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Memoirs of a Pain Junkie...
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| Shock-tails: Chocolate Bacon Martini |
[15 Sep 2008|10:01am] |
The candied bacon garnish- amazing!
Thanks for the Birthday Wishes- you guys rock!
xoxo
Betty
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[08 Sep 2008|10:56am] |
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“Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.” Marge Piercy
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| Betty X Unmasked: Uncensored Interview |
[02 Jul 2008|10:27pm] |
Pick up the last of The Sinner June issue, bring it to the next show and have them signed.
Thanks to Guitar Doug and Chuck and Terri Foster for their continuous and steadfast support. Your professionalism and love of the Seattle scene inspire me.
Thanks always to all The Sinner staff and Matthew X Goad.
Interview for The Sinner by legendary Guitar Doug.
In the interview below, Betty X lets loose like never before on an array of topics in here first interview in well over a year. This is truly the ultimate uncensored look into the mind of Betty X for fans of Betty or the casual reader with an interest in music or the performing and visual arts.
Betty X is one of the most recognizable names in Seattle rock today but remains an enigma to many. Her reclusive nature has made her a local cult celebrity and she has gone even more underground over the past year, while working on her upcoming album entitled Religious Reich, which will be released in early fall.
She has also been working on her side project called Satan in High Heels, while at the same time immersing her self in advanced college level art courses. On top of this, she is working on a couple of film projects that she will be disclosing specifics about soon online.
Most interviews with Betty X have focused on her latest projects, but there is much more going on beneath the surface than most know. The goal of this story was to try to get behind the public image to the real person behind Betty X.
I believe the interview below is the most candid interview ever done with Betty. She is rather vague about herself in most interviews and incredibly private, so the interview below is one for the books and for Betty X fans in Seattle, and across the globe. She always keeps the public at arms length which is probably why she has been able to handle being in the public as long as she has.
There is much about Betty X going on beneath the surface than most understand which we will examine in this piece. For instance, Betty is an art school graduate with a stellar academic record, and the results of her Cornish education can be found in everything from her stage presentation to her album cover artwork. Her music, websites, promo posters and public image, are all part of a large artistic project known as Betty X. This project incorporates many mediums of art, music and technology.
This formula for success is reminiscent of the work of David Byrne, founder of The Talking Heads, who put that project together while an art major at Rhode Island School of Design. Like Byrne and the Talking Heads, the music is just one aspect of the overall artistic presentation and message.
When describing her craft, Betty prefers the label performance artist over rock musician, and explains why below. From what I gathered doing this story, Betty seems more interested in art than music these days, and is constantly looking for new ways to incorporate art into her project.
For those who don't know, Betty has been around the Seattle music business for some time. Her project called Salon Betty, which existed from 1993 - 1997 was very popular at the time, and is still known around the club scene today. That too was a performance art based visual and musical endeavor. Salon Betty was a totally different show and concept than her current project known as Betty X, and she explains the point of that particular project below for the first time. Even as she works on her project, she is performing a separate show or character she has created called Satan in High Heels.
The secret to the success of Betty X is that she is a one woman promotional machine and publicity wiz, who is militant about keeping it fresh and never becoming predictable or overexposed. She is definitely one to study and for the newer performers trying to break into Seattle rock, and trying to make a name in a business saturated with competition. You would probably find it impossible to find a more well known Seattle performer in relation to the actual number of shows she performs each year. Love her or not, there are few have not heard of Betty X in this town.
Betty X, Satan in High Heels, Salon Betty, must be taken as a whole involving many smaller artistic concepts to fully understand. They are not so much bands in the traditional sense, as concepts incorporating many aspects of the music, art, performance and the visual arts.
I now bring you Betty X
Unmasked for the June 2008 issue of The Seattle Sinner Magazine.
( Read more... )
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| Betty X on Noisescape TV tonight! |
[01 Jul 2008|03:53pm] |
"Teen Dream" live footage from the DNA show will air on Noisescape TV on July 1st, Tuesday @ 10pm.
Noisescape TV
SF cable ch. 29
10pm Tuesday July 1st.
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“Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.”
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| Hey Pain Junkies, time to show us what you got! Contest |
[08 Mar 2008|12:14pm] |
Hey Pain Junkies, time to show us what you got!
Here's a contest to win a signed copy of Memoirs of a Pain Junkie. Just send us a link to your myspace page that features original art or a photo that expresses your inner Pain Junkie.
Your photo or art must be displayed in your icon.
Listen to the album and the songs and submit your artistic response.
The Top 8 winners will be selected as the new Top 8 spots on the Pain Junkie Myspace page and will receive personal signed copies of Memoirs of a Pain Junkie CD Limited Edition.
The albums are going fast and will NOT be released 'til 2010.
Please submit to the Official BX Fan Page at Pain Junkies!
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| Have a Bloody Fuckin' Valentine's Day! |
[13 Feb 2008|04:57pm] |
Have a Bloody Fuckin' Valentine's Day!
Spread the disease
Betty X
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| Nirvana Day! |
[07 Feb 2008|03:45pm] |
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| Happy Chinese New Year |
[07 Feb 2008|03:39pm] |
and Nirvana Day!
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[14 Jan 2008|08:32pm] |
Santa Worm by Mark Ryden
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| Human Disease |
[01 Jan 2008|07:04pm] |
Amazing! Kick-ass smeary, grainy Live concert photos by ATOKON Nov.9th, Studio Seven.
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| Regrets of 2007 |
[31 Dec 2007|10:17am] |
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I regret nothing.
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| STAND UP, SPEAK OUT, STRIKE BACK. |
[28 Dec 2007|11:53am] |
re-posted from otep's blog...
"I write to you today with a head full of sadness and a heart full of hate. I woke up to the news that Benazir Bhutto (the first female prime minister of any Islamic nation) was assassinated Thursday after addressing a large gathering of her supporters in Pakistan.
Why was she killed? For being a woman? For seeking equality? For ignorance? For power? For hate? So ask yourself ....who benefits from our silence. From our apathy?
So what can you do?
Get informed, get involved. Educate yourself on the plight of women in this world and in our own history.
In protest & condemnation of her assassination, we ask that everyone who reads this to stand with us in solidarity.
Write a blog.
Write your political leaders.
Repost this bulletin.
And if that is too much trouble, go to our profile and Add CONFRONTATION to your Myspace profile. Yeah, I know, but hey, it's Myspace. It's the best we can hope for.
STAND UP, SPEAK OUT, STRIKE BACK.
It is those that see the wrong, that see injustice and DO NOTHING that are most detestable.
Don't be silent.
/otep"
Please re-post.
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| Merry Fucking Christmas |
[20 Dec 2007|02:15pm] |
South Park Merry Fucking Christmas Lyrics
I heard there is no Christmas,
In the silly Middle East..
No trees, no snow, no Santa Claus,
They have different religious beliefs...
They believe in Muhammad,
And not in our holiday...
And so every December,
I go to the Middle East and say...
Hey there Mr Muslim, Merry F**king Christmas
Put down that book, The Koran
And hear some holiday wishes
Incase you haven't noticed,
It's Jesus's Birthday
So get off your heathen Muslim ass
And f**king celebrate.
There is no holiday season in India,
I've heard..
They don't hang up their stockings,
And that is just absurd..
They've never read a Christmas story,
They don't know what Rudolph is about...
And that's why in December,
I'll go to India and shout...
Hey there Mr Hinduist, Merry F**king Christmas
Drink eggnog, and eat some beef
and pass it to the missus
[Merry F**king Christmas lyrics on http://www.metrolyrics.com]
Incase you haven't noticed,
It's Jesus's birthday
So get off your heathen Hindu ass,
And f**king celebrate.
Now I heard that in Japan,
Everyone just lives in sin...
They pray to several gods,
And put needles in their skin...
On December twenty-fifth,
all they do is eat a cake...
and that is why I'll go to Japan,
and walk around and say...
Hey there Mr Shintoist, Merry F**king Christmas
God is gonna kick your ass You infidelic pagan scum.
Incase you haven't noticed,
There's festive things to do
So lets all rejoice for Jesus
and Merry F**king Christmas to you.
On Christmas Day, I travel round the world and say..
Taoists, Korishnas, Buddists
and all you atheists too..
Merry F**king Christmas to you.
Thank you, Mr Hat..
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[14 Dec 2007|12:15pm] |
"So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: hell is other people."
Sartre
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| The Other Side |
[07 Dec 2007|10:25am] |
Rich Lehl
Paintings Currently Showing at Davidson Gallery in the Personal Narratives Show Dec.6th- Feb. 2008.
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| Santa Worm! |
[04 Dec 2007|10:15am] |
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| Hottie of the Day! |
[03 Dec 2007|12:50pm] |
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