Iowa Hawkeyes, creative writing (poetry), Iowa City, Young Life, screwing up fool-proof plans, Chicago Cubs, Castaway, 2004 Toyota Camrys, the Chicago Marathon, ESPN (though I don't have cable), not spelling, books aplenty, Seagull guitars, caffeine (includes diet coke and coffees of all kinds), Saucony Jazz, other shoes, downhill skiing, the Coors Brewery tour, Jesus, not video games, Xanga.com/mattbrowning, the back button on my browser, swedish fish (only the red ones), and girls who: snowboard, drink coffee, like beer more than wine, read more than they watch TV, watch ESPN, will talk about the movie with you while you are watching it, like baseball for its subtleties, will dance with you, love Seinfeld and know when I am quoting it, have a baseball mitt and will play catch with you, are not already planning their wedding, like Jesus and want to know him, appreciate Jay-Z but are not ghetto, look good in a baseball hat, and are at least moderately athletic.
toy poodles and Bono... and I guess if you didn't realize the toy poodle thing was a joke then I'm not sure I am all that interested in meeting you.
JJ Alberhasky, Iron and Wine, The Postal Service, Sufjan Stevens, Gillian Welch, Haley Bonar, Sidehill Winders, Eric Peters, Death Cab for Cutie, U2 Bruce 'the Boss' Springsteen, Counting Crows, the Roots, Denison Witmer, the Streets, Arcade Fire, Cold Play, Jay-Z, Pedro the Lion, Newcomers Home, Pierce Pettis, the Push Stars, the Weakerthans, the Shins, Wilco, Ray Lamontagne, and so on.
Igby Goes Down, the Big Labowski, Dead Poets Society, Hoosiers, What About Bob, Lost in Translation
The Office, Seinfeld, Studio 60 and Sportscenter.
Frederick Bucherner, (Telling the Truth, the Hungering Dark, Telling Secrets), Donald Miller, (anything by him), Henri Nouwen, (In the Name of Jesus, The Return of the Prodigal Son), Annie Dillard, (Holy the Firm, Pilgram at Tinker Creek), Jorie Graham, Stephen Dobyns, William Matthews, Walter Wangerin Jr., CS Lewis, Donald Hall, Katie Ford, (Deposition), and a new favorite: The Brothers K, by David James Duncan see all my books here: http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=mattbrowning
not George Bush. Jesus.