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Ryan

STEWART!!!!!

About Me

Hit by a semi when I was a kid. Playing punk rock in Hit By A Semi now. Living life a day at a time, doing the best I can with what I got and who I am. And trying to learn and experience all that I can in every aspect of life.

My Interests

LIFE, MUSIC, HIT BY A SEMI, photography, Taoist Kung Fu and Chinese Medicine and energy healing (this stuff is AMAZING!!), meditation, my friends and family, TRAVELING, art, anthropolgy, the beach, philosophy, learnin', teachin', whiskey-in', sailin', wrenchin', readin', history, food, sleepin', writin' music, playin' music, and listenin' to more music, rainy days, campin', and lots of other shiat.

I'd like to meet:

People that are interesting, intelligent, creative, open-minded, driven, down to earth, and just darn down-right cool kats. No fake people please. The sons and daughters of Rock-n-Roll and Dharma punx.

Music:

EVERYTHING!! But mostly...The Pogues, Joe Strummer and The Clash, Against Me!, Rancid, Sick Of It All, Bob Marley, Old Crow Medicine Show, Hit By A Semi (shameless promotion), Johnny Cash, Classical, Stiff Little Fingers, Django Reinheart, The Epoxies, Sachmo, Tom Waits, Take the Wall, Smut Peddlers, Spanish flamenco, Traditional Irish, Duke Ellington, Dead Milkmen, The Business, DK, The Sore Thumbs, Mr. Cliff Greenwood, Swinging Utters, The Newtown Neurotics, Danny Elfman, Bad Religion, One Man Army, Norah Jones, Reverend Shelby Cobra, Big Band Swing, George Thurgood and the Destroyers, NOFX, Cock Sparrer, Charles Mingus, Oxymoron, Huey Lewis and the News, Ozzy, Flogging Molly, The Police, Hank Williams I II and III (Jekyl and Hyde), Blazing Haley, Solas, Rockabilly, Inverted Nines, James, DKM, Corrosion of Conformity, Traditional Chinese/Japanese, Lunasa, The Rat Pack, jazzz, bluues, and lots of other shiat...

Movies:

Way too many to list...Boondock Saints, Big Trouble in Little China, The Big Labowsky, Heat, Princess Bride, Rockumentaries, Kung fu movies, IRON MONKEY, Documentaries, Pornumentaries, Shawshank Redemption, Goonies, movies in the van on "The Machine"

Television:

Kill your TV!!!!! Except for the Simpsons, Law and Order, Discovery, History, and National Geographic channels. Ohh yeah...and MOST EXTREME ELIMINATION CHALLENGE!!!!!

Books:

Good ones...with pages...that urge you to learn things. Non-fiction, history stuff, (eastern) philosophy, Power vs. Force, Tao Teh Ching, The Alchemist, The DaVinci Code, Dharma Punx, Zen in the Art of Archery, art books, text books, Poe, Shakespear, Irish history, Calvin & Hobbes, (auto)biographies, National Geographic, The Giving Tree (my 1st book), etc.

Heroes:

My Mom, Aaron, Friends, Superman, Joe Strummer, Shane MacGowan, Lance Armstrong, and the doctors whom have put me back together.

My Blog

Hmmmmmmm...

Life, death, preservation, loss, success, failure, worthiness, unworthiness, slander, fame, hunger, thirst, cold, heat, day, night...these change before us and wisdom cannot spy out their source. The...
Posted by Ryan on Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:56:00 PST

Meditate and Destroy!!

Just wanted to alert everyone about the in-progress documentary on meditation teacher and author of Dharma Punx, Noah Levine. The shooting phase of this exciting production is almost 90% complete! Our...
Posted by Ryan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Gunga la gungala.

"....most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire.... attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities. The pursuit of the objects of our desire and attachment involves the us...
Posted by Ryan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

carpe diem

"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting '...holy shit...what a ride!"
Posted by Ryan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

words

it's not that life isn't fair...it just teaches hard lessons. it's up to you to learn from them.
Posted by Ryan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Bands you REALLY need to check out!!

1) The Sore Thumbs - Kick ass punk rock from the East Bay Nowhere, CA. (www.thesorethumbs.com) 2) The Hudson Drags - Some serious punk rock-n-roll from Orange County, CA. (www.myspace.com/hudsondr...
Posted by Ryan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST