Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
AL YANKOVICI think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.
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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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The window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
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They somehow didn’t see the need for an accordion player. That’s when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.
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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
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I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
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