Originally published at: Weird Al's "Phantom Menace" parody is now in HD (video) - Boing Boing
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Funny, I think that may be the first video I ever attempted to stream off the internet, which didn’t work well at all with my home’s dial-up connection, about 6 years before YouTube existed. I remember only being able to view extremely low-res snippets before the connection kept bogging down and stopping. What an age we live in!
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I think this was right about the time he publicly premiered his “no more glasses or mustache“ look so it was a bit of a visual shock for longtime fans at the time. He had actually had Lasik surgery and shaved his mustache about two years earlier, but his publicists insisted he wear costume versions.
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I remember downloading an 128kbps mp3 of this song from a friend’s Hotline server at about the same time… also on dial-up.
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He actually makes a pretty decent sounding Don McLean… Or maybe it’s just a Jedi mind trick.
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That was so much fun.
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The Farce is strong in this on. 
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I’ve always felt this video was the best thing about the prequels.
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Al is a treasure.
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