I got entranced by the basketball last night and ended up staying up way too late... but it was pretty damn worth it, as it turned out. If you didn't hear, Ohio State was down by 20 but came back to win last night. Greg Oden was in foul trouble all game long and they were even O-possession D-possession subbing him at the end to keep him from fouling out - which potentiated the last play of the game, where a Vol threw up the inevitable Goliath-slaying buzzer beater, only to have Goliath Oden block the Bathsheebus out of it. Very exciting way to end a game... and damn, the Vols must feel terrible:
But I have the postmodern (and perhaps anti-consumerist) inability to watch commercials during the fifteen timeouts called in the last "five minutes" of the game, so I flipped around to eventually settle on NBC. Wait, NBC, late at night? Isn't that Leno territory? Well, normally, yes, but tonight it was Wayne Coyne territory.
Wayne Coyne - on national TV! Wahoo! He was doing some weird documentary / comedy sketch thing at the SXSW festival in Austin where he basically talked to a bunch of (fearless) freaks from the scene and let them say all the weird things freaks do for the entertainment of the late night watching public. Weird, but somehow perfectly Wayne - he has reached that point where he can do pretty much anything short of clubbing baby seals and it will somehow fit perfectly into the overall weird character gestalt he has built up.
I will write about it at length some day, but if you don't know who the heck I am talking about, Wayne Coyne is the frontman for superband extraordinaire The Flaming Lips. Very creative, very out there artist who is willing to try things like multidisc albums where you have to play all four CDs at once, rock operas involving girls fighting robots, movies about aliens and Santa Claus, etc. And serious about that rock opera; it's headed for Broadway. Sweet. Here's a Wayne Coyne visual series to break up the montony
Suffice it to say, weird dude. He's also a bit of an uber-optimist which leads to the occasional overly earnest faux philosophical ramblings in his song lyrics, but it's hard to blame him for that since he's by all accounts a sincerely great guy. Anyways, I'll leave the Wayne-praising with this: an NPR show where he and the band performed some songs and an essay of his on what he believes. If you haven't ever heard of the Flaming Lips, I would recommend starting with Yoshimi or The Soft Bulletin and working your way back; the FLips are the quintessential example of a band that started very rough and managed to polish themselves just enough to retain the early weirdness and achieve some solid beauty at the same time. I can't leave things like that - here are some samples from our friends at youtube. I will now get back to my later morning and do some work...Fight Test
W.A.N.D.
Yoshimi
Covering Bohemian Rhapsody at SXSW
War Pigs Encore - YEAH!!!
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