Theology, The Outdoors, Acoustic Guitar, Russian Culture and Literature, People, Black Coffee

Darkest Hour, Anathallo, Underoath, Trace Bundy, Shane and Shane, Sufjan Stevens, Miles Davis, Phil Keaggy, Jaco Pastorius, The Beatles. Bela Fleck, Dave Beegle, Derek Webb, Nickel Creek, U2, Johnny Cash, Living Sacrifice

Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, Punch Drunk Love, City of God, Braveheart, The Godfather, Lord of the Rings, Crash, Dead Poets' Society, Everything is Illuminated, Children of Men, Good Will Hunting, American Beauty, Fight Club, The Departed, American History X, Gangs of New York, Road to Perdition

Dostoevsky, J.R.R. Tolkien, Karl Barth, Gogol, Flannery O'Connor, George R.R. Martin, Terry Pratchett, J.K. Rowling, Philip Pullman, John Webster

Heroes, The Colbert Report, The Office

"Closing the book, she rose quickly from her chair, 'This is all about the resurrection of Lazarus,' she whispered sternly and abruptly without moving, her eyes askance, not daring, somehow ashamed, to meet his. She went on trembling. The candle end had long been flickering out in its crooked holder, dimly illuminating in this beggarly room the murderer and the harlot, who had so strangely come together here to read the Eternal Book..." -- Dostoevsky