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I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.

Al Yankovic

One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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Album Career Deel Keep Material Three Topical Year
About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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Bungee Love Lower Relationship Strand Tower
You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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Barbecue Down Face Heal Heart Scar Slam
You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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Block Kid Kids New Play Scholar Some
I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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Energy Guy High Kind Known Optimistic
Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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I’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
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