THE FLAMING LIPS Christmas On Mars: Once Beyond Hopelessness (2008 US exclusive Strictly Limited Edition set comprised of a 12-track LP pressed on 180gram MARTIAN GREEN VINYL, including the full score tothe movie plus Bonus 7" Single pressed on White Vinyl featuring 'Silent Night', 'Lord Can You Hear Me' & 'It's Christmas Time Again', plus a Bonus DVD which features their fantastical film freakout, 'Christmas On Mars'. Directed by frontman Wayne Coyne alongside co-director George Salisbury [the band's audiovisual technician], many of the film's Mars sets were constructed in Coyne's back garden at his home in Oklahoma City. The film does indeed take place during Christmas time on Mars, as the colonisation of the Red Planet is underway. But when an oxygen generator and a gravity control pod malfunction, Major Syrtis [The Lips' Steven Drozd] and his team [including the Lips' bassist Michael Ivins] fear for the worst. Syrtis hallucinates about the birth of a baby, and many other strange things. Meanwhile, a compassionate alien superbeing [Coyne] arrives, inspiring and helping the isolated astronauts. Also appearing in the film are the band's road drummer Kliph Scurlock, manager Scott Booker, and many other familiar figures from The Lips' community, presented in a sealed and stickered pasted card picture sleeve)