Day 20

A hard days night lead to a hard days work.
4 clients lined up, 2 show.
Went to Bruce's house right after to hang out with him and Quinn. We played STARWARS: Clone Wars on Game Cube. So Much Fun! It took a while to get the hang of the game but I gradually got more and more time between dying.
We made popcorn and I suggested we watch Spiderman 2 to show them my cameo. I am in the scene right after Spiderman saves the train and the people pull him into the car. Doc Ock shows up and people stand up for Spiderman. I am a "me too" right before he goes through us to get to Spiderman. I just about had them fooled. I love messing with people about that. The girl could be my twin though.
Around 9:30pm, it was time for Quinn to go to bed, so I figured I should leave. Andreas had called me, so I met him and Ben at Hyde observatory at Holms Lake to look at the stars.
I love going there. It reminds me of my childhood, going there with mom and Myer, looking through the telescopes and watching Astronomy films, listening to astronomers' discussions. I was so fascinated. The boys were being dumb tonight though. They were bored after 5 min, claiming, "it doesn't change! You look in the telescopes, you see Saturn, Jupiter, and a globular cluster, and there's nothing else." no matter what I said, He wouldn't give it up. It totally irked the experience. I can't believe anyone could be anything but Excited about seeing a 200,000 year old view of a globular cluster through a telescope. They were more excited cruzin' (uzin' my gas) and going to the North Wal-Mart. I like the south Wal-Mart better, its less creepy. I bought mom a mother's day present: Lauren Hill: The Miss education of Lauren Hill. We went back to Andreas' to drop him off and I had to take Ben home. It was about 1:20am when I got home.

Day 21

It is interesting that they say, "USE the force" because it isn’t really manipulating, using, or willing it to do something. In my understanding (or my opinion, how ever you want to look at it), it is more a part of nature, the world, life, an embodiment of consciousness, so to speak, and it reacts to human emotions and thought because it is a part of it. I believe the force either was the thing that gave the first human the idea to use tools or it sprang out of the first conscious movement/thought. (Kind of a chicken or the egg thing.) The force kept growing the more our range of consciousness grew. There once was one large force, but as time went on and people stopped being in harmony with the earth, the force split in two. One side still clinging to the harmony of peace with the earth, the other growing rapidly from self-gain and power, forsaking the good of all for the advancement of self. You gain more and more harmony with it as your Knowledge of it grows!
I spent the most of the day at Everett again. After 3 I went over to Andreas' house, where I found Andreas, Ben, and Erica in the driveway, playing hack. We all played hack for a long time. After a while of Hacking, fighting, learning, and burning, we got in my car and went to 2 Russ's stores looking for Episode I and went back to watch it and eat pizza in an atmosphere of control where slices were dictated. Protocol is the key, and eye-rolling a must. After all we did not watch the second movie we rented; we opted instead to escape from the social control of the matriarch, and retreat to the park for much admittance and soul searching on the part of the trio. We went to Barns and Nobles to drool over STAR WARS books and magazines. A new copy of GQ w/ Hayden Christensen and a Chai-tea-latae-frapachino in arm, we cruised and cruised, toured Lincoln, to retire to Andreas' at around 12:30am, but no one left the car till 4:00am (telling stories in a safe environment. It doesn't happen often.

Day 22

Today is a Thursday. It was an early morning to finish that speech outline that I didn't write last night while watching II with commentary. It was so interesting! It was the first time I had seen it with the commentary. I had hooked it up in my room again (half because it sounds awesome and half to make it look like I was working on homework) ; )
I had no Idea that all the clone troopers were computer generated. They didn’t make one single Clone Trooper costume in real life. They totally had me fooled. And I had never noticed the cameos before. They are so subtle. I saw so much that I haven’t seen before. It was cool to find out where a lot of the sound affects came from.
I was reading this article in Wired about George Lucas and his STAR WARS legacy (and all this stuff he sparked in to happening) this morning. I kept thinking, I've heard this before. I had heard this before. A lot of it sounded like it had come right out of the documentary. I guess it is understandable once you read 5 articles and watch a documantary on one man's life there's not much you don't know about them or at least their career.
After work, I came home and found out that survivor had been pushed back an hour so the president could yak for a while. I decided to take the movies back and get episode I because I haven’t seen it in almost 5 years, but pretty much all of the star wars DVDs where checked out. That’s not even the Half of it. I got all the way there, looked at the passenger seat and the movies weren't there. I had forgotten them next to the door at home. I went home and got them and went back, finally settling on Perfect Score and Electra. I watched Electra after Survivor. Its the kind of movie, whose plot is kinda thin and drawn out, made to look kinda creepy and put in tons of fighting and special effects. When it ended, I said to my self, "well, its no STAR WARS."

Day 23

Today I went to Everett to have lunch and hang out in mom's classroom. We had shred soup, courtesy of Alyssa Mayer. I got into a great conversation with Quinn about STAR WARS. He wants me to come over and play Clone Wars on his game cube Saturday.
When I got home I watched the rest of the documentary while I made shells and cheese for dinner. I went to Choir at 5:30 and home an hour later to do a paper for class tomorrow, but I ended up watching Episode II with commentary late and did my paper in the morning, oh well.
Bruce called me back and was so excited about going to STAR WARS III on the 20th. He is an even bigger STAR WARS nerd than I am. He has read so much fan fiction! I've only read Episode II Clone Wars that came out around the time the movie did. We had this discussion about Boba Fett. He said he would provide the food because I am providing the tickets, which is fair. We talked about going in costume. I said I am going in my Yoda shirt and my cloak. He said he had been looking on the Internet for a moderately priced Storm Trooper suit. In my opinion, I think it will be uncomfortably to sit 2 and a half hours in a plastic suit. That’s just me, I guess. But you never know, it may not matter if you are excited enough.

Day 24

I had the urge to purge my room last night, so I hooked up the G4 to my sound system and watched STAR WARS A New Hope while I cleaned my room. It sounded awesome on the system. I was digging in my closet and all of a sudden Obi-wan said something over my shoulder, and for a split second I thought he was there in my room. Weird bur cool!
Went to Red Robin for lunch and read STAR WARS articles in magazines. My waiter's mane is Jed, he was a nice helper. They had hired a new drink mixer so they were giving away adult beverages to try. Jed came by and was about to tell me about this drink when he caught himself and said, "You're 21 right?" It was the biggest compliment. : )
When I got home, I watched the Documentary on George Lucas/STAR WARS that is on the extras DVD from the trilogy.

Day 25

Early am
I bought 2 tickets on April 23rd for the May 20th 7:00pm showing of STAR WARS III. Opening week tickets, this is going to be a great audience! Who holds the other ticket, is a mystery so far. I was thinking about my friend Andreas, but he gave, by far, the blandest response to the news. I really thought he was a STAR WARS fan. Taking someone from school is out. The majority hasn’t even seen the first trilogy (IV, V, VI), and even less know there was even a new one coming out. My Best friend Hannah was never really into STAR WARS, she just liked episode II because of Hayden Christensen, but I see her point. Then I thought of (or I should say "mom thought of") Elizabeth or Bruce. They are on the list for sure. I gave Bruce a TXT MSG about it but haven't heard back yet. We will see. I went to Best Buy today (5-24-05) and bought a copy of STARWARS episode II on DVD for my collection, and watched it. One of my favorite extras is a featurette with Natalie Portman exclaiming how "young Anakin has grown up into this very hansom Hayden Christensen". I just about split a gut.
After sleep
I am just beginning to realize the enormity that is the plot in STAR WARS. It astounds me how one man, a politician no less, was able to take over through manipulation, and I'm not talking about Darth Vader. Poor Anakin was just caught in the middle, being powerful to begin with then skillfully turned to follow the one man that had brought about the death and suffering of every one he loved.
After a morning of Eastern Medicine
The force is a lot like Chi, healing energy; it is like Yin and Yang, Light and Dark. "Feel the force moving through you.” The "Dark" side is in more of a sense or evil, Active oriented, Fire driven, and Power hungry and not so much the "darkness" associated with night. The dirk side is Yang and the good side is yin. You must have balance. You could not have one with out the other and you can't have something purely one side or the other. There are flaws in the Jedi’s Ideals in that aspect.
The rule about love: They strive for unconditional love, which in turn balances the hate in the world, but you are not allowed to fall in love. Why? You would think it is essential, especially because the # of Jedi are steadily decreasing even more so because of oncoming war. I guess it is the other en of the scale that worries them. There would have to be an equal and opposite push on the other side of the force, something bad, such as: Love is making life, the equal and opposite push would be Death in order to balance out the equation. Like in the Matrix: Balancing out the equation by adding an equal and opposite force that is smith because of the phenomenon that is Neo OR is it that Neo is there to balance out the Smith in the equation? I wonder if Anakin has an equal and opposite force out there and who are they? Maybe he himself is his other half, both sides inside himself. Anakin vs. Darth Vader. It's not as clear or clean-cut lines of good/evil equal and opposite forces in star wars but it is more or less expressed in the 2 different sides of the force.