Thursday, April 14, 2005

I tried to sleep last night, but I was wired or something, and I just couldn't; I got to sleep about 8pm, only to have my roomie wake me up (for a good reason) but it was hard to accept that while I was tired and cranky, and I'd just gotten to sleep after hours of trying - luckily for us both, he shut off the light as I asked him to do, and we sorted things out fairly quickly, and I fell asleep again without the hassle I'd gone through earlier; I slept till 4:50pm. I guess I really needed that.

I've listened to the Garbage CD several times now and my 3 favorite tracks so far are "Run Baby Run", "Boys Wanna Fight", & "It's All Over But The Crying". I'm sure that will change as I listen to the cd more; I'm wacky like that.

Labyrinth of Evil, the Star Wars book I'm reading is like 'continuity porn'! It takes the Clone Wars comics, games, cartoons, novels, and combines all that info with the rest of the prequel novels, the 2 previous Episodes, and sets the stage for the 3rd & final prequel, while simultaniously, foreshadowing the original trilogy. It's amazing really, and a lot of fun for me to read. It's probably an ok book to read if you haven't read a Star Wars book before, and will help you understand the goings on in Episode III, but it's a much better experience if you've been following the Expanded Universe storylines.

I orginally started reading Star Wars novels after seeing The Phantom Menace. I didn't love the movie, but I wanted to like it more than I did. I didn't love Liam Neeson, and his character's death is supposed to be this big dramatic thing, but I didn't know that much about his character to really think of him as Qui-Gon Jin, I just saw Liam "die" which, made me giggle. But I wanted to feel something there, so I decided I'd read the then, fairly limited prequel books that led up to Episode I. I read the Jedi Apprentice series, a young adult series of novels (I love teenybopper books! lol); and that entire series was, for the most part available at the time, it was just a matter of finding them all; the series really helped me out, in that it was all about how Obi-Wan became Qui-Gon's apprentice - it also didn't hurt that in many of the books it felt like Qui-Gon & Obi-Wan were a couple. ;-0) This made me love Qui-Gon & when I eventually saw Episode I again, I cried when he died, and after that I even got over my odd Liam problem, and I like him now. lol I'm so weird.

Then I realized that I wanted to continue reading, so I continued with the prequel books, and after reading "Cloak of Deception", "Darth Maul: Saboteur", the "Darth Maul" graphic novel, & "Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter" which led directly into Episode I, I liked Episode I even more, because it was a perfect continuation of the novels, and I now understood all the political aspects of the film, that I didn't quite grasp before. I thought the novelization of Episode I was boring. The novelization of Episode II kicked ass. I own the novelization of Episode III, but I haven't decided if I'm going to read it before or after seeing Episode III in theaters.

I got the 2nd Volume of Teen Titans in the mail today; that give me the complete 1st Season. I'll enjoy them eventually, but I'm not excited by them at the moment.

I should probably eat something; maybe continue my book, or watch one of the movies I've bought recently, and not actually watched yet.

Even when my life is somewhat boring, it amuses me.

   posted by Bald Jason at 05:55 PM
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