this - is - too cool…i feel inclined to post this mostly because someone finally beat wayne coyne at the (what seems like monthly) what-the-fuckery of the day. and wtf, it’s Stephin Merritt… i did not see that coming.

Space Cruiser is an interactive, live video game based around Merritt. The Observer explains:

The one-night-only debut of Space Cruiser, next Thursday’s game-cum-concert in question, is described as a “cooperative mission-based game centered around navigating around a fictional universe” that’s designed for up to 200 participants, who together will control a spacecraft, which the planetarium has been re-imagined as.

A multi-player control deck at the center of the theater will offer a small crew the chance to navigate the spacecraft together, piloting through treacherous asteroid belts. The crew is an unassigned, free-form team that works together to pilot the spaceship, with various parts of the ship spread out over the theater while being guided by a on-board computer system that is voiced by Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields.

Tickets are on sale for next Thursday’s event, and apparently the password “BEYOND” gets you a discount. today i again (temporarily) hate living in california

thanks stereogum