#ryan bentley

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By Ryan Bentley

Wolchulsan National Park, South Jeolla, South Korea

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ARTISTS TO LISTEN TO: TAKE A BREATH

Take a Breath, otherwise known as TAB by their loving fans are a four piece Alternative Rock band from Pittsburgh. The band consists of Jesse Rossi (Vocals/Guitar), Ryan Bentley (Vocals/Guitar), Luke Bickerstaff (Vocals/Bass) and Michael O’Malley (Vocals/Drums), who also produced the latest EP.

Recently Take a breath released an EP named ‘The Anatomy of a Rose’ The EP includes 5 songs all completely different but fantastic all the same. The first song from the EP is called “Loaded Conversation”. The opening of the song is one you know you want to hear live. The song is lyrically great and with the heavy beat the whole way through, you know where these boys want to be in terms of the music scene.

The second song is Anatomy, this song was released before the whole EP and it took off really well. With the catchy chorus and a great melody you will be singing the song for days! (Literally, it will be in your head within the first 30 seconds of the song). The bridge is a repeat of “I don’t know how to not break your heart” which I imagine gets the crowd going when it’s sang live and it leads up to an amazing guitar solo by young and talented guitarist, Ryan.

The EP comes to a slow during the middle. The third song “A Little Ways Down the Road…” you might recognise from the show How I met your mother but I promise it’s a beautiful song too! I don’t have much to say about this song apart from listen to it because you’ll understand what I mean straight away. “He craves love but breathes in the city like smoke from a cigarette” are extremely clever and interesting lyrics and will make you fall in love with the song even more than you are already. The Harmonies on this are also a 10/10.

With the EP coming to a close and you thinking it can’t get better, “Venomous” is up and it’s gonna completely blow you away. I’ve never found a more catchy song like this and I’m always singing the chorus everywhere. With the cheeky lyrics and chanting chorus it’s definitely one you want to hear live and that should be played across stadiums one day.

The final song from The Anatomy of a Rose is “Constellations”. If you didn’t know what you were listening to and Jesse’s voice was identical to Alex Gaskarth’s you would think this was straight up and All Time Low song. The lyrics all piece together perfectly and mixed in with the “Woah’s” throughout the song it could be a hit you’d hear on the radio. It has “We’re just kids who start fire’s, we get burned it’s alright” which are also lyrics from Loaded Conversation, the first song from the EP cleverly placed into this one too. Overall this EP is one you should totally go listen and mixed in with the great lyrics that you would see in people’s twitter bio’s and songs that should be sang in stadiums, I guarantee you won’t be disappointed by Take A Breath!

Links: Twitter: @TakeABreathBand Facebook: Take a breath Instagram: takeabreathus youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TakeABreathBandUS

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Listening to Bastille's version of what would you do just reminds me of Natalie's theme song and Sierra's life. And I am just.  I fucking hate and love that family so much.

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alright, so i have been debating more women for ryan. notice how all of the women requests are pretty open in where their relationship leads? this is no different! that's just the type of man ryan is. i am sorry. they met about eleven years ago. she's a jag lawyer -- you can pick which branch? though ryan's been mostly stationed in NC so please keep that in mind. here are a list of some bases in NC to make it easier for you! though, ryan's in MARSOC, so she has no affiliation to that -- other than a lawyer, of course. anyways. when ryan first met her -- let's call her emily, to just make it easy to follow -- they were young. ryan was twenty-five. emily was freshly married, but a flirt. and she and ryan flirted. it was a dance for him. after all, she was a newlywed to a man not affiliated with any branch of service so he didn't go out often or get involved too much with his wife's work affiliates, and that was hard for her. when you're a part of the service, you're a part of it. and you want to marry someone who understands that. emily never said anything then, but she wasn't happy. flirting with someone like ryan proved it, but he went home alone. and he kept going home alone. ryan always prided himself in being halfway decent. he tried to stick to that. flash forward a little over two years near the downfall of her marriage. it was a mess. they fought all the time, and ryan could see the bright light dimming in her eyes. they sat over drinks talking until she didn't want to talk anymore, turning a game of darts into a drinking game. it was a mixture for disaster, but ryan didn't care. drink after drink after drink, ryan walked her back to the small, sterile apartment he slept in when he was home from deployment, and he kissed her. he kissed her, and she pulled herself into him, legs wrapped around the waist as they barreled through his front door. ryan hated admitting it was an affair. she woke up, she left, and they never talked about it after. the rest of their conversations were all at arms length because he felt bad, and ryan blamed himself for no self control. because ryan had no tether and he never understood someone who did. partly, ryan felt that as a civilian her husband could never understand her like ryan could, and for that night he thought she needed to be understood. but that was a kid's cop out. and he wasn't even a kid anymore. it was an excuse that ryan lived with. flash forward so you are all caught up and up to date, the two of them living their present lives. she's in town (military related, you decide) and she runs into ryan. it doesn't have to be at a bar. maybe at the grocery store. maybe by accident near base (ryan's rotc, now, not marsoc). anyways. they're still awkward, and ryan even worse now thinking about it, having a daughter and someone that's this anchor. and he feels terrible, but ryan's version of terrible is ignoring his problems. she's divorced now, and she wants to explain to ryan. she wants to explain that the marriage was over before the affair. that she was out. they were separated. and that it wasn't her fault. she was looking for someone to comfort her, and ryan - for whatever reason - was comfort. she wants to catch up. and ryan doesn't know why, but he feels comfortable enough just to tell her everything. about sierra. his feelings about it. about the military. because she gets it. because he thinks she understands. i think too, if natalie ever came back around, too. she'd be a great person to help fight the details for ryan. about his rights as a parent. even before. she goes a little lawyer to make sure he's got things set up for sierra to protect her. she's just... a stable woman? kind of. i mean other than some emotional issues she's sort of grown out of. you know if you wanted to change the marriage and have her own kid, or just give her own kid? that'd be great, too. i am definitely able to switch some details around. i'm trying to hink of a face. yvonne strahovski is beautiful. i think should could play a BA jag lawer. but i am open. ages 34-40.

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But will someone just make mama and papa bentley with Clooney and Bullock???

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Brotherhood was intrusive.  Too intrusive for Ryan's liking, having spent years apart and out of the country where he tried to explain that internet reception was poor and cell phone reception was poorer.  Being back in the states was bad, but being back in the house Ryan grew up in where his brother had access with his previously owned key?  That was worse.

"If you don't start using that damn doorbell, I will literally stab you with a clever, buttmunch."  An always-favorite term of endearment from Ryan to his brother in replacement of the daily used Marine-slang "fucker" that he was trying to omit from his vocabulary as an example towards his sixteen year old (who had not yet learned the same omission.)

"If I have a key, I don't see why you need to go through the hassle of coming all the way downstairs.  Mom and dad still use their key."  Scott spoke as if it were matter-of-fact to cover a bluff.

Ryan shoot his head holding back a swift kick to the ass. "Mom and dad knock out of the respect that I have a sixteen year old I'm trying to build a relationship with."

"You might want to rephrase that."

Ryan glared because the both knew that wasn't what he meant, and never what he would mean.  First based off the person Ryan was, second off the men that Sierra had in her life.

"Get out."

"Dude, it was a joke."

Ryan took a deep breath trying to remember what adulthood sounded like.  While his love for his brother was strong, the idyllic world of love and flowers was starting to wear very thin on Ryan's nerves.  "I need you to leave."

"Give me one good reason."  The typical younger brother response -- the grown up version of 'why.'

"Because you walk in here fucking insinuating I'm having fucking relations with my sixteen year old daughter who was probably fucking abused before she got her by dudes, man.  Why the fuck do you think?"

Scott grew quiet, standing there looking at his shoes like a puppy just smacked with the newspaper. "I'm sorry.  I didn't know."

"You didn't need to because it's none of your damn business what she went through.  I don't need you to act weird.  I need you to act like a fucking respectable uncle.  And if you say a joke like that around her -- I will literally take my handgun and shoot you."  It was more or less an empty threat, but coming from Ryan it was probably less.

His brother looked down, flashbacks to playground attacks of being bullied before his brother threatening some kid he won't be able to see for a week if he did it again.  Scott shook his head, rubbing his neck. "How am I supposed to know what to say if you don't tell me not to?"

"How the hell does that sound appropriate to begin with?"

The truth was the fight wasn't about Sierra, but Scott pushing and pushing until Ryan couldn't breathe.  Civilian adjustment.  Ryan was having a hard enough time trying to figure out and navigate being a father, but Scott wanted Ryan to have it all -- a functioning relationship with a woman romantically and one with his daughter.  Almost thinking that Ryan couldn't do it alone, and that he needed the woman to take over.

Sierra had a woman as her role model once, and that didn't work out.  Ryan was focusing on his daughter; nobody else.

"Listen, bud.  I know your heart is in the right place.  It's always annoyingly in the right place, but you gotta let me do this and follow my rules."

A silence brewed between them, and Scott broke it with the humorous truth? "Can you write them down? 'Cause you sure got a lot of them."

That was probably a truth both Ryan's brother and Sierra could agree on.

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“Decide you want it more than you’re afraid of it."

A list of Ryan Bentley's top ten fears.

Not being able to build a relationship with Sierra; one in where she not only trusts him, but believes in him to want to do what's best for her.

If he buys Sierra a car, she will drive far, far away.  The fact that he is strongly against emancipation isn't just about being a "better" parent than Natalie, it's that Ryan believes that he can see that Sierra needs him in a way she doesn't understand.  At sixteen, she's still a child regardless of what she's already seen in life.  She doesn't know how to deal with all those feelings raging inside her, and from the profile he's put together on Natalie, she taught Sierra to run.  Ryan doesn't want to give her that chance, but it's a struggle -- because he wants her to want to stay.

That if because he is choosing to stay based because of Sierra, he might lose the opportunity to do better overseas -- building schools, stopping a terrorist.  Not that he does not respect those who serve that have chosen to be things like recruitment officers, Ryan was built for the field.  But, he knows he needs to be there for his daughter.

Being a bad dad; doing something that's going to push Sierra to a breaking point because he did something that sparked a bad memory.  He hates walking on egg shells, and he wants to reprimand the way the military taught him with tough, unconditional love to his brothers, but he fears that acting in that manner to Sierra will only scare her and push her away, making Ryan look like every other man Sierra has met.

Letting his parents down.  He knows what they want for him, what his brother has -- a family, a home, a place to land -- and they do not fully understand that Ryan has that in the military, but a part of him wants to forfeit his strong will and knowledge of himself to succumb to what they believe happiness is -- a wife and children. (Though he has the child, now.)

Hospitals, plain and simple.  Ryan has seen too many good men go there to die, and being, at any time, in one?  It scares him.  It makes him uncomfortable, uptight, and irritable.  Going there for Sierra's broken arm?  Don't get him started.  They were incompetent, first of all, not asking or realizing she was underage -- but that's another story for another time. 

His parents getting met at the door with a folded up flag. 

Being emotionally committed to someone and having to choose.  Regardless of him being able to do that with Sierra, and not actually admitting it a fear, thinking about being committed to a woman with a serious plan to become tethered?  That scares him.  Ryan doesn't want that burden on a woman, especially with what comes with the military.  It takes a certain type of woman to serve beside a serviceman.

Health problems.  Listen, why else is he doing 4AM runs followed by a gym routine, a healthy smoothie, and a healthy, well-rounded diet?

Raising a sixteen year old.  One word: twerking.

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Who wants to be in Ryan Bentley's ROTC crew from high school?

I feel it's gonna be a lot of Army since that's what Fort Hood is, BUT RY WENT TO THE MARINES.  Someone can join him in the brotherhood.

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