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Maggie

6:52 am Friday 17 May 2002

Wende, Anna, Molly, Will, Maggie, Kerry and I are at Le Peep celebrating Maggie's first day (second or third day now) that they've been officially divorced.

Our waiter just took all our orders without writing them down.

8:02am

Fun time by all. Some work stories, some college stories, some relationship stories. I'm at work now.

starwars

8:52 pm Thursday 16 May 2002

(In this entry, I give away details of the movie. Don't read the whole thing if you don't want them.)

I'm in line to see the 10:45pm showing of Star Wars. I called a bunch of my friends - at least like 7, and got all answering machines, except for 2, who were otherwise occupied.

So I decided to go alone; I rode my bike to the theater, locked it to some cables in the garage on the fourth floor.

I got tickets to the 10:15 showing, and went upstairs and found no one in that line, but Angelique, Aaron, Mandy were in the 10:45pm line.

"Good morning, Robert," smiled Angélique.

Awesome!

So I went downstairs and changed my ticket. It's only an extra 30 minutes. :-)

9:58 pm

The line is pretty significantly long behind us.

But the reason I'm writing is that I just heard a rumor that in Australia they are trying to get Jedi listed as a religion.

Jeff just said "Jedi would be my religion; Yoda is my Jesus."

1:16 am

Movie just ended. EXCELLENT. So many awesome scenes and funny funny shit too.

Lot of inside jokes and introducing some characters that we saw in episode IV.

Angelique was right= no outtakes.

1:38am

Okay; I'm at work now. My bike was fine, waiting patiently for me on the fourth floor.

Do not read any further if you don't want details about the movie.

What I don't get is how the good guys got so many clones.. How did Yoda scoop them all up so quickly? Did he slide over to that invisible planet and simply ask for them? That makes sense since they were so nice and hospitable, and they believed they were making clones for the Jedi anyway.

Was that little kid Boba Fett(sp)? Pretty interesting to find out he's a clone. I presume he was the "identical" clone they talked about.

Um, oh, and who is Darth Sidius? Is he Senator Palpatine, soon to be come super all powerful of the Senate, then to become Emperor? Hmmmmm. Neat that we got to see Anakin's arm get removed.

Oh my god so awesome to see Yoda kicking some light saber ass! Whipping around like some Matrix kinda shit all over that motherfucker whirling and spinning and totally kicking his ass. Interesting to see Yoda struggle with the 'heavy' object, when later we've already seen him move the X-wing fighter out of the bog and say to Luke the difference is only in his mind.

And hilarious that when the fight is over, Yoda wills his staff to his hand and begins his little Yoda Shuffle to walk over to Amidala.

I can completely see how Amidala falls in love with Anakin, and completely see how he is poised to become Darth Vader. Both sides of his character were so well portrayed. And of course I can completely see how Anakin falls in love with her.

The fighting scene with Anakin, Kenobi, Padme in that big coliseum was incredible. So pimp to see all those light sabers light up as my main man Samuel L Jackson was all, "we gonna kick yo ass biatch" to that one bad guy. The way those battle droids rolled in made me go uh oh, they in some serious shit, man, and then Yoda all in the heat of battle; I didn't expect to see him all rockin and rollin on a big ass battleship giving orders and such. Quite a cool new feature of his character. But of course we know later he says, "war does not make one great." or is it "war does not great one make," or "great does war not make one," or "does not make one great war."

Oh when those little (big) slug centipedes were all climbing on Amidala, how did Anakin slice them perfectly in two and not even cut her sheets? That's some finely tuned light saber work.

The scenes of chasing that bad-girl-changeling through the floating freeways of Corisant were better than those in Fifth Element. Good job.

I really loved that ocean world. It reminded me of my query as a youth if there could be a planet made entirely of water. Now the answer is obviously yes.

I think I might have a new favorite Star Wars movie.

2:18am

Emacs rules. I just taught it what timezone I'm in. Excellent.

Good night.