Mars 500

I think we'll miss the deadline for this 'crew', but I reckon a copy of Superheroes of Space would provide great consolation and worthy distraction for these claustrophobia junkies:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7966731.stm

Under the Radar

When did the new logo go up? I've only just noticed it - another work of magic. I'm disappointed there isn't a Stephen Hawking silhouette in the orbit though ...






Hi Nick, thought I'd edit your post to let you see your idea...

Not really doing it for me (although looks more like Dr Strangelove). The original is way better - love the use of negative to fit the alien onto saturn TT. Very pleasing!

G

41 IML tracks

Science (13) + Sea (13) + Space (15) = 41 tracks!

That's immense. Bands have put out 'best ofs' on less. All in the space of a year too.

Still working on the Vincent Price impression. I am practicing on the way to work. Passers by must think I'm possessed.

Maybe I am.


Vince

gig. done. must. write. lyrics.

Just started work on my space track, a very contemporary slice of 'spacehousepop' from Dan G. Think I'm going lite this time, it seems appropriate after taking my last 2 IML tracks very seriously. The plan so far is to have some rap verses (in the style of King Tim 3rd ), a chorus sung by robots and a Vincent Price middle 8. I hope Dan won't mind.

The world of music doesn't have enough Vincent Price middle 8s and its time to add one more. Sure, he's dead, but who isn't these days? I guess this decision must, in some way, be influenced by my toying with the idea of watching a Michael Jackson show at the O2. At least, I was toying with it until my wife declared 'You 're not spending a hundred quid to watch a paedophile dance' and I guess, put like that, she probably has a point.


Shamon

Write your lyrics you bloody bastards

That was said in the spirit of Tim Dalton a la Flash Gordon. I'm not sure he ever said that but there you go,. Anyway for Dan W's excellent Record Time IV project I built a lyric writing machine. It's great, and you should try using it whilst writing lyrics for Superheroes of Space. It's called iLyricise because unless it's got an i in front of it, it isn't modern or online. Go and play with it

I've tapped "Laika" into it for the purposes of writing about ... Laika. In short iLyricise condenses a Wikipedia article about any subject into a list of words, ranked by how rarely those words appear in that article. What more can you want? What? What? Good night.

James Spader Is All Over Me

I don't know how he does it. I'll spend three months avoiding James Spader and then he'll suddenly pop up somewhere unexpected, usually late at night in some high art/soft porn cine-flick, or he'll send one of his clones out onto the street so that I think I've glimpsed him near Woolworths or Rumblelows or somewhere. Anyway, he's infiltrated the IML this time ...
On Monday I received my IML vocal assignment: a magnificent backing track from Julian, who did such a sensational job on our Robotnik track (which has been played on Radio Scilly, such is its high regard on the islands). Lots of vocal melodies usually come to me pretty quickly when I hear a backing track, but this one smoked me up all nice and foggy. I need to flex some different muscles this time. I am very excited about what might happen though.
Anyway, my theme is wormholes. A great theme. I did a little research, googling and the like, and one of the first things that came up was ... Stargate.
Spader, you c***.

The Space Project: Phase 2 Blueprints

Listed by musical composer, theme, recipient

Barney (Space Junk) to Eric and Tim T
Mike (Free Choice) to Ash
Ash (Gully Foyle) to Dan W
Greg (Alexey Leonov) to Kip
Dan G (Droids) to Greg
Rob (Voyager) to Craig
Incredible flight of birdman (Freeman Lowell) to Tim M
Joe and Greg (Yuri Gagarin) to Julian
Jim (Free choice) to Tim T
Kip (Laika) to Barney
Dan W (Free choice) to Kip
Tim T/Eric (Dave 2001) to Rob
Julian (Wormholes) to Birdman
Tim M (Pluto) to Dan W
Craig (free choice) to Julian
Joe (James Turrell) to Kelly