About Me

  • About Me: I enjoy tea, coffee, and the occasional good beer(scottish or belgian). Literature, philosophy, and theology. I have an insatiable hunger for knowledge and truth.

Travel

  • Places I love: Chicago, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Germany
  • Places I've been: Chicago(favorite town in all of the U.S.), New York, Nashville, St. Louis(blech)
  • Places to see before I die: The British Isles, and Germany
  • Dream Vacation: Touring holy sites of the British Isles while looking up family, Germany to see the country, look up family and my soon-to-be wife's family, and Norway

Music

  • Favorite Artists: Amon Amarth, Frintrol, Nightwish, Flogging Molly, Flatfoot 56, Dropkick Murphys, The Pogues
  • Favorite Albums: Dark Passion Play, The Meanest of Times, Drunken Lullabies, The Twilight Of The Thunder Gods
  • Favorite Genre: Celtic Punk/Folk
  • Favorite Songs: Rebels Of The Sacred Heart by Flogging Molly
  • Favorite Lyrics: Love and Family from the meanest of times by the Dropkick Murphys
  • Songs for Roadtrips: anything by Flogging Molly and Flatfoot 56
  • Songs I hate: most pop songs
  • Songs I repeat the most: Warriors, Bye Bye Beautiful, Twilight Of The Thunder Gods

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: Hellboy, Boondock Saints, Star Trek, Harry Potter
  • Favorite Actors: Liam Neeson
  • Favorite Directors: Guillamare Del Toro
  • Favorite Genre: Sci-Fi, Comic Book, and Action
  • Favorite Soundtracks: The Breakfast Club, Daredevil, Mortal Kombat
  • Movie Quotes I say all the time: Boondock Saints
  • Movies I can watch over and over: Boondock Saints
  • Actor that would play me in a movie: Ron Pearlman

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: Indian
  • Favorite Dishes: Haggis
  • Favorite Desserts: My great-grandmothers homemade bread pudding nobody can come close
  • Favorite Drinks: green tea with honey, coffee(black), and Bel Haven Scotch Ale
  • Favorite Junk Foods: twizzlers
  • Best meal ever: my great-grandmother's eggplant lasagna. everything was made from scratch, or came from the garden
  • My Original Recipes: Spicy Uische Beatha Chicken
  • Favorite Restaurants: Macnivens, but it's more of a pub than a restaurant
  • Foods I hate: mincemeat pie. I was raised by my great-grandmother who's father was a scotsman. she would make that from scratch, and it smelled and tasted like baked vomit

More About Me

  • Nicknames: Mutton Chop Mafia
  • Religion: Celtic Christianity

Television

  • Favorite Shows: Warriors with Terry Schappert, Important Things With Demetri Martin
  • Favorite Channels: History Channel, History Channel International, The Discovery Channel, Comedy Central
  • Favorite Reruns: Modern Marvels: Whiskey, and The Irish In America, Family Guy, Robot Chicken

Books

  • Favorite Books: A Brief History Of Everything, Integral Spirituality, Ancient Future Faith, On Being a Christian, The Challenge of Jesus, Evil And The Justice Of God, The Path Of Celtic Prayer, Celtic Christianity, Wisdom Of The Celtic Saints, Pilgrim's Progress, An Imitation Of Christ, The Lord Of The Rings, The Similarion, The Space Trilogy, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, The Time Machine, War Of The Worlds, 1984, and Brave New World...to name just a few
  • Favorite Authors: Ken Wilber, N.T. Wright, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Victor Hugo, Adoulus Huxley, H.G. Wells, Orson Wells, Stephen Lawhead(favorite living author), Charles Dickens, and W.B. Yeats
  • Favorite Genres: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Fantastic Fiction, Religion, Philosophy, and Theology
  • Favorite Characters: Aidan in Stephen Lawhead's "Byzantium"
  • Favorite Quotes: "Aidan, you have been blind. You have beheld the truth, stared long upon it, yet failed to perceive so much as the smallest glimpse of all that was shown to you. Sure, this is the heart of the great mystery: that God became man, shouldering the weight of suffering so that on the final day none could say, 'Who are you to judge the world? What do you know of injustice? What do you know of torture, sickness, poverty? How dare you call yourself a righteous God! What do you know of death' 'He knows, Aidan, he knows'" From Stephen Lawhead's "Byzantium"
  • Recent Reads: Adventures In Missing The Point by Tony Campolo and Brian Mclaren