due to a need for content and the recent inspiration/reminder by my sister-in-law and her "good lists," here's a "good list" for you, quick six version:

-witmygracesays (the twitter account my brother started where he posts things my niece, grace, says)

-blue bell's "milk chocolate" ice cream (tastes like a wendy's frosty)

-chick-fil-a's honey roasted bbq sauce (SO good. also, looking forward to the chick-fil-a spicy chicken sandwich due next month.)

-volleyball nights are imminent

-david platt's radical (well the first chapter, at least... that's as far as i've read)

-got to go to radio music theatre the other night AND sat on the front row! (i laugh hard every time i go)

1. when you wear socks, which one do you usually put on first and what is your dominant hand?

2. choose your jack: shephard OR bauer

3. why is texas the best state in the union?

4. would you rather eat dinner with: tim robbins OR sean penn and why?

5. chocolate chips OR chocolate chunks?

6. thunder OR lightning?

7. what's the best name for a dog you've ever heard or have come up with? (if it's a dog you actually know/knew, what kind of dog was it?)

8. forced to watch one on tv, which do you pick: soccer OR golf?

9. which is more impressive: average GPA from a "respected" school OR high GPA from a "nowhere" school?

10. who legitimately flops more: manu ginobili OR the entire duke team?

11. what's your biggest phobia (thing you irrationally overreact to)?

12. what would your spy codename be (in theory, of course!)?

13. untie your tennis shoes OR just slip them on/off?

14. preferred candy: chocolate OR hard

15. what are the 3 "ugliest" places you've ever visited (scenery-wise)?

16. would you rather watch paint dry OR grass grow?

17. what ONE piece of advice would you give your 13-year-old self if you could go back in time?

18. what sport do you have more skill/talent in than any other?

19. more uppity: the french OR apple users?

thanks for playing. and yes, i stopped at 19 because i figured it might bother some people.

thinklings moot-ichlorian counts:

rod: 35,000

bird: 28,000 with tolkeinian pipe (20,000 without)

bill: 21,500

shrode: 19,000

blo: approx. 18,500 (never around long enough to calculate)

i wanna give a shout out to the year 1985. it was, pop culturally, a really transformative year for me. not the actual year, per se, but what came forth from it. such as...

ronald reagan is sworn in for his second term





we are the world
i love the description on this particular youtube upload: "its by michael jackson and a couple of people. and its super touching :]"

compact discs

the dairy queen blizzard

the tv show growing pains

a ton of great movies, including a few of my absolute all-time faves:

spies like us






fletch




back to the future




the goonies

some killer cartoons:

m.a.s.k.




thundercats




wuzzles






and one of the biggest, eternally insignificant, influences of my entire life: the nintendo entertainment system

1985... my hat's off to you. (readers, if you're not standing and applauding by now, i worry about you and am sad for you.)


honorable mentions: microsoft windows 1.0 is released (figured that might draw some jeers), teen wolf, disney's gummi bears, jem

USA Today Coaches' Preseason Poll

RANK TEAM

1. Florida (53)
2. Texas (4)
3. Oklahoma (1)
4. USC (1)
5. Alabama
6. Ohio State
7. Virginia Tech
8. Penn State
9. LSU
10. Mississippi
11. Oklahoma State
12. California
13. Georgia
14. Oregon
15. Georgia Tech
16. Boise State
17. TCU
18. Utah
19. Florida State
20. North Carolina
21. Iowa
22. Nebraska
23. Notre Dame
24. Brigham Young
25. Oregon State

is it just me ...

-or do the astros hate me? they were on a 4 game winning streak going into last night. we took a bunch of students from the church to the game last night. they got destroyed. tonight, they dominated the dojo (thanks in part to a grand slam). ridiculous.

-or is con air on tbs 4 times a day? and when it's not on tbs, it's on tnt. maybe ted is fond of horrid southern accents (which is a puzzler, cuz cage nails it in raising arizona. he shoulda stuck with "country" and not gone for "deep south".) and crappy dialogue:

"do you know what i am?"
"ugly all day."

-or are "sytycd" judges, lil c and mia michaels, drinking some serious haterade when it comes to brandon? actually, i know it's not just me on this one.

-or does anyone else hate that saturday morning cartoons ain't what they used to be? and if you weren't alive in the 80s, you don't know what i (or willis) am talkin' 'bout.

-or does anyone else think auto-tune shouldn't excite recording artists but scare them with the thought that literally anyone can sound just like them?

- the prince of egypt

- top gun

- willow

- real genius

- tombstone

*honorable mention - heat (he didn't add as much to this movie as he did to the others, as memory serves. plus he went on to voice KITT... blech. had to take points away somewhere.)

three things i'm thankful for today:

-will muschamp is set to take over the head coaching job at texas when mack "america's grandpa" brown steps down.

-the tiger eye sushi roll that james and i split at my le for lunch. as homer j. simpson would say, "the food wasn't undelicous." sooooooo good.

-the fall temperatures we've been enjoying lately.


anyone else? what's good in your life?

It Is Well With My Soul - Horatio Spafford and Philip Bliss


Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) - John Newton and Chris Tomlin


The Great I Am - Matt Tipton


Angels Fall Down - Skillet


Cry of The Church - Matt Tipton


Be Unto Your Name/Holy Holy Holy - Arranged by Brian Doerksen (Be Unto Your Name by Lynn DeShazo and Gary Sadler, Holy Holy Holy by Reginald Heber)


In Christ Alone - Keith Getty and Stuart Townend


*Honorable Mention: My Hero - Foo Fighters
(this song, though obviously not intended to be about Jesus, has really buttered my bread when sung in that context. i'm just saying.)



how 'bout you?

in no particular order:

Appaloosa


The Abyss


Apollo 13


The Truman Show


The Rock


Gone Baby Gone


A Beautiful Mind


The Right Stuff

i haven't seen ALL of Glengarry Glen Ross, so i didn't feel like i could include it.

the "decent" and/or "at least mildly entertaining" list would include Winter Passing, Milk Money, Just Cause, Enemy at the Gates, and National Treasure: Book of Secrets.