About Me

  • About Me: Hello my bruddAZ and my sistAZ. Repeat after me: "The Arizona Diamondbacks are the greatest team in Major League Baseball today, and have been ever since 1998." OK, now you may proceed.

More About Me

  • Nicknames: Chocolate Bar, Tremors, Bad Ass Jack
  • Nationality: thoroughly American!
  • Religion: Christian
  • Heroes: Jesus Christ, King David, Ronald Reagan, et. al.
  • Interests: Politics, History, Warfare, Theology, Philosophy, Music, Baseball, Tennis
  • Expertise: Mouthing Off
  • Occupation: Student, Operations Coordinator for a research firm
  • Industry: Research/Advertising
  • Website: none

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: The Patriot, Saving Private Ryan, Lord of The Rings, Star Wars, The Truman Show, Cars, Pirates of the Carribbean (I), Independence Day, Hitch, Mouse Hunt, The Princess Bride
  • Favorite Actors: Will Smith, Mel Gibson, Brad Pitt, Christian Bale
  • Favorite Directors: Roland Emmerich
  • Favorite Genre: Historical war movies
  • Favorite Soundtracks: Star Wars
  • Movie Quotes I say all the time: "Spoons, spoons! So many spoons, so little time." - Ernie Smuntz, Mouse Hunt "Rule #1: No girl wakes up in the morning and says, 'God, I hope I don't get swept off my feet today.'" - Hitch
  • Movies I can watch over and over: See "Favorite Movies"
  • Actor that would play me in a movie: Some kind of cross between Christian Bale and Nathan Lane

Music

  • Favorite Artists: Christian: Steven Curtis Chapman, Avalon, Mark Schultz, Michael W. Smith, Switchfoot, FFH, Michael Card, Larnelle Harris Country: Kenny Chesney, George Strait, Trace Adkins, Dierks Bentley, Joe Nichols, Brooks and Dunn
  • Favorite Albums: Signs of Life, Speechless, Declaration, All Things New by Steven Curtis Chapman, Casting Crowns debut album, The Beautiful Letdown by Switchfoot, Starkindler by Michael Card, The Road and the Radio and When the Sun Goes Down by Kenny Chesney
  • Favorite Genre: Christian, Country
  • Favorite Songs: Dude--that's where the lists stop. My life song is Live Out Loud by Steven Curtis Chapman. Before that it was Unbelievable Love by Larnelle Harris.
  • Favorite Lyrics: Men of courage, with your message of peace,/what is that look in your eyes?/why have you come to this faraway place/what is this story you would lay down your life to tell/what kind of love could this be? There is no greater love than this/there is no greater gift that can ever be given/to be willing to die so another might live/there is no greater love than this Brokenhearted from all you have lost/how can you see through your tears?/what is this music that can bear such a cost?/what is this fire that grows stronger against the wind?/what kind of flame can this be? There is no greater love than this/there is no greater gift that can ever be given/to be willing to die so another might live/there is no greater love than this This is the love that God showed the world/when He gave us His Son/so we could know His love forever/beyond the gates of splendor There is no greater love than this/there is no greater gift that can ever be given/to be willing to die so another might live/there is no greater love/there is no greater love/there is no greater love than this ~No Greater Love by Steven Curtis Chapman ...and at the end of the song a converted Waodoni Indian chants about God in his native language in the same key as the accompanying music. Steven Curtis says the chant and the music being in the same key was not planned.
  • Songs for Roadtrips: Kenny Chesney's entire Road and the Radio album
  • Songs I hate: Say Goodbye to Hollywood--I don't even know who does it, and I don't want to
  • Guilty Pleasure: Honky Tonk Badonk--never mind
  • Songs I repeat the most: Lord of the Dance, Dive, Speechless, Great Expectations, Live Out Loud, and No Greater Love by Steven Curtis Chapman, Testify to Love by Avalon, The Road and the Radio, Living in Fast Forward, You Save Me, Beer in Mexico, and Somebody Take Me Home by Kenny Chesney
  • Band I wish I was in: I would like to start one of my own. Any names?

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: Italian, Mexican, American
  • Favorite Dishes: Pizza (Mexican and New York style), spaghetti, ravioli, lasagna, tacos, tostadas, fajitas, enchiladas, steak, hamburgers, bread of almost any kind
  • Favorite Desserts: Ice Cream. Period.
  • Favorite Drinks: Water
  • Favorite Junk Foods: Whatever I can get my hands on.
  • Best meal ever: My mother's lasagna
  • My Original Recipes: I wish I could claim the Royale w/ Cheese
  • Favorite Restaurants: Macaroni Grill, Anita's, Famous Dave's, Red Robin, In-n-Out Burger
  • Foods I hate: these little green Korean things that looked kind of like ravioli and tasted kind of like stale play-doh that I spit out of my mouth when I was in tenth grade.

Books

  • Favorite Books: The Bible, Gulliver's Travels, Crime and Punishment, Six Characters in Search of an Author, John Adams, 1776, The Killer Angels, Gods and Generals, The Last Full Measure, Gone for Soldiers, To The Last Man
  • Favorite Authors: Jeff Shaara, Paul Johnson, David McCullough, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Henry Kissinger
  • Favorite Genres: biography, historical fiction, historical nonfiction, philosophy, theology
  • Favorite Characters: Robert E. Lee, Sonja

College

  • School Name: Patrick Henry College
  • Status: Undergrad
  • Class of: 2007
  • Attended: 2003 - 2006
  • Degree type: Bachelors
  • Major(s): Government/Public Policy
  • Sports: Frisbee, Softball, Debate (not really a sport, but at PHC...)