29 December 2005

Meme of the Sevens

So I saw that Kate mentioned that her friend Rob had something interesting on his blog, so I took a peek and saw that he got it from Jeri who got it from Robin who got it from Michele who got it from Patti who thinks she was tagged by Candice who was tagged by aerought who was tagged by Melissa who was tagged by Tess who was tagged by Margaret who was tagged by Carla who neglects to mention who exactly tagged her so we aren't able to find out who exactly started this meme and ask them why.

Be that as it may, and none of these are in any particular order...

Seven Things to Do Before I Die:
1. Get published
2. Hike the parts of the Lewis & Clark expedition that aren't in Oregon
3. Visit Chateau Gaillard ( and Europe in general )
4. Learn Latin ( started to once )
5. Finish playing all these video games I own
6. Read the entire Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection
7. Own a sail boat and sail around the world

Seven Things I Cannot Do:
1. Whistle
2. Snap my fingers
3. Drive ( took Drivers Ed once, used to have a permit )
4. Teach ( learned that one teaching a course for PSU some years back )
5. Eat alfredo ( worked at an Italian resteraunt once, blegh... )
6. 'Walk the Dog', I know a bunch of other yo-yo tricks but not that one
7. Remove malformed red blood cells from my system ( damned missing spleen... )

Seven Things I Say Most Often:
1. Frick!
2. The conquest of Mars!
3. Blue?
4. Uhm...
5. So... Yeah... Anyways...
6. Hamsters! An army of giant hamsters!
7. What were we talking about again?

Seven Things That Attract Me To People:
1. A smile that is warm and open and not aware of how good it looks
2. Eyes that are clear and that will look back at you if you meet them
3. A sense of fun and adventure and being willing to try silly things
4. Someone who likes themselves and isn't angsty or depressed
5. An awareness of the world outside of just the small area around you
6. A degree of selflessness, being willing to put others before yourself
7. A sense of humor where you are comfortable laughing and not nervously telling jokes

Seven Books (or Series) I Love:
1. 'Memory, Sorrow, Thorn' by Tad Williams
2. 'A Song of Fire and Ice' by George R.R. Martin
3. The two Alice books by Lewis Carrol
4. 'The Green-Sky Trilogy' by Zilpha Kently Snyder
5. 'The Gap Cycle' by Stephen R. Donaldson
6. 'The Dresden Files' by Jim Butcher
7. Issac Asimov's short stories and Robot and Foundation novels.

Seven Movies I Can Watch Over And Over:
1. You've Got Mail
2. Bladerunner : Director's Cut
3. TRON
4. Hard Boiled
5. Ghostbusters
6. The Princess Bride
7. Casablanca

Seven People I Want To Join In On This:
1. Doyce
2. Jackie
3. Kate ( Ha! I beat you to this! )
4. Boulder Dave
5. Mal
6. ***Dave
7. (Anyone and everyone else who actually reads my blog, throw up a comment if you do try this so I can find your blog and list to read)

Rob also added...
Seven New Dwarf Names:
1. Scruffy
2. Stumpy
3. Skanky
4. Dorky
5. Slappy
6. Grippy ( for those Colbert Report fans... )
7. Yiffy ( oh, the dwarf in the cat girl costume... don't ask... )

Seven Places I’d Rather Be:
1. Puget Sound on a sail boat watching the Seattle city lights across the water
2. Cape Disappointment out on the jetty
3. Up in the old apple tree that used to be in my mother's backyard
4. My old apartment, several apartments back, in downtown Portland
5. Powells Books
6. London, England
7. Anywhere, as long as I had friends with me

Seven Favorite Comicbook Series:
1. 'Transmetropolitan' by Warren Ellis
2. 'Planetary' by Warren Ellis
3. 'Astro City' by Kurt Busiek
4. 'Usagi Yojimbo' by Stan Sakai
5. 'Fullmetal Alchemist' by Hiromu Arakawa ( so this is manga, I cheated a little )
6. 'Hellboy' / 'B.P.R.D.' by Mike Mignola and others
7. 'Lone Wolf and Cub' by Kazuo Koike

To which I would add (though I doubt if everyone can answer this one)...
Seven Favorite Anime:
1. Fullmetal Alchemist
2. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
3. Haibane Renmei
4. Record of the Lodoss War
5. Bubblegum Crisis ( original and 2040 )
6. Akira ( still a classic )
7. Appleseed ( the new movie )

Which takes it to eleven sets of seven. All of these answers are pretty much just off of the top of my head, though I think I would at most change maybe just one entry on the book and movies and comics and anime bits if I put more thought into it. Anyone else who wants to try this, until Rob it had just been seven sets of seven, so you might as well stick with the first seven statements / questions and not bother with his three additions or my one unless you are really interested in sharing your answers to them.

7 Comments:

Blogger Boulder Dude said...

I'll have to ponder it....but in the mean time.

Seven Books (or Series) I Love:
1. 'Memory, Sorrow, Thorn' by Tad Williams

(Yes....loved this series, and it made me a Tad williams fan)

2. 'A Song of Fire and Ice' by George R.R. Martin

(Still very much love this series too)

5. 'The Gap Cycle' by Stephen R. Donaldson

(I think you are the only person I know that not only read it, but enjoyed this series)

*I will looik and ponder on the rest*

Thu Dec 29, 06:53:00 am GMT-8

 
Blogger Hythian said...

I loved 'The Gap Cycle'. It was, and this is me making weird fine distinctions in places they may not actually exist, true 'space opera' instead of just being 'fantasy in space'.

One of the things that bugs me a lot of time with Sci-Fi is that if you replace 'alien' with 'elf' and 'hyper technology device' with 'magic sword' you really just have a fantasy novel with spaceships instead of horses.

The Gap Cycle really had horribly flawed characters, a very brutal story, but it didn't feel like you could transplant the whole thing to Gondor and still have it work. The betrayals, the inevitableness of some of it, I think Donaldson very much got what he was looking for when he set out to right something inspired by Wagner's 'Ring of the Nibelung'.

But that is just my twenty bytes on it.

*grins* And sorry Kate! I was having an insomniac night and decided to write that up. It is listed as being posted at midnight, but that was when I started tracing the line back of where it came from, don't think I got done until about 2am.

Thu Dec 29, 11:45:00 am GMT-8

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'll chew on the rest of my answers. However...


Seven Favorite Comicbook Series:
1. 'Cerebus' by Dave Sim
2. 'Sandman' by Neil Gaiman
3. 'The Books of Magic' by Neil Gaiman and others
4. 'Watchmen' by Alan Moore
5. 'Hellblazer' by Jamie Delano and others
6. 'Milk and Cheese' by Evan Dorkin
7. 'Badger' by Mike Baron

Seven Favorite Anime:
1. Serial Experiments Lain
2. Sorceror Hunters
3. The Slayers
4. My Neighbor Tototo
5. Spirited Away
6. Porco Rosso
7. Bleach

Thu Dec 29, 04:23:00 pm GMT-8

 
Blogger Boulder Dude said...

Seven Things I Cannot Do:
1. Not fidget
2. Not fall asleep if bored or not involved in something
3. Speak in Public without going into auctioneer mode
4. Back down from an argument
5. Play Baseball/Softball
6. Skateboard/snowboard
7. Alpine ski anymore because of my knees

Seven Things I Say Most Often:
1. Ummm…yeah….
2. Frell
3. Hmmm…I wonder where my Badge/Wallet/Cell Phone/watch are at?


Seven Things That Attract Me To People:
1. A pleasant smile
2. A good sense of humor
3. Interesting eyes
4. People who are very different from me
5. People who are friendly
6. People from whom I can learn things
7. People that I comfortable with being around

Seven Books (or Series) I Love:
1. 'Memory, Sorrow, Thorn' by Tad Williams
2. 'A Song of Fire and Ice' by George R.R. Martin
3. ‘The English Patient’, By Michael Ondaatje
4. ‘I, Claudius’ By Robert Graves
5. 'The Gap Cycle' by Stephen R. Donaldson
6. ‘Les Miserables’ By Victor Hugo
7. ‘The Fresco’ By Sheri S. Tepper

Seven Movies I Can Watch Over And Over:
1. Casablanca
2. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
3. Snatch
4. Clerks
5. Better Off Dead
6. Princess Bride
7. Spirited Away


Seven Places I’d Rather Be:
1. London, Uk
2. St. Just in Roseland, UK
3. Reeth, Yorkshire, UK
4. The lake district, UK
5. The Cinque Terre, It
(Sorry, only 5 since I am pretty much where I want to be geographically)

Seven Favorite Comicbook Series:
1. 'Excel Saga’ By Rikdo Koshi
2. 'Red Star’ by Christian Gossett
3. 'Oh, my Goddess’ by Kosuke Fujishima
4. 'Sandman’ Neil Gaiman
5. 'Crimson’ By Augustyn/Ramos
6. 'Astonishing X-Man’ By Whedon/Cassady
7. 'Midnight Nation’ By Straczynski/Frank (Frank is my Favorite Artist)

Seven Favorite Anime:
1. Spirited Away
2. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
3. Ghost in the Shell: Innocence
4. Appleseed (2004)
5. Chobits
6. You’re Under Arrest!
7. Excel Saga

I will Add:

7 favorite britsh TV comedies:
1. Butterflies
2. Coupling
3. The Vicar of Dibly
4. One foot in the Grave
5. Blackadder
6. Red Dwarf
7. The Young Ones

Fri Dec 30, 07:55:00 am GMT-8

 
Blogger Ted Carter said...

Okay, the list madness must stop before we are making our list of favorite lists. Stop the madness!!!

Fri Dec 30, 12:17:00 pm GMT-8

 
Blogger ***Dave said...

Better late than never.

Tue Jan 03, 11:59:00 am GMT-8

 
Blogger Jackie said...

Seven Things to Do Before I Die:
1. Vacation in Italy
2. Sky dive
3. Snorkeling with dolphins
4. Teach Kaylee important life lessons
5. Deep sea fishing
6. Feel like I did something to make the world a better place
7. Live a day with no regrets or second thoughts.

Seven Things I Cannot Do:
1. purposely hit an animal while driving
2. Eat veal (Poor baby cows raised only to be slaughtered for tender meat)
3. Live in the wilderness
4. Kill other animals to survive
5. Lie well
6. Hide emotions
7. Find my way directionally speaking

Seven Things I Say Most Often:
1. Oh dear
2. Nope
3. Right....so
4. Oh my
5. I'm sorry
6. I don't know
7. Anyway

Seven Things That Attract Me To People:
1. Being able to laugh easily and occasionally at themselves
2. Kindness
3. Intelligence
4. Ability to know what they want and the courage to pursue it
5. Willingness to put up with me and my many moods
6. Having fun and being adventurous
7. Self confidence without being overly cocky

Seven Books (or Series) I Love:
1. Most anything by Tamora Pierce
2. Southern Vampire - Charlaine Harris
3. Anita Blake Novels - Laurell K. Hamilton
4. Meredith Gentry Series - Laurell K. Hamilton
5. Goddess Series - PC Cast
6. Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling
7. Abhorsen Trilogy - Garth Nix

Seven Movies I Can Watch Over And Over:
1. Ever After
2. The Princess Bride
3. Little Mermaid
4. Mulan
5. Something about Mary
6. You've Got Mail
7. Sweetest Thing

Seven Places I'd Rather Be:
1. London
2. Wales
3. Wherever Kaylee is
4. Louve
5. Italy
6. In the arms of someone I love
7. SD at night looking at all the stars or right before the rain


Seven Favorite Anime:
1. Slayers
2. El Hazard
3. Ruin Explorers
4. You're Under Arrest
5. Blue Seed
6. Lodoss Wars
7. Spirited Away

Wed Jan 04, 07:42:00 am GMT-8

 

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