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100 Things You Didn’t Know About The Empire Strikes Back

This “article” is chock-full of awesome. I don’t even know how to pick one or two blurbs, to entice you, as they are all awesome.

The scene in which a swamp creature grabs R2-D2 was filmed in George Lucas’ unfinished swimming pool.

While the uninitiated may disagree, The Empire Strikes Back did not introduce everyone’s favorite bounty hunter, Boba Fett, to the mainstream masses. The character actually appeared two years prior, albeit in an animated form, in the much-maligned Star Wars Holiday Special.

During the filming of the Bacta Tank sequence, where Luke is being treated for his post-wampa injuries, a massive light above the tank cracked, sending huge pieces of glass stabbing down into the water – moments before Mark Hamill was set to enter the tank for filming.

Fuck yeah, tattoos!

“I’m a math major. (fuckyeahmath!) C stands for a constant that you add to a function after you integrate it. A constant can stand for anything. Anything can be at your fingertips.”

 This site has some seriously great tattoos.

Microcosm publishing

So here’s the best four dollars of your life: a zine with Danzig and Henry Rollins as lovers, pestered by their neighbors, Hall and Oates.

As the real-life Rollins says, quoted on the back cover, “Has Glenn seen this? Trust me, he would not be impressed.”

Microcosm also has awesome stickers and patches (and more, I’m sure, I just looked at stickers and patches!):

There’s even a self-portrait of me!

Jerah had turquoise eyebrows

If you like wearing

and

Maybe you’d like one of these.

Details from Jerah…

 Full get-up was here.

Hanging from my belt

My glitterstim pipe:

An opium pipe, a gift from a dear, globe-trotting friend.

My “military” accoutrement, courtesy of last year’s Alchemy:

And, of course, my bottle of Lando vintage emerald wine:

Also, since we’re talking about costume details, I was Birdgirl: Attorney at Law, a few years ago. I looked spectacular…per usual, about…oh, two people had a clue who I was.

I made a briefcase

I represent the National Bird Man Love Association. Here’s my card:

Tumblrs are my new thing

Not really, but want:

Merciful Heavens! Steampunk!

Costumerism is the new bookmark.

WHAT IS THE MOST AWESOME THING ever??

Alaska or the Beatles Rock Band game?

Judge Dredd or cilantro?

Care Bears or the 19th Amendment?

Applebee’s or Internet Explorer?

Decide for YOURSELF. If you can handle the awesome.

Something called WonderCon happened

And these guys are awesome.

A few more pics @ Cinematical, but who cares?

In which I win a prize!

Jerah was a success.

“Fucking Alderaan!”  Jerah, Dharus privateer recruited into the Renegade Squadron. Human, residing in the Forest of Endor when not on covert ops. Or “co-op missions…who needs quinoa??”

(Jerah is a name I stole from a college friend.)

A very good place to start (the beginning):

I have a Hair High. It’s like a Bump It, only it’s a dollar.

I wove my own hair into a black wig and pinned the dreads I’d made all over it – it was hot and heavy, alllll night long…

Way more fairy than Star Wars :/ But from head to toe:

 -  My pirate queen coat with a Renegade Squadron and Dharus patch, tea-dyed canvas and shiny dress shirt fabric sewn onto a bustier – and a pocked from a pair of cargo shorts on one breast

- belt from Blue Moon, opium pipe from Hank, respirator from 3M, grommets from corset I never finished glued on the side

 - plain black leggings with one leg of another pair “garted” with the drawstring from the cargo shorts, and a pocket from the cargo shorts sewn on the side

- good ol’ stompy boots with polar fleece stuff wrapped around the calf, corduroy strips around the sole

- arm warmers from Shibari

- machete knife tied to my thigh with aforementioned drawstring

- I blacked my teeth out. I’m surprised every time by the reaction I get from people – overwhelmingly disturbed (they are).

- dog tag and bullet from Alchemy and Lamplighters

- L’Oreal Plumage lipstick, orange eyeshadow, bronzer and so forth – oh, and turquoise mascara sweeping my eyebrows straight up

-  Lando’s Emerald Wine – pairs with braised nerf! I was quite proud of that bottle.

It works every time! I forgot to take a picture of it before it got drunk up, it was white wine (blech) with green food coloring, a la ambrosia…like I said. Aaron got it.

I do love the Whig, the bartenders can be really fun. We did shots of  Emerald Wine

There was even a costume contest that I didn’t know about. I didn’t want to participate – I just…feel weird, but I got dragged up there, and I won!

That wasn’t even the best part. I loved when they announced the winners, “…Tim* for Android Warhol and Michele…for…being…Michele!!”

I even got a PRIZE! Gift certificate to the store I got the coat from.

This is where I get into trouble.

Hand-dying thread

and hand-embroidering screenprinted patches

Now if I only knew someone who’d make me blasters (ie, metalish sculpty manly work) in exchange for my dainty lil’ eye for clothing detail…