I’ve become obsessed with Ryan Adams’ blog.

It’s highly entertaining, both hilarious and introspective.

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This is Ryan Adams:

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This is Ryan Adams sleeping on a pillow of Cheez-Its:

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This is Ryan Adams and his dictionary:

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Another excellent Ryan Adams photo:

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This is Ryan Adams giving himself (and the world) a hug:

I stole those pictures from his blog.

*Update 03.17.08: He just deleted all of his posts today :( Oh well. I like to delete stuff too.

*Update 03.18.08: He started blogging again, but he’ll be deleting frequently. Excellent– my obsession can continue with unhindered abandon.

*Update 04.06.08: He said goodbye to the blog last night. The posts are still up, and there’s a new song – Crossed-Out Name.

*Update 04.07.08: Crossed-Out Name has been taken down.

*Update 04.16.08: He said goodbye to Foggy again. And put up another video, which has since been removed. Of course.

*Update 04.17.08: The video is back up, and there’s some other new stuff too, like adventures in hair dyeing and other assorted goodies.

*Update 04.21.08: The blog has been deleted. If you want to read some old stuff from his blog, I’ve quoted various things and posted more pictures in other RA posts.

*Update 04.22.08: The blog is back up now, with new stuff, and the old stuff is still gone.

*Update 04.25.08: The blog has been flushed again.

*Update 04.29.08: The blog has been reincarnated as Metal Zone USA, Worldwide.

*Update 04.29.08: The blog has been deleted. Welcome to DRA Ping Pong.

*Update 05.03.08: The blog has moved to http://werewolph.tumblr.com. And he’s also got this: http://www.davidryanadams.com. Enjoy.

*Update 05.08.08: http://werewolph.tumblr.com has been deleted, but he’ll be putting new/old stuff at http://www.davidryanadams.com, soon. Maybe. (Dead link)

*Update 05.15.08: http://ryan-adams.com has been updated/changed. The Mothership and Radio are gone.

*Update 05.25.08: If you’re looking for posts with Ryan Adams blog quotes, try these:

• My Favorite Ryan Adams Blog Post

• Another Ryan Adams post, but it’s awesome. Seriously.
• Pooped and Pants
• Selfish Blogging

*Update 06.25.08: Ryan Adams hanging out at the Telluride Bluegress Festival via Erin’s blog.

*Update 07.31.08: Ryan-adams.com has been updated again with a personal statement. Dead Link.

*Update 08.01.08: Ryan-adams.com/impersonal/swordfish Dead Link.

*Update 08.05.08: Ryan-adams.com/Recipe For a Worried Heart.Dead Link.

*Update 08.15.08: He’s blogging on tumblr again, along with the rest of the Cardinals: http://foggy.ryan-adams.com Dead link.

*Update 09.03.08: There’s a lot of fickle-blogging going on and I can’t keep up with it all since I cannot be on the internet at all hours of the day and my feed-reader isn’t keeping all the content anymore.

*Update 09.08.08: Foggy is redirecting to http://cave.cardinology.com. And there’s mailbox surprises every now and then if you sign up at http://www.cardinology.com/

*Update 09.14.08: Foggy is gone again, the page now redirects to cardinology.com. I didn’t follow what happened since I was away this weekend, and stuck on a non-moving train for approximately 1.5 hours, and another 2 hours while moving, but I read the last post, which was re-blogged 78 times. In the meantime, you can listen to some new Cardinals tunes here and here. Enjoy. And now, I have to go buy some milk.

*Update 09.22.08: Foggy is back online again and Crossed Out Name arrived in the Cardinology mailbox, courtesy of Wilson and Barnabus, along with tour poster postcards.

*Update 09.23.08: This is Ryan Adams and his wedding ring:

Yes, he got married. That post has been deleted, but I copied it below.

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p.s. i got married to happiness and music.

it was low key affair.

music wore a chord-aroy dress

happiness just smiled.

SEE YOU IN THE PIT MADE OF PILLOWS AND SPARKLING STAR EMBERS>

xx

R

*UPDATE 10.09.08: “Fix It” comic book lyrics by Leah Hayes.

*UPDATE 10.12.08: The Cardinal Cave is now Fuzzy, and Foggy is moving to http://foggy.davidryanadams.com (Foggy is gone now) on www.davidryanadams.com. And I smell like cheese and butter today.

*UPDATE 11.10.08: I’m getting lazy with the updates. Foggy has migrated back to Fuzzy for the fall. Recent highlights include

dear wilson and barnabus though some would agrgue you are not real, i know you are and have been having keggers at the apartment. anyway, here is a picture of how things better look when i get home. and please, don’t egg on Dumont. he is medicated as it is and is trying very very hard. any cheetah who thinks he is a tiger has it rough enough ok invisi-pets? thanks, Dad

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“I SURRENDER” from Wilson Wolf on Vimeo.

The account has been deleted, but it’s on youtube. It’s a great song. My new favorite of the new ones.

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*UPDATE 11.21.2008: The other Foggy is back again: http://foggy.davidryanadams.com/

I forgot to mention this: http://coffee.cardinology.com has some live performances. The one is Amsterdam is excellent quality, as is the Letterman performance of ‘Fix It’. Click on ‘shows’ on the top right to see all of them.

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*UPDATE 11.28.2008: There’s all kinds of goodies on Foggy right now (http://foggy.davidryanadams.com/). (Dead link). Too many to mention. I think my favorite for the moment is HalloweenHead with a captive audience. Here:

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This page is getting too long and I’ve been pretty lax with updating. I may abandon future updates. I always say that.

All the Wilson Wolf videos: http://vimeo.com/ryanadams (deleted)

YouTube Account: http://ca.youtube.com/user/cardinology (has the holiday solo bedroom videos and some of the stuff that was on Vimeo)

Cardinal Cave: http://cave.cardinology.com (presently out of commission, Feb/09)

Get the RSS feed here: http://cave.cardinology.com/rss (if you subscribe BEFORE it gets deleted, you’ll still be able to read the leftovers)

One more:

*UPDATE 03.24.2009: The Cave and the old DRA site (www.davidryanadams.com) are now re-directing to http://ryanada.ms/, a new home page. It appears RA may start is twittering. You can follow here: http://twitter.com/ryanada_ms or subscribe to the RSS feed here.

*UPDATE 04.08.2009: http://werewolph.com/ Warning/Suggestion- turn your volume down first. Dead link.

*UPDATE 04.28.2009: http://sleazyhandshake.com/ Dead link.

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*UPDATE 04.19.2010: Current working links, in order of most-to-least-active:

http://www.facebook.com/ryanadams

http://ryanada.ms/

http://twitter.com/TheRyanAdams

Here’s a link to the publisher’s site for Neal Casal’s photobook: Ryan Adams and The Cardinals: A View of Other Windows. It’s available in stores now, and online. It has the Cheez-Its photo, and many others, as well as some commentary. The publisher, Abrams Image, has also published Christoph Niemann’s new book, I LEGO N.Y. , which looks pretty awesome/cute. Here’s a sample:

Here’s his I LEGO N.Y. blog post from NYTimes Online, with more LEGO pictures.

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• I have downloaded an obscene amount of excellent quality soundboard recordings of his many concerts from archive.org, which stores concerts from trade-friendly artists. They archive other things too, but I’ve just been downloading RA concerts. It’s a pretty awesome site. And if you’re not sure if you want to download something, you can stream from the site to sample the songs first. I don’t bother sampling, I just download. It’s all good.
• One of my favorites: Ryan Adams @ The Fez, NYC October 2, 2000. Includes “I Want It That Way” and talk of boy bands and Mac-Donalds.
• I just finished listening to this: Ryan Adams @ Olympia Theatre – Dublin, November 28, 2002. Great show.
• This is also very nice: Ryan Adams @ Carling Academy – Glasgow, February 15, 2006. There’s excellent banter about hydroplaning, his mom learning to text message, who ate all the pies, smelly socks, and other gems.
• One of the best Ryan Adams stories ever is from the show at Foley’s Cellar on February 18, 2001. It’s track #4, listed as ‘Interlude’ and you’ll have to get a SHN file converter because they are not streaming this show, but it is well worth it. It’s the Hardee’s Chicken story, he talks about chicken and biscuits, and re-animators, and sanitary working conditions. It’s ten minutes long, and it is awesome. And if you go to all that trouble to get the SHN file converter, you might as well just download the whole show. If you’re on a Mac, there’s a freeware program called Shorten that will convert SHN files to WAV files so you can play them.
• *Update 06.28.08: Just listened to this- Ryan Adams & The Sweetheart Revolution @ The Paradiso – Amsterdam, February 6, 2002. It’s over 3 hours of awesome goodness. Another SHN show, see above.
• *Update 07.31.08: This is my new favorite solo show: Ryan Adams @ Y Theatre, Leicester UK – May 9, 2001.

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