Eight things you’ve been dying to know about me.

My blogging amigo Piper over at the wondrous Lazy Eye Theatre has officially tagged me with the 8 Things Meme in which I am compelled to reveal an octuplet of interesting and/or revealing things about myself because I know how much you care about me.

But of course, first we need to review the rules:

1. I have to post these rules before I give you the facts
2. I have to start with eight random facts/habits about myself
3. People who are tagged write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules
4. At the end of this post, I need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

And away we go…

• I met my wife on a blind date that was arranged by her home economics teacher. No, I didn’t transport any minors across state lines. My wife is about 5½ years younger than me, so it’s not creepy. Well, not THAT creepy.
• I’ve been electrocuted at various levels of danger and intensity on about four occasions in my life. A part of me thinks that this will be the way that I go someday.
• The greatest career advice my father ever gave me was, “You can’t expect work to be like constant orgasms all the time.”
• If you’ve visited Burbanked with any regularity, you know that I’m no fan of next week’s Transformers movie. But I’ll admit that when I saw this picture a few weeks ago, I absolutely felt in my gut what the Geekformers must feel about their Optimus and Megatron and all of those other idiot robots.
• I’ve never smoked pot and I’ve never shot a gun. Of those two, there’s one I’d still like to try some day.
• One of the most important lessons I learned in college came when a group of coworkers at the restaurant where I was a bartender had a series of pictures taken together. I pointed to a guy in one of the pictures whose back was turned – he was mostly bald and looked to be about 42 years old. I said to the group, “Hey, who’s the old bald guy?” Someone looked sheepishly at me and said, “Actually, that’s you.”
• The longest conversation I ever had with a celebrity was with Willem Dafoe. The shortest – and absolutely most awkward – was a tie. Peter Weir and James Woods.
• I kind of wish I had delved deeper into film production after college. I raced out to Hollywood with dreams of being a screenwriter, but the few times I got to work on a film crew were a blast. I wish I had explored some specific aspect of filmmaking like sound or editing.

But enough about me. Here are the eight bloggers I’d like to tag:

Adam at DVD Panache
Bob at Forward to Yesterday
Candy at Holy Candy – I don’t know her, but her site’s hilarious.
Jason at The Jay
Chris at Movie Marketing Madness
Jason at spectorbrain
Joe at This Distracted Globe
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