In no particular order:

8 things I am passionate about:

good food

writing

equality

animals

music

singing (badly mind you)

art

family

8 things I want to do before I die:

snowboard

climb a huge-ass mountain

learn more languages

learn to paint

relocate to South Africa

run a half marathon

travel more

find peace

8 things I say often:"no way!"

"Oh Aye" - (slap me right now)

"Bastardo"

"shites"

"have you seen my ....."

"I don't understand"

"this place is hip..?"

"Err,sikes..."

"beer? oh yeah"

8 books I have recently read:

Going Postal - Terry Pratchett

Scarpetta - Patricia Cornwell

After Dark - Haruki Murakami

Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

The To-Do List - Mike Gayle

Life: Selected Quotations - Paulo Coelho

Dispatches from the Edge - Anderson Cooper

8 songs I could listen to over and over:

Best of You - Foo Fighters

Cry to me - Solomon Burke

Room at the top - Adam Ant

Don't Dream its over - Crowded House

Blue Sky Mining - Midnight Oil

I Choose You - Bindi Blatcher

Dancefloor - Stylophonics

One More Time - Daft Punk

8 things that attract me to my friends:

they are strange-crazy

they make me laugh

they love a good rant

they keep me grounded

they are smart

they teach me things

they offer me support

they accept me