Augie’s Great Municipal Band

I opened up my iTunes to listen to The Long Blondes and I accidentally clicked on the last track of The Phantom Menace soundtrack, “Augie’s Great Municipal band and End Credits” and me being me, was too damn lazy to skip to the next track. Now, I have that last scene from that awful addition to one of cinema’s greatest stories, hell, the greatest story ever told on film, Star Wars. That’s right, it’s the Bible of the movies! And like the bible, it has some lesser additions (the Book of Mormon comes to mind).

What’s worse? Now I want to watch it again, for the Darth Maul fight and the last shots of the movie. You see, I always liked the way the very end of the film was constructed. It appeared to be a relatively happy ending, nothing really ominous about it. However, if you knew the Star Wars story, it’s the worst possible scenario to throw the Jedi and the Republic in. It would have been a masterful stroke, if the other films delivered the emotional impact it implied.

However, after May 2005, I was disappointed. Wow, it’s January 2006 and I’m still complaining about Star Wars. Wow.