Love of Sevens (Meme)
Brandon did this one, here is my take:Seven things to do before I die
- Hike the Atlas Mountains
- Sight read music on classical guitar
- Teach a child how to speak French
- watch all Jean Renoir's films in one sitting
- live in Chimayo, New Mexico
- have up to seven rabbits of different breeds
- buy a small place somewhere in Alsace
Seven things I cannot do
- play video games
- bake bread
- open a jar of pickles
- sleep on my back
- read a Victorian novel
- work an 'eight-hour day'
- change oil (and any other car-maintenance task)
Seven things that attract me to my best friend
- reads books that I do not
- talks about cuisine and wine drinking
- knows a lot about music and could jam upon occasion
- travels to interesting places
- has no interest in talking about her/his car, my car or cars in general, unless the car talk is about Car Talk
- I let them be the artist, s/he lets me be the historian
- doesn't use the verb 'disrespect'
Seven things I say most often
- dude!
- noch ein/une autre (usually said at a bar)
- absurd
- thereof
- memorialized
- what the ...
- (the untranslatable rolling eye for which I am famous)
Seven books (or series) I love
- The six or seven volumes that make up Jabès' Book of Questions
- Guo's Soul Mountain
- The Icelandic Sagas
- Emile Zola's La Bête Humaine
- Elisabeth Reichart's February Shadows
- Kundera's Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Sebald's The Emigrants
Seven movies I watch over and over again (or would watch over and over if I had the time)
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- The Great Dictator
- The Last Laugh
- Blazing Saddles
- Wings of Desire (Himmel über Berlin)
- To Live
- West Side Story
Seven people I want to join in, too
I don't want to curse that many people, although I will tag Johno at Perfidy and Nuno at Rua da Judiaria
posted by Nathanael @ 12:34 PM
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