Ryan D. 

Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Ryan graduated from Virginia Tech in 2007 with a degree in English. He is currently a vegetarian Masters student in English at the University of Rochester, interested in contemporary race, gender, literary-ecological studies, and media reform. Next year, he hopes to teach as an adjunct in Baltimore, Raleigh, Anchorage, or anywhere. He will also be co-writing/producing/directing and acting in a short film with his brother Daniel. He is seriously considering getting his ESL certification in Prague (poor bastard's never been to Europe). Professionally, he would like to find a balance between professorial work and social activism. "Let's reclaim universities from the alienating abstractions of postmodernist theory and reunite scholars with the people they're meant to help." He likes snow. He has never had a cat, but currently resides with a chinchilla. He doesn't like writing about myself in the third person.

Daniel Donnelly, Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Jeanette Winterson

Books: To the Lighthouse (Woolf), Peter Pan (Barrie).

Currently - Kate Rusby, Feist, and The White Stripes.

Also - Iron and Wine, Common, The Roots, Gnarls Barkley. Celtic music: The Chieftains, Bill Whelan, Lunasa, The Duhks, Tim Obrien. Also classical, jazz, the usual.

The Office, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Arrested Development, Seinfeld

Denzel Washington, Edward Norton, Dustin Hoffman

Lost in Translation, The Hours, The Shawshank Redemption, The Royal Tennenbaums, Silence of the Lambs, The Godfather, L.A. Confidential, Man on Fire, The Constant Gardener

More Kate Rusby!
Not a video, but an excellent song.