Comments on: Listen. (podcast)

By: sandrar

sandrar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:24:18 +0000

Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. Cheers! Sandra. R.

By: artpredator

artpredator — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:39:19 +0000

may i add my cheers to the din?

it’s really beautiful and moving paul

think you could add a link to the post of the text? it’s lovely to hear it and then see it and vice versa…

we should all unite and figure out a way to get tracks like these out into the bigger world…

By: Annamari

Annamari — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:53:23 +0000

I second LK on the quality of the voice. Have you ever worked as a radio broadcaster?
I worked years ago as a news editor at a small Radio station and that was one thing some of my co-workers taught me : how to use my voice. But I did not get that good at reading out loud.
Australia. Beyond Crocodile Dundee and Jane Campion I do not know much about it. I’d like to know more, I googled a list of writers and poets and could not decide were to start. I’ll see about it (I’d appreciate some suggestions as well).
Thankyou Annamari. I haven’t worked in that field but it would be fun. There are so many great Australian writers it’s hard to know where to start. Patrick White won the Nobel Prize for Literature and was one of our most famous novelists. Tim Winton is probably our most successful contemporary novelist. I love the poetry of Oodgeroo Noonuncal who lived in the same area as I do. She was an indigenous leader and activist for Aboriginal rights and a wonderful poet. There are so many but I hope that helps.

By: Brad

Brad — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:35:20 +0000

Wow! Such a pleasure (and painful) to close my eyes and let this flow through me. I have read this a few times previously. Hearing the words spoken really does enforce the emotions. Thanks, Paul.
Thanks Brad. Sorry about the painful bit.

By: Fabian G. Franklin

Fabian G. Franklin — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:19:06 +0000

Dear God man! Do something! Those kangaroos might eat those cuddly koalas! I learned all I ever needed to know about Australia from Paul Hogan and Steve Erwin. lol We have marsupials. We call them possums. Texas has something like them lying on the side of every highway. THEY are called armadillos, sort of like a possum on the half shell. I want to come hang out with the aboriginals and eat some lizard. yum. I would really like to go scuba diving off the great barrier coral reef, seriously. And get some anti-biotics for that inflection, in the throat, wasn’t it?
Haha, I shall F.G. You must visit one day. We can have a witchety grub feast. And diving yes, and beer drinking which Aussies are particularly good at. Catch a plane, woohoo,

By: Laurie Kendrick

Laurie Kendrick — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:01:47 +0000

I take it comprehension of sarcasm isn’t “big” in your neck of the woods?

Unless your mocking response to my sarcastic comments about the superficiality of my admittedly limited knowlledge of all things Australian was in fact meant to be sarcastic in and of itself.

If that’s the case, then duly noted.

Touche.

I get that a lot about Texas. Many people assume we’re all cowboys with horses parked in the front yard, livestock shit everywhere you look and of course, working oil derricks in every backyard.

While there are truths to every stereotype, those things are hardly the norm.

And while, I happen to know Paul, that kangaroos and digiridoos are not ubiquitous in Australia, I was merely attempting levitiy…albeit weak levity.

I think I’ll take my leave here. It’s been a slice, Paul.

LK
Thanks for visiting, Laurie. It’s has been a slice indeed.