User:Tobalwin

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Location: Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Born : Cairns

Birth month : November

Family background Irish Welsh

Newbie Wikipedia Contributor

[edit] My Interests include:

• Hans Christian Anderson
  • The Brave Tin Soldier

• Poetry Composition

• Conceptual Breakthrough Films
  • Lord of The Flies 1963
  • The Miracle Worker
  • Eternity [Story of Australian Arthur Stace who spent over 40 years writing the word "Eternity" on the pavements of Sydney
  • The Day The Earth Stood Still 1951
  • The Changeling [George C Scott]
  • The Statue [David Niven]
  • The Last Wave [Criteron DVD remaster]
  • Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

• Comparative Religion
  • The Essential Unity Of All Religions [Bhagavan Das]
  • The Dialogues Of G De Purucker

• New Scientist

• Classical Music
  • J S Bach - The Rune Cycle [compilmation] [11 Volumes]

• Active Listening Principles of Dr Thomas Gordon

• Poetic Song
  • Nico
  • Sparks
  • Peter Hammill
  • Kate Bush
  • Peter Gabriel
  • The Church
  • Stan Ridgway
  • Tina Cousins
  • Pet Shop Boys
  • Scott Walker

• Music Composition / Keyboards / Poetic Song
  • Emily Bronte
  • Kath Walker [Oodgeroo Noonuccal]
  • Rabindranath Tagore

• World Music
  • Klezmar Conservatory band
  • Tunaria
  • Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
  • Detty Kurnia
  • Värttinä
  • Voices Of Georgia
  • Charlie McMahon and Gondwanaland
  • Wolfstone
  • Christy Moore
  • L. Subramaniam

• 1950's Conceptual Breakthrough Science Fiction Short Stories

"Stories revolving around the breakdown of a generally held way of looking at and interpreting the world which usually consists of a set of often unspoken and unargued assumptions" - Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Peter Nicholls Granada Books 1979

• • A Scientist Rises [Bates and Hall] 1932
  • The Greatest Gift [Jack Williamson] 1951
  • Surface Tension [James Blish] 1952
  • Snowball Effect [Katherine Maclean] 1952
  • Noise Level [Raymond Brown] 1952
  • Wall Around The World [Theodore Cogswell] 1953
  • Answer [Fredrick Brown] 1953 first sf story to predict the internet took the premise to an "unthinkable" conclusion. Plot: group of scientists link all the computers in all the countries on all the planets in all the galaxies and ask the question "Is there a God?". a whirl of gears is followed by a bolt of lightning that fuses the power switch permanently to "on" as a voice in the sky booms out "There Is Now!". A classic conceptual breakthrough story.
  • Omnilingual [H Beam Piper] 1957

"My mind will go flying away along with my mechanical eyes and ears and hands. Still trying to adapt to The Unthinkable, tumbling away into The Winds and The Flames and The Rains and The Darkness and The Pressure and The Cold." 2018 - James Blish p37 1957

• The Gary Larson Yearly Cartoon Grid
  • 1984 = the Eye! the Eye ! + Indian Pillow Gauntlet + Beavers and Wooden Leg
  • 1985 = Smiley The Murderer + Drumstick Pedestrians + Diving Equipment Fights
  • 1986 = Heads In The Hallway + King Kong Vegetable Squasher + Too Close To The Wild Animals et all [from "Hound of The Far Side" **[previous and etc]

• Generation Wars [current cycle]
  • World War One 1914 - 1945 Battle of Will and Organisation
  • World War Two 1946 - 1977 Battle of Consciousness and Idealism
  • World War Three 1978 - 2008 Battle of Intelligence and Science
  • World War Four 2009 - 2040 Battle of World Harmony & Turnabout

• • Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential [Union of International Associations]
  • The Book Of Visions [An Encyclopedia of Social Innovations][Virgin]

• Local History

• Comparative Composers
  • Sondhein and Lloyd Webber

• • [to be continued]

[edit] Articles I have expanded:

Charlie McMahon

to "Wuthering Heights" article added link to song cycle version in "The Leid and Art Song Text Page" site

to "Arthur Stace" article added link to DVD of documentary "Eternity" "....And if it hardly changed this wicked city. God rest his soul, his copperplate was pretty" - "Arthur Stace" poem by Douglas Stewart.*[1]