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Welcome, and thank you for checking out my page and poetry.  I am a Christian guy and I do artwork and poetry because they release the passion, thoughts, dreams, and fears in me that otherwise wouldn't ever see the light of day.

MUSIC:  Music is so important to me.  It wakes up my soul and breathes life into even the bleakest day.  I think it is one of the most special gifts God has given to mankind.  I like many different styles, and really it depends more on the artist/band and sometimes the songs individually than just a certain kind of music, though I do tend to enjoy most PUNK and a fair amount of HARDCORE.  But I like CLASSICAL and most other styles generally, too.

BOOKS:  I am reading "Let It Begin With Me," by Charles Haddon Spurgeon, "The Attributes of God" by Arthur W. Pink, & "Poet Power" by Thomas A. Williams.

I have previously read:  "Perelandra" and "Out of the Silent Planet," "The Narnia Chronicles," "The Screwtape Letters," and "The Abolition Of Man" by C.S. Lewis.
"Murphy's Boy" by Torey Hayden,
"How To Be Filled With The Holy Spirit," "The Pursuit Of God," "The Attributes Of God," "The Christian Book Of Mystical Verse," "The Knowledge Of The Holy," "Paths To Power" and "The Warfare Of The Spirit" by A. W. Tozer
"The Supernatural" by A. B. Simpson
"The Ragamuffin Gospel" by Brennan Manning
"The Third Day," "The Prayer Of Jesus," and"Christianity In Crisis" by Hank Hanegraaff
"Phantastes," "Lilith," "The Golden Key," "The Wise Woman And Other Fantasy Stories," "The Princess And The Goblin, The Princess And Curdie," and "A Time To Harvest" by George MacDonald
"The Singer" by Calvin Miller
"Celebration Of Discipline" by Richard J. Foster
"Intimacy With The Almighty" by Charles R. Swindoll
"How To Succeed In The Christian Life" by R. A. Torrey
"Sinbad's Seven Voyages" (an abridged version) by Gladys Davidson
"Phoenix In The Ashes" (A collection of short s.f. stories) by Joan D. Vinge
"She Stoops To Conquer" by Oliver Goldsmith
"The Seven Laws Of Teaching" by John Milton Gregory
"Another Gospel" by Paul C. McGlasson
"Living In Touch With God" by Larry Richards
"The Practice Of The Presence Of God" by Brother Lawrence
"Can You Drink The Cup" by Henri J. M. Nouwen
"A Wrinkle In Time" and "Many Waters" by Madeleine L'Engle
"Smith Of Wootton Major/Farmer Giles Of Ham" by J. R. R. Tolkien
"If You Will Ask" by Oswald Chambers
"Peter Pan" by J. M. Barrie
"Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards
"Escape From Reason" by Francis A. Schaeffer
"What The Bible Teaches About What Jesus Did" by F. F. Bruce
"Not I But Christ" by Corrie Ten Boom
"Kidnapped" by Robert Louis Stevenson
"The Outsiders" and "That Was Then, This Is Now" by S. E. Hinton
"The Myth Of Certainty" by Daniel Taylor
"When God Weeps" by Joni Eareckson Tada & Steven Estes
"The Secret Of Spiritual Strength" by Andrew Murray
"The Winged Man" by A. E. Van Vogt
"And The Angels Were Silent" by Max Lucado  (Don't much care for his writing.)
"The Glory Of Christmas" by Charles Swindoll, Max Lucado, & Charles Colson
"The Moves Make The Man" by Bruce Brooks
"Let's Get Invisible (Goosebumps Series) by R. L. Stine
"The Kneeling Christian" by an unknown author
"Be Ready" by Warren Wiersbe
"The Greatest Thing In The World--Walking In Love" by Henry Drummond
"The Wicked Enchantment" (A German rustic Fantasy first published in 1955, then again  in 1983) by Margo Benary-Isbert
"The Sonnets,"  by William Shakespeare
"Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience," by William Blake
"Selected Poems," by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"The World's Love Poetry,"  edited by Michael Rheta Martin
"Son of a Preacher Man," by Jay Bakker
"The Cross and the Switchblade," by David Wilkerson
"MegaCreativity," by Andrei G. Aleinikov, Ph.D.


MY FAVORITES:  
Bands/Music:
MXPX---I love most anything they do.  I love them most of all.
SLICK SHOES---Pure fun!!!  But what else could you expect from a band that gets its name from the movie THE GOONIES!!!
THE COOTEES---Featuring members of MXPX.
ARTHUR---Featuring Members of MXPX.
PRESCRIPTION---They are a local band, and they rock!!!
 UPDATE:  Prescription is NO MORE!!!  Crap!!!
SQUAD FIVE-0---Christian glam rock.  They rarely play the west coast, though!!!
SWITCHFOOT---For when I'm feeling blue (or Indigo, really) there is nothing more soothing.
CHEVELLE---They rock so well, and I was a fan back when almost no one knew who they were.  I bet most of their current "fans" don't know about their first CD, much less actually own it.  But, of course, I do!!!
TOO BAD EUGENE---Very cool punk band.
SAVES THE DAY---Some of the best emo around, and I just love their lyrics.  Great summer-time driving music.  It's come in really handy this summer.  Woo Hoo!!!
PUSHSTART WAGON---This is great music, some of the best, but as far as I know, they aren't together anymore...waaa!!!
DELL GRIFFITHS---Same as Pushstart...waaa!!!  They have a great song about Edward Scissorhands and a good cover of 'My Best Friend's Girl.'  There is even a song called 'Anikin' that was waaay before the new Star Wars stuff and has nothing to do with it.
FIVE MINUTE RIDE---I saw them at the last show Prescription did.  They're pretty freakin' good.
THE EVAN ANTHEM---Picked their CD up on a whim, and liked it.  I usually have a good instinct of what I'll like even before hearing the band.
INTERPOL---Saw them on the Tonight Show.  They were pretty good.  HAH!!!  Arthur is giving me their CD's!  Yippie!!!
LUCERINE BLUE---I love them, I love them!!!

Movies:
PRINCESS BRIDE---True love rocks!!!  It's "Inconcievable!!!"
ALIENS---By far, Sigourney Weaver's best work.  A spectacular movie about triumphing over your greatest fears!!!
TOMB RAIDER 1 & 2---Confident, strong, smart women rock!!!  Especially when they are built like Angelina and are packing guns.
PETER PAN---I loved this modern version of the story.  It stayed so true to Barrie's idea and vision of what it was supposed to be.  
HOLY GRAIL---Monty Python at it's best.  If you haven't seen it, you need to.
THE MUMMY 1 & 2---I really enjoyed both of these, and I hope there is a third one.  It was time for someone to do a modern movie about mummies again.  Can't let the vampires and werewolves monopolize everything, after all.
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK & THE LAST CRUSADE---The second movie had some good moments, but over all, I the first and third are the ones that really rocked my socks!!!