My top artist on Spotify!

It comes as no surprise that of course the Flaming Lips were my top artist for 2024! I was in the top 0.1% of listeners having listened for 1,028 minutes. HOWEVER, those numbers only capture my Spotify rotations. I do a lot of my listening…

Light Test

I love that the Flaming Lips not only have far out light displays at their concerts but that they are handmade. They are wonderful, bright, pulsing cosmic companions to their music. I like how Wayne likens them here to “ferris wheels” or “magic stars.” It…

Wayne Flies the Bird

Wayne flew his bird during the second night of Summer Freakout in Oklahoma City, OK on August 31st. It took me awhile to aim my phone high enough to capture the bird flying.

My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion

I’m celebrating the wild growth of my native plant garden and its triumph over the invasive honeysuckle that had previously kept anything else from growing there. In 2023 my daughter chainsawed down the trees and replaced them with pollinators like milkweed and goldenrod. Gardening with…

The Sound They Made Was Love –Outro

I’m lucky enough to have seen “Spoonful Weighs a Ton” live four times and I hope to see it many more. Each time is magical. The end of the song is a pulsing transmission beaming love to the audience, to humanity and to the entire…