john iliff

About me

Gender Male
Industry Agriculture
Occupation early retired
Location central Illinois, United States
Introduction dad, son, husband, grandpa (or Dzia-dzia, if you will) southpaw. My only known phobia is to circus clowns - y that was long before Stephen King's book 'It". I returned to the active practice of my Catholic faith during Holy Week of 2013.
Interests Catholicism, Anglo-Catholicism, libertarianism, cigars, gardening, Alternate-History genre, Sci-Fi, Franciscan and Benedictine spirituality, Taizé, travel, heirloom seeds, responsible preparation during continuing economic upheaval - prepping.
Favorite Movies Red Beard & Dreams - Akira Kurosawa, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Wild Strawberries - Ingmar Bergman, House of Flying Daggers, M*A*S*H, Gladiator, Mystery Science Theater, The Illusionist, Metropolis, The Haunting (original), a Hitchcock fan.
Favorite Music Eric Clapton, Phillip Glass, Coldplay, Serge Rachmaninov, Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Samuel Barber, Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Plainchant
Favorite Books The Man in the High Castle, - Philip K. Dick, Fahrenheit 451, - Ray Bradbury, People of The Lie, - M. Scott Peck, His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, Animal Farm, – George Orwell, Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman, Life Together & Letters and Papers from Prison - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Collapse & Crossing the Rubicon - Michael Ruppert, When Giants Fall: An Economic Roadmap for the End of the American Era - Michael J. Panzner