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ryfi

it's my job to mix things up

About Me

I try to squeeze as much out of this thing as I possibly can; I stay out late and then get up early, as that seems to be the only way to get it all done. Sometimes I've got to get shit housed and start a riot, other times I have a cup of coffee and do some reading. I am always trying to write the great American rock song, a "teenage symphony to god", but sometimes I try to rock a few asses too.

My Interests

I geek out on the following...

music
guitar
bass
audio engineering
comic books
records
photography
cycling
reading
learning new stuff

I'd like to meet:

Keith Richards

John Lennon

Chevy Chase

Brian Wilson

Charles Bukowski

Bill Murray

George S Patton

John Cusack

Clint Eastwood

the brothers Pete

Music:

My Top 5
1. The Beatles
2. The Beach Boys
3. The Rolling Stones
4. The Cars
5. The Jimi Hendrix Experience

and the rest....
The Arcade Fire . AC/DC . The Apples in Stereo . The Animals . Alice Cooper . Beck . The Bravery . Brian Wilson . Boston . Bruce Springsteen . Booker T and The MG's . Band of Horses . Big Star . Badfinger . Bob Dylan . The Byrds . Buddy Holly . Bloc Party . The Black Crowes . The Cure . Cream . Chuck Berry . The Clash . Coldplay . Carl Perkins . Creedence Clearwater Revival . Del Shannon . Duane Eddy . Death Cab for Cutie . The Dave Clark Five . Duran Duran . Elliot Smith . The Everly Brothers . Echo and The Bunnymen . Elvis Costello . The Flaming Lips . Fountains of Wayne . Franz Ferdinand . Fastball . Guster . Green Day . Gene Clark . Gram Parsons . Guns N’ Roses . Hot Hot Heat . Interpol . John Lennon . Jan and Dean . The Jesus and Mary Chain . Jimmy Eat World . The Killers . The Kaiser Chiefs . The Kinks . The Kingsmen . Led Zeppelin . The La’s . The Lefte Bank . Motley Crue . Margot and The Nuclear So and So's. Nirvana . Neil Young . Oasis . Otis Redding . Paul Revere and The Raiders . Quiet Riot . Radiohead . The Ronettes . The Replacements . Rod Stewart . The Scorpions . The Shins . The Strokes . The Smiths . Sam and Dave . The Stray Cats . Sloan . Super Furry Animals . The Searchers . The Sonics . The Small Faces . Spacehog . The Stills . Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers . Thin Lizzy . The Turtles . Tommy James and The Shondells . U2 . Van Halen . The Ventures . Wilco . The Who . Weezer . The Wailers . The Zombies

Movies:

My Top 5
1. Lost in Translation
2. High Fidelity
3. Swingers
4. That Thing You Do!
5. Garden State
and the rest...
Airplane I & II. Animal House . About a Boy . Almost Famous . Amelie . Ace Ventura . Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls . American Pie I &; II . Batman . Batman Returns . Batman Begins . Broken Flowers . Better Off Dead . The Blues Brothers . Black Sheep . The Big Lewbowski . Billy Madison . The Breakfast Club . Chasing Amy . Clerks . Detroit Rock City . Dazed and Confused . Dirty Harry . The Dead Pool . Dogma . Dumb and Dumber . The Enforcer . Eurotrip . Fletch . Fletch Lives . Fast Times at Ridgemont High . Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas . The Graduate . Groundhog Day . Ghostbusters I & II . The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly . Gimme Shelter . High Fidelity . A Hard Days Night . Help! . Harold and Kumar go to White Castle . Happy Gilmore . Magnum Force . Mallrats . Monty Python and the Holy Grail . National Lampoons Christmas Vacation . The Nightmare Before Christmas . Old School .Office Space . Patton . Pulp Fiction . PCU . The Royal Tennenbaums . Rushmore . Robocop . Spiderman I & II . The Science of Sleep . Superman Returns . Still Crazy . So I Married an Ax Murderer . Sudden Impact . Saving Private Ryan . Saving Silverman . Star Wars . This is Spinal Tap . Tommy Boy . Van Wilder . V for Vendetta . A Very Long Engagement . Wedding Crashers . Waiting . Wayne’s World I & II . X-men X1, X2, X3

Television:

I don't have cable but when I did I watched some of this stuff...

The Adventures of Pete and Pete . Ren & Stimpy . Transformers . Beavis and Butthead . Mystery Science Theater 3000 . Kids in the Hall . The Daily Show . The Colbert Report . Mail Call . Robot Chicken . In Living Color . most of the stuff on the History Channel

Books:

My Top 5
1. Women
2. High Fidelity
3. Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs
4. All You Need is Ears
5. Wouldn't It Be Nice

And the rest...
Charlie . About a Boy . Chuck Berry - Autobiography . A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius . I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell . Ham on Rye . Fargo Rock City . Too Much, Too Late . Killing Yourself to Live . Stephen E Ambrose stuff . WB Yeats . Chronicles Vol 1(Bob Dylan's Autobiography). Vinyl Junkies . Chuck Klosterman IV . How Soon is Now? . a metric shit ton of other rock and roll or war history books

Heroes:

Your results:
You are Iron Man Iron Man 95% Superman 75% Spider-Man 70% Hulk 70% Batman 65% The Flash 65% Green Lantern 60% Supergirl 50% Robin 45% Wonder Woman 40% Catwoman 15% Inventor. Businessman. Genius.
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My Blog

Cadbury Cream Eggs

thank merciful God that it is almost Easter time, as now every store is stocked with Cadbury Creme Eggs. these things are incredible!! each one is like having an angel dry hump your tongue. mmmmmmmmmm
Posted by ryfi on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:50:00 PST

in the immortal words of Ken Finley .5

we were discussing being secure in a relationships (professional, romantic, bromantic) sometime back when he said something to this effect: "listen, you can't worry about comparing yourself to other p...
Posted by ryfi on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:49:00 PST

overheard at a cafe last night...

I went to one of my fav cafes on the ave last night to do some homework. I am sitting there doing my thing when out from the white noise of the conversation surrounding me poke "I save my drama for yo...
Posted by ryfi on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:40:00 PST

in the immortal words of Ken Finley .4

so this is a serious one. I don't want folks to get the idea that the old man is just about vulgar one liners.... actually that's what he's about. but sometimes those vulgar one liners contain some wi...
Posted by ryfi on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:36:00 PST

things that were once easy that are now hard

so I used to be able to write songs. quite a few of them. without trouble. I would sit down and sort of meditate on something that was already bouncing around in my head and find a way to articulate i...
Posted by ryfi on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:37:00 PST

how I almost died last night

I love living in the U District. last night I drove into the Safeway parking lot while talking on my cell phone. I was distracted by the conversation but I still sort of noticed that the parking lot w...
Posted by ryfi on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:37:00 PST

my damn clone

so during the first couple of weeks of this quarter each time I showed up to my 8:30 hung over (or still drunk) there was a dude there. this dude looks EXACTLY like me. same hairstyle, same glasses, s...
Posted by ryfi on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:03:00 PST

I am freaking out...... man

So Brian sent me a message this morning. Apparently he had one of those hyperrealistic dreams; the kind where it seems like everything happens in real time. He dreamt that I died from some kind of alc...
Posted by ryfi on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 03:01:00 PST

Words of Wisdom from Brandon Coberly

so I've decided...I want to make a bed between Scarlett Johanssen's boobs and then sleep there for the rest of my life -Brandon Coberly
Posted by ryfi on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:43:00 PST

in the immortal words of Ken Finley .3

a couple months ago I moved into a new apartment. since my friends were being ass clowns (busy) I had my dad help me move my shit. we roll up to my new place with the first load of stuff and begin wal...
Posted by ryfi on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 01:16:00 PST