How To Be Happy All The Time by Rachel Arieff & The Smileytown Boys

It also makes a great gift for people who don't have any sense of humor but you'd like to annoy.

WHO IS RACHEL ARIEFF?

Rachel's mom gave her classical piano lessons from age five to 12, when Rachel rebelled and insisted on doing gymnastics and listening to Duran Duran instead. After a disastrous college career, Rachel began performing as a standup comedian in Austin, TX at the wonderful indie comedy club The Velveeta Room. Later she moved to NYC and then to LA, where she combined standup comedy with her songwriting and piano skills to create "extreme cabaret" -- a modern lounge act with an edge.

Rachel's appeared on the NBC standup show "Late Friday" and in the movie "Clockstoppers". But she had the most fun hosting her kooky Hollywood lounge show "Discotown!" in the basement of a Ramada Inn with all her funny and talented friends. Rachel now lives in Spain, where she continues to perform . . . but in Spanish. Dios mío!

THE STORY BEHIND THE CD:

It all started when Rachel's old New York buddy, ERIC RUDNICK , offered to accompany her on drums when she played her songs at comedy gigs. Then Eric introduced Rachel to guitar genius GARNER KNUTSON of THE PIPER DOWNS. Once Rachel and Eric succeeded in prying the multitudes of screaming, hysterical girls off of Garner, they got together and started playing the songs from Rachel's one-woman show, "How To Be Happy All the Time". Egged on by their fans, they went into "the studio" with a guy named Dustin whose toilet is next to his bed and recorded the "How to Be Happy All the Time" CD. Guest musicians are hairless hillbilly manchild MICHAEL TODD on washboard and accordion virtuoso "BAD MILK JOE" from the band Breech.

This CD has fans throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia. As a testament to her newfound underground success, Rachel often gets approached by shifty older men with poor hygeine who want to know if she "likes to party".

The Critics Blather:

"What do you get if you cross a wholesome looking, all-American girl with a perverse, foul-mouthed, surrealist stand up comedian? You get the mutant lovechild of Britney Spears and Richard Pryor on speed that is Rachel Arieff!" -Barcelona Metropolitan, January 2005

"Charming and hilarious, innocent and caustic...Rachel Arieff personifies comedy in its pure state." -Popular1 Magazine, Barcelona, Spain, July 2004

"Slash-and-burn smarts... (Arieff) thinks and writes her sassing." -Laurie Stone, The Village Voice, 1999

"The savvy Arieff has touched a chord with her show." -Tom Murrin, Paper Magazine, 1999.

"The whip of the American empire." 2000 Maniacos, October 2003

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