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Ryan

When the power of love conquers the love of power the world will know peace

About Me

I'm not easily defined, or able to be defined into a certain category. What I can tell you is that I choose to remain enigmatic, and usually clairvoyant at most times, that's just how I'm wired I guess. I have found its easy to go about life when you realize your specialties and short comings, and I certainly have a few of both.
Do any of us really know our inner self that well. Seriously if you think about it, do we have any Idea who we are, I like to look at m yself from an outside perspective. I find when I do that I see a whole different side of myself and its kind of refreshing too, why live a lie in denial. I challenge anyone to tell me what they really think, why the hell would anyone want them to tell them what they want to hear, no soul can ever grow that way. I know that I will never truly figure out everything I want to know but that won't stop me from at least trying.
Always striving, and attempting to morph, grow, and transcend my way through this bitter weary, dreary existence we call life, full of strife, but a times full of hope, sometimes life's not easily coped, but still some of us are predestined to overcome our struggles and achieving the long awaited goal that keeps us wanting more. Never deceiving, always believing that a new day awaits, a better way takes away my restraints, and a predetermined state of mind is where I can only find my one true power, hour after hour, I await my fate.
I am loyal to the ones who remain loyal to me, I build up walls so others can break them down. I have filtered through the pointless people that only bring me down, and stick with the ones who allow me to learn from. Love it or leave it, accept me or me reject me, it makes no difference because in the end your true colors always emerge, better sooner than later. I would rather have more enemies than loyal friends if it meant that I didn't have to waste my time with those that choose to remain fake and put on a facade. I have been through enough in my day so far to know that its just not worth the struggle to try to change someone. By now if they haven't learned to change their ways most likely they never will. A wise person learns from their mistakes and does their best to make a new path for themselves when they are not the person they want to be. I don't realy trip on futile things anymore when I run into them, the every day difficulties and struggles that life brings me. I just remind myself what awaits me when I leave this mortal coil.
I have lived, loved, and learned and can never learn enough. In fact I think the more I learn the more I realize I don't know. I have made mistakes like anyone else but I don't regret, regretting, would mean that I regret who I am. I accept who I am, with all the flaws, mistakes, and imperfection so any one who can't accept that isn't a real friend of mine and is a waste of time.
Just like any one else I have seen and observed a lot of beauty and ugliness on this earth. You cannot see the beauty in the world without seeing a the opposite every now and then. I have found that my search for happiness and true satisfaction is found only in God and through keeping the ones I love the most around me. I have learned to be content with just being me no matter what the circumstance, regardless of who I might be infatuated with at the time or what girl I'm in love with. I will keep on being my individual self, and eventually I will find my peace of mind, but in the mean time I will enjoy the ride that is ever so changing, and unfaltering.
"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living . The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle. Dreams are necessary to life. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. Nothing happens unless first a dream. Nothing happens unless first we dream."
"It's the love of guilt that forms the habit Of being dramatically over-dramatic. We live like vampires And we, we, we love like killers; We all die like infants, And we trust like mirrors."
"The songs they sing are in the key Of the illusion of pain and its irony. In the midst of lust and dropping names The drugs they numb and they keep us sane.""Slow suicide...like it or not, it's what we do."

My Interests

Her names Ashberry and she puts a smile on my face everyday.

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

Afi
30 seconds to mars Dredg
Tool
A perfect circle
Pink floyd
MGMT
Bat for Lashes
Taking back sunday
Dash board confessional
Muse
Sunny day real estate
Switchfoot
Lifehouse
Deftones
The used
The strokes
Lost prophets
Glassjaw
A thorn for every heart
Funeral for a friend
Rise against
This holliday life
Saves the day
Unwritten law
Trenton Reznor or NIN
Silverstien
Thrice (amazing live!)
Massive attack
Thursday The Cure or Robert Smith
New order & Joy Division (who did the original Shadowplay)
Alkaline trio
From autumn to ashes
Filter
Fuel
Jonas, the lead singer of Far (who influenced Chino Merino from Deftones)
Faith no more
Against me
Yeah yeah yeahs
The sounds
Strata
Pulp
Bloc party
Funeral for a friend
Coldplay
U2
the medic droid
Mc rut
Plush gun
Skinny puppy
Nada surf
Augast burns red
Fear before the march of flames
Paramore
Carolina Liar
Cold war kids
Guster
Pennywise
MGMT
Blue October
Scary kids scaring kids
Billy Idol
The editors
Every time I die
Forever the sickest kids
Dave Matthews Band (seen them 5 times!)
Damien Rice
Bat for lashes
Atreyu
Elliot Smith
Envy on the Coast
Brand New
Alice in Chains
Billy Talent
Bad Religion
The Doors
The Beatles
A change of pace
A Beautifull Mistake
Bayside
CCR
Fleetwood Mac
Smashing Pumpkins
Story of the Year
A Heart Well Ending
Radiohead
Green day
Trapt
Sublime
Juliana Theory
Jimmy Eat World
Chevelle
Nirvana
The Smiths
Psychedelic Furs
Dead Can Dance
Frank Sinatra
Wolfmother
The Flaming Lips
Bauhaus
Love and Rockets
Clear static
Duran Duran
Elvis Presley
Johnny Cash
The Stills
The stray cats
Placebo
The Format
Electric summer
Bless the Fall
Foo Fighters
My Bloody Valentine
Dead poetic
Him
Team sleep
From First to Last
Anberlin
early Pearl Jam
David Bowie
Opus DAuii
Interpol
Echo and the Bunny Men
Tears for fears

The police
John Mayor
Something Corporate
Breaking Benjamin
Incubas
Death cab for cutie
Mars Volta
At the drive in
Postal service
The killers
Kill switch engage
The flur
Shiny toy guns
Gnarls barkly
Jamariqui
Underoath
Blind side
Bleed the Dream
Maroon five
Crystal method
As I lay daying
Avenged sevenfold
Chemical brothers
Prodigy
Lynard skinard
The eagles
He is legend
Night kills the day
The drezden dollls
Jamison Parker
The Googoo Dolls
Oasis
The gorillas
blur
Thievery corporation
the faint
The verve
Armor for sleep
A static lullaby
Senses fail
Imogen heap
Emery
Opus dauii
Greeley estates
National product
Blue october
Digital underground
pharside
Outcast
Talib kwali
Mos def
Mae
The ataris
Vampire weekend
Figurine
The dreaming
The sleeping
Stabbing Westward
Explosions in the sky
Tegan and Sarah
Envy on the coast
Saosin
Panic at the disco
Drop dead gorgeous
Eveline
Stabbing Westward
mogwai
Sufjen stevens
My morning jacket
Devil wears Prada
We are the furry
James
Suede
Sade
Psychedelic furs
Moneen
Bright eyes
bed light for blue eyes
Third eye blind
Peter bjorn and John
Amethystium
Eastern Sun
Tangerine DreamBreak beats, house ,trance, Jazz, Ambient, Electronica, Experimental,anyone who pushes the envelope. Djs's that I love and that have changed the face of the club scene as we know it all over the world, and other favorites I will give my best shot at: Pete tong,Mars, Armin vaan buurin, bt, Paul Oakenfold, Tiesto, Kaskade, Danny Teneglia, Donald Glaude, Deep sky, Infected mushroom, Underworld , Chemical brothers, Sasha, John Digweed, Paul van dyke, Deep sky, Carl Cox, dj dan dj ufo, Diesel boy, dj dara, dj rap, Sandra collins, dj db, Yellow, The Crystal method, Uberzone, The orb, Orbital, John oo fleming, Eddie Halliwell, Sandra Collins, Max grahm, Dave Aude, Christopher Lawrance, Mark Farina, aphex twin, atb Pendulem, Cut chemist, dj shadow, dj Craze, Kenneth Thomas, Rabbit in the moon . and many many more

Movies:

Just to warn you, I worked at both a theater and Blockbuster, so am somewhat of movie guru. If you dare... Favorite directors: Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese Steven Sodeburgh and Spielberg, David Lynch (Moholland Drive, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway, Blue velvet, Twin Peeks Fire Walk with me), Tim Burton, Peter Weir (Dead Poet's Society), Fearless, Robert Altman, Rob Reiner, Alfred Hithcock, P.T. Anderson (Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood), Robert Zemekas, Guy Richie (Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barells, Snatch), Dannie Boyle (Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, The Beach), Cameron Crowe
Casa Blanca
Some Like it Hot
The Apartment
The Odd Couple
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Fortune Cookie
Citizen Cane
Goodfellas
Casino
Heat
High Fidelity
Gattica
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
Office Space
The English Patient
Talented Mr. Ripley
Ten things to do in Denver When You're Dead
Scent of a Woman
Scarface
Butch Cassidy and the SunDance kid
Bonnie and Clyde
Vertigo
Godfather series
China Town
Dazed and Confused
Chasing Amy
Dark City
The Crow
Star Wars series
City of Industry
True Romance
Pulp Fiction
Entropy
Anchorman
Van Wilder
A Fish Called Wanda
Gross Point Blank
In and Out
American Beauty
Moulin Rouge
Chicago
Gladiator
Fight Club
Beautiful Girls
Ed Wood
Edward Scissor Hands
Raging bull
Taxi Driver
Robin Hood Men in Tights
Hackers
Closer
Dracula
The Shining
Love Actually
The Holiday
The Notebook
Grind House
Elizabethtown
King Kong
All 3 Lord of the Rings
Count of Monte Cristo
Memento
Apocalypse Now
The Professional
Confidence
The Virgin Suicides
Lord of Illusions
Cruel Intentions
I Know What You Did Last Summer
The Da Vinci Code
both Underworlds
American Psycho
The Matrix
Rushmore
Lost in Translation
Finding Neverland
Secret of Nymh
Princess Bride
Willow
Garden State
The Big Kahuna
Donnie darko
Cold Mountain
Lost Boys
Back to the Future Series
Forest Gump
Immortal Beloved
State of Grace
Match Point
Shakespeare in Love
Good Will Hunting
French Kiss
Waking Life
Dracula
Bettter off Dead
The Gooneys
Simone
People I know
Blood Diamond
Oceans eleven, twelve, and thirteen
Kids
Thirteen
11:41
Both Crashes (David Cronenbergs,and the Oscar winning one)
Babel
Pirates of the Carribean series
The Wall
A Good Year
Little Miss Sunshine
Safe Men
Safari
The Tailor of Panama
Still breathing
The Thomas Crown Affair
Two days in the Valley
Sunset Blvd
Double Indemnity
2001 a Space Oddessy
The Departed
Equilibrium
North by North West
Rear Window
Vertigo
Chocolate
A Head Above the Clouds
Spun
Requiem for a Dream
Pan's Labyrinth
Life is Beautiful
Shawshank Redemption
Red White Blue (A few French movies, you should give them a try)
Hero
Almost famous
Jerry Maguire
Broken English
Ned Kelly
Eternal sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Evita
Angel Heart

Television:

Lost, Heroes, Family guy, the Rich's, Prison break, House, Dirt, south park, Celebrity rehab, Scrubs, The office, 30 Rock, entourage, Rome, Weeds, Seinfeld, Curb your enthusiasm

Books:

My favorites authors are Dan Brown, David Iche, Robert Frizall, H.R.Tolken, dale carnagie, and earnest hemingway. The last book I read was how to win friends and influence people.

Heroes:

My hero lately has been Chris Angel, that guy is amazing, and baffles the hell out of me. I look up to any body that inspires me in a unique way.

My Blog

Gary Busey comments on Hunter S Thompson and Art

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-rE0dNV5Bo ...
Posted by Ryan on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:14:00 PST

The patron saint of lost causes

This touched my soul and gives me chills everytime I hears it.  Check out Anberlin's Cities you'll thank me later.   "Feels like you're miles from here, in other towns with lesser names...
Posted by Ryan on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:06:00 PST

Ill be fine in time

Every day I get a little closer dear Every night I fall a little farther from here When I seem to be more and more distant I realize my vitality becomes non existent I proceed  through the sunshi...
Posted by Ryan on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 01:58:00 PST

remnants of a life once lived, and love once lost

Part1. I'm falling faster a waking distaster I long for a surrender Something I can hold dearWithout a sign of doubt, worry, or fearHour after hour I beckon for her call or silhoutteA familiar smell o...
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:37:00 PST

Out to sea

There is so much good music out there right now sometimes I get frustrated because there just isn't enough time in the day to listen to it all.  Anyhow I think that this new Earth wind fire and w...
Posted by Ryan on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 04:04:00 PST

A hope for a new tomorow

      So this friend of mine had an idea or a question that was based on why people only get these creative writing ideas and illusive vivid truths that can be quite comp...
Posted by Ryan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A great song

  So for those of you who havnt heard the new cold play you realy need to check it out, its amazing.  Definitely one of the best albums that will be coming out this year.  Hear are some...
Posted by Ryan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The magik of music

So there are many things that come to mind when I listen to music. Especially bands like Dredg they are amazing, you really need to check them out if you have a chance, they are more than just a music...
Posted by Ryan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Waiting for a sign

In this life that we so often take for granted, do we really wonder and ponder about the things that we have at our finger tips.  I for one am guilty of such folly.   I mean I have been...
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 04 May 2007 01:55:00 PST

the fragalty of life

So I was valet parking at this funeral yesterday and it was real creepy and depressing.  I found out that this crazy pshycho was hiped up on drugs went around town killing innocent people with a ...
Posted by Ryan on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 03:44:00 PST