About Me

  • About Me: "Night is when the curtains are pulled back, and we may see the setting of our grand play...Look! The whole universe is watching us! The stars are the audience looking on, their flickering the applause."

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: Harvey, About a Boy, Pirates of the Carribean, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Gladiator, Braveheart, Forrest Gump, The Emperor's New Groove, The Motorcycle Diaries, Life is Beautiful, Matchstick Men
  • Favorite Actors: Jimmy Stewart
  • Favorite Soundtracks: The Fountain, Into the Wild
  • Movie Quotes I say all the time: Kuzco: "You're the only one who doesn't seem to be with the program...eh, PA-CHA?" Kronk: "THAT PEASANT. At the diner...he didn't pay his check." Jack Sparrow: "But you *have* heard of me." "I want you to know, I was rooting for you." "I think we've all reached a very special place - spirtually...grammatically...ecumenically." "I'm sorry Elizabeth...it could have never worked between us." "So we're all men of our word, except for Elizabeth who is, in fact, a woman." "Wedding? I love weddings! Drinks all around!" Donkey: "We can stay up late, swapping manly stories, and in the morning, I'm making waffles!" "You know what I think? I think this whole wall thing is just to keep somebody out!" William Wallace: "I'm going to pick a fight." "Every man dies, but not every man really lives." Maximus: "Death smiles at us all. All man can do is smile back." Proximo: "We mortals are but shadows and dust." Woody: "You are a child's play thing. You. Are. A TOY!" Buzz Lightyear: "You are one sad little man." Willy Wonka: "The suspense is terrible...I hope it lasts." "Help. Police. Murder." "There's so much time and so little to do. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it." Hippie Guy in Into the Wild: "All is not well on the hippie front." Chris McCandless: "SOCIETY!" From Life is Beautiful: "Buon giorno, principessa!" Daniel Plainview: "I'm a family man. I run a family business. This is my son and partner H.W." "When it comes to the showdown, they won't be there." "I drink your milkshake!" Samwise Gamgee: "I can't carry it for you...but I can carry you!" "That there's some good in this world, and that it's worth fighting for." Frodo Baggins: "What are you doing?! Put it out you fools!" Gandalf: "Don't tempt me, Frodo!" "Bilbo...the Ring is still in your pocket." John Newton: "My memory's failing but I remember two things very clearly. I'm a great sinner and Christ is a great saviour."
  • Movies I can watch over and over: The Emperor's New Groove, Shrek, Star Wars Episodes IV-VI,

Books

  • Favorite Books: 1984, Of Human Bondage, Picture of Dorian Gray, The Great Gatsby, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Bible, Othello
  • Favorite Authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, C.S. Lewis, P.G. Wodehouse, Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Favorite Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Jay Gatsby
  • Favorite Quotes: "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Holmes
  • Recent Reads: The Long Goodbye, The Time Machine

More About Me

  • Nicknames: Igor
  • Heroes: Jim Ryun, Blaise Pascal, C.S. Lewis, Paul the Apostle, Jon Foreman
  • Interests: God, and his Son the Lord Jesus - Lord of the Rings Risk! - Clive Staples Lewis - Blaise Pascal - Calvin and Hobbes - Switchfoot - Redwall - Sherlock Holmes - Italian - Thoughts - Mad Tea Parties - P.G. Wodehouse - Richard Swinburne - Words - Honesty - Silliness

Music

  • Favorite Artists: Switchfoot, Jars of Clay, Coldplay, Relient K, Copeland, M.A.E., Sufjan Stevens, David Crowder Band, Nickel Creek, Lifehouse, Modest Mouse, Tally Hall, John Reuben, Jack Johnson, Nathan William Lundquist, Aisling, Jurassic 5, Beethoven
  • Favorite Albums: Nothing is Sound (switchfoot), Mmhmm (Relient K), Jars of Clay (Jars of Clay), The Everglow (M.A.E.), Eat, Sleep, Repeat (Copeland)
  • Favorite Songs: The Shadow Proves the Sunshine (Switchfoot), When I Go Down (Relient K), Amazing, Because It Is (The Almost), Worlds Apart (Jars of Clay) The Boy vs. The Cynic (John Reuben)
  • Songs for Roadtrips: Into the Wild Soundtrack, Illuminate (David Crowder Band)
  • Songs I repeat the most: I Turn Everything Over (Switchfoot)

Contact Info

  • AIM: LAsym21