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Ryan

Hasta La Victoria Siempre!

About Me

I do all the right things at all the wrong times.Quit law school, moved to grad school.Still in Boston, and loving it.Thinking of moving to California...body { background-color:FFFFFF; background-image:url('http://www.profilestyling.com/images/l ayouts/0003.jpg'); background-attachment: fixed; backgroun

My Interests

Art, History, Philosophy, Literature, Politics, Travel, Early Retirement, Monaco, the French Riviera, Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, dark coffee, arguments, love, sex, hate, violence, peace, beer, wine, being single, dating intensely, movies...I'm interested in almost everything imaginable.

I'd like to meet:

John Malkovich. Oh...too late.

Music:

Steely Dan, Aphrodite, The Arcade Fire, Andrew W.K., AFI, Fiona Apple, Beck, Band of Bees, Bjork, Ben Kweller, Bright Eyes, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Coheed and Cambria, Common, Cursive, the Darkness, Death Cab for Cutie, The Deftones, The Eels, The Faint, Feist, Fischerspooner, the Flaming Lips, Franz Ferdinand, Garbage, Gorillaz, Head Automatica, The Hives, Interpol, JOY DIVISION, the Jurassic 5, Kings of Convenience, Kraftwerk, John Legend, Led Zepplin, Louis XIV, Magnetic Fields, Massive Attack, The Misfits, Modest Mouse, Mudvayne, NWA, New Order, Nirvana, Outkast, Erland Oye, Peaches, Portishead, the Postal Service, RADIOHEAD, The Ramones, Rilo Kiley, The Roots, Royksopp, the Sex Pistols, The Shins, Sigur Ros, System of a Down, She Wants Revenge, Tegan and Sarah, Talib Kweli, Tricky, Kanye West, The White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeah's...more every day!

Movies:

Borat!, Dr. Strangelove, Brick, Run Lola Run, The English Patient, Lost in Translation, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 + Vol. 2, Pulp Fiction, A Clockwork Orange, The Battle of Algiers, Lawrence of Arabia, City of God, Amelie, Heat, The Godfather, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Rashomon, Ben-Hur, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Amores Perros, Y Tu Mama Tambien, The Professional, La Femme Nikita, In the Mood for Love, Chungking Express, Love Actually, Wall Street, Glengary Glenn Ross, The Good Thief, 2046, Capote, Bob le Flambeur, Tokyo Drifter, Traffic, Fight Club, Se7en, The Seven Samurai, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Brokeback Mountain, Crash, North by Northwest, Goldfinger, From Russia with Love, Alien, Aliens, The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Braveheart, Il Postino, Metropolis, Hero, The House of Flying Daggers, Gallipoli, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Hard Boiled, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Dr. Zhivago, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, The Departed, Mean Streets, F for Fake, M, Citizen Kane, Le Cercle Rouge, and last but not least, the greatest movie of all time; Debbie Does Dallas.

Television:

Battlestar Galactica, South Park, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report

Books:

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Everything is Illuminated, The Quiet American, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Republic, The Prince, Last Exit to Brooklyn, One Hundred Years of Solitude, For Whom The Bell Tolls, Slaughterhouse Five, The Affluent Society, 1984/Animal Farm, Sense and Sensibility, Heart of Darkness, The World According to Garp, All Quiet on the Western Front, The English Patient, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Power and the Glory, Me Talk Pretty One Day, The Constant Gardener, War and the Intellectuals, The Road to Serfdom, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Cold Mountain, V for Vendetta (I know its a comic book, but its really good), The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, The Trial of Henry Kissinger, The Sun Also Rises, No Logo, The Jungle Books, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Leaving Las Vegas, A Clockwork Orange, Catch-22, The Temple of the Golden Pavillion, The Power Elite, Orientalism, The End of the Affair, A People's History of the United States, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, Julian, Junky, Appointment in Samarra, Death in Venice, In Cold Blood, The Once and Future King, The Complete Oscar Wilde

My Blog

THE TROOPER!!!

SHUT THE FUCK UP! ITS MAIDEN, BITCH!!
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:29:00 PST

Yes, You.

Dear You,How do i get through to you? Why do you not hear me? The preponderance of evidence suggests majesty, unhindered talent and unfathomable depth. Beyond me, why do you do this to yourself? Y...
Posted by Ryan on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:51:00 PST

I look like a Bangkok hooker on a Sunday morning the day after the Navy left town.

My head hurts.
Posted by Ryan on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:37:00 PST

Politics in Space: Why Everone With a Brain Should Watch "Battlestar Galactica."

People-I've recently started watching the Sci-Fi television program, "Battlestar Galactica." I had read in Time magazine how the show was fantastic; indeed it was ranked Best Show on Television in th...
Posted by Ryan on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 01:21:00 PST

Meeting John Malkovich

Last night I went to a really terrible play given in honor of actor John Malkovich. Afterwards, he had a question and answer session, followed by the obligatory hand-shaking, photo-taking, personal-s...
Posted by Ryan on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 03:36:00 PST

In praise if imperfection

As the days go by, I've begun form a new perspective on my life. Events in the last couple of months have been rather hard for me to fit into my vision of an accomplished and successful me; I've lost...
Posted by Ryan on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:22:00 PST

Crash

Note to self:  Stop getting your hopes up.  Life just isn't worth hedging optimistic bets upon. Whether it's trusting in the decency of others, or assuming what I am doing is correct, that ...
Posted by Ryan on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 07:40:00 PST