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Alpha Betts

Blues Ain't Nothin But a Good Woman Gone Bad...

About Me

I'm into all things creative but my main squeeze is music. I'm the lyricist and lead screamer of OmegaBand as well as Ally # 1 of Alloyed Inc. a collective dedicated to promoting live music and art. Please feel free to peruse our band's website at http://www.omegaband.net/ or look us up on our myspace page...Also I now have a page up for the Allies of Alloyed Inc. Check it!

Background from Google search result

Duke Vin, Count Suckle & the Birth of Ska ...
http://www.vimeo.com/774368

My Interests

Music Film Books Magazines Comedy Comics Cooking Arts Crafts and most anything centered around creativity and Creation

I'd like to meet:

Though I'd like to be friendly to everyone I think I'm already in over my head with too many myspace friends. If you'd like to be friends with me perhaps we should have some sort of dialogue otherwise I have little to no time to catch up with me real-life friends and the myspace friends I actally do keep in touch with...

Music:

As far as I can see there are only 2 kinds of music, good and bad. I prefer good music. And just cuz I don't like it doesn't make it bad.I don't quite understand all the genres of music but some I dig include rare grooves, boogaloo, ska, rocksteady, reggae, drum & bass, old school r&b and soul, punk, blues, metal, psychedelic, instrumentals, beatz,jazz, fusion and on and on and on... I'm open to things I haven't heard yet!

Movies:

I collect mostly Blaxploitation Films which to me are like the Rare Grooves of film. I enjoy the films of: Melvin Van Peebles, Jim Jarmusch, Ralph Bashki, Tim Burton, Quentin Tarrantino, John Waters, Gregg Araki, Roger Corman, Martin Scorsese, Bob Fosse, Mel Brooks, Kasi Lemmons, Julie Dash and more to come...

Television:

Not so much...

Books:

Authors I like include: Herman Hesse, Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, Octavia Butler, Ishmael Reed, Nalo Hopkinson, Stephen Barnes, Tananarive Due, Virginia Hamilton, Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, George Pelecanos, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Scheckley,Ursula LeGuin, James Tiptree, Sherri Tepper, Isabel Allende, Laura Esquiviel and many more

Heroes:

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