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ryan

i will fucking rip you in half

About Me

i'm like this super strong grizzly bear of a man who lives in jonesboro. i work at the public library and yell at people when i'm not working. i also enjoy reading and frightening children. religious discussions bore the hell out of me.
i also play music and make music and sometimes write music and quite often enjoy music. i'm in ¡¡baba ku!! and have a solo electronic project called O.J. and the Golden Shower. i can play bass, guitar (kinda), keys (kinda, again), and saxophone (but i hate it and won't). i'd say i'm mediocre at best.
sometimes i spit. i have a bad caffeine addiction. my colon is fairly regular. sometimes i have headaches that make me grumpy, other times i just hate you.
i'm also a professional college dropout these days. i've now done it 3 times. huzzah. fuck that piece of paper, though. for realsies. no falsies.
anyway, i'm sure i won't be your friend so give it up unless you're not attached to your arm. in which case i'll be your friend for the small fee of beating you to death with your own arm.
pray for peace!

My Interests

conspiratorial science fiction, music (noise and indie), rocking the fuck out, kicking your fucking face in for looking at me, yelling at you for looking at me, and generally causing you to have a bad time. because you looked at me. asshole.

I'd like to meet:

The Five in the Light

olivia tr~wha?!?!?! already did? cool.

my pineal gland

Music:

!!!, 2 Lone Swordsmen, 764-HERO, The 90 Day Men, A Silver Mount Zion, Add n to (x), The Advantage, The Aislers Set, The Arcade Fire, Ass Coffee, Air, An Albatross, Animal Collective, Arab on Radar, Autechre, BATTLES, Beat Happening, Belle and Sebastian, Beulah, Blonde Redhead, Boards of Canada, The Books, Braid, Brainbombs, British Sea Power, Broken Social Scene, Built to Spill, By the End of Tonight, Call Me Lightning, Captain Beefheart, Castanets, Cheval de Frise, CLOUDDEAd, Coachwhips, Crass, Crime in Choir, Daughters, Deathray Davies, The Decemberists, Deerhoof, Devo, Dianogah, Dilute, Dismemberment Plan, Do Make Say Think, Don Cabellero, Dungen, El Guapo, Electric Six, The Evaluation, Ex Models, Explosions in the Sky, The Fiery Furnaces, The Flaming Lips, Fly Pan Am, The Flying Luttenbachers, Four Tet, Frank Zappa, Friends Forever, Frog Eyes, The Frogs, Fugazi, Gerty Farish, Godspeed!, The Go! Team, Grandaddy, Guided by Voices, Halo Benders, Hella, Hot Hot Heat, Hüsker Dü, Iron and Wine, Jandek, Japanther, Joan of Arc, Joy Division, Kimya Dawson, Kind of Like Spitting, King Crimson, Le Tigre, Les Savy Fav, The Liars, Lightning Bolt, Little Wings, Lou Reed, M83, Mates of State, MC5, MC Cris, Mclusky, Melt Banana, The Microphones, Mindflayer, The Misfits, old Modest Mouse, Mogwai, The Moldy Peaches, Mono, Mountain Goats, Mr. Bungle, Need New Body, Neil Young, Neon Hunk, Neutral Milk Hotel, North of America, Of Montreal, Okay, Oneida, Out-Hud, Owls, Oxes, Panda Bear, the pAper chAse, Parts & Labor, Pavement, Pink and Brown, The Pixies, Polyphonic Spree, The Postal Service, Primus, Q and Not U, Quintron, Ratatat, Red Sparowes, The Residents, Rhapsody, Robot Ate Me, Rush, The Sea and Cake, Sebadoh, Shellac, Sigur Ros, Silver Apples, The Six Parts Seven, Sonic Youth, Soophie Nun Squad, Sufjan Stevens, Superdrag, Talking Heads, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Television, The Thermals, Tiny Hawks, Tortoise, The Treepeople, Ugly Casanova, The Unicorns, Violent Femmes, The Weakerthans, We Regazzi, Ween, Wesley Willis (RIP), XBXRX, Xiu Xiu, Yo La Tengo

Movies:

Audition, Ichi the Killer, Gozu, Visitor Q, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Brazil, Legend, Jason and the Argonauts, Clash of the Titans, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Spirited Away, 2001, A Clockwork Orange, Dead/Alive, Re-Animator, The Toxic Avenger, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Batman, Predator 2, Evil Dead Trilogy, Blade Runner, The Dark Crystal, Masters of the Universe, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I Drink Your Blood, Mars Attacks, more later...

Television:

Sealab 2021, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Venture Brothers, Perfect Hair Forever, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Fox News (ya heard?).

Books:

The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, Tales by H.P. Lovecraft, The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan, Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Aeschylus, Euripides, Plautus, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Aeneid, Ovid, Theaetetus by Plato, Candide by Voltaire, Diary of a Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley, The Faerie Queene by Edmond Spencer, Don Quixote by Cervantes, Our Friends From Frolix 8 by Philip K. Dick, Electric Light by Seamus Heaney, The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

Choose Your Own Adventure books

Heroes:

George Washington Carver

My Blog

Winning, Losing, and Trashing

So, things went a little differently than planned, but are good nonetheless.  Instead of moving back to F'ville, we've migrated only 15 minutes to the south because my dad had this work thing and...
Posted by ryan on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:27:00 PST

Settling Down, Procreating, and Being Damn Happy Along the Way

So, a lot has happened the past year, so i'll spare all the details and get down to the nitty gritty.Olivia and I got hitched back in January and we're pretty much ridiculously in love and very happy ...
Posted by ryan on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:32:00 PST

upside down year

I hope that the new year finds all of you well. My new year fucked me up. About a month ago, I was single, in college, working at the public library and living here in Jonesboro doing, well, Jonesbori...
Posted by ryan on Thu, 05 Jan 2006 08:37:00 PST