Wayne Coyne Makes Poster Using His Own Blood

The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne has taken the old adage "Bleed for your art" to a whole new level, using vials of his own blood to provide the ink for a one-of-a-kind screen print poster commemorating the band"s recent Austin City Limits festival gig.

"We've never really done it before. We thought it would be silly to use some chicken blood or something," Coyne explains in the video above. Watch Coyne create the poster, including a hilarious false start where he forgets to load the paper in, above. The poster is expected to hit the auction block at some point — the band writes "Let the bidding begin!" in the caption under the video ̵2 but so far no information has been revealed about its sale.

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“I'm Yours”

Jason Mraz | 2008

Jason Mraz re-emerged after his disappointing second album with this lead single, a Jack Johnson-esque ditty about giving yourself fully to someone else. The success of the reggae-tinged song (it earned two Grammy nods and a spot on the Billboard singles chart for well over a year) was something the folk-pop singer never predicted when he wrote it in 15 minutes at home. "I played a happy-hippie chord progression that would probably work without 50 different Bob Marley songs," he told Rolling Stone. "I thought, 'It's too novelty. This is a nursery rhyme,'" concluding that "you can never guess what's gonna be a hit."

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