I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
AL YANKOVICI don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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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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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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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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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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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 guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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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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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
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It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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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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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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