John
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | X-Ray Technologist |
| Introduction | I served a 20 year sentence in the low budget, nonunion movie business as a jack of all trades. Mostly Westerns. When that played out I drove a truck, delivered furniture. The onset of middle-age sent me to X-Ray School. After graduation I went to work at the hospital where I'd done my clinical training. I worked the graveyard shift serving the ER. The best education a writer could have. During my time in the movie business I met some of the best people I've ever known: Jack Elam, Paul Fix, Ben Johnson; Dawn Wells and Jaclyn Smith. On the downside I endured Tim McIntire and Peter Fonda. Both the sons of actors. I am a poor speller. |
| Interests | History, Politics, Movies, The American West, Firearms, the good old timey ones used in the American West. |
| Favorite Movies | VERTIGO, THE MALTESE FALCON, SHADOW OF A DOUBT, THE SEACHERS, WINCHESTER '73, ALL THAT JAZZ |
| Favorite Music | STEELY DAN |
| Favorite Books | THE LIBERATION TRILOGY, WORKS OF A.J. LIEBLING, ESSAYS OF GORE VIDAL, BURR, THE WINDS OF WAR/WAR AND REMEMBRANCE, THE FLASHMAN NOVELS, ONCE AN EAGLE, LONESOME DOVE, GRANT'S MEMOIRS, HUCKLEBERRY FINN, THE U.S.A. TRILOGY, BRIDESHEAD REVISITED, BLEAK HOUSE, RABBLE IN ARMS, THE SUN ALSO RISES, THE GREAT GATSBY, THE BLACK ROSE, A STILLNESS AT APPOMATTOX, THE TOBY PETERS NOVELS, FIFTH BUSINESS, RAINTREE COUNTY |