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About Me

I'm a history nerd...I don't know why, but it just gets to me. I heart John Locke, George Kennan, and John Adams, but for very different reasons. I'm pretty into Baja Blast Mountain Dew and one day I am going to have it on tap in my house. I think Jamba Juice and Einstein's should merge together and then add on a drive-thru...seriously it doesn't get any more po-mo than bagels, smoothies, and drive-thru's...why has no one caught on to this yet? I love making people laugh. I like peanut butter when i'm eating it, but when I'm not eating it I forget and think I don't like it...same with root beer. Jesus' love has truly changed my life more than I ever thought anything could...I try to show that in everything I do. I have the most amazing family anyone could ever ask for. I've watched all 7 seasons of the West Wing at least 3 times. I am fascinated with communication on all levels and yet I have never taken a com class. I like shoes...especially vans, but these days I'm pretty into Nike SB's. My brother's name is Edgedale. I should get paid commission from Apple because I endorse so many of their products. I love music...I have over 150 playlists in my iTunes. Someday I want to work in Washington DC and live in Denver, but obviously not at the same time. I'm thinking about writing a how-to book called "Everyone wants a website, but no one wants to do the work". I don't fake it til I make it...I just fake it.
I'm pretty damn random.
here are some links to things that really important to me/really freaking awesome, so check them out...
floodthedesert.com
younglife.org
invisiblechildren.com
twloha.com
stopthetraffik.org
relevantmagazine.com

My Interests

If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
-C.S. Lewis

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them - the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
-Jack Kerouac

"Rehearsed indifference tossed aside, our narrow arms spread wide, 'what unseen pen etched eternal things on the hearts of human kind...but never let them in our minds?'"
-Aaron Weiss

i'm pretty into........following Jesus, my family, my friends, my dog, my church, people in general, listening to and playing music, traveling, reading, Apple computers, graphic & web design, writing, rainy days, Washington DC, Star Wars, American history, the Phoenix Suns....and these two gentlemen...

james

jack

I'd like to meet:

These guys...they had sweet hair.

Music:

Radiohead, Bjork, Sigur Ros, The Get Up Kids, The Appleseed Cast, Simon & Garfunkel, Jimmy Eat World, Cursive, Bright Eyes, mewithoutYou, Saves the Day, Modest Mouse, Death Cab for Cutie, Lovedrug, M. Ward, James Taylor, Billy Joel, Sunny Day Real Estate, Copeland, AFI, Alkaline Trio, The Format, Jars of Clay, Coldplay, The Faint, Hot Rod Circuit, Rocky Votolato, Maria Taylor, Jenny Lewis, Anberlin, The New Amsterdams, John Vanderslice, Explosions in the Sky, Thursday, The Jealous Sound, Ratatat, Underoath,The Fire Theft, Damien Rice, Rilo Kiley, Desparecidos, The Rocket Summer, Fall Out Boy, Bayside, The Smoking Popes, New Order, The Album Leaf, Dntel, The Radio Dept., Interpol

Movies:

"What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?"
-from High Fidelity

Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, The Royal Tennenbaums, Fight Club, Garden State, High Fidelity, Donnie Darko, Lost in Translation, The Life Aquatic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Annie Hall, Manhattan Murder Mystery, X-Men, Spiderman, Batman Begins, Dodgeball, 007 Casino Royale, V For Vendetta, Anchorman, Old School, Oceans 11 & 12

Television:

West Wing, Studio 60, the Office, Seinfeld, the OC, Family Guy, Arrested Development

Books:

Anything by:
C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Joseph Ellis, Kurt Vonnegut, Oscar Wilde, Jack Kerouac, Fyodor Dostoevsky, William Shakespeare, Donald Miller, Rob Bell
Favorites include:
Mere Christianity, The Great Divorce, Screwtape Letters, King Henry IV, Lord of the Rings, On the Road, Breakfast of Champions, Slaughter House Five, Hamlet, The Founding Brothers, The Importance of Being Earnest, Crime and Punishment, Notes From Underground, Perks, Blue Like Jazz, Searching For God Knows What, Velvet Elvis

Heroes:

James & Beverly Farrar
Arthur & Ann Kane
Jeff & Susan Farrar
Michael Farrar
Daniel Antrim
Cindi Farmer

My Blog

CSS & Dave Chappelle

I have a bit of a problem. You see, I first started making web pages with HTML in about 9th grade (that was roughly 7 years ago). I've been getting paid to do it for about 3 years now. And all this ti...
Posted by kant slow down on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 02:50:00 PST

Unity08 on the Colbert Report

A couple weeks ago my boss Doug Bailey from the political group I work for called Unity08 got to be a guest on the Colbert Report. The day it aired our site got so many hits our server crashed! The sw...
Posted by kant slow down on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:32:00 PST

the year (in music) so far UPDATED MAY 1

**Updated May 1** 2007 has been a big year so far for music. We are almost to the end of March and there have already been some amazing releases, some disappointing ones, and there many more to come!...
Posted by kant slow down on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 03:28:00 PST

I have become the middleman

In the spring When the world's turning green I only think about the fallThe frets on the board My progression of chordsOh, how I want this to resolveIf you know what is good for you, go out and buy th...
Posted by kant slow down on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:29:00 PST

priceless (the office style)

Funfetti Cake Mix: $5Cox Cable DVR: $8 per monthMichael Scott wearing a women's suit: PRICELESS....
Posted by kant slow down on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:37:00 PST

eyelid glue

i can't sleep for fear of what i'll dream.
Posted by kant slow down on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:00:00 PST

i do not exist.

I do not exist we faithfully insistwhile watching sink the heavy ship of everything we knewIf ever you come near I'll hold up high a mirrorLord, I could never show you anything as beautiful as You-A. ...
Posted by kant slow down on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:57:00 PST

top 5 albums of 2006

[drum roll please]Kate's top five albums of 2006 are (in no particular order):mewithoutYou - Brother, SisterThe Format - Dog ProblemsSleeping At Last - Keep No ScoreBrand New - The Devil And God Are R...
Posted by kant slow down on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:08:00 PST

my actions are impossible to justify

And though I know that my actions are impossible to justifyThey seem adequate to fill up my time And if I could talk to myself like I was someone elseThen maybe I could take your adviceAnd I wouldn't ...
Posted by kant slow down on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 03:36:00 PST

this is when I forget to breathe

I was a kaleidoscope,the snow on my lenses distorting the image of what was only one of youand I didn't know which one to address as all your lips moved[and this is when I forget to breathe and all th...
Posted by kant slow down on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 01:54:00 PST