Star Wars and Me

Star Wars has come up a lot in this blog. It's the reason I started working (see 'Work and Me' Oct, 2008). I mentioned the Princess Leia buns I'd been known to wear my freshman year of high school in my popularity post from last month. And I spoke about it in my books post from January. It used to be a big part of my life. It still is, to some extent.

This is my box of 'Star Wars Insider' magazines. I subscribed in the spring of 1997, shortly after seeing the re-releases of the films, which were my first time seeing them (that I remember. I have a vague memory of seeing a film with a desert in it that looked a lot like Tatooine, but I remembered it as a Star Trek film). Any magazines from before that time period were ones that I purchased from the Internet or at a convention. Now I'm ... not quite sure what to do with them. Unless you frame them, there's no good way to display magazines, and I already have a ton of posters if I wanted to do that (none of them are up at the moment...). I don't really want to sell them - I'm not super hard up for cash and they're not in mint condition anyway. Reading old magazines is always a little strange (with the exception of most National Geographics). So they live under the bed.

Oh, and there's also that 'Time' magazine, with an article about 'Start Wars' with all these lovely quotes by George Lucas, back before he started making what most people think are questionable choices about his work.

After I saw 'A New Hope' on January 31st, 1997, I thought it was a good movie. It was fun and I had a good time.My feelings about it crept up slowly. Or, sort of slowly. It wasn't love at first sight, but by the time 'Empire' came on screen two weeks later, my hair was in those Princess Leia buns.

I saw the movies A LOT in theaters. I started writing what my friends and I called 'The Script' - or something of a parody of 'Star Wars'. It's full of immature jokes, bad puns and just overall silliness. By the time 'Return of the Jedi' was re-released on March 14th, I was up to 57 hand-written pages. The script was my main creative outlet until my junior year, when the prequel came out. Around that time I started watching Conan - see post: The Show and Me.

My last entry is on August 29th, 2005, noting that the last prequel has been released. Page 319 is where it ends. But my love for 'Star Wars' never will.