Ryan Thomas

Stanford University, Bachelor's Degree, Modern Thought & Literature
University of California - Los Angeles, Master's Degree, Architecture & Urban Design

architect, etc.

hot nights, rooftops, hard floors, doorways, cosmopolises, the gritty, the fancy, the weathered, the sleek, cognitive empathy, thin-slicing, potential, postcards, Shanghai, Buenos Aires, Berlin, the background, taste, biographies, haecceity, nuance, track bicycles, graphic novels, diagrams, collage, fake-fighting, swearing, base neologisms, the self-made, the errant

philosophy, poetics, science, biography, myth. Samuel Beckett, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Henry James, James Joyce, Spinoza, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Serres, Giambattista Vico, Walter Benjamin, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, Homer, Susan Howe (and, through her, Emily Dickinson), Joan Didion, Rosalind Krauss, Dana Goodyear, Dave Hickey, Robert Somol, Rem Koolhaas, Marshall McCluhan

Half Nelson, Brick, The Passenger, L'Eclisse, La Notte, Il Deserto Rosso, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Three Women, Blade Runner, THX 1138, 2046, 2001, Logan's Run, Gattaca, Rushmore, Manhattan, The Royal Tenenbaums, Last Year at Marienbad, Daisies, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo, Dogville, Night of the Hunter, Suspiria, American Psycho, Touch of Evil, The Lady From Shanghai, F for Fake, Repulsion, Scarface, The Last Man on Earth, Solaris, The Ice Storm, To Die For, The Secretary, Donnie Darko, The Breakfast Club, Heathers, Zoolander, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Closer, I Heart Huckabees, Before Sunset, Breakfast At Tiffany's

Boris, Califone, Red Red Meat, Isis, Sufjan Stevens, Broken Social Scene, Kool Keith, Scott Walker, Johnny Cash, Nico, Amon Duul II, Sunn O))), Earth, Billie Holiday, Leonard Cohen, MF Doom, Notorious BIG, Outkast, Black Sabbath, The Decemberists, Neutral Milk Hotel, Wolf Parade, Arab Strap, Animal Collective, The Velvet Underground, Bowie, Joy Division, Fleetwood Mac, Iron & Wine, Brian Eno, Coil, Throbbing Gristle, PiL, Ufomammut, Horace Andy, Current 93, Red Sparowes, Wolf Eyes, Autechre, My Bloody Valentine, PJ Harvey, Robert Wyatt, Rachel's, Shoenberg, Debussy, Sviatoslov Richter

Weeds, Veronica Mars, The Sopranos, The Office

Aries

trick bird

auspicious augurs