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.
AL YANKOVICWhen I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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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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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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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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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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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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