Friday Spies

1. What is a food you have tried but will never eat again, and what don't you like about it?

Raisins.  Raisins are the root of all evil.  Squishy, slimy, wrinkly, chewy.  A foul, foul blight upon the world.

Worst of all is that I know I'm going to eat them again because they're always tucked into everything, and they camouflage themselves as chocolate chips.  You want to see TP go green? Hand him a cookie with raisins in it and assure him it's a chocolate chip cookie.

The horror, the horror.

2. What are your five favorite possessions?

1.  Satellite radio Boombox.

2.  Rare, uncut first printed edition of E.E. Cummings' greatest single book of poetry, is five.

3.  mint 1820 colored map of Africa (TP and Ms. TP collect antique maps).

4.  antique 1930s circa Rolex, mint condition

5.  mini iPod

3. How do you deal with confrontation? Do you seek it out or do you avoid it? Are you more apt to be the confronter or the confronted?

Not generally a huge fan, but, as Fitz-hume said, sometimes, it cannot and should not be avoided.

I try my best not to seek it out.  That's part of the basic conflict I have in my self-defense training.  It requires a lot of confrontation -- verbal, emotional, physical.  Yes, it's all practice, but it's pretty intense practice, and sometimes, that induces a lot of anxiety in TP.

Lately, though, I've been able to let go of myself a little bit, just cut loose, let my body go and do what I've been training to do for almost 3 years now.

Daniel LaRusso, extreme tool that he is, said it best: we train so we don't have to fight, but if I do have to fight, I'm walking/running away and the other guy(s) aren't.

As far as non-physical confrontations, I try to avoid them generally, but I also think sometimes you just need to have it out with someone, get everything out there, and resolve it one way or the other.  I accept that a great number of people don't or won't like me.  That's cool; but there can still be respect and/or a professional relationship.

4. What will Michael Jackson be doing five years from now?

I may be the only person in the free world who just doesn't give a rat's @ss about Michael Effing Jackson.  He'll either be in prison or he'll be grabbing himself.  Or both.

5. What is the worst movie sequel ever made, what is the best sequel ever, and what movie should have had a sequel but didn't?

Not fair.  How can Fitz ask this question but then proceed to name all of the terrible sequels in existence?

Caddyshack II is an extremely strong candidate.  Leonard Part 6 might get my vote, except that I don't think there were any parts 1-5.

Best sequel? Godfather II is the obvious choice, but my favorite sequel is Before Sunset.  That is an absolutely phenomenal movie.  One of the best movies I've ever seen. 

What movie is in desperate need of a sequel? Can't think of a damn one, honestly.  I like ambiguity and unfinished narratives, because life is ambiguous and an unfinished narratives.  Loose ends don't bother me in the slightest.  They seem more real to me.

Comments

[stag]

I did not even think of *physical* confrontation.

[TP]

I don't know if Fitz-hume meant it that way, but I decided to mention it regardless.

[stag]

Oh yeah- I thought you would pick Office Space as needing a sequel.

[TP]

Naw. It was good enough as is, and plus, I read an interview with Mike Judge where he says that he'll never make a OS sequel because the studios simply wouldn't give him a deal (because the first one did so lousy at the box office -- it only became popular on video/DVD).

[Owen Courrèges]

Egh... I hate rasins too. I once accidently ate one on an airplane; it didn't end well.