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Travis

Everything You Wanted to Know (but were too lazy to ask)

About Me

I'm 24 years old and living in beautiful Southern California. So far my favorite place in Cali is the beach! I'm a Master of Divinity student at Claremont School of Theology, and I try to take my studies seriously (but that can be hard when there's so much fun stuff to do). I'm a nice guy, though somewhat shy at first so there always seems to be an awkward period when I meet people. Glad to be on MySpace, and see so many of my fellow CST students online!

My Interests

My absolute favorite thing to do is go swing dancing (either that are sit on my arse, it's a tossup :P). Though lately I've been taking lessons in salsa dancing too. I'm very tech savvy, which makes me popular only among geeks and tech heads. But I'm also a huge fan of film, music, and philosophy. I'm a bit shy at first, but warm up after that. I love playing the guitar and going to the cinema, watching anime (though that's a hobby that so very few share), playing games (World of Warcraft, so addicting), and going to restaurants (sushi is my favorite).

I'd like to meet:

Most of my friends are from school, so it would be nice to meet other people in the LA/OC area. My biggest interests are movies and swing (and maybe salsa) dancing, but I have lots of interests and pretty much would like to meet anyone (or everyone, you can have a million friends, right?)

Music:

I've been trying to introduce people to this band called The Format. Message me if you want to hear some. Other than that right now I'm really into The Earlies, The Killers, Death Cab for Cutie, Modest Mouse, Franz Ferdinand, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Kasabian. There's a lot of others, I have something like 30 GB of music so I can't really just list everything I have can I?

Movies:

Pirates and Superman were completely awesome! I just watched this suspense/horror movie called 'The Descent' and it really rocked my world. If you like Kevin Smith, be sure to go see Clerks 2.

Television:

I love Firefly! I also really like Lost, CSI, and House. I don't watch a lot of TV, but I can tell you that I'm not a fan of reality shows.

Books:

I like to read Philosophy and Theology books (duh), but I also enjoy reading for leisure. I just finished up 'High Fidelity' by Nick Hornby and will be starting on 'The Wheel of Time' book series pretty soon.

Heroes:

Is this my chance to be trite and generic? Yay! Seriously, though, I'd say my biggest hero is Jesus (again, duh) because he understood people on a really intimate level. He realized that once you standardized and popularized something it lost some of the truth that it had held onto. I think one of the greatest problems in religion right now is the marketing of salvation as an us vs. them scenario. Jesus rarely spoke ill of others, and usually after they had started by being very rude, he believed that you need to look to your own soul and not point to the faults of others

My Blog

First Sermon

So I delivered my first sermon on Sunday, and everyone was very impressed by it.  (To tell the truth, when I listened to it the first time I got a little misty eyed...and I'm my own worst critic)...
Posted by Travis on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:27:00 PST

All Play and No Work.....

So, this weekend I had three social events in a row...a surprise party for Meg, a swing dance in Pasadena, and a trip out to the Derby for Shannon's B-day (which also included swing dancing).  De...
Posted by Travis on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 05:11:00 PST

So I think I can dance......

    So I started taking Salsa lessons three weeks ago through this community center.  My friend Tracy and I signed up for the intermediate class because we both knew the basic sals...
Posted by Travis on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 03:29:00 PST

Smart @$$ MoFo

So I took the Tickle IQ test and it said I have an IQ of 140, higher than 95% of the people on the planet.  It was so high they gave me a free IQ profile that said I could basically do anything I...
Posted by Travis on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:58:00 PST