NFR 005      The Short Happy Life      The Album Is Also Called 'The Short Happy Life'      MP3s: Oh Carrie Brownstein , Do You Wanna Be My Girlfriend? Jerry Fels had a band before he became Jerry Fels. It was called The Short Happy Life, only The Short Happy Life wasn't really a band, but more like a moniker, pseudonym, whatever. In other words, it was still him, but instead of calling himself Jerry Fels he called himself The Short Happy Life. This phase did not last for very long, but it did last long enough to produce an album, surprisingly not also called The Short Happy Life, but instead The Album Is Also Called 'The Short Happy Life'. Oh, those self-produced bedroom aesthetes. So clever. Anyway, the results are a little more band-oriented than usual than what youmd come to expect from Jerry Fels, so maybe he was onto something with this whole TSHL motif. Or maybe not, seeing that he saw fit to drop the whole premise three months after the albumms release. Nevertheless, Slightly Confusing To A Stranger called it "An album that you will either love instantly or painfully reject", and, while we honestly could not have said it any better ourselves, we really just don't want this record sitting around here anymore, being a constant reminder of one of our principal artists' wandering, erratic muse. Staring at us. Laughing at us when we turn our backs. Constantly plotting our imminent demise. So buy it. Please? Track Listing: Be Good To Yr. Self / Oh Carrie Brownstein / Do You Wanna Be My Girlfriend? / What The Body Wants / We Are Just / We've Been Taught / Loving You Is A Waste Of Time / Love Is For Losers / You Call That Love / It's Almost Time For Bed / Oh Jerry / If You Could / At First It Will Be Hard / I'm Not Giving Up On This