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Chris

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About Me

Psalm 101 NLT A psalm of David. 1 I will sing of your love and justice, Lord. I will praise you with songs. 2 I will be careful to live a blameless life— when will you come to help me? I will lead a life of integrity in my own home. 3 I will refuse to look at anything vile and vulgar. I hate all who deal crookedly; I will have nothing to do with them. 4 I will reject perverse ideas and stay away from every evil. 5 I will not tolerate people who slander their neighbors. I will not endure conceit and pride.6 I will search for faithful people to be my companions. Only those who are above reproach will be allowed to serve me. 7 I will not allow deceivers to serve in my house, and liars will not stay in my presence.

Chris with Barry and Johnny

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My Interests

Jesus.

I'd like to meet:

Donald Miller, Mark Driscoll, and Brennan Manning.

Music:

I play music with Noah Gundersen. I like Denison Witmer, Sufjan Stevens, Ben Folds, Damien Rice, Damien Jurado, Low, Sigur Ros, Pedro the Lion, Jimmy Eat World, Foo Fighters, U2, Coldplay, Amos Lee, Switchfoot (especially "Legend of Chin"), Derek Webb, Brad Paisley, The Cure, Snow Patrol, Sunny Day Real Estate, Andrew Osenga, Mute Math, and Rosie Thomas.

Movies:

Magnolia, A beautiful mind, Crash, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind, A River Runs Through it, Hotel Rwanda, The Passion, Momento, Tommy Boy, Dumb and Dumber, 50 First Dates, Happy Gilmore, Lord of the Rings, Braveheart, Spanglish, Dead Poets Society, Good Will Hunting, Rounders, Napoleon Dynamite, Blow, Fight Club, As Good as it Gets, Seven, Shawshank Redemption, You Can't Take it With You, Resevoir Dogs, Boondock Saints, The Natural, Goonies, Walk the Line, Patch Adams, and Capote.

Television:

THE Office (the best show of all time), Scrubs, Ultimate Fighting Championship, Simpsons, Colbert Report, Daily Show.

Books:

Authors- Hemmingway, Lewis, O'Connor, G.K. Chesterton, Brennan Manning, Donald Miller, Norman MacLean, John Piper, Mark Driscoll, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Erwin McManus.

Heroes:

Mr. Clean...he's bald and stacked...I'm halfway there! Oh, and Brian Regan.

My Blog

Good fishing tips are hard to come by

I like to catch fish. I like the way you can feel fish move when they are on the end of your line; how one swish of a big tail can send such a shock wave down your line and rod that it can set your en...
Posted by Chris on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:31:00 PST

Our hope, our strong deliverer

I have this thing with songs and settings and I'm sure you do too. You hear a song and it just takes you back to a moment. For me, if I hear any song off Jack Johnson's "On and On" album, I think of a...
Posted by Chris on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:36:00 PST

What love is this?

This morning I had the rare privledge of penning an entire song. This is a rare privledge because typically I'll have a verse and a chorus or a hook but every once in a while the whole thing comes to ...
Posted by Chris on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:56:00 PST

4:30 am, eyes open

I don’t spring break like I used to. Spring breaks in college were vastly different than they are now. No, my college spring breaks were not some MTV hedonistic tequilafest. I’m talking ma...
Posted by Chris on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:29:00 PST

My hesitancv with politics

I struggle with politics. I really struggle with how my faith should inform my political decisions. I believe that my faith in Jesus Christ as Savior should  inform my political decisions but I o...
Posted by Chris on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:50:00 PST

26 playing scrabble online

I turn 26 today. I'm spending the morning sitting at the computer drinking a Vanilla Latte that Thanel brought home from his shift at the Green Mermaid. He's in the family room on his laptop and I am ...
Posted by Chris on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:23:00 PST

Plans

"We should not ask kids, 'What are your plans?' Instead, we should tell them, 'Plan to be surprised." As 2007 draws to a close and I find myself with some time to reflect on another year gone, this q...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:46:00 PST

Me...man....I need a steak.

Nathanael and I recovered some of our long lost youth tonight as we lost interest in the NCAA National title game. Visions of sitting in front of the TV in our tidy whities growling prepubescent growl...
Posted by Chris on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:32:00 PST

Something to write about

I've been lacking inspiration to write lately. I'm sure it's partially due to the fact that i've been doped up quite a bit the last couple months. Instead of writing psychodelic songs, I've been mopin...
Posted by Chris on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:19:00 PST

Tag shmag

I had been ignoring several blogs that had something to do with "Tag" because I refuse to be a part of anything that reminds me of that putrid body spray. But curiousity finally led me to read one and...
Posted by Chris on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:12:00 PST