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Ryan

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About Me

Voracious sleeper.

My Interests

I like Beagles, but not Snoopy because Snoopy's not a real Beagle. I know that he's not a real Beagle...and so do you.

I'd like to meet:

I'd probably party with Keith Richards if given the opportunity. No spiders, please.

Music:

You had to ask....the following spring to mind: A Place to Bury Strangers, Spoon, Wolf Parade, Mew, The National, Radiohead, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Besnard Lakes, Broken Social Scene, Destroyer, Dirty on Purpose, Johnny Cash, My Bloody Valentine, Spoon, Beck, Portastatic, The Tyde, Okkervil River, Cass McCombs, The Charlatans UK, Magnetic Fields, Blur, Sigur Ros, Animal Collective, The Smiths, Air, M83, Wilco, Primal Scream, Beck, Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah, Sarena Maneesh, Pinback, Nico, George Jones, Les Savy Fav, Art Brut, Rogue Wave, Bonnie Prince Billy (Will Oldham in any incarnation),The Zombies, The Kinks, The Pixies, Junior Boys, The Replacements, Bright Eyes, King Tubby, Burning Spear, Black Uhuru, Death Cab, Coltrane, Miles, Mingus, Monk, Supergrass, Blue Cheer, The Congos, Elvis Presley and Costello, Voxtrot, The Hollies, The Fruit Bats, Stars, Lucero, Curtis Mayfield, Sly, Andrew Bird, Waylon Jennings, Low, Spiritualized, The Long Winters, Gram Parsons, Bowie, Embrace, Ramones, Superchunk, Townes Van Zant, Cat Stevens, The New Pornographers, Black Mountain, Dinosaur Jr, Nada Surf, The Comas, The Clash, Cat Power, Guided By Voices, Super Furry Animals, Black Uhuru, Pavement, Massive Attack, The Beatles, Mendoza Line, Funkadelic, The Byrds, The Raveonettes, Roxy Music, Bloc Party, The Jesus and Marychain, Sun Kil Moon, The Stones, Luna, The Wrens, Teenage Fanclub, The Smiths, Fugazi, Damien Rice, Neko Case, Bob Dylan, The Clientele, My Morning Jacket, The Beach Boys, Brian Eno, and old Hillary Duff.

Movies:

Old Joy, Shortcuts, Life is Beautiful, Amelie, Brick, Chocolat, Big Fish, Love Story, Mysterious Skin, Hard Candy, A Christmas Story, It's All Gone Pete Tong, The Royal Tenenbaums, The English Patient, Trainspotting, You, Me and Everyone We Know, The Salton Sea, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Meet the Parents, North by Northwest, City of God, Gone With The Wind, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Finding Neverland, The Godfather, Chelsea Walls, Igby Goes Down, Thumbsucker, Maria Full of Grace, The Last Waltz, Amores Perros, American Splendor, The Smartest Guys in the Room (The Enron Scandal), Lost in Translation, Napoleon Dynamite, A Very Long Engagement, North by Northwest, 24 Hour Party People, Down By Law, Trains, Planes and Automobiles, The Jerk, Fire Walk With Me, Casablanca, What About Bob?, I Walk the Line, Match Point, Requiem For a Dream, B'fast at Tiffany's, In the Company of Men, Slacker (Linklater), Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Happiness, Storytelling, Love Actually, About a Boy, Hang 'Em High, Rushmore, Cool Hand Luke...

Television:

Unfortunately, many of these shows are no longer around... 6 Feet Under, The Office (BBC), Arrested Development, The Sopranos, Real Time w/ Bill Maher, Sports Center, Northern Exposure,

Books:

..A Confederacy of Dunces, On The Road, Dharma Bums, Into the Wild, Flags of Our Fathers, Still Life of a Woodpecker, Tristessa, Even Cowgirls get the Blues, Slaughterhouse 5, To Kill a Mockingbird, Our Band Could Be Your Life, I am Charlotte Simmons, Siddartha,, Brave New World, The Sun Also Rises, The Pearl, East of Eden, The Catcher in the Rye, Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, Play it as it Lays, Sylvia Plath has been murdering me lately.

Heroes:

Mom, Dad, Good Astronauts...the ones that DON'T wreck their fucking space rockets.

My Blog

A Perfect Lyric

Billy Bragg- "Must I Paint You a Picture" The temptationTo take the precious things we have apartTo see how they workMust be resisted for they never fit together again  ...
Posted by Ryan on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:04:00 PST

Summer Mixed Tape

My intent was to start the mix off cool and easy (like late May).  You know, good times at the pool, $40  energy bills, happy hours drink with people you love.  Expectations of an epic ...
Posted by Ryan on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:08:00 PST

Question

Chuck Klosterman poses the following question in his book 'Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs':  At long last, someone invents "the dream DVD recorder." This machine allows you to tape an entire evening'...
Posted by Ryan on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:02:00 PST

Wanderust

The other day I was about to pull into a parking space at this little Japanese restaurant when all of a sudden it occurred to me that I DIDN'T HAVE ANY READING MATERIAL!!!  You see, I have this q...
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:26:00 PST

Gun Control

Am I the only one that feels like it's night of the living brain-dead when walking out city streets at night? Anyone else getting a little fed up with reading stories about good folks gett...
Posted by Ryan on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:31:00 PST

Austin City Limits Line-up Announced!

Alright, we're doing it this year, motherfuckers (you know who I'm talking to)!!!  Rad= lineup, Austin = rad.  Sure, there are some glaring omissions (Okkervil River, Shearwater live in that...
Posted by Ryan on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:24:00 PST

God I hate Keith Olbermann!!!

Once again, that smug fuck, Keith Olbermann is teaming up with the radical left in a pathetic attempt to boost his anemic ratings. Now let me say this, first off, I consider the neo-con tards (read; S...
Posted by Ryan on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:58:00 PST

Marianne Faithful....

.....once wrote a song called "In My Time of Sorrow" and it is as perfect as the single tear that ran out of strength just as it reached the edge of your chin.    ...
Posted by Ryan on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:36:00 PST

My Top 20 Records of 2006

2006 wasn't the greatest year for music, but I did spend many wonderful hours enjoying the below records.  Here's my 20 favorite albums released in '06.  Enjoy!    1- Dirty on Pur...
Posted by Ryan on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 07:24:00 PST

Winter Mixed Tape

Winterlong- Neil Young Ice Skating at Night-  The Ocean Blue The Brother Kite-  I'm the Only One Come On!  Let's Boogie to the Elf Dance- Sufjan Stevens Orchids- Califone Start it Again...
Posted by Ryan on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:27:00 PST