Her name is Yoshimi - she's a black belt in karate...

West Wing creator, Aaron Sokrin, has signed on to write a script for a musical version of Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, The Flaming Lips 2002 album. This might be the awesomest shit ever. I dont even know how many trips were accompanied by this cd.

"There's the real world and then there's this fantastical world," explains Coyne. "This girl, the Yoshimi character, is dying of something. And these two guys are battling to come visit her in the hospital. And as one of the boyfriends envisions trying to save the girl, he enters this other dimension where Yoshimi is this Japanese warrior and the pink robots are an incarnation of her disease. It's almost like the disease has to win in order for her soul to survive. Or something like that."





EW article