The Flaming Lips, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. So after blathering on yesterday about how The Fearless Freaks made me want to check out / revisit the Flaming Lips, I figured I'd grab the record that I was somewhat familiar with from my days at WBGU.If you're not into the Flaming Lips, you'll probably recognize the lead-off song, "Fight Test", from when it was used as the opening theme from the MTV show 3 South (not to be confused with Undergrads which was better drawn but used some Good Charlotte bullshit for their theme). You'll probably also recognize "Do You Realize??" which, as it was mentioned yesterday, was in just about every commercial ever made since the dawn of celluloid film. An exaggeration, sure, but check it.
On the whole, though, you need to listen to this record from front to back. It seems like it ought to be or that it wants to be a concept record of sorts, especially when it starts getting into electronica-esque "dabbling", that is to say there are a few spots that seem like unnecessary segues, but that's probably just me. I've done the grossly superfluous, gratuitous, masturbatory electronic noise segues ad nauseum myself, so I can spot them from a mile away. Thankfully, there are bands like the Flaming Lips that are way smarter than I am, and if any moment on the record feels like you're veering dangerously close to the Snoresville exit on Route Otherwise Awesometastic, the band wakes you up a little and even offers to take over at the wheel because you're obviously tired.
ANYHOO, I dug it when I listened to it last night and I'll probably listen to it again tonight to let it set in a little firmer. The only thing I won't be doing again tonight is watching the director's cut of Brazil. Holy fuck, is that a long movie. Still not as long as Seven Samurai, though, but at least Seven Samurai didn't make me think of 12 Monkeys every other scene. Seriously, watch Brazil and tell me you don't see 12 Monkeys. I guess that's just Terry Gilliam's stylistic trademark, though.
I know you're used to your morning dosage of SD&A, so I'll give you a quick heads up about a movie, maybe you've seen it already, the chances of that being the case always being quite likely as you're probably way more in touch with things than I am, called 



