Bonnie details her ShoWest experience – or at least the many movie posters and displays there – at the official blog and Flickr.
Can you hear the drums, Kenobi?
ABBA the Hutt. Yes, exactly what you think it is. (via Boing Boing)
Thanks to HollywdLiz, we have a few Abba filks in the CJFA: Naboo Queen, On Naboo, and Kenobi.
Weird Al going on tour
I know Phil will be there – Will you?
Filk Friday
In the summer of 2000, there was a special event held at GenCon (back when there was just one, and it was in Milwaukee) that will likely live on in convention and Club Jade infamy for generations. The previous fall, Del Rey had taken the reigns of the Star Wars novel line and started things off by killing Chewbacca. Club Jade, in turn, held a funeral and wake for the mighty wookiee at GenCon, complete with a processional bearing his coffin marching through the Hyatt led by a bagpiper tooting Amazing Grace. The Normals were stunned, I tell you.
At the following wake was held a filking tribute to Chewie, a contest where victory was claimed by Carla Lute with her Dixie Chicks filk, “Chewie Had to Die”.
Filk Friday
What do Avril Lavigne and Anakin Skywalker have in common? They both love to whiiiiine!
In this case, we even have Avril Lavigne (playing the part of Padme) whining about Anakin Skywalker. In this week’s featured filk, Luci asks why must everything be so Sith-Related.
Filk Friday
This week’s featured filk is inspired by events in the Heir to the Empire trilogy, the book series that brought a group of online fans together and resulted in the inception of Club Jade. I Wanna Clone Your Hand by Echo was one of Club Jade’s first filks, and remains a classic. Every now and then, one finds a song and matching parody idea just begging to be filked, and I have to imagine this was one of those times. I’m not sure what I find more amusing: the clever twist on the original Beatles lyrics, or the mental image of Joruus C’Boath singing them!
Filk Friday
Happy New Year, and happy year-of-30th-anniversary-celebrations to Star Wars and its fans!
For the first featured filk in this year of celebration, Bogan reminds us what A New Hope, nay, the entire Star Wars saga is truely about (whining!) with his Carpenters parody, Luke’s Lament.
Filk Friday
Nothing embodies the holiday season quite like self-destructive love. Er, anyway, this week’s filk of a holiday song again takes us to Buffy the Vampire Slayer in its middle/late 6th season. She didn’t get run over by a reindeer, but apparently she did have a Shagfest with a Vampire.
Filk Friday
Continuing with this month’s theme of holiday song filks, we’re taking a brief cross over trip into the Whedonverse. I mean seriously, who could resist filking the line “sleighing song” into “slaying song”? Sithspit sure couldn’t, and here’s the rest of his Jingle Bells filk entitled Sent to Hell.
Filk Friday
After a short break for some turkey and gravy, Filk Friday is back and ready for the holiday season! To kick off the festivities, these week’s featured filk is actually a parody of a satire (filking a filk?). While not techically a filk itself, the song this filk is based on is one of my favorite Christmas songs ever: The Night Santa Went Crazy by reknown filk and satire artist, “Weird” Al Yankovic. While the filk is not technically a Christmas song, Shack’s The Night Mara Went Crazy surely captures the manic insanity of the original song.