Wow! Great movie! Unfortunately I don't think it will be doing much for the planet's commercial development. It was mostly historical and dealt mainly with people of various cultures who had populated Tatooine throughout the millenia. And the footage of my farm didn't make it in. But I'll give the filmmaker credit for not messing with our shadow(s).
The movie did bring back a flood of old memories for me. It's getting late, though, so those will have to wait.
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20050518
MOVIE SIGN!!!
Lots of excitement around here about tonight's midnight release of The Suns of Tatooine documentary.
I couldn't get tickets for tonight. Neither could anyone else I know. Well, maybe Kenobi - I haven't asked him. He has his ways of getting things he wants. But I am on fire about this thing.
Partly, of course, because they shot some footage near my farm... no idea if it was used or not but I will let you know when I find out.
Partly, because Tatooine really needs the exposure, commercially.
And partly out of morbid terror that the director will make a mess of it! He has an annoying habit of digitally "correcting" things in his films that aren't wrong... just not to his liking. For example, there are rumors that he digitally manipulated the footage to give everyone and everything two shadows, because he was annoyed that no one would explain to him why everything has only one shadow on Tatooine.
His documentaries about Hoth and Dagobah were spectacular. His documentary about Endor was only okay, in my opinion.
And most people agree that his Memories of Naboo film was absolutely putrid.
I have no idea what to expect now. I'm trying not to get my hopes up, but, damn... it's Tatooine, you know??
SERIOUSLY... if you get a chance to see The Suns of Tatooine before I do, please notice if the shadow situation has been addressed, and let me know.
I couldn't get tickets for tonight. Neither could anyone else I know. Well, maybe Kenobi - I haven't asked him. He has his ways of getting things he wants. But I am on fire about this thing.
Partly, of course, because they shot some footage near my farm... no idea if it was used or not but I will let you know when I find out.
Partly, because Tatooine really needs the exposure, commercially.
And partly out of morbid terror that the director will make a mess of it! He has an annoying habit of digitally "correcting" things in his films that aren't wrong... just not to his liking. For example, there are rumors that he digitally manipulated the footage to give everyone and everything two shadows, because he was annoyed that no one would explain to him why everything has only one shadow on Tatooine.
His documentaries about Hoth and Dagobah were spectacular. His documentary about Endor was only okay, in my opinion.
And most people agree that his Memories of Naboo film was absolutely putrid.
I have no idea what to expect now. I'm trying not to get my hopes up, but, damn... it's Tatooine, you know??
SERIOUSLY... if you get a chance to see The Suns of Tatooine before I do, please notice if the shadow situation has been addressed, and let me know.
20050512
It is, um, it's... *sniff* it is green!
True story.
New neighbors, having an open house. They were from one of the many drippy green planets where people eat all vegetables and no meat. I don't remember what they planned to do on Tatooine, but whatever it was, it didn't work out and they were gone in less than a year.
They greeted us at the door with "pea cake in the galley, help yourselves."
I was picturing something like carrot cake, but with peas.
So the Larses and I went into the galley to see, and our hosts were standing there, so we couldn't just wrinkle our noses and turn away.
It looked like, oh, imagine if you made some Gelleaux or aspic but mixed in a lot of flour. And it was the color of peas, of course. It sort of looked like condensed pea soup, except freakishly smooth, not lumpy with whole peas.
Beru remarked noncommittally, "it tastes just like you would expect."
Cliegg said it tasted like cold, condensed pea soup, except sweeter.
Owen said nothing. He was too busy stuffing his face.
Shmi didn't even try the cake, she hated vegetables, but she asked for the recipe anyway, because that was the kind of mother she was. Technically she was Owen's stepmother, but she was more of a mother to him than his original mother ever was.
I carefully sliced off a tiny piece. Like two cubic centimeters. I don't know if that's enough to be polite, but it was going to have to suffice.
Pea soup is my favorite soup, not that we eat a lot of soup around here, but if I'm going to have soup, it's going to be pea soup. Even meatless pea soup isn't too bad. I didn't expect that the pea cake would ruin my day.
I was wrong. And for many months afterwards, Shmi and Cliegg would make the face that I had made that night, and we would all laugh until we were purple.
That's what memories are made of. Pea cake, or something like it.
New neighbors, having an open house. They were from one of the many drippy green planets where people eat all vegetables and no meat. I don't remember what they planned to do on Tatooine, but whatever it was, it didn't work out and they were gone in less than a year.
They greeted us at the door with "pea cake in the galley, help yourselves."
I was picturing something like carrot cake, but with peas.
So the Larses and I went into the galley to see, and our hosts were standing there, so we couldn't just wrinkle our noses and turn away.
It looked like, oh, imagine if you made some Gelleaux or aspic but mixed in a lot of flour. And it was the color of peas, of course. It sort of looked like condensed pea soup, except freakishly smooth, not lumpy with whole peas.
Beru remarked noncommittally, "it tastes just like you would expect."
Cliegg said it tasted like cold, condensed pea soup, except sweeter.
Owen said nothing. He was too busy stuffing his face.
Shmi didn't even try the cake, she hated vegetables, but she asked for the recipe anyway, because that was the kind of mother she was. Technically she was Owen's stepmother, but she was more of a mother to him than his original mother ever was.
I carefully sliced off a tiny piece. Like two cubic centimeters. I don't know if that's enough to be polite, but it was going to have to suffice.
Pea soup is my favorite soup, not that we eat a lot of soup around here, but if I'm going to have soup, it's going to be pea soup. Even meatless pea soup isn't too bad. I didn't expect that the pea cake would ruin my day.
I was wrong. And for many months afterwards, Shmi and Cliegg would make the face that I had made that night, and we would all laugh until we were purple.
That's what memories are made of. Pea cake, or something like it.
20050511
See a penny, pick it up
I went out this morning to do my rounds and nearly stepped in a very large mound of poodoo. Bantha poodoo, from the size of it.
My first thought was that the Sandpeople had come to visit. But it's really not their style to leave a pile of bantha crap at your doorstep and then slink off. Their style is to steal your food and other valuables, crush your skull while you sleep, and burn your house down.
Then, if there's time, they carefully collect any bantha droppings for recycling. Oh yes. That's Sandpeople, for you... brutal, but thrifty!
So I don't think it was Sandpeople.
It was probably a couple of neighbor kids. Since pretty much all the kids out here belong to moisture farmers themselves, they really ought to know better than to waste perfectly good waste on pranks. But there isn't much else for them to do.
Not yet, anyway. The Skywalker kid has been working on a T-16 for a while, but whether his uncle will let him fly it - or whether the thing will ever fly at all - remains to be seen.
I recycled the turd. I thought of giving it to Lars as a way of letting Luke know that I'm aware of his nighttime activities, but reconsidered. Moisture is moisture, after all.
My first thought was that the Sandpeople had come to visit. But it's really not their style to leave a pile of bantha crap at your doorstep and then slink off. Their style is to steal your food and other valuables, crush your skull while you sleep, and burn your house down.
Then, if there's time, they carefully collect any bantha droppings for recycling. Oh yes. That's Sandpeople, for you... brutal, but thrifty!
So I don't think it was Sandpeople.
It was probably a couple of neighbor kids. Since pretty much all the kids out here belong to moisture farmers themselves, they really ought to know better than to waste perfectly good waste on pranks. But there isn't much else for them to do.
Not yet, anyway. The Skywalker kid has been working on a T-16 for a while, but whether his uncle will let him fly it - or whether the thing will ever fly at all - remains to be seen.
I recycled the turd. I thought of giving it to Lars as a way of letting Luke know that I'm aware of his nighttime activities, but reconsidered. Moisture is moisture, after all.
20050510
Let's try that again
I'll tell you why I started this blog: I need to get a few things off my chest. It's not easy living out in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes the people around you are precisely the ones you want to complain about. Or they don't want to talk about the same things you do. Or they're just crazy.
For example, just the other day I asked my neighbor what he thought of Emperor Dumbass's proposal to open "security stations" near major spaceports in the outer rim planets, including Tatooine. Do you know what that moron (my neighbor, I mean, not the Emperor) said? "It's got nothing to do with me." Oh yeah? I can see why he'd say that, since he almost never even leaves his own property, but let's see what he thinks when the Empire starts taxing us for that "security." We don't even have representation in the Empire's government. Not that it would do us any good if we did.
But Lars is not the world's greatest conversationalist to begin with. And I'd like to say more about that, but right now I need to go check the 'vaporators.
For example, just the other day I asked my neighbor what he thought of Emperor Dumbass's proposal to open "security stations" near major spaceports in the outer rim planets, including Tatooine. Do you know what that moron (my neighbor, I mean, not the Emperor) said? "It's got nothing to do with me." Oh yeah? I can see why he'd say that, since he almost never even leaves his own property, but let's see what he thinks when the Empire starts taxing us for that "security." We don't even have representation in the Empire's government. Not that it would do us any good if we did.
But Lars is not the world's greatest conversationalist to begin with. And I'd like to say more about that, but right now I need to go check the 'vaporators.
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