Monday

One of the treats of blog trolling is discovering items like this.
I know nothing about the artist or what the video is about.
I do recognise Chloe Sevigny from Big Love.
Nothing else, and I don't want any additional information.
This was something swell for this morning in November.

Yippee!!

To Welcome

Silas Cooper Smith

"Many Bothans Died"

I love that line.

And I love the face and voice of the female character who presents it.  She looks all dreamy eyed and sorrowful.  I imagine she knows what a great sacrifice is.

So I couldn't help but wonder (to blatantly steal a Carrie Bradshaw line and hopelessly mix my television and film metaphors) what was the name of this person whoever so briefly appears in Return of the Jedi?  And who, pray tell, came up with the names for all the Star Wars "stuff"?  Planets, people, vehicles, weapons, all the other characters.  I was betting George Lucas.  And I was pretty sure the answer would be easy to find.

Imagine my surprise when I discovered the following:

Yes, a giant wiki totally devoted to Star Wars info. I thought my questions were simple. NOPE!!!  I'm not an obsessed SW fan by any means.  Haven't thought about the films in years.  And so I was astonished to read about the ever continuing saga.  More battles!  More planets!  And SO many more characters!  Since I didn't know the name of the woman I was seeking I tried for Princess Leia.  I figured she was major and perhaps there would be a reference.

Leia

                                                              

Oh, Lordee Lordee!  So much information!  So many tangents!  She and Han got married, apparently.  I can picture them changing intergalactic diapers and arguing about weapons themed pre schools. The three Solo kids were all handsome. Yet, somehow different from their parents. Jacen and Jaina the twins.  Anakin the baby brother.

Jacen

Jaina

Anakin

                                                                  

See the difference?  Mommy Leia is an actual human.  The kiddies are sketches.  Comic book characters?  Computer generated images? Beats me, but I'd had enough.  I did not want to wade through hundreds of pages of information about more pretend stuff attempting to find my answer.  And I did NOT want to see anymore CG stuff either.  Clearly there was a reason why I had stopped watching SW films when the "first" three were theatrically released.

I never did find out the character's name.  (And I DO NOT want to be chided for giving up the search or pointed in another online direction!)  But I still figure Lucas did the official naming.  He always seemed to have his eye on the bottom line.  May the force be with you.

Wazzup Names

When I was a teenaged girl I did not have a driver's license or a car and I certainly knew better than to consider asking for rides places.  I think I still had my bike, which I LOVED, but biking when you're in high school says "loserville" and I had enough to deal with already.  I baby sat for money and I made plenty.  For that time, of course fifty cents an hour was major coin.  I had a lock on most of the teachers' kids.  Them that had 'em; most of the teachers I realize now were just a few years older than me.

Babysitting meant I was trusted and responsible.  Check.  It meant I was out of the house.  Double check.  It meant I got to see how other folk lived.  Hoo Baby Triple check!  Wow!  Houses with more than one bathroom!  Carpet in a kitchen!  (OK, that was a little weird.)  Kids with their own bedrooms.  Basements tricked out with TV's, sewing machines, and ping pong tables!  Attached garages!  It really was a different world.

But, today I'm thinking about the kid names I remember.  When I had  my own daughters I spent many, many hours considering what their names should be.  I stand by those choices.  My kids ARE their names.

 But some of those names from long  ago.  Bambi:  not good, never will be President.  This child was gorgeous and, I think grew up to be a Playboy bunny AND a police officer.  So I make no claim to total "name" power.  But her parents didn't realize the Disney Bambi was a boy. 

 Pippa: excellent, exotic without being weird, yeah, there's Pippi Longstocking but that was different just enough not to count.  She also had great freckles and her dad was one of the smartest men I had met by then.

Last night I watched some old 60 Minutes clips.  Angelina Jolie as a responsible grown up.  Good for her.  Her kids have unusual names.  They are acceptable on my unofficial, very personal list.  I'll bet those kids will get teased, but not very much.  The boys' names all have "x" in them.  I wonder if that was intentional.

And then there's Jay Z and Beyonce.  Blue Ivy is not SO out there. (I confess I listened to the song as soon as I heard about it.  I don't understand rap music as a whole.  I recognise the passion and I'm glad it's out there as a genre'.  I'm just not sure it's music.  To me it's more of a poetry slam with a bit of backup.  The poetry is not always good and I do not appreciate all the misspelled words.  Sorry, that's an old white curmudgeon  talking.) It was nice to hear a dad in love with his child.  But is that the baby's mother in labor in the background?  I hear the baby crying a bit toward the end of the song.  I think I read that there's a sample of Mrs. Carter moaning as she was giving birth. 

Oh! NONONONONONo!  I wish that (if that's what it is) would have been kept private.  That baby is going to be in the world like celebrity babies and I feel bad for her already.  Maybe she will appreciate her name.  I hope it was chosen with love and caring for her by her parents.  But the music of her actual birth; that should be hers alone.