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Ryan

I'm gonna eat your brains and gain your knowledge.

About Me

Give me a beer, guitar, NES controller, and a good horror flick. I'll be good to go.

My Interests

Playing guitar, writing and recording music, watching movies, NES, laughing my ass off, booze, reading, working out

I'd like to meet:

Whoever can take a joke.

Music:

mastodon - seabeast
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Metallica, Meshuggah, Mastodon, Alice in Chains, Primus, Faith No More, Buckethead, Mr. Bungle, Black Sabbath, Soundgarden, Pantera, Cornbugs, Byzantine, Dream Theater, Strapping Young Lad, Opeth, Muse, Lamb of God, Gnarls Barkley, God Speed You Black Emperor!, Iced Earth, Fear Factory, The Living End, Devin Townsend, Anthrax, Children of Bodom, The Haunted, Misfits, Danzig, Beatallica, Rage Against the Machine, Carcass, A Perfect Circle, Cannibal Corpse, Corrosion of Conformity, the Ramones, Fantomas, Chum, 8 bitz, Slayer, Testament, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Infectious Grooves, Against Me!, Days of the New, Steve Vai, Nirvana, Huey Lewis & the News, The Cars, Guns N' Roses, Acid Bath, Paper Lace, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Down, classic rock and oldies in general, classical music

Movies:

Amadeus, American Psycho, Apocalypse Now, Back to the Future, Bad Taste, Bad Santa, Batman Begins, Beetlejuice, The Big Lebowski, Big Trouble in Little China, Black Christmas (original), Blade Runner, Braindead (Jackson), Brazil, The ‘Burbs, Casino, Children of Men, Cinema Paradiso, A Clockwork Orange, Clue, Commando, Creepshow, Dawn of the Dead (’78 and ’04), The Departed, The Devil’s Rejects, Die Hard, Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Evil Dead series, Falling Down, Fargo, Fight Club, The Fly (Cronenberg), Forrest Gump, The Fountain, Friday the 13th series, Ghostbusters 1 and 2, Goodfellas, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, Grindhouse, Halloween (Carpenter, of course), The Hitcher (original), Indiana Jones trilogy, Jaws, The Karate Kid: Parts 1 and 2, Kill Bill: Vols. 1 and 2, King Kong (1933), King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Lost Boys, The Monster Squad, My Cousin Vinny, A Nightmare on Elm Street series, No Country for Old Men, Office Space, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Pan’s Labyrinth, Phantasm, Predator, The Princess Bride, Pulp Fiction, Raging Bull, Re-Animator, Reservoir Dogs, Return of the Living Dead, Rocky (yeah, the whole series), Seven, Shaun of the Dead, The Shawshank Redemption, The Shining, Silence of the Lambs, Sin City, Super Troopers, Suspiria, Taxi Driver, Tenebre, Terminator 1 and 2, There Will Be Blood, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), They Live, The Thing, This is Spinal Tap, To Kill a Mockingbird, Total Recall, True Lies, Videodrome . . . many, many more.

Television:

The Simpsons, Arrested Development, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Office, Dexter, Wonderfalls, Lost, The Price is Right (Bob Barker only please), Weeds, Firefly, House, In Living Color.

Books:

Anything by Stephen King (especially his work as Richard Bachman), H.P. Lovecraft stuff, John Schwartzwelder (the man behind most of the great classic Simpsons epidsodes), American Psycho, Almost Home by Damien Echols, Hatcher's Notebook, The Handbook of Dream Analysis, Bruce Campbell's If Chins Could Kill, other nerd books that relate to my profession, and random stuff like The Zombie Survival Guide and The Real Ultimate Power

Heroes:



My Blog

Movies by Month - October 2007 - Super Fucking Scary Halloween Spectacularity Edition!

Well, I said I was going to watch a lot of horror movies in October, and by gum, I fucking did (if you consider 35 movies a lot).  There were still plenty that I wanted to watch, but just didn't ...
Posted by Ryan on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:43:00 PST

Movies by Month - September 2007

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the latest installment of my personal internet log that you all may call a "blog."  I watched a pretty good amount of movies this month (21 to be exact), no...
Posted by Ryan on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:59:00 PST

Movies by Month - August 2007

So, I'm about a week overdue.  Fucking kill me.  I had a nice long Labor Day weekend that I remember barely anything about.  I would've posted this blog over the weekend and probably no...
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 08:35:00 PST

Movies by Month - July 2007

It's been a little bit interesting this month.  I saw a couple of major fucking stinkers.  I also decided to revisit a couple of older horror movies that I watched religiously as a kid but h...
Posted by Ryan on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 08:02:00 PST

Beardo Music is up and running

Remember over a year ago when I said that I planned on spending a lot of time recording about 16 songs that I had written?  Well, I came through with it . . . except I have only recorded three s...
Posted by Ryan on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:53:00 PST

Movies by Month - June 2007

I did a lot of traveling during the first half of June, so I didn't think I would watch as many movies as I actually did.  Only one of them was in the theater, although there is a whole lot of st...
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:42:00 PST

Movies by Month Part V: A New Beginning

Bless you if you get the reference in the title.  I promise, I am not an imposter . . . So I have decided to bring it back in a slightly different format.  What I've decided to do instead is...
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 05:34:00 PST

Movies by Month - Series Finale

So I've decided to stop doing this monthly movie review thing.  It was fun, but I couldn't continue on with it.  Why?  Two reasons:  1) I saw way too many fucking movies in April, ...
Posted by Ryan on Tue, 01 May 2007 09:11:00 PST

EXTRA! EXTRA! Florida cover band outdoes Girl Talk!

I know that I'll probably piss off a good few people with this, but I really, really dislike Girl Talk (musically, not personally -- I've never met the guy).  I've seen him live twice, and both ...
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:09:00 PST

Movies by Month - March 2007

I'm still going, so I haven't gotten tired of doing this quite yet.  Though I did start getting really lazy with the last couple of reviews.  Sorry about that.  Anyway, here you go:Apri...
Posted by Ryan on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:29:00 PST