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Ryan XIII

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About Me



"Forgiveness lives far off and down the road, but bitterness and art are close, and gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused." - Lorrie Moore

My Interests

Music, Tetris, Learning, Food and the human condition.

I'd like to meet:

You!

Music:

1349, 3, 1905, 3 Inches of Blood, 30 Seconds to Mars, A Black Rose Burial, A Day in Black and White, A Wilhelm Scream, Abigail Williams, Abominant, Abyssic Hate, Adolescents, AFI, Afro Celt Sound System, Against Me!, Agollach, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, All, All Shall Perish, Amber Pacific, Amoseurs, Amon Amarth, Anaetus, Anamanaguchi, Anchorhead, Anchors Away, Andres Segovia, Andrew Lloyd Weber, Angra, Anti Cimex, Antillectual, Anterrabae, Anton Fig, Arcturus, Ark, Arsis, Asmegin, At All Cost, At the Drive-In, Athiest, ATB, Atreyu, At the Drive-In, Autopilot Off, Auto!Automatic!, Avantasia, Avenged Sevenfold, Aqua, Bad Astronaut, Bad Brains, Bad Religion, Bak De Syv Fjell, Baroness, Bayside, Bedlight for Blue Eyes, Behold...the Arctopus, Being Killed, Belphegor, Between the Buried and Me, Blut Aus Nord, Black Eyed Peas, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Blackmore's Night, Bleeding Through, Blind Guardian, Blink 182, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Boston, Boysetsfire, Boy's Night Out, Breaking Benjamin, Bright Eyes, Brothers in Arms, Bruce Springsteen, Burning Skies, Bury Your Dead, Catch 22, Candiria, Captured by Robots!, Carpathian Forest, Casey Jones, Cattle Decapitation, Chephalic Carnage, Chevelle, Chiodos, Chris Isaak, Circa Survive, City of Caterpillar, Coheed and Cambria, Coldplay, Colin of Arabia, Comeback Kid, Comus, Converge, Counting Crows, Creation is Crucifixion, Crimson Moonlight, Cro Mags, Cryptopsy, Cursive, Cynic, Dag Nasty, Darkest Hour, Dark Funeral, Dark Tranquillity, Dashboard Confessional, Daughters, David Bowie, David Byrne, Dead Kennedys, Dead Can Dance, Dead Pop Club, Death, Death Cab For Cutie, Decapitated, Deftones, Dido, Dimension Zero, Dio, Discharge, Disclose, Do Make Say Think, Dominic, DragonForce, Dragonland, Dream Theater, Dropdead, Elton John, Elvis Cosetello, Emery, Emperor, Emmure, Ennui, Enslaved, Envy, Ephel Duath, E. S. Posthumus, Eversfield, Exhumed, Explosions in the Sky, Extol, Farmakon, Farewell Verona, final fantasy (Owen Pallet), Fleetwood Mac, Foreigner, Franz Liszt, Framtid, From Autumn to Ashes, From First to Last, Frost Like Ashes, Frou Frou, Fuck on the Beach, Fugazi, Ghengis Tron, Gnarls Barkley, Goldfinger, Good Riddance, Gorguts, Goo Goo Dolls, Grade, Grayceon, Gustav Mahler, Heart, HORSE the band, Hot Tuna, Hot Rod Circuit, I Am Ghost, Idiot Pilot, Ikue Mori, Incubus, Inked in Blood, Into Eternity, Iron Maiden, Isis, IWouldSetMyselfOnFireForYou, Jacob Golden, James Taylor, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Eat World, Joan Baez, Joanna Newsom, John Lee Hooker, John Zorn, Johnny Cash, Joshua Fit For Battle, Journey, Justin the Red, Kansas, Kid Dynamite, Killswitch Engage, Kiran Ahluwalia, Koenjihyakkei, Kreator, Led Zepplin, Leonard Cohen, Light This City, Linkin Park, Living Sacrifice, Loreena McKennit, Low, Lunar Aurora, Marschak, Matchbox Twenty, Matishyahu, Malvina Reynolds, Me and Him Call it Us, Men As Trees, Mesa Verde, Metallica, Mew, mewithoutYou, Midtown, Minor Threat, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Moonsorrow, Morbid Angel, Mothers of Invention, My Chemical Romance, Much the Same, Muddy Waters, Municipal Waste, Murder by Death, Muse, Mutilation, M. Ward, Naiad, Nachtmystium, Name Taken, Necrophagist, Neil Young, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nevermore, New Found Glory, Nightwish, Nile, Nine Inch Nails, Nobou Uetsma, Nodes of Ranvier, Norma Jean, Omnium Gatherum, Only Crime, Operation Ivy, Opeth, Origin, Orgy, Ozzy, Peste Noire, Pg. 99, Phillip Glass, Pierre Boulez, Pink Floyd, Pisschrist, Pixies, Poison the Well, Possessed, Propaghandi, Protest the Hero, Psyopus, Pulley, Queen, Queens of the Stoneage, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Ravi Shankar, R.E.M., Red Sparrowes, Regina Spektor, Richard Cheese, Richard Wagner, Rise Against, Rites of Spring, Rhaspody of Fire, Royal Anguish, Rufio, Rusted Root, Rx Bandits, Saetia, Saftey, Sarah Mclachlan, Sayyadine, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Scott Joplin, Semisonic, Set Fire to Flames, Senses Fail, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Set Your Goals, Sevendust, Shai Hulud, Shining, Sick of It All, Sigur Ros, Silverstein, Simon and Garfunkel, Sky Eats Airplane, Sleep Terror, Society Distort, Sonata Arctica, So Many Dynamos, Solefald, Spitalfield, Spineshank, Stars, Straylight Run, Stephen Soundheim, Strung Out, Suicide Machines, Sufjan Stevens, Suis La Lune, Summoning, Tartaros, Taking Back Sunday, Ten Foot Pole, Terror, Th' Legendary Shack Shakers, Third Eye Blind, This Day Forward, Three Doors Down, the Arcade Fire, the Ataris, the Black Dahila Murder, the Bronx, the Cure, the Dillinger Escape Plan, the Elected, the Exit, the Fall of Troy, the Get Up Kids, the Irish Tenors, the Juliana Theory, the Killers, the Mahavisnu Orchestra, the Mars Volta, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, the Number 12 Looks Like You, the Ocean, the Offspring, the Postal Service, the Rites of Spring, the Rolling Stones, the Roots, the Seatbelts, the Smashing Pumpkins, the Swellers, the Who, Third Eye Blind, Thursday, Time of Orchids, To Lay With Lions, Tom Waits, Tool, Trophy Scars, Underoath, Unearth, uneXpect, Until Eternity, Vehemance, Watain, Weather Report, Weezer, Winter Solstice, With Honor, Wolf Brigade, Wolfpack, Wolfy Lonesome, Wolves in the Throne Room, Woodie Guthrie, Worship, Wu-Tang Clan, Xasthur, Yes, Yoko Kanno, Zao, Zombi, Zombie Apocalypse, Zox

Movies:

American Beauty
Hara Kiri
Both Star Wars triologys
LOTR Triology
Hayato Miyazaki movies
United 93

and once again, many more

Television:

Old Cartoon Cartoon cartoons I.E:
Powerpuff Girls
Johnny Bravo
Dexter's Laboratory
Samurai Jack
Reboot

the Animated Adventures of Batman

Cowboy BeBop
Hellsing
Gundam Wing
Dragon Ball/Z
Outlaw Star
Record of Lodos War
Beserk
Naruto
Ronin Warriors
Trigun

Books:

I actually do enjoy reading novels quite a bit though I don't do enough of it.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and 1984 are my two favorite novels.

Heroes:

It's with love and respect that I speak of the achievements of those who have made me who I am today. My family, my friends, my teachers, every artist, every leader.But it is with their same ingenuity, bravery and boldness in mind that I must conclude, I have no heroes.

My Blog

10 random facts

I was forced to do this..or tagged...or...whatever basically 10 random facts about myself.   1- I honestly don't care with hair cuts anymore, they never turn out to be what I want. 2- I've...
Posted by Ryan XIII on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:57:00 PST

poem

I wrote a poem about writing a poem about writing a poem about writing a poem about writing a poem.   funny thing is, I forgot how it goes. all I remembered is how it ends and it ends just like t...
Posted by Ryan XIII on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:28:00 PST

Ode to Betsy of Cattle Line

  Why am I so hated? Why would they do this to me? Cut down like weeds No compassion to be seen. Called by the cold beyond Machines of death escort, Violated, raped and killed As profit margins ...
Posted by Ryan XIII on Sat, 29 Jul 2006 08:01:00 PST

Runaway

A runaway kneels to mourn... Wishes he was so far away So much so he can stand no more Broken knees, knuckles bleed Victim to the thorns of infamy, of dependency Life's grey hued morns will never see...
Posted by Ryan XIII on Thu, 18 May 2006 06:41:00 PST

Of Walls and Waltzes

Its with lies that I tell and fears that I fall. Its with hope that I stop as my body hits the wall.   But isn't this the room in which we dance so well? Rehearsing, inserting, asserting, revert...
Posted by Ryan XIII on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:24:00 PST

A few poems/Lyrics.

Hey all, I have been writing for the past while and haven't put any up. Here are two I rather enjoyed Comments, positive, negative, or neutral are welcomed. Critical...even better ;)   - A Monday...
Posted by Ryan XIII on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:04:00 PST

Short Story - Those Cookies Taste Bad

This is a short story I wrote for Comp in college, it's a bit of a rip of Hunter S. Thompson..but I found it amusing. Enjoy :) (ignore the code in the first paragraph, it wouldn't stay formated withou...
Posted by Ryan XIII on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:48:00 PST

The Pledge

"I'm sorry, but you can't save everyone Olivia..." she said. It sunk in, like a bright white light stabbing me through the chest....it sunk in...deep and hard. On come the water works, I tried hard t...
Posted by Ryan XIII on Sat, 01 Apr 2006 06:13:00 PST

its a poem! yayyy!

who am I to say what familiar things will last us through the day as the lights we made slowly start to fade what will meet us all and what will it say throuh the years ive tried to push the pain awa...
Posted by Ryan XIII on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:32:00 PST