June 25, 2011
From right, Nici Ashner, Logan O’Grady and Joe Shoemaker, all from Lawrence, watch as Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne signs an autograph at Love Garden Sounds, 822 Mass St. Coyne made the stop on short notice, but that didn’t stop fans from lining up for pictures and autographs. He also brought a box of gummy fetuses with him, which were sold to fans. Inside the gummy fetuses were flash drives which contained a sample of new Flaming Lips songs.
Ian Stepp remembers visiting his aunt’s house as a kid, where he’d play classic games like Duck Hunt and iterations of the Mario Brothers saga on the family’s trusty old Nintendo Entertainment System. Now pushing 30, Stepp is still a fan of the now-classic video games that in recent years have spawned a thriving culture and industry capitalizing on the nostalgia of grownups who coveted Nintendo game systems as kids in the 1980s and 90s.
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