Re: (TV) Tom Verlaine and UFOs

[Keith Allison <keith@marquee.demon.co.uk>]

In message <41732538.8090904@pop.nwnexus.com>, Russ Van Rooy 
<russvr@pop.nwnexus.com> writes
> Sitting here enjoying 'Earth vs the Flying Saucers' on tv I can't  help 
> but wonder about Tom Verlaine and UFOs. I thought I had heard that 
> Verlaine had a fascination for such things. Is this true or have the 
> aliens implanted a false memory in my brain ?

 "The guitar part at the end of 'Mr Lee' is kinda like a flower. But it 
was more like a rotten potato that's just burst! HAHA! Or like a bloated 
old melon that's just laid in a field and gone PLUGHHHH!!! Like the pods 
in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, did you see that movie? Where the pod 
cracks open and inside there's this half-formed person that becomes 
YOU... only without any feelings?"
It turns out that such psychotronic monster movie epics are an important 
part of what turns Television on creatively. All cite films such as 
Invaders From Mars, The Brain Eaters and Fiend Without A Face as an 
influence, while Tom eagerly explains how a childhood model of the red 
planet influenced his 'Mars' song and that '50s novelty records could be 
responsible for the fractured atmosphere on 'The Rocket'.
    "I have a real warm spot for flying saucer songs and Frankenstein 
songs. When I was a kid the first record I ever really liked was called 
'The Mummy', and the flip-side was called 'The Beat Generation' which 
Richard Hell later re-wrote as 'The Blank Generation'. I thought it was 
the greatest thing I had ever heard. I didn't like Elvis much then, but 
I was very young. When I was a kid I used to play that monster all the 
time!"

(TV, NME 1992)
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