The frighteningly random thoughts of Sam Shaber and her band, the happy problem
Come join Sam, James, John, and Dee as we perform LIVE at Molly Malones on Thursday, July 30th, 10pm. New songs! New outfits! What more could you ask for?
Thursday, July 30, 2009 10pm
Molly Malones
575 S Fairfax Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(323) 935-1577
http://www.mollymalonesla.com
Visit the WornFree blog and read about Sam and the happy problem… and get great shirts too!
blurry punky gal...
Check out Jill Pallack’s awesome music blog Affair of the Heart and watch the happy problem being formed… well, sorta.
Sam
Video shoot, day one
Video shoot wraps, day two!
Hi! Our live video of “Material Girl,” (yes, it’s THAT “Material Girl,” but so different, trust me) has been selected for a contest to get the happy problem performing at Lollapalooza. Could you help us by visiting the link below and VOTING for us? You can even do it once a day for the next 5 days. You get to watch the video which is really fun, and we’ll love you even more if you pass this on to everyone you know! 
(You can also just spread the “Material Girl” video around for fun – it’s here on YouTube. And all the happy problem music videos are at our YouTube page.)
Thank you SO much!
wuv,
Sam
P.S. Yes, this is ANOTHER contest – different from the one on Friday. Oy vey, you say? Amen to THAT, people. (But this one’s cooler, so just do it.)
Click on the cute tape player below, (or visit us at Myspace or Facebook), and wait about 25 seconds for the cute tape player to appear on the lefthand side. Then you can click to LISTEN to the happy problem, SEE a strangely warped picture of the band, and GRAB this widget to add it to your own websites and profiles! Help us take over the world, one strange cartoon tape player after another…
Click here to play our song and spread the happy...
Be there, or be... UNHAPPY!
Muddy Waters
508 E. Haley St.
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
805-966-9328
Debut CD available on iTunes!
BEFORE WE START: This new email format is rockin’ my world, as you can tell, but I learned the hard way that these emails don’t forward with the pictures in them. (Arghs.) SO, if you’re forwarding this missive to a friend, might I suggest that instead you send them to our BLOG page? Then they’ll be able to read it all for themselves and see the purty pictures too!
And now we begin…
Yes, it’s that time again. Time to sit at your computer, grab a cup a’ joe, (or a pint a’ bitter might work better for this experience), ready your hand on the scroll bar, and squint at this screen for the next ten minutes. Ahh, yes. It’s that time when I regale you with tales from my inner-mind, with subjects so utterly random and facts so useless that you can nary help but say,
“Why? Why do I read this thing every month? Why do I lock my office door and turn off my phone so I won’t be disturbed as I pore through this endless drivel?”
You will also wonder,
“Is that the correct spelling of “pore” in this context? Because I feel like I always see it spelled that way, but really it makes more sense to spell it “pour,” as in “pouring over” something.”
And mostly you will ask yourself,
“Why don’t I have anything better to do right now?”
Well people, I can’t help you there. But I CAN say that I’m glad you’re here with me, to spend a little time each month, to hear about all the goings on of the happy problem and everyone’s favorite snarky gal, the Punky Chef, to watch me fight with myself and with imaginary you–
We’re not fighting with you, Sam–
Exactly.
HELLO! I’ll be back to you soon with news of the happy problem and more of the frighteningly random thoughts from my brain that you all seem to love(!), but FIRST!
We’re very excited to announce this years’ winner of the Maribel Garcia Community Spirit Award – Cornell Senior Joran Sequeira.
Joran Sequeira
The Maribel Garcia Community Spirit Fund awards one Cornell student each year for making “a remarkable contribution to the spirit of humanity.” Our goal is to honor our late friend by “thanking” those who creatively invest emotion, respect, and learning in the community of Ithaca, immediately around them, and from there out into the world community. Previous recipients include Ding Kong (’07) who created cooking classes for inner-city kids in an effort to promote self-empowerment and healthy lifestyles, and Jessica Houle (’08) who worked with low-income families in the area’s mobile home parks to bring education, environmental awareness, and the arts to the residents, and thus build a strong feeling of pride and possibility within those communities.
In thinking about our late friend Maribel and the indelible, unique spirit she projected in life, which still remains now after her death, we are happy to present the 2009 Maribel Garcia Community Spirit Award to Cornell senior Joran Sequeira. Joran has brought her vision and leadership to the Cornell Elderly Partnership (CEP), working passionately to dissolve the stereotypes and stigmas placed on the elderly and to promote better understanding, respect, and appreciation for this important segment of the human population.
Wow, and I thought it was hard to get MY name into the months… jeez. Okay, first order of business:
Thurs. April 2, 2009 7pm
the happy problem LIVE
Space 15 Twenty
1520 Cahuenga Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90028
FREE. ALL-AGES. OUTDOORS.
7pm The Kris Special
8pm the happy problem
Yes, siree! Another great night coming your way with the happiest of problems, (that’s US, by the way. Pay attention, people!)
If you don’t live in LA, I apologize for sending all of these announcements out, but we do hope to hit the road as soon as possible, so I just like to let y’all know what we’re doing here in the weird city of lost time…
Lost time, Sam?
Oh you have no idea. The joke about Los Angeles is that you’re lying in the sun enjoying yourself and then you fall asleep and wake up and it’s ten years later. Time has a very strange way of moving and not moving out here. Kinda like when you look at a car wheel spinning and it looks like it’s going backwards but you know it must be going forwards. Here in LA, you think you’re going forwards but sometimes all you’re feeling is the momentum of standing still.
Click here to see our name on the CORRECT playlist!
SUNDAY, MARCH 15: Well kudos to 98.7 FM in Los Angeles for having the very good taste to play our first single “Happy Happy Happy” on their New Music Show tonight, (coming after such little-known bands as U2, Depeche Mode and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs), but they got our name wrong! We are certianly not happy people now! Ah well. Still very exciting to share the airwaves with Bono…
