About Me
- About Me: I'm a quiet park, with a bench and some birds.
More About Me
- Nicknames: Vis [and variations]
- Nationality: who cares
- Religion: [post?] evangelical
- Heroes: Elijah, Bonhoeffer
- Interests: theology, literature, life, beards, colors and shapes, being active
- Occupation: student
- Website: http://viswaters.blogspot.com
Music
- Favorite Artists: Wilco, David Bazan, Appleseed Cast, Jurado, Dylan, Neil Young, Beatles, Yo La Tengo, Sufjan
- Favorite Albums: Jimmy Eat World's "Clarity", Wilco's "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot", Pedro the Lion's "It's Hard to Find a Friend", Appleseed Cast's "Two Conversations"
- Favorite Genre: space-alt.-country-rock, and classical
- Favorite Songs: "Secret of the Easy Yoke," Bazan; "Cortez the Killer," Neil Young, a vast number of Wilco songs
- Songs for Roadtrips: Saves the Day songs work really well
- Songs I hate: nearly every pop song
- Band I wish I was in: Wilco.. like you really had to ask
Movies
- Favorite Movies: Bottle Rocket, Life Aquatic, High Fidelity, Waiting for Guffman, Ordinary People, Eternal Sunshine
- Favorite Actors: John Cusack, Brad Pitt, Bill Murray
- Favorite Directors: Wes Anderson, hands down
- Favorite Genre: Good films [not really a genre], documentaries, foreign films
- Favorite Soundtracks: Anything Wes Anderson
- Movie Quotes I say all the time: " 'Lightning strikin' again, and again, and again, and ag..' ' pop-a-pop-a-pop' "
- Movies I can watch over and over: All of my favorites plus Shaun of the Dead, Tommy Boy and others
- Actor that would play me in a movie: Paul Bettany
Style
- Where I shop: Goodwill, JC Pennys
- Brands I love: Levi
- I like to wear: not-pants
- Can't live without: pants
- Prized Possessions: not -pants
- Guilty Pleasure: pants
Food
- Favorite Cuisine: Middle-Eastern
- Favorite Dishes: pizza, curry anything, fallafel
- Favorite Desserts: DQ Blizzard
- Favorite Drinks: Cherry Coke, Boddington's, Newcastle, Agua
- Favorite Junk Foods: Little Debbies
- Best meal ever: Probably something from Pita Inn, but the company kept increased the wonderfulness of it
- My Original Recipes: Yeah, no.
- Favorite Restaurants: Pita Inn, Callie's Sandwiches
- Foods I hate: Cucumbers?
Books
- Favorite Books: the Gospel of John, On the Road, The Samurai
- Favorite Authors: Hemingway, Endo, Kerouac, Flannery O'Connor
- Favorite Genres: short stories, novels
- Recent Reads: Flannery O'Connor's complete short stories
Travel
- Places I love: Iowa, Germany, Parks, Mountains, Portland, the Oregon coast
- Places I've been: Paris, Germany, Rome, Hawaii, all over the states
- Places to see before I die: Montreal, London, Lima, somewhere in Africa
- Dream Vacation: back to Garmisch, Germany
the_Vis
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- Name: Vis
- Country: United States
- State: Iowa
- Metro: Des Moines
- Birthday: 7/25/1981
- Gender: Male
- Member Since: 11/27/2004
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