John Murphy's profile

Denomination: Presbyterian Church in America
Church Involvement: Member
Leadership Involvement: Will help when asked
Church Interests: Christian Education

Matt Groening, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, JK Rowling

Chris Bachalo
Nathaniel Wingfield
Corinne Kurzmann
Paul Cook
Gary Kramer
Stu Imai
Phineas Smith
The Scrabbling Sneeds

Anything that isn't (up to but not including) gimmicky, shrill, tedious, sharp, harsh, cacophonous and/or devoid of a traceable melody. This includes most experimental and some "World" music.

Music I like (may include exemptions from above requirements)
Tom Waits, Modest Mouse, Godspeed You Black Emperor, The Mars Volta, They Might Be Giants, Sigur Ros, Sufjan Stevens, Over the Rhine, Old Blind Dogs, the Pogues, Smoking Popes..

I largely dislike Contemporary Christian music; the wet blanket of the music industry. Christians who have made good music: Pedro the Lion, Sunny Day Real Estate (and subsequently the Fire Theft), Over the Rhine, Rich Mullins, Bruce Cockburn, Sara Groves, Jason Morant, Bono..

How's Your News

Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere
Star Trek
The Simpsons
Darkwing Duck
Heroes

Various X-Men comic veins.
Comic books, esp. if written by Grant Morrison and Joss Whedon (their ilk) and illustrated by Don Figueroa, Chris Bachalo, J. Scott Campbell, Doug Ten Napel, Jon Bogdanove, Joe Madureira.. I could go on.
Creature Tech, Doug Ten Napel
Little Nemo in Slumberland, Winsor McCay
Toni Morrison
Alice Walker
Chuck Palahniuk
Tristan Egolf
Harry Potter series