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Just Say Movember

happyjoel — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:02:05 +0000

For many years now, dudes have been growing mustaches to bring attention to cancer’s that affect men, specifically prostate cancer. While this is important information, it’s also a great excuse for people to grow out mustaches and celebrate the mustache in general.

So this year, my buddy Zach Sherwin (AKA MC Mr. Napkins) were given a gig to put together a little song about the history of mustaches. As is our way, Zach tackled the lyrics (and crushed it) and I tackled the music. Then the Movember people put together a video of epic mustache proportions.

Click the picture to see the video

Makes me wish we had the budget to hire dancers and warehouses for all the collaborations we do.

Creating a New Metal Band

happyjoel — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:31:20 +0000

Flaming Skull by JOhn Lawrence

Originally uploaded by WinTweaker – WinTweak!

I decided that winning a lot of contests and having some sense of financial stability and some free time is allowing me to finally pursue my dream of creating the ultimate Heavy Metal band with me as a front man. I have assembled the band and today is our first practice.

I am particularly excited that I won’t have to be playing an instrument unless I want to, so I will be free to dance around stage like I’d like.

Also, I AM ANNOUNCING A CONTEST
I am opening the door to anyone and everyone to come up with the new name for our heavy metal band. I am not promising I will use a selection, but if I DO use your suggested name, you will receive a $50 iTunes gift card and you will be mentioned in the rockumentary that I’m sure will be made about our band in the next decade or so.

Good luck.

Christmas Decorations at Joel’s House

happyjoel — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:02:42 +0000

Christmas Decorations at Joel’s House

Originally uploaded by happyjoelmoss

Growing up Jewish in Dayton, Ohio, I was pretty anti-Christmas. I used to wear hannukah as a badge of honor, in the same way Cubs fans wear losing.

Somehow, along the way, things changed. I am now the most unabashed lover of Christmas I know. I love Christmas movies (top three are Home Alone, Elf and Christmas story), I love Christmas music, (anything by Elvis, with Silver Bells and Blue Christmas topping the list) I love lights, I love trees, I love it all.

This year, since I live with two non-Jews, I am proud to say we get Christmas decorations. My roommate Vanessa bought some lights, and asked me to hang them while she was at work today. I know I should be hanging them for prettiness, but instead I hung them for comedy – hence the decorations in the picture. Each time I walk into the living room it makes me laugh.

I also bought Egg Nog last night after trying it for the first time a couple days ago. It’s fucking great.

And I love Christmas so much I made this video. This video is not perfect, but I do hope you enjoy it, and have a very merry set of holidays.

Happyjoel On the Radio (I’m huge in AUSTRALIA!)

happyjoel — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:41:47 +0000

So after my marvelous tour through Australia, I was utterly surprised to get an email from an Australian radio show two days after I got back to LA. I naturally assumed that it was related to my being there in some way, but it turns out, it wasn’t at ALL. The guys from a show called “Sunday Night Safran” were writing to MC Happyjoel, because they came across the hyper-specific, Jewish rap song I wrote a few years back called “A Bissel Rap.” At this point I would like to shout out to my DJ, DJ Dour. DJ Dour, consider yourself shouted.

A weird coincidence, but I was only too happy when they asked if they could call me and interview me on the radio about the song. I don’t know anything about the show, what they talk about, where they are based, and because I got the day wrong (international date line and all that) I was accidentally, totally drunk when the interview happened. Still, I don’t sound like a total douchebag if you check the podcast starting at 1 hour 13 minutes in.

The strangest part of this, is that I was chosen as their “Religious Song of the Week,” but my lyrics are so specifically Jewish, that even 80% of Jews don’t get all the references. To give you an idea, the song starts with:

“I wanna make sure Jews and non-Jews don’t hate / But I slaughter MC’s with the precision of a shochayt.”

Or how about this classic rap line:

“I run through other rappers lines cause their rhymes are fucking porous / And I spin busters round in circles like I’m shlugging capporus.”

(A shochayt is a Jewish butcher, and shlugging capporus is when you swing a chicken around your head at Yom Kippur to put your sins in it. You know, normal every day Judaism.)

But by far the most exciting thing was that I was referred to on the show as “Jewish hip-hop artist from Los Angeles…” without any irony or mocking. In the world of Jewish rapping, I think that’s basically as big as you can get.

PS – Matisyahu can go fuck himself. (trying to start a Jewish-rap war if anyone wants to forward this to him!)