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jared

I'll tell you how.

About Me

viene los vientos. cientos cientos

"The man who fears God will avoid all extremes." Ecc. 7:16b

i have AT&T.

The day of the oral ESL exam:
Teacher: Are you nervous?
Student: No, I am not. I am single.
Teacher: Is this your pencil?
Student: Yes, I am a pencil.
Teacher: What are you wearing?
Student: I am fat.

yes, i do blog here. click.

My Interests

climbing, reading, wine, some tattoos not all tattoos, swimming, a variety of music, travel, travel photography, the ocean, mechanical things (biomechanical things), missions, people (i like you)...and there's some others. i love aggressive driving. my favorite games are balderdash and chess.i love french pressed coffee. and i love espresso. and i love more things too. e.g. "Modern Marvels"...The Discovery Channel

I'd like to meet:

a smoking hot babe who loves Jesus.

Music:

jeff buckley sketches, for my sweetheart the drunk, song 2 EVERYBODY HERE WANTS YOU. augustana, zero seven, four tet, ryan adams, death cab, elliott, south, kasabian, jeff buckley, acceptance, sigur ros, ben harper, over the rhine, beth orton, sufjan stevens, pete yorn, aaron sprinkle, the cure, portishead, copeland, mars volta, fsf, coldplay, radiohead, idlewild, 238, muse, U2, 3eb, blind boys of alabama, the verve, denison witmer, pedro, brandtson, lovedrug, asher-lev, damien rice, teitur, umbrellas, fridge, thievery corporation, beck, smashing pumpkins, bjork, creeper lagoon, imogen heap, the fire theft, johnathan rice, jimmy eat world, michael buble, robi draco rosa, weezer, anadivine, the album leaf, peter mulvey, last days of april, sleeping at last, ours, gatsby's american dream, the receiving end of sirens, aqualung, the frames...and some others VEDA(VEDERA), shaded red, as tall as lions, paper route, 9 lazy 9, david gray, buena vista social club, up bustle and out

Movies:

primal fear, bandits, shadowlands, office space, dumb and dumber, finding neverland, forest gump, seabiscuit, napolean dynamite, far and away, a beautiful mind, princess bride, lock stock and two smoking barrels, good will hunting, eternal sunshine, the usual suspects, o brother where art thou, moulin rouge, conspiracy theory, life is beautiful, babe (i always think at Christmas), Luther, munich, the motorcycle diaries, tim burton's corpse bride, passion of the Christ, all the kings men, the prestige, bucket list, V for Vendetta, blood diamond, the bourne ultimatum

Television:

seinfeld, the simpsons, national news. ...i end up watching very little.

Books:

hmm...there's a lot. there are_a_lot... the silmarillion, now the great gatsby, next? after that...there will be more. no.3 here for you to be aware of: TILL WE HAVE FACES (clive staples lewis). i think reading will make you live longer. no.4 the notebooks of malte laurids brigge (Rilke), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (jonathan safran foer), The Brothers Karamoz (Dostoevsky), the man who was thursday (g.k. chesterton), the alchemist, the cost of discipleship (bonhoeffer), the picture of dorian gray, the universe next door (Sire), The Perfect Storm, the problem of pain, the question of God, Zen and the Birds of Appetite (Merton), Crime and Punishment, Jorge Luis Borges, The Knowledge of the Holy (Tozer), The Screwtape Letters

Heroes:

humble people

My Blog

the moment

what's better about writing? if that is, you're a writer. [why write?] is it possible to ask bad questions, questions that complicate good, generous simplicity? it seems to me that there are moments w...
Posted by jared on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:08:00 PST

On marriage

Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togeder tooday. Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam...How simple is getting married? For those who think morals pertain...I’m wondering and n...
Posted by jared on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:00:00 PST

experimenting with trust.

If you will recall my "social experiment". I think to an extent it flopped, but probably because of poor design. ...there are better ways to discover why people believe/trust (and therefore do) certai...
Posted by jared on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:56:00 PST

Dancing the Platonica

The blogspot blog: "Dear..." "Damn it woman"If it seems I’m communicating with you, do you mind paying attention and being polite? It’s only dialogue/dancing the platonica.Get o...
Posted by jared on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:10:00 PST

verse

i am thinking about making lists of things i am in love with. e.g. grapefruit, conched dark chocolate, guatemalan coffee, sweet potatoes baked in coconut oil etc. etc. or words i learned in the last b...
Posted by jared on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:14:00 PST

photographia de sur america

i uploaded some more photos of traveling in Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, and Peru for those interested in seeing them. the messy bedroomit's the album with the messy bedroom photo. ...
Posted by jared on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:11:00 PST

Clive Staples. page 38, 39 of my book

Now my third point. When I chose to get to my real subject in this roundabout way, I was not trying to play any kind of trick on you. I had a different reason. My reason was that Christianity simply d...
Posted by jared on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:10:00 PST

transcendentgivedness

I know why i haven't written my book yet. It's because I have a lazy writer's mind. I do not have a lazy mind. It's also because I'm so critical of what i write, but who isn't. i'll tell you, the peop...
Posted by jared on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:40:00 PST

commitment. between us.

commitment. "In a way...if you have an idea of what you can be ok with and then sense the joy of...sacrificing... that's the magic and steadfastness of commitment. It's better than you and you're a pa...
Posted by jared on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:25:00 PST

WTDA sleeping in.

"This article is not about sloths. It's about being idle or a sloth. Sometimes it's fine to pretend you're sloth. And sometimes it's ok to do nothing. But this article is about habits. It's a bad habi...
Posted by jared on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:18:00 PST