Lucid Nation >> What would you do if you won?

California Month continued, tremor #36:

Lucid Nation - "Fun"

(self-released, 1999 / Brain Floss Records, 2010)

I assume Lucid Nation's name is a pun on the word hallucination, but the music I've heard by them is not all that psychedelic.  LN formed in 1994 and opened for lots of cool bands in the L.A. area in their heyday.  I forgot when and where I got this CD, titled DNA (cleverly taken from the center three letter's of the band's name), but it was almost surely in the clearance bin at The Mushroom in the mid '00s.  They cover Sonic Youth's awesome "Pacific Coast Highway" on this album.  Their singer was usually Tamra Spivey, but guitarist Ronnie Pontiac sings lead on this song, with Spivey providing some hazy backing vocals in the final two minutes.  I actually used to think it was Spivey singing lead vocals in a husky twang.  According to their website, "Tamra was Art Editor for the late and lamented but celebrated journal of progressive politics Newtopia magazine, where Lucid Nation guitarist Ronnie Pontiac was Poet in Residence."

After I asked them to post "Fun" on YouTube a year or two ago, they fulfilled my wish with this mesmerizing botanical montage swiped from some BBC programme:

They also say this song was used in a scene in the aptly-titled Sasha Grey porno flick Naked And Famou$, which is described as "an acid trip melting pot of raw sex and depraved psychodrama."   I would say this is definitely an atypical song for Lucid Nation, but it made it onto their 2-disc best-of compilation called Public Domain:

Speaking of plants, I took my dad to Crosby Arboretum in Picayune, MS today, which has one of the best collections of trees in the whole Southeast.  I asked if they had some obscure tree for sale, and one of the guys who works there ushered us back to their private greenhouse / propagation area and gave me a bunch of cool little trees & plants, including one I'd been seeking for a while, Ilex glabra (Inkberry holly).  I ate several species of blueberry right off the bush, and we got some Marco's Pizza in Slidell on the way back.  The Saints just beat the Colts 62-7 in the newly-christened Mercedes-Benz Superdome.  62 ties for the most points in one game in the history of the league since the NFL-AFL merger in 1970, and 55 ties for the greatest victory margin ever.  (We could have easily eclipsed both of those had we not pulled Drew Brees in the 3rd quarter after he had passed for a mere 5 touchdowns.)  I still think the Packers will repeat as champions, though.  The most amazing thing that I learned during this game was that Purdue QBs have passed for more yardage in the NFL than those from any other college, with Brees obviously being the most famous one ever.

Planets with similar climates: Flipper - "Shed No Tears" (1981), Soundgarden - "Limo Wreck" (1993), Smashing Orange - "Flower Kisses" (1991), Helmet - "Sinatra" (1990), Starflyer 59 - "The Dungeon" (1993).