Writing, reading, talking, listening, performing (singing, acting, stand-up comedy), movies, music, media, books. Enjoy forming friendships and creating community. I like fishing, but haven't been since I moved to Austin. I like walks, but rarely get to take them. I like smoking, but understand why I shouldn't. I like eating and drinking, but think neither should be done in excess. I like ideas, even those that I don't agree with. I like the black and the white and the grey residue it often leaves. I love people, and I love the God who created them.
Someone who'll give me a framed photo of themselves and insist that I hang it on my living room wall.
This week I'm listening to: 69 Love Songs by Magnetic Fields, Victory For The Cosmic Muse by The Divine Comedy, Devils and Dust by Bruce Springsteen, Tracy Chapman by Tracy Chapman, and 1999 by Prince.
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M*A*S*H, The West Wing, The Daily Show, Seinfeld, The Office (UK), All In The Family, Newhart, The Simpsons, Freaks and Geeks, Moonlighting
The Bible, The Cost of Discipleship, Life Together, The Great Divorce, Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, East of Eden, Invisible Man, Wiseblood, Franny and Zooey, The Catcher In The Rye, The Moviegoer, A Confederacy of Dunces, High Fidelity, The Hitchhiker's Guide series, Orthodoxy, The Man Who Was Thursday, A Tale of Two Cities, Blue Like Jazz, The Politics of Jesus, Searching For God Knows What, Younger Evangelicals, The Gospel According To America, The Brothers Karamazov, The Brothers K, The Perks of Being A Wallflower, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love In the Time of Cholera, To Kill A Mockingbird, Actual Air, Blindness, Waterland, The Grapes of Wrath, The Sun Also Rises, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, Everyday Apocalypse, Egypt Egypt, Stop Time, Cash, The Autobiography of Malcom X, Gilead, Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, Killing Yourself To Live, Housekeeping, No More Prisons, Bomb the Suburbs, Irresistable Revolution, No Man Is An Island, The Long Loneliness, Simply Christian, Velvet Elvis, The Road, Chuck Klosterman IV, What Is The What, Silence, Love In The Ruins, American Pastoral, In The Beauty of the Lilies, Snow, A Prayer For Owen Meany, The Heart of the Matter, The End of the Affair, The Power and The Glory, Ragamuffin Gospel, Traveling Mercies, The Collected Poems of Wendell Berry, Disgrace, Confessions, Mr. Ives' Christmas
Jesus and those who follow him...the original 11, Mary, Martha, Mary, Paul, Barnabas, Timothy, Stephen, the heroes of faith from Hebrews 11 (including Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Joshua and more), Rich Mullins, C.S. Lewis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, G.K. Chesterton, Blaise Pascal, John Howard Yoder, N.T. Wright, Richard Foster, Thomas a Kempis, Theresa of Avila, Robert Webber, Lesslie Newbigen, Stanley Hauerwas, William Willimon, Jim Wallis, Bono, Martin Luther, Martin Luther King, John Paul II, Soren Kierkegaard, Donald Miller, Henri Nouwen, Mother Theresa, Marva Dawn, Luke Timothy Johnson, Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Karl Barth, and hordes of others that I have stood on the shoulders of and, in spite of their flaws, seen Jesus in.