Four what

Girish's Meme of Four, via OGIC:

Four jobs you've had in your life: art gallery security guard, convenience store clerk, shopping mall clothing store dressing room attendant, scientific manuscript typist.

Four movies you could watch over and over: The Third Man, Holiday, Galaxy Quest, Baby Boom. (I am embarrassed to report that Dodgeball has come perilously close to making this list.)

Four places you've lived: Hempstead, New York; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Merced, California; Seoul, Korea.

Four TV shows you love to watch: 24, Firefly, Columbo (the '70s series only), The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Four places you've been on vacation: London; Ashland, Oregon; New Orleans; Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.

Four websites you visit daily: Too many worthy candidates from the blogroll for this, so I'll go off-topic and off blogroll: WGN Weather Blog, The Stalwart, The University of Chicago Faculty Blog, and Eduwonk.

Four of your favorite foods: coffee, dark chocolate, homemade potato chips, my mom's kimchi jjigae.

Four places you'd rather be right now: Nowhere else. Really! But I might be tempted by: a garden in New Zealand, a used record store with lots and lots of Bach, a cozy chair next to a roaring fireplace, on the piano.

Not part of the meme:

Of the wonderful things that you get out of life
there are four
Baby, and that may not be many
but nobody needs any more,
Of the many facts makin’ the list of life,
truth takes the lead
And to relax, knowin’ the gist of life,
it’s truth you need.
And the second is honor,
and happiness makes number three,
If you put them together
you’ll know what the last one must be,
Baby, so to truth, honor and happiness
add one thing more,
Meaning only wonderful,
wonderful love that’ll make it four...

    Jon Hendricks (lyrics), "Four"

Comments

[girish]

I discovered Holiday not long ago--what a hidden gem (hidden to me anyway).
Good news: it's coming to DVD soon.

[Patricia Tryon]

Ashland! Cool! Southern Oregon has been a stamping ground of mine in times way, way past :-)

[Julana]

We've lived in Holland, MI, not so far from Grand Rapids. I'm not sure how culturally different the two towns are. There is a heavy Dutch, Reformed influence there, which was very interesting.