Buying

A bad habit I’m working on stopping is talking myself into a purchase that isn’t necessary. For example, I’ll have a bag of frozen french fries in the freezer but I’ll want to buy fries from Five Guys. Because it takes 10 to 15 minutes for me to get home from there, the 5 Guy fries need to be heated up in the oven. This is an easy solution, just make the fries I have at home instead.

This past Christmas I got money from my parents and put half into savings, the other half into my pocket. I was going to buy the Lego Lakeside Lodge but recently my external hard drive stopped working. After I bought a new hard drive from the Apple Store in the Westchester, I was going to buy the LEGO set but as I walked back to my car (which meant going past the LEGO store again) I talked myself out of it since I used all of the money from the gift plus my own. I didn’t need another LEGO since I got the Star Wars Eclipse Fighter for Christmas as well.

Let Me Pop In This 8 Track

For as long as I can remember I’ve liked soundtracks to movies and television shows. Whether they’re original songs written for the movie or existing ones used to amplify a scene. One of my earliest memories of a soundtrack was finding a cassette of when I was a geekling singing ‘Day By Day’ from Godspell.

The second I can remember is the record album of The Black Hole, not only did it have the score from the movie but dialog from the movie was included.

I’m sure we had Star Wars A New Hope on vinyl as well but it was the disco version we listened to more.

Using my letterboxd account I can put in order of a film’ release date and The Breakfast Club soundtrack may have been the first soundtrack I purchased myself.

As I got older my collection of movie soundtracks grew with it. The bonus to liking a song from a movie would generate an interest in the band that contributed their song. Muse’s ‘Take a Bow’ was in the trailer for ‘Watchmen’ movie is a great example.

Sometimes I’d buy a soundtrack for a song and unfortunately the rest didn’t appeal to me. Berry Gordon’s The Last Dragon was that first, I liked 2 out of the 10 songs.

Now with iTunes I can buy the songs I like from a movie or tv show though a single song can cost more than the whole album.

In Honor Of Father's Day

My Dad made me the geek I am today. He loved Flash Gordon with Buster Crabbe and would watch them a lot on channel 11. I'd watch for a little bit because it wasn't in color and the special effects didn't hold to 1970/80s standards.

However my Dad did take my brother and I to see the original (and good) Star Wars Trilogy, The Black Hole, Tron, Short Circuit, and countless others.

Once we had cable television I'd spend many weekends and summers absorbing the obscure films, The Eliminators, Buckaroo Banzai, Krull, Battle Beyond the Stars, and countless others.

How A LEGO Geek With OCD Spent Their Sunday Morning

I put all the wedge pieces into their own section because I never liked searching for a 1x2 brick and getting a wedge instead.

Also I have a lot of lightsaber handles despite only having 3 Star Wars sets.

One thing about the Super Satchel Bin from the Container Store I don't like is how it flexes which makes the dividers bend from being tight or squeezing the rows to make them fit. I do like that it only cost twenty dollars instead of its usual forty.

Happy Thought

Taking my Topps Star Wars Cards with R2D2 on top, to see Star Wars: A New Hope in the theater.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens, A Mostly Spoiler Free Review. Mostly

I was good at avoiding spoilers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, so I'm telling you now that the spoiler I reveal has nothing to do with the story. It's about a character's reaction to a weapon, but I'll alert you before I explain it.

First, my thoughts about the movie. It was good, I enjoyed the shout outs to the original trilogy (eps 4,5,6) along with the use of practical effects. I did feel like I was 7 seven years old again though I got all the jokes this time. My brother and I laughed a lot more than the rest of the audience, which delighted our parents.

One complaint is some of Oscar Isaac's acting felt a little over the top. I'd like to chalk it up to his excitement of being in a Star Wars movie.

*** SPOILER ALERT *** YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!! READ AT YOUR OWN RISK ***

The other moment that felt out of place was when Han used Chewbacca's bowcaster, his reaction primarily because in all the time they spent together, it was like Han had never seen Chewie use it or used it himself. If it wasn't done twice, I could have forgave J.J.
It still made for a nice comedic moment though.

ALERT! NO SPOILERS HERE!

As we get closer to Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens, any website with an entertainment section has a spoiler about the movie. Yahoo is the worst when it comes to a spoiler alert, because it tends to reveal it right in the headline.

io9 will warn you, and then you have the option to read it for yourself.

When the poster was revealed, I was disappointed to see John Boyega aka Finn holding a lightsaber until I looked at the one for Star Wars IV and saw Luke doing the same.

Considering that Daisy Ridley looks like Keira Knightley it's caused speculation among the fans, I'm hoping JJ is only doing that as a red herring.

I stopped reading Star Wars 7 rumors because a few of them became true when I read a later spoiler by accident.

It's also a question of avoiding posts from my friends on Facebook.

In Honor Of Mother's Day

This is becoming my favorite story about my mother;

When Return Of The Jedi was in theaters, Dad planned to take the family. He told us earlier in the week, so I was excited for several days before.

On the night we were going, Mom said "I don't know if we should take the boys to see this, I hear Princess Leia wears a racy outfit." This was the now famous "gold" bikini.

When she said this my heart broke because all I wanted to see was lightsabers, R2D2, the Millennium Falcon. Luckily Dad convinced her and we got to see it.

Though when I saw her Highness, it was a different story.