en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 60 http://www.audioscrobbler.net/data/webservices http://www.last.fm/user/BetteDillinger/journal The Last.fm journal for BetteDillinger. Last.fm journals are a place to talk about all things music. http://www.last.fm/user/BetteDillinger/journal/2010/08/06/3trxv5_free_download_to_groove_onbasement_tapes Fri, 6 Aug 2010 23:46:44 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/BetteDillinger/journal/2010/08/06/3trxv5_free_download_to_groove_onbasement_tapes From the Alien’s mouth:

“Unless you respect your history, you cannot understand your destiny…this is based on the classic song “There Stands the Glass”, a Honky Tonk number covered by Willie Nelson, Wes Clark and Loretta Lynn. Being a William Mountain from Detroit, I grew up hearing the old timers listen to this music. It inspired me to do a Bette Dillinger version. I hope you all enjoy it. Of course, it is so radically different than the original I think I would call this an homage, and I encourage others to look up the Honky Tonk version.”]]> http://www.last.fm/user/BetteDillinger/journal/2009/11/17/363szw_listen_to_the_album_for_free%2C_win_stuff%2C_never_get_spammed%21 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:24:57 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/BetteDillinger/journal/2009/11/17/363szw_listen_to_the_album_for_free%2C_win_stuff%2C_never_get_spammed%21 Hey everyone, on November 23rd I will be releasing the album "Assassin's Hand". Sure, you will be ordered that Lady Gaga album.....or buying some other corporate crap, eh? Ha, I knew you were not Mind Kontrolled!

Anyway, if you become my buddy on Reverbnation (or fan as they like to antiquatedly term it), you can listen for free to five of of the ten tracks of the album,
be on the short list for a free download, and get some cool stuff. On the 23rd the design of the page will reflect the theme of the album, control, chaos and hope.....all tied with a pretty spider web.

So try it out......and check out www.bettedillinger.com on the 23, become a listener at http://www.reverbnation.com/bettedillinger for the free stuff and keep on with your bad indie self! Thank you in advance for rejecting corporate excrement.

The album, if thou deign to purchase it, is composed of the following tracks:
1) Black Widow
2) Father and Gun
3) Death Wish
4) Private Eddie
5) Clockwork
6) Journey
7) Carousel Woman Blues
8) Andy Warhol Died Alone
9) Sugar Skull
10) Exit Plan

Power to the people,

Bette Dillinger]]> http://www.last.fm/user/BetteDillinger/journal/2009/10/28/34a5ee_assassin%27s_hand%3A__the_album Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:37:43 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/BetteDillinger/journal/2009/10/28/34a5ee_assassin%27s_hand%3A__the_album From: Diluvian Records
Re: “Assassin’s Hand”/Bette Dillinger
Future Release Date: November 23, 2009

Diluvian Records is proud to announce the forthcoming release of the album “Assassin’s Hand” by Bette Dillinger. Also on this date the Official Bette Dillinger website, www.bettedillinger.com, will reflect this new direction Ms Dillinger has taken. It also contains “freebees”, communications, and opportunities to win copies of the album.

In the words of Ms Dillinger: “”Assassin’s Hand” comes from a phrase in “Oedipus Rex”. I was instantly in love with the phrase because it just jumped out at me as I was finishing up this album, which I was working very diligently on, but feeling increasingly anxious about releasing it because of personal issues. The work is both about nightmares and consequences. This seems to be the year of death of some very famous people, and this cultural nausea is reflected in this entire album. However, it is neither “goth” nor “gloomy and sparse” which I felt were approaches that needed to be challenged by me. I still adhere to the principles of Brecht.”

“My first emphasis is on the ability of the song to reach the listener. The production has improved, if I may say so myself. I am really happy about that! The various subjects addressed are love, death, wealth, poverty, control (this is always a theme), Stanley Kubrick, Oedipus, Greek myth, Mother Kali, and of course certain individuals that are named in the songs themselves. This is a record of death and transformation, with the emphasis on transformation.”

Uploaded for your pleasure are two tracks from the album, “Black Widow,” and “Private Eddie”…they can be found on last fm, and Reverbnation. On 11/23/09 you can find the album at your favorite distribution site (itunes, etc). The website is the lair of my obsessions. It will change to fit the theme on 11/23/09.

This album will be available 11/23/09. I expect I will not be competing with Taylor Swift fans ;) I think only an adult mind would appreciate it, and it is meant for mature psyches.

Happy Haunting,

Bette Dillinger]]> http://www.last.fm/user/BetteDillinger/journal/2009/09/23/3173qq_and_santa_muerte_laughs Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:36:38 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/BetteDillinger/journal/2009/09/23/3173qq_and_santa_muerte_laughs My blog address:
http://bettedillinger.blogspot.com/



“Life is a cabaret, all the world’s a stage — and everything is beautiful at the ballet!” Mr. Jacobs said backstage.

This is a quote from a famous fashion designer, oh my brothers and sisters, about his new Spring/Summer fashions for 2010. I happened upon it as I was reading the NYT, and knew of course the man wants to feed his ego and sell some clothes. I appreciate that, but maybe these remarks were made after a trip to the bathroom with some models? I have serious doubts these were meant ironically.

But I will leave his words to be dissected by someone else. What will be coming from me will be the total opposite. I expect to get a few emails along the lines of "but, like you are jealous of this designer, he makes more money than you." If this was in your thought process at all when you read my dissent, take your life elsewhere and live it.

Life has never been a carbaret for those who are truly aware, or those who have not been sheltered their entire life from the slings and arrows of the economy (that latest pop tart, et al) and that was the intent of the song. There are people who must clean that stage after the whole world has lived a millenium on it, and I am from stock that had to do that work. So bollocks to "escapism is what the small people need from we the artists". Promoted 15 second fools deny the power of realism in a day and age that needs maturity above everything else. Above everything else. Above everything else.

The album will be out soon from Diluvian, and the website (www.bettedillinger.com) will soon be changing rapidly to accomodate fact that I have been doing alot of target practice and will be releasing an album.....and there will be a lot of kewl freebies on that site.]]> http://www.last.fm/user/BetteDillinger/journal/2009/08/12/2xoh7f_smells_like_teen_spirit Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:21:15 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/BetteDillinger/journal/2009/08/12/2xoh7f_smells_like_teen_spirit Well, the boys at Apskaft are doing a great compilation album, and my song is "Smells Like Teen Spirit". This sounds nothing like the original version, though of course as the maker of it I am biased when I say I really put alot of love into this. This marks the beginning of........a new phase, I should say, and a new album will be out shortly. Maybe you might like to check out the poem on my "artist description" to see what you will find, my darlings!

PS I am not in ANY WAY associated with the Dillinger Escape Plan. Good God.

Hugs and Mugshots,
Bette Dillinger]]> http://www.last.fm/user/BetteDillinger/journal/2009/06/12/2sl7cj_transmission_from_motown_to_your_town_%28free_download%2C_people%29 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:43:28 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/BetteDillinger/journal/2009/06/12/2sl7cj_transmission_from_motown_to_your_town_%28free_download%2C_people%29 Hello everyone,

I am a feverish alien, doing the thing I find rather challenging: reviewing which songs will go on the album to be shortly released, and which will not. The free download of the song, "Blood Moon" is found under the "Basement Tapes" album, which will contain all the songs I love but have not put on an album. Most of them will be free downloads, I am sure.

Honestly, the song that I am releasing today was mighty hard to set free. I LOVE the sample that is used, and am always struck by it everytime I listen to this song. However, I am going to give it to all you beautiful peeps....it sure as Hell is better than Marilyn Manson trying to sing Lady Gaga or other major label flotsam and jetsam...and I say that with my modesty fully intact. In order to survive on my home planet, we all are inserted with a chip that monitors our level of narcissism. Maybe Obama could look into this for extreme cases, but I would never want to bother the man.

Anyway, the song is called "Blood Moon" and I hope it knocks your socks off, kewl cats and dolls!

1, 2, 3

Happy Haunting,

Bette "Rat A Tat Tat" Dillinger]]> http://www.last.fm/user/BetteDillinger/journal/2009/06/03/2rraz9_bette_dillinger%3A__alien_murder_ballads Wed, 3 Jun 2009 17:52:04 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/BetteDillinger/journal/2009/06/03/2rraz9_bette_dillinger%3A__alien_murder_ballads Greetings and salutations, oh my wonderful webmasque friends. My name is Bette Dillinger, and I make music for your world now primarily, since the signal that I used to transmit my music to my home planet, 143.1, is now dead. Therefore, most of the subject material of my music is about Earth, not the Times Before.

It is horrible to think of being alone, but I have my music to comfort me. I touched down on your planet in 1934, when Mr Dillinger was having his last days in the bullet ridden sun and Bette Davis was a ferocious goddess in the movie "Of Human Bondage". Yes, that was some time ago to you, I am sure, but the visage developers of 143.1 are wonderful. I still look intact.

All of my dealings with my fellow humans has been as a spectator, especially at first, and I invite you to listen to that song if you get the time. It summed up how I felt at the time, and certainly is not a boring spacey navel gazer ;)

http://www.last.fm/music/Bette+Dillinger/_/Spectator

I also have a video you can check out that I am sure Mr Dillinger would have liked, called "My Public Enemy". Humans, as I have observed, don't like things shoved in their faces, so if this interests you please view my profile.

I currently have three streamable albums on last fm, a free download, and am working on new material as I type. Thank you for reading this, and I will return soon! I love communicating with everyone, and your support is appreciated beyond measure. Truly.

Happy Haunting,

Bette]]> http://www.last.fm/user/BetteDillinger/journal/2009/06/02/2rmfmg_whazzup%3F__new_stuff_for_ya%21 Tue, 2 Jun 2009 02:30:08 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/BetteDillinger/journal/2009/06/02/2rmfmg_whazzup%3F__new_stuff_for_ya%21 Hey everyone,
A zero budget (forgive a starving alien music maker) video was created for the song off of "Alienation" entitled "Your Public Enemy". Now with a last name like Dillinger, what kind of entity would I be without a song like this? Maybe there is some social commentary in there as well......gotta check. Love getting your feedback. Thanks for all the emails about my twitter quotes and the free download.....new material is being created......it's alive!!!!!!!!!!!

BTW, special love to fellow partners in crime....Pixieguts, Healeyisland, Unwashed, and the great guys at Apskaft that let me tear into a version of a Spice Girls' song. If I forgot someone on last fm, hey, my planet needs to improve my memory receptors. Forgive a humble five fingered lass. Horrorcho!

Rat-A-Tat-Tat,

Bette Dillinger]]> http://www.last.fm/user/BetteDillinger/journal/2009/04/25/2ofx6c_pluto%27s_return%3A__free_download Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:28:37 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/BetteDillinger/journal/2009/04/25/2ofx6c_pluto%27s_return%3A__free_download Hey, hope everyone is doing fantastic. A free download for the last.fm listener....it is called "Pluto's Return". I hope you enjoy it!


Until next time,
Moonbeams and tangerines!

Bette D]]> http://www.last.fm/user/BetteDillinger/journal/2009/04/13/2n8v53_absinthe_postcard Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:33:42 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/BetteDillinger/journal/2009/04/13/2n8v53_absinthe_postcard New song, on the album "Songs of Desperation and Change, Vol 1". Thanks!
xo
Bette]]>