Home is where the heart is?

My trip to MD went pretty well considering I took it for no real purpose other than to see my dad and a couple of my friends. It feels weird though. I always complain to others about how terrible Wilmington can be at times, and yet after my most recent trip, I feel more complete and even content being back here. In the 3 years I've lived in Wilmington, I've accomplished more feats and met far more friends and companions than I did in my NINETEEN years in MD.


I did pick up some great vinyl and comics when I was up there though. Around April, I started what will hopefully become a decent-sized vinyl collection, and I can add 3 more records to that ever expanding list.

Blacklisted-HTH,LTG (Gatefold transparent white w/ blue splatter)
Killing the Dream-Fractures (gatefold blue)
Trash Talk-s/t (blue)

Thanks to the LEOG (a weekly podcast through spill.com) my interest in comics has been reinvigorated as well. The new pickups include:

Preacher vol.1 (heard a lot of praise for it and decided to give it a shot)
The Walking Dead vol.1 (which so far, is very VERY cool)
The Dark Knight Returns (I've read it before several times, but oddly never owned it myself)

The comic store I visited was unfortunately out of Mark Millar's "Kick-Ass" so thats next on my agenda.



Hitting up some great shows in the next couple of weeks as well. People who know me know I have a big passion for music and a love for my local scene.

8/28 The Banner (NJ hardcore punk with slight goth/horror touches), Said and Done (ex-Gloves Off. Kinda sound like Lifetime and NFG. Be my first time seeing em), Indifference (one of the best bands now in Carolina hardcore. PASSION YO), and White Flags Burning (used to be called Degeneration, took a hiatus, this is their comeback/farewell show. Hopefully the Black Flag cover stays).

8/29 Beer Wolf (buds of mine. Good stoner/instrumental stuff. Its a reunion show as well), Blacktusk (if you're into stuff like Kylesa, Baroness, etc. this is right up your alley. What is it with GA and good music?)

If you can't make this, try to at least make the Glass Casket reunion show in Winston-Salem. That should be awesome.

9/1 Soldiers (side project of Rick from This is Hell. A lot more pissed off, a little more mosh but fun nonetheless). Stray from the Path is playing too and despite their singer sounding like a 12 year old prepubescent boy, they pull off a fun (if not retarded) Limp Bizkit cover. Hahaha.

9/6 Death Threat (who I thought broke up loooooong ago, but hey whatever. Should be fun)



Hopefully a more coherent and thoughtful entry will come soon.

We have to start somewhere I suppose

I suppose that its better to get an understanding of who I am and why I made this than to just randomly stumble across here and be confused as to what the hell you're reading.

The name's Ryan. Folks in this town (well, most of em) call me Ryhan. My friend Eric was the one who devised the nickname for me, and its stuck since.

I'm 22, I'm originally from the MD/DC area (specifically Silver Spring) and I moved to this little town in September 2005 with very little background about it other than my mother's b/f at the time had moved here, and she was coincidentally retiring from her job that year. If your only two options at the moment are to stay up north with your nagging and pushy father and stepmother or to go with your understanding, cool mother, well you'd see why it wasn't even hard to choose the latter.

At the present moment, I'm unfortunately unemployed. I had to quit my last job about 3 weeks ago due to a managerial change which would have brought about my termination due to no particular reason. Not kidding. I guess with most new managers these days, at least in retail, they feel its easier to try and start fresh and mold the store into something THEY want, rather than try and work with the current staff to make the store even better. Oh well.

For my free time, I do photography at shows, I write little mini-reviews for my Facebook page, and assorted other media-related tasks. Unfortunately, with the lack of a job right now, the number of that which I review or attend may drop considerably.

So why did I create this blog? Honestly, I'm not 100% sure as to why I did. I guess I just needed a more viable means of ranting and speaking my mind and lord knows you can't seem to do that anymore on certain other sites without being critiqued by dickless little scenesters who don't have a full understanding of life yet, or even much of an identity themselves.

Plus its cooler to do movie reviews on blogs anyway. :P


So I guess thats an intro if I ever had to give one. If you're looking for more details, talk to me in person. I'll try to update this as soon as I can with actual rantings/opinions like most blogs should be filled with. But for now, sleeeeeep.