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Ryan

There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure

About Me

i like sluts that end up breaking my heart

My Interests

people watching, silently (or vocally) judging people, briefly falling in love, fabricating incongruous conspiracy theories and then believing them (in that order)

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who isn't a douchebag

Music:

Saves the Day
Sublime
The Bled
Our Lady Peace
Incubus
Nirvana
Elliot Smith
NOFX
Bright Eyes
UnderOATH
Bad Religion
Dropkick Murphys
etc.

Movies:

A Scanner Darkly
The Big Lebowski
City of God
Clerks
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fight Club
Kill Bil Vol. 1 & 2
Little Miss Sunshine
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Magnolia
Memento
Pulp Fiction
Snatch
Trainspotting
etc.

Television:

12oz. Mouse
30 Rock
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
The Daily Show
Entourage
Family Guy
Flight of the Conchords
Futurama
Heroes
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Lucky Louie
Metalocalypse
The Office
Scrubs
The Simpsons

Books:

2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl (Daniel Pinchbeck)
The 48 Laws of Power (Robert Greene)
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Alchemist (Paul Coelho)
The Alphabet of Manliness (Maddox)
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
The Art of Seduction (Robert Greene)
Beowulf
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
Choke (Chuck Palahniuk)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)
The Game (Neil Strauss)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Generation X (Douglas Copeland)
God's Debris (Scott Adams)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Dave Eggers)
Hell's Angels (Hunter S. Thompson)
High Fidelity (Nick Hornsby)
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (Tucker Max)
Jennifer Government (Max Barry)
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lullaby (Chuck Palahniuk)
The March (E.L. Doctorow)
The Moral Animal (Robert Wright)
Old School (Tobias Wolff)
Real Ultimate Power (Robert Hamburger)
The Rum Diary (Hunter S. Thompson)
The Secret (Rhonda Byrne)
The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins)
Slaughterhouse V (Kurt Vonnegut)
Sperm Wars: The Science of Sex (Robin Baker)
The Stand (Stephen King)
The Street Lawyer (John Grisham)
Survivor (Chuck Palahniuk)
This Boy's Life (Tobias Wolff)
Watchmen (Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons)
The Yemassee (William Gilmore Simms)
You Shall Know Our Velocity! (Dave Eggers)

Heroes:

Buddha, Jesus, Ghandi, and Peter Petrelli

My Blog

Across the Pond Contact Info

So I've arrived in England safely, and if any of you blokes want to reach me, here's my information:Address:Ryan MuskettRoom 3 House 19Constantine Court, PeelUniversity of SalfordSalfordM5 4RBPhone:04...
Posted by Ryan on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:06:00 PST

Ne Buvez Pas le Lait au Chocolat

From kindergarten through 2nd grade, I attended a private Catholic school. Honestly I'm not sure why, since my parents are Lutheran, but the school was only 3 blocks away, and it's the same school tha...
Posted by Ryan on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:10:00 PST

Finish What You Start

This blog is just to motivate me to get some reading done over the spring/summer. Next time you have a conversation with me, ask me how one of the books on this list is going to encourage me to comple...
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 11 May 2007 10:53:00 PST

Youth's Diatribe

What am I doing? What are we doing? I speak of the collective we, a generation of fucked up, flunked out, substance abusing Armed Forces recruits. Is this the way it's always been? Is this how our par...
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:24:00 PST

Welcome to the Real World, Son

When I was younger, I had a slightly better understanding of the world than most of my classmates. I knew Santa wasn't real by age five  while snooping under the tree to try and figure out what gifts...
Posted by Ryan on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 01:12:00 PST

La Bière

La bière est bonne à boireLa bière, je l'adoreIl fait les filles joliesEt il me fait raviJe suis bien dans ma peauQuand je bois une bouteille ou deuxJe suis pas triste, je suis pas en colèreQuand j'ai...
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:14:00 PST

Just Give Me Two Minutes to Sober Up

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19125601.200From the article:What if you could have all that is good about alcohol, with none of the bad? What if you could enjoy a night of frivolous fun, then s...
Posted by Ryan on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:13:00 PST

Dear Apple

Listen. I just don't get you. Apparently your style and design is popular with the trendy crowd, those into making/editing photos and videos, and up-and-coming movie stars whose resume include Jeepers...
Posted by Ryan on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 02:30:00 PST

Bart Simpson = Pothead?

I'll admit that I haven't watched the last few seasons of The Simpsons as religiously as I used to. Work often gets in the way, and Matt Groening stopped putting his best creative into that show when ...
Posted by Ryan on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:16:00 PST

CUTE HIPPIE CHICKS

I love you, runaway with me to some isolated farm where we will live off the land and never have to worry about everyday hustle and bustle. I will farm and raise livestock and you school the kids and ...
Posted by Ryan on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:07:00 PST