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02 January 2006

meme of 4 --what the hell--everyone else is doing it. : >

questions inside...→[More:]
Four jobs you've had in your life:

Four movies you could watch over and over:

Four places you've lived:

Four TV shows you love to watch:

Four places you've been on vacation:

Four websites you visit daily:

Four of your favorite foods:

Four places you'd rather be:

Four albums you can't live without:
post by: amberglow at: 15:23 | 42 comments
This is soooo two years ago, it should be Meme of Six now!
posted by fenriq 02 January | 15:27
mine:
Four jobs you've had in your life: copy editor, telex operator, production manager, barback in after-hours club

Four movies you could watch over and over: Brazil, Wizard of Oz, Black Narcissus, Best Years of Our Lives

Four places you've lived: Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, Westchester (i'm way too provincial)

Four TV shows you love to watch: Futurama, Soap, Roseanne, St. Elsewhere (i have no current ones)

Four places you've been on vacation: France, Spain, Italy, UK

Four websites you visit daily: Metachat, Metafilter, Daily Kos, Jossip

Four of your favorite foods: French toast, pizza, chocolate, lamb chops

Four places you'd rather be: Madrid, Amsterdam, Montreal, Glasgow(?)

Four albums you can't live without: Roxy Music/Avalon, Cocteau Twins/Heaven or Las Vegas, Cure's greatest, New Order's greatest
posted by amberglow 02 January | 15:34
FOUR A:
Web Monkey
Movie Theatre Ticket Taker
Projectionist
Barista

FOUR B:
Dazed and Confused
Kicking and Screaming
Last Days of Disco
Rushmore

FOUR C:
Tacoma, WA
Olympia, WA
Chicago, IL
New York, NY

FOUR D:
West Wing
Wire
Lost
Six Feet Under

FOUR E:
Somewhere in Mexico
Somewhere in Canada
Somewhere in Vermont
Somewhere in Florida

FOUR F:
Meta this
Meta that
IGAS (acronym)
Egon Labs

FOUR G:
Grains
Fish
Fruits
Vegetables

FOUR H:
Home.
Over there.
A little to the left.
Fishing. The previously mentioned somewhere in Mexico.

FOUR I:
Black Flag: Damaged.
Husker Du: Zen Arcade.
Drive Like Jehu: Yank Crime.
The Who: Live at Leeds.
-- OR --
Fugazi: 13 songs
New Order: Substance
Built to Spill: Ultimate Alternative Wavers
Bad Brains: Rock for Light.
posted by safetyfork 02 January | 15:39

Four jobs you've had in your life: telephone operator, record store clerk, stockboy, janitor

Four movies you could watch over and over: Hard Day's Night, the Great Escape, Rushmore, and Raising Arizona

Four places you've lived: Carbondale Illinois and various Chicago suburbs

Four TV shows you love to watch: Simpsons, Daily Show, Scrubs, and Curb Your Enthusiasm

Four places you've been on vacation: Oaxaca, New York (once or twice a year), San Francisco, and Minneapolis

Four websites you visit daily: Slate, Coudal Partners, Drawn! and Gizmodo

Four of your favorite foods: tacos, pho, steak (rare), and chocolate covered strawberries

Four places you'd rather be: new york, london, paris, munich (everybody talk about - pop musik)

Four albums you can't live without: Fine Art of Surfacing by the Boomtown Rats, Surfer Rosa by the Pixies, Unequalled comp of the Equals, and Singles Going Steady by the Buzzcocks.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 02 January | 15:44
What the hell, I'll do it...

Four jobs you've had in your life:
zombie
telemarketer
goth/industrial DJ
computer cube drone

Four movies you could watch over and over:
return of the jedi
elizabeth
labryinth
the godfather

Four places you've lived:
buffalo's elmwood village area
buffalo's allentown area
a suburb of buffalo
salem, mass.

Four TV shows you love to watch:
CSI (I don't go out of the way for any of them, but I'll watch all if they're on and I'm home)
Law and Order (same as above)
The Simpsons
Family Guy

Four places you've been on vacation:
Nassau
Toronto
Disneyworld
Disneyland

Four websites you visit daily:
this one
metafilter
livejournal
myspace

Four of your favorite foods:
Indian food
alfredo sauce
crutons and ranch dressing
cheese

Four places you'd rather be:
with my new guy watching bad scifi and/or kingfu movies
in a warmer climate
at a packed danceclub on EBM night
seeing a band I love

Four albums you can't live without:
VNV Nation - Empires
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
Apoptygma Berzerk - 7
posted by kellydamnit 02 January | 15:45
Four movies you could watch over and over: Casablanca, Notorious, Return of the King, Empire Strikes Back

Four places you've lived: Houston, Santa Barbara, Palm Springs, Ruidoso

Four TV shows you love to watch: (new) Battlestar Galactica, I Claudius, Lost, Babylon 5

Four places you've been on vacation: Seattle, London, Santa Barbara, San Diego

Four websites you visit daily: Metachat, Metafilter, Blue's News, GameSpot

Four of your favorite foods: pasta, greasy Tex-Mex, ice cream, almonds

Four places you'd rather be: Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara

Four albums you can't live without: Pink Floyd/The Wall, Madonna/Ray of Light, Spiral/Spiral (you can't have it neener neener neener), Pink Floyd/Wish You Were Here
posted by WolfDaddy 02 January | 15:48
Four jobs you've had in your life: fudge maker, bakery counter girl, museum educator, PR flack.

Four movies you could watch over and over: The Secret of Roan Inish, Time Bandits, Repo Man, the Coca Cola Kid.

Four places you've lived: Mallorca, the East Village, Charleston SC, Baltimore

Four TV shows you love to watch: Buffy, the Simpsons, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Twin Peaks

Four places you've been on vacation: Ireland, Vermont, Rehoboth Beach Delaware, Swain County

Four websites you visit daily: Mecha, Mefi, my blog, google

Four of your favorite foods: sushi, pasta, caesar salad, really good steak

Four places you'd rather be: London, Paris, New York, Folly Beach

Four albums you can't live without: Counting Crows, August & Everything After; James McMurtry, St. Mary of the Woods; Genesis, Duke; Lucinda Williams, Concrete & Barbed Wire.
posted by mygothlaundry 02 January | 15:53
Four jobs you've had in your life: Record store manager; door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman (lasted three days), baker; “service tech” for a home-health oxygen supply company – delivered liquid and compressed (cylinder) O2, set-up and serviced oxygen equipment, taught patients how the stuff worked, etc.

Four movies you could watch over and over: Casablanca; Duck Soup; The Seven Samurai; Blade Runner

Four places you've lived: Monterey; Sacramento; Oakland; Seattle

Four TV shows you love to watch: Hockey Night in Canada; Iron Chef; Venture Brothers; um, that’s about it.

Four places you've been on vacation: Yosemite; Disneyland; Lake Tahoe; La Push

Four websites you visit daily: Metachat; Number One Hit Song (full disclosure – I also write there); telesceen.org; Google.

Four of your favorite foods: virtually anything with pesto on it; tamales; phad see euw; Chicken Provencal.

Four places you'd rather be: if I’m not at work, I’m where I want to be.

Four albums you can't live without: Oh geez. For sure, the Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus, by Spirit, and #1 Record/Radio City, by Big Star; after that… Maybe the first Clash album, although I’d want an amalgam of the US and UK releases, and, uh… gah! Too hard to choose. You’re making my brain hurt.
posted by bmarkey 02 January | 16:00
WORK:

1. Children's bookstore clerk
2. Fine metalwork restorer
3. Bookstore manager
4. Proofreader

MOVIES:

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Rosemary's Baby
3. Spider-Man 2
4. The Fearless Vampire Killers

PLACES I'VE LIVED:

1. Montreal, Canada
2. New York City
3. Madison, Wisconsin
4. Orsay, France

TELEVISION:

1. Home Movies
2. Mr. Show
3. Freaks and Geeks
4. Superfriends

VACATIONS:

1. Brussels, Belgium
2. Zaragossa, Spain
3. Seattle, Washington
4. Waupaca, Wisconsin

WEBSITES:

1. Metatalk
2. B3TA
3. Yahoo's Most Popular
4. Boingboing

FOOD:

1. Lamb vindaloo
2. Cheese
3. Tacos
4. Hot dogs

PLACES I'D RATHER BE:

1. Madison, Wisconsin
2. A lighthouse in Maine
3. Southern France
4. Brussels, Belgium

ALBUMS:

1. Quasi: "Featuring Birds"
2. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: "Electric Ladyland"
3. Camper van Beethoven: "Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart"
4. Robi Del Mar: "Alone in the Belly"
posted by interrobang 02 January | 16:05
Here we go!

Four jobs you've had in your life: supermarket employee, milk delivery person, poisons information officer, neuroscientist

Four movies you could watch over and over: The Royal Tenenbaums, Best in Show, The Graduate, The Princess Bride

Four places you've lived: Dunedin, NZ; Christchurch, NZ; Baltimore, MD; New York, NY.

Four TV shows you love to watch: Arrested Development, Project Runway, The Daily Show, Gilmore Girls

Four places you've been on vacation: New Orleans, Bahamas, Scottish highlands, Stewart Island (NZ).

Four websites you visit daily: metachat, NY times, salon, television without pity

Four of your favorite foods: cheese, ice cream, roast chicken, sushi

Four places you'd rather be: Dunedin, New York, Sydney, London

Four albums you can't live without: Pixies - Surfer Rosa, Radiohead - the Bends, Straitjacket Fits - Melt, the Pogues - If I should fall from grace with god
posted by gaspode 02 January | 16:05
Four jobs you've had in your life:

pizza delivery, production manager for radio station, PR for a county parks & rec. system, news video editor/producer

Four movies you could watch over and over:

Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
Harold & Maude
Donnie Darko
Drowning By Numbers

Four places you've lived:

Atlanta, GA
Augusta, GA
Carrollton, GA
Ranburne, AL

Four TV shows you love to watch:

Northern Exposure
Murphy Brown
Soap
Green Acres

Four places you've been on vacation:

Grand Canyon
Key West
New Orleans
Niagara Falls

Four websites you visit daily:

MeCha
Popmatters.com
Cursor.org
CNN.com

Four of your favorite foods:

pasta
broccoli
ice cream
pizza

Four places you'd rather be:

Austin TX
Key West
rural Georgia
rural anywhere


Four albums you can't live without:

Neutral Milk Hotel "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea"
Belle & Sebastian "Dear Catastrophe Waitress"
Brian Eno "Here Come The Warm Jets"
The Mekons "Curse Of The Mekons"
posted by BoringPostcards 02 January | 16:08
Four jobs: egg picker, train passenger counter, cuttings planter, computer programmer.
Four movies: Terminator II, Grosse Pointe Blank, It's a wonderful life, Memento,
Four places you've lived: Leeds, Halifax, Sheffield, Telford.
Four TV shows: Lost, Dr Who, South Park, Stargate.
Four vacation places: Tokyo, Sydney, Ireland, Eurodisney Paris.
Four websites: Metachat, Metafilter, Joel on Software, Wired.
Four foods: Halumi, Tapas, Beef Steak (Rare), Broccoli.
Four places I’d rather be: with friends, in the warm, on the front page of the TLS, with children.
Four albums: Dark Side of Moon, Automatic for the people, Best of Leonard Cohen, Suzanne Vega (Eponymous)

(That was hard - All answers liable to notice from second to second)
posted by seanyboy 02 January | 16:09
Four jobs you've had in your life:
Fast Oil Change Mechanic
Coder
Salesman
Entrepreneur

Four movies you could watch over and over:
Groundhog Day
Seven Samurai
Heat
Rounders

Four places you've lived:
Albany
Philadelphia
San Diego
New York

Four TV shows you love to watch:
West Wing
Lost
Six Feet Under
Simpsons

Four places you've been on vacation:
Zambia
China
Bora Bora
Belgium

Four websites you visit daily:
AskMe
MeCha
Atlas F1
BBC News

Four of your favorite foods:
Tacos
Prime Rib
Carrot Cake
Omelettes

Four places you'd rather be:
San Diego
Vancouver
Auckland
Sydney

Four albums you can't live without:
(actually the albums are irrelevant. Every note of this is burned into my brain.)
Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No. 3 - Gavrilov/Lazarev
Pet Metheny - Letter From Home
Radiohead - OK Computer
Orbital - 2
posted by mosch 02 January | 16:23
Jobs: Secretary, receptionist, drama instructor, journalist

Movies: All About Eve, Goodfellas, Caddyshack, Harold and Maude (but there are so many more!)

Places I've Lived: Philly, Chester County, Montco and Lancaster,PA.

TV Shows: Most of my favorite shows like MST3K and Undeclared are off the air, so I'll go with My Name is Earl, The Simpsons, Without a Trace and just about anything on HBO.

Vacation Places: The last four were Disneyworld, Maine, Quebec, Prague

Websites: The Metas, TVSquad, Dlisted, Cinematical

Foods: Crab, lobster, creme brulee, shortbread

Places I'd rather be: Lots of places I'd like to visit, but I'm pretty happy here.

Albums: XTC-Skylarking, Elvis Costello-Girls,Girls,Girls, Tom Waits-Heart of Saturday Night, Jane's Addiction-Nothing's Shocking.
posted by jrossi4r 02 January | 16:37
Four movies you could watch over and over: Blood Simple, Tin Drum, Life of Brian, Reservoir Dogs

Four TV shows you love to watch: Behind the Music, Design on a Dime, Debbie Travis' Painted House, Sex and the City

Four websites you visit daily: MeCha/MeTa/etc, Dlisted, Craftster, You Ain't No Picasso

Four of your favorite foods: Pineapple, Banana, tea, macadamia nuts

Four places you'd rather be: In bed 4x

Four albums you can't live without: Live/Throwing Copper, Elvis Costello/Imperial Bedroom, Guided by Voices/Universal Truths and Cycles, R.E.M./Murmur
posted by iconomy 02 January | 16:45
OK, I thought of a forth album - Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue. But really, that's just scratching the surface.
posted by bmarkey 02 January | 16:46
I thought of a 5th album - Traffic/John Barleycorn Must Die. I can't limit things to just four.
posted by iconomy 02 January | 16:50
Yeah, see, that's my problem, too. I could easily give you 10-15 albums and as many movies, but limiting it to four... that's just cruel.
posted by bmarkey 02 January | 16:53
hmmm... do you mind a half-assed submission? I'm not a listkeeper at all, and can never really figure out my favorite anything... but I'll give it a shot:

Four jobs you've had in your life: bartender, creative director, writer, editor.

Four movies you could watch over and over: Bladerunner, Princess Bride, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, just about any Cohen brothers film.

Four places you've lived: Alaska, North Carolina, New Orleans, Greece

Four TV shows you love to watch: We don't get much American TV here, and almost no British shows, but of what we get: Desperate Housewives, News Radio, CSI (I've managed to catch a few episodes here), Malcom in the Middle

Four places you've been on vacation: Florida Keys, Miami, Charleston, many Greek islands

Four websites you visit daily: Mefi, Mecha, Google News (does that count?), Delicious

Four of your favorite foods: oh my. Avocados, almonds, salmon, excellent tomatoes

Four places you'd rather be: I really don't feel like being anywhere else at the moment

Four albums you can't live without: no way, it's unpossible! But I love the "Best of Nina Simone", Evan Lurie's "Selling Water by the Side of the River", Morcheeba's "Morcheeba" (I think it's called), and a Paul Simon something double disk set - maybe it's another 'best of' thing. And the Velvet Underground 'Banana' album. ACK!
posted by taz 02 January | 16:59
I had trouble thinking of four websites, four foods, four tv shows, four movies, and four places I'd rather be. There certainly were too many albums to name FOUR sure. ah! I kill me. I've already been revising that one and managed to withold saying four on the floor by dag nasty.
posted by safetyfork 02 January | 16:59
Four jobs you've had in your life: foster care recruiter, job coach, medical tech in a group home, manager of a chicken restaurant

Four movies you could watch over and over: Wings of Desire, Baraka, Time Bandits, Angels in America

Four places you've lived: Wilmington, New Castle, and Newark, Delaware, and Asheville, North Carolina

Four TV shows you love to watch: Daily Show, Lost, David Attenborough nature shows, British Parliament on C-Span (I know, a little odd).

Four places you've been on vacation: Peru, Haiti, all over Eastern Europe, Olympic Peninsula of Washington

Four websites you visit daily: Mefi, Mecha, Boingboing, DailyKos

Four of your favorite foods: Any variety of potato done in any way, Greek Lemon Soup, BBQ tofu, Naval oranges

Four places you'd rather be: Working, Northern California, Vermont, Folly Beach, SC

Four albums you can't live without: Pink Floyd, Ummagumma; Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Shahen Shah and Party; Nick Drake, Pink Moon; Emmy Lou Harris, Wreckingball
posted by moonbird 02 January | 17:23
Four jobs you've had in your life: TV director, Stock broker, Movie Projectionist, Construction labour

Four movies you could watch over and over: Blood Simple, Princess Bride, Great Gatsby, Clockwork Orange

Four places you've lived: Peawanuck, Toronto, Chicago, Pasadena

Four TV shows you love to watch: My name is earl, Simpsons, MASH, ???

Four places you've been on vacation: Dominican Republic, St. Lucia, Germany, Mexico

Four websites you visit daily: Mecha, Google News, ???, ???

Four of your favorite foods: Tomato, Hot and sour soup, Cucumber, bbq ribs

Four places you'd rather be: Any 4 beaches with sun and sand

Four albums you can't live without: Roxy Music/Avalon, can't choose after that.
posted by arse_hat 02 January | 17:30
I saw this and stuck it on my blog. So they're there if anyone is so inclined. I wanted to do this before reading and I completely forgot Tenenbaums, Gilmore Girls and South Park...

Four is just too hard!

posted by Lola_G 02 January | 17:38
This was really hard!

Four jobs you've had in your life: Babysitter, Salesgirl, Customer Service Rep, Account Manager

Four movies you could watch over and over: Ten Things I Hate About You, Bring It On, Muppets Christmas Carol,andThe West Wing on DVD. (not a movie, I know; so sue me).

Four places you've lived: Okinawa, Tampa Bay, FL, North Shore in MA, Astoria

Four TV shows you love to watch: The West Wing, America's Next Top Model, Grey's Anatomy, Extreme Home Makeover

Four places you've been on vacation: Montreal, Rockport, MA, Ocean City, NJ, Provincetown, MA

Four websites you visit daily: Gawker, Gothamist,
Oh No They Didn't!, and Bringing Up Shelby The Pug.

Four of your favorite foods: Nacho Cheese Doritos, Blackberries, Oatmeal, and French Fries.

Four places you'd rather be: On the beach on an island with clear blue water.... other than that, there's nowhere I'd rather be.

Four albums you can't live without: The original cast recording of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Hanson's "Middle of Nowhere", Ben Folds Five "Whatever and Ever Amen", and the original cast recording of Falsettos.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 02 January | 18:08
Four jobs you've had in your life:
Bank clek; record store manager; wine merchant; child care worker

Four movies you could watch over and over:
life of brian; terminator2; withnail & I; men in black

Four places you've lived:
cowley; fritwell; banbury; bicester [all in oxfordshire]

Four TV shows you love to watch:
brass eye; spaced; shameless ; black books;

Four places you've been on vacation:
amsterdam; valras-plage; the lake district; llangranog ;

Four websites you visit daily:
mefi; americablog.com; firedoglake; LGF

Four of your favorite foods:
smoked haddock; avocado; brie; chili

Four places you'd rather be:
denmark; valras-plage; keswick; toronto

Four albums you can't live without:
exile on cold harbour lane pet sounds; the slider; motown chartbusters vol. 4 .
posted by dashie 02 January | 18:14
Four jobs you've had in your life:Waffle House waitress, personal assistant, receptionist, cashier

Four movies you could watch over and over: O Brother Where Art Thou, LOTR (all three movies.)

Four places you've lived: Fayetteville NC, Raleigh NC, Pensacola and Sarasota FL.

Four TV shows you love to watch: Boston Legal, American Idol,America's Next Top Model, and the news.

Four places you've been on vacation:Colorado, Thailand (not exactly a vacation tho), Iowa and various locations in NC.

Four websites you visit daily: Mefi, Mecha, Drudge Report, and TWOP.

Four of your favorite foods: sushi, oyster stew, fried pork chops, chocolate covered pretzels.

Four places you'd rather be: there's no place like home.

Four albums you can't live without: The Seal retrospective one, Amarantine (Enya) Banba (Clannad) and one by Eden's Bridge whose name escapes me.
posted by bunnyfire 02 January | 18:24
Four jobs you've had in your life: dish pig, gas station attendant, electronic embroidery machine operator, various computer guy things
Four movies you could watch over and over: Lebowski, High Fidelity, Swingers & Don't Look Back
Four places you've lived: Toronto ON, Windsor ON, Vancouver BC, Sudbury ON
Four TV shows you love to watch: The Simpsons, House, Six Feet Under, Daily Show
Four places you've been on vacation: Manitoulin Island, Cancun, Sacramento & San Francisco, Canada's Maritimes
Four websites you visit daily: Mecha, AskMe, Flickr, dooce
Four of your favorite foods: Coffee, dark chocolate, pizza of various types, plain potato chips
Four places you'd rather be: I don't really have anything for this one. I like where I am.
Four albums you can't live without: The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving, Rheostatics - Melville, Thelonious Monk - Solo Monk, The Band - Brown Album
posted by richat 02 January | 18:30
Four jobs you've had in your life: investment banker, intern at VC firm, valet at a hotel, telemarketer (summers from ages 14 - 20)

Four movies you could watch over and over: This is a very different list than my favorite movies, but when I catch these on TV I can't help but watch: Beautiful Girls, Eyes Wide Shut, House of Sand and Fog, The Godfather II

Four places I've lived (chronologically): Phoenix, AZ, Charlotte, NC, Palo Alto, CA, New York, NY

Four TV shows you love to watch: Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Sorpranos, The Wire

Four places you've been on vacation: Hawaii (just got back!), Michigan (childhood summer vacations), Hong Kong and Budapest (but those were just a few days after work trips)

Four websites you visit daily: MeFi, Slate, Salon, McSweeney's

Four of your favorite foods: NY strip steak, carne asada burrito from Phoenix, AZ taquerias, Chipotle barbacoa burrito (I like both the authentic and inauthentic Mexican food), cake

Four places you'd rather be: NHL hockey game, Arizona State campus, Casey Moore's or Mickey's Hangout (bars in Scottsdale and Tempe, AZ respectively)

Four albums you can't live without: The Clash - London Calling, The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed, The New Bomb Turks - !Destroy Oh-Boy!, Willie Dixon - I Am The Blues
posted by mullacc 02 January | 19:26
Four jobs you've had in your life: Classified advertising sales rep, online magazine editor, seasonal code enforcement officer, computer lab monitor

Four movies you could watch over and over:
Airplane!, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Moulin Rouge

Four places you've lived:
Bolingbrook, IL; New York, NY; McNutt Quad, Indiana University; Off-campus apartment, Bloomington, IN (I have only lived in three towns. How sad is that?)

Four TV shows you love to watch:
Seinfeld, The Amazing Race, American Idol, Survivor

Four places you've been on vacation:
London, Toronto, Acapulco, Washington DC

Four websites you visit daily:
Metachat (of course!), Greekchat, Chicago Tribune, Livejournal

Four of your favorite foods:
Cheese & sausage pizza, pasta, steak, tiramisu

Four places you'd rather be:
London, New York City, somewhere warm, on a date with a hot man

Four albums you can't live without:
Rent soundtrack, We Will Rock You soundtrack, Abba Gold, Exile in Guyville - Liz Phair
posted by sisterhavana 02 January | 20:02
Four jobs you've had in your life: Data entry operator, Claims Officer, Assistant Claims Manager.

Four movies you could watch over and over: Before Sunset.

Four places you've lived: Have only really lived in 3 Sydney (Aust) suburbs, all very different but equally great. Spent 3 months in Malta as a child.

Four TV shows you love to watch: Sex in the City (re-runs), What not to Wear (the UK version), the News.

Four places you've been on vacation: Japan, Thailand, UK, and Fiji.

Four websites you visit daily: Metachat, metafilter, News.com.au, Google.

Four of your favorite foods: Indian curry, Yellow prawn curry with plenty of broccoli. Ricotta ravioli with a chilli sauce. Chocolates.

Four places you'd rather be: getting a facial/massage, at the beach, holidaying, having lunch/dinenr with friends.

Four albums you can't live without: Jeff Buckley's Grace and The Best of U2.
posted by Chimp 02 January | 20:38
What the hell:

Four jobs you've had in your life: English lit teacher, cook's helper on an oil rig in Northern Alberta, chambermaid, secretary

Four movies you could watch over and over: Persuasion; In the Company of Strangers; Amacord; Bodysong

Four places you've lived: Vancouver; Banff, Alberta; Huleh Valley, Northern Israel; two months in Piraeus, Greece

Four TV shows you love to watch: Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Coronation Street (I was brainwashed as a child! It's not my fault!) and a batch of the real estate/renovation shows on the House and Gardens channel because they're just so... soothing

Four places you've been on vacation: London, Baltimore, Halifax, New York

Four websites you visit daily: Metafilter, Guardian, NoRocknRollFun, Woods Lot

Four of your favorite foods: Pasta with sundried tomatoes and cheese; good fresh bread; oranges and peaches in season; fresh wild salmon with butter and lemon

Four places you'd rather be: The British Library; Galway with my friend Kevin; New York in general; in summer, at a Mediterranean-side cafe at dusk with someone I love

Four albums you can't live without: Radiohead, Kid A; Canteloube, Chants d'Auvergne (sung by Kiri Te Kanawa); Joni Mitchell, Hissing of Summer Lawns; Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
posted by jokeefe 02 January | 21:07
see? this was a good idea! : >
posted by amberglow 02 January | 21:14
Four jobs you've had in your life: writer for a CD on Agricultural diversity, freelance science journalist, research assistant, researcher

Four movies you could watch over and over:
Black cat white cat, the Matrix, Twister, Bend it like Beckham

Four places you've lived:
Bangalore, India, Pondicherry, India, Sede Boqer (in the Negev desert, Israel) and Sydney, Australia

Four TV shows you love to watch:
Battlestar Galactica (the new one, Farscape, Frasier, Whose line is it anyway?

Four places you've been on vacation:
Alice Springs, the Himalayas, Greece, Kerala

Four websites you visit daily:
Metachat, Metafilter, BoingBoing, Waxy

Four of your favorite foods:
mostly rice stuff

Four places you'd rather be:
A good bookstore/cafe, Koshy's restaurant in bangalore, The western Ghats, um.

Four albums you can't live without:
I keep changing tastes so often, it's hard to say
posted by dhruva 02 January | 21:52
ok, amber, i'm gonna give it a very quick shot off the top o' me head:
Four jobs you've had in your life:
restoration, framer, fund raiser, food maker

Four movies you could watch over and over:
i burn out on 'em but ones i can let play or watch with rapt attention?
(i know, semantics)
um... (of the former: i'm trying to be quick) about a boy, little man tate, spalding gray's monologues, heartburn (they all use to be on a lot)

Four places you've lived:
new york, new jersey, georgia, colorado

Four TV shows you love to watch:
gilmore girls, veronica mars, project runway, venture brothers

Four places you've been on vacation:
does that mean not project related at all? um...
DC, disneyland, vegas, the grand canyon

Four websites you visit daily:
the hungersite & affiliates, por los chicos, gmail and mechat (when i get online at all)

Four of your favorite foods:
possibly all edible things from the sea, mushrooms, stone fruits, innards

Four places you'd rather be:
um
on an ocean beach at night
on a hillside or mountain with a less than obtrusive wind
walking the certain streets in new york city (which probably no longer exist)
on a pile of something comfy with everything within reach

this is hard and took a lot longer than i thought. and i haven't read it yet.
posted by ethylene 02 January | 22:23
which streets? and what's por los chicos? url?

posted by amberglow 02 January | 22:26
a friend sent me this link a long time ago so i always hit it and the hungersite ones first thing when i get online.
gimme a while to finish some stuff and i'll try to take a walk down memory lane for ya.

i tried to do it really quick, but besides the websites, i could have said all kinds of totally different answers.
i'll try again if you like but "favorites" aren't my forte, as stuff can be so experientially subjective or trapped in time, blah blahb blah--
posted by ethylene 02 January | 22:48
Four jobs you've had in your life:
Concession stand guy, bagel sandwich maker, layout editor, PR flack

Four movies you could watch over and over:
Stripes, Meatballs, Brazil, Star Wars

Four places you've lived:
Lake Zurich, IL; Montmorency, France; Columbus, OH; Chicago

Four TV shows you love to watch:
Good Eats, Iron Chef, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Grey's Anatomy (If we're going all-time, I'd include Sports Night and MST3K)

Four places you've been on vacation:
Ixtapa, Mexico; Kiawah Island, SC; New Orleans; cross-country to California

Four websites you visit daily:
MetaChat, Gapers Block, del.icio.us/tag/chicago, Google News

Four of your favorite foods:
Sushi, pineapple, dark chocolate, french fries

Four places you'd rather be:
I don't really want to be anywhere else, but if I had to pick one, I guess New Orleans.

Four albums you can't live without:
Andrew Bird, Weather Systems; Violent Femmes s/t; Ani DiFranco s/t; Tom Waits, Nighthawks at the Diner
posted by me3dia 02 January | 23:32
Four jobs you've had in your life:
concession stand cashier; cocktail waitress; English teacher; editor

Four movies you could watch over and over:
Raising Arizona; Down By Law; The Third Man; Withnail & I

Four places you've lived:
Denver, London, Chicago, Vienna

Four TV shows you love to watch:
The Amazing Race; The Sopranos; Reno 911; I Love Lucy

Four places you've been on vacation:
New Zealand, Ireland, San Francisco, Florida

Four websites you visit daily:
Metafilter, Television Without Pity, Salon, Slate

Four of your favorite foods:
chicken Dijon; chocolate mousse; shrimp curry; French bread & cheese (St. Andre is my current fave)

Four places you'd rather be:
Chicago (though not in the winter!); Vienna at the turn of the (last) century; a cabin in Big Sur with my boyfriend and a roaring fire; Laramie, Wyoming, during my childhood with my grandparents

Four albums you can't live without:
(off the top of my head, because there's dozens) Tom Waits, "Rain Dogs"; Paul Weller, "Wild Wood"; Califone, "Roomsound"; The Clash, "London Calling"
posted by scody 02 January | 23:42
Four jobs you've had in your life: Bicycle mechanic, copy editor, adult movie theater clerk, librarian

Four movies you could watch over and over: Koyaanisqatsi, Ghost Dog, The Blues Brothers, Touch of Evil

Four places you've lived: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Arkansas, West Virginia

Four TV shows you love to watch: Mythbusters, Match Game, King of the Hill, Arrested Development

Four places you've been on vacation: Martha's Vineyard, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Boston

Four websites you visit daily: Arts and Letters Daily, Livejournal, MeCha, AskMe

Four of your favorite foods: Cheese, calamari, broccoli, bread

Four places you'd rather be: hammock, butterfly chair, riverbank, slumberland

Four albums you can't live without: 'No Protection,' 'The Basement Tapes,' 'What's Going On,' 'Bags' Groove'
posted by box 03 January | 02:14
Four jobs you've had in your life:
babysitter, receptionist, loan underwriter, help-desk flunky

Four movies you could watch over and over:
Star Wars, Last of the Mohicans, The Breakfast Club, Sense and Sensibility

Four places you've lived:
California, Texas, Washington, British Columbia

Four TV shows you love to watch:
Cold Case Files, Lost, Cops (shut up), What Not to Wear

Four places you've been on vacation:
Vancouver Island, UK (England & Scotland), Northern Arizona, San Francisco

Four websites you visit daily:
my blog, MetaChat, AskMe, MetaTalk

Four of your favorite foods:
pizza (Round Table's Italian Garlic Supreme), Cinnabons, toast w/marmalade, Campbell's Tomato Soup

Four places you'd rather be:
Vancouver Island (yup, that's it)

Four albums you can't live without:
Patsy Cline - 12 Greatest Hits, Billboard Top Hits: 1979, Celtic Twilight - Volume 2, Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing
posted by deborah 03 January | 12:37
Four jobs you've had in your life: Milkman, Boat Builder, Principal, Quality Auditor.

Four movies you could watch over and over: Star Wars, The Wall, Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Big Chill.

Four places you've lived: Auckland, Wellington, Gold Coast (there are only 3)

Four TV shows you love to watch: Mythbusters, The Amazing Race, House, Cold Feet (except it's finished :-().

Four places you've been on vacation: Sydney, Maroochydore, Brunswick Heads, Cooloola, Waiheke Island.

Four websites you visit daily: MetaChat, MetaTalk, Google News ...

Four of your favorite foods: Icecream, icecream, icecream, icecream.

Four places you'd rather be: Right here is fine, but some nice company would be good.

Four albums you can't live without: Pink Floyd/The Wall, Dire Straits/Love Over Gold, The Eagles/Hotel California, John Butler Trio/Sunrise Over Sea. But that's just this week - this changes constantly.
posted by dg 03 January | 23:23
Four jobs you've had in your life: (the most fun, in no order) librarian's assistant, gallery owner, bartender, online fraud analyst

Four movies you could watch over and over: American Beauty, Born Romantic, The American Astronaut, anything Coen

Four places you've lived: Pittsburgh, PA; Portland, OR; Seattle, WA; San Francisco, CA

Four TV shows you love to watch: I don't watch TV

Four places you've been on vacation: Ocracoke Island, NC; Vancouver, BC; Barcelona; Chicago, IL

Four websites you visit daily: (excluding the meta's, Google/News and my blog) Astronomy Picture Of the Day, NOAA, flickr, bloglines

Four of your favorite foods: sushi, steak, cheese, salad

Four places you'd rather be like to be: nightswimming; on a warm, sunny beach; hanging out with Susie and mrs pants; romping with a best beloved

Four albums you can't live without: I'd go clinically insane if I had to narrow it down to four.
posted by Frisbee Girl 09 January | 08:37
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