{"id":89,"date":"2006-01-17T17:39:55","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T17:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pete.nu\/blog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2008-04-23T13:45:37","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T12:45:37","slug":"run-for-your-lives-a-mem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2006\/01\/17\/run-for-your-lives-a-mem\/","title":{"rendered":"Run for your lives! A mem!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Four jobs you&#8217;ve had in your life:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Barman<\/li>\n<li>Website designer (but then who hasn&#8217;t?)<\/li>\n<li>Desktop publisher (hey, that doesn&#8217;t mean that I was actually any good at it though)<\/li>\n<li>Computer programmer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Four movies you could watch over and over:<\/strong><br \/>\nOver and over, eh? Well, here are four movies that I like quite a lot. Not sure about &#8220;over and over&#8221; though.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0118715\/\">The Big Lebowski<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0246578\/\">Donnie Darko<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0146882\/\">High Fidelity<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0087332\/\">Ghostbusters<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Four places you&#8217;ve lived:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lincolnshire<\/li>\n<li>Warwickshire<\/li>\n<li>Surrey<\/li>\n<li>Berkshire<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Four TV shows you love to watch:<\/strong><br \/>\nOh stop it with the unnecessarily passionate language. No-one really &#8220;loves&#8221; to watch TV shows, do they?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0412142\/\">House<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0247082\/\">CSI<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0149460\/\">Futurama<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0106004\/\">Frasier<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Four places you&#8217;ve been on vacation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New York<\/li>\n<li>Prague<\/li>\n<li>Budapest<\/li>\n<li>Dublin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Four websites you visit daily:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/h\/\">GMail<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diggdot.us\/\">Diggdot<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandead.com\/\">Urban Dead<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.overheardinnewyork.com\/\">Overheard in New York<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Four of your favorite foods:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chilli con carne<\/li>\n<li>Pistachio nuts<\/li>\n<li>Opal fruits<\/li>\n<li>Pizza<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Four places you&#8217;d rather be:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The pub down the road<\/li>\n<li>The pub across the road<\/li>\n<li>The pub up the road<\/li>\n<li>The pub on the other side of the roundabout<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Four albums you can&#8217;t live without:<\/strong><br \/>\nYou&#8217;re doing it again. Stop it. I like these four, but I would find a way to soldier on if for some reason they were taken from me, never to return. Get some perspective.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000001E8P\/\">Different Class<\/a> (Pulp)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0006ZRX86\/\">Funeral<\/a> (Arcade Fire)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0007TURAW\/\">Want Two<\/a> (Rufus Wainwright)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000006SU7\/\">Odelay<\/a> (Beck)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Four magazines you read:<\/strong><br \/>\nI can&#8217;t tell whether this is &#8220;read&#8221; in the present tense or past tense. So I&#8217;m opting for the latter, otherwise my answer would be a bit short. I&#8217;m also assuming that it is specifically asking about paper-based periodicals.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NME (up until quite recently)<\/li>\n<li>Bassist (a few years ago)<\/li>\n<li>Look-in (a few decades ago)<\/li>\n<li>Dandy (a few decades ago)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Four cars you&#8217;ve owned:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis survey seems to be aimed at people who have either been driving for a long time, or are quite bad at it. I&#8217;ve taken a liberty with number four.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ford Sierra<\/li>\n<li>VW Golf<\/li>\n<li>Vauxhall Astra<\/li>\n<li>A small square of car-pet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Four people to do this meme:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat do you think I am? Some sort of clairvoyant? Stuff off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four jobs you&#8217;ve had in your life: Barman Website designer (but then who hasn&#8217;t?) 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