right on

i love re-reading this:

if juno was 10 times shorter and 100 times more honest (from cracked.com) -

ELLEN pisses on a pregnancy test and it tells her that she's PREGNANT as well as PRECOCIOUS.

teehee.
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ps.
naana says she doesn't
do that anymore
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UNPUBLISHED FALL 07:

Akron/Family
Love Is Simple

Buried in the adrenaline-charged drumbeats of Akron/Family’s previous offer, Meek Warrior, was an ingenious track that featured repeated chants of “Love and Space” under fragile gospel vocal. In their latest album, Love Is Simple, the experimental folk group heralded as part of the New Weird America movement, has charged further off the beaten path and into the world of communication beyond words that they aim for.

Yes, there are significant lyrics on this album, asking us to accept love (most prominently in “Don’t Be Afraid, You’re Already Dead”) and bask in the glow of happiness, sunrise, “Phenomena”, “Crickets”, and all things naturally beautiful. However, these sweet melodious statements don’t replace Akron/Family’s trademark tribal, spontaneous, percussion-charged sound, which is seamlessly interspersed between the prophetic songs. In songs like, “Lake Song/New Ceremonial Music For Moms”, they re-awaken epic improvised songs rife with energy, chanting, harmonies, and enough downbeats and uncontrolled revelry to suggest being catapulted into another plane (fitting, given their obsession with portals). In this album, that plane is one of happiness and love too pure to be told, so Akron/Family take on the challenge of showing. At times you’ll think of John Lennon circa when he was singing “Va Guru De Va Om” but it’s mostly folk rock at it’s best: spur of the moment, experimental, inclusive (check out the chanters in “Ed Is A Portal”), and fun, ultimately showcasing raw talent.

The end result is mantra without mere ritual: Akron/Family doesn’t stop at preaching the hippie-hackneyed notion of love, but takes to the street with their crowd of happy singers, singing and chanting blissfully to evoke it. Akron/Family rush into our anatomically-correct hearts by keeping up the soul-moving, mood-lifting, lethargy-shaking feeling people go to church (or the Sunday morning drum-circle) for. Without the getting-up-early-on-a-Sunday-morning-with-a-hangover part.