Let’s see, what do you want us to post right now? Another “Nancy Pelosi says she has votes for health care but of course it’s not being voted on” or “Sad Boba Fett playing accordion for tips in the subway station”? EXACTLY.
HARD TIMES
March 10, 2010
With Jobs Scarce, Bounty Hunter Forced To Play Accordion For Tips
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Genius! Dress like Boba Fett and you are guaranteed cash money!
Rahm, are you paying attention?
/hands Boba two fifties and a pic of Tom Tancredo.
That is the second most sadist thing I have every seen. Damn this economy!
Büsker Dü
Should have been dressed as Sy Snootles.
“Telling the truth can be dangerous business.
Honest and popular don’t go hand in hand.
If you admit that you can play the accordion,
No one’ll hire you in a rock ‘n’ roll band.”
Why wasn’t he playing the song from the bar scene?
Nice camera work.
Thanks Layne. I now have a brain aneurism.
Boba’s fallen on hard times ever since the Empire fell; those Jedi always insist on catching their criminals by the book and legally, no disintegrations.
Those subway passengers have got to be confused; you’d expect him to be playing something from, well, Star Wars, not the Song of Storms from the N64 Zeldas (A Down Up A Down Up). … Um, I mean playing whatever he was; obviously I’m not enough of a geek to immediately recognize that.
I could be wrong, but is this music from Ocarina of Time?
You are not wrong, freelancer, that is the windmill song.
I thought the Empire got him a cushy job at the Heritage Foundation.
He’s a clone. if you give him money, they’ll be twenty more just like him playing the accordion in the subway tomorrow.
Damn hippie clones…
No Aliens for bounty or cash
Rooms to let…fifty cents.
No Hutts, no guns, no Force
I ain’t got no stinking laser guns
Ah, but..two hours of sing’n blues
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room
I’m a man of means by no means
Fett of the road.
[re=528364]SayItWithWookies[/re]:
He at least deserves a perch as an opinion columnist at teh WaPo.
Can always have a career in a speed metal polka band. Tuba players are a dime a dozen, but the accordian, it’s a lost art.
Fake. Real Mandalorians use make extensive use of bass arpeggios.
I think he–or she–is good, in a french, minor-key gypsyist way. I’d give this busker money, if I were there. If I had money to give. Two big ifs.
The guy on Lawrence Welk was never this good.
[re=528370]GOPCrusher[/re]: I resent you placing the words “accordion” and “art” in the same sentence.
“Play harmonica solo in the cargo hold.”
- Hobo Fett
true brilliance would be to play fett’s vette. this is still nice though.
Why is he playing the ‘Song of Storms’ from Zelda: Ocarina of Time?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgHulaIG1H0
Poor Boba hasn’t been the same since he got kicked out of the Cantina Band. Sad, really.
[re=528374]DustBowlBlues[/re]: I think he did the Bubble Machine’s One Toke intro.
[re=528383]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: You get caught snorkling Jabba for coke one time..
This is sadder than one half of the Corey’s dying.
[re=528355]JMP[/re]: I am proud to say that, although I work in IT, I had no idea who/what Boba Fett is.
Reminds me of the time this Web developer I used to work with once said to me, “These aren’t the droids you’re looking for,” and I didn’t get the reference. The mofo immediately went running to the CTO whining that I should be fired. The CTO threw us all out of his office and locked the door.
They eventually nagged me into playing D&D, but I draw the line at Star Wars, which I hate with a passion. Have I finally found the one thing that is not funny to Wonkett? Am I about to be voted off the island?
Oops, wrong link. The Bubble Machine’s take onOne Toke Over the Line.
You would be hard up for work too if you had been crapped out the ass of a Sarlacc.
[re=528390]Extemporanus[/re]: No long count, Hutt two?
What a relief to find out it wasn’t this guy. Deadbeat dads and parking ticket scofflaws are not off the hook.
Waiting for the “L” train, no less, the very definition of purgatory.
slow news day?
Laaaady of Spaaaaain I adooooore yooooooooo!!!
Everybody sing!
I love New York. No one even looks twice.
Wait…does he have a visa?
Accordians don’t play “Lady in Spain” – people do!
Fuckin’ L train.
It would have been something if it was the other Bounty Hunter.
No Astor Piazolla?
[re=528439]El Pinche[/re]: I thought I made my relief, clear.
fuckin awesum!
Wait … I thought this was going to be Dog, the Bounty Hunter playing a squeezebox…
[re=528370]GOPCrusher[/re]: So, once upon a time, I actually knew a guy who played accordion in a punk polka band.
His day job was Navy dentist, though. I do not know if he ever made the acquaintance of one Mr. Massa.
Needs an 808.
[re=528397]weejee[/re]: Sweet Jesus.
At least it wasn’t the DC Metro. Because that never works.
Off topic…
It’s Chuck Norris’ birthday today.
Chuck Norris doesn’t turn 70
70 turns Chuck Norris
[re=528443]bitchincamaro[/re]: My glancing over the comments fails dearly.
boba fett is the blackwater employee of a galaxy far, far away.
Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart.
http://tinyurl.com/ykbdzbp
[re=528395]Katydid[/re]: Your comment is akin to saying, “I’m a professional dominatrix but I don’t know what a riding crop is.” Does not compute.
[re=528474]Jumping Jim[/re]: Fuck Chuck.
[re=528355]JMP[/re]: I don’t know who you are but I love you
Musician’s definition of “perfect pitch”: when you throw a banjo in the dumpster, and it lands right on top of the accordion.
[re=528379]jbd[/re]: Well, we’ll always have an MC Chris fan video.
Needs more Midi-chlorians.
I always walk by this guy without tipping. Now that he’s combined the sheer raw nerd power of Boba Fett WITH the Ocarina of Time Windmill Theme, I may need to soften my coal-black heart somewhat. Bobb Fett Accordion Guy/Jindal ’12.
[re=528502]V572625694[/re]: Sha p’ti babe! No zeydec cajun music pour vous.
This post makes me extremely happy
I am relieved to see that I’m not the only one nerdy enough to immediately recognize a Zelda tune. I’ve played the “Oracle of the Seasons” and “Oracle of Time” games all the way through at least four times. Yes, I count each linked-game set of four as one game. The last time I finally managed to get all 64 rings, which is why I finally felt comfortable putting the games down. What a relief!
Anyway, I’m a nerd. I accept that.
Why are we all such nerds that we automatically knew that song was from a Zelda game?
Needs more Weird Al.
[re=528626]Senator Bateman[/re]: Not all…. One guy up above had never heard of Boba Fett. That’s like somebody never hearing about the tetralogy of Fallot. I mean, honestly.
HE ALSO DOES ZELDA!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9LTYVTi6tc
[re=528473]DC Hates Me[/re]: Yeah, they don’t let you play in the DC underground. When world-famous Joshua Bell wanted to try playing violin down there to test how he’d do, he had to jump through so many hoops to get a special one-day permit. http://bit.ly/9CoOgr
Holy shit I saw that guy last night on my way into Manhattan! True Story!
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