Padhraig Nolan

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Gender Male
Industry Arts
Occupation Pre-
Location dún laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Introduction writing, designing and making art, daily - right here.
Interests people, painting, poetry, literature, art, theatre, music, wildlife, geology, nature, space, science, history, guitar, silence, folklore, pencils, timber, rust, rivers, time, families, words, colours, devils coachhorses, textures, pagans, teeth, solar sails, pollen, the tassili plateau, prehistory, the seventies, aerospace, sausage, jazz, acrylics, stone, dance, paper, gardens, weeds, fabrication
Favorite Movies lawrence of arabia, serpico, the big lebowski, the odd couple, some like it hot, the big blue, the shining, jaws, the crimson pirate, the third man, casablanca, the incredibles, edward scissorhands, eraserhead, rumblefish, you me and everyone we know, fargo, 24 hour party people, the adventures of robin hood, taxi driver, hannah and her sisters, mean streets, blade runner, 2001 a space odyssey, the last waltz, zabriskie point, ghost dog, paris texas, idiocracy, apocalypse now, zoolander, moon, mystery train
Favorite Music hendrix, steely dan, prince, world party, the band, django reinhardt, wes montgomery, charlie parker, john coltrane, richard thompson, teddy thompson, spiers & boden, eliza carthy, rakim, the cramps, the specials, the beastie boys, friendly fires, aeroplane, nina simone, leonard cohen, tom waits, bod dylan, neil young, peter bruntnell, jayhawks, acdc, joni mitchell, public enemy, beck, ELO, ian dury, the blockheads, chaz jankel, quincy jones, brand new heavies, elbow, doves, the smiths, joy division, the stone roses, julian cope, the killers, republic of loose, steve earle, elliot smith
Favorite Books the first forty-nine stories, the third policeman, the rum diaries, notes from a turkish whorehouse, cathedral, death of a naturalist, crow country, a confederacy of dunces, the ginger man, naked lunch, redress of poetry, high windows, the road, the night in question, this boys life, old school, all of us, the collected poems of ted hughes, the handmaid's tale, the nowhere birds, puckoon, 33 moments of happiness, dubliners, the wasp factory, carry on jeeves, who will run the frog hospital, the book of evidence, tales of mystery and terror, rommel? gunner who?, at swim-two-birds, the best of myles, blackbird and wolf, ridley walker, autumn journal, in the country of last things, jg ballard the complete short stories, what we talk about when we talk about love, the south, in pharaoh's army, dispatches, the táin, standard time, that they may face the rising sun, the dream of a beast, the wizard of oz, the arrival, mere anarchy, eightball, all of us, head-on, varieties of parable

When your science teacher smashed a frozen rose with a hammer, did you warm the petals to bring them back to life?

Nope, I invented potpourri smoothie. Still hold the patent. Not a big earner.