watching movies and listening to music and playing video games and all that good stuff, engaging in philosophical and theological and political discussions, meeting new people, going on late night waffle house and chinese food runs, going to concerts, writing poetry, spending too much money, singing and dancing in the car, working and eating at chick-fil-a, and writing for the samford crimson

all american rejects, the almost, brand new, the chariot, cobra starship, cute is what we aim for, emery, fall of troy, FALL OUT BOY, franz ferdinand, the fray, gym class heroes, jimmy eat world, man man, MODEST MOUSE, muse, new found glory, norma jean, panic! at the disco, plain white t's, the rocket summer, set your goals, senses fail, straylight run, TAKING BACK SUNDAY, thursday, top 40 radio stations, UNDERØATH, the used, yellowcard. (there are many other singers and bands i enjoy, but i've restricted my list to bands for which i know every word to every song.)

across the universe, a fish called wanda, almost famous, american history x, anchorman, bad news bears, best in show, blades of glory, borat, casino royale, click, close encounters of the third kind, the descent, dodgeball, disturbia, donnie darko, dukes of hazzard, e.t., fargo, ferris bueller's day off, final destination thrill-ogy, flirting with disaster, fun with dick and jane, harry potter all, hide and seek, hot rod, how should we then live?, knocked up, little miss sunshine, man on the moon, matchstick men, my super ex-girlfriend, pay it forward, pleasantville, punch drunk love, requiem for a dream, resident evil, royal tenenbaums, runaway jury, scary movie 4, school of rock, shanghai knights, shattered glass, spiderman 1 and 2 and 3, stranger than fiction, superbad, talladega nights, team america, there's something about mary, this is spinal tap, truman show, vacancy, wedding crashers

the daily show, the colbert report, late night w/ jay leno and conan o'brien, saturday night live, madtv, reno 911, south park, family guy, robot chicken, the office, monk, kyle xy, without prejudice, meet the press, face the nation, this week, fox news sunday, hardball, boy meets world, old school nickelodeon -- salute your shorts, hey dude, adventures of pete & pete, clarissa explains it all, secret world of alex mack, mystery files of shelby woo, my brother & me, all that, kenan & kel, legends of the hidden temple, wild & crazy kids, guts, double dare, what would you do, figure it out, rugrats, doug, aahhh!! real monsters, angry beavers, rocko's modern life, hey arnold!, kablam

feodor dostoevsky - crime and punishment, aldous huxley - brave new world, g.k. chesterton - ballad of the white horse, flannery o'connor - a good man is hard to find, dante - the divine comedy (especially inferno), seamus heaney's beowulf translation, j.k. rowling - harry potter, all, i, rigoberta menchu, ramesh ponnoru - party of death, elizabeth marquardt - between two worlds, barbara ehrenreich - nickel and dimed: on (not) getting by in america, john edwards - ending poverty in america