![]() But the skull part is a thicker, denser gummy. You could also do what we've done: don't swallow it. My suggestion is to get some friends around and share. WC: Well you don't have to eat all of it to get through it. Surely you're breaking some sort of FDA regulation, or at least upsetting parents somewhere. Sometimes you gotta say "What the fuck?"ĮSQ: Have you guys gone too far with this gummy thing? I mean, that's just so much goddamn candy. WAYNE COYNE: Why? Did you drink too much?ĮSQ: Probably some combination of drinking and drugs and having a fantastic time watching you crowd-surf in a plastic orb. Right in the middle of the field, right while you guys were in the middle of "Do You Realize?" So my stomach already does not get along with you. And you thought bin Laden's USB sticks were fascinating.Ĭoyne took a break from the studio recently to talk to Eat Like a Man about how you concoct a gummy skull, exactly, when he's going to make edible vaginas instead, what he's going to do with Panda Bear, James Murphy and Jimmy Page, and why he wants his music to be free - just not his New York Times.ĮSQUIRE: I must admit, right off the bat, that I threw up at a Flaming Lips show once. And so, of course, as part of a new project to release a song each month for a year - each in an entirely different method of distribution - Coyne cooked up a seven-pound piece of candy, shaped it like a human skull, made the brain taste like pot, and put a flash drive inside. His rock band, The Flaming Lips, prefers to be classified in the "experimental" genre, and is known for playing concerts under a life-size space ship. But he also prides himself on being pretty much a freak. He worked for twelve years as a fry cook at his local Long John Silvers in Oklahoma City. He dresses up to scare trick-or-treaters on Halloween. (Inset photo by Anna Webber)Īs lead singers go, Wayne Coyne is pretty normal. They released a remake of Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” in April 2010, billed as the Flaming Lips & Stardeath and White Dwarfs With Henry Rollins and Peaches."Marijuana flavored brain, strawberry skull, the Soft Bulletin Recorded Live, a unique playlist and 2 live videos," Coyne tweeted this weekend. The Lips have continued to wave their freak flag over the years. ![]() Lips frontman Wayne Coyne told Entertainment Weekly (which apparently broke the story) in 2007 that the madness should play out along the lines of Terry Gilliam’s bizarre “Brazil.” The plot revolves around a dying girl (“ Her name is Yoshimi, she’s a black-belt in karate”) who enters another dimension with a boyfriend and takes on her disease, which lurks there in the form of pink robots. The “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots” musical “really has become a perfect combination of my fantastical robot-world vision and (McAnuff’s) little, internal, humanistic version of what that music is,” Coyne told Billboard the other day. He’s the guy who work-shopped the Who’s “Tommy” at the La Jolla Playhouse and brought the production to Broadway for a long successful run. ![]() The Flaming Lips are working with Southern California stage director Des McAnuff (“Jersey Boys”). The long-delayed project appears to be in pre-production. Speaking of the psychedelic “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots,” it could be the next rock album to try its luck on Broadway. The five catalog recordings are “Hit to Death In the Future Head” (1992), “Transmissions From the Satellite Heart” (1993), “Clouds Taste Metallic” (1995) and “The Soft Bulletin” (1990) and “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots” (2002). The Flaming Lips also plan to release “Heady Nuggs: The First 5 Warner Bros. “I’d just like to release music all the time and just put it out in all kinds of weird formats and not just collect it until we’re ready to put out every two years or so,” Coyne told. The result: “lo-fi symphonic joy.” Lips fans have spent the past month and a half coming up with unique ways to play that one. The band’s last release, “Two Blobs Fucking,” came out as a streaming single, with 12 separate mono parts designed to be played simultaneously on iPhones. Listeners are encouraged to eat the candy skull, and then the brains (more than 7 pounds of gelatin, enjoy.) Extract the USB drive, find a way to clean it (good luck) and then insert into computer. The band’s continuing explorations of odd ways to distribute psychedelic music in the new century have led to songs hidden inside gummy candy skulls.įour new Lips tunes will be implanted in a USB drive (memory stick) deep within the sticky brain. The Flaming Lips want you to eat their brains.
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