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Ryan (GO ROCKIES!)

'Here's some advice I wish I would've got when I was your age: Live every week like it's Shark Week'

About Me

"Sounds too simple / Love is the only answer / Everything else is just a train wreck" - Rocky Votolato
"Some people are closest to God when they're in church, singing songs. I'm closest to God when I'm on a mountain, looking around, saying, 'Thanks for making this.'" - Dave Treadway, Professional Skier
"I try to be an artist who aspires to find hope even in dark places. If I’m down, I don’t want to bring people down to that place with me. I’m looking for a way out." - Dustin Kensrue
I write... sometimes well and sometimes not so well (What is sentence structure anyways???)...
I'm continually growing in strength and love...
I spend some days with idealistic thoughts trying to get them to come true and some days hatching plots to get our smiles and laughs to come out to play...
I go to Flatirons Community Church in Lafayette. This is a place of respect, acceptance, love, grace and honesty, check it out.
I volunteer for the children's ministry at church, which basically means I get to play with 3, 4 and 5-year olds for an hour and feed my inner 3 year old fun...
Photo taken by Blake Jorgenson, Skier: Sammy Carlson
COLORADO BANDS/ARTISTS YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT:
DeVotchka, Born In The Flood, Love Me Destroyer, The Photo Atlas, Signal To Noise, The Swayback, Skyrise To Martus, Mustangs And Madras, Autokinoton, Red Cloud West, Drag The River, Ghost Buffalo, Only Thunder, Sleeper Horse, Hands Up, Rebuild, Tin Horn Prayer, The Apples In Stereo, Gregory Alan Isakov, Mark Darling, The Wheel, Nathan & Stephen, A Dog Paloma, Matson Jones, Dang Head, Ian Cooke, Bad Weather California, Reed Foehl, Bela Karoli, Dualistics, Everything Absent And Distorted, Handsome Bobby, Foolish Things, Roper, Brave Saint Saturn, The Autumn Film, Brian Davis, Danny Oertli, 12 Cents For Marvin, My Pet Alex, 9th And Lincoln Orchestra, Nicole Torres And The Affiliates, Andrea Ball, Cast Upon Alcott, Aloft In The Sundry, Limited Press, Planes Mistaken For Stars (R.I.P.),The Gamits (R.I.P.), Christie Front Drive (R.I.P.), Crestfallen (R.I.P.), Pinhead Circus (R.I.P.), The Volts (R.I.P.), Vaux (R.I.P), Laymen Terms (R.I.P.), The Blackout Pact (R.I.P.), Five Iron Frenzy (R.I.P.)

My Interests

I'd like to meet:



Music:

Recent acquisitions:
Bradley Hathaway - The Thing That Poets Write About, The Thing That Singers Sing About
Thrice - The Alchemy Index: Volumes I And II- Fire & Water
Look Mexico - This Is Animal Music
Born In The Flood - If This Thing Should Spill
Chuck Ragan - Los Feliz
The Bouncing Souls - The Gold Record

I own CDs and/or records by these bands/artists:

The 65 Film Show
A Wilhelm Scream
Against Me!
Alkaline Trio
Anberlin
The Animals
At The Drive-In
Ateriavia
Bayside
Between The Trees
Born In The Flood
The Bouncing Souls
Brand New
By The End Of Tonight
Caroline's Spine
Cartel
Johnny Cash
Casting Crowns
Chevelle
The Clash
Comeback Kid
Copeland
Crime In Stereo
Death Cab For Cutie
Eluvium
Emery
Explosions In The Sky
Flogging Molly
The Fray
Further Seems Forever
The Get Up Kids
Give Up The Ghost
Gorilla Biscuits
Bradley Hathaway
Hawk Nelson
Jimi Hendrix
Hopesfall
Hot Hot Heat
Hot Water Music
Incubus
Iron And Wine
Jars Of Clay
Jimmy Eat World
Jack Johnson
Damien Jurado
Mat Kearney
Dustin Kensrue
Kid Dynamite
Kill Your Idols
Kings Of Leon
The Lawrence Arms
Laymen Terms
Led Zeppelin
Less Than Jake
Lifetime
Look Mexico
Love Me Destroyer
mewithoutYou
Millencolin
Minor Threat
Minus The Bear
Mono
Motion City Soundtrack
The Movielife
MxPx
The Nixons
None More Black
Over It
Pain
Park
The Postal Service
Podunk
Queens Of The Stone Age
The Ramones
Refused
Damien Rice
Rise Against
Rival Schools
The Rolling Stones
Saves The Day
Shook Ones
Sparta
Sufjan Stevens
Stone Temple Pilots
Strike Anywhere
The Stryder
Switchfoot
Thrice
Thursday
J. Tillman
Vallejo
Rocky Votolato
Weezer
With Honor

Movies:

I'll pretty much watch any movie unless it's a crappy "horror" gore-fest. Any smart humor, dumb humor, Will Ferrell movies, comic book movies, and all the best 80's movies. Some absolute faves are Fight Club, Garden State, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Stranger Than Fiction, Rushmore, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, High Fidelity, Swingers, Walk The Line...

Television:

I like Scrubs, The Office, 30 Rock and Heroes.

Books:

They make me have a better vocabulary.
Currently reading: Jeremiah and Searching For God Knows What by Donald Miller again

Always: The Word and anything by Chuck Palahniuk, John Eldredge, C.S. Lewis, Donald Miller, Dave Eggers, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Nick Hornby

Heroes:

Anyone who loves with all of their heart.....

My Blog

As You See Fit, My Friend

As You See Fit, My Friend"Let me be a lighthouse shining on the seaso you can see me showing you where to beand row row row your boat to shoreand let let let my heart adore you as never before"*I want...
Posted by Ryan (GO ROCKIES!) on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:54:00 PST

White Dresses Twirling

A few days ago I was at Chipotle getting lunch for my coworker and myself as he asked me to get something and bring it back to the station, and standing in line in front of me were two girls, two high...
Posted by Ryan (GO ROCKIES!) on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:37:00 PST

Ruts And Guts

The wheels spin spin spin& the mud just piles up higher and higher in the wheel well& We're not going anywhere& Most of my life I've felt stuck. I was stuck in a town of 6,000 people for eighteen year...
Posted by Ryan (GO ROCKIES!) on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:19:00 PST

Heroes And Villains

Lack of sleep, Fight Club, Give Up The Ghost, Heroes (the tv show), and certain thoughts that pertain to I'm not sure... It could be you, whoever... lead to this... Heroes And Villains Tear ...
Posted by Ryan (GO ROCKIES!) on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:00:00 PST

A Mild Case Of Insomnia ("Thats 3 Times You Promised")

Sleep... Whatever happened to sleep? ...Why is the light outside so bright? I can see it in the hallway... I walk to the sliding glass door... Outside seems so far away right now... It doesn't even fe...
Posted by Ryan (GO ROCKIES!) on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:48:00 PST

Failing Basic Mathematics

By the way, I'd say this applies to all of us and me as well because we're all human and we all can be selfish. Sometimes I do need to be reminded that I'm not the center of the universe from tim...
Posted by Ryan (GO ROCKIES!) on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:15:00 PST

Bypassing Bridges

Bypassing Bridges   I feel I'm standing on the edge of the remains of a smoldering bridge The result of my pyromaniac heart rebellion, but a new light has been shed on an old idea, and all I want...
Posted by Ryan (GO ROCKIES!) on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:25:00 PST

The Rivers Swelled Its Banks

The River's Swelled It's Banks   City lights! City lights! I see you suffering underneath their effervescence Walking in the wind as if in rapidly rising flood waters It's not weakness to reach o...
Posted by Ryan (GO ROCKIES!) on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 02:22:00 PST

Soapbox Stages Above Skyscraper Roofs

Soapbox Stages Above Skyscraper Roofs   All this second guessing and backtrack thought is getting me nowhere Yeah I felt this to be true, a calling if you will, but now it's gone gone gone  ...
Posted by Ryan (GO ROCKIES!) on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:14:00 PST

New Hope For Broken Water

The Bouncing Souls - Born Free   "Fear is in the air, that's the way they want it to be. 'Don't trust friends or neighbors everyone's your enemy!' Kidnapped children on tv, fear runs through the ...
Posted by Ryan (GO ROCKIES!) on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 10:44:00 PST