Tagged by Solveig

Today -- which was St. Patrick's Day, a fake holiday -- I was blessed to be taken out of my daily head and brought down memory lane by being tagged by my gracious friend, OOo comrade & that Scandinavian-American goddess, Solveig Haugland.

Four Jobs I've Had

1.    pickett fence nailer - GM Fence (Parsippany, NJ)
2.    Head of the Rifle Range - Camp Dudley, YMCA, Inc. (Westport NY)
3.    Equity Analyst, Value Line (The Daily News Building)
4.    7th Grade English Teacher, NYC Teaching Fellows (The Bronx)

Four Movies I Could Watch Over & Over

1.    Blowup (1966)
(David Hemmings, Sarah Miles & Vanessa Redgrave in 1966 London with cameo appearance by The Yardbirds including Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck AND Eric Clapton; Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni)

2.    Where Eagles Dare (1968)
(Impossible mission like in The Guns of Navarrone: Burton & Eastwood pull the old triple-agent gag & foil the Nazis at Schloss Adler; from the novel by Alistair McLean; Produced by Eliot Kastner; Favorite quote: "Broadsword, calling Danny Boy. OVER.")

3.    Bambi (1942)
(Why? Because I have watched it several hundred times when Bean was 2 years old; Bambi demonstrates Walt Disney's unabashed use of Christian & Shakespearian mythological imagery.)

4.    Butley (1974)
(English & Poetry Professor Ben Butley has a bad day: A BBC TV production of Simon Gray's stage play; directed by Harold Pinter; starring Alan Bates and featuring Jessica Tandy as Edna Shaft.)

5.    Gosford Park (2001)
(Robert Altman's dryly acerbic set-piece mystery of an English upper-crust shooting party weekend has a) the complete cast of all movie-dome, including my personal favorite guy-actor (after Ralph Feinnes), Clive Owen, as well as Micheal Gambon -- The Gambon -- as well as Maggie Smith doing her immortal thing let's hope not as well as it will ever be done again, but probably; b) Bob Balaban as the ridiculous American movie producer; c) an authentically English script by Julian Fellowes (story by Altman & Balaban); and d) a tableau shot in amber hue of the maids sitting on the stairs listening rapt to Ivor Novello's parlor singing echoing through the house...a still-life that makes Rembrandt, Vermeer AND Velasquez wish they were Englishmen or wish they could come back and make films.)

6.    The Third Man (1949)
(Orson Welles' adaptation of the Graham Green novel pretty much defines the Noir genre.)

Four Places I Have Lived

1.    London, England (Chelsea & South Ken.)
2.    Ridgewood, New Jersey
3.    Durham, North Carolina
4.    New York, New York (West 72nd Street & West 88th Street)

Four TV Shows I Love to Watch

1.    House (Sherlock Holmes in the OR with a painful migraine)
2.    Fox Soccer Channel (any Premier League match)
3.    Fox Football Friday (Nick & Steve)
4.    Fox Sports News (daily dose of pich events & football gossip)

Four Places I Have Been on Holiday

1.    Kenya & Tanzania
2.    Ambleside, Cumbria, ENGLAND (The Lake District)
3.    Big Sur, California
4.    Banff, Alberta, CANADA

Four Websites I Visit Daily

1.    Google (mail, feeds, IM, search)
2.    Six Apart (my blog)
3.    Guardian Unlimited (football news)
4.    flickr (unreal browse of photos and connections)

Four of My Favorite Foods

1.    toast & coffee
2.    Tetley's Ale
3.    A heaping turkey or roast beef sandwich with mustard or horseradish, fresh lettuce & tomato (on farmhouse bread with salt & pepper)
4.    Roast Beef & Yorkshire Pudding
5.    Laphroiagh 18

Four Places I Would Rather Be Right Now

1.    Old Trafford photographing Chelsea v. Manchester United
2.    Iceland, taking pictures half as good as Helga's
3.    downstairs with Bean, who just got home from school
4.    upstairs, napping snug with Lucy the Great Dane

Four Bloggers I am Tagging

1.    Ben Hammersley
who redefines the cognitive limits of what a blog can do, pictorially, textually & erotically. Nice taste in books and country of domicile, too.

2.    Bob Sutor
who's sang froid, patience & empathy in his writing make him a "Beacon" (IBM developerWorks / Sutor).

3.    Helga Kvam
who's landscape photos of Iceland on flickr and her poetic blog are an inspiration and credit to the Internet.

4.   Danah Boyd
who's asking the right questions about blogging and social interaction through her stimulating work at UC Berkeley and on her passionate blog.