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About Me

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My Interests

Jesus, mountain biking, road biking, world travel, alt-country, reading

I'd like to meet:

You, if you want to make your life count.

Music:

Johnny Cash, Drive By Truckers, Sleeping at Last, Sarah Kelly, Switchfoot, Mars Ill, Story Side:B, The Wreckers, Counting Crows, Underoath. Top Songwriters: Patterson Hood+Jason Isbell (DBT), Bono (U2), the Man in Black, Ryan O'Neal (SLA), Leeland Mooring (Leeland), Bo & Bear Rhinehart (NeedtoBreathe), Sarah Kelly, Mat Kearney, Adam Duritz (Counting Crows)

Movies:

Every movie I love has one key theme that stands out. Walk the Line (Calling), Lords of Dogtown (Carefree), Tombstone (Brotherhood), Almost Famous (the journey is what matters) Remember the Titans (Unity), Field of Dreams (Dreams), Mean Girls (bitterness chips away at you) Kingdom of Heaven (Integrity), The Outsiders (Turbulence), Can't Hardly Wait (Change), Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (ok, I'm a wuss).

Television:

Friday Night Lights. "Clear eyes. Full Hearts. Can't lose!"

Books:

The Bible, The Chronicals of Narnia, Screwtape Letters, The Outsiders, Miles to Cross, Lord of the Rings, The Four Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge

Heroes:

Jesus. Johnny Cash. My Mom. Basketball Coach John Wooden. My Great Uncle Gerald. Lance Armstrong, Michael Skofield (Prison Break again...)

My Blog

34 statements (or maybe snapshots of my life).

1. While I normally keep my politics off of the radio/blog&I think it’s time that we, as a nation&2. &start doing some serious investigating into the possibility that Hillary Clinton is a vampir...
Posted by Tower from Shine.FM on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:10:00 PST

Made Avail bio.

Hey friends,I just wrote the bio for Made Avail’s myspace. I actually used to write for two magazines (Relevant+one more). I turned down the paid gig (of the other mag), so I would have time t...
Posted by Tower from Shine.FM on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:52:00 PST

P.O.D.-The Comeback

Hey friends, This blog originally appeared on Relevant Magazine’s site (http://relevantmagazine.com/releblog/music/pod-the-comeback /)After guitarist Marcos Curiel left P.O.D. in 2003, the band ...
Posted by Tower from Shine.FM on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:30:00 PST

controversy from Friday’s show.

Hey friends, I really wresteled with this one. If you were listening to the 4 @ 4 on Friday, then you no doubt heard my reasoning to support Dwayne "Dog" Chapman (from the TV show Dog the Bount...
Posted by Tower from Shine.FM on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:43:00 PST

Success?!?!

Village Inn. It's 1:30am in this rather dingy establishment that serves mediocre pie and calorie-filled pancakes 'round the clock, and Joe and I are bouncing ideas off of each other about careers, mon...
Posted by Tower from Shine.FM on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:51:00 PST

Drifting/112/These Days

DRIFTING It was roughly 9:30 on a Saturday morning when my knee went out. I was playing pickup soccer with the guys from my old high school team. Life looked good, certain, predictable. I had a full...
Posted by Tower from Shine.FM on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:54:00 PST

"The Future of Music" for Relevant Magazine

Check it out...(this is a five part series...yeah, it's big). http://relevantmagazine.com/releblog/music/the-future-of-mus ic-par-1-of-5/ http://relevantmagazine.com/releblog/music/the-future-of-mus ic-...
Posted by Tower from Shine.FM on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:22:00 PST

Why media?

I spend a lot of Friday nights like this one. The rest of the weekend, I can be found hanging out with other people. But Friday nights, these are for just me. I'll often go for a walk, alone save an...
Posted by Tower from Shine.FM on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:59:00 PST

My life by the numbers...

51-Pounds I've dropped in the last 11 months (from 265lbs to 214lbs) 4-Wheels that get power in my new all-wheel-drive Subaru Outback. 4 is also the number of bikes that the Subaru can hold...
Posted by Tower from Shine.FM on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:38:00 PST

Influences

Hey friends, I haven't posted anything in awhile...and I wanted to share something less, um, tragic than my last blog. Thought you might enjoy this... tower..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:sche...
Posted by Tower from Shine.FM on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:18:00 PST