{"id":1913,"date":"2010-03-23T14:44:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T14:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2010-03-23T14:44:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T14:44:52","slug":"a_steaming_pile_of_netcrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/23\/a_steaming_pile_of_netcrap\/","title":{"rendered":"A Steaming Pile of Netcrap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is it just me, or do Tuesday afternoons always seem rather elongated<\/i>? They have none of the settling-back-into-the-routine bustle of a Monday. They lack the over-the-hump frisson of a Wednesday, or the gathering steam of Thursday, or Friday’s downhill sprint (or leisurely stroll, depending on the pace of your particular workplace) toward the weekend. No, Tuesdays just sort of sit there<\/i>, like that bad food-court burger you ate last night and can still feel, lodged somewhere in the vicinity of your duodenum and seeming like it’s in no hurry to go either up or down.<\/p>\n

At least that’s how this Tuesday afternoon is feeling to me, just sitting there all cold and gristly and utterly lacking in nutritional value. Seems like a good time for some Star Wars<\/i>-flavored netcrap, and SamuraiFrog<\/a> has a most excellent serving for us:<\/p>\n

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Yeah, that’s probably exactly what Han was thinking. Not that he could criticize much, of course, not after some of the unspeakable mischief he and the Wook probably got up to back in their old spice-smuggling days. No, not Han and<\/i> the Wook, you perverts. I just meant that there were probably lots of occasions when they served as each other’s wingman in whatever passed for singles’ bars out there on the Outer Rim… no, really… stop looking at me like that!<\/p>\n


\nIf I may be serious for a moment, this clip does illustrate a couple of points: First, it reinforces my long-held opinion that the brother-sister thing was a last-minute decision on Lucas’ part to resolve a story point he really didn’t want to deal with — namely, the Han-Luke-Leia love triangle. I don’t believe for a nanosecond that “the sibling thing” was all part of a grand plan he had from the very beginning of production on the first film, no matter what 30 years of revisionism and legend-building would have us believe.<\/p>\n

My other, perhaps more worthwhile observation is what a tremendous impact music can have on film. This is a scene we’ve all viewed a couple hundred times, but you slap on some different music and a well-chosen flashback, and voila!<\/i>, a completely different emotional meaning.<\/p>\n

(Incidentally, I just recently learned the origin of this music, which Quentin Tarantino used so effectively in his Kill Bill<\/i> duology. I knew I recognized it from somewhere<\/i> when I first saw Kill Bill<\/i>, but I couldn’t place it. Early ’70s, obviously, like everything else Tarantino mashed together in those flicks, but what exactly was it? Turns out it was the opening theme<\/a> for an old TV series called Ironside<\/i><\/a>. My thanks to Lileks<\/a> for clearing that up.)<\/p>\n

As long as I’m talking about music and tone and Star Wars<\/i>, this is probably a good place to post another vid I’ve had in my files for awhile, again courtesy of SamuraiFrog<\/a> (he finds all the best netcrap):<\/p>\n

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Uh, right. My Loyal Readers know I loves me some ’80s power-pop, and I think this song could even work in the right kind of movie… but this ain’t it! Thank god Star Wars<\/i> was made a few years earlier, or we probably wouldn’t still be talking about it…<\/p>\n

(Incidentally — again! — I must extend my compliments to whoever edited this clip for using the original, unrevised, true<\/i> Death Star explosion, not the one with the crappy Praxis-effect<\/a> plasma ring. I hate that thing almost as much as Greedo shooting first… talk about fixing things that weren’t broken, Uncle George!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is it just me, or do Tuesday afternoons always seem rather elongated? They have none of the settling-back-into-the-routine bustle of a Monday. They lack the over-the-hump frisson of a Wednesday, or the gathering steam of Thursday, or Friday’s downhill sprint (or leisurely stroll, depending on the pace of your particular workplace) toward the weekend. No, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}