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Ryan is coming back to Springfield!

That was the real stuff... That was WIIINE.

About Me

God. What do I say here? Umm... I'm an audio engineer working around St. Louis, musician in two local bands: Gentleman Auction House, and the Dock Ellis Band, and for now I work for a Charter Communications subcontractor. That's right, I'm a cable nazi. (Just till I get signed though...) Really, if you've found your way here, you should probably know me already. If not, like, ask me some questions. Then I'll know what people want to know about me and I can make this more exciting and informative. So help a brother out!

My friend, Jeff with his band, Chickens and Pigs. Oynk!

My Interests

Music, audio, bowling, drums, guitar, cool things with knobs, film, the ladies, y'know, chillin, literature, anyone that can hold up a decent conversation, and some other stuff.

I'd like to meet:

Hemmingway, Frank Miller, Henry Miller, William H. Macy, the other Ryan Adams, my soulmate, Jaws, Bobby DeNiro, Ian McKellan, God, myself from the past and/or future, Jason Isbell (Drive By Truckers, if you don't know them, get to know them. You'll thank me.), Hugh Hefner, Juliette Lewis, Bob Vila, Seth McFarland, Dane Cook, Ron White, James Hetfield (Even after St. Anger), Anderson Cooper, Martin Scorsese, Norm Duke, Dave Grohl, Mel Blanc, etc...

Music:

Good lord. Here goes: Clutch, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Soundgarden, Bob Seger, Miles Davis, Willie Nelson, John Williams, Ryan Adams, Metallica (Yes, even after St. Anger) Foo fighters, Nine Inch Nails, Elbow, Belly, Chimaera, Tool, Hans Zimmer, THE BEATLES, Billy Idol, Kansas, Arcade Fire, Bright Eyes, Galactic, The Roots, Dido, Franz Ferdinand, Queens of the Stone Age, Ray Charles, Monster Magnet, Living Sacrifice, Golden Earring, Sevendust, The Mooney Suzuki, Pink Floyd, Rush, DRIVE BY FUCKIN TRUCKERS!!!, A Perfect Circle, Jet, Harvey Danger, Kings of Leon, Kanye West, David Allen Coe (Not the racist shit though, I hate that.), John Prine, John Hartford, My Morning Jacket, Jeff Beck, Sublime, Infectious Grooves, LED ZEPPLIN, Rage Against the Machine, LYRICS BORN!, ...Trail of Dead, Green Day, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Yonder Mountain String Band, Loretta Lynn, George Jones, Merle Haggard, System of a Down, The Allman Brothers, Rammstein, The Music, Machine Head, Sigur Ros, Pantera, Mollyhatchet, Jethro Tull, Moth, Springsteen, The Who, Pearl Jam, Dream Theater, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Slaind Cleaves, The Notorious Cherry Bombs, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Kris Kristofferson, Jayhawks, Johnny Cash, Jay Farrar and Wilco, Ralph Stanley, King Wilkie, Arther Godfrey, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rufus Wainwright, Tony Williams, Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa, AFI, Killswitch Engage, BOB FUCKIN' DYLAN!, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Rusted Root, WARREN ZEVON, fiction plane, Smashing Pumpkins, Blind Melon, Cowboy Mouth, Black Crowes, Counting Crows, Mason Proffit, Stabbing Westward, Radiohead, Jimi Hendrix, Kenny Wayne Sheppard, STEVIE RAY FUCKIN' VAUGHAN!!!, Filter, Damien Rice, Norah Jones, Muddy Waters, The Doors, Cab Calloway, AC/DC, The Ventures, Ted Nugent (Though I hate to admit it) Tony Iommi, The cult, The Cure, The Pixies, Pink Floyd if I haven't already said it, ALL HAIL BLACK SABBATH, MASTERS OF ALL ROCK AND ROLL!, Jimmy Dean, Susan Tedeschi, ZZ TOP, Flogging Molly, Iron Butterfly, Megadeth, Mountain, Grand Funk Railroad, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Sex Pistols, Ramones, Blue Oyster Cult, Motley Crue, ALICE COOPER!!!, Silverchair, The Guess WHO!, Fiona Apple, Vanessa Carlton, Tori Amos, Alanis Morisette, THE GOD DAMNED BAND PEOPLE!!!!, Big Dumb Face, The Moody Blues, Casey Reid and the Rockin' Robins, ST. LOUIS' OWN SEVEN SHOT SCREAMERS, The Rolling Stones, Johnny Lang, David Grisman, Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead, Alison Kraus and Union Station, Elton John, Neil Diamond, Rob Zombie, White Zombie, Jerry Jeff Walker, Stone Roses, Paul McCartney, Shooter Jennings, Waylon Jennings, JESSE IRWIN; SEE HIM PLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Outlaws, The Hibernauts, Robert Plant, The Eagles, Iron and Wine, Billy Joel, Audioslave, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Outkast, Presidents of the United States of America, The Cranberries, Tonic, Sponge, Cat Power, Junior Senior, Townes Van Zandt, Crystal Method, Charlie Parker, JANIS JOPLIN AND TO A LESSER DEGREE BIG BROTHER AND THE HOLDING COMPANY!, Guns and Roses, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Mel Torme, Wynton Marsalis, Drop Dynasty, Candlebox, MC Chris, Simon and Garfunkel, CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL!, James Taylor, Jim Croce, Goldfinger, Rise Against, Rancid, Henry Rollins, Nickel Creek, The Distillers, MC5, Fugazi, Cat Power, Broken Social Scene, Calexico, stars, earlimart, the arcade fire, apostle of hustle, richard buckner, guided by voices, stereolab, self, cursive, dismemberment plan, okkervil river, ryan adams, elliot smith, hawksley workman, the jayhawks, the album leaf, modest mouse, john vanderslice, metric, jimmy eat world, stevie wonder, the velvet underground, feist, tv on the radio, the walkmen, the fruit bats, sufjan stevens, fiona apple, the constantines, bob dylan, death cab for cutie, GENTLEMAN AUCTION HOUSE (HEY GUYS!!!!), TIN WHISKEY (HEY GUYS!!!!), SLOW PARADE (HEY GUYS!!!!), Jerry Cantrell, Alice in Chains, Meshuggah, THE MINI FUCKIN' BOSSES!!!!!!!!!!!, NOFX, Primus, Hum, Belle and Sebastian, The Beauty Shop, Acute, ASHTON ALLEN (CHECK HIM OUT!!!!!!), An End to October, Headlights, Cameron McGill and What Army, Planes for Spaces, Team Up!!!, Wonderground, Albert King, B.B. King, Buckwheat Zydeco, The Box Tops, Mamas and the Papas, Tom Petty, REM, Nirvana, U2, Bush, Superdrag, Everclear, Seven Mary Three, Weezer, Moby, Goo Goo Dolls, Blues Traveller, Oasis, Beck, George Jones, Prince, Spin Doctors, Garbage, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Patsy Cline, Deftones, Hole, Talking Heads, The Clash, Is anybody still reading this far down?, Screaming Trees, Flaming Lips, and I'm spent....

Movies:

Man, I just did all that music, and now you want to know movies? Fuck you! Here's five... (In no particular order)
1. Touch of Evil
2. Raging Bull
3. The Godfather
4. The Incredibles
5. Apocalypse Now

Television:

This'll be short... Family Guy, Simpsons, Daily Show, Matlock reruns, X-Play if I get time.

Books:

The Dark Tower, Atlas Shrugged, For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Confederacy of Dunces, Dune, Billy Bathgate, American Psycho, American Gods, World's End, Neverwhere, Batman: Year One, Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns

Heroes:

Hemmingway, Henry Miller, Our Troops

My Blog

Rock and Fucking Roll...

I tell you, the world has never seemed to be so full of possibilities. I've been branching out a lot lately, and I've really been enjoying it. I think everyone is looking for that one thing that reall...
Posted by Ryan is coming back to Springfield! on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:11:00 PST

Things that make me happy...

So I was playing drums with my Country and Western cover band and the piano player who was sitting in with us leans over to me between songs...He says, "You play in Gentleman Auction House, right?"I...
Posted by Ryan is coming back to Springfield! on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:52:00 PST

Mother fuck...

See subject.I'd better get fuckloads of kudos for this one...
Posted by Ryan is coming back to Springfield! on Tue, 15 May 2007 09:39:00 PST

Why can't we all just give a shit?

So I was at a show recently, we won't talk about where.The PA was leaving a little to be desired, and there might not have been as many people there as we all would have liked. The band on stage was ...
Posted by Ryan is coming back to Springfield! on Thu, 03 May 2007 09:29:00 PST

Heigh ho, heigh ho...

Well, it's back to work for me today. This has been a nice little vacation, all things considered and the obvious set aside. But, on the upside, I don't have to pay for shampoo now and I have a freaki...
Posted by Ryan is coming back to Springfield! on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:09:00 PST

Yay, technology!

Okay, so I'm trying to do this calendar thing, and when I posted some events, they didn't show up. So I thought that it didn't work. So now I have two or three postings of the same events and I can't ...
Posted by Ryan is coming back to Springfield! on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:02:00 PST

This won't hurt a bit.

So, real quick, I was involved in a conversation today where a debate took place on the top five guitarists of all time. I know, it's trite, but it was a good debate nevertheless. I was trying to figu...
Posted by Ryan is coming back to Springfield! on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 12:41:00 PST

He thinks the carpet pissers did this?

Well, I've got half an hour to kill, so what's on my mind?The new Damien Rice record is amazing. Listen to it now, thank me later.Is there such a thing as a perfect person? I mean, everyone thinks tha...
Posted by Ryan is coming back to Springfield! on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 06:02:00 PST

Too soon...

Ah man, there's a lot going on in my silly little head right now. I'm not going to reveal it all but I'm pretty drunk on fine red wine so I'll probably still reveal too much. Shit happens.So I'm about...
Posted by Ryan is coming back to Springfield! on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 03:48:00 PST

Never saw this one coming...

So, apparently iTunes is the root of all temptation. I can just sit here and look through all kinds of CDs, day or night, and buy whatever I want. This is too much responsibility for me. So I have bee...
Posted by Ryan is coming back to Springfield! on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 04:39:00 PST