Lips and assholes

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 | musiX, pdX

No one ever said this was a family-friendly blog so just pipe down about that headline.

This one’s a bit of a head-scratcher … even for the Flaming Lips. The new video for “I Can Be a Frog” features a bikini-clad woman impersonating animals for two minutes. That’s it. The song itself (with animal sounds phoned in by Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O) is only so-so … so let’s look ahead to the next video, shall we?

The Lips will descend on Mount Tabor today … that’s TODAY, right here in Portland to film the video for “Watching the Planets. As sort of a nod to the World Naked Bike Ride, the idea is to get a large group of people together for an exhilarating (and slightly chafing) bike ride in the nude while Wayne Coyne rolls around in his giant space bubble. Or as Coyne explained to BikePortland.org:

“I’m having one of my giant space bubbles covered in fake fox fur. It’s going to look like some giant fur egg, and the people on bicycles are gonna sort of be born and erupt out of this fur, vaginalistic thing.”

You can’t go wrong with fur, vaginalistic things. The shoot will go from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. (although no one has to stay for the entire thing), and the entire event works on a drop-in basis. Just show up at the basketball courts near the top of Mount Tabor (the earlier the better), sign the release papers, drop your clothes, shake hands with Wayne, and hop on your bike. More details here. The vid should be released in a couple of weeks, while the much anticipated new record Embryonic is out Oct. 13.

That’s it! I’m in. I’d better get out the hedgers and perform a little routine maintenance … sorry, I told you TDoL isn’t about being family-friendly. Or mature.

Video for “I Can Be a Frog”

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3 Comments to Lips and assholes

tim e.
September 23, 2009

that’s just sick with pleasure.

Dan Kaufman
September 23, 2009

Good to meet you today, Mark or is that Marc Lore! Thanks for being interviewed. Did you get naked?

Mark
September 23, 2009

Nice meeting you, Dan. No, I didn’t get naked. Seemed like they had that under, and slightly out of, control.

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