These Are a Few of My Favorite Things

Star Wars and Kinkade, together at last: http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf?1
Classic.

Stars Wars and the Enduring Power of Myth

More here.

Also, here’s a life-size Stormtrooper cake:
Amanda Oakleaf in Massachusetts also made a Darth Vader cake, which is horrifying.

Darth Vader Watch: Gotye Parody

According to Slate, it “commandeers the heartache of Gotye’s megahit breakup anthem and make it about a different kind of heartbreak altogether—this time the sadness over the loss of the original Star Wars films.” Pretty heavy stuff:

More from Paste and the Hero Complex blog at the LA Times website.

More Star Wars stuff here.

Fun with the Death Star

Immediately after posting Darth Vader in a kilt (and on a unicycle playing bagpipes; can’t forget that), I came across this on Facebook:

And this on Tech Crunch:

Face it, people: the Empire won.

Darth Vader Watch: On a Unicycle, in a Kilt

It is (or was) a tradition at my high school for a bagpiper to march in the graduating class. Sad to say, they didn’t use this guy:

Thanks to the always internet-astute Peter MacDonald; if you live in St. John, take guitar lessons from him.

More Darth Vader here and, with bagpipes and a kilt, here. Learn all about bagpipe making in Nova Scotia between 1820 and 1920 (Why not?) here.

The Empire Strikes Back: With a New Ad Campaign

The Star Wars parodies just keep on coming (and coming and coming). Sneaky Zebra has been helping out Death Star PRwith a series of commercials that put a human face on the doomsday weapon-planet. Here’s my favorite:

It’s important that the Empire does stuff like this. They don’t want to come off looking like Microsoft. Those guys are evil.

I Can’t Wait for Clone Wars on Ice

Eat it, George Lucas. You can’t stop the power of Star Wars: The Musical.

As Open Culture points out, Salon.com has posted the entire parodic show that a group of Californian high-schoolers put together in 1996. Of course, Lucas didn’t find it funny, and had his lawyers shut the production down. But it lives on, thanks to the internet. Thank you, internet.

It’s really quite something; here’s the ending:

Darth Vader Still Scares Me Completely

There’s nothing funny about Darth Vader. Nothing. He’s the embodiment of evil. Have these people even seen Star Wars? I’ll have nightmares tonight.
http://www.hulu.com/embed/RWZOl8Dg037PpPx46KbaTQ

Darth Vader is Not My Friend. I Will Not Buy a Cell Phone from A Sith Lord.

Darth Vader has always scared the hell out of me. I find nothing cute about Chad Vader, and this is just plain horrifying:

For years, I had a recurring nightmare where mechanical Anakin would relentlessly follow me everywhere. He’d never quite catch me, but I could never fully escape.

Thanks to NTT DoComo’s ad for the Samsung Galaxy S, I can relive the dream!