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About Me

I'm a dorky goofball, and not nearly as cool as my daredevilish hobbies imply. I don't think there is really anything in life that should be taken so seriously that you can't have fun with them, oneself included- if you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?

"'Who am I?' He shall answer: 'That which is, the true'.
He who moves about happy in dreams,
he is the Self, this is the immortal, the fearless, this is
the Brahman."
- The Upanishads

"Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law."
- Kant

the funniest anti-smoking ad i've ever seen - found it in the airport in rio de janeiro, brazil!

My Interests

Skydiving = D-23452 (check out the vid in my videos section), scuba diving = NAUI, snowboarding, traveling, playing my guitar, motorcycles, philosophy, psychology, art, literature, dancing, karaoke, working out, martial arts (kawate). Life is experiential, might as well experience it.

"His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last."
- Chamfort

"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. "
- Nietzsche

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who enjoys living their life while they work on achieving their dreams, rather than complaining they haven't come true!

My World Visitor Map! Click here to zoom-in & make your own!
My myspace group:

Myspace Ryantology

My favorite charities:

Amnesty International

Doctors Without Borders

I DO NOT WANT TO MEET HORNDOGS WHO SEND ME EMAILS WANTING TO FUCK ME SO HARD MY CHRIOPRACTOR RETIRES BECAUSE THIS STUPID THING SAYS I LOOK LIKE JESSICA SIMPSON!!

..... I'm not that kind of girl, dammit!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Music:

Punk, jazz, 80's hair rock, old skool rap, classical, metal... most anything but country.

"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."
- Voltaire

Movies:

Whatever sounds good at the time. Mostly stupid, inane comedies... I find they mirror my life better than anything else!

V for Vendetta is pretty much the best movie I've seen in a long time. Hauntingly close to American society and the direction we are headed, though.

"And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes long into you."
- Nietzsche

Television:

Not much, really-
Football
Real Time with Bill Maher
Or whatever is on when I'm unmotivated to do anything else.

"For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life."
- Camus

Books:

Anything by:
Nietzsche
Sartre
Nozick
Dennett
Kant
Descartes
Freud
Jung
Adler
Sun Tzu
Dante
Milton
Goethe
Homer
Campbell
Ovid
Virgil
Darwin
Dawkins
Gould
Schrodinger
Chomsky and Watterson (I freakin love Calvin and Hobbes)

Heroes:

Anyone who endeavors to fulfill their dreams.

"Life is like a movie, write your own ending."
- Kermit the Frog

My Blog

cidade de anjos, los angeles - why i love where i live!

This weekend I decided to wander around Los Angeles, all over, wherever I felt like going.... with all my travel, I sometimes forget that I do live in the greatest city in the United States, and ...
Posted by ryan on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:26:00 PST

Argentina and Brasil

I have to start by saying this was one of the best, if not the best, trips I have ever taken... it included everything I love about roaming this planet of ours: the excitement of the unknown, meeting ...
Posted by ryan on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:57:00 PST

UPDATED- Scuba, Santa Barbara, So Cal love and a failed Scuba attempt!

June 16thI took off Saturday morning to go diving again, this time at one of my favorite dive spots off Palos Verdes called Malaga Cove / R.A.T. Beach. The visibility ended up not being good enough f...
Posted by ryan on Thu, 31 May 2007 12:47:00 PST

Dublin, Ireland for the B Day

So last Thursday I flew to Dublin to party away the weekend for my bday... had an amazing time!and you know this, man! : )south of the liffey, the edge of temple barchrist church (protestant)another ...
Posted by ryan on Tue, 08 May 2007 12:05:00 PST

Minotauromachy... Picasso, bitches!! lol

Yesterday I went to the L.A. County Museum of Art (LACMA) to see all seven states of Picasso's Minotauromachy. Picasso made eight versions of this (the seventh state above was also done in color... w...
Posted by ryan on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:15:00 PST

Oktoberfest, Munchen and Central Europe!!!

PROST! Just got back from a couple weeks at Oktoberfest in Munchen (Munich)... yup, I'm using the European names for cities tonight..., and wandering around Central Europe!! The trip was a...
Posted by ryan on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:04:00 PST

Western Europe

So here's a few shots from Europe (some were taken with my my camera phone, hence the change in res), and, my camera got swiped in Rome (there's actually a lfunny story behind that, but I'll save it f...
Posted by ryan on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:31:00 PST

Florida.. not as rad as Cali, but still cool! : )-

Here's some pic's from when I was in Florida a few weeks ago... fuckin humidity makes my hair turn into an afro!!! Blah!! : ) Jess and I being the drunken nerds that we are! ; ) Qui...
Posted by ryan on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:30:00 PST

Theme parks, party buses, and gay porn stores......

So I had an interesting weekend. Saturday morning I drove to my office to pick something up, and then remembered I hadn't printed up my e-tickets for the Greg Graffin (lead singer of Bad Religion) con...
Posted by ryan on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:31:00 PST

Mammoth

Snowboarding in June rocks! Just some random shots around the mountain and my homegirl Alisha.... she's smiling cause she was tearin it up better than me. But I outdrank her, and I'm...
Posted by ryan on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 07:06:00 PST