Clarissa And The Straightjackets Is Your New Favorite Band

A little-known fact about “Clarissa Explains It All”: Melissa Joan Heart recorded a full album in character as Clarissa called “Clarissa and the Straightjackets.”

1. Listen to the whole album here:

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=PJGBp0ra5qw.

Via: splitsider.com

In the track “This Is What ‘Na Na’ Means,” Clarissa gives us some insight into her favorite things are through a verse of spoken word. They are:

• Lincoln Logs
• Picasso
• The ocean when it’s green
• Cross-eyed cats
• Mud
• Movies where people are insane
• Things I know a lot about
• Things I can’t explain

We also learned some of Clarissa’s pet peeves: eating with ones mouth open, being a baby, drooling while taking a drink, and being a parasite. Honestly, the whole CD is like a window into the mind of Clarissa’s budding teenage feelings — feelings that apparently couldn’t be expressed in the regular route of computer games.

Clarissa also is the voice of a Nickelodeon-produced recording of Peter and The Wolf:

I had a friend who had this CD and it’s not really as exciting as Clarissa’s rock album. But if you’d like to listen, you can here.