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Ryan

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About Me

New song "Wilderness Song" by Marsha and Ryan:
I'm Ryan.
I'm engaged to Marsha.
I will be getting married on June 22, 2008.
I have a Bachelor's Degree in Anthropology with emphasis in Archaeology.
I've done archaeological work on Nevis in the Caribbean.
I am a Christian. Yes, an anthropologist that is a Christian. I know, I've never met one either.
I play guitar in a band called Broken Winter. Though we may not be Broken Winter anymore. Still working that out.
I also write songs with Marsha.
One day they may get recorded better.
I have curly hair which I dont like, but Marsha thinks its alright.
I play guitar at my church and occasionally do sound there. Sometimes Marsha and I lead worship, which can be stressful but fun.
I once played clarinet. It allowed me to travel to Holland, Germany, and Belgium. It was a magic clarinet, I guess. I don't play it anymore, however.
"though all the world may hate us, we are named
though shadow overtake us, we are known
we are the image of the invisible" -Thrice

My Interests

Marsha, music, drug-free, Jesus, guitar, friends, songwriting, Inroads, sleep, movies, the Bible, honey mustard, coffee, TV, turkey meatloaf, silence, worship, reading, my cd collection

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to spend a day playing music with some people like Butch Walker, Michael Guy Chislett, Mike Herrera, Tom Wisniewski, Cyrus Balooki, Chad Gilbert, and my brother Josh.

Music:

New Found Glory
MxPx
Dustin Kensrue
Butch Walker
Hillsong United
Switchfoot
Ruth
Midtown
The Format
my music of course (Broken Winter, Ryan and Marsha, and The Silent Towns)
Minus Vince
Letter Kills
RX Bandits
The Early November
Thrice
The Limbeck Band
Murder By Death
Leeland
David Crowder Band
John Williams film scores
and so much more...

Movies:

the whole Star Wars saga, Stardust, Donnie Darko, Almost Famous, The Goonies, Monster Squad, Blues Brothers, 3:10 To Yuma remake, Napoleon Dynamite, Stand By Me, That Thing You Do, La Bamba, Serenity, Indiana Jones, Back To The Future, Batman Begins, Ghostbusters, Jurassic Park

Television:

Smallville, Firefly, Entourage, Flight of the Conchords, Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, Boy Meets World, Happy Days, I Love Lucy

Books:

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, Batman graphic novels, Stardust and Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, The Great Divorce by CS Lewis, Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman, the book of Acts in the Bible, Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis(I'm reading them all right now, pretty fun books!)

Heroes:

Jesus. Paul (from the Bible).

My Blog

Check out songs by Marsha and I!!!

Marsha and I have recorded 3 of the songs that we have written together so far!  You can check them out at myspace.com/ryanandmarsha   The song "The Unseen" features an intro that I original...
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:49:00 PST

I’m pretty excited about it...

..> I'm pretty excited about it... So I know I've posted a lot about this, but I just wanted to mention my band and our new songs again. Broken Winter had our first show 4 years and one month ago ...
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:38:00 PST

40

I waited patiently for the Lord; He turned and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; He set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. He put a new song i...
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:51:00 PST

wedding, band, etc

..> wedding, band, etc So I haven't updated anything for a while now. I think everyone knows that Marsha and I got engaged at the beginning of July before I left on my trip. The trip was very well...
Posted by Ryan on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:28:00 PST

amazing because it is

the almost     "Amazing Because It Is"I was so scared of everything you put in front of meI've been arching every part of meJust to seeSeeWhy you need me to beThe boy you need me to beAmazin...
Posted by Ryan on Tue, 01 May 2007 06:31:00 PST

so true

i saw this on a sticker: "without christ is death...  ...in christ is life."     i cant tell you how dead i once felt inside... how hopeless, how lost, how angry.     but ...
Posted by Ryan on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 01:24:00 PST

a new blog entry, part 1

So, the nyquil hasn't yet kicked in, so I am going to write a blog. it's been a while since I've written one! I've actually been hesitating because there are so many things in my head that I just can...
Posted by Ryan on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:55:00 PST

PLEASE help me out this Friday!!!

Hey guys, my band Broken Winter is playing this friday in Hayward, our first show in a couple months and with some bands that can really help us out with shows and exposure if we get enough people out...
Posted by Ryan on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:17:00 PST

wow.... (6months)

6 months ago, two of the best things ever happened in my life. 6 months from now, hopefully, I'll be graduating and trying to get myself out into that dimension know by some as "the real world." I kee...
Posted by Ryan on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:16:00 PST

heck yes!

KIN 26A Begin Table Tennis A 1.00 KIN 55A Begin Self-Defense A+ 1.00 winter session paid off! got my PE courses out of the way in just 3 weeks, and it helped my GPA!100 units down, 15 in progress, 5 m...
Posted by Ryan on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 04:06:00 PST