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Órla

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very own MySpace LayoutsActor, Improviser, Writer, Teacher, Dreamer, Spacer. listener, that's me...Love to travel, sometimes inward sometimes across the globe. Love people, places and things in that order.I am a Continent flitter of late, torn between playing drunken septegenarian Irish fishmonger poetesses in North America, and doing impromtu improv performances, writing plays and the like in old Mother Galway and Carrick on Suir.. This year.. Let the fates decide! Please visit the page of my Alter Ego Mrs Nellie Murphy, or come down to the wonderful Pink Door to catch her do some "erotic writing for the elderly lady" :) Nellie has been branching out to do some dance and corporate gigs recently too! Heaven help us all! "Grizzly Men", the crazy short I did recently, is finished and will be hitting festivals soon, keep an eye out! Pop me a message if you would like to be on my mailing list, and I will keep ya posted.Peace..Órla

My Interests

Theatre (all sorts), Dance, Film, Food, Music, Love,Travel, Spirituality, Invention.

I'd like to meet:

Cool peeps with big hearts and twinkly eyes. My long-lost Irish friends from "the wild times" :)

Music:

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A lot. My list of random names as I type; Zeppelin, Abba, Bothy Band, Bowie, Niceol Blue, Jim Page, Janis Joplin, Natalie Merchant, Dolly Parton, Niamh Parsons, Nick Drake, MIA, AWESOME, Annie Lennox, Kila, Pete Pamf, Sharon Shannon, The Dubliners, Beautiful South, Joni Mitchell, Mary Coughlan, Horslips, ACDC, Bonnie Raitt, The artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, Evanescence, Black Eyed Peas, Sheila Chandra, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Marianne Faithful, Hazel O'Connor, Pete Seeger, Bjork, B52s, Nina Simone, Julie London, Kate Bush, Dolores Keane, Nirvana, Pretenders, Blondie, White Stripes, Tom Jones, Sinead O'Connor, Pentangle, Sandy Denny, Fairport Convention, The Kinks, The Big Geraniums, Bob Marley and The Wailers.

Movies:

Some, in no particular order: brazil, like water for chocolate, heavenly creatures, happiness, cool hand luke, anne of a thousand days, butch cassidy and the sundance kid, the royal tennenbaums, bound, alfie (original), chitty chitty bang bang, life is sweet, most ken loach films, little voice, who's afraid of virginia wolfe, come back to the five and dime jimmy dean, legend, st. trinians films, carry-on films, the general

Television:

GAH! The beast. Ok, All the good Irish and English telly that I have missed while wandering the globe, the wombles, ab fab, fr. ted, french and saunders, the office (uk), are you being served, benny hill, northern exposure, freaks and geeks, english stuff on late on channel 9 here.

Books:

Don't read enough. Read a lot of plays and dabble in the pages of found poetry. Love most stuff by Poe, WB Yeats, Wilde, Kurt Vonnegut, Edna O'Brien, Carlos Castaneda, a bit of indulgent Richard Brautigan, Short stories fit in my life better than novels. A few books that friends and acquaintances have written (Katy Hayes, Emma Donaghue, Claire Dowling..) Ok, and I swallowed Harry Potter, now feck off purists!

Heroes:

..fall and rise daily, by the hour, by the second.

My Blog

Wandering minstrels!

In Ireland, things are beautiful with the scarf of a whirlwind.Many lovely artistic things, reconnecting with old friends and finding new possibilities.Happy to smell turf smoke, missing some lovely S...
Posted by Órla on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:28:00 PST