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Andrew

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About Me

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. -Emerson

My Interests

God.. as in Jesus, true love, beauty, truth, strength, hope, imagination, music, adventure, community, perfection, heroism, studying, teaching, Martial Arts, wind, autumn, sunlight, moonlight, crescent moons, sword fighting, good stories, my friends&family, cafes, malls, driving fast and wild, being Italian, hearty and witty people, painting, writing, writing and reading poetry, writing music, drawing, the ocean, the mountains, forests, groves, cats, dogs, fashion, playing piano, playing drums, classy food, coffee, bitter wine, extremely bitter ale, hard alcohol.. if it's classy, the words brilliance, Luna, and silver. Nat Sherman(he is a smoke), Christmas lights, 23rd st. in up-town Portland, drinking at the Bagdad Theater alone on a sunday night, boardwalks, libraries, cathedrals, dancing in the rain, green eyes, you.

I'd like to meet:

Albert Einstein, Plato, T.S. Eliot, Aristotle, Soren Kierkegaard, Ralph W. Emerson, Karl Barth, Jonathon Edwards, John Paton's father, George Washington, Bach, King David, King Solomon, Emily Dickenson, Jet Li, Partrick Stewart.

Music:

A perfect Circle, Anberlin, Avenged Sevenfold, Bach, Blue October, Brian Cheney, Brian McKnight, Celine Dion, Coldplay, Daniel Bedingfield, David Crowder, Death Cab For Cutie, Dream Theater, Ella Fitzgerald, Eminem, Eoghan Heaslip, Eva Cassidy, Everlast, Frank Sinatra, Goo Goo Dolls, Hillsong, HIM, Imogen Heap, Jeremy Camp, John Tesh, Josh Groban, Lauryn Hill, Linkin Park, Monoral, Nickel Creek, Nobou Uematsu, Norah Jones, Ottmar Libert, Paris Combo, Planet X, Rilo Kiley, Sarah McLachlan, Shane & Shane, Shiney Toy Guns, Sister Hazel, Tchiakovsky, The Cranberries, The Killers, the trance genre, Yasunori Designs

Movies:

Casshern, Fearless, Ocean's 11,12&13, The Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Batman Begins, Vanilla Sky, Blue Velvet, Fight Club, Adaptation, Magnolia, Donny Darko, Requiem for a Dream, Pride and Prejudice, The Mask of Zoro, The Count of Monte' Cristo, A Beautiful Mind, The Matrix, The Borne movies, Phantom of the Opera.

Television:

is a cube of destruction which is pirating the souls of America.However, I enjoy anime such as Kenshin, One Piece, Cowboy Beebop, Bleach, Full Metal Alchemist, and Inuyasha. I also like The Office and Star Trek.

Books:

"The Republic" Plato, "The Complete Poems and Plays" T.S. Eliot, "A Grief Observed" C.S. Lewis, "The Four Loves" C.S. Lewis, "Works of Love" Soren Kierkegaard, "Either/Or" Soren Kierkegaard, "The Peace Maker" Ken Sandy, "A Book of Love Poetry" Jon Stallworthy, The Expository Commentary of John Calvin, The Sword of Truth Series: Terry Goodkind, The Belgaraid and Malloreon Series: David Eddings, The Adept series: Piers Anthony, The Bible, "The Valley of Vision", The Collected Poetry of Thomas Moore "Leadership and Self-Deception" Arbringer Institute, "Hinds' Feet on High Places" Hannah Hurnard, "The Holy City" John Bunyan, "BOLD LOVE" Dan Allender & Tremper Longman III, "The Torrents of Spring" Ernest Hemingway, "A Farewell to Arms" Ernest Hemingway, "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" Ernest Hemingway, "The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway", "The Count of Monte Cristo" Alexandre Dumas, "A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia" Thomas Harriot, "Of Plymouth Plantation" William Bradford, "A Model of Christian Charity" John Winthrop, "The Journal of John Winthrop" John Winthrop, The Collected Poetry of Anne Bradstreet, "To My Dear Children" Anne Bradstreet, "The Wonders of the Invisible World" Cotton Mather, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Jonathan Edwards, "Religious Affections" Jonathan Edwards, "Images or Shadows of Divine Things" Jonathan Edwards, "Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America" Benjamin Franklin, "The Autobiography" Benjamin Franklin, "Common Sense" Thomas Paine, "The Age of Reason" Thomas Paine, The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson from The Declaration of Independence, "Rip Van Winkle" Washington Irving, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" Washington Irving, "Nature" Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance" Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Experience" Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Poet" Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Fate" Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Young Goodman Brown" Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Ministers Black Veil" Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Scarlet Letter" Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Collected Poetry of Edgar Allen Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher" Edgar Allen Poe, "The Purloined Letter" Edgar Allen Poe, "Address Delivered to the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg" Abraham Lincoln, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" Harriot Jacobs, "Resistance to Civil Government" Henry Thoreau, "Walden" Henry Thoreau, The Collected Poetry of Walt Whitman, "Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson" Walt Whitman, "Bartleby, the Scrivener" Herman Melville, The Collected Poetry of Emily Dickinson, "The Tempest" William Shakespeare, Oxford American Dictionaries, "Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview", "The Epistle to the Romans" Karl Barth, "The Confessions of Saint Augustine" Saint Augustine, "The Search for Christian America", "Metaphysics" Aristotle

Heroes:

The Christian God, King David, Dr. Gary Friesen, T.S. Eliot, J.R. Tolkien, Karl Barth, Dr. Doug Schaak, The Bagby Family, Nicholas & Katie, My Parents, Jet Li, Cloud Strife, Richard, obviously: Captain Picard, and people who become their ideal.