Looking for: Inspiration

I'm so bad at updating this! I remember doing Xanga before and how much it helped to always get my ideas written out, so here I go.

I'm currently listening to Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. This is really good music. I'm trying to broaden my musical horizons a little bit, but I can't seem to find much music that's not either straight pop/rock or weird new classical music. Suggestions?

While I'm asking about music, I should ask about reading too. I've had these ideas running around my head about a sci-fi fantasy type of book that I'm thinking of developing. To get prepared, I'm doing some general reading. Just got done with The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson, which I liked, and The Metamorphosis and In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka, which I hated, but after thinking about them for a day, they don't seem quite so bad. So, any books you really like would be good suggestions, but sci-fi and fantasy especially. I'd like to get a little more familiar with the genres. Are the Star Wars books any good?

This is kind of a disjointed post, but I'm probably just used to journaling all my random thoughts in no particular order. I'm sure the rust will come off soon. Anyway, one last thing: My dad has been talking about two contrasting ideas.

1) Christians are still sinners and will be until the resurrection, therefore they are fighting against their sin nature their whole lives.

2) Christians are no longer sinners, and are acting against their nature when they do sin.

Those are severely simplified summaries, but it's mostly just to get the conversations going. Which of those ideas do you subscribe to?