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Ryan Gregory

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About Me



My Interests

Reading, writing, Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit, the interesting, the intellectual, late nights, the film, the words, the notes, tattoo, X Box, television, HBO Original Programming, trying to figure out how so many people got out of the seventh grade without being able to distinguish between any one (or all, in some cases) of the following; whose/who's, you're/your, their/there/they're.

I'd like to meet:

The song parody that changed my life...this week.

Music:

Social Distortion, The Ramones, Bruce Springsteen, FEAR, The Clash, The Dead Milkmen, The Circle Jerks, Pinhead Gunpowder, Green Day, The Meatmen, The Descendents, The Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash, The Living End, AFI, The Misfits, Mike Ness, Bon Jovi, Guns 'n Roses, The Replacements, D.I., N.W.A., The Network, The Jam, Warren Zevon, NOFX, CCR, George Thorogood, Foo Fighters, Jimmy Eat World, Sex Pistols, Suicidal Tendencies, Cheap Trick, Down By Law, ZZ Top, Weird Al Yankovic.

Movies:

The Godfather Trilogy, Goodfellas, Casino, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, American Movie, Scarface, Miller's Crossing, Dead Alive, Best in Show, American Beauty, Reservoir Dogs, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, J.F.K., Clerks, Seven, The Shawshank Redemption, The Usual Suspects, Private Parts, Magnolia, Full Metal Jacket, American History X, Road to Perdition, A Bronx Tale, Snatch, Dogma, Tombstone, Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, Walk The Line, Crash, 25th Hour, The Great Outdoors, See No Evil Hear No Evil, Houseguest, Jaws, The Green Mile, The House of Sand and Fog, Mrs. Harris, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Four Rooms, Mystic River, Pulp Fiction, Buffalo '66, U-Turn, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Psycho, 21 Grams, Leaving Las Vegas, The Graduate, The Believer, Beavis & Butthead Do America, The People vs Larry Flint, Munich, History of Violence, Gangs of New York, The Departed, Clerks 2, The Aviator, Fargo, No Country For Old Men, 3 Extremes, The Host, The Door in the Floor, Old Boy, Audition, There Will Be Blood, Into The Wild, American Psycho, Monster's Ball, The Descent, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Mean Streets, Carlito's Way, The Ladykillers, All The Kings Men, Donnie Brasco, The Big Lebowski, Deliverance

Television:

Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Sopranos, The Twilight Zone, The Office, The War at Home, American Justice, Forensic Files, Da Ali G Show, MythBusters, Penn & Tellers Bullshit, The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, Becker, Autopsy, Real Time with Bill Maher, Cold Case Files, Football, The O'Reilly Factor, The Abrams Report, Big Love, Deadwood, Lucky Louie, The Boondocks, OZ

Books:

Hamlet, The Canterbury Tales, Catch-22, Night, The Lottery, The Dark Tower, Of Mice and Men, The Stranger, The Picture of Dorian Gray, State of Emergency, The Road

My Blog

So I got drunk and wrote amazon.com a letter....

While I sincerely understand the need for outsourcing and cost control, I can not help but be discouraged by the lack of proficiency in the English language that is exhibited by the staff in your call...
Posted by Ryan Gregory on Tue, 13 May 2008 02:33:00 PST

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

In the hierarchical museum of understatements and well-intended misgivings, to say that this past week and my brother's visit was enjoyable would hold a place at the head of the table with saying that...
Posted by Ryan Gregory on Wed, 07 May 2008 11:09:00 PST

The motherfuckin E Street Band! UPDATED!!

So, the show was basically incredible. The rundown is something as follows.  So I did the GA lottery thing in an effort to get right up in the front of the stage and missed out on that. Howeve...
Posted by Ryan Gregory on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:22:00 PST

The motherfuckin’ E Street Band!

Springsteen tonight! Updates to follow.  I’m so happy I could shit.
Posted by Ryan Gregory on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:48:00 PST

Manifesto of one so nighted.

There will be pain. At times, a seemingly infinite supply. The memo guaranteeing happiness, now as unattainable as the wasted years, and lost in the shuffle. The excruciating solitude matched only ...
Posted by Ryan Gregory on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:55:00 PST

Now don’t have all your hearts stop beating at once...

...but I quit drinking.  Hopefully someday I can get to where I will drink socially, but right now it is important to prove to myself that I can go without for quite a long while.  Too many ...
Posted by Ryan Gregory on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:19:00 PST

We shall cut the bike in half!

Which of the following two pieces of blindingly brilliant American cinema resonated more deeply with you and why?1. "GET OFF MY PLANE!" - President James Marshall, played by Harrison Ford.  ...
Posted by Ryan Gregory on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:17:00 PST

A month has passed, like photographs.

     So I am one month deep into my new-ish life out here on the West Coast, so I thought it time to update some of the comings and goings.  I am feeling settled into my apart...
Posted by Ryan Gregory on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:26:00 PST

Question, seriously.

Why do lesbians and "hip-to-be-queer" girls like Angelina Jolie so much?  Is it just because of that dyke thing she did in that one movie?  Was her boldness in playing that role the impetus ...
Posted by Ryan Gregory on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:33:00 PST

Drunken Ode to NYC

-MCSORLEYS could marry me if it wanted to. The reverence that the general populous pays that bar (see WW1 chandelier with the wishbones of sailors hanging from it to validate this) is unbearable.-Bria...
Posted by Ryan Gregory on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:46:00 PST