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Ryan

my arms are too short to box with god ...

About Me

I'm an ESL teacher by day, artist by night. I try to "do it all" - I paint, I write (prose and poetry), I play guitar (not well, mind you, but who needs talent?). I realize this probably sounds really cheesy, but I've come to believe that art is as essential to the human soul as breathing is to the human body.Current project I'm working on include:
  • Writing a haiku every day at haiku365.blogspot.com
  • Writing a short story every month at ryanharron.blogspot.com
  • Writing/recording an EP
  • Promoting the novel I recently finished writing. Read it online for free at shadownano.livejournal.com !
  • My Interests

    Art, philosphopy, music, films (both the extremely deep 'artsy' kind and the cheesy-as-hell b-movie kind), politics - I try to live a fairly well-rounded intellectual life.

    I'd like to meet:

    Poets, artists, musicians, filmmakers - all those who would change the world, one spirit at a time ...and, of course, everyone who wants to join my Friday Haiku mailing list.If you'd like to be my friend, it would be appreciated if you would message me first, so I know you're a real person and not some computer program trying to infect me with virii or sell me pornography.

    Music:


    I love music with heart. The type of music that shows that the artist loves music, and also has something important to say. Bands like The Trews, Oliver Black, Sam Roberts, The Tragically Hip, Tea Party, Big Sugar, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Will Hoge, The Weekend, Magneta Lane, Ben Harper, The Salads, Grindig, Sloan, Jimmy Eat World, Nine Inch Nails, The Ramones, The Weakerthans, Matthew Good, Django Reinhardt, John Lee Hooker, Public Enemy, The Horrorpops, etc.

    Movies:

    Kevin Smith, Richard Linklater, Star Wars, Quentin Tarantino, Ben Stiller Comedies

    Television:

    Lost, Rick Mercer, 22 Minutes, Air Farce, Corner Gas, Degrassi, Grey's Anatomy

    Books:

    Recent Reads: check out My LibraryThing catalogue.
    Favourites:
    Novels: Kelley Armstrong, Robert J. Sawyer, Phillip K. Dick, Neil Gaiman, Neal Stephenson, George R.R. Martin, Lemony Snickett, Noam Chomsky
    Comics: The Invisibles, Sandman, Scott Pilgrim, Y - The Last Man, The Walking Dead, Fables, X-Men, Bone, Lone Wolf & Cub

    My Blog

    New Music!

    Something new I've been trying so far in February:http://fawm.org/writers.php?id=1417"FAWM.ORG forges a collaborative community each February, where musicians of all walks and skill levels write an al...
    Posted by Ryan on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:39:00 PST

    Music!

        I've been writing some music lately, and have been thinking about putting it online.  Do any of you lovely people have any experience with the various online music places like ...
    Posted by Ryan on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:59:00 PST

    New Writing Projects for 2008

    http://haiku365.blogspot.com - my haiku blog.  One haiku per day for all of 2008. http://ryanharron.blogspot.com - RH Balance - my short story/writing blog.  New stories every month. ...
    Posted by Ryan on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:30:00 PST

    Changes To Canadian Copyright Law

    So, this week, the Canadian government is going to be introducing a new copyright bill, designed to put harsh limits on what you and I can do as consumers with the technology and media that we purchas...
    Posted by Ryan on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:53:00 PST

    Survey!

    Hello everyone,I've been trying to do some planning lately on what my artistic goals are for next year, and how I'm going to be presenting myself digitally in order to help me reach those goals. ...
    Posted by Ryan on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 07:00:00 PST

    Synthesis

    I'm writing a novel that will be serialized online as part of National Novel Writing Month 2007. Each day a new piece of the story will be uploaded to the book's website (http://shadownano.livejournal...
    Posted by Ryan on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:50:00 PST

    Happy Hallowe’en!

    To help celebrate Hallowe'en this year, I decided to write a special spooky story.  Check it out at http://ryanharron.googlepages.com/spirits. Hope everyone is having a spooktacular Hallowe'en so...
    Posted by Ryan on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:08:00 PST

    New Haiku Collection

    Collected Haiku vol. 3: Starry Nights and Grey SkiesA new collection of some of the haiku I've written over the past eight months or so.  Check it out at http://ryanharron.googlepages.com/haiku3...
    Posted by Ryan on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:44:00 PST

    Attention Ontarians!

    As many of you are probably aware, we're having an election on October 10th.  What a lot of people don't seem to know, however, is that we are also having a referendum on the same day to see if O...
    Posted by Ryan on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:45:00 PST

    Jonathan Coulton

    Wrote a new article for Helium, this one on Jonathan Coulton.  For those of you who aren't familiar with him, he's a former software engineer who decided he would rather be a musician, so he quit...
    Posted by Ryan on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:00:00 PST