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		<title>Ryan Mintz Blog</title>
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		<description>I'm a traveling, folky, hippy singer/songwriter.  Check here for stories from the road and the studio.  Big mushy hugs!!  -Ry</description>
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		<ttl>60</ttl>

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	<title><![CDATA[How I grew up at Song School]]></title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:03:26 GMT</pubDate>
	
	<description><![CDATA[&lt;p&gt;(originally posted on &lt;a href=&#34;../..//&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34; title=&#34;http:www.songwritingscene.com&#34;&gt;Songwriting Scene&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href=&#34;../..//&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34; title=&#34;http://www.songwritingscene.com/2009/08/how-i-grew-up-at-song-school-guest-post.html&#34;&gt;t...]]></description>
	
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	<title><![CDATA[“These are not times for the weak of heart”]]></title>
	<link><![CDATA[http://www.ryanmintz.com/blog/entry?id=11]]></link>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:49:31 GMT</pubDate>
	
	<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I just want to cry.  In fact, I’ve been doing it a lot the last couple weeks.  Twice it was Alanis’s fault.  I recently downloaded her new album, and that bitch sure knows how to make me cry.  (Don’t worry, my friends and I call her ...]]></description>
	
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	<title><![CDATA[Vegan Love on the Northbound Train]]></title>
	<link><![CDATA[http://www.ryanmintz.com/blog/entry?id=10]]></link>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:53:38 GMT</pubDate>
	
	<description><![CDATA[It’s a really amazing world we live in.  I’m peering out the window of an Amtrak train at a fiery evening sun approaching the horizon. The rolling mountains of northern California are passing me by, bathed in their hazy golden light of sunset, as...]]></description>
	
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	<title><![CDATA[Thank U Portland]]></title>
	<link><![CDATA[http://www.ryanmintz.com/blog/entry?id=9]]></link>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:54:20 GMT</pubDate>
	
	<description><![CDATA[Wow.  Portland, I love you!  My time here has been absolutely amazing.  I feel like we belong together.  Me and you.  You and me.  It makes sense.  I’ve been reading about your fair city for years… how eco-friendly, activist, vegan, car-free, and...]]></description>
	
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	<title><![CDATA[The tour begins...]]></title>
	<link><![CDATA[http://www.ryanmintz.com/blog/entry?id=8]]></link>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:41:04 GMT</pubDate>
	
	<description><![CDATA[It’s been a week of trains, cafes and rainstorms.  I’m on the 3rd stop of my tour… Chicago, Illinois.  It’s all going amazingly smoothly.  It actually feels extremely comfortable.  For the first time in months, I feel a real sense of peace.  ...]]></description>
	
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	<title><![CDATA[Happy Birthday to Me]]></title>
	<link><![CDATA[http://www.ryanmintz.com/blog/entry?id=7]]></link>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 21:22:05 GMT</pubDate>
	
	<description><![CDATA[Last year I was in Paris on my 30th … seeing Monet’s Water Lilies, having a dreamy picnic along the Seine with my friends, and singing Spice Girls to an un-impressed French karaoke crowd.  Ahh... it was the perfect way to ring in the new decade a...]]></description>
	
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	<title><![CDATA[Halfway done!]]></title>
	<link><![CDATA[http://www.ryanmintz.com/blog/entry?id=6]]></link>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 01:26:11 GMT</pubDate>
	
	<description><![CDATA[Wow, so much has happened since the last entry.  We are officially at the halfway point: 3.5 weeks down, and 3.5 weeks to go...]]></description>
	
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	<title><![CDATA[Week 1 - Pre-Production]]></title>
	<link><![CDATA[http://www.ryanmintz.com/blog/entry?id=5]]></link>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:35:43 GMT</pubDate>
	
	<description><![CDATA[I chose my producer on Monday night, after a very full 4 days of interviews, second interviews, and hours of agonizing decision-making...]]></description>
	
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	<title><![CDATA[The Search Begins...]]></title>
	<link><![CDATA[http://www.ryanmintz.com/blog/entry?id=4]]></link>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:48:54 GMT</pubDate>
	
	<description><![CDATA[Yesterday on the plane ride to LA, an Alanis song came to mind...]]></description>
	
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	<title><![CDATA[Happy Birthday to Me]]></title>
	<link><![CDATA[http://www.ryanmintz.com/blog/entry?id=3]]></link>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 04:44:44 GMT</pubDate>
	
	<description><![CDATA[I&#39;m 30 years old
And this body&#39;s holding up pretty well
Not like that dishwasher with the 10 year guarantee
Or anything we make with our hands really...]]></description>
	
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