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Ryan

If Tragedy's Appealing, Then Disaster's An Addiction

About Me



My Bands & Projects

My Interests

Music, Art, Photography, Video Games, Anime, Graphic Design, Movies, Kendo, Wicca and Quantum Physics
My Deviant Art Page

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Music:


...Of Sinking Ships
3 Inches of Blood
30 Seconds to Mars
88 Fingers Louie
A Wilhelm Scream
Action Action
Alexisonfire
A Message of Bullets
At The Drive-In
Atreyu
Between The Buried And Me
Brand New
Break The Silence
Casey Jones
Chiodos
Codeseven
Coheed and Cambria
Dead to Fall
Diversion Scene
Dragonforce
Dredg
Envy
Explosions In The Sky
Few Left Standing
From Autumn To Ashes
Frou Frou
Further Seems Forever
Glassjaw
Grade
Head Automatica
Hopesfall
Horse The Band
Jimmy Eat World
Light This City
Minus The Bear
Mogwai
Moneen
Motion City Soundtrack
Murder By Death
My Chemical Romance
Poets and Thieves
Poison The Well
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Red Knife Lottery
Red Sparowes
Refused
Russian Circles
Saved By Graces
Shai Hulud
Slayer
Smackin Isaiah
Sparta
Stanlin's War
Straylight Run
Strung Out
The Bled
The Fall of Troy
The Human Abstract
This is Hell
Thrice
Thursday
Trivium
Tsunami Bomb
Underoath
Vedera
White Zombie
Yellowcard

Movies:


Donnie Darko
The Fountain
The Rules of Attraction
Fight Club
Gattaca
Requiem For A Dream
Seven
Blue Velvet
Boondock Saints
American Psycho
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Beach
Once
Stranger Than Fiction
Dawn of the Dead
The Waking Life
-This list exludes most horror movies, they are all my favorites.
View My DVD Collection

Television:


Bones
Dexter
Heroes
Lost
Metalocalypse
Nip/Tuck
The Office
Oz
Prison Break
Six Feet Under
Surface
24
Twin Peaks
Samurai Jack
Invader Zim
X-Files
Berserk

Books:


The Dark Tower Series
Chuck Palahniuk
Clive Barker
Jack Ketchum
HP Lovecraft
Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child
Garth Ennis
Steve Niles
Tim Seeley

Heroes:


Cassie Hack
Groups

My Blog

Precision Work

Solar Systems epic (really long) recording sessions continued today with me tracking leads.  All I gots to say is from about 7pm-midnite I only finished one song and the two chorus for another, a...
Posted by Ryan on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:51:00 PST

Michael Graves Show

So I opened for Michael Graves tonight, filling in a accoustic guitar spot for a local group called Venus in Furs. It was an interesting experience since I grew up watching that incarnation of the Mi...
Posted by Ryan on Sun, 25 May 2008 09:42:00 PST

The Nightly News

Last night I read possibly the most amazing work I have in quite some time, "The Nightly News" by Jonathan Hickman.  It is a graphic novel of sorts written and illustrated by Hickman who is a gra...
Posted by Ryan on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 05:34:00 PST

Heath Ledger gave up the ghost

Heath Ledger died today.  Thats really weak, it seems every year around this time someone really interesting dies well before their time.  The band dedicated our post Luna jam in memory of. ...
Posted by Ryan on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:32:00 PST

Mestuff

history of the flying veitch ABOUT YOU1. Raised in: Pick City, ND2. Planned baby: Don't want to k...
Posted by Ryan on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:51:00 PST

4 Jobs in 4 Days

So this summer while I was taking correspondence classes to finish my pysch minor I took a night audit job (11pm-7am) at the West Fargo Super 8 in addition to working at Best Buy.  It was pretty ...
Posted by Ryan on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:52:00 PST

Friday the 13th: The Attack of the Killer Lettuce

I had quiet an eventful Friday the 13th.  After meeting with my advisor and got some school squared away I had a nice chicken salad. Yum.  Back at home while trying to clean the mess that is...
Posted by Ryan on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:34:00 PST

Drew Hayes Died

I just read today that Drew Hayes (Creator of Poison Elves) died at the ripe old age of 37.  Besides being shitty that someone died, now his most amazing epic tale will never be finished. Suck.
Posted by Ryan on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:58:00 PST

Update 02/28/07

Life update to people who know me. I've transferred back to NDSU to finish a PR/Advertising degree.  It seems to tie together all my other interests to heres hoping this is what I'm after.  ...
Posted by Ryan on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:03:00 PST