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, August 15, 2025
ALBUMS Mark Bishop Grandkids - EP [Sonlite] The CCC Collective Brooklyn Culture (independent) Equippers Worship Awe [DREAM Worship] The Final Witness Beneath The Altar [Rottweiler] Grammatrain Flying Collector's Edition CD [Girder] Grammatrain Lonely House 30th Anniversary Edition CD [Girder] Katy Nichole Honest Conversations [Centricity] Relentless Pursuit Apocalypsis (independent) V1 Worship Archives [DREAM] Joel Vaughn Feel It - EP [DREAM]
SINGLES Johan Åsgärde Coming Home - Single [Gotee] Dave Barnes Everything But Mine - Single (independent) Jeff Deyo There is a Fire - Single (independent) Steven Malcolm All God - Single [Curb] Brandon Lake, Phil Wickham, & Elevation Worship So So Good (Live) - Single [Fair Trade]
VINYL Grammatrain Flying Vinyl [Girder] Grammatrain Lonely House 30th Anniversary Edition Vinyl [Girder] Newsboys Going Public Vinyl [Girder]
Next Friday, August 22, 2025
ALBUMS Lecrae Reconstruction [Reach] Lizzie Morgan Not My Will [Provident] Josiah Queen MT. ZION [Capitol CMG]
SINGLES Dust and Grace Hallelujah - Single [MTS] Good Weather Forecast Today (feat. Elijah Thomas) - Single [DREAM] Roxanne Grace Try Again - Single [DREAM] Mainstream Worship Invitation - Single [DREAM Worship] V1 Worship Been So Faithful - Single [DREAM Worship]