What better excuse than Star Wars Day, the real Star Wars Day to get back on this site to add a blog entry.

Forget May 4th, today, May 25th is the real Star Wars day. Any fan that had been around back in 1977 when it opened knows this to be true. For some of us back then, it really changed our lives. Out of those, for some it was simply a great science fiction action adventure movie that excited us, for others, we appreciated it on that level as well as on a far deeper level.

Going beyond the surface of simply good vs. evil concepts to discovering meanings within the cinema magic that taught us that some things are worth fighting for, worth striving for, worth the effort and the journey it takes us to achieve those goals. They are all there in this initial first film of the Star Wars saga. We may not have been able to point to all the concepts at a young age, but we felt them in our inner beings, much like the Force itself.

Among the many representations of man’s relationship with machines both literal and figurative. The Empire being ‘the state,’ the machine and how we can face it and make changes for the better if necessary. We learned that some causes are worth fighting for even after loosing our world - again both literal and figurative (as represented in the case of Leia who literally lost her world and Luke who lost everything he knew to be his world).

Well, there is plenty more in the film, enough in it to write a paper on it, and I believe I did at some point. But back in 1977, thirty-two years ago today, even though I knew it ran deep, I may not had known exactly why when I was a mere 11 years old. Just bring on the lightsabers and Han Solo blasters (supplied by Kenner toys back then). Let’s face it, most of us wanted to be Han Solo at the time, I was no different as seen in these photos of me wielding a toy Han Solo blaster gun. There were no DVDs, no VHS movies, the only way to see the film was going to the theater over and over again to see it again and again. In between those moments of bliss, we relived the film anyway we could, acting out characters and recreating scenes with models, toys, and whatever we can come up with to make our own magic.