Bette Dillinger
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Oh my webmasque friends please listen to Bette's tale. Bette found herself, on her first visit to Earth, in your year of 1934. Creeping past a movie theatre, she spotted an advert for a movie with a woman who appeared to have chaos dancing in her bulbous eyes.

Looking closer, the name on the poster was “Bette Davis” and the movie was “Of Human Bondage”. Since she did not know humans, she thought the name was what all women called themselves.

A young boy distracted Bette as she tried to cover her body under the dirty coat she had stolen. He could not see the blue mark on her upper arm, a loud bruise in your world, an identification of caste in hers.

The young boy wanted Bette to buy a newspaper about the man who robbed banks. She asked why more people weren’t doing this, since everything seemed to

be dead, even the movie theatre that they still stood in front of. He looked at her as if her third eye was still visible (it was hidden efficiently by her planet’s “visage developers”) and walked away in a hurry.

Fearful yet insistent, she shouted after him that she just wanted to make music.

That day, the stranger became Bette Dillinger.

Bette is an alien in a strange land, and must report to her planet with transmissions. These transmissions of late have been of the most complicated sort, since something happened to the residents of where she lived after September 11, 2001. Along with two buildings reduced to rubble, the rest of the people around her embraced fear and suspicion. Bette once more felt that terror she felt when she first touched down in your country so many years ago.

These songs currently posted are all early transmissions to her home planet, which calls itself 143.1. They are not without humour, but there is always longing. Bette found kindred musical spirits in the words of Patti Smith and Roger Waters. But everytime Bette communicates with her planet, the signal seems to be growing dimmer....it truly is in a galaxy so far away that Bette wonders if she will ever see it again......

The true report of these times with be released in early fall of your year 2008 in CD form and MP3 form, if everything goes as expected. Bette humbly asks that you support her since the ultimate heartache would be to see her alien dream yet again dashed to dust. The people on her planet love these strange songs and your planet has on this time around shown remarkable interest. Bette just worries, since she has seen it done so many times before on your planet, that the threatened tame will call the different "insane".

Bette is a very shy, insecure alien, but would love to communicate with others.
Why this name?
I thought every female had the name Bette Dillinger when I fell to Earth in 1934. I found out I was mistaken very quickly. I am still learning to adjust to your planet after all these years. I am constantly asking "Why?"
Do you play live?
I am a Internet based entity. I intend and do perform on the Web.
How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
Well, my music is transmitted not just to my home planet of 143.1, but to the entire listening audience on the Web. I am happy that humans and the residents of 143.1 are so alike in so many ways. Brutality, love and transcendence are part of both species.
Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
Of course not. Those that just want money makers do not endure the talented, or they attempt to break them. I have my own label, Diluvian.
Band History:
I have been on multiple radio shows, podcasts and am very interactive in this Web 2.0 environment. I doubt very many people want to read a breakdown of all the shows my music has been played on.
Your influences?
Mother Kali, You and Your People, Flannery O' Connor, Bette Davis, John Dillinger, Tim Buckley, Mozart, AC/DC, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Killing Joke, Pink Floyd, Patti Smith, The Pretenders, Franz Ferdinand, Johnny Cash, Bauhaus, Bob Dylan
Favorite spot?
Where I am now is always where I am most content.
Equipment used:
Alot, dear.
Anything else...?
Just want some communication
Just want some celebration
The sores and scars of past creations
Erase them all with this incantation
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