I've been tagged with this 7x7 meme. It sets you the following agenda:
1. Seven things to do before I die
2. Seven things I cannot do
3. Seven things that attract me to (...)
4. Seven things I often say
5. Seven books (or series) that I love
6. Seven movies I watch over and over again
7. Seven people I want to join in, too.
Here goes...
Seven things to do before I die:
1. Follow an Ashes series in Australia.
2. Finish my book on crimes against humanity.
3. Revisit New York City.
4. See a game or three at Yankee Stadium.
5. Keep laughing.
6. Evolve from a large mammal into a playful primate.
7. Go to Italy with WotN.
Seven things I cannot do:
1. Roller skate.
2. Be bothered with opera.
3. Live in chaos.
4. Understand how the universe could once have not existed.
5. Cook.
6. Play the piano as well as I'd like to.
7. Arrive anywhere late.
Seven things that attract me to blogging:
1. You can express your view.
2. It prompts you to work out an argument.
3. I've made a lot of friends through it.
4. It's a source of fun.
5. You learn from it: things you didn't used to know; and from the experience, as with anything.
6. It's a window on the varieties of human personality.
7. It established - beyond all doubt - that Schubert is the world's fourth-favourite composer.
Seven things I say often:
1. 'Don't come crying to me.'
2. 'Can you tell me this in an abridged version, please.'
3. 'It's a mawmby slope.'
4. 'Kind of.'
5. 'We don't want to cut it too fine.'
6. 'I think I'll just hang myself in the stairwell.'
7. 'And so forth.'
Seven books (or series) that I love:
1. The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD
2. Beyond a Boundary
3. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
4. Jane Eyre
5. Crime and Punishment
6. More Than Human
7. Catch-22
Seven movies I watch over and over again:
1. On the Waterfront
2. The Wild Bunch
3. Psycho
4. Vertigo
5. The Hustler
6. Charade
7. My Fair Lady
Seven people I want to join in:
(The last three here, because I know they are likely to pick it up enthusiastically and run with it.)
1. Helen Gray
2. Tom Hamilton
3. The Kalamazoo Kid
4. Carol Howes Wright
5. Ophelia Benson
6. Damian Counsell
7. Oliver Kamm