So my main computer is down. And all the links, photos and blog drafts are on on there. But one of the blog pieces I WILL write once I fix that machine is about some recent UFO stuff that looks good. REAL good. It’s the best UFO story out there right now. But thinking about UFO’s has got me thinking about my favorite aliens from another planet song; Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft. It was originally done by a group called Klaatu. For you kiddies out there they were a band from the 1973-82, and for you old timers Klaatu was the alien in the 1951 movie The Day the Earth Stood Still.

The strange thing about the song Calling Occupants is that it was re-recorded by a GIANT musical act from the 70’s called The Carpenters, and space stuff really was a “way out” choice for them. They were a pop group that recorded typical songs about love and sunny days and feeling groovy etc., Now when I say they’re songs were typical that doesn’t really speak to the WAY they did the songs. See it was a weird time; male/female singing acts were HUGE in this country. And quite honestly as a kid it was lot of fun for ME. I loved all of them: The Carpenters The Captain and Tenille, Shields and Yarnell, Donnie and Marie. I’m not kidding, I loved ‘em, and loved ‘em. It was the times man!

So right here is Calling Occupants by The Carpenters. Obviously it is the most emotional space song EVER. There aren’t a lot of space songs out there, but this is the most intense love song about aliens ever recorded. Every time you think you’ve hit the most emotionally evocative part of the song ANOTHER heavy moment comes and it just keeps getting heavier and personally it’s one of the few songs I have an “Infinite capacity” for. I don’t have a lot of songs like that; Donna Summer’s I Feel Love, Rush’s Spirit of Radio, Black Sabbath’s Iron Man and then a bunch of metal or punk rock stuff I could mention that nobody would recognize. But Calling Occupants has got hints of the Beatles Strawberry Fields. I mean you can kinda hear the echoes of that song but it IS still a wholly original and singular tune.

Now let’s get dark for a moment. There was an unofficial movie about The Carpenters. Karen Carpenter was probably the first famous person to suffer from anorexia and have that news get out to the public. She is also the first famous death from that eating disorder. So this odd little movie was made by Todd Haynes. It’s odd because it’s his biography of events as he thinks they happened since the family was resistant to releasing information. He also didn’t use actors in a conventional way. He used their voices, but mainly he used dolls. That’s right. The whole movie is “acted” by dolls. Take a look

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