Staving off crack dealers isn’t usually a concern for rock stars of Mr. Coyne’s stature. His band has toured the world; released 12 albums, including “The Soft Bulletin” and “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots,” which combined have sold nearly two million copies; and influenced a generation of artists, from Radiohead to Coldplay. And his latest project, “Christmas on Mars,” a film he was the co-director of and stars in with bandmates and friends  and which he filmed largely at the compound  will be released next month. Yet Mr. Coyne, 47, still lives a few blocks from where he grew up, in a neighborhood of mostly one-story shotgun shacks with chipped paint and weedy yards. Large dogs standing guard on sagging porches suggest the crack reference wasn’t a colorful metaphor.

Image WIZARDS OF ODD The home of Wayne Coyne, the lead singer of the Flaming Lips, and J. Michelle Martin-Coyne, shown in their kitchen, is an eclectic mix of the fantastic and the functional. Credit... Paule Hellstern for The New York Times

Living here, he says, gives him freedom. “You can do what you want  when we rehearse, nobody ever complains about the noise.”

And anywhere else, he added, “you couldn’t shoot a movie in your yard.” He built the sets for “Christmas on Mars,” a “freaked-out druggy movie” about a group of astronauts spending the holiday on a space station, in the backyard and other parts of the compound, he said, often using household items. The result is a marvel of ingenuity: hot tubs flipped on their sides became space-station walls; a Williams-Sonoma gelato maker served as the machine the astronauts used to make snow.

“There’s a thing called big junk week here, where people throw out large items,” Mr. Coyne said. “I’d drive around and stuff would spark my imagination.”

Mr. Coyne is clearly a lover of imagination-sparking items, which are on display, in one form or another, throughout both the film and the compound  and which lends them the same whimsical, childlike brio that his band is known for. Flaming Lips songs eschew standard pop music themes  in the group’s hit “She Don’t Use Jelly” (1993) he sings about a girl who dyes her hair with tangerines  and the band revels in playful experiments like the “Zaireeka” album (1997), four separate discs intended to be played simultaneously on four stereos in infinitely varying combinations. Flaming Lips concerts, meanwhile, are transcendent pop-art events: Mr. Coyne encourages fans to come in costume (sometimes as specific animals, or as Teletubbies, or as Santa Claus) and at some point during each concert, he rolls over the crowd encased in a plastic bubble.