AJ

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Arts
Occupation Writer
Location Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Introduction Husband, dad and lover of downtown happy hours. Fan of indie music and adventure. Good at writing, hoops, and taking flak.
Interests Reading, basketball, indie music, espresso, theology, mixology, film, writing, volleyball, hiking, camping, philosophy, adventure, arts, photography, being outdoors, Jesus
Favorite Movies Henry V (Kenneth Branagh), Glory, Unbreakable, Spiderman, Road to Perdition, The LOTR trilogy, Vertigo, Rear Window, The Fugitive, The Third Man, Fallen, Chariots of Fire, Rebecca, Mission Impossible, The Ghost and the Darkness, The Usual Suspects, The Passion of the Christ, Memento, A River Runs Through It, Notorious, Much Ado About Nothing (Kenneth Branagh), The Others, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Rope, The Bourne films, The Island, Children of Men
Favorite Music In no particular order: The Decemberists, Jars of Clay, Death Cab for Cutie, Waterdeep, U2, Alison Krauss, The Beatles, The Weakerthans, Caedmon's Call, Keane, The Shins, Ben Folds, Coldplay, Iona, Nickle Creek, REM, Switchfoot, Sixpence None the Richer, Johnny Cash, Bright Eyes, Iron & Wine, Sufjan Stevens, Guster, Bob Dylan, Wilco, Damien Rice, Shai Linne
Favorite Books How about favorite authors instead:, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Walter Wangerin, Eugene Peterson, Shakespeare, Philip Yancey, John Piper, Robert Louis Stevenson, George MacDonald, Ernest Hemingway, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ravi Zacharias, Mark Twain, Chaim Potock, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Dorothy Sayers, P.D. James, Leo Tolstoy, Donald Miller, Mark Driscoll, Bret Lott, Frederick Buechner, Larry Woiwode, Julio Cortazar, Flannery O'Connor

When you open your eyes underwater, do you ever worry that you'll drown?

All the time. And when I shut my eyes I'm worried that I'm trapped in a dark place.