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Ryan

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About Me

I got three hands and a high slew rate. I like crossing accomplished tasks off little scraps of paper. I dislike plateaus. I work as a musician, a guitar teacher and a repair tech at Moog music. Click here to buy my CDs.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/14/2005
Band Website: ryan-cox.moonfruit.com
Influences: the cars, the kinks, lou reed, henry miller, vonnegut, velvet underground, chet atkins, neil young, pixies, malkmus and pavement, hank williams, cyndi lauper, buddy holly, iggy pop, polaris, chuck berry, westerberg, elliott smith, garrison keillor, townes van zandt, big trouble in little china, blondie, tom robbins, leonard cohen, bukowski, gavin, brent and no hay banda, arturo, dh lawrence, susanna drake, evan dando and the lemonheads, joanna newsom, the beatles and the stones, dylan, john hurt, john fahey, johnny cash, les paul, hemmingway, orwell, gram parsons, tupac, license to drive, ben folds five, the ramones, purple sonja, jimmy norman, sladash, lee, will, joe, anais nin, johnny smith, dinosaur jr, pete and pete, tom waits, leadbelly, buffalo tom, john strohm, 80s spielberg, the blake babies, wes montgomery, wes anderson, eminem, the cohen brothers, talking heads, nirvana, victoria williams, the jayhawks, tweedy, brubeck, tom morgan and smudge, whiskeytown and ryan adams, arcade fire, debussy, the strokes, springsteen, tom petty, elvis, weezer, chopin, sadie, one song by cat stevens and the beasties.
Sounds Like: Mudcake marmalade.
Record Label: Cheeky Records USA (check out the link)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Bundled

Mini Lunchbreak at work with electronic web radio, frozen burrito and tight shoulders.  La da deedle daah.  The relationship between electricity and magnetism is truly amazing.  One ind...
Posted by Ryan on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:37:00 PST

10-7-07

Sunday morning bike ride. Quiet morning streets with dog. I feel like I've done my twenties in reverse. I'm just starting to get this morning thing. Being up and out with the day off is magic. Wa...
Posted by Ryan on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:34:00 PST

Changes range is strange

Change is generally too gradual to notice. The big changes are anyways. Slow cycles and pendulums and new crowds of people forming new patterns on your tastes, your brain, your experiences. Before ...
Posted by Ryan on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:31:00 PST

Leaf Sanmitch

Dear bloggery& it's been a while. What's been going on? I feel like the nineties are slowing swinging back into relevance. The cycles of my lifetime seem to be everytwentyyearish. Sometimes I'll d...
Posted by Ryan on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:18:00 PST

Summersaults at fault

Soup, but no sandwich. A couple hours before bowling. Fractionally speaking, I'm already halfway through with my life. I'm not sure whether that's a relief or not. Argh, this isn't the start that ...
Posted by Ryan on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:50:00 PST

Take the Wheel for a Sec Please

I went out and bought all the wrong stuff. Now I'm back here at the house on Saturday afternoon, still coffee-less, still sushi-less. Damn. It's surprisingly hard to make these little victories hap...
Posted by Ryan on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 10:07:00 PST

Diving Back in With a Rubber Knife and a Few Teeth Left

So I'm taking a deep breath and going back down to the ocean floor for a little while. Hold my calls. Call it Coral Sway or Reef Relief, but it's hot as balls up here these days. Late August in Ash...
Posted by Ryan on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:08:00 PST

Reverse Cockroach Funnel Cake: A Story of Us

We played the game for years before we lost. Undefeated. Looking back, I though that we'd never lose, never falter, never slip, never spin. Looking back, I was naïve. You bit my tongue. I spit it...
Posted by Ryan on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 03:34:00 PST

Bicycles, Zombies and Polaroids

I recently bought this bike that I use to ride to work and back. It feels like I'm fourteen again in some strange way, weaving through the cars, splashing through the puddles, leaning into the wind& ...
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:33:00 PST

BBB

Saturday morning in Virginia.  Waiting on the coffee to brew, listening to the fan again and again.  I came up here to work on a three hour set of music for a party that's somewhere out...
Posted by Ryan on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 08:14:00 PST