Four Things

I was going to write a post about sleep deprivation, but I'm too tired, so I'll do the latest meme instead.

A) Four jobs I have had in my life
Musician (though I got paid so rarely, I don2t know if that qualifies as a job)
Teacher
Shop assistant
Artist's model

B) Four movies I would watch over and over
The Seven Samurai
Big Trouble in Little China
The Matrix
The Lord of the Rings

C) Four places I have lived
Shrewsbury
Leeds
York
Ankara

D) Four TV shows that I watch
Lost
Desperate Housewives
Rome
Hadi Gel Bizimle Ol

E) Four places I have been
Orkney
Madrid
Rhodes
Antioch

F) People who e-mail me regularly
My boss
My mother
The university listserv
A certain gentleman from Nigeria

G) Four of my favorite foods
Chocolate
Prawns
Pastırma (Turkish pastrami)
Cheese

H) Four places I would rather be right now
Shrewsbury
Zurich
Perugia
Outer space

I) Four things I am looking forward to this year
Hmm, I don't think I have anything to look forward to this year. Not good.

J) Four favorite authors
Ursula LeGuin
Iain M. Banks
Terry Pratchett
William Gibson

This is John Galt Speaking

I commented earlier that there would be only two ways Marx and Engels could reach a wide audience with The Communist Manifesto these days: rename it as Harry Potter and the Communist Manifesto or slice it up and circulate the pieces around FaceBook. I forgot YouTube. Someone has done a little video of John Galt's speech from Atlas Shrugged, cut it into easily-digestible chunks and posted it on YouTube. OK, "easily-digestible" can't be used for anything by Ayn Rand, even if it's in video form, but you get the idea. I await the YouTube version of Deuteronomy.