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My name is Scotty B. I'm currently a denizen of the "Old American West" My hobbies are photography, astronomy, philosophy, collecting all kinds of neat little things & listening to music. I love everything in Nature every bit as much as I love sauteing, steaming, stewing, smoking, frying, poaching, toasting, roasting, baking, brazing, broiling, boiling, basting, wokking, zapping & charbroiling all kinds of tasty morsels to feast upon. I also love to write and along with photography, making new friends has got to be my all time fav. I'm a multi-award winning gallery/nature/still life photographer and I love to exchange e-mails and share my pictures. I love a good story and it doesn't matter if it's portrayed on screen or scribed on paper. A story is like a song, it still takes something sweet to make a hit !!! Link me soon, I live today for the friends that I haven't met yet!!!
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Name: Scotty
Birthday: August 19
Birthplace: Oceanside California
Current Location: Cloud Nine
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Sandy Brown
Height: 6'1" Verticle / 2'6" Horizontal
Right Handed or Left Handed: Ambidexterous
Your Heritage: American
The Shoes You Wore Today: Vasque Skywalks & Moccasins
Your Weakness: Fear
Your Fears: Weakness
Your Perfect Pizza: Hawaiian
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: To Inspire Love
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: Hey,you wanna cyber???
Thoughts First Waking Up: What day is it??
Your Best Physical Feature: Brain
Your Bedtime: Most Missed Memory
Your Most Missed Memory: Bedtime
Pepsi or Coke: Root Beer
MacDonalds or Burger King: Wonderful Kitchen/Bring on the Tsing Tsau, Moogoo Gaipan & the Kim-Chi!!!
Single or Group Dates: Huh??? I'm in my 40's - We stop DATING in our 20's and begin SEEING !!!!
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Sangria with a 7 press
Chocolate or Vanilla: Yes
Cappuccino or Coffee: Mocha with Triple Sec
Do you Smoke: Only after Chili & Bean Soup, Broccoli does a number on me too !!!
Do you Swear: No, but I know all the words
Do you Sing: HEY - I'M NOT A RAT !!!!!
Do you Shower Daily: When I have one handy
Have you Been in Love: No, but I've stepped in it a couple of times
Do you want to go to College: Been There, Done That
Do you want to get Married: Been There Done That
Do you belive in yourself: Been There Done That
Do you get Motion Sickness: Only after Sushi
Do you think you are Attractive: If I was a God - I'd look like Buddah
Are you a Health Freak: Only when I'm sick
Do you get along with your Parents: Love em
Do you like Thunderstorms: Love em, especially the ones that scare the shit out of the Hillbillies
Do you play an Instrument: 6 of them
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: No, but I know all the words !!!
In the past month have you Smoked: I don't know,I'm afraid to look
In the past month have you been on Drugs: Huh???
In the past month have you gone on a Date: I'm in my 40's - We start SEEING in our 20's
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Nope
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: No- Keebler Double Fudge
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Try smoked salmon pate' if your that hungry for fish - Raw tuna is MUCH better browned in butter and spices then broiled for 4 minutes with a white wine sauce !!!!
In the past month have you been on Stage: I staged an orgasm -pulled right out, moaned and spit on her back.
In the past month have you been Dumped: Right out the back of Joes pick-up truck - NO MORE WHISKEY !!!!!
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: Yes - And I LOVED IT!!!
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: NO - That's my story and I'm stickin to it !!!!
Ever been Drunk: WOOF!!!!
Ever been called a Tease: Huh???
Ever been Beaten up: Hey - I'm a lover, not a fighter BUT I'd LOVE to KICK your ASS if you piss me off !!!!
Ever Shoplifted: No - That's my story and I'm stickin to it
How do you want to Die: Looking like a modern art masterpiece /b
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: An Adult
What country would you most like to Visit: America
In a Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Brown,Blue,Green,Hazel
Favourite Hair Color: Brown.Blonde,Auburn, Red, Black
Short or Long Hair: Long
Height: Between 4 and 7 foot, I dont care, I'll put a bucket over her head and swing from the handle if thats what makes her happy !!!
Weight: Above 100 Below 300
Best Clothing Style: Loose, comfy and not formal
Number of Drugs I have taken: 2,568
Number of CDs I own: Well over 300
Number of Piercings: Bullet Holes & Knife Wounds Count ???
Number of things in my Past I Regret: 2,571

My Interests

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I'm totally surrounded and consumed by all that I encounter in the world, All is openly pondered, which is the very essence of my being.Only ignorance, cold-heartedness, narrow-mindedness and condescending arrogance will turn me away.

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I'd like to meet:

Benjamin Franklin, John Paul Jones, Samuel Clemens, Abe Lincoln, Einstein, The Laker Girls, Socrates, Cheech & Chong in Amsterdam, The Raider Girls, Sitting Bull, Jesus, The Beatles, Van Halen, Pablo Picasso, 30 seconds to Mars, Jenna Jameson, Pink Floyd, George Washington, The Stones, Plato,The Bronco Girls,Buffalo Bill, George Carlin, The Queen of Sheba, Richard Pryor, Robin Williams, Richard Hoagland, Michalangelo, God, Leonardo Da Vinci, Mozart, DeeDee Pheiffer, Daniel Boone, Shakespeare, Charlie Chaplin, Bach, Sela Ward, Crazy Horse, Farrah Fawcett, Will Rogers, Neil Armstrong, Bill Clinton,Teddy Roosevelt & his cousin Frankie, The Three Stooges, Louis Armstrong, Jim Bridger, Washington Carver,The Prophet Muhammad, Vincent Van Gogh, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Davy Crockett, Nicole Fournier, Rachmaninov, My Grandpa Gray, Stephanie Abrams, Muhammad Ali, Thomas Jefferson, John Madden, The KC Chiefs cheerleaders, Asia Carrera,Jessica Drake, Samantha Fox, Tchaikovski, The Marx Brothers, Donald Trump,Jimmy Carter,Marco Polo, Alexander the Great, Dosteyevski, Ansel Adams, Bill Cosby, Oliver Stone, Stephen Speilberg & Chela for Strawberries in Chocolate

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Music:

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Music is the largest influence of my life from an aestetic or artistic standpoint. I've always beleived it the highest form of expression & conveyance. I love all music, from simple instrumental madagrals to the"Tonal Groanings" of the Abby Monks to everything that's considered "Classic" from the days of Bach and Vivaldi through Mozart & Beethoven all the way up to Pink Floyd, The Beatles and Led Zepplin. Jesu- The Joy of Mans Desiring is a must for everybody who loves and the Moonlight Sonata helps to "Get it all out" when things get too much. Beethoven had just figured out that he was losing his hearing when he composed that, it still resonates with his sadness 200 years later.

My Dad had a Rock Band in the late 60's-early 70's and one of my earliest memories of him was when he scooped me up in his arms,took me onstage and sang "Watching Scotty Grow" by Bobby Goldsborough when I was seven. There wasn't a dry eye in the place when that song was over and that moment lit a fire in me - I chased that passion all the way to a prestigeous music conservatory by the age of 18. I woke up one morning and found myself sleeping in the same room that Chic Corea had when he was at that conservatory. Doc Severnsen had slept in the room next door and Jimi Hendrix slept two doors down from that one when he flunked out of that school in '64. By the time I hit 30, I'd spent time in the record business before moving on to the control rooms of 4 radio stations before automation and an accident fucked everything up.

What I'm listening to the most these days is Led Zep, Everything Rush, Floyd & The Who, All of the great bands from the Chicago area, especially early Chicago,early REO,everything from the Pumpkins, Styx, Rush, early Scorps, Mannheim Steamroller, Jonny Lange & All things Blues/Soul/Jazz, the latest from 30 seconds to Mars(keep an eye out for these guys), Triumph(most underated guitarist in rock), the blues version of Gary Moore(his rock ain't bad either) The Fat Tones & Nicole Fournier, two outstanding acts from the Pacific Northwest.

I'm still mourning Stevie Ray, George Harrison and his bandmate and I wish that Eddie & Alex would pull it back together.

Movies:

All of the great epics have visited my screen at one time or another over the years. There were some great movies in the mid-nineties and the last movie that blew my hair back was a silent movie that I watched on TNT recently. Made in 1928, it was Hitchcocks 3rd movie and well demonstrated his abilities as a master story teller by the age of 28. I love anything from Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Stephen Speilberg, Ron Howard, Mel Brooks,Rob Reiner, Blake Edwards, John Waters and I was lucky enough to encounter Alex Cox in a bar in Alliance Nebraska in 1984 -I've been a fan ever since. My favs have to be the Comedies. The 1st four Marx Brothers movies are tops as well as the early Stooge shorts up until the early days of WWII I love WC Fields and Laurel & Hardy. Anybody who likes old movies has to check out the work of Buster Keaton & Charlie Chaplin before talkies took over. I got to be an extra on the set of Stripes for a day in late 1980, while in Basic Training at Ft.Knox, so Bill Murray is always on my list with all of his movies. I can't get enough of Young Frankenstein, Animal House, Blazing Saddles, Caddyshack and the original MASH. Classic B&W horror flicks from the 20's-50's take me back to my long ago. Especially late-night, during the Autumn, with a big bowl of popcorn & my honey. Now let's add a full-moon, fireplace, a little sangria and a zepher blasting the leaves off of the trees and we've got something as classic as Johnny Weismuller up in a tree & beating his chest about to happen.

Television:

Who's got time for the reality shows that seem to be floating in the prime-time cesspool in this day & age - I've got pictures to take!!!!

Books:

I've been so busy trying to get a photography career off the ground that I haven't had a chance to read anything that didn't have pictures of girls in it!!...It's been a couple of years since I've taken a book on....the last book that I really took an in-depth look at was "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith. It was 1st published in 1776 and was an amazingly difficult read but was well worth taking the six months to read it. His perspective on everything that related to the world of commerce as we know it today, must be considered prodigal.Anything by Samuel Clemens, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, John Steinbeck, James Thurber, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Frost, Stephen King, John Grisham and Earnest Hemingway are great reads. Ernie Pyles book was a really good read, I remember being totally absorbed by it in my teenage years, it well illustrated the horrors of war and the struggle that the soldiers who fight them endure. I'd like to try to tackle Thoreau,Thomas Hobbes's "Leviathan" and Chekhov sometime in my lifetime, there's also a Roman philosopher from the 1st century AD that I'd like to research.

Heroes:

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When I was little, Ben Franklins ideals and inventivness and the courage and tenacity of John Paul Jones were the standards by which I wanted to govern my life. Today, my bretheren fighting it out in the middle east are my heroes and my heart & soul goes out to them - OOH-RAH !!!!!

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Egg Nog, French Toast & Bread Pudding - Merry Christmas !!!!

How many of us really like Eggnog ? Personally, I love it, especially with a shot of Southern Comfort,Apricot Brandy or a quality spiced rum. There are many that can't handle eggnog, either it's too r...
Posted by The Visual Confections of Willy Z. on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:52:00 PST

6th Annual Summer Expo

Greetings & Salutations to all my friends.. A new juried art exhibition opened this evening at the Upstream People Gallery, an international Web gallery based out of Omaha...
Posted by The Visual Confections of Willy Z. on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:35:00 PST

Newspaper article- Tuesday, July 25. 2006 - Artist finds Salvation in Photography

Alliance artist finds salvation in photography BY MELISSA SMITHRegional Reporter ALLIANCE Everyone has their own way of looking at the world, and for Alliance photographer Scott Baker, its through th...
Posted by The Visual Confections of Willy Z. on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:45:00 PST

Friends That Matter......

A Friend sent this to me today, I thought that it was well worth sharing.. thanks Vicky.. "I thought that this was real, I hope that YOU do too:There are moments in life when you ...
Posted by The Visual Confections of Willy Z. on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 11:46:00 PST

8thAnnual Landscapes Expo

FROM THE LATEST JURORS STATEMENT FROM THE UPSTREAM PEOPLE GALLERY - PUBLISHED 7/1/06 Scott Baker of Alliance, Nebraska continues his keen eye as a notable photographer in several works in...
Posted by The Visual Confections of Willy Z. on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 02:37:00 PST

Immortalizing Beauty

...... to enrapt the soul with all in the world that is beautiful , one must immortalize that beauty in thought, in word.... and image.... &nb...
Posted by The Visual Confections of Willy Z. on Sun, 20 Nov 2005 03:09:00 PST