The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century

After five years of toiling in the studio, geek-parody band Palette-Swap Ninja have released their masterpiece, Princess Leia’s Stolen Death Star Plans, which brings together the storyline of Star Wars: A New Hope (which has its 40th anniversary this year) and the songs from The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (released 50 years ago). For a guy like me — music aficionado, geek, and regular player of the Star Wars role-playing game, this is a tasty musical biscuit.

Even better, there are videos, one for each song on the album! Created by Katrin Auch and using footage from the movie, they are fantastic, and they’re on YouTube. Here are some screenshots from the first song, set to the tune of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band:

I was laughing my head off when With Illicit Help From Your Friends kicked in:

Here’s the video:

The attention to details in both the Sgt. Pepper album and the Star Wars storyline is nothing short of breathtaking.

Go — watch the videos, but be warned: you’ll never hear Sgt. Pepper the same way again.

Hey, I live in Florida. This suit is perfect.

“I was thinking of buying something immediately after landing a new job,” I told my wife.

“That sounds nice,” she said. “What are you going to buy?”

“A new suit.”

I don’t care about the original version of this comic — I’m going to simply accept the “chicken nuggets solve everything” adaptation as The One True Version.

Thanks to Gian for the find!

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Both contain a lot of self-loathing. Maybe the first line of Pretty Hate Machine’s first track, Head Like a Hole, should now be “God sugar, I’ll do anything for you…”

And while we’re on the topic of Head Like a Hole…

Thanks to Sean Montgomery for the find!

Because this is the real world in 2017, this picture says “Here’s Joey, who spoke at last night’s GDG Sun Coast Meetup about Android and Augmented Reality, with John, who attended and won the draw for the new Kotlin in Action book.”

(Thanks for attending my presentation, John, and enjoy the book! Kotlin’s a pretty nice programming language.)

If this were the TV world in 1977, this picture would say “We just started our own detective agency…in Hawaii!”

This post also appears in Global Nerdy.