Or something like that.

Wayne Coyne, from Pitchfork:

There's the real world and then there's this fantastical world. 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.

Yep. The Flaming Lips' 2002 Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is being adapted for a Broadway Musical. Aaron Sorkin, of West Wing and Sports Night fame, has signed on to script the musical; Des McAnuff will direct/produce. Wayne of McAnuff, "When Des heard the record, he heard a lot about death and loss and the triumph of your own optimism...he had an emotional attachment to it". I can't say my own reaction to Yoshimi was altogether different the first few listens. It's even more so now, my "emotional attachment", anyway. I worry about a live-action adaptation, but given the nature of the music and even the Lips' live shows, this seems exactly right. I can't wait to make another trip to NYC to see it.