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Saturday, December 27, 2003

So, What have you heard?

Jeremy has posted his Best Albums 2003 List. I am not sure I can come up with a list of 10 of my own. I have only heard one of the albums on Jeremy's list. That makes me smile a little.

- Rich, 4:02 PM

End Of Year Mix CD Challenge - entry 4

Still As Good As New
by Elke

Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
Pete Townshend - thesearefusesnoriver
Patti Smith - Up There Down There
Robbie Williams - Supreme
Santana - Smooth
Bad Company - Bad Company
Nona Hendryx - SkinDiver
PJ Harvey - The Whores Hustle And The Hustlers Whore
Warren Zevon - Run Straight Down
Depeche Mode - When The Body Speaks
Robert Palmer - Mercy Mercy Me/I Want You
Mother's Finest - Baby Love
R.E.M. - Nightswimming
Crash Test Dummies - Superman's Song
Pavlov's Dog - Julia
Ryuichi Sakamoto/David Sylvian - Forbidden Colours

- Rich, 2:51 PM

Friday, December 26, 2003

Looking at a change

Changes always come along with the new year. I have been thinking that Sad Salvation might need a chance. I have been looking at typepad. I know a bunch of the San Jose crowd uses it. Anyone want to tell me the pros and cons? Are there any other tools that I should look at? Any other ideas for change on my blog?

- Rich, 2:50 PM

Day after Christmas

If you shop at Wal-Mart, you need to think about what that means. I used to have no problem shopping there, but I have problems now.

taken from Faisal

- Rich, 12:59 PM

Raining on Christmas

I know this is the rainy season, But it rained for the second year in a row on Christmas day. I drove up to the north bay and it was not raining there. I was just raining in San Jose. I wonder if it rains on Christmas Day in the years I am not here.

- Rich, 12:31 PM

On the Second day of Christmas...

Looking for a good gift on the second day of Christmas, Buzz Anderson has a collection of Beatles Christmas Greetings. I think this is pretty cool. I take my had off to Buzz for it.

- Rich, 11:37 AM

End Of Year Mix CD Challenge - entry 3

New To Me This Year
by Elke

Lyle Lovett - Simple Song
Youngblood Brass Band - Nate McCavish Handbills for No Man
Chris Isaak - Solitary Man
Elefante - Adonde Vayas
Morphine - Like Swimming
Tori Amos - A Sorta Fairytale
Curtis Mayfield - Eddie You Should Know Better
The Cure - Pictures Of You
2raumwohnung - Ich und Elaine
Matchbox Twenty - Disease
Lyle Lovett - North Dakota
Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply
Natalie Merchant - This House Is On Fire
Incubus - Mexico
Lamb - Gorecki
Poco - Keep on Trying

- Rich, 10:53 AM

Thursday, December 25, 2003

Christmas

"Christmas day is when Jesus was born
I guess that would make him a Capricorn"
Wally Pleasant

Merry Christmas Everyone

- Rich, 10:18 AM

Wednesday, December 24, 2003

Merry Christmas

If I send Christmas Card, this is what the picture would be.

- Rich, 12:05 PM

End Of Year Mix CD Challenge - Entry 2

New This Year
by Elke

Outkast - Hey Ya!
Seal - Love's Divine
Over The Rhine - Ohio
Evanescence - Tourniquet
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Chega de Saudade
Maroon 5 - Harder to Breathe
Christina Aguilera - Beautiful
Limp Bizkit - Eat You Alive
Robbie Williams - Get a Little High
Calexico - Quattro (World Drifts In)
Outkast - The Way You Move
Over The Rhine - Lifelong Fling
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Robert Palmer - Dr. Zhivago's Train
Fountains of Wayne - Stacy's Mom
Beyoncé - Crazy in Love
The Darkness - Growing On Me
Robbie Williams - Feel

- Rich, 11:55 AM

Last minute gifts

I am not sure how my family would react if I gave them a blog.

- Rich, 11:44 AM

Tuesday, December 23, 2003

End Of Year Mix CD Challenge - entry 1

Here is the first of the mix CDs I received. I am going to post them over the next couple of days.

DJ Record Player's New Music 2003
By Eric

1 Outkast - Hey Ya
2 Postal Service - Such Great Heights
3 Liz Phair - Firewalker
4 Grandaddy - Now It's On
5 The Sounds - Seven Days A Week
6 R.E.M. - Bad Day
7 Starseed - Come Again
8 Gillian Welsh - Confessions
9 Guster - Backyard
10 The Be Good Tanyas - Ship Out On The Sea
11 Jessy Moss - Confessions
12 Alien Laine - Trek
13 The Flaming Lips - The Strange Design of Conscience
14 Here Are The Facts You Requested - Trio
15 Bright Eyes - Bowl of Oranges
16 Ani Difranco - Here For now
17 Grooveyard - Why Me
18 Tuesday Afternoon - One of Your Kind
19 The Beatles - Don't Let me Down
20 Gemma Hayes - Hanging Around
21 My Life on The Line - Untitled #4

- Rich, 11:48 AM

Softer on Crime

I am not sure people where expecting Schwarzegger to be softer on crime then Gray Davis, but he paroled a Bay Area murderer. In the article it says Gov. Gray Davis had a policy of almost never granting parole to anyone convicted of murder.

- Rich, 11:45 AM

Monday, December 22, 2003

Vacation Question

In 2004 should I take one very long vacation or a few short vacations? I took almost 8 weeks of vacation this year. I had a lot saved up. I will be taking less this year. I will still take about a month. I am not sure how the best way to spend that time is. I love being on vacation, but I do not expect to have as much money for vacation next year. I am just trying to figure out how I want to spend my time.

- Rich, 11:47 AM

Who Am I?

I feel that I would be the same person if I had not moved here, I just would not be living the same life. It is hard to see how your life has changed while you are living in it. There is part of me that feels that I am currently fully formed. I wonder if I will laugh at that idea later?

- Rich, 12:34 AM

Sunday, December 21, 2003

France and the Hijab

This commentary about the French trying to ban girls from wearing the Hijab in state schools has a very interesting idea. It is not religion that they are opposed to, it is cultural identity. The French are a culture that protects itself from outside forces. They got rid of the word 'walkman' and replaced it with a French word. It is really a mater of culture and not religion. If the French had invented the hijab, there would be no problems.

Of course in many religions, Islam being one of them, people do not think you can divide religion from culture. I have also heard Muslims that the Hijab is not a sign of there religion, but a religious obligation. To keep them a women from wearing a Hijab is to impinge on their religious freedom.

There is a basic conundrum here. The French see the headscarf as a sign of oppression of women. There are women who are forced to cover up. There are other women who choose to wear the Hijab. Who has a greater right in this situation? Do you protect the women who are forced and oppress the women who are not?

- Rich, 9:10 PM

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