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My friends at NNA are going to be releasing I Don’t Want to Die on vinyl this winter. That’s why I took the downloads down baby.

Thank you again Mr. Ben Caulfield.

Ben is the webmaster here at ryanpower.org.  We have been friends since we were very little.  I remember meeting him on the playground at school during recess.  There we began developing a secret martian handshake.  It was called “buka sleu”; a very advanced handshake for middle school.  I remember coming home from school one day after spending time with Ben and telling my mother that I met someone I was going to be friends with for a very long time.  I was right.

Ben is one of the most intelligent, patient, kind, and generous people I know.  He’s also a talented musician and a motherfucker on the ping pong table.

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Is there still hope for capatilism?
Tea Party?…. We need a Party!
I guess I’m an adult now because I care about politics
and I’m worried about paying my bills.

I have an idea… let’s tax the rich more. The ones we bailed out after they made money betting against the loans they gave to people who couldn’t afford them. I’m starting to think that capitalism isn’t the best way for us to survive. It just makes us use up the Earth’s resources to create garbage to consume. The problem (besides destroying the Earth and not living sustainably) is we don’t even have enough money to consume anything anymore, so now the ding dong heads are going to the countries that are at earlier stages of capitalism’s death march and exploiting them. I’m not even sure regulation would work. CEO’s are helpless once faced with those kind of profits. Workers are exhausted. The money isn’t getting sucked out the bottom by welfare programs and social security, it’s getting horded at the top by the bankers, corporations, and yes the Military Industrial Complex. Yikes. end

The Ryan Power you Facebooked is a different musician.

Easy Way Out is finished.
Whisper He-man’s first album.
30 minutes and 21 seconds of listening to my wonderful relationship with Chris Weisman.

Go to your local record shop and request they get it before 2012. It will help.

File under: avant-garde melancholy social commentary comedy pop song channeling duo

I played a show at Brandeis last night and it was muy fun. I felt a bit like Rodney Dangerfield though. 35-20=15
I had to go outside while the other bands were playing to give my ears a rest; I’m starting to get tinnitus. I watched and listened through a perspiration frosted window. It was extremely cold outside (14 degrees) and I could feel my hips tightening up. One of Adam’s friends shared some Brian Austin and we had a little ceremony to stay warm. Everybody was so, so nice. I wish I could have chatted more. Cuties. Very positive experience. I was invited back to A’s to party down, but I passed. I didn’t really want to get my clothes smokey…..and I only had to drive an hour to get to my mother’s house. Rock on!

Description of other bands:

guitarists+delay pedals+loud parts+quiet parts+50 minute set= Caspian

real riffs+grace slick+grunge+slender drummer+rickenbacker w/ longest sweater in North America+ atonal solo’s (yes!)= Screaming Females

Thanks again Adam and Justice!

Do yourself a favor this holiday season and listen to Prefab Sprout’s first album Swoon.

Never did make it out West… Ah Well….next decade. A lot gigs fell through and the job I was going to do seemed a bit dangerous, so I stayed in my safe bubble of Vermont. Work within your limitations, right? I’m working on some new songs and feeding the wood stove. It becomes night at 5PM. I think it’s midnight at 6PM. A Japanese Label wants to replicate my last album for the Japanese and Taiwanese markets. Jonathan Ryan Storm is making the art for the release! A little girl with face paint on her cheeks just walked by me in the library and smiled….now I’m happy. I think I want to have children. Yesterday I kept seeing fathers walking their sons around and I felt the biological tug. Maybe not as strong as a childless 39 year old women, but pretty strong… I’m almost 35 and somewhat feminine. I think I need to get a part time job. This music production thing is hard to pull off. Damn laziness, damn credit cards!

Chris said I should add a post to my site because it was starting to look dead. I can always turn to him for advice. He’s even right sometimes, half the time maybe… everything seems to be about half right these days. Well… I’ve been doing a lot of mixing/recording for local Burlington, VT bands and it’s been very fulfilling. Slowly working on some down tempo psychological synthesizer ballads about human interaction. Trying to avoid drama in general, so my adrenals don’t fall permanently asleep. Makes it more difficult to find something to write about though, so I bought some paint pens and I’ve been tracing and coloring pieces of plywood to make them look uglier while listening to Art Garfunkel’s album “Watermark”. Jimmy Webb wrote the songs and they are gorgeous. I’ve decided to forgoe pining and whining about labels and start my own. Thanks to everybody who has purchased music from the site! It will all go towards releasing my music on vinyl. I’m going to tour the Northwest in mid November, so check back for the dates soon. Good night.

Let’s face them.  Everyone has Seasonal affective disorder (SAD).  Hurray!

Joey made me a video: