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Ryan Hunter

Working my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty

About Me

What can I say? I am a typical, fun-loving Caucasian American youth who enjoys hanging out with his many friends and is always up for any suggestion that might lead to a situation where high fives are possible (see: interests).All in all I'm just happy that I was lucky enough to have been born into a 1st world nation in which I have the wonderful opportunity to exercise freedoms such as chatting on the World W. Web with you guys. Thanks God/technology!

My Interests

high-fives, hand-stands, drinking games, dance parties, library research/microfiche, medical studies, conspicuously reading works by impressive existentialist authors on the subway, the Williamsburg Spelling Bee, the UCB theater, POYKPAC, bikes n biking, illegal swimming, movie making, winning typing and text messaging duels, culture jammers, chicken salad sandwiches, public radio, sliding down challenging bannisters, really gentrifying the shit out of anything n everything in my path (take that, indigenous minority communities!(?)), excessive parantheticals, pet theories, theoretical pets, friends, enemies, casually attempting to satisfy every stage of Maslow's hierarchy of needs... the usual

I'd like to meet:

Anyone willing to brave the wackiness of the G-train for the sake of seeing me and POYKPAC'S new live shows at Sputnik.

Music:

Air, Animal Collective, Annuals, Arcade Fire, Au Revoir Simone, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Beck, Bjork, Bloc Party, Blur, Bright Eyes, Camera Obscura, Deerhoof, Diplo, Erlend Oye, Feist, Fiona Apple, The Flaming Lips, Gnarls Barkley, Harry Nilsson, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Kings Of Convenience, The Knife, Mates of State, MF Doom, M.I.A, Mirah, Modest Mouse, Mos Def, Outkast, The Postal Service, Radiohead, Rilo Kiley, Rjd2, Rufus Wainwright, Self, The Shins, The Smiths, Sufjan Stevens, Stevie Wonder, Yo La Tengo... etc.

Movies:

City Of God, Amelie, All The Real Girls, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, 8 1/2, Boogie Nights, Swingers, Dr. Strangelove, Manhattan, Annie Hall, Trainspotting, Chopper, Casablanca, Back To The Future, Goodfellas, Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, Amores Perros, Reservoir Dogs, Wet Hot American Summer, Friday, Rushmore, The Foot Fist Way, Borat

Television:

The Daily Show, Wonder Showzen, Arrested Development, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Da Ali G Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Chappelle's Show, Mr. Show, Wonder Showzen, South Park, Entourage, The Colbert Report, The Office (BBC), The State

Books:

Catch-22, Slaughterhouse 5, Me Talk Pretty One Day, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Stranger, The Age Of Reason, Heart Of Darkness, Time's Arrow, Then We Came To The End, The Grapes Of Wrath, A People's History Of The United States

Heroes:

Deceased: Grace Kelly, Groucho Marx, Hunter S. Thompson, Laika the spacedog, Graham Chapman, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Liss Kaye-Clark, Charlie Chaplin, Optimus Prime, Mahatma Gandhi

Alive: Jon Stewart, Robert Kennedy Jr, David & Amy Sedaris, Andre 3000, Sasha Baron Cohen, BANKSY, Stephen Colbert, the Pythons (minus G.C.), Barack Obama, Howard Zinn, the Granny Peace Brigade, my Mom

My Blog

Euroblog, Chapter IV: A word on Europeans.

First, regarding my illness, the German nurse gave me an Italian antibiotic, and I seem to be getting better. It must be the Mediterranean air/weather that I'm not used to, given that I haven't been h...
Posted by Ryan Hunter on Fri, 05 May 2006 02:09:00 PST

Euroblog, Chapter III: in which our hero regales the reader with tales of his many miseries

Whoever decided to build a hotel and make it float was a strange bastard indeed. One advantage is the fact that near-constant boat turbulence causes one to feel much drunker than you actually are, whi...
Posted by Ryan Hunter on Thu, 04 May 2006 07:38:00 PST

Euroblog, Chapter II: In which our hero reunites with his family and travels a great distance

About six months ago, my father, Harry N. Hunter, informed me, in less straightforward terms, that he would be attempting to make up for 18 years of neglect with a ten day Mediterranean cruise in May....
Posted by Ryan Hunter on Thu, 04 May 2006 07:03:00 PST

Euroblog, Chapter I: In which our hero introduces the internet weblogs which are to follow.

I'm calling this series "Euroblogs" because I'm in Europe right now, AND becauseit costs me .33 Euros a minute to write them! Hooryay!First of all,I know I haven't kept up with this blog the last seve...
Posted by Ryan Hunter on Thu, 04 May 2006 06:42:00 PST

LARGE & IN CHARGE: My Reluctant & Regrettable Adventure In The Plus-Sized Fashion Industry

What follows is the beginning of a belated attempt to recap the last several months of my life. I plan to do so hastily (God-willing), so as to waste the smallest possible amount of both your time and...
Posted by Ryan Hunter on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 03:41:00 PST

Halloween: What The Hell Happened To Me?

Before I left New York, I attended a Christmas party in Hell's Kitchen. I wasn't there so much to party as I was to try to gather some clues as to what the hell happened to me on Halloween. Flashback ...
Posted by Ryan Hunter on Sun, 25 Dec 2005 11:36:00 PST

Connecting your own dots...

Consider: In 2003 I was attempting to cast my 2nd year film. I needed three men and two women who could pass for late twenties/early thirties. I found the headshot of a 31 year old Elon University dra...
Posted by Ryan Hunter on Fri, 23 Dec 2005 01:25:00 PST

A Moving Story

This is an account of why I don't live where I used to live. On August 31st, 2005, my stepfather and I went north from the Carolinas in a moving truck. At night we stayed in a hotel in Newark, Ne...
Posted by Ryan Hunter on Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:53:00 PST

An Account Of The Majesty That Is The Williamsburg Spelling Bee Finals

Several people have expressed confusion/dismay over the fact that I have not yet bloggerated my performance in the Williamsburg Spelling Bee Finals. Many of you may have gone on to conclude, perhaps i...
Posted by Ryan Hunter on Tue, 01 Nov 2005 05:30:00 PST

The Story Of Sly Fox

My sister recently suggested I change my name on here to Sly Fox, "just like the old days." Frankly, I'd forgotten that name completely, for at least the past ten years. It's the alias I used as a you...
Posted by Ryan Hunter on Sun, 16 Oct 2005 01:02:00 PST