The Meme of 7

Ethereralfire tagged me with this Meme of 7. I think that since it's a 7, and it's from e-fire, it's good karma to do this one.

Seven Things To Do Before I Die

• Run with the bulls at the Festival of San Fermin in Pamplona
• Visit Everest base camp
• See one of those million-dollar ideas through to completion
• Sail up the Nile - the entire length
• Learn to play Spanish guitar
• Speak Spanish fluently
• Calm the hell down

Seven Things I Cannot Do

• Be in high places and not get a flutter in my belly (acrophobia)
• Jump higher than the thickness of a credit card (see: acrophobia)
• Stuff a basketball (see above)
• Stop eating when I've had just the right amount of pizza
• Juggle
• Ski like Jean-Claude Killy (or even Jean-Claude van Damme)
• Concentrate for more than a few minutes at a time (was that seven things?)

Seven Things That Attract Me to...Blogging

• It's a good way to exercise my writing muscle
• Meeting interesting people (I really do read the people on my blogroll all the time)
• Good, quick reads
• Laughing at bloggers who think blogging is writing "wanker" and copying long passages that professional writers wrote
• Laughing at bloggers who beg for money
• Metafilter
• Meta tags
  

Seven Things I Say Most Often

• Baby (as in Blah blah blah, baby)
  
• The Lombardi Rules
• I don't think so, Tim
  
• All in (did I mention that I love the World Poker Tour?)
  
• There are 600,000 words in the Oxford English Dictionary, choose some
• Cool (hey, I grew up at a time when Cool was cool)
• Bonehead (it's a play name I call people...I know, it's not that charming)
  

Seven Books That I Love

• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey (hey, it's a 7 meme)
• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (who I liked to call Ray Bradbury before Blankbaby showed me the light)
  
• Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway
• Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
• Wired Magazine
• A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
• Any book by David Sedaris
  

Seven Movies That I Watch Over and Over Again

• The Big Chill (Michael: I don't know anyone who could get through the day without two or three juicy rationalizations. They're more important than sex. Sam Weber: Ah, come on. Nothing's more important than sex. Michael: Oh yeah? Ever gone a week without a rationalization? )
• The Big Easy (Anne Osborne: I've never been good at this sort of thing. Remy McSwain: Your luck's about to change, char.)
• Casablanca (Ilsa: What about us? Rick: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have it, we'd lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.)
• Mr. Holland's Opus (We are your symphony, Mr. Holland. We are the melodies and the notes of your Opus. And we are the music of your life.)
• Dirty Dancing (Nobody puts Baby in the corner.)
• An American President (Sidney Ellen Wade: I don't know how you do it. President Andrew Shepherd: It's Arthur Murray. Six lessons. Sidney Ellen Wade: That's not what I mean. Two hundred pairs of eyes are focused on you with two questions on their minds - who's this girl, and why is the President dancing with her? President Andrew Sheperd: Well, first of all, the two hundred pairs of eyes aren't focused on me. They're focused on you. And the answers are Sydney Ellen Wade, and because she said yes.)
• The Godfather (Tom Hagen: Mr. Corleone never asks a second favor once he's refused the first, understood? )
• My Best Friend's Wedding (George Downes: The misery! The exquisite tragedy! The Susan Hayward of it all!)
• Four Weddings and a Funeral (I watched it again last night...and I know this is eight...but I have ADD...too many good parts to single out just one...but I do love the W.H. Auden poem at Gareth's funeral.)