Things I love and have defined me over the years:
God, my Lord and Savior Jesus, the rest are things I've been blessed with or like and enjoy: drums, music, theatre/stage, acting, snowboarding!, horseback riding, love the Medieval era, chainmail everything, Natural Resistance Training, Natalie Portman, learning, adventure and traveling, ancient cultures/history, ancient weaponary, swordplay/fencing, Society for Creative Anachronism, studying the Bible!, pasta, stars and space, Norway, Ireland, Israel (my ancestrial belonging), I am fascinated with Jerusalem. I love chocolate, RPG and strategy games, I love love love my little nephews even when spending a week straight with them drives me mad, and.....the list goes on but gets incredibly stranger and stranger from here with things like wheelbarrows and the cotton gin, and fascination of seeing old time figures like Davy Crocket or Samuel Clemens sniffing a variety of different farm animals.
Love Val and give him things!
A few of the things that I am fascinated with:
Castles
Gardens by Castles
Castles in the fog
Castles in the snow
And Knights jousting by Castles
This is what it's all about!
Jimmy Eat World (love Clarity), The Juliana Theory, Billy Idol, Pearl Jam, U2, Coldplay, Modest Mouse, The Killers, The White Stripes, Green Day, Zepplin, Goo Goo Dolls, The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, 3 Doors Down, Rascal Flatts, Nickleback, Audioslave, Credence Clear Water Revival, Jack Johnson, Train, Delerious?, Traditional Folk and Irish music, Enya, Enigma, Those epic and etherial songs that has a high girl voice or monks singing rock my world, DJ Irene, ATB, Paul Oakenfold, Oh and The Oakenfold remix of Delerium Featuring Sarah McLachlin's Silence is like the coolest song EVER!
Braveheart, Kingdom of Heaven, The 13th Warrior, The Never Ending Story, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Crow, The Princess Bride, Edward Scissorhands, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Garden State, Cabel Guy, Dumb and Dumber, Tombstone, Cold Mountain, Maverick, Newsies, Mary Poppins (it's more like this movie has haunted me over time), Trainspotting, The Big Labowski, Benny and Joon, Fight Club, Willow, Robin Hood Prince of Theives, All the Harry Potter Movies, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Star Wars (all of them, with the exception of the first one, that one was pretty lame), The Wizard of Oz, Fieval Goes West, Band of Brothers, and if you want a really cool documentary watch the Exodus Revealed.
Bring back Chivalry!
The Bible, Sagan's "the Deamon Hunted World", The Lord of the Rings", Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales", Lord of the Flies, Shakespear's complete works, Alice in Wonderland, A Clockwork Orange (European edition cause it has the last chapter that gives Alex some sort of redemption), and I just finished reading "A Match Made in Heaven" by Zev Chafets about the relationship between Christian Evangelicals and American Jews...check it out. And my newest book, "The Spirit of the Rainforest" about the Yanomamo Indian tribe and how God can transcend culture/traditions and the Truth about salvation through his Son is truth for all. Awesome book.
My Dad
Salute to our Chaplains working for God and Country. Love ya Dad.