop sensibilities, although he never, to anyones knowledge, created any lo-fi pop songs. When THE VIVIAN GIRLS BAND play songs or dress up in their hand-made purple-Vivian-dresses, they actively channel the spirits of two of HENRY DARGER'S Vivian Girls. The other five Vivian Girls help out behind the scenes, making crafts, fighting bloody battles with the Glandelinian soldiers and sometimes contributing lyrics. Some have remarked "how can one member of the Vivian Girls band be a biological male"? Well, if you are asking this question then you have not examined Henry Darger's Vivian Girls very closely. ENID CROW and JUSTIN DUERR are both tried and true dyed-in-the-wool Vivian Girls, in body, spirit and mind!

This summer the VIVIAN GIRLS BAND will release a very special limited edition PACKAGED-IN-A-HAND-SEWN-DRESS recording! The CD will actually be packaged in the pocket of your very own purple Vivian dress! This will be VERY LIMITED EDITION, for obvious reasons. There will then be a general-release version featuring photography by ENID CROW.

The VIVIAN GIRLS EXPERIENCE live performances will more closely resemble a play than a standard musical performance. But our performances will also be very special, infrequent and worth travelling long distances to.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/21/2005
Band Members: Justin Duerr and Enid Crow.
Influences: Henry Darger, Tiny Tim, Joanna Newsom, the Vaselines, Flossie and the Unicorns, and Miss Pussycat.
Sounds Like: The Vivian Girls Experience are delighted to announce the arrival of their new 28 song, 70 minute full length album!

Titled "Awesome Celebrity Couple: The Kitten Lemonade Stand Years", and limited to 100 copies, this album is sure to become an instant collectors item for any fan of Enid Crow, Justin Duerr, or BOTH, as featured on this album! This will be the very first release from fledgling Philadelphia label "Albus Orgone"! We are literally beside ourselves!

YOU CAN ORDER THE ALBUM RIGHT HERE USING PAYPAL - JUST CLICK THIS LINK TO ORDER!!!

If you don't have a paypal account, or don't trust internet transactions, you can send $10 (includes shipping/postage) to - Justin Duerr c/o The Vivian Sisters Gnostic Pigeon Choir Ltd. - PO box 13312, Philadelphia PA., 19101. Make sure to hide your money!

This is a brave statement of love and fierce dedication to the ideals of Abiennia in song form!

Please do order the album - we, The Vivian Gals Choir, never 'spam' anyone - our myspace companions never suffer from junk mail from us!

This is our loving policy. Albus Orgone believed in the brave truth of our music enough to help make this happen so we feel obliged to PROMOTE!

Eternal flower, *J Vivian*
Record Label: ALBUS ORGONE
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New video for ’Toynbee Idea In Movie 2001 Resurrect Dead......

Hey everyone!The Vivian Girls Experience now have a video for the song 'Toynbee Idea In Movie 2001 Resurrect Dead On Planet Jupiter'!It's basically just a montage of Toynbee tiles ( see http://en.wiki...
Posted by The Vivian Girls Experience on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:38:00 PST

We’re on LADYZ IN NOYZ comp.... featuring a new pigeon song never-before-heard!!!

We're delighted to announce our appearance on the brand new compilation album from Spleen Coffin called "LADYZ IN NOYZ"......We have three songs on it....... Kitten Lemonade Stand, Pigeons On Parade.....
Posted by The Vivian Girls Experience on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:25:00 PST

Friday Aug. 3rd. show at Clap It Off with The Vobration is CANCELED!

The Friday show in Philadelphia at Clap It Off house with The Vibration is CANCELED!Due to circumstances which were at one time in our control, but which we let spiral out of control, this show has ev...
Posted by The Vivian Girls Experience on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 07:25:00 PST

Live video of 'Animal After School Chorus' from a show in Philadelphia!

Our deer pal Maria Kydonious uploaded a song that the Vivian Gals sang when we played at a coffee shop in Philadelphia-Richee. The show was actually billed as a performance by Justin Duerr And The Eth...
Posted by The Vivian Girls Experience on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:23:00 PST

Hey Philly! We're actually playing LIVE in August!

Go on two dates with the Vivian Gals --1. Friday, August 3rd.... at Clap It Off House.... 1208 S. 46th. St. in Philly... with our friends from NYC The Vibration, plus more!2. Saturday, August 25th. RE...
Posted by The Vivian Girls Experience on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:21:00 PST

We're in the new issue of LULA magazine - a UK fashion mag..

Greetings brave Abiennian warriors,Please do seek out an issue of the new UK fashion/culture magazine LULA! J. Vivian and Daisy Enid Vivian are interviewed alongside Natalie Merchant, Avery Tare of An...
Posted by The Vivian Girls Experience on Mon, 14 May 2007 07:25:00 PST

New VIDEO for new ALBUM!

Dearest supporters and citizens of Abiennia -- today the Vivian sisters made a short video clip to help promote their new album "Awesome Celebrity Couple: The Kitten Lemonade Stand Years" -- CHECK IT ...
Posted by The Vivian Girls Experience on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:06:00 PST

Our new album is in the mail! 26 songs of lo-fi craft-pop!

The Vivian headquarters has just received news of a devastating blow to wicked Glandelinia - the Vivian Girls Experience have a new 26 song album and it is now on its way to us from our manufacturing...
Posted by The Vivian Girls Experience on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 02:09:00 PST

VIVIAN GALS plat at noon at the South Philly FLEA MARKET -

I decided it was time to start actually listing our shows and sending out messages about them -- a novel idea to we Vivian Girls, since we spend most of day in the bloody trecnhes, fighting like a pac...
Posted by The Vivian Girls Experience on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:00:00 PST

No one will stop the Vivian Girls!!!!

We will defeat all haunted house demons, all Glandelinian forces who would aspire to tie innocent little children to trees and/or crucify them -- nothing will stop our noble struggle, our new album WI...
Posted by The Vivian Girls Experience on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 04:09:00 PST