August 26th, 2005
Another blog meme… Seven Things
This time it’s all Treasa’s fault. As I’m meant to be writing a story, I might as well skive off for half an hour so here goes:
Seven things I plan to do before I die:
Write a book. God knows I talk about it enough…
Have children
Learn to play the xylophone
Visit China
Go up in a hot air balloon
Host my own radio show
Tap in to my psychic side
Seven things I can do:
Hold my own in an in-depth conversation about football
Drink more than you’d think to look at the size of me
Argue for Ireland
Make my own cards
Not do too badly in table quizzes
Appreciate what it’s like to be alive
Talk too quickly most of the time
Seven things I can not do:
Live without music
Ruin whiskey by adding a mixer
Have a cup of tea without a bar of chocolate/a cake/something sweet
Roll my ‘r’s Eartha Kitt-style…
Be unkind to animals
Play a musical instrument (for shame)
Feign interest when my mother begins a sentence with “Do you know who’s dead?”
Seven things that I find really attractive about the opposite sex:
Intelligence
An obsession with music
Nice smile
An interesting sense of humour
Spontaneity
Eyes (windows to the soul and all that…)
A sexy voice or accent
Seven things I say the most:
“I mean…”
Refer to things being “glass half-full” or “glass half empty”
“Are you going to the Electric Picnic?” (at the moment anyway)
“I suppose”
“What are you reading at the moment?”
“Here Fred!” (that’s my dog)
“Ah jaysus”
Seven books I love:
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushie
Autobiography of A Face by Lucy Grealy
The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner
English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
The Book of Evidence by John Banville
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Seven people I would like to see take this quiz:
Twenty Major (seeing as he gets Blogger block from time to time)
Dave Blather
That Girl
Maura
Damien Mulley
Seoman
Mish (although I think she’s taking a blogging break at the moment)
August 27th, 2005 at 6:25 pm
You realise that a good flat, snearing Dundalk accent complete with a “yacuntya” as a term of endearment is the most under-appreciated sexy accent in Ireland today? And if you can’t live without music then never attempt to listen to the radio if you’re on the continent. It’s soul destroying…
August 28th, 2005 at 1:05 pm
“You realise that a good flat, snearing Dundalk accent complete with a �yacuntya� as a term of endearment is the most under-appreciated sexy accent in Ireland today? ”
I’m sure it is! I think in my head, I was probably daydreaming about Scottish or Welsh accents…
You’re heading to the Electric Picnic aren’t you? Are you going along with
Markham’s suggestion?
August 29th, 2005 at 12:00 pm
Nice selection here - I’m right with you on the “glass half-full” thing, wish I’d thought of it on mine, ah well, I suppose you have to look at as if the glass is h-
DOH!!!!
August 29th, 2005 at 12:17 pm
yeah, just said I would, even though I’ d instinctively say no to something like that usually (not sure why). But if people start getting all John Kelly on me I’m going to get cross!
Scottish accent. Rab C Nesbitt. ’nuff said. You must love the egg-chasing weekends.
August 29th, 2005 at 1:52 pm
JL, I swear to God, I manage to work that glass half full/empty stuff in to at least one conversation a day. It’s worrying.
August 29th, 2005 at 2:44 pm
Answered. Meme passed on. Some of them actually made me think.