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NDR tagged me, so here I go. 

Seven things to do before I die

• Own a bakery. Successful bakery.
• Learn to read and speak some form of Chinese.
• Visit China and Mongolia.
• Buy and enjoy the living shit out of a cabin in a remote area of coastal New England or Eastern Canada.
• Have kids and raise them to be impossible.
• Write and publish a book.
• Do a wanderjahr starting in Alsace and proceeding in a giant circle through central and southern Europe, through the Caucasus region into Turkey and the Caspian states, into Asia probably skipping Iran, on through to Afghanistan and Pakistan and back again through the -stans into Russia, Poland, and Germany and finally ending with one gigantic crazy party in Amsterdam. Johno isn't messing around.

Seven things I cannot do

• fix a car
• laundry
• balance a checkbook
• play baseball
• write dialogue
• water ski
• be a salesman for my living

Seven things that attract me to my best friend

• She's fiery and wickedly intelligent and calls me on my bullshit.
• Have you seen her? She's hot!
• Hot, I tell you!
• She is willing to let me do the things that she doesn't understand.
• She appreciates wine, food, books, music and films in different ways than I do, and likes to share her experiences.
• Her loyalty to her friends.
• Our deep mutual appreciation of Neil Young. 

Seven things I say most often

• "Hey, man"
• "Marginally acceptable"
• "I swear to God"
• "That's just how I roll"
• "Does whiskey count as beer?"
• "Fuckin' A!"
• "I could make this."

Seven books (or series) I love

• "The Long Goodbye," Raymond Chandler
• The Lord of the Rings
• "Le Gout du Pain" (A Taste of Bread), Professor Raymond Calvel
• "Maus," Art Spiegelman
• "The Grapes of Wrath," John Steinbeck
• "Lake Wobegon Days," Garrison Keillor
• The "letters" sections of "The Atlantic Monthly," "The Economist," and "Penthouse."

Seven movies I watch over and over again (or would watch over and over if I had the time)

• The Godfather
• Young Frankenstein
• Clerks
• The Big Lebowski
• P.C.U.
• Them there Lord of the Rings movies
• Good Will Hunting

Seven people I want to join in, too 

Sleepy, Sneezy, Doc, Happy, Bashful, Grumpy, Sleazy (no really... I'll update this with real people when I have a moment...)