http://thecompany.net/jason We seem to be haunted by the randomness of life and alternate versions of reality. Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:29:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been meaning to get back into the blogging thing for a few weeks, so since Molly tagged me to join her Seven Song meme, I'll take that as a cue to get warm up. According to iTunes, these are the seven songs that I've most recently added that have a ... http://thecompany.net/jason/posts/2008/seven-song-meme/ Why is it that whenever someone jokingly anticipates something horrible happening to them thus resulting in the loss of the knowledge they carry in their head they say, "In case I get hit by a bus." Yes, buses do hit and kill people, but I think cars do much more often. ... http://thecompany.net/jason/posts/2008/hit-by-a-bus/ What value is there in having a political debate and limiting responses to 30 seconds? I'd rather have candidates talk about one or two issues and talk for five minutes and really explain their thoughts than feel pressured to fit everything into 30 seconds (which moderators seem to selectively enforce anyway...). http://thecompany.net/jason/posts/2007/30-seconds/ Southland Tales is one of those movies that I don't even know where to start "reviewing." So I'm not going to even try. I'll just say this: The movie was awesome and quite possibly made just for me. Other details worth noting in case you are curious about the movie: It stars ... http://thecompany.net/jason/posts/2007/southland-tales/ I sent this email to a bunch of my friends earlier today and figured the rough form was worth sharing: i think i've mentioned this zizek-ian idea to some of you about how right now most people cannot even fantasize about world peace or an end of capitalism or something like ... http://thecompany.net/jason/posts/2007/the-asteroid-plummeting-toward-earth-that-will-destory-humans/ The film Across the Universe accomplished something that I've been playing around with in my head for a long time: Create dialogue that constantly references pop music lyrics. While Across the Universe took the idea a step further and turned that dialogue into a musical format, I still love the ... http://thecompany.net/jason/posts/2007/across-the-universe/ I just returned from the Justice concert. First, this concert has been a series of ups and downs for me. I got my tickets in August and have been excited for the show since then... then about a month or so ago I found out that Midnight Juggernauts were added to ... http://thecompany.net/jason/posts/2007/dance-seattle/ "John the Revelator" has been one of my favorite Depeche Mode songs ever since I first heard it on Playing the Angel (which also happens to be my favorite Depeche Mode album [yes, I'm not quite a Gen-X'er]). For the fun of it, I was reading about the song today and ... http://thecompany.net/jason/posts/2007/john-the-revelator/ Currently, the Seattle Metro Bus Tunnel is only open on weekdays from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. These hours mean that I rarely use the tunnel. Most of my non-work bus riding is on the weekends or night after 7 p.m. The good news is that once the tunnel starts having ... http://thecompany.net/jason/posts/2007/seattle-tunnel-on-weekends/ After all the discussion about being gay in Iran following Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's comment about there being no gay people in Iran, I found this Newsweek interview with a gay Iranian (who left Iran for the U.S.) interesting and thought it was worth sharing. One part of the interview especially ... http://thecompany.net/jason/posts/2007/gay-in-iran/