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nicko

dimension warp...all that rhythm... (C Beefheart)

About Me

I am a winemaker based in Melbourne, Australia.
Born-again Bio-dynamicist. Narrativist
I like all that is gutsy. Complexity is a boon.
My website is Roundtable wines

"So it said that when you know yourself and others, victory is not in danger; when you know sky and earth, victory is inexhaustible"
Sun Tzu
I reckon thats the most important thing he had to say.
The 'links' and 'organics' pages on my website talks a bit about where I'm coming from. Roundtable is majorlly 'parked' at the minute....it aint easy bein green these days.. working building bomb craters for Hollywood....so it goes

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My Interests

the natural world, gutsy wine, biodynamics, true organics, slow food, acceleration, Alchemy, Alsace, amphorae, ancient history, anti-imperialism, archetypes, armagnac, astronomy, authenticity, Beer (all types), Brasil, Burroughs, chartreuse, cheval breton ( for work rather than the plate), clydie crosses, comets, cosmology, dada, dodging bullshit, diving, ecosystems, fast Slow food, feng shiu, fluxus (or any anti-fashiony art stuff...highbrowlowbrow allbrow), foxies, France, gaudi, ginza, great coffee, Gravner, greco-roman mythology, Gyuto monks, Harpo Marx, herbs, Herzog, J.G.Ballard, lampooning greed, Lassie, Lynch, Madagascar, marine forests, Mclaren vale, Melbourne, Morricone, Narrativism, neon, ochre, oysters, ornithology, oz-rock, patterns, protoscience, quasars, ritual, Rome (all cities with major history), sashimi, sea eagles, sea planes, sea shepherd, Seitei Iaido, Shakespeare's bibles, sleds, soil, Steiner, stockhorses, surrealism, the magic of cooking zappy food on a good night, the congo river, the Otways, vegie gardens, the Weimar republic. water

I'd like to meet:


I made this MySpace Music Player at MyFlashFetish .com.

Music:

The Stooges,
Stravinsky,
Supergrass,
Southern culture on the Skids,
Shorty Brown,
Sonic Youth
Sinatra
(Mongo) Santamaria

Movies:

Naked Lunch,
Duck Soup,
Repo Man,
Mad Max,
Eraserhead....saw it at 15 ano with my best mate Dougy. a dash ripped. Afterwards we sat in a gelateria for half an hour physically unable to speak before similtaneously extruding a " faaaark maaaate"..... .......... then guffawing. This film subsequently cemented my belief that David Lynch is the ultimate comedic filmmaker of this era. Not bellylaffs, but humors all about looking at things differently.

Television:

IRON CHEF, SBS World news

Books:

.. Biodynamic wines, Monty Waldin ........ Musashi,Eiji Yoshikawa

Heroes:

I hope Hunter S is up there ridin' shotgun for us all.

My Blog

This comes from Ming the mechanic's blog. He posts some verdy interesting stuff

Researchers studying laughter say that..It's an instinctual survival tool for social animals, not an intellectual response to wit. It's not about getting the joke. It's about getting along. It's a way...
Posted by nicko on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:35:00 PST