I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
AL YANKOVICIn 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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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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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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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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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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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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It’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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