Darkbull
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Physician |
| Location | Utah Valley, Utah |
| Introduction | I'll end up changing this. I'm Thad. I got tired of opining on Facebook and I figured in my own egocentric way that people would be interested in my blog. We'll see what I think about this premise in 2 years. The best description of me was once succintly stated: I'm exceptionally above average. I'm the youngest and tallest of six kids, grew up in the east, came out west, found my beautiful bride, dragged her around the world for 15 years in the army, and then when she finally loved a place we moved to, I got out of the army and took her home to Utah. Now we chase our four girls, and try to find serenity in the midst of our self-induced chaos. Join us now at your own risk. I'm a father of seven children. Three of our sons died prematurely, and so we adopted our four little girls... and they're amazing. Jill and I struggle every day with being parents, being professionals, and discovering how our love and faith makes us tick. We have a great family. We're just a little dysfunctional. |
| Interests | sleeping without snoring, finding a cold Cherry Coke Zero in the fridge, avoiding sweat, avoiding pain, making my children laugh, not making my wife cry, and finding truth. |
| Favorite Movies | My latest favorit: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Others: Inception. The Dark Knight Trilogy. Lincoln. It's a Wonderful Life. So I Married An Axe Murderer. Any Monty Python. Raising Arizona (about the only good movie Nicolas Cage was ever in). Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (about the only good movie Keanu Reeves was ever in--but I haven't seen 47 Ronin yet). Tommy Boy. Ah, there are others, just can't think of them right now. I love movies. |
| Favorite Music | Wolfmother, Foo Fighters, Stone Temple Pilots, Led Zeppelin, Blind Melon, Buzzcocks, The Church, Coldplay, Men at Work, Crowded House, AC/DC, The Cure, New Order, The Cult, Children Collide, Dead Letter Circus, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, The Eagles, Echo and the Bunnymen, ELO, Erasure (first concert ever), The Field Mice, Fishbone, The Fixx, Fort Knox Five, Garbage, Heart, Information Society, INXS, Iron Maiden, Jamiroquai, Jars of Clay, Jimi Hendrix, John Michael Montgomery, Garth Brooks, Dierks Bentley, Dixie Chicks, Johnny Mathis, Johnny Cash, Journey, Keali'i Reichel, Kingswood, The Kinks, Kiss, Kool and the Gang, Level 42, Linkin' Park, Little River Band, Live, Living Colour, Love and Rockets, Marvin Gaye, Meat Puppets, Metallica, Michael Jackson (early), Midnight Oil, The Monkees, Morrisey, The Smiths, Muse, Motley Crue, Night Ranger, Nine Inch Nails (Pretty Hate Machine), No Doubt, Oingo Boingo, OMD, Orleans, The Outfield, P.M, Dawn, Pearl Jam, Pet Shop Boys, Peter Murphy, Pink Floyd, Police, Pretenders, Psychedelic Furs, Public Enemy, Queen, R.E.M, (only Green and before), Rage Against the Machine, Rush, School of Fish, SheDaisy, Silver Chair, Simon & Garfunkel, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Split Enz, Steely Dan, Steve Miller Band, Styx, Swim Herschel Swim (homage to Provo Ska, 1990s), Temper Trap, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Transvision Vamp, U2 (first new music I heard through a doorway while knocking doors as a Mormon missionary -- Mysterious Ways), Unified Theory, Van Halen (without Hagar, 1984 and before only), Van Morrison, Verruca Salt, Weezer, The Who, Yaz, Yes (first band my brother Jason introduced me to—one summer, only Yes, Iron Maiden, and Rush), You Say Party! We Say Die! Youth Group, Elliott Smith. |
| Favorite Books | The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Bill Bryson, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chronicles of Narnia, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Prophet, The Question of God, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, How to Win Friends and Influence People, The Cost of Discipleship, C.S. Lewis, Jesus the Christ... okay I'm down the list far enough, can I put The Bible and the Book of Mormon without turning on the zealot alarm? Rough Stone Rolling, Predictably Irrational, The Skeptical Environmentalist, 1984; Michael Crichton, Dan Brown, Tom Clancy, and John Grisham (my sugary pleasures), Brothers Karamazov, Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Federalist Papers, Dutch, Hellhound on His Trail, The Power Game, Coming of Age in The Milky Way, Born to Run, The Dictator's Handbook; Power, Faith and Fantasy (really an incredible book about the history of Israel); Krushchev: The Man and His Era, 1491, A History of the Jews, Revolt in the Desert, The Crime and Punishment of IG Farben, Chaos, In the Heart of the Sea, Unbroken, Dune (the entire series, as well as the prequel books Herbert's son wrote--yes I like those too), most of Orson Scott Card's books (both religious, sci-fi, and fantasy), Hunger Games, Eragon Trilogy (that ended up in 4 books), David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, The Divergent Trilogy, The Sports Gene, all of Jeff Shaara's historical fiction war books (and especially his father's "Gettysburg"), Moneyball, The Blind Side, The Big Short (and yes, I read them before they were movies), The Looking Glass Wars, most of Oliver Sacks' books, Death in the City of Light, Child 44, Direct Action, Malcolm X, Animal Farm, The Road to Coorain, With Blood in Their Eyes, The Christ Commission, The Harry Potter series, lots of Isaac Azimov, Michael Moorcock's Elric series, Game of Thrones, Flatland, Sphereland, Ringworld. |
Your people want to make a statue in your honor. What will it be made out of and what victory will it commemorate?
Old rags. It will be commemorating my eventual victory over bed wetting. Damn those vampires that were waiting for me to walk to the bathroom in the dark. Damn them all (they were in our storage room too).