I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
AL YANKOVICI’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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So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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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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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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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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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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