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As my arch-rival and nemesis Jenkins so eloquently puts it on his blog, he:
…tagged me, leaving me with the choice of ignoring the Four Things thingy or inflicting it on helpless others. Naturally, I choose “inflict”.
Four Jobs I’ve Had
- Pay Clerk for a government department
- Door-to-door salesman (never sold a thing)
- Communications honcho for the Royal Australian Air Force (like Jenkins, sort of ‘Secret Squirrel’ stuff)
- Male secretary
Four Movies I Can Watch Over and Over
- Mr & Mrs Smith — it’s like watching me and Mrs BetterComms on one of our better days
- The Princess Bride — “You know I love to watch you work, but I’ve got my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder and Gilder to frame for it. I’m swamped”. “Get some rest; after all, if you haven’t got your health, you haven’t got anything”
- The Passion of the Christ — I still shudder, squirm and get a tear in my eye during the flogging scene. But I confess to being very attracted to Mary Magdelen (Monica Bellucci, who was also in the second Matrix), probably more than I should be considering my beliefs and the theme of the movie
- This is Spinal Tap — [beautiful haunting, melancholic music played on the piano by one of the actors] “Yeah, it’s in D Minor, one of the saddest keys. It’s kind of a cross between Mozart and Bach, or ‘Mach’.” “It’s beautiful. What do you call this piece?” “Lick my Love Pump.”
Four TV Shows I Love to Watch
- House — ’nuff said and unmissable
- Don’t watch any other tv — Mrs BetterComms and I prefer to read, talk or just sleep after a busy day (we’re both studying part-time so there’s plenty of reading for essays to be done)
Four Favorite Cities
Four Favorite Dishes
- Capricciosa pizza from a little trattoria tucked away in a side street in Guildford, England
- ‘Hopkins a la Mylor’ (or whatever town, city or street I happen to be living in at the time) - a tuna casserole with buckets of cheese on top and several ’secret’ ingredients that I can only share with you if you agree to print off the recipe, eat it and then set fire to yourself
- Kangaroo steak, medium-well done, with mushrooms, lashings of gravy and some crispy roasted potatoes
- Mrs BetterComms’ lemony chicken pie
Four Websites I Visit Daily (or pretty close)
- Like Donna P, my bank account
- Bloglines
- ABC News
- The web-based management side of my main website
Four Places I’d Rather Be
- On a remote beach in Thailand finally completing my crime novel
- With Mrs BetterComms, living in Santorini, Greece
- In an out-of-the-way Florentine trattoria with my favourite bloggers from around the world, an open cheque book and a week to finish our meal.
This would include folks like Douglas Fortescue and his good lady wife Jennifer, Donna P, Donna T, Prof Sallie, Heidi, Shel, Nifty Nev, Jenkins, Bizzy Lizzy Albrycht, Nova, Bickford, Jack, Josh, Scott, Ben, Seth, Scoble, Cliff, DdotHill …inter alia
*** UPDATE: Arrghh, silly me! How could I leave out the fabulous Kathy Sierra? *** - Living as a permanent house guest, with full access to all the facilities, at Clicquot
Four Bloggers I am Tagging
Technorati: Heidi Miller, Ben Hamilton, Sallie Goetsch, Shel Holtz
A blogger I’m not tagging (as that would break the meme) but would love to know her answers: Jennifer Pohl
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Allan Jenkins 02.18.06 at 9:19 am
Oh, Hopkins! Tuna casserole? Sorry, tuna casserole is the sacred province of a) the American midwest, b) the part of Victoria, Australia roughly encompassing Hamilton, Ballarat, and Bacchus Marsh (I know this personally) and c) funerals.
It’s in this last incarnation that tuna casserole is particulary offensive because, as the afternoon wears on, one cannot help be reminded of the guest of honor.
I had to say that. You still have the Futon. But I want first dibs on seats in the Florentine trattoria when your book booms.
Lee 02.18.06 at 10:11 am
Ha ha ha! As always, mate, you make me laugh out loud (the other inmates here at the Podcast Asylum are worried about that). I don’t know if you got the original feed or the updated feed with all the different guests I would have around the table, but I would place you up the near head of it! And what a noisy, rowdy, opinionated bunch we would be!
Ben Hamilton 02.20.06 at 11:37 pm
Tagged I shall be and tag I will. You’ll find my four things here.
jpohl 03.16.06 at 2:03 pm
And how did you know Florence was on my list of four places? It’s sounds wonderful. I’d have to think about most of this questions my brain being currently scrambled with pregnancy, but Chaplin is probably on my list of top four movies.(-:
Lee 03.16.06 at 6:51 pm
Ahhh, but Jen — I deliberately left your sister off the list of travelling/dining companions. For I fear that if both you AND your sister were at the same table conversation by the menfolk would cease as jaws hit the floor, testosterone fighting testosterone for the best seats, etc. Besides, how could anyone look at your sister now without thinking of her blue underwear? (a la the portrait of Dorian Gray) {smile}
I understand the brain being scrambled by pregnancy — my brain is permanantly scrambled so have no fear that you would have no-one to converse with at the trattoria!