"Sorry, I'm having pure chaos!"
It's 7:45 p.m. on a cool, late summer's evening in Portland, Oregon. Beth Ditto will soon be entertaining a full house, and her cat has just bolted out the front door.
Still, Ditto, the Arkansas-born, openly gay frontwoman of disco-punk hit- makers Gossip, is gamely trying to talk The Japan Times through the last 12 months — the most bizarre period of her life.