The Saga Begins

You've GOT to go to: http://www.sagabegins.com/

It's great! It's "Weird Al" Yankovik's latest music video, an ode to
Star Wars, set to the tune of "American Pie".

In case you didn't know...

* Weird Al is a dude who writes damned funny music - you may have
heard of "Amish Paradise", "The Night Santa Went Crazy", "Gump", or
"Everything You Know Is Wrong"... A lot of them sound suspiciously
like songs that you know very well, until you listen to the lyrics.

* American Pie is an old classic Don McLean song... "Bye bye miss
american pie, drove my chevvy to the levvy but the levvy was dry" or
whatever. You must know it.

* Star Wars is a film about a boy who, oh, c'mon! What planet have you
been living on?

Unfortunately they seem to have made it as difficult as possible for
me to get you a copy for the www.ifis.org.uk web pages, so you'll
probably have to go direct yourselves :-(

Lyrics follow... WARNING! MAY CONTAIN SOMETHING THAT SOME PEOPLE WOULD
CONSIDER TO BE "SPOILERS" (but damned funny ones)!!!














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The Saga Begins

A long long time ago
in a galaxy far away
Naboo was under an attack
And I thought me and Qui-Gon Jinn
Could talk the Federation into
Maybe cutting them a little slack
But their response, it didn't thrill us
They locked the doors and tried to kill us
We escaped from that gas
Then met Jar Jar and Boss Nass
We took a bongo from the scene
And we went to Theed to see the queen
We all wound up on Tatooine
That's where we found this boy...

Oh my my, this here Anakin guy
May be Vader someday later - now he's just a small fry
And he left his home and kissed his mommy goodbye
Sayin' "Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi"
"Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi"

Did you know this junkyard slave
Isn't even old enough to shave
But he can use the Force they say
Ahh, do you see him hitting on the queen
Though he's just nine and she's fourteen
Yeah, he's probably gonna marry her someday
Well, I know he built C-3PO
And I've heard how fast his pod can go
And we were broke, it's true
So we made a wager or two
He was a prepubescent flyin' ace
And the minute Jabba started off that race
Well, I know who would win first place
Oh yes, it was our boy

We started singin'... My my, this here Anakin guy
May be Vader someday later - now he's just a small fry
And he left his home and kissed his mommy goodbye
Sayin' "Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi"
"Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi"

Now we finally got to Coruscant
The Jedi Council we knew would want
To see how good the boy could be
So we took him there and we told the tale
How his midi-chlorians were off the scale
And he might fulfill that prophecy
Oh, the Council was impressed, of course
Could he bring balance to the Force?
They interviewed the kid
Oh, training they forbid
Because Yoda sensed in him much fear
And Qui-Gon said, "Now listen here
Just stick it in your pointy ear
I still will teach this boy"

He was singin'... My my, this here Anakin guy
May be Vader someday later - now he's just a small fry
And he left his home and kissed his mommy goodbye
Sayin' "Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi"
"Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi"

We caught a ride back to Naboo
'Cause Queen Amidala wanted to
I frankly would've liked to stay
We all fought in that epic war
And it wasn't long at all before
Little Hotshot flew his plane and saved the day
And in the end some Gungans died
Some ships blew up and some pilots fried
A lot of folks were croakin'
The battle droids were broken
And the Jedi I admire most
Met up with Darth Maul and now he's toast
Well, I'm still here and he's a ghost
I guess I'll train this boy

[All together now!!!]

And I was singin'... My my, this here Anakin guy
May be Vader someday later - now he's just a small fry
And he left his home and kissed his mommy goodbye
Sayin' "Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi"
"Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi"
We were singin'... My my, this here Anakin guy
May be Vader someday later - now he's just a small fry
And he left his home and kissed his mommy goodbye
Sayin' "Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi"

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Nick Waterman. Network Consultant / Sysadmin - LEOnet.
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Weird Al is also responsible for such classics as "Eat it" and "Mad" taking
the p!$$ out of Michael Jackson. He also has a track "Dare to be Stupid"
on the Transformers the Movie Soundtrack - it's in the film where the
Junkions are getting it down with the Autobots

You forgot "Fat" (you should see the video of that one) and "This song is just
6 words long" (to the tune of "I've got my mind set on you").

And "Trigger happy" (according to Gordan).

Chris Lyth
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The world won't end in darkness,
It'll end in family fun,
With Coca-cola clouds
behind a Big Mac sun.

One God by The Beautiful South

In article <E10yzmA-0004bx-00@>, Nick Waterman <nick@> wrote:
You left out "Achy Breaky Song", "Like a Surgeon" ("cutting for the very
first time"), and the anthem for my X-files campaign, "Trigger Happy".

I'd got that "The Night Santa Went Crazy" was a general pisstake of the
likes of John Cougar and Bruce Springsteen, but is there a particular song
involved?
That's "levee" - a raised bit at the edge of a river to stop the place
flooding.
"Planet Earth. Welcome".


Unbelievably, we have already been offered bootleg video-CDs of "Phantom
Menace". Which shows how long it takes.



Simon

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Seen it via dodgy video. Very good. shame about the copy quality but hey
ho.....

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simon@ said:
[blah]
Well, and masses of others. He's possibly the most prolific musical
parody singer/songwriter on the planet.
Apparently about 50% of his stuff is actually 100% original, rather
than parody, so it wouldn't surprise me if this is one of them.
I had the opportunity of watching it at work several weeks ago, but
decided I'd rather wait and see it on the big screen. I saw The Matrix
on dodgy VideoCD ages before it was out in this country, and that
certainly didn't stop me going to see it on the big screen, but TPM I
decided to wait for.

For reference, this kind of thing is REALLY upsetting the film
industry, and they're seriously considering getting their act together
and having WORLDWIDE release dates, rather than releasing them in the
USA, then gradually recycling the cellulose as it slowly works it's
way around the world (yes, it's true, we're normally watching the same
reels that the USA has finished with), usually reaching us last,
whilst meanwhile allowing pirates to make stupid ammounts of money for
their own hard work. The reasons for recycling the cellulose are
becoming less and less relevant, the money made by the pirates is
getting higher and higher, and the speed at which the pirates can get
it to us is getting quicker. Having a single world-wide release date
probably won't ENTIRELY wipe out piracy, but it can surely only be a
good thing for both the consumer and the movie industry.

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With SW it really makes no sense at all having stepped release dates -
especially when all the merchandise came out at the same time world wide
(first week of May)

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Well it's about f***ing time. I can understand staggered release dates for
the purposes of dubbing it into the relevant language, but for us to see
exactly the same film two months after America makes no sense. As can be
seen, people will either spend ludicrous amounts of money going to see it
there, or get a pirate copy.

Andy

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For those that are interested...

Quoted from www.dvdfile.com, a rather good source for these sorts of things:

Digital Jedi : No, you were not seeing things on the front page. I truly was
not expecting to be able to post this news this century, but I spoke with
Lucasfilm yesterday, and I was told that, yes, Star Wars would be released
on DVD this Christmas. Believe me, I am just as shocked as you probably are.

I was actually contacting Lucasfilm about the lack of the Indiana Jones
special editions appearing on DVD, for a more overall story (a la The
Spielberg pieces) on Lucas and his stance
towards the format. It was important for me to relay to them the
disappointment I was hearing from most of you towards Lucas (and Spielberg)
for not supporting the format. So I was also set to ramble on and on about
consumer resentment, disregard for quality, etc. I thought I was going to be
all Mr. Aggressive, but my plan was thwarted when they called back and
offered a reponse to my inquiries, especially as to why such a fan of
digital technology and
the format itself (given Lucas' public comments about it) was not doing DVD.

The very nice rep explained that not only was Lucas not against DVD, but he
was supporting it. Just as I was scratching my chin, the news was
delivered...in flat-out and in no uncertain terms, Star Wars is being
released to DVD this Christmas. The rep seemed very happy by the news, and
seemed pleased as well with my obvious excitement. However, please do not
email me asking for features, etc. In fact, I don't even know if it is going
to be the whole trilogy, or maybe it is just The Phantom Menace. All I was
able to be told was that, again, "Star Wars will be released on DVD this
Christmas". End of statement. Expect more details to follow. A call has also
been put to Fox, though no comment was available for this posting.

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Matthew Houghton

Sorry to disappoint you Matt but http://www.rebelscum.com/

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