Beth Been a.k.a. the Scarlot Harlot
Aquarius / Year of the Wild Boar
Webmistress / Artist
Photographer / Roller Derby Queen

Artistic Influences: Andy Warhol, Bill Lundberg, Marjorie Moore, Steve Jones, Botero, Rock n’ Roll, life, comedy, living in the Middle East, Beau Been, Amsterdam, Cinque Terra, Austin, TX, laughing, travel, food and wine. Lacy Been.

Likes: cheese, Willie Nelson, Texas Rollergirls, Lonestar beer, drag queens, HONKY, plaid, Ozzy Osbourne, computers, Aerosmith, gelato, Pink Floyd, Jim Henson, AC/DC, Madonna, roller derby fist fights, good friends, swimming, the HELL MARYS, Pee Wee Herman, Amplified Heat, Hazard County Girls, adult swim, ROCK N’ ROLL, Amsterdam, Jerusalem, Tulum and Isla Mujeres and Barcelona

Dislikes: whiners, shit kickers, cover bands, eggs, breakfast, closed minds, driving

Beth Been grew up in Dimmitt, Texas (pop 5,000) where the cows outnumbered the people. She spent her early days shooting hoops in a pink tutu on rollers skates & drank a lot of beer while running the high school. One night after a drunken barn dance, Beth hooked herself cape fear style to the bottom of Willie Nelson's tour bus & ended up in Austin, TX. Enrolling herself at the U of Texas in 1989, this heavy metal hillbilly got some learnin' in Middle Eastern Studies & served as the Hook 'Em mascot. After a visit to Israel, living in the West Bank town of Rumallah, studying Arabic at the U of Jordon and nearly getting sold into prostitution in Syria, Beth returned to Texas and enrolled in Bill Lunberg's drawing class and Steve Jones’ 3D design class in 1993.

Beth partied in the underground music scene, simultaneously running with a band of rowdy drag queens. In 1997, Beth met Beau Been who made her buy a refrigerator, an air conditioner and taught her how to save money. With a little "love" in her life, Beth focused less on party, more on art (pastels and acrylics) and started her own web design business, Groovee Fortune. Beth used to skate as the Scarlot Harlot in the Texas Rollergirls and attacked Dave Attel on comedy Central’s Insomniac. When Beth grows up, she hopes to be Ozzy Osborne's bass player. There are rumors she invented the Flaming Dr. Pepper.

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