Hello, My Name Is…

My name is Matthew Ryan, I’m a singer and songwriter. I’m in a band as well… Sounds a bit like an AA meeting doesn’t it? Ummm. Well, our band is called MRVSS (Matthew Ryan Vs The Silver State).

So this is my new blog for Stereosubversion.com. Through this blog I hope to become a benevolent dictator of absolutes and self-righteousness until I’m corrupted by the limitless booty made available to me due to a sudden and nuclear internet explosion of blogger fame. I’ll start with a short essay on songs and music vs hope and despair. But we’ll see what other posts are like, I’m gonna try and see what naturally develops.

Responses and comments would be appreciated. I think it’s understood that there’s few things worse than pouring your heart out and getting silence in return.

My Song Today:

“Oh can’t you see what love has done, oh can’t you see what love is doing to ME?”
Window To The Skies – U2

Let me tell you, Rock NRoll will save the world. I stand by this. I have dealt in naivety to the point where I’ve been so broken I’d lay on the floor like dropped porcelain. Rock NRoll is the spirit realized of human conflict and it’s battlefield against the dark and light, sex and love, brotherhood and fascism, love and hate, peace and the present war and the call to more war – in there lies everything. I’m daunted by my capacity to believe that equality and hope and leaning towards the greater self, the collective self, are the cures to all that looks like a global horror plot of our undoing.

Fuck cynicism and cool. It is not the time for preoccupations and selfishness. It’s time for brotherhood and community. Real life and conversation. Debate and consideration. And here we are, together and alone. The metaphor? Stand and look down from the ledge of a high rise, consider ending it all, and tell me if any haircut or fashion saves your life. But listen closely, is there a song playing? It’s gonna echo up and through the streets, against the glass and towards the sky. What song is it? It doesn’t matter. It’s your song. To evoke the sense of achieving the impossible within the dark moments of universal despair is the absolute beauty, medicine and parachute of music.

What’s your song?

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