7 x 7

Posted on December 26, 2005 in Memes

I whined, therefore I got memed. Did you know that the film Se7en is among my least favorite films? I don’t like gratuitous violence in the first place, but Se7en descends to levels of morbidity only slightly surpassed by Hannibal. Earlier in life I used to enjoy 7&7s (Seagram’s Seven Crown and Seven-Up) as my drink of choice. Sort of liked Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and enjoyed many parts of Merton’s The Seven Story Mountain. The Magnificent Seven could only be matched by the Seven Samurai.

Having said that, I must declare that I have achieved a 7x7x7 Meme.

Seven Things To Do Before I Die:

1. Visit the Caves of Ajanta
2. Publish at least one book
3. Return to school and teach at the college level
4. Experience at least one more major earthquake and survive it
5. Write an award-winning screenplay
6. Visit Machu Picchu
7. See the United States reformed for the sake of the People

Seven Things I Cannot Do

1. Climb Mount Everest
2. Be trusted with credit cards when I am in mania
3. Speak Zulu
4. Eat anthracite coal
5. Jump high enough to slam dunk the Moon
6. Smite blasphemers like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson down without facing arrest
7. Prove to a Scientologist that there is such a thing as mental illness or evolution to a Creationist

Seven Things That Attract Me to…Blogging

1. Ease of publication
2. Arrival of interesting people of like mind and situation
3. New writing challenges that occur every day
4. Lack of a clueless editor (editors with a clue are welcome, however — they do exist)
5. Room for experimentation in both sound and sight.
6. If someone comes just to pick a fight, I can end it fast.
7. Freedom to criticize, to praise, to defend, and to wreak positive change.

Seven Things I Say Most Often

1. Don’t bite me!
2. Ouch!
3. Hello?
4. Don’t give up.
5. Oh God.
6. Stop that!
7. Be good and if you can’t be good, be careful.

Seven Books That I Love

1. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
2. The Arabian Nights
3. Touched with Fire by Kay Jamison
4. Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould
5. Emma by Jane Austen
6. The Other Side of the Sky by Arthur C. Clarke
7. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Seven Movies That I Watch Over and Over Again

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Shrek
3. Paths of Glory
4. The King of Hearts
5. Magnolia
6. The Hours
7. The Aviator

Seven People I Want To Join In Too

1. Broke (at Other)
2. Maggs
3. Gareth
4. mizeyore
5. H.K.
6. Bill
7. and Bill (or Stacy)

Now if you wanted to be one of my seven, just whimper a bit in the comments and one of my chosen will honor you. (And it’s probably about time that they knew about you, right?)

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