The Flaming Lips March 1,000 Skeletons Through Oklahoma City

When Wayne Coyne delivered the weather and got a pound from the local weatherman after his televised chat about Flaming Lips Alley, he teased his grand plan for the Flaming Lips' March Of 1,000 Flaming Skeletons, as part of Oklahoma City's inaugural Ghouls Gone Wild Halloween Parade. It all went down this past Saturday night, and it looks like a riot. More funny-bone tickling than ghoulishly frightening (except for the fire sticks, maybe), the parade had upwards of 100 people dressed in black tees with skeleton imprints hoisting torches (hence "flaming") and following their ringleader marching down the street in (what else?) a bubble. Not sure how many of you were able to make the trip to OKC, so here's a fairly thorough YouTube overview. We'll start with Wayne's typically rambling pep talk. He thinks it's gonna be a lot of fucking fun! Honestly.

Now, onto the Million Bone March.

An insider's perspective:

Wave to the folks, bubble boy.

How'd you think it went, Wayne?

Posted at 4:04 PM in Video
Tags: The Flaming Lips

9 Comments

you gotta love the flaming lips circus

Posted by: jk at 10/29/07 4:24 PM | Reply
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There were 400 skeletons marching.

Posted by: Jake at 10/29/07 4:56 PM | Reply
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Wayne Coyne is a potty mouth.

Posted by: Clete at 10/29/07 5:05 PM | Reply
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i so wanted to go to this, but i had a previous engagement. blaaah. anyway. love this band. and i especially love how they still live here in oklahoma and do cool shit like this. looks like it was a lot of fun.

Posted by: nancy at 10/29/07 5:21 PM | Reply
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looks like a helluva party. based on the blurry Lenscrafters stills that turn into YouTube's "video no longer available" messages when I click on them.

Posted by: dc at 10/30/07 6:26 PM | Reply
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Here's another video.

Posted by: irreversibility at 10/30/07 10:42 PM | Reply
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Thanks for very interesting article. btw. I really enjoyed reading all of your posts. It’s interesting to read ideas, and observations from someone else’s point of view… makes you think more.
So please keep up the great work. Greetings.

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Posted by: kyea lqsn at 05/03/08 1:08 PM | Reply
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I was in the ghouls gone wild parade. I was tweedle dee from alice in underland. it was crazy fun.

Posted by: josh at 10/28/08 11:49 PM | Reply
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