John
- Gender: Male
- Occupation: Musician
- Location: Archdiocese of Hollywood : In Partibus Infidelium : United States
About Me
Catholic of Scottish & Irish descent. Former paper boy, dishwasher, mail boy, file clerk, procedures analyst, and corporate attorney. Current piper, secular Carmelite, Scottish country dancer, scribbler and appallingly bad gardener.
Interests
Favorite Movies
- You Can't Take it With You
- Tovarich
- It Happened One Night
- Rio Grande
- Fort Apache
- She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
- True Grit
- The More the Merrier
- The Quiet Man
Favorite Music
- Old piping recordings (60s and earlier)
- William Barrie's piobaireachd
- The Tallis Scholars
- old jazz (40s and earlier)
- Stan Hamilton
- Calum MacKinnon
- Alasdair Fraser
- Richard Tauber
- Dame Joan Sutherland
- Beverly Sills
- Pavarotti
- Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
Favorite Books
- In Our Convent Days
- A Matter of Honour
- The Warden
- Barchester Towers
- most of the rest of Trollope
- Works of Patrick O'Brian
- of Bruce Marshall
- of Montague Summers
- of Flannery O'Connor
- of Byron Farwell
- of Rudyard Kipling
- of Jerry Pournelle
- of GK Chesterton
- of Hilaire Belloc
- Story of a Soul
- God is a Feast
- Autobiography of S Teresa of Avila
- Gueranger's Liturgical Year
- Schuster's Liber Sacramentorum
- Jane Eyre
John's Blogs
| Blog Name | Team Members | |
|---|---|---|
| The Inn at the End of the World |
