I've Been Meme'd!

How exciting - I've never been meme'd before - what a whole new world this blogging lark has opened up for me. I didn't know there was quite so much tucked down the back of the internet along with all the chocolate wrappers and crisp bags.

So, Jeff Kingston Pierce at The Rap Sheet tagged me (is that the correct terminology?), with this meme:

4 movies you would watch over and over:

• The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant and David Niven. I watch it every year before Christmas and each time I watch it I start crying at an earlier point. I'm now at the stage where I'm bursting into tears as I take the DVD out of its well worn case. "The only people who grow old were born old to begin with."
• Night of The Hunter with Robert Mitchum - that singing of his sends chills down my spine every time. "There are things you do hate, Lord. Perfume-smellin' things, lacy things, things with curly hair."
• Kind Hearts and Coronets - comic genius from Alec Guinness. "It is so difficult to make a neat job of killing people with whom one is not on friendly terms."
• Little Miss Sunshine - sweet, lovely, funny and quirky. "Everyone, just... pretend to be normal."

4 places you have lived:

• Glasgow
• London
• Newport Pagnell
• St Ives - not very thrilling, really!
  

4 TV shows you love to watch:

• The Wire
• Mad Men
• The Apprentice
• Later with Jools Holland.

4 places you have been on vacation:

• Alaska (the most beautiful place in the whole world, and the nicest people. I spent 2 weeks there last year and 2 weeks the year before teaching creative writing in Yup'ik schools - the link is my other blog)
• Corfu
• Santa Fe, New Mexico
• Bracklesham Bay (and that's absolutely nothing to do with the fact that it's on the Manhood Peninsual - we used to go there for years and years when I was little and I have very fond memories of fresh doughnuts on the way down to the beach, ice cream, sandcastles, and spitting sunflower seeds at my little brother from my lofty position on the top bunk).
  

4 of your favorite foods:

• Aqutak (eskimo ice cream - beautiful light, fluffy, tangy stuff (sounds lovely doesn't it?) made of fish, lard, sugar and fruit (doesn't sound quite as appetising now, huh?)
• tapas
• olives
• raspberries.

4 Web sites you visit daily:

• Crimespot
• Friend Feed Crime Fiction Room
• 4 Mystery Addicts yahoo group
• Gallery of Regrettable Food (I don't visit this one every day, as it doesn't change regularly, but I'm putting it in anyway as it deserves to be visited more often by more people)

4 places you would rather be right now:

Right now I would rather be in the loo, because I am desperate for a wee, but other than that:

• at a Ramones gig
• taking tea with Cary Grant
• sitting chatting to family/friends
• walking along the banks of the Kuskokwim river with the kids from Alaska.

4 things you want to do before you die:

• live for about another 50 years
• abseil off the Forth Road Bridge
• visit Machu Picchu
• read every book in my TBR pile
  

4 books you wish you could read again for the first time:

• Daniel Woodrell - WINTER'S BONE
• Christopher Moore - LAMB
• Robert M Sapolsky - A PRIMATE'S MEMOIR
• Jane Austen - PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
  

4 people you think will respond:

I have no idea, so I'm not going to answer this one and tag anyone, but please leave any answers in the comments if you like!