August 2009
Jimmy Stewart - Rock On The Moon ( 1959 )
Covered by The Cramps on Songs The Lord Taught Us ( 1980 )
Man or Astro-man? - Transmissions from Venus - from: Project Infinity - (1995)
—sound clip—from It Conquered the World ( 1956 )
Lee Van Cleef - There, do you have any idea what your listening to?
Peter Graves - London Philharmonic?
Lee Van Cleef - It’s Venus.
Peter Graves - Huh?
Lee Van Cleef - Venus.
Peter Graves - Why not? We’ve bounced signals off the Moon surface, there’s no reason that Venus shouldn’t radiate impulses.
Lee Van Cleef - No, I don’t mean the static. Can’t you hear it; the other thing?
What other thing?
Lee Van Cleef - Listen to it, Paul. Listen to the voice.
“We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar”