About Me

About me! is a few original photos and couple'a words that pretty much explains it all. Check out my facebook for more pictures and most importantly, enjoy!Doin' it fly stylee.Who knows what a cyanotype is? Photo-nerd stuff. You wouldn't understand. - a picture of ween, on top of top.Lauer, straight chillin' - salt lake proper.Voodoo Doughnuts, a Portland love affair.Playing the "Big Lebowski" game, halfway through. - Good friends.I'm down to go to any concert, with anyone, anytime. Any kind of music. - The lead guitarist for Lucky Boys Confusion, uber cool!I'm not a playa, baby, i'm a sculptor!

My Interests

Silt, Silt-Beds, Sand, Sand Washes, Dirt, Dirt Roads, Sand Whoops, Pits, Rocks, Rock Hills, Sun, Sunburns, Sandy Wind, Dust, Dust Storms, The Excess Consumption of Gasoline For Purposes Of Desert Speed.

Things I Am So Less Fond Of:

"Please don't touch my bags, mr. customs man" -A. Guthrie

I'd like to meet:

The Top 8 Is Dead!
The devil has 1 true friend.

The Violent Femmes

View all of my so called friends.

Music:

Steve Kaase's band, 10 Seconds To Liftoff

Greg Larrenaga's bands, Numa and Vorknagar

John Argetsinger, A Shogun Named ID

Tony Reed

Alison Gate

My old band, Blister Foot

and whatever music those guys are playing now

and all my friends that play or sing

Television:

Some people go to church and read a bible, I watch Family Guy and play Family Guy related drinking games.

Books:

i only like books that are really fucked up; with authors whose last names are hard to spell: charles bukowski, burroughs, chuck palinhuck, albert camus, graham greene, shitloads of others. i also like picture books, you know.

Heroes:

Tom McLaughlin

John Burton

Blaine Baxter

Alex Tschursin

Kurt Krueger

Brent Carr

Karl Seiberling

Photos: Baja Ryan

My Blog

What Keeps Mankind Alive?

that's a good question. who knows you know. every break i leave all my cd's at home, and being podless, i force myself into the unforgiving but strangely gratifiying world of capitalist compact-diske...
Posted by Ryan McLaughlin on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 03:38:00 PST

shut the fuck up about winter!

shut the fuck up about the winter everybody... it's no big deal. it is november 14th already, and you know what that means... it means the days are getting shorter, colder, and less fun... well, ever ...
Posted by Ryan McLaughlin on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:33:00 PST

two coasts in two weeks - portland to portland

somewhat randomly, i drove up to portland, oregon today with a friend, so i'm here now, and i have to admit, it's really quite nice. gonna check out school, apartments, and very possibly, the famed br...
Posted by Ryan McLaughlin on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 01:26:00 PST

Folk Music Punk Music

folk music is really making a resurgence today, and im starting to think its really cool. punk rock's going country anyway, and i'm not up in arms, im stoked on it. greg graffin, the singer/god of bad...
Posted by Ryan McLaughlin on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:00:00 PST

THE FIOLENT VEMMES

Music Lovers,Heres my proposal, and it's pretty open-ended in terms of everything but the actual event, but its important to know that this is happening in the world. July 12thish - We (me + you?) lea...
Posted by Ryan McLaughlin on Sun, 07 May 2006 10:20:00 PST

Bands To Look Up

just some shit to listen to when youve run out of shit to listen to or if you have someone holding a gun to your head saying you better put on some good music but you cant really think of any, you can...
Posted by Ryan McLaughlin on Sat, 08 Apr 2006 02:00:00 PST

Trying To Find a Balance (The Sever that Leads)

So today was the first day of school for me in quite a while. I did yoga, had sex twice, and smoked a cigarette, all before noon. Not all that different from Wasatch is it, really? School was wonderfu...
Posted by Ryan McLaughlin on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 07:45:00 PST

It's Not Easy Being Green.

With America losing The War on Drugs, Terror and even Christmas, it's niceto see we're winning The War on something: our environment.Global warming is increasing, the oil reserves are drying up, and w...
Posted by Ryan McLaughlin on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 12:37:00 PST

I Don't Care About the War

and i dont care about the thirty thousand iraqis that died or the 3 thousand americans in the war that died and I dont give a fuck about anybody that died in 9/11. or anybody in israel or palistine. ...
Posted by Ryan McLaughlin on Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:06:00 PST

More Americans Falling For 'Get Rich Slowly Over A Lifetime Of Hard Work' Schemes

OMAHA, NEA report released Monday by the Omaha-based public-interest group Aurora indicates that increasing numbers of Americans are being defrauded by schemes that offer financial reward for a lifet...
Posted by Ryan McLaughlin on Sun, 18 Dec 2005 01:23:00 PST