G etting to know God more (always the hard part), computers, but especially Apple computers ... biking, webpages , driving around both aimlessly and for a vacation... and lying around on a couch doing nothing for a while.
G iven that I'm married, I'm not in any mood to start up anything relational outside of friendship. Sorry. :-)
I t ranges. You'd be better off looking through my iPod for the stuff I listen to the most. But I listen to a lot of Christian artists, plus the strange combination of pop and R&B (I'm no expert, trust me), along with things like the Lord of the Rings soundtrack.
I managed to start getting into Jazz (an unofficial goal of 2005) and now have CDs of John Coltrane, Miles Davis, the Mahadishvnu Orchestra and Duke Ellington. Of those four, I absolutely love Miles Davis the most (with John Coltrane's My Favorite Things running a close second, but all of the CDs are exceptional.W hat in the world is this category for? My favorite movies? What kinds of movies I watch? Erm... all right... :-) Look at it this way... I loved both Finding Nemo and Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind. Anything halfway intelligent will probably earn my vote.
Honorable mentions: The Thin Red Line, Moulin Rouge, Magnolia, American Beauty. Links to movies may come later.
Best movies for 2005: Pride and Prejudice (I admit it! Don't taunt me!), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, March of the Penguins, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
T he TV is currently dead, so 'til we set up a new one, this section will remain intentionally blank.
A nything by C.S. Lewis, at this point, is something I'm interested in. Specific titles? The Screwtape Letters was my most recent read; the one before that, Til We Have Faces, which is a wonderful rebranding of the greek mythology of Cupid and Eros. Then of course there's Mere Christianity, which is a series of short writings about aspects of the Christian life, and all seven volumes of The Chronicles of Narnia, which is a children's story with some fairly obvious parallels, but still the best books I have read that were clearly aimed at that age group, short of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.I did skip out on The Silmarillion, though... it's like reading a fictionalized version of the Old Testament, which, if I were to be perfectly frank with God, I would say contains great practical applications. You just have to look for it. Hard.
N ext to God? Sheesh. That's a tough one... Pastor Jon, I suppose. Anyone and everyone on the frontlines and back offices of the fight for social justice. :-) By the way, that's a wonderful topic to start discussions about... especially in 21st century America...