Mark A. Hollingsworth
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Non-Profit |
| Occupation | Director of Radio Marketing, Compassion International |
| Location | Nashville, TN, United States |
| Introduction | Described as a renaissance man, Mark A. Hollingsworth considers himself a citizen of the world. He has traveled to forty-nine countries as a manager of rock bands and an advocate for the poor in the developing world. He has been published in two dozen magazines ranging from Billboard to National Lampoon, and his blog has had over 50,000 readers in the past four years. Mark resides in Nashville, Tennessee. Mark's Favorite Blogs: http://notjusttalk.tumblr.com/ |
| Interests | Nashville Predators hockey, cinema (love the theater experience), reading, travel -whether it's Fall Creek Falls or Mount Kilamanjaro (have been to 49 countries and all 50 states), museums, community found in church, concerts (have attended over 2, 800), volleyball, maps, working out, baseball statistics, writing, analyzing films, hiking, discovering different foods, long discussions with friends on any topic that deserves our time, authentic Italian gelato, satire, exercising my gift of exhortation, and drawing. |
| Favorite Movies | Amazing Grace, Tender Mercies, Slumdog Millionaire, Meet John Doe, Tree of Life, Chariots of Fire, Network, Gandhi, The Pianist, Dances With Wolves, Millions, Gladiator, The Man Who Knew Too Little, El Norte, Crash, Fantasia, The Sixth Sense, It's A Wonderful Life, The Reader, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, The Life of Brian, Shawshank Redemption, No End In Sight, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Annie Hall, Koyaanisqatsi (Life Out of Balance), Powaqqatsi (Life In Transition), Naqoyqatsi (Life As War), The Passion of the Christ, Farenheit 9/11, Amadeus, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Adventures of Baron Von Muncheusen, Fried Green Tomatoes, Awakenings, To End All Wars, Being There, Zelig, Ben Hur, As Good As it Gets, Cinderella Man, The Black Robe, Of Gods and Men, Spitfire Grille, Alien, Napolean Dynamite, Time Bandits, Blade Runner, Spinal Tap, The Color Purple, Raising Arizona, Saving Private Ryan, Places In the Heart, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, The Count of Monte Cristo, Forrest Gump, Lost In America, Seabiscuit, Born Into Brothels, Life Is Beautiful, The Mission, Amelie, Waiting for Guffman, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Rear Window, Broadcast News, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Shadowlands, Groundhog Day, Aliens, A Fish Called Wanda, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Natural, and Planes, Trains, & Automobiles to name a sampling (see about 40 films a year in theaters, and about the same on DVD). |
| Favorite Music | U2, Bruce Springsteen, Yes, Midnight Oil, David Wilcox, King's X, Neal Morse, Lizst, Don Henley, Joni Mitchell, Tally Hall, Rossini, The Beatles, Randy Newman, Dvorak, John Hiatt, Kansas, Debussey, Genesis, Police, Derek Webb, Prokofiev, Simon and Garfunkle, Rush, Phil Keaggy, Sheryl Crow, Mussorgsky, Gentle Giant, Robert Randolph, Dixie Dregs, Tchaikovsky, Foo Fighters, Mark Heard, Squeeze, Led Zeppelin, Mahler, Spock's Beard, Cheap Trick, Waterdeep, Janis Joplin, Gershwin, Roy Buchanan, Black Sabbath (first 5), Chopin, ELP, Monte Montgomery, Transatlantic, Muse, and Cream to name a few. I have over 2, 500 albums in my collection--at one point it was over 6, 000. |
| Favorite Books | God's Politics: How the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It (Jim Wallis), Soul Survivor (Phillip Yancy), The Great Divorce (C.S. Lewis), Pilgrim At Tinker Creek (Annie Dillard), The Message (Eugene Peterson), City of Joy (Dominique LaPierre), Velvet Elvis (Rob Bell), The Road Less Traveled (Scott Peck), The Myth of Certainty (Daniel Taylor), Speaking My Mind (Tony Campolo), Les Miserables (Victor Hugo), The People's History of America (Howard Zinn), Traveling Mercies (Anne Lamott), Rich Christians In An Age of Hunger (Ron Sider), Blue Like Jazz (Donald Miller), All the President's Men (Woodward and Bernstein), Irresistable Revolution (Shane Claiborne), Messy Spirituality (Mike Yaconelli), To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee), The Myth of a Christian Nation (Gregory Boyd), Ruthless Trust (Brennan Manning), What's So Amazing About Grace? (Phillip Yancy), Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), Knowledge of the Holy (A.W. Tozer), Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes), The Octopus (Frank Norris), Calvin and Hobbes Anthology (Bill Watterson), Far Side History (Gary Larsen), and everything by Martin Luther are amongst my faves. |