Dinner conversation at some ridiculous spaghetti place in Indianapolis IN; further evidence that living a quarter of your life in hotel rooms is not good for your sanity:
“I love free time on tour; all I do is just hang out in my hotel room…”
“Aaaagh - I’m not really a big fan of hotel rooms; they are antiseptic and so plastic-fantastic. I really like our situation at DePauw: living in a big, fabulous old house.”
“Naaah, hotel rooms are like tabula rasa; they are clean and perfect when you arrive, as if they were made just for you. In fact, they always make me think of the black hole on Star Wars, the one that Luke goes through…”
“Huh?”
“…when he’s with Yoda.”
“On Dagobah?”
“Yeah, when Yoda tests his strength, and he has to go up against that fake Darth Vader.”
“Hotel rooms make you think of a black hole on Dagobah?”
“Yeah, it’s like they don’t exist until you stay there.”
(Semicolon count: 4. A new thirteen ways record!)
CORRECTION: Our intrepid travel guy over at Opus 3 Artists, the Star Wars/Rubicks Cube geek JCG III, written in to correct a pretty fundamental inaccuracy in the above post:
Hey guys, hate to break it to you — I don’t think there were any black holes on Dagobah. Luke got there with hyperdrive of his X-wing, and Yoda manifested Darth through his Jedi voodoo.
But if we are making analogies between hotels and something in George Lucas’s imagination, I pose to 8bb a question: Are most hotels closet to:
1) Cloud City (where Luke’s hand is lopped off by his dad, and the property exisit solely through corrupt business practices and smuggling, but those things aside, it is pretty great.)
2) Leia’s Prison Cell (right before the great trash compactor scene with the snake thing. The rooms are clean and quite, but you are left questioning what enemy of the empire is next door.)
3) Ewok Tree Houses (Those things just looked fun and the company and entertainment can’t be beat. Who doesn’t like a tree house anyways? Tall Aussie flute players would hit their head on the Ewok door frames, and your feet would hang off the end of the beds, but you can’t have everything.)
Take a poll, propose alternatives if needed, and let me know.
In his defense, apparently I misunderstood Matthew last night. He didn’t mean a “black hole”, but rather, “you know, a hole…one that is dark”.
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Hey guys, hate to break it to you — I don’t think there were any black holes on Dagobah. Luke got there with hyperdrive of his X-wing, and Yoda manifested Darth through his Jedi voodoo.
But if we are making analogies between hotels and something in George Lucas’s imagination, I pose to 8bb a question: Are most hotels closet to:
1) Cloud City (where Luke’s hand is lopped off by his dad, and the property exisit solely through corrupt business practices and smuggling, but those things aside, it is pretty great.)
2) Leia’s Prison Cell (right before the great trash compactor scene with the snake thing. The rooms are clean and quite, but you are left questioning what enemy of the empire is next door.)
3) Ewok Tree Houses (Those things just looked fun and the company and entertainment can’t be beat. Who doesn’t like a tree house anyways? Tall Aussie flute players would hit their head on the Ewok door frames, and your feet would hang off the end of the beds, but you can’t have everything.)
Take a poll, propose alternatives if needed, and let me know.
Cheers. Break a leg tomorrow.
Posted 27 Nov 2007 at 9:19 pm ¶Definitely #2. Dark, impersonal, and completely separated from other friendlies, but also neat and tidy. And you only get what you bring into it — a key point of the Dagobah comparison.
Posted 30 Nov 2007 at 7:58 am ¶Okay — remind me to NEVER again say “break a leg”; I just saw the post about Tim’s noggin in Indy. Sorry, Tim. Aussie’s are made of tough stuff.
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