How To Be Happy All The Time

Rachel Arieff is the girl next door who forgot to take her meds. If you enjoy a Sesame Street sound with Dead Milkmen lyrics, you'll like Rachel's CD. If you're offended by sex, drugs, or snotty social commentary, Rachel's CD might make you upchuck your Slimfast® all over your Sassoons�!

Rachel believes there's nothing too serious to make fun of. Whether the subjects are teen shooting rampages or teen pregnancy, Internet porn or plastic surgery, her songwriting pokes fun at the horror in life -- starting with her own. That Guy's Gonna End Up Smacking You Around is a '50's-style torch song inspired by a real-life abusive ex-boyfriend: But if he won't sleep with you until you've shaved your mound, that guy might end up smacking you around. Ya see? Bittersweet . . . yet catchy and upbeat enough to dance to. THAT'S what it's all about!

Rachel's CD makes a great gift for people who like simple pop music and sharp satire. 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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