Steven Mitchell's profile

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

Living or dead: Russell Kirk. He was a conservative political writer in the middle-late 20th century. A truly great mind, and I'd love to pick his brain about current political on-goings.

Living: Warren Haynes. Lead guitarist of Gov't Mule and Allman Brothers. He's an amazing guitar player, and it'd definitely be sweet to sit in with the band to jam a bit.

My father, first of all, who passed away a few years ago. Since then, I've lived my life in order to make his legacy known, in a manner of which I know he'd be proud.

Calvin Coolidge is my favorite president, and we have so much in common, and he's my example of what a politician should be. He's my inspiration that politicians don't have to be boisterous baby-kissers, pandering to the people. When I run for office some day - one of my many life goals - I want to operate as he did.

AC/DC, The Allman Brothers Band, The Band, The Beatles, The Black Crowes, Blues Traveler, Jackson Browne, Caedmon's Call, Counting Crows, Derek & The Dominos, Drive-By Truckers, Bob Dylan, The Elms, Faces, Fountains of Wayne, Gov't Mule, Grateful Dead, Sara Groves, George Harrison, Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Holly, The Jam, Kevin Max, moe., Van Morrison, Nickel Creek, Oasis, Phish, Grace Potter and The Nocturnals, Queen, The Raspberries, R.E.M., Rush, John Rutter, The Smiths, Rod Stewart (early work), The Stone Roses, Traffic, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Richard Wagner, The Wallflowers, Derek Webb, Charles Wesley, The Who, Widespread Panic, Yonder Mountain String Band

Non-artist-specific genres: 60's and 80's garage rock, bluegrass, pre-bop jazz, lounge jazz, theatre organ, Tin Pan Alley

The Apartment, Casablanca, The Departed, Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Godfather, The Great Escape, Indiana Jones, James Bond, Lawrence of Arabia, The Lord of the Rings, Lost in Translation, The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Match Point, My Fair Lady, North by Northwest, Patton, Rear Window, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Star Wars, To Kill a Mockingbird, Vertigo, La vita è bella

Band of Brothers, Jeopardy, The Kids in the Hall, Lost, M*A*S*H, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Office, Sports Night, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The West Wing, The Wonder Years

I don't watch that many shows (note that most of those above haven't been on the air since the 20th century), but those I do watch, I watch almost religiously.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Anti-Federalist Papers, Babbitt, The Bill of Rights (Amar), The Bondage of the Will, The Christian Tradition series (Pelikan), The Conservative Mind, Coolidge: An American Enigma, The Debate on the Constitution, The Freedom of the Will (Edwards), T.S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gulliver's Travels, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Kidnapped, The Lord of the Rings, A Modest Proposal, Perelandra, The Silmarillion, Sherlock Holmes, Slouching Towards Gomorrah, The Tempting of America, True Spirituality, foreign language grammars, Supreme Court opinions