Oct 29th '07 by Stereogum @ 4:05pm 10 Comments

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?

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Comments (10)
  1. jk  |   Posted on Oct 29th, 2007

    you gotta love the flaming lips circus

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  2. Jake  |   Posted on Oct 29th, 2007

    There were 400 skeletons marching.

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  3. Clete  |   Posted on Oct 29th, 2007

    Wayne Coyne is a potty mouth.

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  4. nancy  |   Posted on Oct 29th, 2007

    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.

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  5. dc  |   Posted on Oct 30th, 2007

    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.

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  6. irreversibility  |   Posted on Oct 30th, 2007

    Here’s another video.

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  9. josh  |   Posted on Oct 28th, 2008

    I was in the ghouls gone wild parade. I was tweedle dee from alice in underland. it was crazy fun.

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  10. SheMuses  |   Posted on Oct 12th, 2009

    I was a VooDooFest a couple of years ago, and celebrated The Flaming Lips in (what was for me) a coming-of-age. After sweltering with them in the Houston box known as The Axiom, for years…it was so wonderful to be set free in the park with the energy, love and festivity the group has become!

    With Love,
    melissa

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