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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.

bookmarks:
listography IMPORTANT NOTICES
Ryan books (Never Ending TBR List)
books (reading, read, bookclub)
movies (In theaters, TV series, or docs)
travel (National Parks)
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  • A Musical Tribute to David Lynch (LA)
  • Ace Tribute: The Clash (London)
  • Afro Bowie: David Bowie Cover Band (LA)
  • Boingo: Former Members Oingo Boingo (LA)
  • Boy Division: Joy Division (LA)
  • Buzzcocks Cover Band (LA)
  • Devotional: Depeche Mode (OC)
  • Harbor Party: Yacht Rock (LA)
  • Liverpool Legends: Beatles (LA)
  • Misfits Cover Band (LA)
  • Purple Reign: Prince (Vegas)
  • Queen Nation: Queen (OC)
  • Strangelove: Depeche Mode (Lisbon)
  • Sweet Tender Hooligans: The Smiths (LA)
  • Teenage Werewolf: The Cramps (LA house party)
  • The Band that Fell to Earth: David Bowie (LA)
  • The Curse: The Cure (LA)
  • The Fall (LA)
  • The Smyths: The Smiths (London)
mar 26 2026 ∞
mar 27 2026 +
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For my grave:

  • "Well well well, I found out I'm dying, darling. Now what do i do To keep the sunshine in? Oh I will save you. Yeah I will hold you. I'll be there when you need me, And I will die with you." Black Angels, Boat Song
  • "Her philosophy of life, she told me, is that she might die at any moment. The tragedy, she said, was that she didn't". — Fight Club
  • “And I'm learning so I'm leaving, And even though I'm grieving, I'm trying to find a meaning, Let loss reveal it.” — Florence
  • “I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return!” - Frida Kahlo
  • "She has now gone, from this unhappy planet, with all the carnivores, and the destructors on it..." - The Smiths
  • "Screaming from beneath the waves." - Ech...
may 1 2022 ∞
mar 21 2026 +
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  • Adam (Adrock) sending us a beat for our dog battle rap against our neighbors.
  • When I learned Lol Tolhurst from the Cure was at the KoKoKo show I was at, and then he appeared before me when the singer asked the audience to get low and he couldn't, and so I found him and then met him after the show.
  • David Bowie (surprise) jumping on stage at an Arcade Fire show in Central Park.
  • Walking down the back stairs of the Fillmore into fans with Rivers Cuomo holding my hand.
  • Meeting Michael Stipe in the LA canals to be in REM's music video for "Drive."
  • Late night after hours dancing with friends at mile high club.
  • Singing and dancing in my car seat on road trips.
  • Singing Molly's part in Annie at OC fair in 5th grade.
aug 23 2011 ∞
mar 15 2026 +
mar 6 2024 ∞
mar 23 2026 +
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  • Abandoned Book Depository, Detroit
  • African Party - remote office building, Paris
  • Alcatraz Prison, San Francisco
  • Audium, San Francisco
  • Basilica Cistern --underground water palace 532bc: Istanbul, Turkey
  • Bat Flight Program, Carlsbad Caverns
  • Being John Grisham and David Baldacci guests at his book fair in Florida
  • Berber Camp, Sahara Desert
  • Berghain, exclusive club in Berlin, partied all night
  • Blue Grotto, Capri Island
  • Brooklyn Underground tour (old subway lines beneath the city)
  • Bus Station, out in the middle of Turkey --craziest I've ever seen
  • Cagaloglu Hamami Bath House, Istanbul
  • Cape Cod “Touch a Truck” parade
  • Carla's apartment on the Grand Canal, Ven...
oct 2 2006 ∞
aug 8 2025 +
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  • “I don’t got much to say. And that’s all I got to say.”
  • “It’s an audience. That’s not a community.” — Marcel The Shell
  • Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
  • “There’s a warning light that comes on whenever I feel I’m becoming someone I don’t want to be” — Lennon
  • As soon as it’s in the New York Times, it’s over. - Sophia Lamar
  • To be somebody with a message doesn’t really exist in commercial success.
  • Don't hear what I didn't say...
  • People get activated by hate.
  • The opposite of love is not hate. It's indifference.
  • The goal and the path are one.
  • “Woke culture is literally just having empathy. That’s it. Empathy.”
  • “There is a bird and a stone in your body. Your job is not to kill the bird with...
sep 6 2008 ∞
jan 29 2026 +
may 21 2010 ∞
dec 17 2025 +
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I can only have authentic experiences if I don’t post about them. And, this is a REMINDER regarding "like-based scrolling-feed" social media. The introduction of “scrolling,” and “likes,” on social media (by big tech) changed human psychology (we don't use those features here). They will NEVER stop psycho-engineering to make social media as addictive as possible. The disease is in our collective consciousness. The degradation of truth, humility, and so on. I feel it growing within myself. Unbridled capitalism's modern slavery.

Destroy what destroys you...

THOUGHTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA:

  • I do not want to pull people out of their lives to look at mine.
  • Social media algorithms flatten culture and art, creating cookie cutter content that sells and pleases the algorithm (versus art being provocative).
oct 23 2016 ∞
mar 12 2026 +