"I try to please people, to give them a good time, but I refuse to make my act conform to traditional show-biz standards of entertainment. There's a little voice that says, 'Oh, no, you can't do that, that's breaking all the rules.' That's the voice of show business. Then this other little voice says, 'Try it.' And most of the time, when the voice comes on and says, 'No,' that's the time it works."

- Andy Kaufman

Someone over the 4th of July weekend told you that they "didn't get Andy Kaufman," especially the Mighty Mouse bit.  What the...?

Anyway,

Battershell wasn't your typical band, if there is such a thing.  Tammy Lynn's approach to everything was generally counter-intuitive; it was one of the things that you found most fascinating about her, generally.  She didn't have a "traditional" upbringing and most certainly didn't cruise through life on the road most traveled.  She was the crazy, genius, generous, petulant, innocent, psychotic, talented, jealous, narcissistic, shy, overbearing, loveable sister that you wished you never had...and didn't, until she adopted you.  Family is forever.

Anyway II,

Battershell tried to make it, to become famous.  Not because we sought riches, not because we wanted to satiate our lust for anything specific (really), but because we wanted to be, well...famous.  Period.  And we tried anything that we could think of to do it.  It was our boon and our bane: we gained more fame because of our efforts than we probably would have, but we worked harder than most bands in doing so and the disappointment was often much greater.  But doing things our own way, in retrospect reminds me of Andy Kaufman.  We might not have become famous for faking a song on TV, but we didn't conform to "the traditional", either, and because of that, life was and is generally better.  Thanks, Mighty Mou...I mean, Tammy Lynn.