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John Janson

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast. To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. (William Congr

About Me

Nature Boy. Animal lover. Music lover. Wary of people. Nonetheless, prone to random acts of whimsy. Enchanted by musicians.

My Interests

Nature. Photography. Music. Movies. Cooking. Writing. Studying human nature and motivations. Cadbury Dairymilk Chocolate.

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to have met: Gerald Durrell, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Carl Sagan, Joseph Campbell, Douglas Adams. I'd Like to Meet: David Attenborough.

Music:

Love it. Soothes my soul.

Movies:

Miller's Crossing, A Heart In Winter, Breakfast At Tiffanys, The Incredibles, North By Northwest, Flesh and Bone, The Princess Bride, Mumford, Still Breathing, Amelie, Harvey, Dogma, Out Of Sight, The Girl in the Café, The Maiden and the Beast, Legend, Made in Heaven, Wings Of Desire, Trust, Auggie Rose, While You Were Sleeping...

Television:

Coupling, Doctor Who, Northern Exposure, The Family Guy, Deadwood, American Dad, Scrubs, Firefly, Nigella Bites, Absolute Power, The Glasshouse (RIP), Spicks & Specks, Blackadder 2, Dead Like Me, Greg The Bunny, Wonderfalls...

Books:

Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury. John Irving. Robertson Davies. Piers Anthony. Carl Sagan. Joseph Campbell. Douglas Adams. Gerald Durrell. Robert A. Heinlein. Anne Rice. R.A. MacAvoy. Arthur Conan Doyle. Harlan Ellison. Stephen King. Dean R. Koontz. Peter Straub. Stephen Donaldson. Thomas Harris.

Heroes:

Elwood P. Dowd... Gromit... Inigo Montoya... Stewie Griffin... Doctor Cox...

My Blog

Survey: 50 things.

My First Survey...1. Do you like blue cheese?It's the work of the devil!2. Have you ever shot up heroin?I don't drink. I don't do drugs. I'm always on duty.3. Do you own a gun?I prefer to rent them.4....
Posted by John Janson on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:02:00 PST

Choices

The bicycle stood upright by the side of the road, in front of a neighbour's house. I had a moment where I wasn't quite sure I was seeing what I was seeing. But after I looked again, an adult's bicycl...
Posted by John Janson on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:02:00 PST

Guilty Pleasures

  I watched "Joe Versus The Volcano" recently. It was on TV and even though I have a reasonably strict policy of not wasting time watching movies on TV which I already own on DVD.   Well, I...
Posted by John Janson on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:09:00 PST

A Very Long Blog About A Very Brief Trip.

It was August 15...:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />   I waited on the front porch for Lisa's car to appear. And when it did, I didn't remember it being so& ...
Posted by John Janson on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:47:00 PST

Awakenings

I dreamt of rectangular yellow shapes, themselves arranged on a dark background. Spaced apart so that thick dark lines crisscrossed between them. I'm guessing that there were a dozen or so of them. An...
Posted by John Janson on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:45:00 PST

Corinne Grant Times Three

Hot on the heels of the previous blog...:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />   My live entertainment patronage tends to lean towards the live music end of the s...
Posted by John Janson on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 06:05:00 PST

Five short days to go.

Sunday, March 25, 2007  3:53pm...   I've been counting the days, since the date was set. The count now stands at 5. Five short days to go. I much preferred it when the count was 5 weeks and 1 d...
Posted by John Janson on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 04:57:00 PST

How To Spend A Sunday In The Mountains&

Wednesday, February 14, 2007  4:02pm.   It had been a while since my last trip to the mountains. But now schedules had finally aligned and the date was set. So at 10:30am on Sunday, I set off...
Posted by John Janson on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:02:00 PST

Chain Letters & Friends Lost

For the 2nd time, I've checked out a MySpace "friend's" email or bulletin only to discover it contained a chain letter of some sort. Unfortunately, I'm just superstitious enough to take this kind of ...
Posted by John Janson on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:12:00 PST

Too Much Absinthe In One Day

Friday, January 19, 2007  10:40pm...   Do you ever have a day where one thing seems to recur?   I'll explain what I'm talking about. Earlier in the day I was in a liquor store stocktaki...
Posted by John Janson on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:08:00 PST