I wrote a thing about how moved I was by seeing the Flaming Lips live in concert last year in Kansas City, which moved me literally to Omaha and Oklahoma City a few weeks later to catch them again on the same tour! “My Summer Freakout”was published in the August issue of The Observer, and they also included photos I took: balloons overhead at the Kansas City concert, and the

The Flaming Lips will be at the Salt Shed on August 16th and so will I. Now the countdown has begun! I’m also looking forward to seeing Modest Mouse too, but the Lips are the reason I’m dropping some Benjamins on a flight and hotel to get my ass to Chi-town for the show. I hope to claim a spot near the front and I plan to come home with

If you’ve ever watched the Portlandia episode where the Flaming Lips perform at the Pickathon, you may have noticed the groovy blue jacket that Wayne has on. Those are some hip threads, but they’re not very cool. They turned Wayne into a truly flaming Lip. In an old Instagram post, he talked about how hot the jacket was and he blamed it as the reason they only performed one tune

I’m that person you see after a Flaming Lips concert picking confetti off the floor. For me, some tiny pink robots with serrated heads and crepey pieces of volcanic ash are the ultimate souvenirs. The photo shows my haul so far, after four concerts, but I hope to add more soon. Maybe one day I’ll even come home with a piece of one of the letter balloons. One can dream!