The other four meme
Stolen from offensive_mango and burkesworks.
Four jobs I didn't get
I've only applied for three jobs. One was technical author at another company back in, erm, June 2004. I never heard back, and after a week or so thought "Bugger that. If they're this rubbish, do I want to work for them?" One was a random civil service thing. The job I really wanted to apply for, but didn't due to academic stuffs, was House of Lords select committee researcher. I wouldn't have got it with just an undergraduate degree, most likely. Sadly, I only saw it a few days before the deadline and had seventeen other things to do.
Four films I didn't even get to the end of, they were so bad
Controversially, one of them is Interview with a Vampire. Hated the book. So much stupidity. I've read other bits of Anne Rice that have been quite good, and I've really quite enjoyed her son's work, but the book was just such utter rubbish, then the film took the utter rubbish and made it even worse. I got to Antonio Banderas coming on screen, took a phone call from a friend, and never went back to it. God, I hated it so much.
I have no recollection of the ending of Dungeons and Dragons, even with the divine Richard O' Brien. The lead character is the shiny Jimmy from Lois and Clark - I preferred the nasal dark-haired one in the first series.
The Matrix 2 and The Matrix 3. Such God awful self-referential cack.
Two films I wish I hadn't seen to the end: Star Trek: Nemesis and The Ninth Gate. The book of the Ninth Gate, Le Club Dumas / The Dumas Club is wonderful, however. The plot thread that is completely axed from the film is what makes the book so much fun, and the film so poor.
Four places I haven't lived
Plymouth - I visited that a fair bit with suddenmoves when we were going out and his mother lived there, however.
Crewe - though my (biological) father's side of the family all basically live there.
West Bromwich - although my step-father tried to bring me up as a West Bromwich Albion fan. These days, when I'm not being pressured into enjoying football ("What are you? Some kind of poof?", I enjoy it much, much more.
Aberystwyth - although they were my insurance choice of University. They were going to give me money and guaranteed accommodiation and everything. I did their scholarship papers when applying for English. Because there was an "English" paper on their list, I had to do it. Then I had a free choice, so I picked Pure Maths, obviously. The English exam was fun. Two essays. One was a long rambly essay about root metaphor, covering Ezra Pound, Fraser, Greek myth, similar references in popular culture, and so on. The other essay was to pick a living author and explain why they'd still be read in X years (something like 20 or 50). Applying to Aberystwyth (which is full of gays), I picked Armistead Maupin as the best example of the changing attitudes to sexuality in the late 20th century.
Four TV shows that I don't watch that everybody keeps going on about but they're still not worth watching
This is fairly easy, because I don't watch much telly at all, not having a properly working one (aerial on the flats is buggered). Even when I had one working external aerial, I didn't watch much telly at my old place (on a PC TV card thing), so I think that means that more or less all telly isn't really worth it.
Doctor Who - I should buy it. I love David Tennant and, when she turns up in bits and pieces of it, I love Penelope Wilton (Harriet Jones, Flydale North). Penelope Wilton in Bob and Rose is truly wonderful. "Don't just clap - what's the use in that? You there - gorgeous creature! Stop! That! Bus!"
Torchwood - even though the first series was apparently not much cop, it has John Barrowman in, who I've fancied like crazy since I saw him on Live and Kicking (a Saturday morning Swap Shop-a-like) many years ago.
The Thick of It - should have watched but, meh, I suck.
Anything with Russell Brand in it - though I heard his Radio 2 show a while back and enjoyed it.
Life on Mars doesn't count - I've now seen two episodes of, and intend to buy.
Four places I haven't been
The Channel Islands.
The Isles of Scilly.
The Falklands.
Prague.
These are basically my current shopping list for "Places I want to go on holiday that I've never been before." Amsterdam and Budapest come next.
Four people who I wish would stop e-mailing me
My manager.
Marketing (who count as one person).
"Natwest Bank" - who seem to be circumventing work's spam filters rather too well.
Amazon - not generally, but their "You bought something for someone else a Christmas present so we'll spam you with recommendations related to it" stuff is annoying.
Four of my least favourite foods
Courgettes.
The boil-inna-bag/microwaveable sliced beef in gravy that my mum continually bought when I was younger, from a freezer store in Walsall, a bit like Iceland but even cheaper (at the time).
Tomatoes. Raw or cooked, if it's just tomato, I don't get on with it. Tomato sauces, tomato pastes, tomato bits in a curry, or whatever - fine.
Cucumber. People tell me it tastes of nothing or that it tastes of water. How can I not like it? Balls to those people. It has a definite taste that isn't nice.
Four places I would hate to be right now
Anywhere noisy (I have a thumping headache).
The jury room for the Suffolk prostitute case.
Anywhere that involves me listening to Al-Fayed spin his stories in which the Pope, Bill Clinton and Fidel Castro all murder Diana because she's a Muslim, or something.
At home, in bed, ill, which is where I'd quite like to be, except I have a mountain of work.
Four things that I am not looking forward to this year
My next job review.
Not managing to convince anyone they want to go on holiday with me at a mutually convenient time.
My birthday.
Christmas.
Four authors I'm patently not going to read no matter how you go on about them
Can't think of any. Sorry.
Four jobs I didn't get
I've only applied for three jobs. One was technical author at another company back in, erm, June 2004. I never heard back, and after a week or so thought "Bugger that. If they're this rubbish, do I want to work for them?" One was a random civil service thing. The job I really wanted to apply for, but didn't due to academic stuffs, was House of Lords select committee researcher. I wouldn't have got it with just an undergraduate degree, most likely. Sadly, I only saw it a few days before the deadline and had seventeen other things to do.
Four films I didn't even get to the end of, they were so bad
Controversially, one of them is Interview with a Vampire. Hated the book. So much stupidity. I've read other bits of Anne Rice that have been quite good, and I've really quite enjoyed her son's work, but the book was just such utter rubbish, then the film took the utter rubbish and made it even worse. I got to Antonio Banderas coming on screen, took a phone call from a friend, and never went back to it. God, I hated it so much.
I have no recollection of the ending of Dungeons and Dragons, even with the divine Richard O' Brien. The lead character is the shiny Jimmy from Lois and Clark - I preferred the nasal dark-haired one in the first series.
The Matrix 2 and The Matrix 3. Such God awful self-referential cack.
Two films I wish I hadn't seen to the end: Star Trek: Nemesis and The Ninth Gate. The book of the Ninth Gate, Le Club Dumas / The Dumas Club is wonderful, however. The plot thread that is completely axed from the film is what makes the book so much fun, and the film so poor.
Four places I haven't lived
Plymouth - I visited that a fair bit with suddenmoves when we were going out and his mother lived there, however.
Crewe - though my (biological) father's side of the family all basically live there.
West Bromwich - although my step-father tried to bring me up as a West Bromwich Albion fan. These days, when I'm not being pressured into enjoying football ("What are you? Some kind of poof?", I enjoy it much, much more.
Aberystwyth - although they were my insurance choice of University. They were going to give me money and guaranteed accommodiation and everything. I did their scholarship papers when applying for English. Because there was an "English" paper on their list, I had to do it. Then I had a free choice, so I picked Pure Maths, obviously. The English exam was fun. Two essays. One was a long rambly essay about root metaphor, covering Ezra Pound, Fraser, Greek myth, similar references in popular culture, and so on. The other essay was to pick a living author and explain why they'd still be read in X years (something like 20 or 50). Applying to Aberystwyth (which is full of gays), I picked Armistead Maupin as the best example of the changing attitudes to sexuality in the late 20th century.
Four TV shows that I don't watch that everybody keeps going on about but they're still not worth watching
This is fairly easy, because I don't watch much telly at all, not having a properly working one (aerial on the flats is buggered). Even when I had one working external aerial, I didn't watch much telly at my old place (on a PC TV card thing), so I think that means that more or less all telly isn't really worth it.
Doctor Who - I should buy it. I love David Tennant and, when she turns up in bits and pieces of it, I love Penelope Wilton (Harriet Jones, Flydale North). Penelope Wilton in Bob and Rose is truly wonderful. "Don't just clap - what's the use in that? You there - gorgeous creature! Stop! That! Bus!"
Torchwood - even though the first series was apparently not much cop, it has John Barrowman in, who I've fancied like crazy since I saw him on Live and Kicking (a Saturday morning Swap Shop-a-like) many years ago.
The Thick of It - should have watched but, meh, I suck.
Anything with Russell Brand in it - though I heard his Radio 2 show a while back and enjoyed it.
Life on Mars doesn't count - I've now seen two episodes of, and intend to buy.
Four places I haven't been
The Channel Islands.
The Isles of Scilly.
The Falklands.
Prague.
These are basically my current shopping list for "Places I want to go on holiday that I've never been before." Amsterdam and Budapest come next.
Four people who I wish would stop e-mailing me
My manager.
Marketing (who count as one person).
"Natwest Bank" - who seem to be circumventing work's spam filters rather too well.
Amazon - not generally, but their "You bought something for someone else a Christmas present so we'll spam you with recommendations related to it" stuff is annoying.
Four of my least favourite foods
Courgettes.
The boil-inna-bag/microwaveable sliced beef in gravy that my mum continually bought when I was younger, from a freezer store in Walsall, a bit like Iceland but even cheaper (at the time).
Tomatoes. Raw or cooked, if it's just tomato, I don't get on with it. Tomato sauces, tomato pastes, tomato bits in a curry, or whatever - fine.
Cucumber. People tell me it tastes of nothing or that it tastes of water. How can I not like it? Balls to those people. It has a definite taste that isn't nice.
Four places I would hate to be right now
Anywhere noisy (I have a thumping headache).
The jury room for the Suffolk prostitute case.
Anywhere that involves me listening to Al-Fayed spin his stories in which the Pope, Bill Clinton and Fidel Castro all murder Diana because she's a Muslim, or something.
At home, in bed, ill, which is where I'd quite like to be, except I have a mountain of work.
Four things that I am not looking forward to this year
My next job review.
Not managing to convince anyone they want to go on holiday with me at a mutually convenient time.
My birthday.
Christmas.
Four authors I'm patently not going to read no matter how you go on about them
Can't think of any. Sorry.