The heartbroken, folky ballads on "Funny Cry Happy Gift" are at once dire and hopeful, with subtle, distinctive melodic touches.
Throughout 2004, Harvey produced Tiffany Anders' album Funny Cry Happy Gift, and also produced, performed on and wrote five songs for Marianne Faithfull's album Before the Poison, and contributed background vocals on "Hit the City," "Methamphetamine Blues" and "Come to Me" on Mark Lanegan's album Bubblegum.
"It was really exciting that she didn't even [hesitate]." The result is "Funny Cry Happy Gift". Released in March on Seattle-based Up Records, which also put out her 1998 EP, the album also features drumming by Anders' longtime pal J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. fame.
It's a funny business crying in the toilets at work.
(And no, jokes about Indian food burps and septuagenarian nudity are not in that "funnier than crying" category. And yes, they are in "Dads").. "Dads" premieres Tues., Sept. 17 at 8 p.m. ET on Fox.
"I knew you looked funny!" Clea cried.
"This will never, ever be funny!" she cries, swatting -- and it isn't the first time; at 11 and 9, the boys are already screw-ups, wastrels, layabouts, inveterate practical jokers.
Without all the cuddly Japanese people talking in their funny-cry-happy syntax, that movie would've just been a two-hour-long Marc Jacobs ad.
And Other Lies (October 3, G. P. Putnam's Sons) is an honest portrayal of her life and times; fellow actor and comedian B.J. Novak calls the book, "the funniest cry for help you'll read this year," and the book overall is wholly original, relatable, and insightful just like Cummings herself.
There's something funny about men crying".
So might you describe Thomas Pynchon's diabolically lean and funny The Crying of Lot 49, perhaps the most perfect American novel of its age.
