Matthew

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Non-Profit
Occupation Medicine
Location Baltimore, MD
Introduction family doctor, writer, musician, friend, Baltimorean, husband, father, and follower of Jesus.
Interests sex, economy, freedom, community, wordplay, hefeweisens & belgian trappists, music, writing, travel, love, sarcasm, geography, health, philosophy, theology, community empowerment, localism
Favorite Movies Se7en, Fight Club, Traffic, all three Lord of the Rings movies, Star Wars Episodes III-VI, American History X, Alien, Aliens, Die Hard I-IV, The Princess Bride, Memento, The Gods Must Be Crazy I and II, Gladiator, Braveheart, Short Circuit I and II, Spider-Man I-III, the A&E Pride and Prejudice miniseries, The Matrix, The Constant Gardener, Snakes on a Plane, The Mission, Serenity, The Dark Knight, Unforgiven, Gran Torino
Favorite Music Andrew Osenga, Derek Webb, Bright Eyes, Jars of Clay, Ryan Adams, (& The Cardinals), The National, Arcade Fire Pedro the Lion, David Bazan, Johnny Cash, Rage Against the Machine, Bob Dylan, The Decemberists, Tom Waits, Rich Mullins, Nickel Creek, Iron & Wine, Caedmon's Call, Elliott Smith, Liz Ciavolino, Lucinda Williams, Indelible Grace, Sandra McCracken, Over the Rhine, Joe Gilder, Gillian Welch, David Ramirez, Eric Peters, Nick Flora, Katie Herzig, Jon Foreman, Igor Stravinsky, Heitor Villa-Lobos, John Williams, Manuel Barrueco also: Gorecki's 3rd Symphony, Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, and Faure's Pavane
Favorite Books too many. A good start for me would include the following: Al-Kitaab Al-Muqadis. Anything by Wendell Berry, Dr. Seuss, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Fyodor Doestoevsky, Frank Peretti, Flannery O'Connor, Joseph Campbell, John Donne, Dave Barry, P.J. O'Rourke, C.S. Lewis, Chuck Palahniuk, Alan Moore, Jeph Loeb, Elisabeth Elliot, Lauren Winner, T.S. Eliot, Eugene Peterson, John Piper, Mark Driscoll, Tim Keller, Dan Fountain. Several Redwall Books, A Tale of Two Cities, Dark Star Safari, Beowulf, Pensees, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Othello, Les Miserables, The Troubled Heart of Africa, Terrify No More, King Leopold's Ghost, In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz, The Constant Gardener, Mountains Beyond Mountains, Shake Hands with the Devil, The Road to Hell, The Zanzibar Chest, Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine, The Poisonwood Bible, Christianity Rediscovered, The Corner, Homicide, The Language of God, just about any good comic book or graphic novel.