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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Me V. pazznjop

I was comparing the Village Voice best albums of 2008 list with my best albums of 2008 list. Somehow I end up feeling like I am cooler than the Village Voice. This is always a good feeling.

Labels: 2008, best of 2008, music

- Rich, 5:39 PM

Monday, February 16, 2009

Best of 2008 Mix

I know I am posting this really late. I am so late that I was beat by the Village Voice, which is never a good sign. Anyway, here are the songs from my best of 2008 Mix.

Artist - Song - Album
State Bird - I Saw the Light - Mostly Ghostly
Army Navy -Snakes of Hawaii - Army Navy
Ra Ra Riot - Suspended In Gaffa - The Rhumb Line
Blackblack - The Energy Song - Blackblack
Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma - Vampire Weekend
Sia - The Girl You Lost To Cocaine - Some People Have Real Problems
Port O'Brien - Close The Lid - All We Could Do Was Sing
Of Montreal - An Eluardian Instance - Skeletal Lamping
Ringo Starr - Love Is - Liverpool 8
Karl Blau - Make Love That Lasts - Nature's Got Away
Jason Anderson - This Will Never Be Our Town - The Hopeful and the Unafraid
Okkervil River - Pop Lie - The Stand Ins
The Avett Brothers - Pretty Girl At The Airport - Mignonette
British Sea Power - A Trip Out - Do You Like Rock Music?
The War On Drugs - Arms Like Boulders - Barrel of Batteries
Your Beautiful Ex - I Don't Know - Electric Whateverland
Old Crow Medicine Show - Methamphetamine - Tennessee Pusher
The Old Haunts - Hurricane Eyes - Poisonous Times
What Made Milwaukee Famous - And The Grief Goes On... - What Doesn't Kill Us
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Don't Haunt This Place - Hometowns
The Dodos - Undeclared - Visiter

Labels: 2008, best of 2008, best of CD Challange, end of year, mix, mixcd

- Rich, 6:56 PM

Friday, February 13, 2009

Past State of My Heart Address

This is for all the people that want to see the year by year breakdown of my romantic life. I know how fun that can be. I think there is something that might be learned

Past State of My Heart Address

2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008

Labels: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, flickrpost, link, list, State of my Heart Address

- Rich, 12:00 PM

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Best Albums of 2008

Below is my list of the best albums of 2008. I did not rank them, I just grouped them 11-20 and 1-10. Let me know what you think about my list. I know it is different that the Pitchfork list or any other list I have seen. The Meta Critic list is pretty cool. Let me know what you think of my list.


1-10
State Bird - Mostly Ghostly
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns
Army Navy - Army Navy
Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Port O'Brien - All We Could Do Was Sing
Jason Anderson - The Hopeful and the Unafraid
Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
The Dodos - Visiter
The War On Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues

11-20
The Avett Brothers - Mignonette
The Old Haunts - Poisonous Times
Karl Blau - Nature's Got Away
Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
Sia - Some People Have Real Problems
Tapes N Tapes - Walk It Off
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
The Lonelyhearts - Disaster Footage At Night
Thao - We Brave All Bird Stings


Best 2008 albums I did not listen to until 2009.

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound

Labels: 2008, album, best of 2008, music, tag overload

- Rich, 6:22 AM

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

2008 Mayfly

The idea of a Mayfly is to summarize your year in 24 words. I will tell you it makes you think about what is important.

Mayfly 2008

I asked with a picture
she said yes with a smile
knowledge increases love grows
Lost job New job
Looking forward to the Wedding


Past Mayflies

Mayflys: 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2002, 2001,

Labels: 2008, kate, mayfly project, self, wedding, year in review

- Rich, 11:39 AM

Monday, January 05, 2009

best photo of 2008

On flickr I made a set of the best photos I took in 2008. Above is the mosaic of the photos. I have not decided which one is the best yet. If you have any ideas please let me know. I am trying to pick the one that is the best for photographic reasons, not sentimental reasons. This year that might be really hard. That is why I need some outside input.

Labels: 2008, Best of, best of 2008, flickr, flickrpost

- Rich, 8:51 AM

Friday, December 19, 2008

Best Picture of the year

I am not sure what the best photo I took in 2008 is.  I took a lot of photos and posted a lot to Flickr. I have started a Nomination Set. These are the photos that I think are the best or might be the best. You might disagree with me. If you think a photo is the best of 2008 make a comment on that photo. I will add it to the nominations group. Hopefully I can make a decision by close to the start of next year.

Labels: 2008, best of 2008, flickr, flickrpost, photography

- Rich, 5:23 PM

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Movie Summer

Rotten Tomatos has a nice list of the best and worst movies of this summer. They also review the movies by how much money they made and how well the studios did.

My Top movies of this summer
1. The Dark Knight
2. Iron Man
3. Wall-e

My Worst Movie of the summer
Hancock

I will admit that I might being unfair to Hancock. I was smart enough to stay away from the theaters for the really bad movies

Labels: 2008, list, movie, rotten tomatos

- Rich, 11:02 AM

Monday, April 28, 2008

Grading the draft

The NFL draft was this weekend. You can find no shortage of the people willing to rate every team in the draft. I think this is a little silly. None of the guys that rate the draft ever say anything about how well their grades from the year before hold up. Right now I want to see ratings for the 2005, 2006, and 2007 drafts. That would make me more confident that the 2008 ratings actually mean something. To me none of this means anything until they put on the pads in the fall.

Labels: 2008, NFL, NFL Draft, tag overload

- Rich, 9:12 AM

Thursday, February 14, 2008

State of my Heart Address 2008

I am love. I am not sure how I can say it any plainer or clearer. That is not the best part. The best part is that the woman I am in love with loves me back. Maybe that is not the best part. Maybe the best part is that I have never felt this way about someone before.

I do not know what to say about my love life. I spent my 20s being alone. I did not have a meaningful romantic relationship from the age of 19 to the age of 30. When I turned 30 a friend told me that it was about to change. Guys like us look better in our 30s than in our 20s. I guess he was right. I am not upset at not having relationships in my 20s. I think it has helped mold me into the person I am right now. I think I am a good person now, ready to love. I am doing my best to use my past to my advantage.

I cannot put into words how I feel right now. I have deleted this paragraph four or five times. Every way I try to describe Kate seems to fall short. The worlds do not seem to live up to the task of conveying the truth. I cannot find words that show what is really in my heart. She is so much more to me than I ever expected.

I have seen Kate very day in the last four months. I cannot not imagine not seeing her everyday. I cannot imagine seeing her more than I see anyone else. I cannot imagine her not being this close to her. I cannot imagine being without her touch, her sent, her voice, or her close to me. I want to spend the rest of my life being close to her.

The state of my heart is very good right now. I am amazed at everything that has happened in the past few months. I was not expecting it to happen. I was not looking when it happened. I was opened to the idea that it could happen. When it happened, I was not afraid of what could happen.

Labels: 2008, flickrpost, girlfriend, kate, self, State of my Heart Address

- Rich, 7:01 AM

Sunday, January 13, 2008

2008 Goals

I think it is important to have goals. Without goals it is hard to measure how things are getting done. I am not always the best at

Here are my first batch of goals for 2008

1. For at least 40 weeks this year blog three days a week.
2. Total Flickr photos posted to 10,000
3. Total Flickr views, 2 million
4. Walk a more than 3,650,000 steps
5. *** **** ** ***** ** (This has to do with a secret)
6. Take a photo every day.

Let me know if you think I should have any more goals.

Labels: 2008, flickr, goal, New Years Resolution, steps, tag cloud, views, walk

- Rich, 11:57 AM

Monday, January 07, 2008

2008 Travel Goals

I want to focus on traveling on inside of California. There are lots of places in the state that I have not gone yet. I need to start knocking some of these places off this list. I made a list of 20 places that I have not gone before. I hope to go to 10 of these this year. I know lots of these are baseball themed, but I am a baseball fan.

Getty Museum
Santa Clara University Baseball Game
Joe DiMaggio's Grave
Joe DiMaggio's Boat
Lake Tahoe
Disneyland
Sacramento AAA Baseball Game
Modesto Nuts Game
San Francisco Zoo
Yosemite
Golden Gate Fields
Chabot Space & Science Center
Humboldt State University Natural History Museum
USS Hornet Museum
U.S. Naval Museum of Armament & Technology Naval Air Weapons Station, China Lake
Dodger Stadium
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
san francisco academy of sciences
lenny dykstra's car wash
Castle Rock State Park

Labels: 2008, flickrpost, goal, list, Resolution, tag overload, travel

- Rich, 6:37 AM

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Blogging goals

My Table
Originally uploaded by earthdog.

I am trying to figure out what realistic blogging goals for 2008 would be. I know that I will not be able to find the time to blog everyday. Between work and relationships, it is just not a good goal to set. I would fall behind and just about give up. That is not really what I want to do.

Should my goal to be to make three posts a week? Should I be looking for posts that will really be worth my time. I should be making posts that say something I want to say.

I will have to figure this one out. I would like to make a goal and meet it for at least 40 weeks next year.

Labels: 2008, blog, goal, sadsalvation, self

- Rich, 8:47 PM

Friday, December 07, 2007

Rasputin

Rasputin
Originally uploaded by earthdog.

I see this phone now and I wish I did a better job. I wish this was a better photographic. I wonder what I will find if I look back at the photos from this day. I need to look at more of my old photos in 2008. I need to put time aside to look at what I did before I had Flickr.

Labels: 2008, flickr, photography, self

- Rich, 7:50 PM

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