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Jason Paris

I am here for Friends and Networking

My Interests

Music:

www.woxy.com, www.lastfm.com, BBC 6 Music, X-FM London, CBC Radio 3, Radio Nova France, Suede, The Smiths, The Charlatans, Grandaddy, Joy Division, New Order, Phoenix, Dogs Die In Hot Cars, Joy Zipper, The Hidden Cameras, Bjork, Stereolab, The Doves, Mercury Rev, The Postal Service, Primal Scream, Stone Roses, The Manic Street Preachers, Le Sport, Controller.Controller, Inspiral Carpets, Spiritualized, The Streets, Spacemen 3, Boards of Canada, Final Fantasy, Scissor Sisters, Kids on TV, Fritz Helder & The Phantoms, Orbital, Broadcast, Sigur Ros, Saint Etienne, Gilles Peterson, The Organ, My Bloody Valentine, Kevin Yost, !!! (Chk Chk Chk), Pet Shop Boys, The Tears, M.I.A., Of Montreal, Flaming Lips, Caribou, DJ Shadow, Luke Slater, Ulrich Schnauss, The Orb, The Hot Pink Truth, Electrelane, Baby Dayliner, Underworld, Belle & Sebastian, Malajube, Lamb, M83, Hot Chip, Stars, Plastikman, MSTRKRFT, Cut Copy, The Bedford Incident, Union of Knifes, Junior Boys, Brett Anderson and on and on...

Movies:

28 Days Later, Cidade de Deus, The Insider, Lost In Translation, Fargo, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Amores Perros, High Fidelity, Trainspotting, Dancer In The Dark, 24 Hour Party People, Bowling For Columbine, Shaun of the Dead, Beautiful Thing, The Corporation, Roger and Me, Buffalo 66, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain, The Motorcycle Diaries, Good Night and Good Luck, Brokeback Mountain, TransAmerica, An Inconvenient Truth, Who Killed The Electric Car?, The New York Doll, My Architect, Manufactured Landscapes, Shortbus, Children of Men, Lives of Others, Sommersturm.

Television:

Dallas, Dynasty, Knots Landing, Falcon Crest, The Colby's, Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Coronation Street, Ab Fab, Battle of the Planets, Thunder Cats, The Y&R, 60 Minutes, CBC's The National, Da Ali-G Show, BBC World News, Frontline, The New Music, Frontiers of Construction, Rough Cuts, The Passionate Eye, The Wedge, Murphy Brown, The New Music, The Daily Show, The Office, The Colbert Report, The McLaughlan Group, Little Britain, Weeds.

Books:

..I tend to be more of a magazine guy. Good mags though with long articles. Stuff like Harper's and The Walrus. I'm also partial to some general interest stuff like Toronto Life, Spacing, Under The Radar, UKULA and THIS Magazine. Some of the books I've read recently would include: Molly Ivins' "Bushwacked," Jane Holtz Kay's "Asphalt Nation," and David Barnett's "Suede: Love & Poison."

Heroes:

Pierre Trudeau, Steven Patrick Morrissey, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Brett Anderson, John Peel, Edward R. Murrow, Sir Norman Foster, David Marsden, Ken Livingstone, Antonia Zerbisias, Brent Banbury, Jason Daniel Roberts, Steve Lamacq, Oscar Wilde, Patti Schmidt, Dan Savage, Jane Jacobs, Sook-Yin Lee, Chantal Hebert, Molly Ivins and Grant Lawrence.

My Blog

Why or wye do I love riding The Wye?

In other words, I've finally seen Lower Bay (or Bay Lower in TTC speak)!  It's a Toronto urb-nerds wet dream basically.  And you can see it too!  For the first time in 31 years, th...
Posted by Jason Paris on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 10:00:00 PST

Purge!

I just purged my MySpace list down to people I actually know (and respect) and bands that I actually listen to (and respect).  If you are still on-board, consider yourself one of the 495 most imp...
Posted by Jason Paris on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:48:00 PST

Brett Anderson's "Love Is Dead"

Perhaps not the most appropriate song title for St. Valentine's Day, but I couldn't resist sharing.  Damn, can Brett still belt them out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsIiAvmy4zc Beautiufl, eff...
Posted by Jason Paris on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:12:00 PST

Why I don't watch U.S. cable news...

Or shall I say one of the many reasons... 'Paris' tease flummoxes CNN Sadly, today also marks the death of Molly Ivins.  She was one of the biggest and best throrns in the side of the Bush Admini...
Posted by Jason Paris on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:56:00 PST

Euro Adventure 2006.

Hey folks, I've finally got my pictures up and captioned from my European adventure with Dan back in September.  I will warn you in advance, they are pretty urb-nerdy... Amsterdam Rotte...
Posted by Jason Paris on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:37:00 PST

Let's Get Rid Of Our Redneck PM...

Stephen Harper in his own words Stephen Harper is a climate change denier. But you don't have to take our word for it  take his:  "As economic policy the Kyoto Accord is a disaster. As environ...
Posted by Jason Paris on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:46:00 PST

B-Towners, take note!

OMG, this is too funny, too true, and in most cases, too sad... YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM BRAMPTON WHEN.... ยป You go to Brampton Shoppers World (BSW) or Bramalea City Centre (BCC) and you s...
Posted by Jason Paris on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 04:05:00 PST

Excellent Online: Best of 2006

I've been part of the Excellent Online listserve for probably more than ten years now.  It's basically an e-mail list that caters to North Americans with anglophilic musical tastes...
Posted by Jason Paris on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:24:00 PST

Jason's Top 20 CDs of 2006

Yup, I'm a bit late, but I can't let a year pass without at least attempting a list of what I thought was the best musical offerings of the past 365 days. For some reason, this list seems a little bit...
Posted by Jason Paris on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:26:00 PST

Save Cherry Beach!

Hey folks, I thought I'd use the power of MySpace for some good and try to get the word out about what "may" be happening to our beloved Cherry Beach forest.  There's more info below, but I'd fir...
Posted by Jason Paris on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:02:00 PST