September 16th, 2010 - Children Collide

But if looking askance at hipsterdom isnt for you, perhaps you d prefer a trip to another
planet (Farewell Rocketship)? Or maybe you d like to muse about the future of mankind and
take the question of Bowie s Life On Mars to its logical conclusion (Brave Robot)? The Long
Now might seem like a futurist paradise, but Johnny seems to think it was just the collective
unconscious creeping up on him.It’s amazing to be able to encapsulate whole millennia
along with all kinds of feelings and myriad other ideas into one record. This fits neatly into
the title, The Long Now. Most art is in itself a long now, being that it attempts to defy time
and become a moment within many, many moments. Brave Robot is a funny one as I wrote
it a long time ago after seeing a doco about a space lander that was being sent to Mars to
drill into the polar icecaps. Then, just after we finished recording the album, I turned on the news and the Phoenix Lander had, well, landed and begun the main part of its mission.