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ryan

arrr the laws of science be a harsh mistress

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

free thinkin... radical feminist activists... people who want to change the world and who are applying it to their own lives...people with beautiful smiles and big bright eyes... who like to sing out loud in the car... who read a lot... love art... people that cry themselves to sleep because they care too much about lord of the rings...

Music:

i like listening to godspeed albums all the way through... and beatle marathons... cat power and elliott smith... i like that outkast song... i like sonic youth and fugazi... i like louis armstrong and ella singing to each other... i like that my ipod has a random function so it will suprise me with things i havent listened to in ages... anything that comes from ninja tune... like kid koala and amon tobin... belle and sebastian and clinic... business lady and durga and lightning bolt... i also have a ton of lectures from richard feynmen and noam chomsky and all kinds of random stuff from radio 4 all... it makes me feel like im still in school even though i didn't like going to school at times..

Movies:

lord of the rings! star wars... pi and requiem... memento.. punch drunk love and magnolia... baraka... the qattsi trilogy..lost highway.. amelie... fight club and seven... unbreakable... the royal tenenbaums and rushmore and bottle rocket!!

Television:

quantum leap.. deep space nine...futurama and cosmos ... the history channel when it plays the mysteries of the bible... ..aries when theyr all hollywoodized with special effects and crap... like the future is wild... and all the bbc stuff... like walking with dinosaurs and prehistoric beasts and cavemen.. i love it

Books:

right now i love reading lonely planet guides, for basically any country that i can get my hands on, it makes me feel like i can travel to all these places without spending money i dont have. a heartbreaking work of staggering genius and you shall know our velocity by dave eggars! ...the huey p newton reader...kurt vonnegut... chuck palahniuk... douglass adams... philip k. dick... bell hooks... the emerging consensus in social systems theory by kenneth bausch... books on chimpanzee cultures... ants... lord of the rings... nabokov... radical anthologies... anarcho-feminist writings.. gerald schroeder and other books on ancient judaism and secrets contained in ancient hebrew texts... lots of stuff from carl sagan and ann druyan... green zine (cristy road)... i also have a ton of graphic novels, top shelf books are good... like james kochalka and craig thompson and dan james and those owly books... i also like sandman and bone and batman and anything else i can get my hands on.

Heroes:

ariel gore, the dad from 'my neighbor totoro', the kids from 'my neighbor totoro', dave eggars, james kochalka, jefferey brown, the guy that writes 'rad dad', michel gagne, noam chomsky, emma goldman, carl sagan, arundhati roy, vandana shiva, michael parenti... charles schulz, cristy road, amy vaughn, charlie brown, pig pen, yoda, batman, jacques cousteau, mother jones, ella baker ... and... me! i want to be me when i grow up!

My Blog

Comic Con 07

The other day I went on the comic con page to learn that 4 day passes had already sold out! effin hell. i almost don't even want to go anymore. its too crowded to enjoy walking around the booths now. ...
Posted by ryan on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:00:00 PST

Ryan and Charmaine are heading to San Diego this Week!

Just to give you all a reminder heads up, Charmaine and I will be flying down to San Diego on Tuesday night (we arrive around 10:30pm). We will be in town until the 26th when we fly back to Portland. ...
Posted by ryan on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:00:00 PST

whats up, ryan? v.8.17.2006

i havent posted a blog in ages it seems. life in portland is great. charmaine is currently in the process of deconstructing our dryer. in order to make it dry again someday. its quite an undertaking. ...
Posted by ryan on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:48:00 PST

art up in portland!

hey so if you want to see my new paintings in the real live fleshy canvassy glory that they are. go to alotta gelato on the corner of nw 23rd and nw lovejoy. who knows how long they'll be up for, mayb...
Posted by ryan on Sat, 21 Jan 2006 02:10:00 PST

tour de san diego

charmaine and i will be flying down to san diego for about 5 days. we arrive thursday night and fly back to portland on tuesday morning. anyone who wants to hang out, maybe go to pokez or sparkys or t...
Posted by ryan on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 10:02:00 PST

free places to stay

i came across some sweet links in an experimental travel book from lonely planet today. theyre websites designed as free networking communities for travellers, so you can have a free place to stay in ...
Posted by ryan on Fri, 30 Dec 2005 07:44:00 PST

xmas present trade-a-thon

so do you want a mix cd for xmas? because thats my plan for presents. that and slingshot organizers. so if you want the sweetest xmas present from portland, send your address my way and you will have ...
Posted by ryan on Sun, 04 Dec 2005 06:47:00 PST

harry potter and the goblet of crack

sometimes i just cannot lie to myself. sometimes i can. but with this, i cannot. ugh. i wanted so badly to sit down and wisk myself away to hogwarts and relive the excitement of reading the goblet of ...
Posted by ryan on Sat, 19 Nov 2005 11:02:00 PST

more on my new harry potter nerdiness

so i finished the half blood prince about a month ago and have gone back and read the goblet of fire and am almost done with order of the phoenix... theyre awesome... i havent really had a problem wit...
Posted by ryan on Sat, 08 Oct 2005 02:41:00 PST

ryans birthday

yes! my birthday is coming soon. october 11 to be exact. you should all draw me a picture of something ridiculous and mail it to me. i like getting mail. real mail. snail mail mail. so do it!
Posted by ryan on Mon, 26 Sep 2005 06:33:00 PST