Tag week Day Three! aka "Comb yo beard, I don't wanna hear that shit."

I'm feeling lazy so I think I'll just steal a tag that's been going around lately that Liz answered recently. I'll pull fresh ones for the rest of the week, I promise. At least this one is really, really long. Which guarantees less comments. Yes!

Four jobs I've had
I've had way too many jobs. Lots more than just these, but these are the first to come to mind.

1. Publix bagger/stockman - My first job and the only job I've ever been suspended from and sent home. I guess collecting carts in the nearby neighborhood with one of my friends for two hours was a bad idea. Especially when the manager drives by us on his way home. Whoops. At least I got to tell him I'd be going to college the next year and eventually getting a real job and he was always going to be a manager at Publix until the day he died. Which is exactly what happened.
   
2. Auto parts delivery dude - I got to drive around all day listening to the radio (back when it played good music) and learned every single road in Orlando and the quickest way to get there. Awesome job.
3. Recruiter for a tech job-placement firm - Summer gig that paid incredibly well but drained the life out of me completely. I actually got fired from this one in one of those stupid management "symbolic move" things. The manager called me in at 4:30 on a Thursday afternoon and explained for 45 minutes why I was being fired and how it wasn't really my fault. He even tried to show me charts and numbers. It was like one of those breakups where they just won't stop talking and just leave. I told him to pay me for Friday and thanked him for giving me an excuse to get a new job that didn't make me want to shoot myself in the head by the time 5pm rolled around.
4. Big Orlando Theme Park food services dude - The people that worked there were great, but you see the absolute worst in humanity from the customers while working a job like that. At least I got to get in free whenever I wanted and got to skip in line for rides. Felt like the best job ever after that last one.

Four movies I can watch over and over
Ok, I answered this last time but never gave explanations. So enjoy.

1. Out Of Sight - Perfectly structured, perfectly cast. So good an Elmore Leonard adaptation that it's better than the book it's based on. So many little details in the dialogue, the performances and the timing that it even makes you think Jennifer Lopez can act -- a miracle in itself. I've seen it around 100 times now and it only gets better every time I watch it.
2. Fight Club - Not much I can say that hasn't been said by everyone else, but the first act is some of the darkest, funniest stuff ever committed to film. That everything else is so mind-blowing is just icing on the cake. Those who dismiss it as nihilism run amok or "violence porn" are complete idiots.
3. The Empire Strikes Back - The most perfectly-structured third act I've seen in any film. As if Han Solo wasn't a badass enough character before then, his "I know" response to Leia before getting frozen clinched it. An intense scene with a perfect fusion of performance, direction and score that is only one-upped by one of the most famous dialogue exchanges in movie history 15 minutes later. How anyone can defend the prequels after watching this is beyond me.
4. Alien - One of the few movies that genuinely scared me. The creature is perfectly designed and the performances for every character are spot-on. Add Ridley Scott's incredible style onto that and you have a movie I can not only watch, but analyze almost frame-by-frame.

Four places I have lived
Considering I've lived in Florida my entire life, I'll just list Jacksonville locations. All you out-of-towners can skip this one, I guess.

1. Arlington (Riverbend) - Only place I've been threatened to be evicted from. Twice. Senior year at JU was an absolute blast and the Halloween party is still spoken of in reverent tones.
2. Regency - The rent was cheap and the commute to work wasn't too bad. I have good memories since this was my first solo place to live. Makes me gloss over how tiny the apartment was and how shitty the complex was. Remember the toddler who made national news after she lived alone for 3 weeks following her mom's arrest, surviving off of dried spaghetti and ketchup? That happened in my complex. Rock.
3. San Marco - My favorite place in town, even if everyone thought I was gay when they heard I lived there. Within walking distance of plenty of bars, restaurants and whatnot, it was truly a blast living there. Too bad I lived at ground zero for the worst flooding in town, but that was good entertainment when people in bigass trucks thought they could make it through 2-foot-deep water.
4. Avondale - Current location. Awesome property value that's going to make me a ton of money, but I think I've spent that much driving out to the beaches every weekend since nobody ever comes out this way.

Four TV shows I like to watch
I'll mention a defunct one just because I only watch three that are still on the air.

1. 24 - If I need to explain why I love it, you haven't been reading.
2. Survivor - I once again hate 95% of the cast. I'm like an abused wife who keeps coming back for more and then complaining. The only show my parents and I both watch, so I have to keep up with it.
3. Lost - I stopped for a while because it pissed me off and then I had dodgeball on Wednesdays. I've been promised it got better again and have been loaned the episodes I missed, so I guess I will now catch up. Unless it pisses me off again.
4. Buffy The Vampire Slayer - People that dismissed the show as "WB chick kills monsters" really missed out. Some of the best character development and continuity of any television show ever. Consistently surprising and funny as hell, to boot.

Four foods that I like
Um, okay. No explanations.

1. Samoas
2. Quaker Chewy Granola Bars (any flavor)
3. Taco fuckin' Bell
   
4. Chicken Cordon Bleu

Four websites I visit daily

1. Achewood
2. Gmail
3. More Junk From Maki
4. The blogs of pretty much everyone that comments here

Four things I want to do before I die
See the previous post. Come up with some new stuff, tag people!

Four places I would rather be right now

1. My bed - No explanation necessary.
2. London - I miss it and I was there 11 months ago already now...
3. Vegas - Linus: "Vegas, huh?" Danny: "America's playground..."
4. A really good concert - Since I haven't been to a really good one in ages.

Coming Sunday: I have no idea!