caption birth_place nationality birth_date image article_title name occupation alma_mater
blackinton performing on october 11 , 2008 south kingstown , rhode island american 31 march 1982 rylandblackington.jpg ryland blackinton
 ryland blackinton guitarist florida state university , olympic heights community high school
ryland blackinton

ryland blackinton was the lead guitarist for the band cobra starship .
he is from wilmington ma , but was born in south kingstown rhode island on march 31 , 1982 .
before joining cobra starship , ryland , along with alex suarez formed the folk/pop duo this is ivy league .
the two originally met at olympic heights community high school , but lost touch before re-connecting in brooklyn , new york after seven years .
incidentally , the duo were living ten minutes away from each other , and fell back into familiar habits once they discovered that .
perhaps blackinton 's most notable performance in college was when he portrayed the difficult role of victor emmanuel chandebise in the french farce , a flea in her ear .
-lsb- http://media.www.fsunews.com/media/storage/paper920/news/2004/01/07/artsandentertainment/back-to.the.stage-2360730.shtml] he starred in this production alongside nicholas ciavarella who played dr. finache .
blackinton also has a knack for being hilarious and impersonating gabe saporta quite well .
blackinton can be seen in several recent tai tv podcasts for the academy is ... as ` guy ripley ' , a fictional reporter for bbc world news .
ripley is reputed to have an enormous crush on victoria asher and william beckett .
guy ripley is often referred to as ` the queen of fangirls , ' and in tai tv episode 39 , stole a lock of william beckett 's hair .
guy ripley 's catch-phrase is `` delicious . ''
he has repeatedly asked his favorite musicians to sign his shoes .
guy ripley can be heard on fall out boy 's new mixtape on the first track .
he also released his own album ` i 'll be your guy ' , which covered many songs from well-known artists such as the academy is ... and cobra starship .
on one of the only original tracks , `` victoria -lrb- why wo n't you love me anymoria -rrb- '' , ripley alludes to having an ex-wife named gloria .
their divorce may have been because she did not soaria like a partridge .
a song on cobra starship 's second album , '' ¡ viva la cobra ! ''
, is titled `` pleasure ryland '' .
`` pleasure ryland is an imaginary place in your mind that pretty much anybody can go to , where the drinks are free , and you can always dance with most of your clothes off . ''
said blackinton in an interview .
saporta also said that before blackinton was a fully paid member of cobra starship , he always wore a shirt that said `` pleasure island '' and decided to name a song `` pleasure ryland '' but then saporta said that after they went over the songs on the album , they thought that it was kind of a bad idea that two of their songs had `` pleasure '' in them .
blackinton rebuffed him by saying that pleasure is a good thing .
mike carden dedicated a song to him during the sleeping with giants tour in orlando , florida .
blackinton plays a humorous street musician in the 2008 feature film the unidentified , directed by kevan tucker of floodgate features .
in that scene , he is seen playing guitar to the song `` june '' by this is ivy league .
blackinton also co-stars in misplaced planet 's short zombie video `` brains ! ''
and contributed the bulk of the music for misplaced planet 's production of `` momentary engineering , '' along with stirling mclaughlin .
blackinton is the second cousin of westlife singer shane filan .
ryland has been with his current girlfriend , kristen roller for eight years .
on october 21 , 2014 , both suarez and ryland left the band to pursue their own separate careers .
they have since been replaced .
