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 |