Weezer, "Island In the Sun" via iTunes (The Last Angry Spaceman)
Captain's Log: The choice of today's R.B.D.S.O.T.D. betrays the dirty little secret about science fiction: it's all about the familiar. Every story about a strange, new world is really a story about the earth. Every story about extraterrestrial life, no matter how alien, is really a story about Mankind. "There is nothing new under the sun" is ancient wisdom from the Bible (Ecclesiastes, 1:9). There is nothing new even under other suns: "Even the thing of which we say, 'See this is new!' has already existed in the ages that preceded us" (Ecclesiastes, 1:10). By all means we should probe the depths of the sea here on Earth & challenge the unknown among the stars. To question, to discover, to explore are all part of Man's nature. We must "explore strange new worlds," we should hope to seek out "new life & new civilizations," & we dare strive to do no less than "boldly go where no man has gone before." But as with all frontiers, what we are really doing when we explore the final frontier is testing ourselves, is seeking to solve the great mystery of who we are, of what it means to have been created in the image & likeness of the divine. We plumb the farthest reaches of the cosmos in order to now & understand our own hearts, our own minds, our own souls.
"When you're on a holiday
You can't find the words to say
All the things that come to you
And I want to feel it, too…
"We'll run away together,
We'll spend some time, forever,
We'll never feel bad anymore…"
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