James McLauchlan Johnston

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Internet
Occupation Writer, editor, whitewater rafting guide
Location Bridge of Allan, United Kingdom
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Introduction Here I am, 4 years old, got my bag and I'm off ... don't look back. Writer. Music aficionado. Movie mad. River runner. Football fanatic. Lover of music that makes you sad. Reader of literature set in the past and somewhere else. Battler against resistance.
Interests Listening to music, watching movies, playing football, reading historical fiction, writing fiction, going to concerts, whitewater rafting, travelling, playing the guitar, hiking, sitting in a bar, single malt whisky, remote cabins, lonely cabins, clever comedy, stand-up comedians, old friends, leaving parties, watching football in a bar, watching football live, sudoko, heart-wrenching music, daydreams, American south, new music, old music, country and blues
Favorite Movies Cinema Paradiso, Highlander, The Graduate, Anchorman, Bad Santa, Elf, Down By Law, 21 Grams, Deadwood, The Sopranos, Red Dwarf, Reno 911, Gregory's Girl, Trainspotting, Cinema Paradiso, Dead Man, Down By Law, Lolita, The Shining, Blade Runner, The Matrix, Human Traffic, The Last Waltz, Kitchen Stories
Favorite Music Grant Lee Phillips, My Morning Jacket, Mos Def, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Beatles, Black Star, Radiohead, Johnny Cash, Billie Holiday, M. Ward, Talib Kweli, Robert Johnson
Favorite Books William Gay, Nabakov, David Anthony Durham, Cormac McCarthy, How I hate to see that evening sun go down, Catch-22, The Long Home, Lolita, The Wasp Factory, Hell at the Breech, No Country for Old Men, Lord of the Rings, The Wizard of Earthsea, The Justified Sinner, White Noise, Treasure Island, Immortality, In The Fall

If you could peer far enough into the night sky, you'd see a star in any direction you looked. When would you sleep?

When I fell back to earth...