Hobbies and Interests

Interests

I enjoy hanging out with friends every occassion I get.  I really love learning.  I love technology, certain TV shows and movies.  I like to play games once in a while.  I love the Lord, and truly enjoy studying the scriptures.  This page just describes some more detail of these and some of my other favorite things.

Friends

My life is not complete without the wonderful friends with whom God has blessed me.  Each hold a very special place in my heart, and I'm eternally thankful for all of them.  They are the best friends the world has to offer.  I cherrish each of them, and every moment spent with them.

TV Shows

If you know me well, you'll know that I absolutely love certain TV shows.  I tend to lean more toward drama than comedy, but usually the dramas I find funny (making them awesome!).

Here's a list of the shows I love (the first two of which I don't miss an episode, thank you TPB):

• House, M.D.
• The Mentalist
• Fringe
• Lie to Me

These are my favorites that are no longer running:

• Lost
• Heroes
• 24

Gaming

On the computer, I love FPS games (first person shooters), but since there are so many, I am typically picky about the ones I choose.

With multiplayer, my first love is Counter-Strike, which is now in its "2.0" version, named Counter-Strike Source. Counter-Strike is a team based game where two teams (Terrorists and Counter Terrorists) war on maps with various missions.  On some maps, the T's have hostages that they must protect, whil the CT's will attempt to rescue them, or kill the entire T team to win.  On other maps, the T's have to plant a bomb at a bombsite, while the CT's attempt to prevent this, or defuse the bomb once it's been planted.  There are a few other scenarios, but these are definitely the primary two.

Another of my favorites is Left 4 Dead 2.  Endless zombies.  Do you really need me to say more?

As far as a single player games, the best game of all time is Half-Life 2 (honorable mention for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time).  I also really enjoyed both Bioshock and Bioshock 2's single player mode.  All of these games (with the exception of Zelda) are considered in the survival-horror genre -- my absolute favorite.

Movies

Speaking of horror, my favorite movie genre is horror, although the number of horror movies that make my "absolute favorites" list is small, mostly due to the crap quality of most entries in the genre.  In any case, I love movies of all types.  I can watch childrens movies (Up! was hilarious!), "chick-flix" (Twilight for the win), action, etc.  I am subscribed to Netflix, mainly for the Instant Streaming feature.  I also make it a point to buy any movie I like, to support it.  As a result, my friends joke that my movie collection rivals Netflix or Blockbuster.  haha.

My favorite movies to date are:

• The Passion of the Christ
• Paranormal Activity
• Inception
• 1408
• The Book of Eli
• The Usual Suspects
• Shutter Island
• Gladiator
• V for Vendetta
• The Illusionist
• Twilight
• The Boondock Saints
• Wind Chill
• Transformers
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
• From Within

I've often said that if I had it my way, I would see every movie -- even bad ones in the theater.  As a result, I built a full-HD 1080p home theater with a 100 inch screen, 7.1 surround sound, and reclining leather theater chairs, in which I enjoy these and many other movies.

Music

My musical tastes are fairly narrow.  I like Christian music and some other rock. 

My favorite Christian artists are:

• Skillet
• Thousand Foot Krutch
• dc Talk
• P.O.D.
• tobyMac
• Newsboys
• Rich Mullins
• FFH
• Casting Crowns
• Misty Edwards

My other favorite artists are:

• Linkin Park
• Dead by Sunrise
• Creed
• Avril Lavigne
• Bon Jovi
• Michael Jackson

Holidays

I love Holidays, and the Christian ones like Christmas and Easter are a no brainer for someone of my faith.  But Halloween? I love it.  I think its mainly the memories of trick-or-treating.  To me, it's just fun.  But yeah... I love Halloween.