Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Blog Stuff: Oh, dear! I got meme all over my new jeans.

Gee, thanks, Marko...

Four jobs you’ve had in your life: Photographer's assistant, automobile repo person, waitress, retail saleschick.

Four movies you could watch over and over: Black Hawk Down, Way Of The Gun, Blade Runner, The Matrix.

Four places you’ve lived: Chicago, IL; Atlanta, GA; Cumming, GA; Knoxville, TN.

Four fiction books you can't live without: The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein; Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand; The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkein; and Neuromancer, by William Gibson.

Four non-fiction books you consider essential: Holidays In Hell, by P.J. O'Rourke; With Charity Toward None: A Fond Look Back at Misanthropy, by Florence King; Lost Rights, by James Bovard; The Standard Catalog of Smith & Wesson, by Jim Supica and Richard Nahas.

Four TV shows you love to watch: I don't even own a functioning TV at the moment.

Four places you’ve been on vacation: Terlingua, TX; Edinburgh, Scotland; St. Simon's Island, GA; Oslo, Norway.

Four websites you visit daily: The Firing Line, SayUncle, Kiss Me, I'm Peevish, and Weather.com (what with the motorcycle and the convertible...)

Four of your favorite foods: A barely-dead filet of beef, Memphis dry rub ribs, French onion soup, and a properly-done Reuben.

Four places you’d rather be: Work (when I'm at home), Home (when I'm at work), out riding (when I'm either place), and someplace where I can shoot (er, which would be "Work".)

Four albums you can’t live without: Gosh, this is a tough one, as it's so mood-dependent... uh... Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails, Achtung Baby by U2, Signals by Rush, and... oh, jeez... I'm looking for inspiration through the stacks of jewel boxes on the floor and the rows on my CD rack and just noticed that I've somehow ended up with two copies of Aerosmith's Pump. How the hell did that happen?

Four people to pass it on to: Everybody I'd tag has already been tagged, so if you haven't responded, consider yourself double secret tagged!

9 comments:

  1. Haha. How'd you like the repo job? Sounds like a fascinating story.

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  2. Four jobs you’ve had in your life: 1.Graphic Designer
    2.Photographer
    3.Instructor
    4.Retail salesman

    Four movies you could watch over and over:
    1.Once Upon a Time in America
    2.Cyrano De Bergerac
    3.Cross of Iron
    4.Dark Blue World

    Four places you’ve lived:
    Leningrad, USSR
    NYC
    Minneapolis, MN
    Nashville, TN

    Four fiction books you can't live without:
    1.Young Lions, Irwin Shaw
    2.Godfather, Mario Puzo
    3.Cyberpunk, Bruce Bethke
    4.Three Comrades, Erich Maria Remarque


    Four non-fiction books you consider essential:
    1.Carnage and Culture,Victor Hanson
    ...hmmm, none others really come to mind as more important than the others, mostly reference books.

    Four TV shows you love to watch: I don't even own a functioning TV at the moment...and haven't in more than a decade.

    Four places you’ve been on vacation: 1.Atlanta,GA
    2.Waynesboro,GA
    3.Missoula,MT
    4.San Francisco,CA

    Four websites you visit daily:
    1.The High Road
    2.Tam's Blog
    3.Livejournal
    4.Mises.org

    Four of your favorite foods:
    1.Sashimi
    2.Braised lamb with lemon and artichokes
    3.Apples
    4.Filet Mignon

    Four places you’d rather be:
    1.Home
    2.Home of parents
    3.Homes of friends
    4.In the woods with a camera and a carbine

    Four albums you can’t live without:
    Nothing in particular

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  3. 1)Soldier
    2)EMT
    3)Personal Protection Officer
    4)Contract renegotiator

    1)Equilibrium
    2)Zulu
    3)Big Trouble in Little China
    4)Three Musketeers (1973 version, if you please)

    1)Valletta, Malta
    2)Tripoli, Libya
    3)Istanbul, Turkey
    4)Warri, Nigeria

    1)The Stars, My Destination
    2)Watership Down
    3)Lord of the Rings
    4)Whatever is at hand at the time

    1)Etiquette, by Emily Post
    2)Renniassance Swordsmanship
    3)Webster's Dictionary
    4)Whatever encyclopedia is at hand

    1)Mail Call
    2)Mythbusters
    3)Tripping the Rift
    4)Family Guy

    1)London, England
    2)Rome, Italy
    3)Dubai, UAE
    4)Beirut, Lebanon

    1)The High Road
    2)The Firing Line
    3)Tam's blog
    4)Marko's blog

    1)Steak Florentine
    2)Stew
    3)Fajitas
    4)Spaghetti

    1)Home
    2)My little sister's home
    3)Five days clear of civilization
    4)In a library somewhere

    1)Appetite for Destruction - G-n-R
    2)Empire - Queensryche
    3)Fallen - Evanescence
    4)50 Greatest Classical Songs - Various

    -Ian

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  4. Ian,

    How did I know it was you before I read even half of your post!?

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  5. Four jobs you’ve had in your life:
    junk-mail writer
    carpenter's flunky
    office worker for a Christmas tree farm
    freelance gun rag writer

    Four movies you could watch over and over:
    Casablanca
    The Green Pastures
    The Princess Bride
    Monty Python & the Holy Grail

    Four places you’ve lived:
    Borneo, Indonesia
    Marysville, California
    Phoenix, Arizona
    Onalaska, Washington

    Four fiction books you can't live without:
    The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
    The Narnia Chronicles by CS Lewis
    The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by RA Heinlein
    Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

    Four non-fiction books you consider essential:
    The Bible
    Scrabble Player's Dictionary
    The Law, by Frederic Bastiat
    The Anti-Federalist Papers

    Four TV shows you love to watch:
    Don't have a working TV...

    Four places you’ve been on vacation:
    Oahu, Hawaii
    Copperopolis, California
    Long Beach, Washington
    Salina, Kansas

    Four websites you visit daily:
    The Firing Line
    The High Road
    Tam's blog
    XavierBreath's blog

    Four of your favorite foods:
    garlic chicken pizza from Marlino's Pizza in Chehalis, WA
    steak that has barely stopped mooing
    crab-stuffed mushrooms
    camping flapjacks, which aren't pancakes except in the traditional sense of the word.

    Four places you’d rather be:
    alone with my nose in a book
    at the beach flying a kite
    painting a plate
    at the range

    Four albums you can’t live without:
    My taste in music is too quirky for albums. My favorite CD was one I put together myself a couple years back, featuring a bunch of Dr Demento-type songs.

    pax

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  6. Four jobs you’ve had in your life:
    1. Studio Musician
    2. Bartender
    3. Police Officer
    4. Firearms Instructor

    Four movies you could watch over and over:
    None!

    Four places you’ve lived:
    1. Selmer, TN
    2. Kalamazoo, MI
    3. Memphis, TN
    4. Nashville, TN

    Four fiction books you can't live without:
    1. Robinson Crusoe, by Defoe
    2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
    3. Unintended Consequences, by John Ross
    4. The Plague, by Albert Camus
    5. Grapes of Wrath, by Steinbeck

    Four non-fiction books you consider essential:
    1. Camping and Woodcraft, by Horace Kephart
    2. Gray's Anatomy, 1924 Edition
    3. That Devil Forrest, by Wyeth
    4. To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth, by Jeff Cooper
    5. Tappan on Survival, by Mel Tappan


    Four TV shows you love to watch:
    Well, I wouldn't say I "love" to watch, but here's the list:
    1. Fox News
    2. Fox News
    3. Fox News
    4. Fox News

    Four places you’ve been on vacation:
    1. Jamaica
    2. Europe
    3. Yellowstone, Tetons
    4. Grand Canyon, Lake Powell

    Four websites you visit daily:
    1. www.10-8forums.com
    2. www.tacticalforums.com
    3. www.klr650.net/forum/index
    4. CBS Market Watch

    Four of your favorite foods:
    1. Bulgogee, kimchee, rice (Korean)
    2. Sashimi
    3. Elk tenderloin
    4. REAL Southern Barbecue

    Four places you’d rather be:
    1. Joyce Kilmer/Citico Creek Wilderness
    If I could be there, I have no need to be anywhere else!


    Four albums you can’t live without:
    1. Milestones, Miles Davis
    2. The Gental Side of John Coltrane
    3. Any of the later Mozart Symphonies
    4. The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever - Charlie Parker

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  7. GENTLE !!!
    Gentle Side of John Coltrane.
    How do I edit spelling on this thing?

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  8. OK, Tamara, you've edited the word "double" as in "consider yourself doble secret tagged!"
    How did you do it? Is it a function that only you have access to?

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  9. I don't think there's any way to edit the comments, much to my grammar nazi chagrin. :)

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