I've been thinking about this Peter Schilling song since Sy's etude on Sunday and got psyched about the video and then, naturally, about watching the original Bowie video for "Space Oddity" which Schilling's song is based on. Notice Bowie's super budget space floating (he turns in a circle while the camera is held at an angle). I think out fake floating is better than DB's! Also, David C. has a version of "Major Tom (coming home)" in German which is pretty rad and might be super fun to use. Seems the next natural step is for H2M to make a third version of the song called "Earth Below Us". Anyone...?
David Bowie: Space Oddity
Peter Schilling: Major Tom (Coming Home)
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6 comments:
um, ROCK. i had never seen/heard that space oddity version, before! amazing! i like the "babes" in both those videos. maybe we need roller skates and shortshorts too?
Hell yeah to skates and hott shorts. we cut the roller scene from "Repeat After Me" so I think we should really try to get some in this show. David is wondering if the babe in Schilling's video is only there because of Bowie's babe. A very important question to ponder. Also: skating with no gravity will be totally rad.
There is a long legacy of references to Major Tom and his shared story:
Major Tom on Wikipedia
VERY INTERESTING!
In addition to hott shorts and skates, this show should also incorporate fog.
The Bowie video makes me think about creating some clear plastic vessel that transforms from a spaceship into a life extension pod into a time capsule into _______?
Project X: More than meets the eye!
fog machine = good opportunity to throw some classy magic tricks in there. or shakepearean ghosts 'n shit (ha ha!)
In other words: stage fog has a history of connotations to mess with
can someone download the plastic bertrand (who i love) song??
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