Nashville
Humboldt
Coffee
Religion
Paste Magazine
Divided by 13 Amplification
ZVex Pedals
Keeley Electronics
Family
I'd like to meet:
Bono, Jim Wallis, Rob Bell, Bob Dylan, Edge, Brian McLaren, Daniel Lanois, Jon Stewart, Steve Stockman, Wayne Coyne, Paul McCartney, Howard Schultz, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Conan Obrien, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Wes Anderson, Cameron Crowe, Milcho Manchevski.
Music:
Tried and Tested Top Ten:
Radiohead, U2, Wilco, Sigur Ros, Jeff Buckley, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Flaming Lips, and Over the Rhine.
Other current major musical loves:
MuteMath, John Mayer, Ryan Adams, Derek Webb, Anthony Skinner, Innocence Mission, Bruce Springsteen, Sufjan Stevens, Daniel Lanois, Coldplay, Oasis, Foo Fighters, Muse, Jimi Hendrix, Beck, Patty Griffin, The Shins.
Other Loves:
Feist, delirious, Mew, VOL, Ben Harper, Tom Waits, Pedro The Lion, Smashing Pumpkins, Dave Matthews Band, David Crowder Band, Stevie Wonder, Nick Drake, Future of Forestry, Bill Withers, John Coltrane, the Cure, Emmylou Harris, My Morning Jacket, Neko Case, the Police, Sting, Bjork, Tom Petty, Miles Davis, Mars Volta, Damien Rice, Jars of Clay, Switchfoot, Keith Urban, Brooke Fraser, Erin McCarley, Erica Badu, Marvin Gaye, Sara Groves, Josh Rouse, Allison Krauss, Starflyer 59, Peter Gabriel, Paul McCartney, the Who, the Beach Boys, Motown music, Johnny Cash, and Pink Floyd.
Movies:
Lost In Translation, Before the Rain, Barton Fink, Winter Light, American Beauty, Million Dollar Hotel, American History X. Braveheart, Gladiator, As Good As It Gets, Forrest Gump, Almost Famous, Elizabethtown, Garden State, Shawshank Redemption, Chocolat, Ushpizin. Lord of the Rings, Fight Club, Dark City, The Matrix, Narnia, Big Fish, Kill Bill, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (and the original). Thank You for Smoking, Young Frankenstein, Spinal Tap, High Fidelity, Saved!, I Heart Huckabees, Wes Anderson Films, Christopher Guest Films, Monty Python, Napolean Dynamite, So I Married an Axe Murderer.
Television:
Austin City Limits, Colbert Report, Conan O'Brian, 24, Seinfeld, Lost, Scrubs, Arrested Development, Heroes, the Office, the West Wing, and Friends (seen 'em all).
Books:
Douglas Adams, Brian McClaren, Jim Wallis, Chuck Palahniuk, Karen Armstrong, Pete Greig, John Eldridge, Steve Stockman, Rob Bell, and literally anything by CS Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkein, Ravi Zacharias, Mark Twain, and Charles Dickens. I should mention, I have been slowly reading Herman Melville's Moby Dick and Dante's Inferno very slowly, but I plan to finish them in my lifetime along with the Odyssey.
Heroes:
Ali Roberts, my parents, CS Lewis, Bono, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King Jr.
