Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
AL YANKOVICI 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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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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I’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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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 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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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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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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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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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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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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