Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
AL YANKOVICI 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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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’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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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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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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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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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’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits – and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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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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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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