[30-day music meme] day 3: the flaming lips - buggin'

[devi]

Look at this little dude. Those deep red wings. Those magnificent antennae, that look velvety like antlers. I've never seen anything like him outside the Burren, where I took the picture.

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The Burren is a sort of moonscape on the west coast of Ireland which consists mostly of limestone, eroded into complicated swiss-cheese shapes, and rare plants and insects which enjoy its strange living conditions. I was there with my family in summer 2006. Because it was also where we all used to go to Christian camp for a week every July throughout my childhood, being there as an adult was often a headwreck, but on that occasion I was having one of those rare and precious weeks when everything seemed to be OK and make sense. I did a lot of wandering around in the dunes, trying to figure out what I wanted to happen next, and taking photos of insects (and other tiny things; the whole photoset is on Flickr if you click through). And listening to this song. It sounds delirious and sun-struck, and the tinkly piano bits make me think of swarms of insects swirling in the air, but this is somehow a good thing rather than an annoyance. Or perhaps an annoyance that's somehow also a good thing. The buzz of love is busy buggin' you.

You might like this if you like… oh man, what else is like the Flaming Lips? If you like your psychedelic rock with added whimsy. For some reason, I used to hate their whimsy (especially that song of theirs that got played on the radio a lot, She Don't Use Jelly), and then it suddenly made sense and I never looked back.

Comments

[mrs_leroy_brown]

<3 that dude

do not love the fact that your posts STILL aren't turning up on my dang reading feed - this seems to be an issue someone else had, but no solution I could copy..

https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/see_request?id=36769

In the grand scheme of things this ain't no thang but it is vexing me!

[devi]

That is vexing. I did import all my old LJ posts, and they mention importing as a possible Thing there, but it shouldn't do that to ones which originated here? Right?? Thanks for the link, I'll comment there and see what they say!