I am Kyle's self-indulgence

After seven years, Christmas on Mars is finally going to be released on November 11. Happy birthday to me!

Just to remind you, this is the feature-length film that is completely homemade by The Flaming Lips. Wayne Coyne wrote and directed it himself, built the sets in his backyard, and invited his bandmates and friends to act in it.

And, naturally, The Flaming Lips performed the original score, which means we also get an album's worth of new music. The tracklist alone is characteristically mind-blowing:

01 Once Beyond Hopelessness
02 The Distance Between Mars and the Earth -- Part One
03 The Horrors of Isolation: The Celestial Dissolve, Triumphant Hallucination, Light Being Absorbed
04 In Excelsior Vaginalistic
05 Your Spaceship Comes From Within
06 Suicide and Extraordinary Mistakes
07 The Distance Between Mars and the Earth -- Part Two
08 The Secret of Immortality: This Strange Feeling, This Impossible World
09 The Gleaming Armament of Marching Genitalia
10 The Distress Signals of Celestial Objects
11 Space Bible With Volume Lumps
12 Once Beyond Hopelessness

Mark my words: this will be the greatest Christmas-themed psychedelic sci-fi rock music film ever made.