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Paul

paul_cosgrave

About Me

I'm in Blackheath, NSW, Australia - the top of the Blue Mountains, 90 minutes west of Sydney but a lot different.I take photographs (musicians, corporate imaging, landscape, portraiture); I write (commercial copy, scripts, verse); and I mediate and facilitate disputes and/or conversations. Hence my website photoswordspeople.com.I also do a half hour weekly radio show from the site (AOD) designed to play music that seldom gets heard on radio and talk to places near and far about what's going on round here, which is a lot. The show is hosted at present on putfile.com but that may change. Go to photoswordspeople.com, click net radio, follow the prompts.

My Interests

music, literature, photography, films, friends, gardening, Blackheath, Iceland & the North, America, celtic/saxon/nordic stuff, history & biography, art, Hull City & Sheffield Utd FCs

I'd like to meet:

People who listen ... who don't follow fashion ... who remember Radio Caroline but also like XM ... who make music ... who may want to let me know about their music, so I can play it on my show ... people in Iceland, the Faeroes, Shetland, Orkney or St Kilda (not the Melbourne St K)... new clients...

Music:

nick drake, harry chapin, sigur ros, watersnfloyd, watersoncarthy, radiohead, kathematics, arctic monkeys, john moran corpEration, ramblin' jack elliott, martyn wyndham-read, chip taylor, tret fure, buffy sainte-marie, elgar, mahler, mountain jazz trio, pogues, john cooper clarke, the northumbrian small pipes, jerry jeff walker, sally oldfield, bjork

Movies:

2001: a space odyssey (+ all kubrick), slaughterhouse 5, thx 1138, the rise & rise of michael rimmer, good night & good luck, gosford park (+ all altman), dancer in the dark & europa (+ most von trier & dogme)

Television:

Not much, really, after Dennis Potter's Pennies From Heaven (except the football when it's not on pay tv).

Books:

All Peter Ackroyd, all Tom Robbins & Tom Sharpe, a fair amount of PJ O'Rourke, Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, the histories of Alison Weir & Christopher Hibbert, every Arthur C Clarke novel, Steve Martin's Pure Drivel, Runciman's Crusades, Lord Dunsany, Ursula Le Guin

Heroes:

Louise Arbor, Kurt Vonnegut Jnr, Harry Chapin, Shane MacGowan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, John Cooper Clarke, LS Lowry, Peter Andren, John Ruskin, Annie Oakley, Lord Kenneth Clarke