Ryan: Have You Talked to God Today?

This interview occurred in his one bedroom apartment in Marina, a small little town five minutes north of the city of Monterey. We sat in his living room, him sitting backwards in a chair, smoking an extra long, extra thickly rolled joint and drinking shots of Tequila Rose and an awful sounding 40oz. Throughout the interview, he was trying to make sure that his cat, Hunter (named after Hunter S Thompson) didn’t try to go out on his non existent balcony that was in the middle of being renovated.


Do I consider myself to be religious?
That’s a really complicated question with me,
And that’s a good question.

I grew up being a child of an ex nun (adopted)
Went to school every day,
Middle school and had to go to church
At 5:30 in the morning, it was ridiculous.

You know, when you finally get set free
You want to run away,
And you do run away but
I’ve had plenty of time away and
I’ve actually just been coming around
To the fact that I don’t care about other people’s
Religions

I actually believe in everything
In a sense, even to the dark side.
I just kind of let people be.

I can be very critical of the Catholic church…

Well, they don’t believe in the gay marriage,
I grew up with a roman catholic church,
My mom was a nun,
My father figure is a Franciscan friar,
A deeper history goes in,
They were supposed to get married,

But they didn’t.

So my whole life, every day,
My conversation with my mom goes,

“Have you talked to god today?” it’s like…uh…