Comments on A Home Away from Hythia: Meme of the Sevens

Seven Things to Do Before I Die:1. Vacation in Ita...

2006-01-04T07:42:00.000-08:00

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

Better late than never.

2006-01-03T11:59:00.000-08:00

Better late than never.

Okay, the list madness must stop before we are mak...

2005-12-30T12:17:00.000-08:00

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

Seven Things I Cannot Do:1. Not fidget2. Not fall ...

2005-12-30T07:55:00.000-08:00

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

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

2005-12-29T16:23:00.000-08:00

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

I loved 'The Gap Cycle'. It was, and this is me ma...

2005-12-29T11:45:00.000-08:00

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.

Damn you, Hythian!! Grrr...

2005-12-29T11:13:00.000-08:00

Damn you, Hythian!! Grrr...

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

2005-12-29T06:53:00.000-08:00

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*