Archive for the ‘ponderings’ Category

Christine’s Contribution

Sunday, September 5th, 2010

Alexi Murdoch – Time Without Consequence
Damien Dempsey – Shots
David Gray – White Ladder
Mat Kearney – Nothing Left to Lose
Tegan and Sara – So Jealous
Tegan and Sara – The Con
Jeremy Riddle – Sweetly Broken
The Cars – Greatest Hits
The Cranberries – No Need To Argue
Madeleine Peyroux – Careless Love
The Police – Greatest Hits
Van Morrison – Still On Top (Greatest Hits)
Frank Sinatra – Romance (Compilation)
Counting Crows – August and Everything After
Tracy Chapman – Collection

Christine’s current favourite albums – Christine would like it mentioned that this in not necessarily indicative of her overall music tastes or what you might expect to find on her iPod. She usually buys her music online by the song.

Chris’ Top 15 Albums

Sunday, September 5th, 2010

After serious contemplation and careful consideration I have compiled a list of my fifteen current favourite albums.

Electric Ladyland by The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1968)
Bayou Country by Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969)
Who’s Next by The Who (1971)
Santana III by Santana (1971)
Thriller by Michael Jackson (1982)
Texas Flood by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble (1983)
Achtung Baby by U2 (1991)
Unplugged by Eric Clapton (1992)
Bad Habits by Colin James (1995)
Black Sheep by Martin Sexton (1996)
White Ladder by David Gray (2000)
Lift by Audio Adrenaline (2001)
The Beautiful Letdown by Switchfoot (2003)
Seize the Day by Damien Dempsey (2004)
Daylight by NEEDTOBREATHE (2006)

Of course, you can find everything you want to know about what I listen to by visiting my last.fm page.

Poverty

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

This weekend, the service at our church was about poverty. It was very powerful and got me to re-examine what I do and think about poverty. Christine and I expect to make some changes in the new year. I find it very easy to forget about the six billion or so people that have a lower quality of life than I do and to resist an attitude of entitlement that I believe is prevalent in our society.

Although I found none of the statistics presented surprising (I’m not sure what is worse: knowing the statistics and doing nothing or being ignorant of what is going on in our world) I did find out that there is an online petition at http://www.makepovertyhistory.ca/ asking for the government to increase efforts to meet the United Nations Millennium Declaration to spare no effort to eliminate extreme poverty in the world. It’s somewhat more of a guest book than a formal petition, but I signed it anyway.

The Shawshank Redemption voted #1 Feel-good Movie

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

“The Shawshank Redemption” has been voted the #1 feel-good movie to help cure the winter blues according to Ananova. I’ve seen “The Shawshank Redemption” and I’m not sure those people know what feel-good means.

Pig Man

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

I saw this advertisement at dictionary.com

Pig Man in the Shower

I have to tell you, if I saw Pig Man in my shower I wouldn’t be wondering about how to save money and energy; I’d be wondering where my baseball bat is.

Rudolph the red-nosed-reindeer

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

Have you ever noticed how the intro of “Rudolph the Red-nosed-reindeer” goes:

You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixon,
Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzon.
But do you recall the most famous reindeer of all?

That’s kind of a stupid question isn’t it?
Think about it.