In other news, I just got back from a weird Korean meal with Jason and Isabel and I can't wait to get started on their wedding certificate and photo album. I'll have to take some printing classes and buy a bunch of materials, which means venturing into Syracuse.
I think a lot of things when I listen to Akron/Family, but I think a lot of different things when I look at Akron/Family.
I like them because the vocals are never overpowered by the instruments and the lyrics are sometimes important but not too deep. They don't put me in a mood, ever. Psychedelic Folk is such a strange genre, but I admire them for sticking around in it for so long. Fleet Foxes is totally stealing their thunder, by the way. Their music makes me think of summer and the woods and being outside someplace green. Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free is the best album I've heard in a while. Maybe it's just that I want the summer, but I think it's because the songs are just so fucking good.
When I look at them, though, I get all confused.
One of them looks like a weird hybrid of Aaron Speiser and Hattie's sensitive/douchy boy-of-the-moment, Patrick.
I kind of want to think they like to LARP, but something tells me that they know better. They definitely look like they like to trip, which I hope is true. Weirdos are more fun if they don't have some stupid rule against mind expanding substances, because like Chimney Witz (née Hancy Fotel, née Kelly Steyer) says, if you won't trip, you're just afraid of yourself.
Their beards are all ridiculous, their hair looks unwashed and unbrushed, I don't understand their wardrobe, and they can't dance at all. But I think they're delightful and they don't take themselves too seriously, which is always important if you're fucking crazy.
and I had to share. Oh to be as funny as those two. Sadly, I'm pretty sure the only people who appreciate me when I'm stoned are Hattie, Caleb, Rachel and Hancy. Anyways, that girl writes for Jezebel (http://jezebel.com/tag/slut-machine/) and also has her own blog (http://onedatatime.typepad.com/) which is also hilarious. And from her blog, Hattie discovered this:
It's a documentary about ObjectumSexuals, or people who sexually and romantically love objects. And not like, their toothbrush. Big stuff, like the Golden Gate Bridge and the Berlin Wall. That's some weird ass shit. I mean, whatever gets you going, right?
Just to give a taste, it's like this: "And when I make love to 1001 Nacht [carnival ride] at home, right when I'm about to climax, I just say, over and over, I want your fluids, I WANT YOUR FLUIDS!"
and Hattie's sensitive/douchy boy-of-the-moment, Patrick. 