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Ryan

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About Me

Poet, Artist, DJ trapped in the vapid wasteland of corporate America.

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My Interests

Spinning Hip Hop for 55 year old women at Jack and Jills
Teaching 15 year olds how to steal a catcher's signs
Carving out the side a of freshly packed ski trail
Dominating people in paper football
Shamlesslessly believing in conspiracy theories
Traveling the world looking for "It"
Voting for Republicans just to piss people off

I'd like to meet:

everyone...

Music:



A lil bit o everything. Special affinity for Silly 80's new wave, Late 80's early 90's hip hop, Hair bands (guilty pleasure), Local Rock Bands, a fatty break-beat D&B track on the Tech 1-2s. Much love to the Shods and the rest of bands I really miss. Favorite Living and Touring Band: Pearl Jam -- Favorite Mostly Dead Band: Led Zep -- Favorite DJs: DJ Dax and the UN crew, every DJ at Whistle 2000, Q-Bert, Dieselboy, Tiesto, Ferry Corsten, Bad Boy Bill, Kechup, Oakenfold (another guilty pleasure). Big ups to all the NE DJs that rock the big clubs and dive bars alike. Favorite Radio Stations: WFNX, WERS (sometimes of course), ditto WUML.

-----Top 5s-----

Influential Albums:
1. Pearl Jam - Ten
2. De L Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
3. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
4. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
5. N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton

Favorite Live Bands/Performers:
1. Pearl Jam
2. Rage Against the Machine
3. Beck
4. Green Day
5. The Shods

Favorite Clubs / Abandoned warehouses that pass for Clubs:
1. Sona - Montreal
2. Joy - Madrid
3. Shampoo - Philly
4. Limelight - NYC
5. Avalon - Boston

DJs seen Live:
1. Bad Boy Bill
2. John Digiweed
3. Carl Cox
4. Dieselboy
5. Q-Bert

Bands I wish I could have seen live:
1. Led Zeppelin
2. The Doors
3. The Jimi Hendrix Experience
4. The Beatles
5. The Who

Movies:

Braveheart, Pulp Fiction, The Godfather (I&II), Dead Poets Society, Trainspotting, High Fidelity, Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Singles, Almost Famous, Casablanca, Boondock Saints, Reservoir Dogs, LOTR, Clerks, Things to do in Denver when you're Dead, Napoleon Dynamite, Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy, any Monty Python.

Television:

Actual Reality TV (aka Sports)... that's pretty much it. Except: Seinfeld and Simpsons re-runs and Family Guy.

Books:

Last completed: Passionate Declarations - Howard Zinn
Currently Reading: The Prize - Daniel Yergin

Favorite Authors: Fellow Lowellian, Jack Kerouac, Kurt Vonnegut, George Orwell, Hemmingway, Bill Simmons.

Heroes:

Chicks that can spin. Kerouac, Ginsburg, Burroughs amd all those fruity bastards. Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Brady, Big Papi, Albert Einstein, Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Ben Franklin, JC and the 12 homies, Johanes Kepler, Issac Newton, Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, James Clerk Maxwell, Emil Fisher, Paul Dirac, Edwin Hubble, Pablo Picaso, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, Salvador Dali, Henri Matisse, Rembrandt, Paul Cezanne, William Shakespeare, J.R.R. Tolkein, C.S. Lewis, Dr. Seuss, Charles Dickens, James Joyce, Mark Twain, Miguel Cerventes, George Orwell, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Henry David Thoreau, JD Salinger.

My Blog

Downtown

Downtown (An Ode to Ti Jean Kerouac)Downtown at 4amSmoky steam from throatContemplation of a whyNot a reason for being hereBut a reason for whoWho I amWho am I to walk the solemn cobblestonesAt l...
Posted by Ryan on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 05:40:00 PST

Consider yourselves lucky, kids.

"Why did I miss out on the whole "Girls dress like hookers and act like them, too" era? Somehow my prime was sandwiched between the late-'70s (Disco Era, drugs and free love) and the early-'00s (no cl...
Posted by Ryan on Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:46:00 PST

Support the locals

www.Jiveturkeyproductions.com
Posted by Ryan on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:50:00 PST

Upcoming Gigs

12/3/05 -- Gus and Pauls -- Lowell, MA 12/10/05 -- American Legion -- Canton, MA 12/16/05 -- Gaelic Club -- Lowell, MA 12/31/05 -- Gus and Pauls -- Lowell, MA 1/7/06 -- PAV -- Lowell, MA 1/21/06 -- PA...
Posted by Ryan on Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:13:00 PST