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To make up for lack of content for the last couple of days, content about which you couldn't care less - it's meme time! (Blame this man)

Four jobs I’ve had

• Intern in the European Commission's Information Department (while I hated the EU)
• Researcher to an MP at the House of Commons
• Handing out chocolate Easter Eggs while dressed as a giant chicken
• Staff Writer / Sub-editor on a glossy travel/history magazine with pretty pictures and stuff

Four movies I can watch over and over

• Anything by Sergio Leone (even The Colossus of Rhodes)
• Evil Dead III (aka Army of Darkness: The Medieval Dead, aka Bruce Campbell Vs. The Army of Darkness)
• Citizen Kane (boring answer, but true)
• Scarface (the Stone/de Palma/Pacino remake)

Four places I’ve lived

• Bloomsbury, London (too many students and tourists)
  
• Camden Town, London (too many students and tourists)
  
• Eastbourne, East Sussex (too many old people and tourists)
  
• Sherborne, Dorset (too many schoolkids and tourists)
  

Four tv shows I like

• The West Wing (naturally...)
• Deadwood (purely for Lovejoy swearing)
• My Name Is Earl (when I remember to watch it)
• The Mighty Boosh (likewise, when I remember to watch it)

But the only programmes I regularly watch on TV these days are the 10 O'clock News and Newsnight. Largely because my reception's so bad, and I can't afford cable...

Four places I’ve vacationed

• Nikko (beautiful)
  
• Paris (tasty)
  
• Tokyo (aces)
  
• Vancouver (also tasty)
  

Four of my favourite dishes

• Roast beef with all the trimmings (naturally)
• The full-on traditional Japanese food overload you get in traditional Ryokans
• Pie (All sorts - fish, steak and kidney, game, apple, cherry, anything and everything)
  
• Properly-cooked, nicely garlicy escargots

Four sites I visit daily

• BBC News
• The Guardian
• Wikipedia
• The IMDB

Hardly very revealing or original, that... But they're probably my only regular dailies (bar a few blogs whose owners need no more ego boosts)

Four books I’ve read this year

• Peter Ackroyd - First Light (restrained, mournful, less complex than his usual stuff, different)
• Christopher Booker - The Seven Basic Plots (long-winded in places, and a fair few inaccuracies scattered about, but the basic case is well made and the book as a whole intriguing)
• Boris Johnson - The Dream of Rome (typically readable and entertaining - not so sure about his arguments though)
• John Stuart Mill - On Liberty and other essays (good collection, that)

(I'm assuming since 1st January, or there'd be a more interesting range)

Four bloggers I’m going to tag with this

I'm not that cruel

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