http://jdeaconsmith.blogspot.com/_____________________the focus of the moment... otherwise: I enjoy being outside, hiking, swimming, camping, desolation, civilization, music, live music, books, movies, writing, people smiling at smiling people, friends, laughter, dark beer, red wine, black coffee, clove cigarettes, my family, the Bible, Bible commentaries, Russian novelists, Koine Greek, Old Testament Hebrew, song lyrics, finding my eschatological hope in everything I see, philosophy, theology, stupidity, faith, hope, love, mercy, freedom.....but the greatest of these is love.
The BossTwo Hunters: the new album from Wolves in the Throne Room...never has there been a more desparate cry for redemption.refused, jr ewing, andrew w.k., the icarus line, kings of leon, modest mouse, the blood brothers, swarming hordes, the funeral pyre, silentist, iron maiden, in flames (older stuff), modern movement, botch, lack, afi(old and new), cobolt, the mars volta, the out_circuit, brahm, climber, idaho, radiohead, smashing pumpkins, minus the bear, hum, interpol, wolf parade, the helio sequence, the thermals, pixies, frank black, elliott smith, the rentals, sunny day real estate, hazelwood motel, drive-by truckers, priestbird, matt pond pa, mineral, silversun pickups, bright eyes, ted leo and the RXs, karate, BRMC, the killers, rage against the machine, rogue wave, the chameleons, the kinks, van morrison, jeff buckley, pete yorn, Tom Waits, bob dylan, adam carroll, john prine, billy joel, david bowie, johnny cash, paul simon, lyle lovett, kristofer aström, david sandström, mattias hellberg, medeski martin and wood, the slip, holopaw, iron and wine, red house painters/sun kil moon.
anything with Peter Sellers (Pink Panther etc.) No Country for Old Men Films by Michael Mann (Last of the Mohicans, Heat, Collateral, Miami Vice) Tombstone, Treasure Island, Fight Club, Children of Men, Day Watch, Night Watch, Pan's Labyrinth, 28 Days Later, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Magnolia, There Will be Blood, Apocalypse Now, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Army of Darkness, The Crow, Van Hellsing, The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Underworld 1 and 2, Films by the Cohen Brothers (Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona, The Hudsucker Proxy), Fletch, Better Off Dead, Christmas Vacation, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Groundhog Day, Harold and Maude.
NFL, NBA, Conan, Kids in the Hall...
The Brothers Karamazov, Notes from Underground, Demons (I'm working on my Russian novels), Foucault, Barth's Church Dogmatics, Ecclesial Reflection, Confessions, Jonah
Black Rebel Motorcycle ClubIsaac BrockFyodor Dostoevsky