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Post by matt on Jan 2, 2006 20:51:16 GMT -5
Hi everyone!
Here's a fun little game I found on the web. A little corny, but people seem to enjoy it. Just cut'n'paste and provide your own answers. Feel free to elaborate, ignore add questions as you see fit.
Four jobs you've had in your life:
Four movies you could watch over and over:
Four books you love:
Four TV shows you love to watch:
Four places you've been on vacation:
Four websites you visit daily:
Four of your favorite foods:
Four places you'd rather be:
Four music albums you love:
Four people you'd like to meet:
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Post by matt on Jan 2, 2006 21:01:01 GMT -5
I'll go. Four jobs you've had in your life: Teacher, librarian, pool boy, skate sharpener. Four movies you could watch over and over: Collateral, Spy Game, Serenity, LOTR. Four books you love: LOTR (JRR Tolkien), Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry), Dead I Well May Be (Adrian McKinty), Crusader's Cross (James Lee Burke). Four TV shows you love to watch: Letterman, Conan, Battlestar Galactica...and Lost, of course. Four places you've been on vacation: The Yukon, Paris, London, New Orleans. Four websites you visit daily: The Lost Podcast Listener Forum, www.cbc.ca, news.bbc.co.uk, chud.com Four of your favorite foods: sushi, sashimi, pizza, chicken wings (try to balance the healthy and the unhealthy) Four places you'd rather be: Hawaii, Santa Monica, the cottage, New York. Four music albums you love: 1) Fellowship of the Ring soundtrack, 2) Explosions in the Sky - Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever, 3) Barenaked Ladies - Everything to Everyone, 4) Springsteen - Born to Run. Four people you'd like to meet: Jay, Jack, JRR Tolkien, Lou Gehrig |
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Post by heyes on Jan 2, 2006 22:03:55 GMT -5
Cool idea! I'm probably going to be one of those people who adds a lot... Four jobs you've had in your life: (Being only 14, I'm going to have to take some big liberties on this one) Babysitter, Sister, Student....I read to kids at the library a couple times... Four movies you could watch over and over: LOTR, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, About a Boy, Mrs. Congeneality (I watch that last one whenever I'm down ;D ) Four books you love: This will be a big section... LOTR- My favorite books of all time. I love they way they are written, I love the characters, I love the deep history they posses. They are, in my opinion, the perfect adventure story if not the perfect books. Of Mice and Men- One of the saddest, darkly comic stories I've ever encountered. I'm a big fan of the fast talking little guy, so I took to George right away. And that ending, lets just say I read it again and again, just trying to take it in. Steinbeck's a genius. Catch-22- Another darkly comic piece. Yossarian just seems so real to me, and yet so unreal. As if he exists in everyone of us, but we try to hide him away, afraid that someone will see our crazy side. But I'll stop before I get too deep. To Kill a Mockingbird- There's always one character in a book (with the exception of LOTR, I like them all in those books) that I latch onto and really remember, not to mention talk about whenever I have the chance. And Atticus was just right for me. Protective, just (as in justice)...awesome? Basically, he's my image of the perfect Dad. And since I'm sort of missing that in my life, it's a cool thing to have. Other than the first two (which I don't think will ever change) these are switching constintaly. Usually with each new book I read. ;D Four TV shows you love to watch: Yes, an easy one! ;D Alias Smith and Jones- Love it with a fiery passion. I had my own personal marathon today. I thank my mother everyday for putting them all on DVD. ;D Lost- Need I explain? Seinfeld- Again, need I explain? Scrubs/My Name is Earl- I couldn't decide between these to comedies. Both have their own distinct style, but they still ring pretty similar to me. Just for their oddness. Which I like a lot. Four places you've been on vacation: Paris, Italy (Rome, Florence and Venice all on the same vacation), California, Iowa (I always get raised eyebrows on that last one ;D ) Four websites you visit daily: This one! (as Jack constinatly points out), Yahoo/Gmail (gotta check the mail), DeviantART and um...usually some out of the way AS&J/LOTR/Lost site I found on google. Four of your favorite foods: Caprese (a salad made up of mozzerella and tomatoes), French Onion Soup, Gingerbread and Chocolate Cake  Four places you'd rather be: I can't answer this one. There's nowhere else I'd rather me than where I am. Four music albums you love: This is kind of lame, since their all from one band, but okay. Wendesday Morning 3AM, The Sound of Silence, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, and Bookends (I would include Bridge Over Troubled Water, but that would be five wouldn't it?) Four people you'd like to meet: Another big one! I suppose I'd have to arrange this in order of who I'd like to meet most. 1.My Grandmother- She was an old fashioned and proud woman, so my mother tells it. But she also went to college when no one thought that was acceptable for a woman to do. She also went to art school was a truly gifted artist and we have many of her paintings and sketchs are hanging up in my house. She had been diagnosed with breast cancer before I was even born and died before I turned one. My mom always told me she loved me and my brother especially, because we were twins and her daughters children. The women in my mother's family have a tradition that the first daughters middle name be alternating between Eliza and Elizabeth. And I'm really proud to share her middle name. 2. Pete Duel- At first, my facination with him was purely well...let's just say I liked his smile. I began reading up on him and I found out he was an extremely deep and artistic man, in love with nature to the point of despair over our treatment of the environment. It drove him to drink, which drove him to take his own life. I would love to simply sit down and have a conversation with him. I have a lot of the same concerns he did.  3. JRR Tokein- A man I've always wanted to just chat with. He had a love for old mythologies, which I have been a scholar of since the age of four when my mother bought me a childrens book of Greek myths. I've grown up a bit from those since and if you wanted me to tell you about Jason and the Argonauts or the story of the Titens and Tartarus, I probably could do it fairly well. The man just seemed to have so much, for lack of better term, knowledge. Just to have a glimpse of that would be enough to satiate me forever. And you know what, number four is going to be Jay and Jack. I know it's two people, but I think I'll look that over. ;D |
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Post by Jay on Jan 2, 2006 23:02:26 GMT -5
Four Jobs: Podcaster, Pro Shop Salesperson, Musician, Camp Director
Four Movies: (this includes sequels) Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Star Wars, and LOTR.
Four Books: Ms. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, The Da Vinci Code, The Giver, The Lorax. (All of these books made me think after reading them, and that is hard to do)
Four TV Shows: LOST, Deadwood, Scrubs, Family Guy/South Park
Four vacation places: Disneyland (like 30 plus times easily), Universal Studios Hollywood, Knotts Berry Farm, Six Flags Magic Mountain (the real Wally World... seriously). When you live in So Cal your always on vacation.
Four Websites: This Site, Apple.com, Gmail, and Ebay and like a million LOST sites.
Four of your favorite foods: Carne Asada Burrito con mucho Guacamole, Double Double, Sourdough Jack, and Shark.
Four Places: No I am fine right here at the moment.
Four Albums: Zeppelin III, Zeppelin IV, Songs for the Deaf, Frances the Mute
Four People: Jimmy Page, Bill Murray, Josh Homme, and Jimmy Page
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Post by FrodoFreak87 on Jan 2, 2006 23:13:11 GMT -5
ok my turn!!
Four jobs you've had in your life: Well mostly just babysitting, a LOT of babysitting, but I have babysat for more than four people, so I'm saying it counts.
Four movies you could watch over and over: LotR(all Three), Charlie and the Chocolate factory, Finding Nemo and School of Rock. (plus many many more, that's just what came to mind)
Four books you love: Holes, The Fellowship of the ring (ok I have not read all of this book yet, but I've read almost all of it, but I've been to busy with school to finish it, but I think I like it enough to say it's a book I love), The Phantom Tollbooth (I need to read that again, it's been awhile) and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Four TV shows you love to watch: David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel, Lost, and American Idol.
Four places you've been on vacation: California, The Oregon coast, Idaho and and another place in Oregon that's not where I live, I can't rememebr where it was...
Four websites you visit daily: This one, ummm......I don't really visit others every day, except e-mail. but there are some LotR ones I visit quite often and IMDb.
Four of your favorite foods: Ummm....Sandwiches, Lasagna, Some gravy/Dip stuff my mom makes and potatos, which I think is the best food ever, you can make them so many differnt ways.
Four places you'd rather be: NY, New Zealand, LA or The Beach.
Four music albums you love: 1~The Beatles, Bridge Over troubled water~Simon and Garfunkel, Hopes and Fears~Keane, and there's this radio station in Portland Oregon called Kink (great radio station by the way!) and when artists are in town they stop by and perform a few songs for a small audence in there studio, they also play it on the radio. anyway every September they release a limited number of CDs of the like best 20 or so, called Kink Live, they're now up to Kink Live 8. all those are great albums.
I especially like numbers 8, 6, 4, and 3.
Four people you'd like to meet:
Ok last but not Least.
Tom Hanks, Johnny Depp, Ellen DeGeneres, JRR Tolkien and Jay and Jack. and of course all of you guys!!
ok I know that's more than four, but who cares!!!
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Post by Jack on Jan 2, 2006 23:34:54 GMT -5
Four jobs: Worked for KFC, Owned a Mail Boxes ETC. Work for Sony. Youth Hockey Coach.
Four movies: Longest Yard ( original) The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Heartbreak ridge, Cool Hand Luke.
Four books you love: Cobb, Ball Four, John Adams, The Bronx Zoo.
Four TV shows you love to watch: Lost, Survivor, Mash, The Office.
Four places you've been on vacation: Vegas, Kauai,Palm desert, Myrtle Beach.
Four websites you visit daily: This one, Sign on San Diego, Espn, ABC Lost message board.
Four of your favorite foods: Steak, Tacos, Pizza, Raviolis.
Four places you'd rather be: San Diego, Vegas, Kauai, Disneyland.
Four music albums you love: Boston, Boston's Don't Look Back, Journey's Escape, Huey Lewis And The News.
Four people you'd like to meet: Johnny Carson, Ronald Regan, Tony Gwynn, Dan Fouts.
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Post by joss on Jan 2, 2006 23:42:43 GMT -5
Emma...wow....you're really smart. I'm in awe. Jay, The DaVinci Code was so awesome! Did you read Dan Brown's other books? You'd probably like Angels & Demons. Onto me.... Four jobs you've had in your life: Bookkeeper, ice skating teacher, and I worked at a Build-A-Bear. Only 3 jobs... Four movies you could watch over and over: LOTR! The Goonies, HP Goblet of Fire, Chronicles of Narnia Four books you love: LotR trilogy, The Hobbit, Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince, Chronicles of Narnia series Four TV shows you love to watch: I only watch Lost. Four places you've been on vacation: I've never been on "vacation" but I used to travel when I competed in figure skating so I'll pick some of those...Cleveland, Salt Lake City, Philadelphia, Phoenix Four websites you visit daily: Livejournal, this board, Gmail, Mugglenet (because it's my homepage) Four of your favorite foods: ice cream, apple-cinnamon rice cakes (don't laugh!), blueberry muffins, lemon cake Four places you'd rather be: I'm good here thanks! Four music albums you love: Fellowship of the Ring soundtrack, Return of the King soundtrack, HP Goblet of Fire soundtrack, anything by the Beatles Four people you'd like to meet: JRR Tolkien, Alan Greenspan, Sean Astin (met him twice already but I'd love to meet him again), and JAY.  |
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Post by heyes on Jan 2, 2006 23:54:21 GMT -5
This is really cool! I love seeing everyone's answers. Wow, Tolkein and all his works seems to be reoccuring. Very cool. You know what, I've never read the DaVinci Code. I've never read any of Dan Brown's stuff. I've had so many other things to read, I've just never had the time. And you're pretty smart yourself Joss, no need to be in awe. A bow or two now and again is all I need.  |
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Post by joss on Jan 2, 2006 23:59:19 GMT -5
*bows to Emma*
Seriously Emma, Dan Brown's books are amazing. When I got the DaVinci Code, I couldn't put it down. I think I read for five hours straight...and that's saying a lot because I usually don't even stay still that long.
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Post by Jay on Jan 3, 2006 0:15:06 GMT -5
yea i think i read the Da Vinci Code, and Angels and Demons in less than two days each. You know how you get those goosebumps when you watch LOST, I got the same ones while reading both the Da Vinci Code, and Angels and Demons
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Post by heyes on Jan 3, 2006 0:16:05 GMT -5
Well, maybe I will read it now. After all, i saw the Monna Lisa (which was seriously amazing by the way, don't let anyone tell you the Louvre is overrated. They're lying ) |
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Post by matt on Jan 3, 2006 9:52:09 GMT -5
Fantastic answers, everyone!
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Post by akamauu on Jan 3, 2006 12:57:58 GMT -5
OK, my turn ;D :
Four jobs you've had in your life: Sales agent, Tech support agent, Medical Informatician, Physician.
Four movies you could watch over and over: The Matrix Trilogy, Gleaming the Cube (old school), LOTR, Indiana Jones Trilogy.
Four books you love: Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card, Without Remorse - Tom Clancy, The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown, The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis.
Four TV shows you love to watch: Lost (of course), Extreme Makeover: Home Edition , Scrubs, Grey's Anatomy.
Four places you've been on vacation: Italy (Florence, Rome, Naples, Pompei -- lived on sicily for 2 years), Hawaii (originally my home, but now a vacation spot), Vancouver BC, Bethel Maine.
Four websites you visit daily: This one, my email webpage, google (ultimate source of information), Hot Wheels (with my son).
Four of your favorite foods: Pasta, Taco, Lemon Chicken and Rice, Grilled Cheese Sandwich.
Four places you'd rather be: Hawaii, Spokane Washington, Italy (Palermo, Venice or Gravina di Puglia), Napa California (although not with all the flooding going on now).
Four music albums you love: Beastie Boys - License to Ill, Ben Harper - Fight for your Mind, G. Love and Special Sauce - title ablum, Black Eyed Peas - Monkey Business.
Four people you'd like to meet: My great aunt - Auntie Io (She passed away when I was 1 yr old), My great-great-grandfather Giovanni Buchinfuso (who immigrated from sicily to the US), Dr. Elias Zerhouni - Director of the NIH, Tom Clancy (my favorite author).
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Post by joss on Jan 3, 2006 14:52:57 GMT -5
akamauu...you rock...Chronicles of Narnia!! *high fives*
Emma...I've never been to Paris or Europe or even out of the country (except for a day trip to Canada). I bet seeing the Mona Lisa is person was an amazing experience, and reading The DaVinci Code will be even more awesome after having been to the Louvre.
<3
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Post by FrodoFreak87 on Jan 3, 2006 17:07:38 GMT -5
What exacly is The DaVinci code about?
Also Joss, I like Rice cakes too!
oh and another site I visit daily is Google, is the site that comes up when you open a window.
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