John

My blogs

Gender	Male
Occupation	Musician
Location	Archdiocese of Hollywood, In Partibus Infidelium, United States
Introduction	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	It should be obvious from the left hand side of the blog itself.
Favorite Movies	Gods and Generals, You Can't Take it With You, Tovarich, It Happened One Night, Rio Grande, Fort Apache, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, True Grit(the real one with John Wayne), The More the Merrier, The Quiet Man
Favorite Music	The Berkeley Scottish Players, 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, Luciano Pavarotti, Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem, Juan Diego Florez
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, Thy Will Be Done: Letters to Persons in the World by St Francis de Sales, Gueranger's Liturgical Year, Schuster's Liber Sacramentorum, Jane Eyre