Tag… I’m it

Out of fear that I will have 100 years of bad luck, here’s my response to D’Arcy’s tagging me:

Four jobs I’ve had
– dishwasher
– burger flipper
– knowledge carpenter
– strawberry picker (not in this order!)

Four movies I can (and do) watch over and over
Taxi Driver
Cool Hand Luke
Slapshot
My side of the Mountain

Four places I’ve lived
– Montreal, Quebec
– London, Ontario
– Cardiff, Wales
– Banff, Alberta

Four TV shows I(‘ve) love(d)
James Burke’s Connections
Dennis Potter’s Singing Detective
Made In Britain (Tim Roth’s first part)
reGenesis (oh please bring it back!)

Four places I’ve vacationed
– the canyons of Utah
– the mountains of Wales
– Prague
– Australia

Four of my favorite dishes
– Pad Thai (almost anywhere, just love the stuff)
– the medallions of Buffalo tenderloin at the Banff Springs
– my Mum’s roast beef and yorkshire pudding
– my wife’s mac and cheese

Four sites I visit daily
– bloglines
– google
– umm, is there anywhere else?

Four places I would rather be right now
– right here
– right now
– the forest
– the ocean

Four books (or series) I love
Neal Stephenson’s The Baroque Cycle (though I actually think Cryptonomicon said it better, in less words)
– anything by Richard Powers, but especially The Goldbug Variations (and Gain!)
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
Don Delillo, White Noise

Four video games I can (and do or did) play over and over
– never really played video game except for an intense period of blowing things up in Doom

Four bloggers I am tagging
– NOT! This dies here.