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Batdorf Jukebox

Batdorf Jukebox is a series of spoken-word performances and artistic projects by Erika Batdorf. The pieces bring together a number of theatrical projects conceived and performed theatrically by Batdorf over the years. The first piece is Mr. Raisin Head, featuring a monologue by character who you could describe as a a data-entry desk jockey seeking answers to life’s big questions.

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5:54

Gusti sells ducks now

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2024/06/04

Idle has changed. Basil is sweet. Life is good.

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5:22

Idle has a garden now!

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2024/06/04

Idle finds that she is content. She gets help for her garden… well, Gusti’s garden. She ruins her nails and gets happy. Now she buys too many fancy nail and hand creams.

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6:54

Idle works on getting content

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2024/06/04

Idle makes some big changes and confronts her loneliness. She decides to stop fighting FOR something to learn to BE something.

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8:24

Idle finds out the truth about Shaun

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2024/06/04

Idle looks for evidence of body tape on models in a fashion show. Idle has a heart to heart with Jane, her accountant, and makes some realizations.

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7:40

Idle obsesses about contentment, and men, and death,...

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2024/06/04

Idle is now dating Shaun, but she can’t sleep, so she is taking meditation seriously. She has disturbing dreams about death, so she takes walks in cemeteries.

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12:06

Idle ruins her friendship with Gusti

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2024/05/28

Idle is so distressed she doesn’t pay attention to the exercise app on her watch. Her steps bring her no joy. Idle is in despair.

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9:00

Andrew makes Idle clothes or, well, costumes. A...

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2024/05/28

Idle has a dinner party with her various friends and asks them to help her define contentment by writing if they are or are not. She says it will be anonymous but she desperately is trying to figure out what Shaun wrote.

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10:34

Gusti is not tall

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2024/05/28

We meet Andrew, the designer, who teaches Idle how to walk in heels. Idle watches Gusti. Gusti smokes, but he is Idle’s best friend. He gardens, and she admires him admiring a plant.

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9:22

Idle would like to be, unashamedly, a predatory cat

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2024/05/28

Idle is tired of draping herself over things at parties, so she tries dating apps but refuses to lie about her age. Everyone else does. This leads to a lot of bad dates.

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10:50

Gusti and his garden

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2024/05/21

Gusti, Idle's driver, has asked her to stop giving him things. She can't help herself. Idle has not seen Shaun in some time but Gusti finds a box of Shaun's ties that he leaves for her.

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6:34

OK, so picture God… Well you can’t, but picture God

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2024/05/21

Idle tries to understand the concept of nothingness or emptiness. Somehow this relates to a children’s drawing of a sun. For sure it does. It actually does.

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10:24

Meditating in a pencil skirt is not a good idea

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2024/05/21

Idle suggests that Shaun should pay his staff better and this does not go over well. She goes to a mediation class, but does not know how to sit right.

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7:28

Shaun and Idle bond

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2024/05/21

Shaun and Idle bond over being so depressed that they don’t wear seatbelts. But Idle has moved on from that, wears her seatbelt now, and gives away shoes, as she has so many. Shaun’s has too many ties. She is not convinced people will want his ties or that this would lead to his salvation.

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8:50

Idle might just have had a vision after all. Or did she?

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2024/05/14

Idle meets the man she met on the bus. Idle finds him very attractive, despite the fact that he approximates a moving form of dust.

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5:50

Is it presumptuous to decide that you are a snake?

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2024/05/14

Idle decides she is a snake. She then buys one and chases it out into her backyard naked. Fortunately, the children who catch it come by once she is fully dressed. The pool cleaners were not so lucky.

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11:34

What kind of animal are you?

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2024/05/14

Idle realizes she cannot feel the wings of her guardian angel. She took the bus for the first time ever today! She has too many shoes… Doesn’t everybody? Oh… right, she is rich. Right… never mind.

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11:32

Nobody fires Ms. Idle Fancy

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2024/05/14

Meet Ms. Idle Fancy. She has asked God for a vision and she is hoping you will be her witness, in case she passes out or levitates or… whatever happens when someone has a vision. She has decided it is best to remove her heels, just in case.

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20:42

Mr. Raisin Head actually goes to Finland and becomes...

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2024/05/07

Mr and Mrs Raisin Head go to Finland and swim under the midnight sun. He admires a hand mowed grass spiral, a good art bench and drags a fish halfway into a lake.

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7:04

Why buy a flower if it’s just going to die

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2024/05/07

Mr. Raisin Head wonders about art that goes away… like ice sculpture, which he loves. Is there such a thing, and yea, there is. Virtues go away… and why hasn’t he seen one in awhile?

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8:22

Mr. and Mrs. Raisin Head go see glaciers and the...

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2024/05/07

Mr. Raisin Head is looking for a big sky. Is one bigger than another? Can artists truly capture the sky? He is still having a big think, rather than jumping into the sky.

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