{"id":654,"date":"2010-03-12T13:50:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T18:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/?p=654"},"modified":"2013-06-04T19:16:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T23:16:57","slug":"flaming-lips-frontman-digs-my-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/12\/flaming-lips-frontman-digs-my-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Flaming Lips Frontman Digs My Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wayne Coyne\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suburra.com\/images%20-%20PD%20blog\/Coyne%20310%20WEB.jpg\" title=\"Wayne Coyne\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wayne Coyne, lead singer of The Flaming Lips, wrote a blurb for my book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suburra.com\/ywd.html\"><em>You Will Die: The Burden of Modern Taboos<\/em><\/a>. I&#8217;m honored that an artist of his caliber was willing to help an extremely controversial book. In an era where commercial promotions account for a large portion of a prominent artist&#8217;s income, it was a courageous act.<\/p>\n<p>Here it is in its entirety:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Burden of Modern Taboos<\/em> &#8230;&#8230;&#8230; America is, hopefully, coming to the conclusion that marijuana and gay people are not the feared, destroyers that the conservative propaganda wanted us to believe &#8230; having said that &#8230; I don&#8217;t know if America will ever be the radical &#8220;freak for all&#8221; that Mr. Arthur is pushing for &#8230; But heck ya gotta fight back against the Sarah Palin &#8220;idiot herd&#8221; with something &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; Wayne..2010<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Flaming Lips are an alternative rock band from Oklahoma City. They have been nominated for six Grammies and have won three. In 2002, Britain&#8217;s <em>Q<\/em> magazine named The Flaming Lips one of the &#8220;50 Bands to See Before You Die.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To see more endorsements of <em>You Will Die: The Burden of Modern Taboos<\/em> go to its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suburra.com\/ywd.html\">web page<\/a>. <em>You Will Die<\/em> can also be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1936239434\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1936239434&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=suburra-20\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Flaming Lips Links: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Flaming_Lips\">Wikipedia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flaminglips.com\/\">Official Site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wayne Coyne, lead singer of The Flaming Lips, wrote a blurb for my book, You Will Die: The Burden of Modern Taboos. I&#8217;m honored that an artist of his caliber was willing to help an extremely controversial book. In an era where commercial promotions account for a large portion of a prominent artist&#8217;s income, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[382],"tags":[415,349,416,254,404,255,256],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-you-will-die","tag-caricature","tag-cartoon","tag-drawing","tag-flaming-lips","tag-illustration","tag-wayne-coyne","tag-you-will-die-the-burden-of-modern-taboos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->