Pink Robots and Deathly Hallows.


Her name is Yoshimi, she’s got a black belt in karaoke…Two choice links via Webgoddess. I thought for sure this was a Slings and Arrows-type April Fool’s joke at first, but no: The Flaming Lips’ Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is coming to Broadway. “There’s the real world and then there’s this fantastical world. This girl, the Yoshimi character, is dying of something. And these two guys are battling to come visit her in the hospital. And as one of the boyfriends envisions trying to save the girl, he enters this other dimension where Yoshimi is this Japanese warrior and the pink robots are an incarnation of her disease. It’s almost like the disease has to win in order for her soul to survive. Or something like that.” And, weirder still, it’s apparently being written by Aaron Sorkin of The West Wing and Sports Night.

And, also via Kris, my old site The Leaky Cauldron has posted the cover art for the final Potter installment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which you can see at right. Clean, simple, I like it.

Something More than a Machine.


Can anybody tell me if any of the rest of The Flaming Lips‘ oeuvre is any good? ‘Cause Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is the best album I’ve bought in a long time (although I have high hopes for Peter Gabriel’s Up next month)…it’s a bubbly space pop classic right next to Moon Safari, and absolutely impossible to get out of your head. Her name is Yoshimi. She’s a black belt in karate…