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marina

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About Me

I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace) I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)I teach five and six year olds, which is as fun and exhausting as it sounds. I've always been interested in art, and I love to paint and draw- I suppose I would generally describe myself as a creative person. Also,I couldn't get through the trials and tribulations of life without my ridiculous amount of music. London is my favourite city to explore .I like genuine people who are true to themselves, and I dislike pretentious or 2-faced people. (www.strikefile.com/myspace) Flaming Lips at Astoria- I was there, fabulous and crazy gig, sorry about terrible sound on this clip! The master! Scott Walker on dusty's TV show. A bit of culture for you- Simon Keenlyside in 'Faust'

My Interests

SELECTION OF MY ILLUSTRATIONS..... Drawing,painting,visiting art exhibitions,music,photography, gigs, theatre, opera, history(especially 17th century, early 20th century),visiting stately homes, castles,etc, fashion,reading. .. ..

I'd like to meet:


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Wayne Coyne, Simon Keenlyside, David Attenborough,David Bowie, various dead people such as Peter Cook, King charles II,Queen Elizabeth I...

Music:

Too much to mention really- Scott Walker, Bowie, Pulp, Jarvis Cocker,Dusty Springfield,Roxy Music, Flaming Lips,Sparklehorse, Super Furry Animals,Elliot Smith,Oz Mutantes,Love, Rolling Stones,Carly Simon,King Creosote, Velvet Underground, Grandaddy, Marc Almond, Ron Sexsmith, Kinks, Mercury Rev,The Coral, Midlake,The Shins,Nick Cave,Adam Green,Syd Barrett, White Stripes,Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Sufjan Stevens,Colin Blunstone,Television, The Creation,Small Faces,Primal Scream,Mazzy Star,Serge Gainsbourg, Lee Hazlewood,Richard Hawley,Spiritualized,PP Arnold, Big Star,Hank Williams,some new wave stuff, various 60's and 70's,some recent US indie/alternative, classical music-Britten,Mozart, Shostokovitch,Stravinsky,John Adams, Simon Keenlyside, Thomas Allen, Thomas Hampson, Bryn Terfel.
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Movies:

dead of night 'That great ugly thing here!' Kind Hearts and Coronets, A Matter of Life And Death,Rear Window, To Kill a Mockingbird,Great Expectations,The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Rebel,Ghost World, Don't Look Now, Annie Hall,A Mighty Wind/Best In Show, The Producers, Harold and Maude,Nuts in May,Ed Wood,Gone With the Wind (cheesy but so epic I can't resist watching it.) Clip of 'Kind Hearts and Coronets' 'Blue Blanket' 'Harold and Maude'-dark masterpiece 'Pygmalion'- original version

Television:

Comedy- Black Books,Bill Bailey, League of Gentlemen, Pete and Dud, Blackadder, Eddie Izzard,Spaced, Porridge, Alan Partridge,'Abigail's Party' Nature programmes, history documentaries, drama.

Books:

Jane Eyre, Tales of the City, My Family and Other Animals, Nicholas Nickleby,Vile Bodies, Travels With My Aunt, biographies, history, short stories (Chekov, Saki, etc),art,20's and 30s writers(Christopher Isherwood,Scott Fitzgerald,Evelyn Waugh,etc). Also E.Nesbit, Astrid Lindgren, Frances Hodgson Burnett,Oscar Wilde,etc's childrens stories.

Heroes:

Apart from family and friends: Charles Dickens, Phiz, George Cruikshank,Samuel Pepys, Van Dyke,Arthur Rackham, David Hockney,Peter Cook, Gene Wilder, Ossie Clark,Robert Crumb, David Bowie, Scott Walker,Barbara Hepworth, Cindy Sherman,Cecil Beaton, Jarvis Cocker (I've met him and he's just as down to earth as you'd expect),Thomas Gainsborough, Quentin Blake, Carl Larsson, Alan Bennett, Simon Keenlyside.

My Blog

Timed entry!

Today I valiantly fought my way through every obstacle the great London Underground system could provide ('incidents' on the line, customer alarms and points failures), in the hope of visiting the 'Go...
Posted by marina on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:46:00 PST

’toothbrush’ art

Just heard Chuck Close interviewed on Radio 4. An inspirational man, no doubt about that. Quite an odd co-incidence too, as my class did some work inspired by his recent portraits this week. they were...
Posted by marina on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:45:00 PST

RIP Lee

Just found out that Lee Hazlewood died today. Very sad to hear this news. Although , like everyone, I''d heard 'Boots' lots of times, it wasn't until I bought a very dusty old LP called 'The World of ...
Posted by marina on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 12:08:00 PST

New cartoon in illustration section

Here is the result of one of the many rainy days we've had recently- a suitably sunny person to brighten the gloom......
Posted by marina on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:26:00 PST

What could you possibly ask David Bowie?

The other night I watched yet another (but quite good) music documentary 'Seven Ages of Rock', and it included a lot of (familiar) footage of David Bowie, Roxy Music, Pink Floyd, etc, and it got me th...
Posted by marina on Mon, 28 May 2007 07:42:00 PST

Letter

Here is an expample of what I mentioned in the last blog- quotes  from letters by Charles II to his sister, who  lived in France: '29th April 1660 I wrote to you last week and meant to ...
Posted by marina on Sat, 05 May 2007 01:50:00 PST

History repeating.......

As anyone can tell from my profile, I am a bit of a fan of the Stuarts- despite all their obvious flaws (extravagence, laziness, scheming, etc). I think it's because, having read Pepys' diaries and Ki...
Posted by marina on Sat, 05 May 2007 01:26:00 PST

'Teef'

Bearing in mind that my class are 5 years old, they do have some surprising tastes. Whilst helping a small boy into his trousers following a swimming lesson last week, he casually piped up 'Miss,...
Posted by marina on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:08:00 PST

Storytime

I've only been teaching for a few years in comparison with many of my colleagues, but I've already noticed a decline in the children's ability to listen, for more than a short period without 'zon...
Posted by marina on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:36:00 PST

New cartoons added

2 new cartoons inspired by people spotted in the 'mean streets' of Bromley on a Saturday. I'm sure being a Goth was more 'fun' back in the day. after all, most of the original ones were ex-Bowie fans!...
Posted by marina on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:57:00 PST