Books

  • Favorite Books: The 8th Habit, Good to Great, Mere Christianity, Jayber Crow, Enders Game
  • Favorite Authors: C.S. Lewis, Charles Kraft, Garrison Keillor, Steven Covey, Jim Collins, Wendell Berry, Oscar Wilde
  • Favorite Genres: history, philosophy, leadership, historical fiction, sci-fi
  • Favorite Characters: Jayber Crow, Screwtape,
  • Favorite Quotes: "Greatness, as it turns out, is largely a matter of choice and discipline." "It all turns out in the end. How? I don't know, its a mystery."
  • Recent Reads: Speaker for the Dead

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: Italian
  • Favorite Dishes: Pizza, steak, baked potato, grilled burgers
  • Favorite Desserts: Creme brulee, bread pudding
  • Favorite Drinks: Mountain Dew, Rasberry mochas, Cherry coke, Coffee
  • Favorite Junk Foods: cookies, chips/cheese/salsa,
  • Best meal ever: steak at Murray's steak house in downtown Minneapolis
  • My Original Recipes: cooking...I don't think so
  • Favorite Restaurants: Old Chicago, McCormick and Schmiks, any steak house
  • Foods I hate: onions and mushrooms...yuck!

Style

  • Where I shop: REI, Eddie Bauer, Scheels, Old Navy
  • Brands I love: North Face, Kuhl, REI, Keen, Merrell, Old Navy
  • I like to wear: jeans and t-shirts/hooded sweatshirts, tennis shoes
  • Can't live without: the hoodie
  • Prized Possessions: fossil watches my new D&G glasses
  • Guilty Pleasure: wearing shirts with inappropriate sayings on them

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: Superman Returns, Star Wars (6), LOTR, Shadowlands, The Natural, Matrix (3), V for Vendetta, 300, Gladiator, anything comic or sci fi, The Edge, Kingdom of Heaven, King Arthur, Unbreakable,
  • Favorite Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, Alec Baldwin, Jason Statham, Bruce Willis, Gerard Butler
  • Favorite Directors: Luc Besson, Jon Favreau
  • Favorite Genre: sci fi
  • Favorite Soundtracks: Star Wars, LOTR, Matrix, Kingdom of Heaven, Batman Begins, King Arthur, Pearl Harbor
  • Movie Quotes I say all the time: It all works out in the end. How? I don't know, its a mystery. Shakespeare in Love
  • Movies I can watch over and over: The Fifth Element
  • Actor that would play me in a movie: Jason Statham

Television

  • Favorite Shows: Heroes, 30 Rock, The Office, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, House, CSI, Law and Order, Scrubs, Dexter, Rules of Engagement
  • Favorite Channels: NBC, Discovery, CBS, ABC
  • Favorite Reruns: Seinfeld, Scrubs, Family Guy
  • Most Addictive Show: Lost, Heroes
  • Favorite Late Night Talk Show: David Letterman
  • Favorite Episode: of what?
  • Characters you relate to: Seinfeld - similar quirks and tendencies
  • Favorite Theme Song: CSI
  • Show I Secretly Watch: Meerkat Manor
  • Show I wished wasn't cancelled: Las Vegas

Video Games

  • Games I Play: racing games, 1st person shooter, flight simulator, Madden 08
  • Consoles: Xbox 360
  • Favorite Characters: Gears of War dude
  • Gaming Alias: jacen76
  • Servers I Play On: ?
  • Favorite Classic Arcade Games: Spy Hunter
  • Most Addictive: Test Drive Unlimited
  • Proudest Achievements: playing for 14 hours straight once without moving

More About Me

  • Nicknames: Nate
  • Nationality: American
  • Religion: Christ Follower...but not perfect
  • Heroes: my father
  • Interests: camping, Xbox 360, music, superheroes, movies, TV, my wife :), China...
  • Expertise: wind instruments, band directing, music, ethnic music, lots of other types of information
  • Occupation: Band Director, Teacher, Educator, Inspirer
  • Industry: Public Education
  • Website: ??

College

  • School Name: Crown College
  • Status: Alumni
  • Class of: 2000
  • Attended: 1997 - 2000
  • Degree type: Bachelors
  • Major(s): Music Education
  • Sports: Baseball
  • Organizations: all things music

Travel

  • Places I love: Camping in the mountains
  • Places I've been: Bolivia, Japan, England, Bulgaria, Spain, Mexico, Canada, every state west of the Mississippi
  • Places to see before I die: China, Hawaii, Italy
  • Dream Vacation: all paid ski trip to Whistler

Music

  • Favorite Artists: Nickelback, Metallica, Greenday, My Chemical Romance, Harry Gregson-Williams, John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Don Davis, D.H.T., Wallflowers, Michael Buble, Evanescense, Josh Groban
  • Favorite Albums: American Idiot, All the Right Reasons, The Open Door
  • Favorite Genre: soundtrack, classical, alternative rock, power chords
  • Favorite Songs: Hide and Seek, Photograph
  • Songs for Roadtrips: anything by Eve 6, action soundtracks, Green Day, Metallica
  • Songs I hate: anything by Britney Spears
  • Guilty Pleasure: Backstreet Boys - Incomplete
  • Songs I repeat the most: see above
  • Band I wish I was in: Green Day

High School

  • School Name: Circle High School
  • Status: Alumni
  • Class of: 1994
  • Attended: 1990 - 1994
  • Sports: track
  • Organizations: band, choir, year book, speech and drama