Word: planeteers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...general, trans-Martian travel is possible for only six to eight weeks every 25 months; it is then that Mars' and Earth's orbital pas de deux around the sun brings the two planets close enough to make the trip practical. The next window opens this fall, and NASA intends to take advantage of it. Between Nov. 6 and Dec. 31, the space agency will launch two missions to Mars. The first, the Mars Global Surveyor, is an orbiter that will arrive in September 1997 and spend at least four months circling the planet and mapping its geology and climate...
...Jones is vindicated: we see that some 16 million years ago, the slapstick asteroid A slammed into planet B (Mars, the fourth rock from the sun), dislodging spud-size meteorite C, which spitballed through space and whammed into planet D (Earth). Betimes, the alien microspud wakes up in the Antarctic and assumes the shape of an outlandishly hot idea, E (LIFE ON MARS!!!!), which pinballs hectically through Earthling media, knocking vases off the mantelpiece, toppling assumptions, causing tabloid amazement and theological consternation...
...wandering piece of Mars reminds everyone of cartoons and fantasies that the Red Planet has always stimulated; among other things, it has brought radio talk shows alive with the voices of vindicated UFO spotters, the Mars rock being their Rosetta stone, the key that unlocks the mystery. But does the rock threaten the centuries-long assumptions and designs of theology...
...green continent of grass on which he ran and the waiting to see if he would catch up with the ball and the reek of your sweat and of everyone who sat like Seurat dots in the stadium, in the carved-out bowl of a planet that shines pale in daylight, bright purple and emerald at night...
Most of the album's songs, written in the '90s, have a time-warp directness that locates them firmly in Clineland. Barnett climbs inside them all, the jingles and the ballads, with equal agility. But the standouts are the torch songs. The opening cut, Planet of Love, has a blue-eyed bluesy aggressiveness that Barnett builds nicely from a throaty murmur into a dominatrix growl; it's an invitation to a dangerous liaison, delivered deadpan. A Simple I Love You has the same let's-fall-in-love message, this time sung not as a come...