The Dilithium Falcon

     It's another day.
     I was just outside, talking with Marco. 
     We talked about the German's use of amphetamines during WWII.  Sometimes the soldiers would take doses four times a day.  No wonder they were all screwed up.  Then, attacking Finland was a big mistake, as was attacking Russia.  Hard to attack people in snow territory if you don't have proper boots and gloves.  Plus, your artillery guns freeze up.  Hard to shoot when your guns are frozen.
     We also mentioned Babylon 5 and Monty Python as we smoked and drank coffee.

     I got buzzed into the bathroom, but some guy was on the can.  That was the first time that happened.  I forgot to knock.  Ooops.  I was in a hurry to go, the coffee goes right through me.

     There is a cute blond talking to some guy on the right of me.  She has a nice doll face.  She is out of my league, though.

     So, it is my job to become popular on the web.
     "Good Luck With That," the voice of reason says to me.

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     Some kid has a Luke Skywalker X-Wing pilot action figure in here.  I am drooling with jealousy.  I used to have one of those.

     Dang.

     Anyway, it is 2:06 p.m. already.  It takes a while to smoke and talk with Marco, but we both get a lot of ideas shooting the sh**.  That is how ideas come.
     We talk about technology, movies, computers, and rock & roll.

     'Rock & Roll is about sex and drugs to save my soul,' the man thought to himself.

•      It is hard to think with all of the people around me.  This often happens in the cafe.  Sometimes it is an awesome place to write, at other times it is not so good.
•      It is better to have life around you then death.
•      I'm going to have to become a hustler-smuggler of hot art, flying around in my Dilithium Falcon.  That would be awesome.
•      I watched on TOR some footage about the smuggler class.  It was pretty cool, I guess.  Who doesn't want to be Han Solo?
•      Lots of people want to be jedi, but I'm not into it that much.  I want to be a craft-person, and make stuff.  Then, I want to sell my wares to people all around the galaxy.
•      Yes, it is hard to think with some heavy set black guy talking to this guy from India.  They are having a good time talking, but it is getting in the way of my writing.  All it means is it is getting to be that time to leave.  However, when I go home, I often will not get around to writing a blog entry for the rest of the day.  Maybe today will be different, I am not sure.
•      If the two guys had a computer with them, they could just look up Taiwan on the web, instead of conjecturing about it.  Get with the times, guys, and get some real information.
•      I just read the enitre article about Star Wars on wikipedia.  It basically shows how Star Wars was made up as he went along.  Also, Alan Dean Foster wrote the novelization of Star Wars, but it was credited to Lucas.  I always wondered about that, since Lucas was never a great writer, so how in hell could he write that novelization?  It all makes sense now.
•      Episodes VII, VIII, and IX should be made some day.  What happens after episode VI has been worked out, so why not?
•      Lucas came up with the name 'Mace Windy' before Episode IV came out, in a draft.
•      Wow, so many fun facts.  
•      Tolkien worked in text, Lucas in film.  Both are creators of Legendary Worlds.  Both borrowed heavily from other sources.
•      It's serious.  There is money involved.
•      In an alternate universe of Star Wars, I would have Darth Vader not be Luke's father.  Annakin would appear as a blue ghost to Luke in Episode VII.  
•      Basically, I can write out all nine movies like they are supposed to be. 
•      Episode I should open with a history of The Star Wars Universe, in much the same way Lord of The Rings does it.  The Old Republic will be mentioned.  The introduction will make the whole series make sense.  There are too many holes.  Who was the first jedi?  How were lightsabers invented?  Why do things in The Old Republic look more advanced than in Epidodes IV-VI?  It drives me nuts.
•      I'm also fascinated by the lack of interest in Star Wars after Episode VI.  Everybody was sick of it, because I think we were all let down a little bit.
•      George Lucas almost quit Star Wars several times, but he needed the money, especially after his wife wiped out his fortune in a massive divorce settlement.  I'd like to know more about that.  She was some kind of photographer chick he met, I'll have to look her up.  She scored big time by being married to him,
•      The Star Wars Universe is supposed to be like The Big, The Bad & The Ugly.  A dirty place where people struggle to survive, and people get killed with a lot of lawlessness.  Clint Eastwood was the original Han Solo, it turns out.
•      Han Solo wanted Lucas to kill off Han Solo, because he was sick of being him as an actor.
•      "The Empire Strikes Back" was the Star Wars version of "Gone With The Wind" with all the mushy romance stuff and the movie poster reminiscent of GWTW".
•      It is funny to put reverse history rules on old things.  The past becomes modified by the present.
•      In today's world, Luke Skywalker could have found out that he was Darth Vader's son just by looking on the web.  Duh.
•      It makes me uncomfortable when Star Wars caters to kids too much, and glosses over the side effects of war, and sanitizes things.  There isn't much blood in Star Wars, but all wars are ugly when it is real.  Limbs get lost.  Heads get chopped off.  Women get raped.  That is a fact of war.
•      Any piece of art can be modified to fit into The Star Wars Universe.  I had better get to work.
•      The kids on Clone Wars are padawans to me.  They are younglings, and must be guided.
•      Life is good, and I have my work cut out for me.