The book, which debuted at last week’s San Diego Comic-Con International and is titled The Sun Is Sick, is a collection of NC-17-worthy illustrations sketched during press interviews over the phone and after music sessions. In an exclusive preview, Paste Magazine described it as “a combination of 2001: A Space Odyssey, old Heavy Metal comics, […]
Flaming Lips
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Lips ‘lust’
Credit: Brad Gregg The very NSFW footage features two individuals — a man and a woman — naked in a sea of white, lying on the floor and strapped to these weird, electroshock gizmos. Meanwhile, three women (also nekkid) conduct experiments on the two as frogs and monkeys hop around the place. Much to the […]
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‘Do You Realize??’ we have no rock song?
Do you comprehend what we’re saying? There’s nothing to designate the official fist-pumping anthem of Oklahoma, and there hasn’t been for two years now. That void opens the door for any ol’ tune to claim that prize. Hell, the song wouldn’t even have to be from this state. Think about it: This very instant, a […]
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‘Terror’ alert!
Credit: Brad Gregg In a Warner Bros. Records press release, Lips front man Wayne Coyne explains the title as only he can: “If we have love, give love and know love, we are truly alive and if there is no love, there would be no life,” he said. “The Terror, we know now, that even […]
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Vertical limit
Credit: Brad Gregg But when the film section gets going next week, Wayne Coyne is scheduled to premiere a movie he’s directed. No, it’s not Christmas on Mars 2: The More, the Merrier (thankfully), but A Year in the Life of Wayne’s Phone. Because, hey, why not? Compiled from more than 28 hours of video […]
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Eat your heart out
Credit: Brad Gregg Coyne and a Dallas chocolatier have collaborated to create these lip-smacking organs. Inside each 2-pound confection is a USB stick containing a digital mix of love songs. And while you can’t really put a price on love, you can put a price on this oddity: $60. You can find ’em at Dwelling […]
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Waiting for a Super Bowl
Hank Williams Jr. ain’t got nothin’ on Oklahoma City’s favorite psychedelic rockers, at least not when it comes to the upcoming Super Bowl Sunday. A brand-spanking-new Lips song, “Sun Blows Up Today,” will be front and center in a Hyundai commercial slated to run during the big game. The band will be spotted performing the […]
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Hand job
The OKC-based Lips issued an emergency tweet Jan. 4 via its Twitter account, although the concise wording sure sounded like it had come from the elegant quill of Coyne: “Fuck!!!!!! Someone stole Laser Hands!!! Please please please!! At South Bound Festival !!!Fuck!! Help us!!!” Concert organizers even got in on the search, offering an award […]
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Le Freak
Credit: Brad Gregg Of course, he also tweeted “!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” on Dec. 19, so the concert video may be getting shorted on the exclamation points. No official release date has been announced, so we’ll just trust Coyne’s word that it will be sometime soon. A preview of Freak Night (catchphrase: “!!!Party!!!Death!!!Love!!!” — no, really) on […]
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If I were Santa ….
The biggest plus, of course, is the unbridled joy you’d be able to spread with a special sack of presents. In that giving spirit of Christmas, we asked a host of notable Oklahomans, from elected leaders to burlesque performers, sports superstars to drag queens, what they would do if they were Santa. Responses ranged from […]