Ça va, ça va. Si tu me veux répondre à ses questions, il serai en français. :)
Just kidding. As if I could keep that up for more than a dozen words.
Four jobs I’ve had:
- Semi-professional (meaning I got paid, sometimes) musician (1989-1996)
- Ditch digger (two very long weeks in 1994)
- Boom operator (1996, got sore shoulders)
- Chicken killing machine designer (1989, became a vegetarian)
Four movies I can watch over and over:
- Withnail and I: “Of course he’s the fucking farmer!”
- The Sweet Smell of Success: “You’re dead, son. Get yourself buried.”
- Ran: “Man is born crying. When he has cried enough, he dies.”
- Bucket of Blood: “Life is an aimless hobo, bumming a ride on the omnibus of art.”
Four places I’ve lived:
- Vancouver
- Winnipeg
- Toronto
- In the back of a van.
Four TV shows I have been known to enjoy:
- Jeopardy
- CSI
- Everyday Italian
- The Family Guy
Four places I’ve vacationed:
- Vancouver / Victoria (see this post)
- Paris
- Barcelona
- Quite a bit of the U.S.A. except for Wyoming, New Mexico, and Utah.
Four of my favourite dishes:
- Butter Chicken Roti from Gandhi Roti on Queen Street West, Toronto
- Chicken Poderosa from La Fiesta Bakery in Winnipeg
- Finnish Pancakes from Hoito in Thunder Bay
- Noodles #2 from The Hunger Hut, Winnipeg (now located in Vancouver, or so I’ve heard)
Four sites I visit daily:
- del.icio.us (web nerd)
- Versiontracker (mac nerd)
- Flickr (photo nerd)
- Google (doesn’t everyone?)
Four places I’d rather be right now:
- In a lovely, affordable house in a nice, friendly city owned by Renée and I that isn’t located above a rendering plant, next door to a sulfur pit, or within a thousand metres of Mike Fleiss.
- Hanging out with my brother and nephew, listening to my dad complain while my mom shakes her head and sighs.
- Tuscany, Italy (though I’d gladly settle for Cinque Terre)
- Somewhere where they understand the concept of the Frictionless Life. Montreal is an excellent candidate.
Four people I’m tagging
I think I’ll leave it at that, thanks. To make up for this, I’ll add:
Four moments worth savouring:
- The first time I successfully performed an ollie, summer 1980
- Sleeping under the stars at Shuswap Lake while on tour, 1990
- Walking down the backlane with my brother Kevin after playing pool at the UofM, 1986
- Standing at the top of a hill in the Parc Guell with Renée, Barcelona, 2001
Four words that I can’t get enough of:
- indubitably
- boom
- squishy
- onomatopœia