BARRY MCGLOIN
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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Non-Profit |
| Occupation | Writing, Lifeline, Orange Sky |
| Location | Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia |
| Introduction | Well it's been a long road with stones in my pathway, in the words of Robert Johnson. There have been times when my left eye was jumpin', rain was fallin', and some mule kickin' in my stall, but one persevered and basically just went about one's business. Pain is overrated. I subscribe to Mal Fraser's view that "life is not meant to be easy" but I suspect that Mal may have appropriated this concept. There is a huge inequality in breakfast, even more now that the Morrison Government is here, as self serving as you would expect. The bleatings of a senile goat will have more significance for the Human Race. Yea the Lord Above is asleep, or watching The Sopranos, god bless Him, I think He's retired and some might say that it's a good thing. But there is beauty and there is love. More biographical details can be found at my webbo http://bmcgloin.homemail.com.au/ Photos at: Flickr or Google |
| Interests | my family, playing music, listening to music, photography, writing and reading poetry, bushwalking, short stories - writing, radio broadcasting, Lifeline, Orange Sky Laundry, U3A, cooking, Byron Bay & Narooma Bluesfests, gourmandising, gawking at people, surfing, skydiving, gardening, building water features, digging holes, clothes, rain, storms, wine, Ned Kelly, Jesus, Jimi, Ghandi, Buddha, Nick Cave, Oumou Sangare, Howlin Wolf, Plugger, Rex Hunt, Yorky Beasley, Rokia Traore, Patricia Barber, Francey Brady, Arundhati Roy, Maria Kostikides, Vivienne Leigh, Blind Willie McTell, Mohammed Ali, Charles Dickens, Dolly Fawcett, Oscar Wilde, bird watching, plumbing, composting. |
| Favorite Movies | One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, The Godfather - all three, The Sopranos series, Game of Thrones series, Breaking Bad series, Hobson's Choice, My Darling Clemantine, Amadeus, Last Temptation Of Christ, Colour trilogy, Waterloo Bridge, In The Name Of The Father, Mystery Train, The Commitments, In The Heat Of The Night, The Castle, Two Hands, American Graffiti. |
| Favorite Music | Roots ie. blues, world, r'n b, rock, soul, gospel, ska, reggae, folk, jazz, some punk, roots country (not Nashville), 60s Brit blues, garage bands, classical. Refer "Music" under my web site http://bmcgloin.homemail.com.au/ |
| Favorite Books | Writers: Colum McCann, Dorothy Porter, Sebastian Barry, Alex Miller, Haruki Murakami, Jennifer Johnston, Robert Drewe, Colm Toibin, Brian Moore, Nick Tosches, Peter Carey, Robert Graves, Ted Hughes, Spike Milligan, Dylan Thomas, Annie Proulx, Cormac McCarthy, D H Lawrence, Sylvia Plath, Judith Wright, Robbie Burns, Rohinton Mistry, Tim Winton, Patrick McCabe, Irene Nemirovsky, John Fowles, Madhur Jaffrey, Marcella Hazan, Jamie Oliver, fav book The Crock Of Gold by James Stephens. |
Do you believe that forks are evolved from spoons?
yes indeed. Long ago a flighty silver spoon was smitten by a robust rake - The Tines They were A Changing.