Greatest Desktop EVER!!!
Jim West writes: “In one of those ‘I wonder what…’ moments we all have from time to time I wondered this eve what folk have as their desktop background. So let’s see. Bibliobloggers one and all, take a screen shot of your desktop (if it’s not filthy), post it on your blog, and drop me a note in comments when you’ve so done so I, and others, can take a look.”
I don’t have to change my desktop as often as Jim as I already have the greatest picture ever conceived in the history of mankind on mine.
Ladies and Gentlemen: Star Wars Rocks!
Greatest Desktop Ever!
This picture is the first thing I see when I turn on my laptop or home computer and it inspires me to research and write about the deep things of God and the universe. If you put it on your desktop you can be guaranteed to have at least an 8 point jump in your IQ, and a 10% increase in your productivity.
If you haven’t already go to Jim’s blog and take The Desktop Challenge.
oh that’s just sad…
Sad? Sad? Really? Sad?
I may have to spend my holidays in December in a Tilling-esque Zwingli smear campaign…
i must admit that desktop pic. is pretty cool!
Vader is a bass player. Huh. Figures the ape is the drummer (think Animal). We get no love for actually having a brain.
I’m outclassed. I’ll admit it. Here’s my meager offering:
http://stephenbarkley.com/2008/11/16/the-bibliobloggers-desktop-challenge/
Seriously, the lack of recognition here of the greatest photo ever is the sad thing.
I have that framed in my house as a mock of one of those corporate inspirational things:
http://www.piepalace.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/sw-awesome.jpg
oh you people are just tragic! star wars??? really???????
Alright, alright that’s enough. Prequels aside (cause they don’t count) name one piece of cinematic pop culture that’s more “rad” than Star Wars.
Seriously though from a film making perspective, they changed everything. From how movies are made to even (though I’m sure you’ll never admit it) how YOU watch movies.
From a storytelling perspective, the three films are IMMENSE. Powerful universal archetypes and characters locked in the timeless struggle of good vs evil that resolves with a message of redemption. It incorporates elements of the fantastic that are still utterly relatable and yet bold enough to pull you into a totally different world (or galaxy if you will).
I would go so far as to say Star Wars is a modern example of Narrative Art at its most brilliant and absolute pinnacle.
It would rock more if it was on a Mac desktop…
You guys are such freaking geeks.
Y’all rock!
Jake, something for you: link
And for you, Scott: link (sage advice, that)
Drew: I thought Yoda would’ve made a better drummer, especially after that duel with Dooku… I immediately thought of Tommy Lee spinning over the audience in his set…..
Brian, you should’ve sent me that on May 18th, 1999. The day before Phantom Menace came out and shattered my youthful naivety.
I think Die Hard made more of a change in how movies were made but it is still less iconic than Star Wars.
die hard was way better. as were all the sequels. star wars is for pansies.
;-p
Seriously you all jest? The acme of movie making in an ongoing series is surely Rock III… everything else is just derivative.
Interviewer: Do you hate Rocky?
Clubber Lang: No, I don’t hate Balboa. I pity the fool, and I will destroy any man who tries to take what I got!
Thunderlips: To all my love slaves out there: Thunderlips is here. In the flesh, baby. The ultimate male versus… the ultimate meatball. Ha, ha, ha.
Clubber Lang: i don’t accept the challenge, ’cause there is not challenge, but I’d be more than happy to beat up on Balboa some more.
Classic
Just wondering if Dr Jim is hereby proffering himself as the ultimate authority on all things pansy…? It certainly would seem so.
Besides, Scott, the pinnacle of franchise movie-making was patently obvious in The Army of Darkness. How can you beat lines like these:
“Good. Bad. [shrugs] I’m the guy with the gun.”
“You want some? Come get some!”
“Don’t touch that! It has compounds and molecules and stuff… Your prehistoric little brain wouldn’t understand it!”
“Oh, baby, that was just pillow talk…”
“Gimme some sugar, baby.”
“Klaatu! Verata! Ni–(cough)(cough)!”
“SALLY FO-aagghh… SALLY FO-aaaggghhh…. sally forth…”
“Lady, you got re-e-e-eal ugly.”
“Hail to the king, baby.”
You can’t beat this stuff. You can’t. Don’t even try. You will fail. And if you haven’t seen the movie, it just proves you are sucktacular.
[Dr Jim may find it interesting, assuming he doesn't already know, that the two predecessors, Evil Dead and Evil Dead II, were filmed on a Super 8 camera in the hills of eastern Tennessee.]
Whilst my all time allegiance will always and forever be to Star Wars, I’ll concede to the awesomeness of Army of Darkness.
And who thinks Die Hard changed movies in a way that Star Wars did??? That’s just crazy talk.
Well, you know, Jake, there is that old saying, “Crazy as a Tennessee Zwinglist.”
The Die Hard franchise had some great and memorable lines, some awesome scenes, and–perhaps best of all, from certain peoples’ perspectives–proved that retirment-aged people could still pull of credible action flicks. That opened the door for things like Space Cowboys, <Unforgiven, and pretty much everything else Tommy Lee Jones and Clint Eastwood have done in the last decade.
Except Million Dollar Baby. I mean, I’m still trying to figure out what the chucking point of that one was. “Girls shouldn’t box”? “Suicide is painless; that goes double if you’re paralyzed”? “Don’t train with Eastwood”? “If you fight an aging latina whose career is on the line, you do so at your own peril”?
brian you’re just half a pansy away from become a tilling-ist!
It is not about lines people. Die Hard was the first action film that had non-stop action. It transformed a whole genre of films. It had many imitators. Star Wars was brilliant but did it have that great an influence on film-making? Come on the cheesy (but highly enjoyable) lines have been a mainstay of film forever.
Frank,
You must be unfamiliar with the many, many contributions to the film-making (or, as Jim might say, “movin’ pitcher”) industry that the George Lucas brain-trust has made: THX, Skywalker Sound (studios), Industrial Light & Magic (who were able to insert Brandon Lee into the ground-breaking The Crow even though he was tragically killed halfway through filming; this seems pedestrian today vis a vis CG precisely because ILM pulled it off with prehistoric graphics capacity in the early 90s), and LucasFilm, to name a few. All had their genesis in the Star Wars franchise.
While I maintain that Army of Darkness is and always will be the acme of motion picture writing, acting, and direction, the mark that Star Wars has made on the film industry–not to mention Western popular culture–is deep and indelible.
By the way, the entrails of my mind are on display here.
One is backhanded commentary on life working in a heavily regulated industry.
The other blows yours away, frankly, Scott. If I do say so myself.