I encourage anyone who has been tagged with the “four things” doohickey to pass this back up the line; I think perpetrators should have to come up with four new things (at least in the first four categories) every time another victim passes it back!
Four books I’d buy a friend
- East of Eden, John Steinbeck
- Narziss und Goldmund, Hermann Hesse
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- The Moon and Sixpence, Somerset Maugham
Four books I’d buy an enemy (on condition they had to read ’em)
- Beloved, Toni Morrison
- A Million Little Pieces, that guy who was all over the news recently
- The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
- Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
Four pieces of music I’d miss if I went deaf
- Tabula Rasa, Arvo Part (played by Shaham/Anthony)
- In A Landscape, John Cage (played by Stephen Drury)
- Are You The One (That I’ve Been Waiting For)?, Nick Cave
- Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Pink Floyd
Four pieces of music that make me want to gnaw out my own eardrums
- Do You Believe, that Cher thing
- Popcorn (I like it, but what an earworm)
- anything with a breakbeat
- anything by Kenny G
Four pet peeves
- people who stand right in front of “No Smoking” signs, smoking
- people who stand at the front of the bus when there’s room to move back
- the phrase “very unique”
- Kenny G
Four things I like that other people commonly find weird or horrible or both
- vegemite
- Neil Diamond
- stale cookies (pre-fungus, though, of course)
- high humidity on a hot day
Four popular things that I think are weird or horrible or both
- oysters
- snow
- reality television
- Kenny G
Spousal unit, I’m looking at you!