Archive for May, 2005

Friends Mix 05/05

May 29th, 2005 by jason

This double-set of playlists is for the month of May. I felt that I had been listening to such good new, recent music lately that I had to devote one mix to just that, hence “May I.” The “May Tu” mix is just random. As for the titles, I thought they were extremely clever, but [...]

Double Ds

May 29th, 2005 by jason

What is it about primetime soap operas that make me love them so much? The double-crossing? The affairs? The oil businessmen? The absurdity? I just can’t say. Today I started watching season one of Dynasty and I’m hooked — just like Dallas and Knots Landing before them. But seriously, Dynasty is hardcore. Maybe more hardcore [...]

Review: Izo

May 29th, 2005 by jason

Have you ever seen a movie that you think has some deeper meaning but you just don’t get it? And then after some consideration you wonder if you did infact miss something or whether the movie was just fucking with your head the entire time — trying to be all pretentious and meaningful but really [...]

Another CD Buying Binge

May 28th, 2005 by jason

I really need to stop myself, but after seeing Childstar last night, I went to Tower Records (well, first I went to American Apparel and bought two shirts) and picked up eight CDs… and it only cost me like $35 (though a lot were singles). Somehow they had some massive clearance thing on a bunch [...]

Review: Childstar

May 27th, 2005 by jason

The main reason I went to see Childstar was because Jennifer Jason Leigh was in it. The review said something about it being a movie about a Macaulay Culkin-esque child actor who is abducted. Really, though, this film is about the Hollywood exploitation of child actors. But I’m not sure what the ultimate message is, [...]

Word of the Day: Veg*n

May 27th, 2005 by jason

At work we have quite a lot of random list-serv type “groups” that we can join. My coworker, who is a vegetarian like myself, has been a part of the vegetarians group for quite a while. On a whim, my another coworker and I joined the group yesterday as well. Let me say, it isn’t [...]

Kunstler vs. Lovins

May 26th, 2005 by jason

Salon.com has an interesting (and somewhat catty) exchange between James Howard Kunstler and Amory Lovings: “Sparks Fly.” I don’t know much about Kunstler, save the Salon.com interview “After the oil is gone” from last week, but I have read Lovins’ Natural Capitalism and found it to be a really inspiring and thought-provoking book. I’m not [...]

Mysterious Blue Skin

May 26th, 2005 by jason

Mysterious Skin is broken down twice: First by colors (I just finished the “Blue” section), and then by characters (“Brian Lackey”, “Neil McCormick”, “Wendy Peterson”, and “Deborah Lackey”). So far, this book is amazing. I’m usually not a fan of “gay literature” (and I wrote about why a few times during my Lesbian and Gay [...]

Review: Ronda Nocturna

May 26th, 2005 by jason

The movie was cancled becase the film was held up in customs or in Chicago or something so I didn’t get to see it. So sad.

On Depression

May 24th, 2005 by jason

Over at Salon.com there is an excellent piece about depression: “Van Gogh on Prozac.” The piece actually goes into some things I’ve been wanting to post about for quite a while actually, especially based on some recent conversations I’ve had with various people about the nature of depression, the definition of “normal,” the use of [...]