In the early morning hours of February 1942, a pale orange object appeared over Culver City in Los Angeles. US planes were scrambled and fired on the object, as did ground cannons, but the object wasn't damaged. It disappeared from sight after around thirty minutes, according to this site .
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Syd Barrett, Thom Yorke, Radiohead, Cocteau Twins, Bauhaus, Rolling Stones, Morphine, Morrissey, Miles Davis, electronic, fifties, eighties, jazz, classical, etc. .. .. ..
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John Carpenter's Halloween, The Thing, Christine, They Live, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Spielberg's War of the Worlds, Jaws, Close Encounters, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Empire of the Sun, Scorsese's Taxi Driver, GoodFellas, Raging Bull, Ed Wood, The Monster Squad, Hearts in Atlantis, The Fly, Dead Ringers, The Dead Zone, Cronenberg's Crash, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr. Strangelove, Alien, Aliens, The Hidden, The Godfather trilogy, the oevre of Buster Keaton and the Three Stooges, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Bubba Ho Tep, In the Mouth of Madness, My Neighbor Totoro, La Dolce Vita, The Big Lebowski, To Kill A Mockingbird, and the great Jackie Brown ... this list is without end.
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