star wars

If you're ever in Victoria, show this man some love!

Vinyl junkies and nerdy hip-hop heads are no doubt salivating at this awesome R2D2-styled turntable. It looks like a heavily modded Technics 1200, so it's not too out of the question to find one on Craigslist to build a C3PO counterpart.

[boingboing]

The Empire Rocks Back.

[technabob via TDWGeek]

Who knew that the walking, talking, rapping, moonwalking Tupac hologram at Coachella would get the internet's sci-fi juices running so quickly?

I'm altering your playlist. Pray I don't alter it further!

Look, you bastards will eat up anything excreted by the overworked and aging Star Wars behemoth, so here's a rendition of a Justin Bieber song in an unholy alliance with the Internet's Fan-Favorite Multiverse. You're welcome.

Video by Teddie Films.

This epic meet-up went down in 1980, during Queen's tour promoting their new album The Game. I'm sure it made the part where Freddie croons "Mamaaaaaa..." during Bohemian Rhapsody that much more poignant.

Oh wait, the prequels weren't out yet. It was a simpler time.

He could have won accolades based solely on the Star Wars reference and lame puns about guitarbonite, but Travis Stevens carried through and crafted a polished-looking guitar mod shaped like Han Solo's carbonite prison. Would Solo mind that you're fingering his genital area even if he's trapped in hibernation?

Oh, and the current owner of that guitar is Tom Moody, the co-founder of Evanescence. So there's that.

[via Neatorama]

Musician Charles Laurita created this toned-down rendition of our favorite seedy space-bar music.

You guys! What if Kraftwerk is really a sci-fi supergroup? They'd be like the futuristic version of The Travelling Wilburys!

The sublime effect of this pairing is more transcendent without context, but if you REALLY want to know where this picture came from, it was from some event sponsoring a Star Wars-themed Adidas shoe.