May the Fourth - Star Wars Day Celebration Recap

Recently the world's most baddest-assed awesome people got together to celebrate something they love.

That's right nerds, May the Forth. 

For those of you not in the know, May the 4th is a celebration where Star Wars fans let their geek flags fly. This year I was happy to count myself among them. My wife, Jia and I held a marathon.  Not your mother's marathon but a fucking bad ass muthafucka marathon. and it all started with a traditional . . . pre-fight DONUT!

(I know that's a different trilogy reference but it belongs on this blog, trust me)

I should warn you, it was hard core.

We viewed the marathon in what has been called "The Machete Cut" which you watch both trilogies, but a better playing order. It goes:

1. Star Wars: A New Hope
2. Empire Strikes Back
3. Attack of the Clones
4. Revenge of the Sith
5. Return of the Jedi. 

For those keeping track numerically that's 4, 5, 2, 3, 6. No Episode 1! No Jar Jar! No midichlorians! Downside though no Qui-Gon Jin and no Darth Maul, but the skipping 1 has no other drawbacks. All the characters that survive Episode 1 are reintroduced at the beginning of 2 so you don't miss out or feel lost. This is supposed to be a superior way to show the movies to someone who has never seen them before, but ended up just being a great way to watch altogether. And we tweeted the whole thing (except for the last two movies cause by then both phones died).

The whole shebang only started with the donuts. I went to a local shop here in Albuquerque called Rebel Donut (if you're a fan of Star Wars you'll get how bad-ass that is). Then we started A New Hope.

Moved into Empire Strikes back without an intermission and took a short break for Subway, then came back and finished Empire.

We started Attack of the Clones and I quickly realized I hadn't watched AoC since it was in theaters, and apparently wasn't paying attention when I did. Damn though Ewan McGregor is a fine ass man, if I swang that way. . . Who am I kidding? I would have no chance.

After watching what seemed like a completely new Star Wars movie, we broke for steak, and huddled back up on the couch for some Revenge of the Sith. Gotta say, I really enjoy some lightsaber action. Watching the terrible Hayden Christensen get his legs chopped off is worth the price of admission. We ended the night with Return of the Jedi, as it should be.

We did have some extra fun along the way, which we will continue next year. We had a few drinking games, but since we were unprepared and didn't have anything to drink it became high-fives. We did so every time someone lost a hand, gave someone "the odds", hit their head on overhanging doors, said "I've got a bad feeling about this" (this actually made my hand ache, it happens A LOT), and a few others.

All in all it was a successful night, long in the making (I bought the series on blu ray in February) despite Jia getting sick and us canceling the party we originally planned (like any first time, it was better just with the two of us.)

Next year everyone reading this is invited.

-ASM out