About Me

  • About Me: I breathe deep, I drive fast, I ride hard, and I love life. I'm a graphic design and photographer. I also fly kites, paint, listen to screamy music, climb trees, read Thoreau way too often, do most of my own car work, kayak, backpack, ride my bike, write poetry & short stories, love getting tattoos and try my darnedest to eat healthy. Oh, and there's this boy...

Food

  • Favorite Desserts: Bananas Foster, Pumkin Pie, and anything with hot fudge.
  • Favorite Drinks: Fruit Juice, Water, Wine.
  • Favorite Junk Foods: Cheetos, Poptarts,
  • Best meal ever: Turkey, Mashed Potatoes, Stuffing; the whole nine-yards. Or eggs over-easy with toast, skillet potatoes and bacon.
  • My Original Recipes: Psht.
  • Favorite Restaurants: The Cheescake Factory, Mongolian BBQ, Steak 'n Shake.
  • Foods I hate: Onions, Tomatoes, Brussel Sprouts, Mushrooms, Fish (any and all), Lasagna, Chilli, and Pork.

Music

  • Favorite Artists: The Early November, Explosions in the Sky, Still Remains, Killswitch Engage, Damien Rice, Emery, Denison Whitmer, Sigur Ros, Anathallo, Sun Kil Moon, mewithoutyou, Dick Dale, Between the Buried and Me, Snow Patrol, The Sleeping, The Postal Service, The Flaming Lips, Anberlin, Angels & Airwaves, Saosin, Thrice, Underoath
  • Favorite Genre: Metal, Electronica/Dance, Acoustic, Folk, Funk, Experimental, Emo, Screamo, Indie, Post Hardcore, Surf Rock, World, Jazz, Ambient.
  • Guilty Pleasure: Gwen Stefani's "I Ain't No Holler Back Girl" and anything by the Black-Eyed Peas.

More About Me

  • Nicknames: Abs, Abbers, Shorty, Putz, My Abi
  • Nationality: Little o' this, little o' that.
  • Religion: ;)
  • Expertise: Procrastination
  • Occupation: Graphic Artist
  • Industry: Art/Ministry
  • Website: http://www.flickr.com/abijohnston

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: Snatch, Waking Life, The Motorcycle Diaries, Garden State, Fight Club, Ocean's 11, Peter Pan, The Village, Finding Neverland, Girl Interupted, The Labyrinth, Mr. &, Mrs. Smith, Braveheart, Closer, Dead Poet's Society, Lord of the Ring's Series, The Saint, Mona Lisa Smile, G.I. Jane
  • Favorite Actors: Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Johnny Depp, Val Kilmer....
  • Favorite Directors: M. Night Shyamalan, Peter Jackson, Quentin Tarantino
  • Favorite Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama, Comedy, Thirller
  • Movie Quotes I say all the time: "Waiting, sweetheart, just waiting."

Travel

  • Places to see before I die: New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, Ecuador, Italy, Jerusalem, Greek Isles, South Africa, Rwanda, Kyoto, Cairo, London.
  • Dream Vacation: Backpacking in N.Z.

Books

  • Favorite Books: The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Sabriel, Stargirl, Juniper, Wild At Heart, The Sacred Romance, Peter Pan, Blue Like Jazz, Cry:The Beloved Country, Velvet Elvis, Walden Pond, To Own a Dragon
  • Favorite Authors: Donald Miller, Robin Hobb, Garth Nix, Bradley Hathaway, Piers Anthony, Monica Furlong, Jerry Spinelli, Brian Jacques, J. K. Rowling, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, John Elderedge, J. M. Barrie, Thoreau.
  • Favorite Genres: Fantasy, Adventure, Poetry,
  • Favorite Characters: Sabriel, Green, Fitz, Aslan, Aragorn, Dumbledoor