The One-Man Star Wars Trilogy

Those who know me can pretty much tell you that a lot of my brain space is taken up memorizing a great deal of minutia. I am an elephant of elephants, able to memorize the most painstaking detail of things: birthdays that were mentioned once, phone numbers for friends in grammar school, when I’ve actually met someone in real life, and in some cases, I’m able to recount whole days to find your lost items if I was with you that day. It is both my blessing and my curse; I’m sure that more pertinent information has leaked from my head in life as a result.

One of these things taking up space is for me to memorize scenes from Star Wars — or Scarface, or the Breakfast Club, or a bunch of other movies… but mostly Star Wars. My penchant for reciting whole scenes for Star Wars is sometimes both terrifying and amusing to people close to me. That being said, in the vein of whipping off one-liners from Star Wars verbatim, no one should be surprised to know that I attended the “One-Man Star Wars Trilogy” the other night.

I was given a press pass, so there’s the disclaimer. However, I think I realize two particular things as a result of this event: 1) I didn’t know Return of the Jedi as well as I thought I did, and 2) think that my obvious bias for the awesome geekiness shows too much.

So, here are the facts: Charles Ross, the “one man” behind the “One-Man Star Wars Trilogy” has been doing exactly what the show promises in the title for the past 5 years — making him a professional geek for sure. Not only is he licensed by Lucasfilm, but now is currently in San Francisco Bay Area (the home of Lucasfilm and its’ associated properties) for a 14-day run. The last 7 days of Ross’ show are coming up at the Post Street Theatre from Tuesday, March 6th through Sunday, March 11th.

So without too much more editorial on my part, here’s the interview that I taped that Matt did with Charles Ross after his hour-long performance on opening night here in SF. (Sorry about the lighting; it wasn’t too good to tell you the truth.)

2 comments March 5th, 2007