Monday, December 26, 2005

The Gang of Four Meme

Four names you’ve gone by:
Fucker, J., J. Wayne, and Pooh Bear

Four jobs you’ve had:
Librarian, sports broadcaster, corporate information consultant, print journalist

Four movies you could watch over and over:
The Wild Bunch, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn, Dawn of the Dead, most John Hughes flicks

Four places you’ve lived:
San Luis Obispo, Calif., Baton Rouge, La., Greeley, Colo., Farmville, Va.

Four current TV shows you love to watch:
Battlestar Galactica, Modern Marvels (The History Channel), most anything on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, and Star Trek DS9 reruns.

Four places you’ve been on vacation:
The Bahamas, Miami, Grand Lake, Colo., Scottsdale, Ariz.

Four websites you visit daily:
BBC, The UN Dispatch, Google News, The United Nations Chronicle

Four of your favorite foods:
Right now, hmm...butter beans, winter squash, my sister's fruit salad stuff, and yogurt

Four places you’d rather be:
Pretty much anywhere but where I currently live.

Four albums you can’t live without:
The Ramones - Pleasant Dreams
Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
Johnny Cash - Live at Folsom
Social Distortion - Mommy's Little Monster

Four teachers/professors that were important to you:
Mrs. Rowland, high school Algebra teacher
Mrs. Christian - Middle school science teacher
Mrs. Wood-Davis - high school track coach
Dr. Barry - Graduate school major professor

Four songs that give you goosebumps:
Will Oldham/Bonnie "Prince" Billy -- I See a Darkness
Hank Williams -- The Angel of Death
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -- Southern Accents
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat

Four things that smell great:
Fresh coffee, fresh cut honeydew mellon, Prince Albert pipe tobacco, line-dried linens

Four books you recommend:
(The librarian in me requires linking to either e-texts or OCLC's Open Worldcat)
Founding Brothers - Joseph J. Ellis
Leaves of Grass (any edition) - Walt Whitman
The Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
The American Soul by Jacob Needleman

2 comments:

Cooper said...

Four names you’ve gone by:
Cooper, that’s as far as I go online

Four jobs you’ve had:
not too many... art teacher..sort of, photographer, slave in an art studio /gallery, student.

Four movies you could watch over and over:

Anything Hitchcock plus whatever happened to Baby Jane and Rebecca.

Four places you’ve lived:
Vermont, Australia, Maryland, New York

Four current TV shows you love to watch:

Curb Your Enthusiasm, otherwise I'm a bad television viewer.

Four places you’ve been on vacation:
England, Chile, France, Utah

Four websites you visit daily:
Google News,



Four of your favorite foods:
Sushi, tomatoes, oranges, olives,

Four places you’d rather be:
London, NY, Puerto Rico, Sleeping

Four albums you can’t live without:
The Sex Pistols- Never Mind the Bullocks...
Ben Harper- Welcome to the Cruel World
Flaming Lips- Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Peter Frampton- Frampton Comes Alive


Four teachers/professors that were important to you:
High School sociology teacher-

My grandmother- a professor of anthropology

otherwise...not so much

Four songs that give you goosebumps:

I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston or Dolly Parton.
either version.

Frank Sinatra - My Way

Moon River- any version

Superstar- Karen Carpenter- seriously



Four things that smell great:
Fresh coffee
Shower fresh people
Mulch - honestly I love that smell
Honeysuckle

The ZenFo Pro said...

Your grandma was a anthropology prof.? God that kicks ass :)