Fun with Downloads

Yes, the topic of today's blog entry is "Fun with Downloads." And, believe me, when you've got a dial-up connection, fun with downloads really does take you all day. Call me easily amused, but I think some of this stuff was worth it.

First off, the same friend who sent me the URL for the Han Solo article I mentioned last time also put me on to a couple of pieces of wonderful Star Wars madness. "The Han Solo Affair" is a short Star Wars sketch produced entirely with Legos. And I gotta say, some of the acting in it is better than in the last couple of movies. Heh. Then we've got a segment from Late Night with Conan O'Brien featuring "Triumph, the Comic Insult Dog" making fun of Star Wars fans in line to see Attack of the Clones. I feel as if I should disapprove of this on principle, being as it perpetuates unfair negative stereotypes of fans. But I just can't, 'cause, frankly, it's funny as hell.

For the Farscape fans, the Sci-Fi Channel has a couple of pieces of music available for download from the soundtrack to last month's incredible two-parter "Into the Lion's Den." One of the (many) things I really loved about this episode was the music, powerful choral stuff that really added to the epic feel of the whole thing. I notice that the website also gives a translation for the lyrics, which turn out to be wonderfully appropriate ("...save me/save me/for I am guilty..."). I am never, ever going to get that image of Scorpius standing on the stairs out of my mind, and the music is a large part of the reason why. (If you've seen it, you know what I'm talking about. And if you haven't (and if you're an American who gets the Sci-Fi Channel, which it suddenly occurs to me probably leaves out the majority of the people who've admitted to reading this blog), you'll have a second chance soon. They're going to be running a Farscape marathon all day Friday (May 31st), and I believe they're going to be showing that one at some point, along with a whole bunch of other great episodes. Plug, plug.) For an amusing change of pace, you can also download the show's opening monolog in either French or German (and thanks to the person who posted these links on one of the FS BBoard sites for pointing this out!). Is it just me, or does the French Crichton really sound like he's about to completely lose it?

Oh, one thing to note: for everything I've linked to here except the Farscape soundtrack stuff and the Lego thing, if you just click on the link, all you'll get is a screenfull of gibberish. Try right-clicking and hitting "save link as" to download instead. (Yeah, can you tell who's not nearly as internet-savvy as she pretends to be and occasionally has trouble figuring stuff like this out?)