Job Status: Full-time at ISTS, part-time at Guitar Center
Education: Bachelors in English with Minors in German and Creative Writing
Hobbies: Enjoying (and then talking/writing about) music and movies, writing and recording music, making and drinking coffee, reading books and poetry and short stories, billiards, longboarding, playing guitar and drums, listening to lots of podcasts
Favorite Podcasts: The Briefing with Albert Mohler, The Happy Rant, Reel World Theology, Doctrine and Devotion, Reformed Pubcast, Encore, Ask Pastor John, White Horse Inn, Cultivated, Renewing Your Mind
Favorite TV Shows: Mad Men, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, BoJack Horseman, Friends, Tosh.0
Favorite Movies: The Social Network, Ratatouille, Dinner for Schmucks, Philomena, Whisper of the Heart, the Toy Story trilogy, Top Hat, Singin' in the Rain, La La Land, Into the Woods, Calvary, Up in the Air, Skyfall, Her
Favorite Actor: Paul Newman
Favorite Actress: Rachel McAdams
Favorite Books: Anything by C.S. Lewis, Watchman Nee, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Elisabeth Elliot, A.W. Pink, Eric Ludy, and so on
Favorite Artists: Thrice, Barry Manilow, Backstreet Boys, Steven Curtis Chapman, Fall Out Boy, Mae, The Receiving End of Sirens, Sara Groves, Jesse McCartney, Wolves at the Gate
Favorite Live Shows: Every time I've seen Thrice or House of Heroes live // Seeing Needtobreathe open for Gavin DeGraw // The Take Cover tour in 2005 with Acceptance (headliner), The Receiving End of Sirens (co-headliner), Cartel, Augustana, and Panic! at the Disco (opener)
Favorite Food: Rice
Favorite Drink: Vietnamese Iced Coffee
Favorite Candy: M&M's Minis
Little-Known Super Power: I can write and record up to 6 songs from scratch in one day and here's proof
This Friday, September 5, 2025
ALBUMS Josh Baldwin Full Grown Man, Vol. 1 - EP [Bethel] bodie NO SKIPS [Provident] Coqui LIVING 2 DIE - EP [DREAM] The Gray Havens This Is Not the End [Artist Garden]
SINGLES Carly Ann Taylor Why Should I Worry (Remind Me Version) - Single [Curb] Jaci Velasquez, Evan Egerer ¡DALE! Praise - Single [Rixon] NEEDTOBREATHE Momma Loves Me (feat. The Red Clay Strays) - Single [Omnivore]
Next Friday, September 12, 2025
ALBUMS Roxanne Grace Try Again [DREAM] Ellie Holcomb The King Is Still The King [Capitol CMG] twenty one pilots Breach [Fueled By Ramen] Phil Wickham Song of the Saints [Fair Trade]
SINGLES Dan Bremnes Find Yourself - Single [Curb] Good Weather Forecast LOWS2HIGHS (feat. gio.) - Single [DREAM] Matt Hammitt Days God Gave - Single (independent)