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January 1, 2010 – If not for flowing strands of silver tinsel, tacky paper tiaras, and roving packs of fully padded Santas, the crowd inside Oklahoma City's Cox Convention Center on New Year's eve could have easily passed for a giddy audience of Halloween revelers. It was party time in the land of the Flaming Lips, as the countdown to 2010 began. Once the house lights dimmed, a tangerine-colored woman flickered to life on the semicircular video screen behind the stage and started dancing, her DayGlo undulations escalating to parted knees and a hypnotic swirl superimposed over her digitized labia. Then the Lips emerged, Steven Drozd, Kliph Scurlok, and Michael Ivins taking their places on stage as frontman Wayne Coyne rolled his giant plastic hamster ball out upon the crowd. The Lips offered up fan favorite "Race for the Prize," then launched into other mainstays like "The W.A.N.D.," "The Yeah Yeah Yea