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Wayne Coyne - Over / Under

The Flaming Lips frontman evaluates Superman, ping pong, sweatpants, and more.

Released on 07/24/2015

Transcript

(energetic drum solo)

Koalas ... Um, I do not know

if they're even rated. I mean,

I think they're wonderful, yeah.

They're cool. I was with a guy last

night and that's the mascot of his band,

is a koala, and he called it the perfect

psychedelic animal, because it's very

sleepy and mellow but then if you get

right in there and wake it up, it's got

these claws and it just like rips your

face off, so, something cool about

that, I guess, yeah.

(drum solo, cymbal crash)

I would say over rated sometimes,

people just get too drunk man, you know?

Like fuck, you've got to chill out a little bit.

So I'd say maybe St. Patrick's day is a little

bit over rated, but I'm Irish. I'm allowed

to say that.

(drum solo, cymbal crash)

I mean, I don't really have sweat pants, at all.

I'm sweaty enough just wearing regular

pants, you know? But I think people like

the idea that they're just loose and all

that, but I'd say, wearing sweat pants

in public, over rated.

(drum solo, cymbal crash)

Yeah, I like Superman in general. Yeah,

yeah, yeah. I like that he always seemed like he

was very nice to his normal parents.

His parents, you know, the farmers,

or whatever. He'd always be

Aw shucks. I can lift a building,

but I've got to do my chores first.

yeah, I don't know. I just thought that

was a really great, almost believable

American trait. Yeah. Yeah. Not over

rated. I like him. Yeah.

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Making love in the moonlight on the beach.

Over rated.

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Ping pong. Maybe it's over rated, yeah,

yeah. Sometimes, I think people play

ping pong to relax but they get so

fucking competitive, that they get more

agitated from it. I mean, it's a very intense

little thing. It's not a mellow

activity. It's da da da da ...

It's a very focused thing that you've

got to do, yeah.

(drum solo, cymbal crash)

Not over rated. I like it. Yeah. Yeah.

There are few things in the world that are kind

of physically offensive as someone's mouth

that smells like feces or something.

(drum solo, cymbal crash)

Starring: Wayne Coyne

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