Jar Jar Binks
Sarah does not hate the universally reviled Star Wars character Jar Jar Binks and she has a pretty good reason.
Jar Jar, you see, was part of a running in-joke between her and her ailing grandfather.
She wrote about “Ho Ho Ding Ding” (his name for the Gungan jive talker in a piece for Consequence Of Sound.
To read the full story go here.
Filed under Films, Shameless Promotion
Weird Al has done a Star Wars song
Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens in theatres on December 18 and with it, hopefully, so will a cleansing flood that will wipe away the mind-boggling stench that was the last three movies in the franchise.
To celebrate this occasion I took a Coruscant taxi to the darkest corners of YouTube and found 18 songs based on Star Wars characters.
For the full list, including songs about Boba Fett, Chewbacca, R2-D2 and Yoda, head over to AUX by clicking here.
Filed under Culture, Films, Music, Shameless Promotion
Creed
One of the pleasant surprises from the world of film this year was the entirely credible reboot of the Rocky franchise with the film Creed.
Led by Michael B. Jordan as the son of Rocky’s greatest adversary Apollo Creed, one of the film’s great successes was the quality of the fight sequences.
Sarah looked into what kind of training Jordan did to prepare for his role in Creed.
To read all about it head over to Asian World Of Martial Arts by clicking here.
Filed under Films, Health, Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
Jon McLaughlin
Piano man Jon McLaughlin is using the profits from his new album Like Us to fight human trafficking in Bangladesh.
I spoke to McLaughlin about why he wanted to do this.
To find out the answer read the full story at Samaritan Mag by clicking here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Members of the Wu-Tang Clan with Bill Murray.
By now everybody knows about the Wu-Tang Clan selling their single-copy album The Wu-Once Upon A Time In Shaolin to the seventh most hated person on the planet, pharmacology exploiter Martin Shkreli.
And by now most people know there was a (false) rumour going around that the Wu had it written into their sales contract that that were legally permitted one “caper” where Bull Murray would join them and they could attempt to steal the album back.
As sad as we are knowing this will probably never happen, Sarah took the time to assess the various Wu members’ martial arts skills to judge whether or not they actually could pull off such a caper.
Filed under Jock Stuff, Music, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 