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Ryan

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposi

About Me

I am an all or nothing kind of person. Real above Fake. Not willing to rest when there is living to do. Remaining centered and functional is a priority. I am into music and art. In my spare time I am trying to get a PhD and start a record label. I want to change the world though nonviolence. I recognize disability as another ability. I want to enable peace and not war. I support feminist perspectives. I want to realize life in a meaningful way. I believe in poetry.....I believe in Love.

My Interests

Life. Fun. Politics, Public Health, Ecological thought. Gourmet cooking and fine wine. Rivers, Gardens. Painting, Photography, Mysticism, Rock and Roll.

I'd like to meet:

Leonard Peltier, Chief Joeseph, Gore Vidal, Joseph of Arimathea, Carl Jung, Nancy Pelosi.....Enduring women with vision.....who can dance, rock out and have a good time.RECENT CLIPS:March 18th 2007, Bear Den Visit with ADL and PA game commission wildlife biologists.How I fall when I fall -First day on the job...Salvador Dali - Mustache in motion with chocolatemellow for your today ... PORTISHEAD - RoadsCheck out some of my songs,http://www.myspace.com/acastledangerI play the drums in The Wilcox Hotel.http://www.myspace.com/thewilcoxhotel

Music:

"This is the best album I've ever heard... anyone could say that for probably 120 albums and it would be be true for every one of them." - Captain Mac... In general here is a list of artist that I like in no particular order: The Wilcox Hotel, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, J.J. Cale, Manu Chao, Bob Marley and the Wailers, The Pixies, The Violent Femmes, Willie Nelson, Townes Van Zandt, Tom T. Hall, Uncle Tupelo, The Beatles, John Lee Hooker, Emmylou Harris, the Cure, AC/DC, Tom Waits, Lucinda Williams, The Flatlanders, The Beatles, Beastie Boys, Cake, New Order, Ani Di Franco, The Band, The Allman brothers band, The Greatfull Dead, Nirvana, Prince and the New Revolution, Jurassic 5, Silver Sun Pickups, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Cat Power, Nico Case, Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, Black Sabbath, Morphine, The Flaming Lips, Jane’s Addiction, Johnny Cash, John Prine, Greg Brown, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Pavement, The Chemical Brothers, Elbow, Beck, Cindy Blackman, Steel Pulse, Soundgarden, Wolfmother, James McMurtry, Northern Shoveler, Little Townes, Spider Kelly, Sly and the Family Stone, Cry on Que, Drive by truckers, The King Cotton Rounders, Anais Mitchell, Midlake, Jean Roman, Talking Heads, The The, And many many more.....

Movies:

Directors: Michael Gondry, Stanley Kubrick, Spike Jones, Spike Lee..... Movies: il Postino, Amelie, 2001, Roger and me, Pi, The Big Lebowski, Herald and Maude, Like Water for Chocolate,

Television:

Old Kung Fu episodes, All Creatures Great and Small. The Animal Planet, History Channel, Truth be told I'm not really into TV. Right now I am into Jimi Hendrix. Here is the video clip of what I saw as my very first exposure to Hendrix. (Not Kidding) It was 1988 in Hailey Idaho. I was hanging out with a bunch of friends who were much older than I was. They also were much more “Experienced” with Hendrix. We just had floated the Wood River. I remember it well. Back in those days video meant VHS and a world wide web was something out of a comic book. ENJOY: This is Denny Dent painting Hendrix (this appears on the video for the live album “Jimi Plays Monterey” filmed in 1967, released in 1986)All towns need more art! Check out "one week of art"
One week of art
Uploaded by gabma Kim Deal once jumped directly on top of me doing a stage dive. Minneapolis 1994 The Breeders opened for Nirvana. When that happened, Nirvana was at full tilt face melting glory and I was paying acute attention. I think catching Kim as punctuation on a perfect moment. This was the Breeders' big hit at the time. - CannonballHere is what I would like to see on TV - Bob Dylan, Masters of War...

Books:

Authors: Robert Bly, Carlos Castaneda, Hunter S. Thompson, Rachel Carson, Carl Sagan, Mary Shelly, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain..... Books: Silent Spring, 1984, The Da Vinci Code, Childhood's End, Sphere, Iron John, Siddhartha, The Mists of Avalon, Einstein's Dreams,

Heroes:

My Family. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Buddha, Abraham, Muhammad and Jesus, Maya Angelou, John Bonham, (Francis Crick, James Watson, Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin, Kerry Mullis, Craig Venter), Vincent Van Gogh,

My Blog

cigarettes

............................................................ ................................................Disclaimer: I cant really speak for everyone but im pretty sure if you have ever smoked then...
Posted by Ryan on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:37:00 PST

Crop Circles and Feeling Flow

The west Kennet long barrow is a Neolithic burial house that stands near Avebury England. It functioned as a place to bring the diseased to be displayed while ceremonial rituals and burial rites wer...
Posted by Ryan on Wed, 23 May 2007 01:17:00 PST

Penns Creek at noon

Pre Script:I went fly fishing this morning at Penns Creek. A friend was showing me some areas of the river that I hadnet yet seen. Its spring time and it rained a couple of days ago so the water level...
Posted by Ryan on Sun, 06 May 2007 11:06:00 PST

There is no door

Float 4 of 6   Pre-amble&..  I met another floater last week.  It's good to talk with somebody who has gone through the tank a few times& It's very apparent that the variation o...
Posted by Ryan on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 01:27:00 PST

Spring time Nuevo Pennsylvania Dutch (Pennsylvania Dutch cooking fused with Cali)

Today a late winter snow fall: The old timers in the northeast US sometimes call the last snowfalls of the late winter "Onion snow". The very last accumulating snow is called "THE Onion Snow". The rea...
Posted by Ryan on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 05:22:00 PST

Float blog self censorship - Float 3 of 6

 Intro -  I kind of think that folks who are reading this and are not part of the tank study might think I'm pretty obscure in my descriptions of the floats.  Henceforth, I am g...
Posted by Ryan on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:44:00 PST

Identifying the doors that will lead to a road and the great distance to self

2/28/2007 Float 2 of 6 The float goes well but it is a bit different from the first time. Ian is all set in the lab. He remembers that I light a candle on my way in and out of the tank....
Posted by Ryan on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:26:00 PST

wave particle duality

The universe is a wave   I have a lot of my belongings in boxes sitting around in my closets and I really am having a tough time going through them and remembering things about the objects or w...
Posted by Ryan on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:25:00 PST

Experimental transcendentalism

 Intro: I am taking part in a sensory deprivation experiment through the anthropology department.  The investigators want to see if there is a correlation between ancestry and ability to ha...
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:36:00 PST