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Jason

Sock it to *me*?

About Me


My Interests

detroit tigers baseball, youtube, cooking period dishes like meatloaf and brandied chicken, ironing, reading the dearborn times-herald police blotter, playing battlefield (a.k.a. pow-pow), travelling (though it doesn't happen often), surfing the web, enjoying a coney dog followed by rice pudding, also oysters, chinese food, sushi, grilled cheese and beers at the bronx (not necessarily in that order), one-of-a-kind burger joints, hanging out with my friends, watching exceptional films, listening to both good and bad music, loitering in bookstores, attending art openings and various social functions, doing the odd modeling job, drinking johnnie walker black on the rocks, obsessing over the proportions and detailing of obscure european cars, quoting random dialogue from my favorite films (annoying my friends in the process -- sorry about that), walking along the railroad tracks at dusk, indulging in a relaxation audio program developed by the california department of mental health, etc.

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

Amy Winehouse, Harold Faltermeyer, Warsaw, Joy Division, New Order, Dead Can Dance, Crispy Ambulance, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Martin L. Gore, Yazoo, Portishead, Talking Heads, Soft Cell, The Human League, Tears for Fears, Pet Shop Boys, The Stone Roses, Scorpions, Stereolab, Vangelis, The Smiths, Morrissey, Kraftwerk, Hooverphonic, Tindersticks, The Raveonettes, Death From Above 1979, Deee-lite, Gary Numan, Ladytron, Gusgus, Zero-7, Garbage, The Sex Pistols, Nirvana, Alice Cooper, Meat Puppets, The Buzzcocks, Queen, The B-52s, The Clash, The Police, Vanity 6, Wall of Voodoo, Jefferson Airplane, Cream, Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Beatles, The Guess Who, Jim Croce, Gordon Lightfoot, The Five Satins, Buddy Holly, The Youngbloods, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, One Man Band Bob Vido (aka Robert Vidoloff), Henri Mancini, Dean Martin, William Shatner, John Barry, Roy Budd, John Williams, etc.

Movies:


also Casino Royale (2006), Ken Burns' Baseball, Gold, Layer Cake, Swiss Conspiracy, Scarecrow, Cabaret, Le Professionnel, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Starcrash, Bobby Deerfield, Dead Ringers, Videodrome, Scanners, Last Night, Get Carter (1971), John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13, Mulholland Drive, The French Connection, Lost Highway, The Dead Zone, American Psycho, Man on the Moon, Lost In Translation, Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, An American Werewolf in London, Shaun of the Dead, John Carpenter's Christine, Blade Runner, High Plains Drifter, Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb, Zardoz, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Buddy Holly Story, Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst, Smash Up on Interstate 5, You Only Live Twice, The Man with the Golden Gun, The Man Who Would Be King, Bullitt, Brazil, Rainman, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, The Love Bug, Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, Sexy Beast, Donnie Brasco, The Blues Brothers, 24 Hour Party People, The Graduate, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, John Carpenter's The Thing, Black Christmas (1974), The Getaway (1971), Repo Man, Logan's Run, Dirty Harry, The Terminator, All The President's Men, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Serpico, Deliverance, Magnum Force, A Bronx Tale, etc.

Television:

Tigers baseball, the star-studded big money Match Game, PBS documentaries, 60 Minutes, Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann, Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, James Bond marathons on Spike TV and Police Squad!

Books:


also American Psycho, The Boys From Brazil, Flowers for Algernon, The Kennedy Curse, Middlesex, Catch-22, Goodnight Moon, Grand Delusions: The Cosmic Career of John DeLorean, Nixon and Kissinger: Partners In Power.

Heroes:

also Mark "The Bird" Fidrych, Bill Bonds, John Carpenter, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, Geneviève Bujold, John Lennon, Uschi Digard, Tom Baker, Gilles Villeneuve, Steve McQueen, Gerhard Richter, Michael Caine, Clint Eastwood, Ken Adam, Andy Warhol, Syd Mead, Peter Sellers, Vince Clarke, Ian Curtis, Ian Fleming, David Lynch, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, David Cronenberg, Daljit Dhaliwal, Eric Fensler, Al Pacino, John De Lorean, Bob Ross.

My Blog

brilliance bs6 crash test disaster

If any of you have ever thought about buying, driving, or even *riding* in a chinese car, you might want to check out these crash tests care of our friends at YouTube.  The ADAC just r...
Posted by Jason on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 06:46:00 PST

the bold mullet strikes again (well, kind of)

Jalopnik shows us again why they lead the web in auto industry coverage.  In a recent Ford Five Hundred Taurus ad, the dad is a dead ringer for Ford VP Mark Fields (above).  Trust me. ...
Posted by Jason on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:53:00 PST

seagulls and baseball don't mix

Some things just weren't meant to go together.  Like red wine and fish, or Neocons and reality.  You can add seagulls and baseball to that list. Thanks to a large hatch of army moths i...
Posted by Jason on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 07:50:00 PST

charles nelson reilly 1931 - 2007

Tony Award winner and game show fixture Charles Nelson Reilly died last friday of complications from pneumonia.  He was 76. CNR will probably be best remembered as a reg...
Posted by Jason on Wed, 30 May 2007 06:21:00 PST

don't even *think* about parking your own car!

Nothing gets my ire up like compulsory valet in teeny tiny parking lots.  And no, I don't care if it's free.  It's the principle. Yesterday, we met my parents for Mother's Day brunch at a Tr...
Posted by Jason on Mon, 14 May 2007 09:59:00 PST

panera bread: not offensive

On Saturday, during a shopping trip, my wife and I stopped at Panera Bread for a quick bite to eat.  I ordered a steak sandwich with gorgonzola dressing and a bag of chips.  I think I can sa...
Posted by Jason on Sun, 06 May 2007 12:00:00 PST

american masala

My wife and I live in midtown Detroit, which includes, among other things, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Detroit Medical Center, the College for Creative Studies, and the Wayne State University ...
Posted by Jason on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 06:09:00 PST

don't pass gas. take it outside.

Passing gas is one of those quirky facts of life that *everyone* can identify with.  Recently, the Ad Council launched a series of PSAs that use fart humor as a hook to educate pe...
Posted by Jason on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:28:00 PST

roundabouts

Terrifying news from Free Press today!  Oakland County is planning to build eight new roundabouts (also known as "traffic circles") over the next few years to ease congestion.  I once lived...
Posted by Jason on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:07:00 PST

nutrisystem part 2

A stunning development in the NutriSystem saga!  Well, not really stunning, but still... Remember the "Man Food" commercial starring Dan Marino and all his rowdy friends?  My wife noti...
Posted by Jason on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:46:00 PST