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The Legend of Astro Gary (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

by Monkey Lizards

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1.
What it Takes 03:44
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2.
Astro Gary's First Flight 04:37
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3.
Let's Take a Time Trip 03:35
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4.
All That Gets Erased 02:54
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5.
I'm Just a Ghost 04:02
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6.
Scars 02:53
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7.
Borrowed Time 04:34
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8.
All We Are Is Song 04:37
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9.
Shell of a Human 05:19
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10.
I Know I'm Gonna Sleep Well Tonight 06:47
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about

Back in in 2018, I was approached by a movie producer for Monkey Lizards to write and record a soundtrack to a science fiction movie. The movie was about a man who falls in love with a woman who turns out to ba an alien. She is a time-travelling, shape shifter who reveals herself to him as such. She proves it to him by taking him on a space flight that takes them back in time. He is thrilled but terrified and a little angry that she isn't who he thought she was. Not only was she not human but then not even an alien like he first thought. She actually is from Earth but from from a time so far in the future that humans have long been buried under rocks.

Her species of highly intelligent shape-shifters actually evolved from our banana slugs that we have in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California. He is pretty freaked out by all of this and decides to reject her which leaves him scarred and empty inside. He ends up realizing that he never even knew who he was or what humans were even doing on Earth and goes on a quest to find meaning. In the end he finds a kind of enlightenment and asks her to take him back and she does. She then shows him that the way two people in her species join together is a kind of melting together to become one. She is able to do this with him and can be a literal part of him which leads him to joke that he is just a shell of a human, but has the guts of a mollusk (banana slugs are indeed mollusks).

The movie was never finished but the album was and then shelved along with the movie. Monkey Lizards finally got the rights and recordings back in their possession to release at the end of 2021, in the hopes that if the movie can't one day see the light of day and become the cult classic that it deserves to be, then perhaps the album will.

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released December 27, 2021

John Thayer - Vocals, guitars
Brian Surrano - Drums
Richard Hibbs - Bass
Olsen Miguel Baez - Keyboards and electronic synths

Cover Art - Miguel Baez

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John Thayer is a Bay Area singer-songwriter, teacher, dad, and frontman for the band Monkey Lizards.

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