SOUNDTRACK: THE FLAMING LIPS AND HEADY FWENDS-“Children of the Moon” (2012).
2012 saw the release of this very strange collaborative album. Whether The Flaming Lips had entered the mainstream or if people who’d always liked them were now big stars or maybe they all just liked doing acid. Whatever the case, The Lips worked with a vast array of famous (and less famous) people for this bizarre album. Here it is 8 years later. Time to check in.
I’m not exactly sure when Tame Impala became huge. I actually didn’t even realize they were huge until this past summer when I saw them. I’d always just liked their modern psychedelia. I gather they’ve been huge for a while. But I don’t think they were huge in 2012 when this album came out. So really, Tame Impala was just another cool indie rocker singing along with the Flaming Lips.
None of the songs on this album are particularly “poppy” what with all the distortion and noise on them. But this song is certainly one of the catchiest. The guitar melody (which is very Flaming Lips) is simple and instantly grabbing. The vocals are high falsetto–which are probably Wayne and Kevin Parker together.
After a trippy middle instrumental, the song resumes with acoustic guitar an a nice sing along. It feels like a solid combination of The Lips and Tame Impala.
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The island that Katchoo woke up on is called Bonbi, a private island in the Riviera. The person waiting for her is Tambi.
Tambi proceeds to give Katchoo a history lesson about Cleopatra and the history of Base Phi Mathematics.
I don’t know that much about Cleopatra, so I’m going to assume that the history here is true. I don’t know a thing about Base Phi Mathematics, so I don’t know whether Cleopatra knew anything about it. I’ll assume Moore did his research.
Anyhow, Base Phi Mathematics is also the foundation for he Alaskan Collider that exploded and caused all the trouble for Katchoo. (Yup, I’m skimming the hard science).
But the crux of the matter is that the information that was buried with Cleopatra is connected with the math of the Collider. In other words, the information is powerful.
Tambi knew Stephanie was going after it. And, in fact, Tambi had plans to take it from her.
Suddenly it dawns on Katchoo that Tambi is more that little responsible for the mess that Katchoo is in.
And she is pissed.
Before she can shower and get ready, though, she gets a text from Stephanie. It suggests she look at her foot.
There are coordinates. Katchoo must go meet Stephanie–her family depends on it.
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