What are your favorite Bible translations/paraphrases?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

My personal copy is the New Living Translation, and that's what my church typically uses.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I probably actually read the New English Translation the most, just because that's the translation the app I have on my iPod uses alongside the KJV.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I think I downloaded that one but it ran kind of weird, only tried for a few minutes though. This is the one I have now: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/holy-bible/id291877741?mt=8

The NET and NLT actually aren't too far off, so whenever the person speaking ever says that they didn't get a missal printed in time or they changed their sermon at the last minute so the verses on it aren't relating to it (there's one guy who does this a lot) and then they'll just put the usually NLT verses on the screen I usually just read it off my iPod instead, and they're never too far off. What I like about the above app is the KJV translation it has running aside the NET by default does the words of Jesus in red thing, so you can notice that even if reading the NET side.