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J.D.

About Me

If you know K-Fed, you know me

My Interests

Reading, music, incense, enjoying the little things, and I absolutely heart kittens.

I'd like to meet:

James Earl Jones, Raffi, Steve Urkel, Sharon, Lois, and Bram.

Music:

Sufjan Stevens, Anathallo, Mewithoutyou, Iron and Wine, Regina Spektor, The Beatles, Denison Witmer, Damien Jurado, Damien Rice, New Found Glory, most ridiculous popular hip-hop, Half-Handed Cloud, Over the Rhine, Sigur Ros, Pedro the Lion, Rosie Thomas, Rocky Votolato, Kate Earl, Jimmy Eat World, Waterdeep, The Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Aesop Rock, James Taylor, Zao, The Chariot, Norma Jean, Antony and The Johnsons, Explosions in the Sky, Boyz II Men, Mariah Carey, Bright Eyes, Modest Mouse, Built to Spill, Fiona Apple, Unwed Sailor, Saxon Shore, Linford Detweiler, Beloved, Cursive, Snailhuntr, Owen, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Do Make Say Think, Yann Tiersen, No Funeral, Pelican, Bill Mallonee, and the list goes on and on.

Movies:

Finding Neverland, Newsies, Shawshank Redemption, Anchorman, Royal Tenenbaums, etc.

Television:

The Office, The Colbert Report and pretty much any Real World/Road Rules challenge show.

Books:

Brothers Karamazov, The Grapes of Wrath, Walking On Water, The Cloister Walk, Dakota, Traveling Mercies, Circle of Quiet, The Time Quartet by Madeline L'engle, Mere Christianity, Screwtape Letters, Ragamuffin Gospel, Brian McLaren trilogy, No Man is An Island, Life of the Beloved, Here and Now, Return of the Prodigal Son, Flannery O'Connor's short stories, The Habit of Being, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, The Promise, The Chosen, What's So Amazing about Grace, The Jesus I Never Knew, Disappointment with God, Reaching for the Invisible God, Tess of the D'urbervilles, Fearfully and Wonderfully Made, Girl Meets God, The Genesee Diary, Jayber Crow, Penguins and Golden Calves plus so many more that I've read and will read.

Heroes:

Kool-Aid Man ("Oh, yeah!")

My Blog

Dallas

"Why is it that we look upon our salvation as a moment that began our religious life instead of the daily life we receive from God? We're encouraged somehow today to remove the essence of faith from ...
Posted by J.D. on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 05:16:00 PST

Madeline L'engle or let the quotes begin

"Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated."-said by Grandma in Madeline L'engle's A Swiftly Tilting PlanetThis might seem quite simple, but is quite profound and I believe is worth reflecting on in regar...
Posted by J.D. on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:28:00 PST

Love

Yesterday, I received news that will greatly alter my life from here on out. Let me preface the story with a little background.Around fifth grade, I fell in love. I was living in Charlotte, North Ca...
Posted by J.D. on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 06:28:00 PST