Jon

About me

Gender Male
Occupation Boating
Location San Francisco bay area (Silicon Valley), United States
Introduction Former big city dweller now living happily in the suburbs with my wife,daughter and lots of parking.
Interests Old movies, Roots country music, Traditional Jazz, Delta Blues, 60s R&B, early SKA, old Rock N'Roll, vintage cars from the 20s-40s, and traditional mens clothing, dogs and living the American Dream
Favorite Movies Stagecoach, The Searchers, Red River, Rio Grande, Fort Apache, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Rio Bravo, The Westerner, Sgt.York, Mr.Smith Goes To Washington, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, The Public Enemy, White Heat, Duck Soup, King Kong (1933), Blade Runner, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Gunga Din, The Lost Patrol, Footlight Parade, Island of Lost Souls, The Magnificent Seven, Conan the Barbarian, Dirty Harry, Death Wish, The Dirty Dozen, Patton, The Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Once Upon A Time in the West, A Fistful of Dollars, The Wild Bunch, The Omega Man, Saboteur, Vertigo, Psycho, The Great Escape
Favorite Music Louis Armstrong and his hot Fives and Hot Sevens, Fats Waller, Blind Willie McTell, King Benny Nawahie, Roy Smeck, Frank Stokes, Blind Lemon Jefferson, 1930s small hotel bands, jug bands, hawaiian slack key guitar and other Americana of the 20s-30s.Sam and Dave, Otis Redding, The Kinks, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darrin, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Charlie Parker, Dave Brubeck, Wayne Shorter, Charles Mingus, Ella Fitzgerald
Favorite Books most anything by William F.Buckley.Non fiction and history.The writings of Irving Krystol.Ernest Hemingway's short stories.George Orwell's essays. P.J. O'Roarke