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Nora Batty

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I despise right wing administrations. I hate the war. I hate President Bush and Tony Blair.I love art, music, writing, literature, debates, satire, architecture, surrealism, conceptualism, minimalism, parapsychology, white magic, shamanism, anarchism, ritaulism, taoism, gardens,countryside, water, light, rain, the ocean and the med. sea.I like comedy, laughing, gallows humour, dirty jokes.The Aristocrats. But I do have a serious side too.I like cupcakes, red velvet cake, mince pies. Custard. Brandy Butter. Toad in the hole. Bubble and squeek. Dog in a blanket.Mushy peas.

My Interests

Watching TV-all TV, Listening to vinyl recordings, radio frequencies, laughing, puns, watching improvisation.-musical and comedic, electroacoustic music, songs and singing, analogue music. Good timing/bad timing. Watching toast burn, watching paint dry.

I'd like to meet:

Vermeer Michelangelo Caravaggio Cellini Poussin Courbet Miles Davis Sammy Davis Junior Richard Pryor John Coltrane Ornette Coleman Don Cherry Sun Ra Albert Ayler Malcolm X

Music:

White Noise, Brown Noise and anything in between. Any Popular tunes, any unpopular tunes, musicals,Dub/ Reggae/ Japanese/chinese/eastern european/middle eastern/Iranian/Indian/Pakistani/ Japanese/ Cambodian/Thai/scandanavian/Russian/ Uzbeki/ Chechnian/ Brazilian/ Tropicalia/African/Tibetan/ throat singing/ Mauri. Old skool Hip hop, Rap n'Rock, Rock and Roll and Opera, Soul, Dance, Industrial/ Punk/Minimalism.

Movies:

All that Heavan Allows Red Shoes Wavelength La Region Centrale Stan Brakhage Naked City Paul Sharits Alfred Hitchcock Movies Haroun Farocki

Television:

DEMOCRACY NOW,Little Britain, Saxondale, Three Non Blondes, Alan Partridge. Extras, Only Fools and Horses, Brookside, Grange Hill. Dad's Army, Last of the Summer Wine, Coronation Street- Benny Hill, Countdown, Bread, Jim'll Fix it. Strangers with candy.

Books:

Gravity's Rainbow. Ullysses. Rock My Religion The Sight of Death Beyond the Dream Syndicate

Heroes:

No more heroes anymore.Derek BaileyTrad Gras Och Stenar Folke Rabe This Heat Soft Machine Pollock Walter De Maria Rauschenberg Sigmar Polke Red Crayola Donald Judd Dan Flavin Gerhard Richter Robert Morris John Cage Robert Smithson Sol Le Witt Cindy Sherman Joan Jonas Paul Hunt Rauschenberg Cecil Taylor Noam Chomsky cornelius cardew AMM william S. Burroughs Angus Mac Lise Bruce Nauman Dan Graham John Balance Nurse with Wound Current 93 Brian Wilson Van Dyke Parks Tony Conrad... to name a few off the top of my head. I just really love people.

My Blog

Check out this video: The Osmonds

The Osmonds
Posted by Nora Batty on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:58:00 PST