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Four of a kind. Fill in your own answers if you like.
4 jobs you've had: I've worked as a research astronomer, a software tester, a IT analyst for a university and a till jockey in a local shop. What were/are they like? They're just jobs, y'know.
4 movies you can watch over and over: I can always stand to watch The Philadelphia Story, Seven Samurai, High Fidelity, and Arsenic and Old Lace.
I love The Philadelphia Story for the script and the spirited performances from practically everyone involved. I can never decide if I like Mary Nash's performance as the beautifully distracted mother of the bride to be, or Roland Young as Uncle Willie, leering and clutching his hung-over head by turns. The leads are all fabulous too, but I really love the supporting roles.
Seven Samurai is a personal favourite (swords! archery! rice!) and one close to my heart because my late father loved it so much. It's long, but never feels that way. There are other Kurosawa films I could watch again and again, but I think I'll never tire of Seven Samurai.
High Fidelity is a more recent entry on the watch and rewatch list. It's got a good performance from John Cusack being John Cusack, and a couple of music geeks that are too close to people I know to be entirely comfortable. The romance seems pretty believable to me, which is odd for starters, coming from a mainstream movie but I enjoyed the mix of sentiment and confusion that make up the romantic elements.
Arsenic and Old Lace is another Cary Grant comedy. I love it, and I'm the son of an old sea cook. 'Nuff said.
4 places you've lived: I've lived in San Francisco, London, Paris and Dublin. More parochially I've lived in Wilton Gardens, Iona Hall on the Glasheen Road, off York Street and on Wellington Road, all in Cork.
4 tv shows you love: I don't watch a lot of TV nowadays and my evenings are regularly consumed with the 'Net rather than the Box. That said, I'm enjoying Bones (to my surprise), House, Doctor Who (when I get to see it) and Never Mind the Buzzcocks.
4 places you've been on your holidays: I've been on holidays in Rome/Pisa/Florence, St. Maxime on the French Mediterranean coast, Glasgow and St. Jean de Luz on the Bay of Biscay. I haven't been on a lot of holidays as an adult, I must admit, and I think I need to save up to remedy that.
4 of your favourite dishes: Food? Food! I love loads of different foods but today I'll pick![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sammywol's salmon sushi and tuna norimaki, a really nice lamb makani you can get in the Indian Palace on Princes Street in Cork, the chinese mustard chicken dish my mother makes and freshly baked bread rolls with plenty of butter.
4 places you would rather be right now: Hmm. I don't usually think along these lines, unless you count day-dreaming about Kate Bush's bedroom circa 1982. I suppose if I could be wherever I wanted to be, I'd pick a couple of places I'll likely never visit but would really like to see such as Angkor Wat and Great Zimbabwe, and places where I could be with friends who are far away, like Halifax, New York, Bordeaux, Seattle, Paris, somewhere lost in New Zealand, ...
4 sites you visit daily: Gmail, LiveJournal, RPG.net, and Bloglines. My most regularly visited sites are portals or communities, obviously.
4 jobs you've had: I've worked as a research astronomer, a software tester, a IT analyst for a university and a till jockey in a local shop. What were/are they like? They're just jobs, y'know.
4 movies you can watch over and over: I can always stand to watch The Philadelphia Story, Seven Samurai, High Fidelity, and Arsenic and Old Lace.
I love The Philadelphia Story for the script and the spirited performances from practically everyone involved. I can never decide if I like Mary Nash's performance as the beautifully distracted mother of the bride to be, or Roland Young as Uncle Willie, leering and clutching his hung-over head by turns. The leads are all fabulous too, but I really love the supporting roles.
Seven Samurai is a personal favourite (swords! archery! rice!) and one close to my heart because my late father loved it so much. It's long, but never feels that way. There are other Kurosawa films I could watch again and again, but I think I'll never tire of Seven Samurai.
High Fidelity is a more recent entry on the watch and rewatch list. It's got a good performance from John Cusack being John Cusack, and a couple of music geeks that are too close to people I know to be entirely comfortable. The romance seems pretty believable to me, which is odd for starters, coming from a mainstream movie but I enjoyed the mix of sentiment and confusion that make up the romantic elements.
Arsenic and Old Lace is another Cary Grant comedy. I love it, and I'm the son of an old sea cook. 'Nuff said.
4 places you've lived: I've lived in San Francisco, London, Paris and Dublin. More parochially I've lived in Wilton Gardens, Iona Hall on the Glasheen Road, off York Street and on Wellington Road, all in Cork.
4 tv shows you love: I don't watch a lot of TV nowadays and my evenings are regularly consumed with the 'Net rather than the Box. That said, I'm enjoying Bones (to my surprise), House, Doctor Who (when I get to see it) and Never Mind the Buzzcocks.
4 places you've been on your holidays: I've been on holidays in Rome/Pisa/Florence, St. Maxime on the French Mediterranean coast, Glasgow and St. Jean de Luz on the Bay of Biscay. I haven't been on a lot of holidays as an adult, I must admit, and I think I need to save up to remedy that.
4 of your favourite dishes: Food? Food! I love loads of different foods but today I'll pick
sammywol's salmon sushi and tuna norimaki, a really nice lamb makani you can get in the Indian Palace on Princes Street in Cork, the chinese mustard chicken dish my mother makes and freshly baked bread rolls with plenty of butter.4 places you would rather be right now: Hmm. I don't usually think along these lines, unless you count day-dreaming about Kate Bush's bedroom circa 1982. I suppose if I could be wherever I wanted to be, I'd pick a couple of places I'll likely never visit but would really like to see such as Angkor Wat and Great Zimbabwe, and places where I could be with friends who are far away, like Halifax, New York, Bordeaux, Seattle, Paris, somewhere lost in New Zealand, ...
4 sites you visit daily: Gmail, LiveJournal, RPG.net, and Bloglines. My most regularly visited sites are portals or communities, obviously.
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Your film list is very close to mine, although I think I would swap out Friendly Persuasion for Seven Samurai and Sense and Sensibility for Arsenic and Old Lace but then I have watched a lot of films bald in my time (many of which would not class as critics' choices)) and there would be a squabble among the candidates if I had to pick only four.