David LiebeHart can be weird and hilarious. He's an actor/comedian/musician/puppeteer who has done stand-up and appeared on television as a regular on the Adult Swim network's Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! (In a sketch titled “Bad Cop, Worse Cop,” he played a police officer who used a ventriloquist’s dummy to smack around a suspect.) He's also appeared in films, including the campy, low-budget comedy White Cop.
However, he's not kidding about UFOs. He sings about them frequently on his most recent albums, 2014's Go Into the Light and 2015's Astronaut. One song is about an alien woman who, he claims, gives him telepathic kisses.
“The Earth women don't want me,” he sings,“but the Korendian girls dooooooo….”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-FqoNKFies
Korendians are a humanoid race of aliens who, Hart claims, have contacted him several times. He even claims aliens abducted him when he was a child.
On Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Hart sang about the alien phrase “Salame,” which means both “hello” and “goodbye.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWqimMpbTyU
Hart is also a Christian Scientist. He's recorded an album of hymns and hosted/self-produced a public-access show in Los Angeles for decades. The Junior Christian Science Bible Lesson Show featured Scripture readings and puppets. The show had something of a cult following in Los Angeles, which led to Hart being cast on Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsPwtJCuC-U
Because he's appeared on bizarre, ironic comedy shows like Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, it's likely that many viewers don't take him seriously. And at times, he is clearly trying to be funny. But he's sincere about his belief in human/extraterrestrial contact, and he says many of his fans get it.
“A lot of people take me seriously,” he says. “A lot of people know that it's true and they've experienced it, so they can relate to it.”
I'll say this much: I can't relate to his belief in aliens, but I do enjoy his music. It's catchy, strange, generally upbeat outsider pop. He writes exuberant odes to Betty White,vegetables, trains, nature, and exercise, as well as and ode to his alien girlfriend Marcarma. “Love is universal, it's endless like outer space,” he sings. He's been compared to another outsidermusican, Daniel Johnston, but I'd ultimately say he has more in common with outsider artist HowardFinster.
Similar to Finster, Hart is inspired by strong convictions. I don't share those convictions, but I appreciate the truly unique work he is compelled to create. It's not for everybody (after I played some of Hart's music on WUTC my boss, Mark Colbert, requested I never, ever, ever do that again), but if you're an Adult Swim fan, you may want to catch Hart when he's in town.
Hart will perform in Chattanooga on Friday, September 25th at JJ's Bohemia.