Sethas

The time for reciprocation is upon us. Last week my friend Seth Chase wrote a post on his blog about my blog. This week I am posting on my blog about his. If you want to read his post about mine, you can go to ttp://fadicalblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/my-friend-dan.html
While you are there, you also need to click on his archive from 2006 and scroll down until you see the post about deep thoughts. They are hysterical, especially the one about the swan. Seriously, check it out.
A while ago, I anointed Seth my best-friend-that-I-never-see. When I first moved up to Oregon, Karina and I attended 2 or 3 weeks at the 20-somethings group at our church. The first week there I met Seth, and I remember thinking, "I have met some cool people up here, but this will be my first real close friend. I connected well with him. Over the next six months or so, we tried to hang out, but were thwarted by seminary, schedules, and other things. Eventually I resigned myself to the fact that Seth would likely be one of those people who I really connected with whenever I saw him, but I would not see him much.

During the Summer of 2005 I was roped into leading a mission trip to Lithuania. When Seth and his wife Trina showed some interest I was thrilled. I was thrilled mostly because I was thinking, "This means that I will be able to hang out with Seth for two weeks. Awesome!"
Here's some reasons why Seth is one of my favorite people:
1. He loves movies. He is a film guy, and he makes short films. He and I have had some movie nights, and we have generally had pretty similar taste in movies. One time in Lithuania we were talking about movies and I threw out to him a movie that I love, but that no one else I know has even heard of. The movie is called The Zero Effect. I wrote a post about the movie back in September of '05 if you want to check it out. When I mentioned the movie Seth simply said, "In college I had the poster of that movie up in my room." It was an awesome connecting point.
2. Seth is very honest. We have shared our struggles, and, in particular, our theological struggles. I have shared with Seth some things that I don't share with anyone but Karina, because if I shared it too freely people might fear that one of their pastors was a heretic. On the other hand, Seth doesn't mind having a friend who might be a heretic (and apparentely, Karina does not mind having a husband who might be one (by the way, I don't think I am)). Seth and I have great and deep conversations and we are really able to sharpen each other and let our guards down.
3. Seth is the most self-defacing person I have ever met. He tells hysterical stories. We laugh so hard when we are around each other. The stories end with me thinking, "Seth, I am sure you didn't do something that stupid." And I am usually true that he is playing it up a little, but he totally loves it, and does not take himself so seriously that he becomes embarrassed.
4. I call him Sethas because in Lithuania, all guys' names end in -as. We made up stories about him being a celebrity in Lithuania because he plays guitars. We also made up a series of children's stories about Sethas. Some of them are:
Sethas Plays his Guitar
Sethas Goes to the Zoo
Sethas Runs away from Home
Sethas Signs with an Agent
Sethas Learns to Exploit Teenyboppers
Sethas Opens for the Rolling Stones
Sethas Starts a Cult
It became a fun joke for us, and so I still refer to him as Sethas, as if that is his alter-ego. Sethas and Danas also plan to tour Lithuania under the name of Tegul Tavo, so keep an eye out for us.
Seth liked my blog, but he ripped on it for being too narrow, and making people scroll down a lot. So, in response, my one critique of Seth's blog is that 2006 is not archived month by month. It should be. There you go, sucka!
I don't know why I just said that.
So, Seth and I think this blogging about blogs is really going to take off, but we want to patent it, so if any of you post about other blogs, you have to give us each a quarter. Come on, fair is fair.
Seth and Trina are going to Africa soon (maybe leaving in March). That bums me out seriously, but I am excited for them.
In conclusion, check out Seth's blog. I give it a 8.6 because he gave mine an 8.5 and I am just that kind of guy. Also, I think he is really funny.