Apr 24, 2009 By Kyle Lemmon

Jeremy Haines, the Brooklyn electro-pop vocalist of Project Jenny, Project Jan (PJPJ) never stops daydreaming, even when he and programmer/keyboardist Sammy Rubin are holed up in the most unimaginative of places: a stuffy Days Inn. Haines, who also creates much of the vibrant artwork for the duo's website and albums, is doodling on the hotel room stationery: "I'm actually drawing this woman-man. Looks a lot like Cathy from the comic strip, except with the worst haircut and she's looking at this strange mutant Kermit the Frog character, or maybe the Salt Flats of Utah." Such gonzo cartoons come closer to describing PJPJ's sound than laborious R.I.Y.L. lists or the latest silly genre invented by a critic: laptop rock. More