I still haven't figured out what a meme is, butMichelle asked me to get involved in one, so I'm going to. And since 4 is the magic number, I was even more eager.
4 jobs you've had in your life
1) This one, doing numbers for an organic fruit and vegetale delivery company.
2) A week as a caretaker on a housing estate in Bethnal Green
3) Two weeks on a weighbridge at a grain store in Lincolnshire
4) Three months as a postal clerk for an insurance company in Peterborough.
4 movies you could watch over and over
1) O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2) Fargo
3) The Big Lebowski
4) The Man Who Wasn't There (spot the theme...)
4 TV shows you love to watch
1) ....
The thing is, when I lived in Lincolnshire, there was nothing else to do, and my parents had Sky. Now I live in London I don't even get proper reception on Five, so I've 4 channels to choose from. And they all tend to peddle crap. I'm going to do Radio 4 comedies instead.
1) I'm sorry I haven't a clue
2) Just a Minute
3) The Now Show
4) Hancock's Half Hour (sadly no longer broadcasting, following the death of Hancock some 40 years ago).
4 places you've lived
1) Corby Glen, in Lincolnshire - four different houses, but all within about 200m of each other.
2) Central London - Charlotte St, then Gower St, then Hampstead Road
3) Islington/Dalston borders - King Henry's Walk
4) South London - an indifferent experience in Streatham, but Tooting seems to suit me.
4 places you've been on vacation to
I'm going to be rubbish at this one.
1) Everywhere in France. Seriously, name a major city, I've probably been through it in a car towing a caravan.
2) Barcelona - we went for a week, and were a little disappointed by the Cathedral. On the bus on the way back, someone showed us some photos, and we found out we'd got the wrong one.
3) New Orleans, last March - I still remember looking at the Mississippi and looking at Jackson Square, about 6ft below it, and thinking something wasn't right. But who could have known?
4) New York - probably my favourite city in the world, so far, but Beijing might win me over in May.
4 places you would rather be
1) At home in bed
2) In New York, eating.
3) At the top of a hill, with a force 3-4 breeze and my kite.
4) Sometimes, back in Lincolnshire in 1996 telling a 16 year old me to take A-level music, and to pull his finger out.
4 of your favourite foods
1) Cheese on toast, as given 'nuff respec' by Roots Manuva.
2) Curry - Indian or Chinese flavour, and Thai curry is beginning to win me over too
3) Homemade sushi. For sentimental reasons, and because it's filling but not fattening.
4) Nachos.
4 websites you visit daily
1) B3ta.com - funny.
2) Google News - news.
3) The Onion - alternative news.
4) Airmonkeys.co.uk - kites.
Good.
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All rather retrospective items.
Hows about:
4 places you want to go but haven't been
4 things you want to try
4 people you want to meet
Hey, it's not my meme. Since you asked though:
1) Prague, Africa, Brazil, China (going in May!)
2) Skiing/snowboarding/snowkiting, kitesurfing, paragliding, playing the mandolin.
3) Dulcie's boyfriend (why haven't we met him yet?), Jack White of The White Stripes (how do you put so much energy into such simple riffs?), a girl I met at a Scout Camp in Norfolk in 1995 (for some reason she seems to just pop into my head every few months, and it's beginning to bug me after ten years), the late Pope, John Paul II (seemed like a nice chap, maybe he could make Catholicism make sense to me).
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