C.M. Talkington Shares ‘Space Invaders’ Video Drawn From Six Years Of Personal Footage
C.M. Talkington doesn’t separate things cleanly, film bleeds into music, private life leaks into both. That’s been true since Love and a .45, the dust-caked debut that put a then-unknown Renée Zellweger on screen and then, for a long while, left Talkington out of view.
The music came back later, almost reluctantly. First ‘Not Exactly Nashville,’ then ‘Texas Radio,’ both of them loose, conversational records that sound like they were recorded among friends rather than assembled in a studio.
‘Space Invaders’ moves in a slow, uneasy line, voice sitting right up front. You can hear the room, the gaps, the places where things almost fall apart but don’t. The video makes that tension literal. It’s cut from footage Talkington shot himself over six years while dealing with colon cancer. Not archival in any formal sense. No framing device, no tidy arc. Just accumulated fragments…hospital rooms, in-between moments, stretches of time where nothing happens except waiting.
Talkington describes the track in terms of intrusion and defense, a “Sacred Garden” under pressure, a call to stand ground. In another context that might feel heavy-handed. Here it lands closer to instinct. The imagery is functional, a way of naming what’s at stake without flattening it.
On ‘Space Invaders,’ Talkington shares, “I channeled this song out of the aether with Cisco De Luna & my sacred friends The Guardians Of The Garden. Praying Mantis, Bee, Butterfly, Caterpillar & Hummingbird.
There’s something wonderful happening right now. An ancient powerful energy is rising from within to protect our Sacred Garden from ‘Space Invaders’ intent on destroying it.
This song is a clarion call to all humans willing to stand with The Guardians to defend The Garden.
“Stream the dream on your inner screen…”
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