RyanAnge
My blogs
| Location | NC, United States |
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| Introduction | I am. |
| Interests | Filmmaking, philosophy, poetry, art, cinema, comics (or sequential art if you want to get high falutin'), classical music, rap only if it's Wu Tang Clan or Saul Williams, Integral Theory, Spirituality, Vipassana meditation, weight lifting, power sleeping, Tai Chi Chuan, Kundalini Yoga, jogging, biking, writing, eating waaaay too much, exercise physiology, partial non-differential equations and their real world applications to free verse poetry, strange loops, behavioral science... |
| Favorite movies | Wachowski Brothers, Wes ANDERSON, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, M. Night Shyamalan, Tarantino, Ingmar Bergman, Kubrick, Aronofsky, Fellini, Jodorowsky, Jim Jarmusch, David Fincher, Akira Kurasowa, Tim Burton, Clint Eastwood, Geroge Lucas, Richard Linklater, Coen brothers, Charlie Kaufman... |
| Favorite music | Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, and of course The Highwaymen, Queen, David Bowie, The Eagles, The Who, nearly all adagios and requiems!, George Michael, The Arcade Fire, Pink Floyd, Pat Benatar, Belle and Sebastian, Loudon Wainright III, Stuart Davis, Sinead O'Connor, Crash Test Dummies, Talking Heads, Enya, Mark Mothersbough, Coldplay, Nick Drake, Daniel Johnston, John Lennon, ELO, Iris Dement, Cat Stevens, The New Radicals, Polyphonic Spree, The Cramps, Bert Jansch, Billy Bragg, The Shins, Clint Eastwood, Louis Armstrong, The Ramones, Peter Gabriel, Elliot Smith, Judy Collins, The Doors, Gordon Lightfoot, DeVotchka, Gorillaz, The Band, Jeff Buckley, Leonard Cohen, Simon and Garfunkel, Moby, Rolling Stones, Bird (Charlie Parker), Ennio Morricone, The Cure, Frank Sinatra, Sam Cooke, Bob Dylan, Queen, Duke Ellington, Bruce Springsteen, Nina Simone, Wynton Marsalis, Arvo Part, Neil Diamond, Beethoven, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, REM, Chopin, Andrew Lloyd Weber, Sarah Brightman, The Editors, Charles Ives, Henryk Gorecki, Norah Jones, Billie Holiday, David Gray, John Denver, Sufjan Stevens, Bach, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Nirvana, Andrea Boccelli, Led Zeppelin, Beatles (of course), Miles Davis, Feist, Cat Power, Neil Young... |
| Favorite books | Ken Wilber, Robert Thurman, Joseph Campbell, Heidegger, Ken Kesey, Nietzsche, Truman Capote, Walt Whitman, Alexander Dumas, Rilke, Sharon Olds, Douglas Adams, Anne Rice, Steven King, Philip K. Dick, Dracula, Frankenstein, Robert Bly, Steven Pressfield, Frank Miller, Alan Moore, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Ernest Becker, Abraham Maslow, Clare Graves, Thomas Harris, Epictetus, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Albert Camus, Carl Jung, Charles Bukowski, Michael Murphy, Elaine Pagels, Dylan Thomas, W. Somerset Maugham, Karen Armstrong, J. D. Salinger, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jack Kornfield, James Joyce, Meister Eckhart, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Douglas Hofstadter, Chogyam Trungpa, Norman Mailer, Cornel West, Harper Lee, Harvey Pekar, Ovid, Ray Bradbury, Ken Kesey, Daniel Keyes.. |