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What a beautiful face I have found in this place that is circling all round the sun. What a beautiful dream that could flash on the screen in a blink of an eye and be gone from me. Let me hold it close and keep it here with me. And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are young, let us lay in the sun and LIST every beautiful thing we see.

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Ryan books (reading, read, bookclub)
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2023:

  • Dumb Money ~ ★★★★☆
  • Bottoms ~ ★★★★☆
  • The Stroll ~ ★★★★☆ (doc on trans sex workers)
  • Telemarketer$ ~ ★★★★☆ (doc on decades old scam)
  • Kokomo City ~ ★★★★☆ (doc on trans sex workers)
  • Sun Rises in The East ~ ★★★★☆ (doc on self-sufficient pan-african collective in the 70s)
  • Barbie ~ ★★★★☆
  • Past Lives ~ ★★★☆☆
  • Muscles and Mayhem: Unathorized Story of the American Gladiators ~ ★★★★☆ (doc)
  • Minnesota Experience: The Baldies ~ ★★★★☆ (pbs doc)
  • Blue Beat Baby: The Untold Story of Brigitte (trans Ska woman) ~ ★★★★☆ (...
jan 2 2012 ∞
sep 23 2023 +
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  • diamonds in our night sky and the moon
  • ufo testimony
  • that we all pull over to help a suffering stranger in an ambulance get through faster
  • watching the roller skaters at Venice Beach
  • smoking, dancing, drinking at the same time (those were the days)
  • when you recommend something you love to a friend and they pull out their phone to jot it down
  • the strength and organizing of trade unions
  • seeing American Asians finally getting film roles
  • how we have to seek out a dozen vegan pastries to take with us on an hour hike
  • when traveling and finding your favorite little spot you eat at repeatedly
  • when I spend a day “hiking” through s...
nov 18 2009 ∞
sep 12 2023 +
feb 7 2011 ∞
sep 11 2023 +
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2024:

  • The Magnetic Fields — APRIL (“69 Love Songs” anniversary over 2 nights)
  • Madonna --w/Ryan & H + w/John & Howard SF (greatest hits tour)

2023:

nov 4 2007 ∞
sep 17 2023 +
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  • when a spider comes down on you from a tree or accidentally walking into a web
  • when trapped in a car with an insect
  • how colors look different when you hold them up against other colors (picking paint and fabric difficulty)
  • the dudes at the gym or massage therapist who moan loudly
  • virality flattening all forms of art
  • the slow death of science, truth, morality
  • the cult of personality - the internet selling us charismatic garbage people
  • a man invents the smart phone and we're slaves to it. it was that easy.
  • when James is going to trap a spider to take it outside but he misses and then I'm nervous about where the spider went all night––and its potential revenge
  • communication becoming more and more passive, distant, dehumanizing
apr 11 2006 ∞
sep 11 2023 +
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  • A Retrospection: A Retrospective (July 2023 w/Mark, Olivia, Hollis) --our friend Claire's performance
  • Stranger Things Experience (Dec 2022) w/ H & A
  • Circus Vargas w/ H & I
  • Amy Schumer (birthday w/liane) (Dec 2022)
  • A Strange Loop (June 2022)
  • Wild N Out (June 2022 silly fun for anniversary)
  • Asiz Ansari (May 2022)
  • Neal Brennan Unacceptable (May 2022)
  • Hasan Minaj King's Jester (April 2022)
  • Adobe Punk (March 2022 w. Hollis)
  • Head Over Heels w. Hollis (Dec 2021)
  • Bill Burr (Oct 2021)
  • Stranger Things Drive-Thru Experience w. Hollis (Dec 2020)
  • RuPaul Drive N' Drag Show w. Hollis (July 2020)
  • Sweet Land Opera: w. Hollis (Feb 2020)
  • Isabella Rossellini‘s Link Link Circus (Feb 2020)
  • Ali Wong (Feb 2020)
  • Jo Koy (Feb 2020)
  • Trevor Noah (Dec 2019)
  • Jerry Saltz: on art (Nov 2019)
jun 20 2006 ∞
sep 18 2023 +
jan 11 2012 ∞
sep 11 2023 +