8 x 6, a meme

from daisy comes the 8 x 6 meme. just what i wanted to do today. and it wasn’t even an easy post, took me almost two hours to finish this list.

8 things I am passionate about:

1. friendship
2. food
3. sleep
4. clever design & good typography
5. swimming
6. books
7. justice
8. passion, of course

8 things I want to do before I die:

1. make an animated short film
2. start to draw (by hand) again
3. learn to weld
4. go to a hammam
5. watch another sunrise
6. learn dutch
7. do a triathlon
8. live by the sea

8 things I say often:

1. “is that so?”
2. “shit!”
3. “my sweetheart!”
4. “can i have that back?” (when the above starts reading the whole
magazine i gave him to read one paragraph out of)
5. “cuddle!”
6. “more cuddle!”
7. “aaargh!”
8. “you can’t be serious!”

8 books I’ve read recently:

1. black girl, white girl by joyce carol oates
2. afterzen — the experiences of a zen student out on his ear
by janwillem van de wetering
3. the laws of simplicity by john meada
4. born fi’ dead by laurie gunst
5. the loop by nicholas evans
6. a touch of earth by janina david
7. a square of sky by janina david
8. after the wreck i picked myself up, spread my wings and flew away
by joyce carol oates

8 songs I could listen to over and over:

1. kaise guzar rahi hai by dub factory
2. amelia by joni mitchell
3. ne me quitte pas by jacques brel
4. jah heavy load by i jah man, in fact all four tunes on the record
5. little wing by jimi hendrix
6. the dresses song by lisa germano
7. gabriel by lamb
8. adagio for strings and organ in g minor by tomaso albinoni

8 things that attract me to my best friends:

1. honesty
2. wit
3. creativity
4. tolerance
5. sense of humor
6. openness
7. passion
8. loyalty

i’ll abstain from tagging. nowadays everyone seems to be desperate for something to post about anyway …

~ by bine on November 20, 2007.