30 September 2010

Flavor In Your Ear

It's been too long since I've shared with you some of the sites that I've been obsessing over. Now that my RSS reader is well organized, I can blow through my feeds super fast but these gems below I always take the time to really appreciate and go over. Hope you like'em.[Caits Meissner]A poet, a writer, an artist, a teacher, a designer, a musician, a performer, an inspiration, and sort of just, everything. I could try to explain to you who Caitlin...

26 September 2010

The Town (2010)

Gone Baby Gone was one of the better movies of 2007 and it proved that Ben Affleck can direct. A few years later and Affleck is back with another Boston-based crime thriller that is reminiscent of both Gone Baby Gone and Heat. While this movie doesn't quite live up to the lofty standards of either, it does deliver on pretty much every level and compared to the rest of this year's action-thriller offerings, it's better than all of them. Plus I...

Catfish (2010)

The less you know about this movie the better. That's about all I can say. Which makes this post sort of useless. Catfish is good and definitely worth a watch though. And the lead guy has the most charismatic and contagious smile ever. If you must, watch the trailer, but really, the less you know the better.Since I can't say anything else about Catfish, I'll just bludgeon you with a list of things I'd like to watch for the rest of 2010: Easy A....

24 September 2010

The New Workout Plan

Listening to: Cotton Jones, "Somehow To Keep It Going." I think I pretty much just like the chorus here. But it's nice and moody.I woke up at nine with the urge to run. Before I could drift back to bed, I slapped some water on my face, popped in my contacts, looked around for my Shuffle, and slipped into basketball shoes. Seeing as I haven't actually run since the 90s, this would be a throwback morning. I was excited to have music to run to since...

17 September 2010

Hey, That's My Bike

Listening to: Vampire Weekend, "Oxford Comma."I've decided to start a band. Everyone is in a band at some point in their lives and it always sounds so cool to have friends say: "He's like a really great musician and he was in this band before..." I think even nominally being in a band will really upgrade my social life. Recently I sat down with myself to do an interview. Also participating in the interview is my bandmate, Ameer.So what're you guys called this week?Jon & Ameer: We are Apex Predator!Is that exclamation mark part of the name?Jon:...

14 September 2010

Baron Plays the Horses

Listening to: Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, "Home."The one thing I've been able to do this summer, since I can't surf or play basketball, is attend the horse races. Del Mar Racetrack is one of the few remaining tracks left on the West Coast I believe. It's open from July until September and the slogan is "Where the Surf Meets the Turf," which finally made sense to me once I stopped to think about it.Little known fact: I've read the entire...

10 September 2010

I'm a Simple Guy

Listening to: Starfucker, "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." This is a remix by the way, in case you didn't know. I just wanted that to be clear.You know about OK Cupid right? For years I've been making people take the Dating Persona Test. Go ahead, take it and tell me which one you are. But we're not actually here to discuss that. Instead, let's talk about OK Cupid's blog, OkTrends, which presents dating research pulled from the dating profiles...

02 September 2010

The Peach Pit

Watching intently: The opening credits to Beverly Hills 90210, duh. And the pilot episode opening sequence, which I don't recall. And what's with the two black guys in business suits at the 0:52 mark? They were headed into high school? I want this song for my ring tone. In about twelve hours I'll be sitting in a dental chair getting a little surgery. Nothing serious mind you, just my annual check up to make sure that my teeth haven't completely...