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j/a/s/o/n

Passionate. Combustible. Frothing.

About Me

There's not enough silence.

My Interests

assonance. dissonance. consonance. concordance.

I'd like to meet:

Someone who, upon seeing shit, can shoot it, or just you.

Music:

Bean, TMBG, Chucklehead, Doughty, Soul Coughing, Shooglenifty, Old Blind Dogs, Jaco Pastorius, Charles Mingus, Thelonius Monk, Tony McManus, Pink Floyd, James Brown, John Renbourn, Rage Against the Machine, SRV, Parliament, MMW, Cake, Fishbone, G. Love & Special Sauce, Fugazi, Jim's Big Ego, St. Germain, Dropkick Murphys, Jimi Hendrix, Primus, Jane's Addiction, King Missile, Morphine, Eric Royer, oh, yeah, and Bean

Television:

Lost. Hell.

Heroes:

Italian Sub; Sausage and Peppers; Meatball; Chicken Parmagiana, lotsa sauce.

My Blog

The Prevailing Mood & Culture

Perhaps I should try to stay away from politicizing in these blogs, painfully public as they are and who knows who reads them....maybe some good people from job searches are industrious and make a poi...
Posted by j/a/s/o/n on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:10:00 PST

There and back again: an idiots' tale

Concerning Marathoners:  they are a breed (arguably a sub-breed, or mutant breed) of human beings all to themeselves. Few exist with the mental acuity and physical hardiness necessary to run one ...
Posted by j/a/s/o/n on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:58:00 PST

Hell(enic) Yeah.

I had the good fortune of experiencing a wide swath of Greek culture this past weekend, from the authentic, to the loosley adapted.First, a house concert at Chez McOwen featuring Beth Bahia Cohen and ...
Posted by j/a/s/o/n on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:23:00 PST

Karma

Early yesterday morning I am humbled by the comments of Larry Stark.  Early yesterday evening I find I am NOT cast in Richard III [though the director suggested that were I to take another part, ...
Posted by j/a/s/o/n on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:42:00 PST

Huzzah for Small Theatre

Larry Stark, simply put, is one of the best people on the planet. Not only does he just love theatre, he has made it his mission to get people off their TV watchin duffs to go see it.  He posted ...
Posted by j/a/s/o/n on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:12:00 PST

The Worst Letter of the Alphabet

"T".I'm not one, usually, given to ranting.  But the civic extortion by the MBTA has reached ludicrous proportion.  In the past 6 months, with comparatively little opposition, the MBTA has r...
Posted by j/a/s/o/n on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:53:00 PST

The Human Torch

so, like the pure idiot I am, I have decided to run the Boston Marathon again. Seems like I am on the 5 year plan, or that there are certain forces at work that require that sort of full-body therapy ...
Posted by j/a/s/o/n on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:22:00 PST

"C'mon, she's cute"

Well of course she is, but that didn't mean I was going to buy her ice-cream. I have a mostly yearly tradition of scoping out a new ice-cream joint every Christmas [it being Florida, and usually prett...
Posted by j/a/s/o/n on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:23:00 PST

Migraine. Coltrane. Codeine.

you feel them coming on. they're slow. methodical. starts right behind my right eye, the ridge of which becomes unnaturally sensitive. then it extends further back. light becomes a problem. sound beco...
Posted by j/a/s/o/n on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 07:27:00 PST

Quick! Quick!

Today marks the first day of three weeks of health inducing hell.All manner of food I enjoy will be stripped methodically away to the goal of next Monday "eating" nothing but juice for an as yet undet...
Posted by j/a/s/o/n on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:18:00 PST