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I’m a professional graphic designer living and breathing in Los Angeles.

On weekends, I serve as music director for a Filipino church in Anaheim, CA.

reading / listening / watching

books i’ve yet to finish:

  • “desiring God”, john piper
  • “the chronicles of narnia”, c.s. lewis (three out of seven books down)
  • “praise habit: finding God in sunsets and sushi”, david crowder

books i’ve read recently:

  • “blue like jazz”, donald miller
  • “velvet elvis”, rob bell
  • “the alchemist”, paolo coelho
  • “crazy love”, francis chan
  • “the unquenchable worshipper”, matt redman
  • “the sex lives of cannibals: adrift in the equatorial pacific”, j maarten troost
  • “the lovely bones”, alice sebold
  • “through painted deserts”, donald miller
  • “angela’s ashes”, frank mccourt
  • “’tis”, frank mccourt
  • “teacher man”, frank mccourt
  • “a long way down”, nick hornby
  • “the glass castle”, jeannette walls
  • “the varieties of scientific experience”, carl sagan

shows i can’t get enough of:

  • lost
  • the office
  • arrested development
  • how i met your mother

shows i’m currently absorbing:

  • the wire
  • mad men
  • parks & recreation
  • anthony bourdain: no reservations

shows i’ve been told to get into:

  • battlestar galactica
  • breaking bad

lyrics i live by:

  • charlie hall, “You are breathtaking and breathgiving”
  • delirious, “and my heart burns for You”
  • switchfoot, “i’m a crooked soul trying to stay up straight, dry eyes in the pouring rain.”
  • u2, “life should be fragrant, rooftop to the basement.”
  • death cab for cutie, “i braved treacherous streets and kids strung out on homemade speed.”
  • david crowder band, “like it means everything, I’m just trying to make you sing.”
  • the white stripes, “conquiiiiiiiiiiistaaaa!”
  • arcade fire, “you changed all the lead sleeping in my head to gold.”
  • andrew bird, “mumble mumble” whistle violin.
  • the decemberists, “you belong to the gang and you say you can’t break away. but i’m here with my hands on my heart.”
  • sufjan stevens, “We were in love, we were in love, palisades, palisades, i can’t wait, i can’t wait.”
  • sigur ros, “icelandic icelandic gibberish hopelandic”