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Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne Says Charlie Sheen Is Winning With Twitter

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Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne has never shied away from speaking his mind -- just ask Arcade Fire's Win Butler, who became famously entangled in a war of words with the Oklahoma native a few years back. So it should be no surprise that Coyne isn't put off by Charlie Sheen's now-notorious outbursts.

"His story has been told without him participating in it for so long," Coyne tells Spinner. "I'm sure he's so tired of the story being told by everyone else, so he's thinking, 'I'm going to tell it myself, and have some fun.'"

"I not really a fan," the singer adds. "I don't follow his 'Two and a Half Men' show -- I know that when my mother was alive, she loved it, so let that be said. I don't really care that much. But I think he definitely has something going on here."

"I don't think he takes himself that serious," Coyne says. "I don't want to make it seem like alcohol and drug addiction and abusing your wife isn't serious, though."

Though Coyne has never gone so far as to hype his skills at "winning" nor purport to have "tiger blood," but he does relate to Sheen's new-found faith in Twitter, and respects the "unemployed winner" (what Sheen has dubbed himself on his Twitter profile) for taking to the Internet to share his side of his bizarre plight.

"I'm all for the immediacy of Twitter as a way to engage with people," says Coyne. "I think someone like him that's already kind of doing crazy s--- could be interesting [to follow]."

While Sheen clearly doesn't need tips when it comes to the social networking site -- since activating his Twitter account Tuesday, he's collected over a million followers -- Coyne would still be a good go-to guy as he's known to pepper his Twitter with off-the-wall tweets as part of his fan outreach.

"People that are interested, I'm just giving them a daily update of whatever I'm doing," he says. "Honestly, they have allowed me to have this marvelous life so I'm showing them, 'Look at what I'm doing with all the money and all the attention, this is what I'm doing.' I'm making gummy bear skulls one day, the next morning I'm making 12-inch colored vinyl and then I'm being touched by eight Tibetan monks at the same time. I'm not wasting these opportunities and so I feel obligated to say, 'here's what I'm doing, I'm making full use of it.'"

With one guy talking about "gummy bear skulls" and the other about "Adonis DNA," perhaps this tweeting two-some has some real common ground. But though Coyne's twitter feed might appear a little far-out, he's firmly planted in reality. Sheen on the other hand? We're not so sure. Though on Twitter he does seem to be "winning!"

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JimmyC

Charlie Sheen you loser. Your making 1.2 million a episode. What gives. I could do your role for less. Done some acting, had a chance to go further, chose not to. They wanted me to move to LA, not a chance. I feel for you as I too had a career, and lost it due to the public display. Your private life is you private life. Your work is your work. I can help you with good info, 843-532-1962. Call me, I dare you.

March 04 2011 at 11:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Daddy\'s Girl

Are you all uneducated imbiciles..? Just wondering..
This is FANTASTIC for not only Charlie's career, but, for the show! Hellooo??? Wake up people! Can you NOT see Charlie for the GREAT actor that he is..? Like none of you have thought even for .. a split second that this could all be a great one man show put on by Charlie himself. Alas, maybe he asked for a raise earlier and the big cheese upstairs says.. "Not unless you can hike the ratings by another 500,000-1,000,000. IF you can do THAT, then we'll talk about increasing your salary by another mill or two. And who wouldn't tune into the show IF it were to air tomorrow? Like really. Get with the tour people.
Who are we to know what is REALLY going on. Since NONE of us are a part of this whole wonderfully orchestrated and over the top performances, maybe you all might benefit to just, STFU..?

March 04 2011 at 8:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Gill Sprawson

I think Charlie Sheen is managing to get much more attention than he deserves.He certainly knows how to play the media.

How sad that he has nothing in his life that gives him purpose other than himself.

March 04 2011 at 4:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
\"Frenchie\" McFarlane

Charlie says that this is all "overblown", but unfortunately Bill Clinton used that excuse back during his "Monicagate" days!! Come to think of it, why doesn't he now use the "Lady Ga-Ga" defense, ya know, "I was born this way"?

March 04 2011 at 2:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rick

While I'm not sure of Charlie Sheen's motive in some of his tirades lately, I do know how his problems with the press started. He is one of the few (only?) stars or persons in public life to speak the truth about 9/11. He knows it was an inside job and is telling anyone who will listen. That takes a great deal of courage. The mainstream media which is completely controlled by the real powers has done evreything it can to discredit him. The New World Order knows that 9/11 is their achilles heel and that if (when?)people finally wake up to the truth, they are going to rise up and take their country back.

Rick Tufts
Toronto

March 04 2011 at 7:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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DB

Uhhhhhh.......right. Up the dosage a bit.

March 04 2011 at 3:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply