By JENNIFER CHANCELLOR Scene Writer on Oct 9, 2008, at 1:17 PM Updated on 10/09 at 1:17 PM
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I love reading about Flaming Lips frontman
Wayne Coyne and how he lives and why he stays in
Oklahoma City. As someone who grew up around those parts myself, I must admit that he
is OKC's delicious, freaky spirit incarnate. Any chance to peek into his mind is an opportunity to rediscover a pure, childlike fanaticism about living life.
He recently let the New York Times into his Oklahoma City home for an interview.
From the article: On this day, Mr. Coyne, who has a mop of curly graying hair and a gregarious manner, was wearing old bluish-green jeans and dusty sneakers. He looked like a combination of artist and tinkerer — one part Dalí, one part Sanford and Son. As he pointed to props and leftover pieces of sets, it was easy to believe his claim that he had bought so much foam attic baffle and duct tape at the local Home Depot, a favorite haunt, that the store bulked up its supplies of those items.
“We are the duct tape masters,” Mr. Coyne said.
“It’s his medium,” added Mr. Coyne’s wife, J. Michelle Martin-Coyne, only half jokingly.
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