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, July 4, 2025
ALBUMS Chad Cory America [DREAM] Tenielle Neda The Way Of Love [Wings]
SINGLES AyeTJ Nothing Else - Single [Syntax] Nick Betzing Plead for Me Remix (ft. 1K Phew and Aha Gazelle) - Single [Syntax] Christian Back Now - Single [DREAM] Illbrio Feel This - Single (independent) KDNS Eternity - Single [Syntax] Prodi Da Prodigal Bibles & Blickys (ft. Selah the Corner & Da Commissioner) - Single [Syntax] Keith Reign Offering Of Praise - Single (independent) SNT. VINCENT Garden - Single [Syntax] Zippy, OnBeatMusic, QEW Kapow - Single [Syntax]
Next Friday, July 11, 2025
ALBUMS Hammock Nevertheless (independent) Jeremy Rosado The Waiting Room [Capitol CMG] Seph Schlueter Counting My Blessings [Provident] Stars Go Dim Roses [Curb]
SINGLES Jamie MacDonald Desperate (feat. Lauren Daigle) - Single [Capitol CMG] Joel Vaughn Get Over It - Single [DREAM] Phil Wickham Song of the Saints - Single [Fair Trade]
VINYL The Swirling Eddies Let's Spin! Vinyl [Girder] The Swirling Eddies Outdoor Elvis Vinyl [Girder] The Swirling Eddies Zoom Daddy Vinyl [Girder]