First band in space

Corbett | February 9, 2006 1:30 PM

Our whole band was selected for the first "band in space" progam sponsored by NASA. Essentially what we had to do was give up a few years of our lives while living in a spaceborn mobile home on it's way to some far corner of the solar system. The concept was to monitor the effects of space on our musical works and lives.

It essentially turned into a two year party with instruments and weird gravitational forces. The biggest issue we had was that the gravity machine in our "mobile home" was incorrectly set up. Instead of having gravity on the floor, which would be normal, and we could do normal things like brush our teeth, shower, cook, walk around on the carpet, etc., the gravity was set up the be one of the four walls. So we essentially did the two year progam living sideways.

Being jazz musicians, we found this mildly amusing, and adjusted accordingly, setting up the entire mobile home sideways, so we were walking on the windows, and pissing sideways into the toilet hanging on the wall. Cooking was an entirely new experience as the stove was now jutting out of the wall, and the burners facing us. Showers were hilarious, as you had to jump up into the shower sideways.

Anyways, after two years in space, we finished the program, recorded a couple of great "spacy" albums, and wrapped up back on the ground with extensive physical and pychological testing.

Then they let us go.

Unfortunately, the sideways gravity thing never went away, and now our internal gravity was skewed, so that we couldn't walk on the ground anymore. Our ground was off 90 degrees. The weirder thing was that the our gravity was now based on the visual proximity of the horizon. For some reason, the visible sky always had to be the the right, not above.

Category: Dreams

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February 17, 2006 7:12 AM

Just wonder if Irene is Jerry's acting agent. Is Mia and Irene the same person?

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