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My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Birmingham, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I'm Ryan. I think, write, play and make...sometimes in that order. Amongst other things I have written my first novel called "27" about a failed indie rocker who fakes his own death and descends into Birmingham's drug and gang culture. I also write screenplays, journalism and short stories. I am a proud member of The Tindal Street Fiction Group and have an MA in Creative Writing from The National Academy of Writing. |
| Favorite movies | Royal Tennenbaums, Spys Like Us, The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Ghostbusters, Fanny and Alexander, Jesus's Son, The Last Waltz, Withnail and I, The Adventures Of Robin Hood, Jaws, Chinatown, Stalker, Werckmeister Harmonies, Russian Ark, Sexy Beast, Performance, Through a Glass Darkly, Hidden, Sex,Lies and Videotape, The Bittersweet Life, Apocalypse Now, Life Of Brian, Citizen Kane, Big Labowski, Badlands, Goodfellas,Black Cat White Cat, 8 1/2, Jules et JIm, Swimmingpool, Raging Bull,Spinal Tap, The Thin Red Line, Rushmore,The Godfather 1&2, Adaptation, Being John Malcovich, Deerhunter, La Dolche Vita, Nostalgia, The Usual Suspects, Duck Soup, Annie Hall, Radio Days, Manhattan, Stardust Memories, Punch Drunk Love, The Life Aquatic, The Piano Teacher, A Matter of Life and Death, Bugsey Malone, Rumble Fish, A Fish Called Wanda, Floating Weeds, Persona, Wild Strawberries, Last Year at Marienbad, Trading Places,Paris Texas,5000 Fingers of Dr T, The Red Shoes, Vertigo, A bout de souffle,The Squid and The Whale, Paths of Glory, The Shining, Dr Strange Love, Europa, Dogville, Festen, Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts,Paris Texas. |
| Favorite music | Where to begin... |
| Favorite books | "A Moveable Feast", "To Have and To Have Not","The Sun Also Rises", "In Our Time and Collected short stories", Ernest Hemingway, "Tomato Red", "Give us a Kiss", "Winters Bone", Daniel Woodrell, "Treasure Island", "Travels with a Donkey", "Essays and Travel Writing", Robert Louis Stevenson, "No Country For Old Men", "The Road", "Blood Meridian", Cormac MacCarty, "Vernon God Little",DBC Pierre, "Decline and Fall", "Vile Bodies", Evelyn Waugh, "Tender is the Night", " The Great Gatsby", Scott Fitzgerald, "As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning",Laurie Lee, "Hangover Square"- Patrick Hamilton, "Bullet in the Brain", "Old School", Tobias Wolff, "Moby Dick", Melville, "Brighton Rock", Graham Greene, "The Talented Mr Ripley",Patrica Highsmith, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" Coleridge, "On The Road", "Lonesome Traveller", Kerouac, "Will you please be quiet please", Raymond Carver, "Jesus'Son" - Denis Johnson, "Collected Short Stories", Checkov, "Lush Life", "Samaritan","The Wanderers", Richard Price, "Wind Sand and Stars"- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Tropic of Cancer", Henry Miller, "Let it Come Down", Paul Bowles |