Industrial music, writing, reading, making music, singing, movies, kittens, the downfall of mankind.
The Big Rusty Lie is now available for immediate consumption from a variety of web bookstores worldwide! Please go by, pick up the book, mark some tags, write a review, rate the book, and tell all your friends! Help make one lad's dream of being a famous and rich author come true in a really minor way!
The Big Rusty Lie is available in the US, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and anywhere else that can be shipped to from one of those locales. US residents are encouraged to head to ryanspeck.com and click on the links there to purchase from Amazon. I'd do the same for you...
I'm sure some of you will immediately wonder what the hell I write like anyway and are too lazy to actually go read some of my stories or a sample chapter. So I guess I'll sum it up in simple terms... If you like Max Barry, Douglas Adams, and other witty humorists with an absurdist streak, you may very well like me. I'd encourage fans of less-funny fare like Chuck Pahlaniuk and Bret Easton Ellis to give me a try, as I've heard there's some crossover there (and American Psycho is a personal favorite). My style of language has drawn mention of Thomas Pynchon and James Joyce, but I haven't read enough to know. So take all that for what you will...
The Big Rusty Lie is currently available from a variety of web retailers, listed here . (Also click to see a full "description" from the novel's back cover.)
Ryan has moved from Atlanta to Seattle and now spends his time writing and doing other things when he should be writing. He has stories available online at ryanspeck.com and again soon in print. He enjoys hearing from his readers, so drop him a line through MySpace or his site to tell him what you think. Hopefully someday he can manage to be a brillaint and famous satirist and humorist. Or at least a popular writer. In the meantime, he'd gladly take any work that people will give him.
Ryan enjoys writing prose and the occassional music, maintaining several websites, watching TV, collecting movies, reading, and listening to industrial music. Ryan plays the occassional PC game and thinks console games pretty much suck. As far as writing goes, he draws his inspiration from television, film, and the writing of Max Barry, Michael J. Nelson, Hugh Laurie's The Gun Seller, Douglas Adams, John Hodgman, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, and William Shakespeare.
Bands of note include: Hate Dept., Penal Colony, Firewerk, Foetus, Numb, Out Out, Full Frequency, Apparatus, Devo, Flesh Field, Pitchshifter, Christ Analogue, 13 mg, Idiot Stare, Society Burning, Machines Of Loving Grace, Imperative Reaction, Babyland, Contagion, 16 Volt, Hednoize, Skinny Puppy, Zeromancer, Cyanotic, Acumen Nation, BoL, BiGod 20, Cubanate, Skold, Suicide Commando, Die Warzau, Drown, Final Cut, Insight 23, Unit:187, Gravity Kills, Haujobb, The Chaos Engine, Killing Floor, Spahn Ranch, Kevorkian Death Cycle, KMFDM, Ministry, Revolting Cocks, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Gary Numan, Vampire Rodents, Paved In Skin, Pig, Pigface, Pop Will Eat Itself, Prick, Nine Inch Nails, Assemblage 23, SMP, Steril, OhGr, :wumpscut:, Therapy?, Genesis, Phil Collins, James Brown, Faith No More, Journey, Foreigner, Richard Cheese, The Rolling Stones & Turbonegro.
Recommended viewing includes: "Mystery Science Theater 3000", "It's Always Sunny In Philidelphia", Branaugh's Hamlet, American Psycho, "Dexter", Equilibrium, Beerfest, Brotherhood Of The Wolf, The Chronicles Of Riddick, Funny Games, The Wrong Guy, Sunshine, Snatch, The Corruptor, Thunderheart, Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle, The Big Kahuna, The Spanish Prisoner, Unleashed, "Reno 911!", Kung Pow!: Enter The Fist, Hulk, Running Scared, State And Main, The Usual Suspects, Casino Royale, Top Secret!, "Mr. Show", "Kids In The Hall", Kentucky Fried Movie, Brick, The Lost Skeleton Of Cadvra, Lucky Number Slevin, and more...
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Hate Dept., Penal Colony, Foetus, Numb, Full Frequency, Christ Analogue, Acumen, Acumen Nation, Apparatus, Assemblage 23, Babyland, backandtotheleft, BiGod 20, BoL, C-Tec, The Chaos Engine, Clay People, Contagion, Cubanate, Cyanotic, Deathboy, Devo, Diatribe, Die Warzau, Drown, The Evil Mothers, The Fair Sex, Final Cut, Firewerk, Flesh Field, Front 242, Godhead, Gravity Kills, Haujobb, Hednoize, Hocico, Idiot Stare, Imperative Reaction, Insight 23, Kevorkian Death Cycle, Kill Switch...Klick, Killing Floor, KMFDM, Machines Of Loving Grace, MDFMK, Ministry, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Nine Inch Nails, Gary Numan, OhGr, Out Out, Paved In Skin, Pig, Pigface, Pitchshifter, Pop Will Eat Itself, PWEI, Prick, Pygmy Children, Razed In Black, Revolting Cocks, Rx, Sister Machine Gun, 16 Volt, Skinny Puppy, Skold, SMP, Snog, Society Burning, Spahn Ranch, Steril, Suicide Commando, 13 mg, Tub Ring, Unit:187, Vampire Rodents, Velvet Acid Christ, VNV Nation, Voodou, Wiseblood, :wumpscut:, Zeromancer, Therapy?, Genesis, Phil Collins, James Brown, Faith No More, Journey, Foreigner, Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine, Billy Idol, Jello Biafra, The Rolling Stones, The Refreshments, Turbonegro, Robert Palmer, industrial, coldwave, EBM, etc.
Hamlet, Swimming With Sharks, Titus, Rules Of Attraction, American Psycho, Equilibrium, Brotherhood Of The Wolf, The Game, The Chronicles Of Riddick, Requiem For A Dream, Session 9, Thunderheart, Tombstone, Real Genius, The Wrong Guy, The Last Of The Mohicans, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, The Corruptor, The Ring, Funny Games, The Big Kahuna, Se7en, Henry V, Dawn Of The Dead (2004), Open Range, Snatch, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Spanish Prisoner, Unleashed, Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle, Running Scared (both of them), The Negotiator, Strange Days, 28 Days Later, Oldboy, Red Heat, Hellraiser: Inferno, Exorcist: The Beginning, Titus, Bowling For Columbine, The Usual Suspects, Office Space, Pi, Kung Pow!: Enter The Fist, State And Main, I Spit On Your Grave, Fight Club, Roger & Me, Super Troopers, A Fish Called Wanda, The Crossing Guard, Silverado, L.A. Confidential, Suicide Kings, Van Wilder, Audition, Kentucky Fried Movie, Top Secret, Ladyhawke, Excalibur, Airplane!, I Robot, 8mm, Blade II, Demon Knight, Hulk, Action Jackson, Freddy Got Fingered, A Knight's Tale, Irreversible, Lucky Number Slevin, Saw, Saw II, and Saw III, Zatoichi, High Tension, X-Men: The Last Stand, Beerfest, Lost Highway, Hostel, Wolf Creek, Sin City, Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra, Casino Royale, 300, Smokin Aces, etc.
Arrested Development, Kidnapped, Heroes, Studio 60, Dexter, Carnivale, Deadwood, The Venture Brothers, Firefly, Mr. Show, Penn & Teller's Bullshit!, Dead Like Me, Chappelle's Show, Reno 911!, Harvey Birdman, MXC, Unscrewed with Martin Sergeant, The Daily Show, Monk, Twin Peaks, House, CSI, The Awful Truth, Extreme Dodgeball, Cold Case Files, Autopsy, etc.
Assorted Warhammer novels, anything by Dan Abnett, Hamlet, What Liberal Media?, Mike Nelson's Mind Over Matters, Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese, Mike Nelson's Death Rat!, Why People Believe Weird Things, Atheism: The Case Against God, The Dilbert Principle, The Dilbert Future, The Joy Of Work, A Piece Of Blue Sky, L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah Or Madman?, Groucho & Me, Sons Of The Profits, The Areas Of My Expertise, Snow Crash, etc.
Myself. Steven Seibold. D Madden. James Randi. Michael Shermer. Friedrich Nietzsche. Richard Kuklinski. Phil Collins.