CURRENT MISSION

To be a disciple of Jesus Christ

ABOUT ME

http://bendanielparman.com. It's a beautiful day in my personhood. Won't you be mine? I'm sorry, that was creepy. I'm not the Blob, I don't want to consume your personhood. I was just inviting you to come in and know me better, man. The above link is to my diary/portfolio/refrigerator upon which I stick things - mostly pasta, to see if it's done. If you really want to hurt me, call it a blog. But do you really want to hurt me?

PHILOSOPHY

"Designed for good. Damaged by evil. Restored for better. Sent together to heal." -James Choung, True Story

Interests

Raw dessert, Max Ernst collages, racial reconciliation, Eydie Gorme's version of "Do I Hear a Waltz?", jumbo trampolines, Rod Serling, anything with peanut butter, anything with almond butter, The Gilmore Girls, architecture, Kehinde Wiley, reconstructive memory, Kay Thompson, miniatures, Aaron Sorkin, neighborhoods with a high walk score, Jim Bailey, vintage, Dixit, Veronica Mars

• architecture
• waltz
• blogging

Music, Movies, and Books

Yes, yes, yes.

ABBA
Amy Grant
The Andrews Sisters
Aphex Twin
Arcade Fire
The Avalanches
Bat For Lashes
The Beach Boys
Bernard Herrmann
Bjork
Bing Crosby
The Blue Nile
Bobby Vinton
Bonnie Raitt
Bruce Cockburn
Burt Bacharach
California Wives
Camille
The Carpenters
The Cars
The Civil Wars
The Cold War Kids
Colin Hay
The Cure
Daft Punk
Dave Grusin
David Byrne & St. Vincent
DJ Shadow
Don Henley
Doris Day
Dusty Springfield
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Ella Fitzgerald
Elton John
Ennio Morricone
Erik Satie
Eurythmics
Feist
The 5th Dimension
Fiona Apple
Florence and the Machine
Foals
Frank Sinatra
Frederic Chopin
George Winston
Goldfrapp
Henry Mancini
Hooverphonic
Hot Chocolate
Huey Lewis & The News
Imogen Heap
Iron & Wine
James
James Taylor
Jerry Goldsmith
Jim Croce
John Legend
John Mayer
John Williams
Johnnie Ray
Joni Mitchell
Judy Garland
Junip
Karen Carpenter
Kelly Clarkson
Ken Nordine
Lady Gaga
Lambchop
Laura Mvula
Laura Nyro
LCD Soundsystem
M83
Mary Lou Williams
Michael Jackson
Michael Small
Muse
Nellie McKay
Nichole Nordeman
Odetta
Passion Pit
Patty Griffin
Paul Buchanan
The Police
Prince
Quadron
Queen
Ray LaMontagne
Robert Randolph & The Family Band
Robyn
Rosemary Clooney
Rush
Simon & Garfunkel
Stars
Steely Dan
Stephen Sondheim
Steve Reich
Sufjan Stevens
Sweet
Tame Impala
Tom Waits
Tori Amos
Tears for Fears
Tracy Chapman
Trent Reznor
Vince Guaraldi
The Vogues
Warm Ghost
Whitney Houston
The Who
William Shatner
Yaz
Yeasayer
Yes

Annie Hall (1977)
Auntie Mame (1958)
The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
The Bigamist (1953)
The Birds (1963)
Black Narcissus (1947)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
Brief Encounter (1945)
Cactus Flower (1969)
Charade (1963)
The Country Girl (1954)
The Court Jester (1956)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Dead of Night (1945)
Detour (1945)
Diabolique (1955)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Easter Parade (1948)
Far From Heaven (2002)
Freaks (1932)
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)
Gaslight (1944)
Grey Gardens (1975)
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
Halloween (1978)
The Haunting (1963)
Hopscotch (1980)
House of Games (1987)
I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Holiday (1938)
Klute (1971)
The Lady Eve (1941)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
La Jetee (1962)
The Late Show (1977)
Laura (1944)
The Lion in Winter (1968)
Love Me Tonight (1932)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
The Matchmaker (1958)
Minority Report (2002)
Moonstruck (1987)
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
The Music Man (1962)
Network (1976)
Ninotchka (1939)
Noises Off (1992)
Now, Voyager (1942)
Passion Fish (1992)
Peeping Tom (1960)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2013)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Pillow Talk (1959)
The Pink Panther (1964)
Postcards from the Edge (1990)
Pretty in Pink (1986)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Pygmalion (1938)
Rear Window (1954)
Rebecca (1940)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Say Anything (1987)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
Short Cuts (1993)
The Snowman (1982)
Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
The Thin Man (1934)
Tootsie (1982)
The Trouble with Angels (1966)
Truly Madly Deeply (1990)
Waiting for Guffman (1997)
Wait Until Dark (1967)
What's Up Doc? (1972)
White Christmas (1954)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

Amazing Grace and Death at an Early Age by Jonathan Kozol
Anthem by Ayn Rand
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Berlin Stories and A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
The Best of Friends by Hugh Whitemore
Bird by Bird and Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott
Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
Bossypants by Tina Fey
The Celebration of Discipline by Richard J. Foster
The Changeling and The Eyes in the Fishbowl by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Circle, A Heartbreaking work of Staggering Genius, How we are Hungry: Stories and What is the What by Dave Eggers
The Clerk's Tale: Poems by Spencer Reece
The Dreamer and The Name of the Game by Will Eisner
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
Esio Trot by Roald Dahl
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Franny and Zooey and Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
Generation A by Douglas Coupland
Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, Till We Have Faces and Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence by Nick Bantock
The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
If There is Something to Desire by Vera Pavlova
The Illustrated Man and The October Country by Ray Bradbury
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Just Kids by Patti Smith
A Light in the Attic and Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Manalive by G.K. Chesterton
Myra Breckinridge and Myron by Gore Vidal
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg
No, But I Saw the Movie by Peter De Vries
Notes From The Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
A Phone Call From the Future by Mary Jo Salter
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
The Pleasures of the Damned and Run with the Hunted by Charles Bukowski
Postcards from the Edge and Surrender the Pink by Carrie Fisher
The Potting Shed by Graham Greene
The Powers That Be by Walter Wink
The Prophetic Imagination by Walter Brueggemann
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque and A.W. Wheen
Reaching Out and The Wounded Healer by Henri J.M. Nouwen
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
Tempest-Tost and World of Wonders by Robertson Davies
This is a Book by Demetri Martin
The Trouble with Poetry by Billy Collins
Walking on Water and A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
The Way to Love by Anthony de Mello

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Living as a white man in a black neighborhood for 6 years now. In the words of Martin Luther King Jr., "Sin is separation. Is not segregation an existential expression of man’s own tragic separation, his awful estrangement, his terrible sinfulness?" Racial reconciliation is all of our responsibility, and I am humbled by it every day.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Egypt, France, Israel, Jordan, Mexico, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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