Christ is first and foremost. I'm in the choir, on the worship team, and a youth leader at my church, and I love it. Serving God is the ultimate occupation and I couldn't strive for anything higher.
After Him, I spend my time watching moviefilms, daydreaming, sleeping, interwebbing/tubing, singing off key (unintentionally), jabbering until your ear falls off and then patching it back on to jabber some more, snuggling, making a delicious and worthwhile mess in the kitchen, surveying my domain, standing in zephyrs, wandering the duckie park, driving, and murdering words.
Oh yeah, and I can usually get you to gain 10 lbs within a few months of knowing me, and I WILL teach you the art of naps.
Alton Brown. He is Bill Nye of the kitchen. And Bill Nye would be pretty bitchin' too.
Truth be told, I love a good polka. I love old hymns as well. And Bill Gaither really is one of my all time favorite songwriters. But here below, is my paltry list of sing-songers you may be better acquainted with.
The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, The Who, Split Enz/Crowded House,
Midnight Oil, Queen, The Beach Boys, The Ramones, The Byrds, Black Flag, Iggy Pop/The Stooges, Lou Reed/Velvet Underground, David Bowie, Weezer, The Violent Femmes, Radiohead, ELO, The Pixies, Elliott Smith, Rufus Wainwright, Ben Folds Five, Portishead, Lou Rawls, Billie Holiday, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Stevie Wonder, Leadbelly, Bobby Darin, Michael Buble, Chris Isaak, Squeeze, The Mamas and the Papas, Henry Mancini, George Gershwin, Tony Bennett, Dean Martin
Movies : Harold and Maude, The Secret Garden, Everything Is Illuminated, 2001: A Space Odyssey, M, Mad Love(1935), A Clockwork Orange, Lost in Translation, The Royal Tenenbaums, Fargo, Box of Moonlight, The Boondock Saints, Arsenic and Old Lace, Se7en, HurlyBurly, Brazil, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Buffalo Soldiers, Green Street Hooligans, Monster in a Box, Gray's Anatomy, Swimming to Cambodia, I Heart Huckabees, CQ, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, The City of Lost Children, Elling, Shower, Not One Less, The Gay Divorcee, Little Murders, Mean Creek, The Madness of King George, Mystery Train, Nosferatu, Road to Morocco, To Kill a Mockingbird, Freaks, The Cell
Directors : Stanley Kubrick, Danny Boyle, Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Roman Coppola, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Lester, Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, John Hughes, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, The Coen Brothers, David Fincher, Woody Allen, Jim Jarmusch, Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Guest, Robert Altman, Wes Anderson
Thespians : Peter Stormare, Kevin Spacey, Vince Vaughn, Peter Lorre, Vincent D'Onofrio, Spalding Gray, Henry Rollins, Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Stephen Fry, Sam Rockwell, Peter Dinklage, Steve Buscemi, John Turturro, Bud Cort, Rowan Atkinson, Bill Murray, Johnny Depp, Benecio del Toro, Willem Dafoe, Gary Cole, Joaquin Phoenix, Paul Reubens, Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, Edward Norton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Eddie Izzard, Alan Rickman, Sean Penn, Kathy Bates, Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Myrna Loy, William Powell, John Astin, Anjelica Houston, Elijah Wood, John Lynch, Cate Blanchett, Pete Postlethwaite, Tom Wilkinson, Robert Carlyle
The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, The Office, Ugly Betty, History Channel, IFC, TLC, The Discovery Channel, BBC America, PBS, Scrubs, My Name is Earl, Monty Python, Kids in the Hall, SNL c. 1975, No Reservations, A Cook's Tour, Henry's Film Corner, The Henry Rollins Show, Mr. Show, The Big Joe Polka Show, The Addams Family
The Bible is my everyday essential. If I don't read it, my day is not complete.
Other than that I'll read here and there. But I LOATHE Dickens and Shakespeare.
Come to think of it, I don't read much fiction. But when I do I look to these wonderous folks:
Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Upton Sinclair, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., C.S. Lewis, Roald Dahl, The Warren Commission, J. Edgar Hoover...
In every man's heart there is an emptiness that only God can fill with his son Jesus Christ.