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Wednesday, 12/18/24: Twas The Night "Santa Went Crazy" (or Weird Al Went Crazy?) haha His parodies and originals are usually light and humorous. However - there is the occasional sadistic one like "Nature Trail To Hell", or the holiday favorite: "The Night Santa Went Crazy". Don't expect any fat jollies from this song haha: "....and he turned poor old Rudolph into - Reindeer Sausage! He took Dasher and Prancer, with an old german luger, and he slashed up Dancer, just like Freddy Krueger. And he took a flame thrower, and barbecued Blitzen, and he took a big bite, and said he tastes just like Chicken!" "The Night Santa Went Crazy, the night St. Nick went insane - realized he's been gettin' a raw deal. Something finally must've snapped in his brain"
| Friday, 11/29/24: Holy crap, it's the State Farm Guy haha. GTFO! Apparently, he hated UHF haha. And by the way State Farm Guy, go to Weirdal.com!
| Saturday, 11/02/24: Fallon and Weird Al. Or The Yank-Man and Jimmy. Hahaha. What a collab. If Weird Al provided some vocals, I might have a listen. Congratulations to the 2,534 Weird Al look-a-like costume winners!
| Sunday, 09/29/24: Get Ready for Al's "Bigger & Weirder" (I guess fortunately not "Fatter" haha) 2025 Tour However, I'm sure "Fat" is going to be part of the list. I'm still proud to have gone to one of his "Poodle Hat" tour - a long, long time ago. By myself. And got myself a Poodle Hat album cover T-Shirt (I think I accidentally gave it away to Goodwill. Been lookin' for it ever since. Who knows). Sometimes, that's all you need. Just do the things you want to do, companionship not required.
| Sunday, 09/01/24: So anyone remember "The Weird Al Show"? Before Al becomes a movie star (unless there's a UHF 2 haha), let's reminisce: "So this is a story about a guy named Al, he lived in the sewer with his hampster pal. But the sanitation workers really didn't approve, so he packed up his accordion and had to move, to a city in Ohio where he lived in a tree, and he worked in a Nasal Decongestion Factory, and he played on the company bowling team, and every single night he had a strange, reoccurring dream...." I forgot the rest haha. But any lyrics can be looked up by an invention called - wait for it - Google.
| Thursday, 07/25/24: With the new polka medley released on the 10th Anniversary for Al's final album, "Mandatory Fun", I'll have to check out some of the tracks there.
| Tuesday, 07/23/24: While anijams are cool or other forms of animated videos, it's a shame that live-action music videos are a thing of the past for Al. I think his last live-action was "Tacky". I do not know the original song well enough to enjoy the parody. That song itself might have been 'tacky' haha. Well - you can call Al "The Cactus Man" as a cameo in his new polka hahaha. It's damn true - most of us create parodies to mock the original (either they truly suck, or we just poke fun at them). But Weird Al is genuine - you better believe it. He's a fan of all originals he parodies - while I'll agree with some of them (I might be a fan of them or used to), I sure think in a way when I listen to his parody that's mocking some of them. It's just perspective - and in no way is this true from Al's perspective.
| Monday, 07/22/24: *New track! It's a polka medley, they are always fun to sing along. Fortunately, I could recognize some of the tracks. By the way - does your wife know that you're a 'Swiftie' Swiftie? Unless you're re-imagining her as your ex from UHF haha. Now that Al is back, perhaps parody a Kendrick Lamar / Drake beef diss tracks? haha. I knew there were a handful of artists who turned down or rejected Al's parody proposals. Prince and Coolio are probably the well known ones. However - the Coolio fiasco eventually resolved itself (probably happened on a Friday, where statistically there was a less chance of an incident anyway haha). And what'ya know - Weird Al found a way to create a parody (You're Pitiful for example) or subtlely jab at the artist anyway. Hahaha My favorite parodies is "Amish Paradise" and "Couch Potato" (a diatribe about bad tv programming and lazing around watching terrible tv haha - that and "Can't Watch This" MC Hammer parody).
| Thursday, 01/18/24: Did I see a selfie of Weird Al (and the actor who played Weird Al) with Ke Huy Quan? That is just too cool. Oh yeah - congrats on some Emmy wins. I guess the Weird Al biopic was not as badly reviewed as UHF was (although I found UHF hilarious for the most part) haha. Although parodies might be a thing of the past, they are still relevant somewhat. There just isn't any songs worth parodying these days. The focus should be on any of Al's originals.
| Thursday, 09/07/23: New Track Upload - "Everything You Know Is Wrong" Well, not new - this is a classic original from the "Bad Hair Day" album. Very catchy melody and hilarious lyrics. This was inspired by Choe's Hamburger Helper podcast clip that I remembered this song / track. Thanks, Choe! haha. Al is still alive and well, and touring. C'mon, kiddies. Let's sing along haha: "I was going into the kitchen for some Golden Grahams, when I accidentally stepped into an alternate dimensions, and soon I was abducted by some Alien whose face kinda looked like Jamie Farr. They sucked out my internal organs, and took some polaroids, and said I was a darn, good sport. And as a way of saying thank you, they offered to transport me back to any point in history that I would care to go. And so I had them send me back to last Thursday night, so I can pay my phone bill on time. Just then a floating, disembodied head of Colonel Sanders started yelling: *chorus* Everything you know is wrong, black is white, up is down and short is long. And everything you thought was important doesn't even matter - Everything you know is wrong, just forget the words and sing along, all you need to understand is Everything you know is wrong!"
| Friday, 12/30/22: Al has tons of iconic tracks. But I guess Al made a deal behind the scenes with GQ for the "popular" ones (when there are already tons of them from god-knows-how-many-albums now) haha. Joking aside - I would've added "It's All About The Pentiums", "Couch Potato" and "Canadian Idiot" haha. That's right - "Hardware Store" is the only Weird Al song / track I could never memorize haha. Not even close. It's like trying to memorize or spit out all the digits to Pi haha. To put it in another perspective - I did memorize "Alburqurque" pretty quickly.
| Thursday, 10/20/22: I'll provide the "context" - Peter Griffin is "Fat". He turns on the radio on to "Eat It". Not something a Fat Guy would want to hear or listen to, especially one on a diet. Hahaha. Since I brought back my Beavis & Butt-Head web page, I might be updating again as well. I might no longer have interest in any new stuff, but perhaps some quirky tidbits like this now and then. Other than the tracks uploaded on this page, I used to have a lot of tracks / CDs of Al's various albums. Not sure what happened - I was cleaning one day, and might have mistakenly thrown away the CDs / deleted folders or files that I thought were extraneous (in fact, it had music files on it. But thought it was clutter).
| Sunday, 09/18/22: Holy, Al Biopic (More Like, Overly-Dramaticized / Stiff Acting TV Special) Batman! haha It might be fun for newbies, sort of like watching Dustin Diamond's POV in that "Saved By The Bell" scandal movie haha. But fortunately, I don't have that network or platform to even consider watching it. It is a hell no for me. I quit / stopped following Weird Al a few years back - at least for updates. But the parodies / original music always lives on. In fact - his lyrics always come up whenever I hear an original on the radio or other. And I end up singing Al's lyrics instead haha. The Parody (and Polka) King continues to live on!
| Wednesday, 08/29/18: Wanna Run With My Crew, huh? Al Gets the 'Star' Treatment...
| Tuesday, 12/31/13: I guess for the upcoming year, it's now the question of when the new album is going to be ready. Although it doesn't seem like that there is going to be any "leaks" this time around (whether one parody or a few), there sure seems to be plenty of silence on this matter muhaha. In the meantime, let's reminisce again and go back to a long lost parody that I've forgotton about. It was another unfortunate situation where although Al was given permission for the parody, he was later denied permission to release it on the "Straight Outta Lynnwood" album. Now THAT'S pitiful......muhaha. So all you polydodecahedron-headed troutsniffers, here it is: 
| Friday, 8/30/13: 
According to Al's blog, a new album is currently in the works as he finishes off the "Alpocalypse" tour. In the meantime, another moment of Al back in the day: Al as an extraterrestrial Cabbage! muhaha. Ok, not really a favorable moment in Al's career on tv muhaha.
| Saturday, 4/13/13: I wonder if Coolio felt like doing the same? muhahaha.... Weird Al Gettin' The.....Axe
| Sunday, 2/10/13: It's time for another installment with....the 'Yank-Man'? muhahaha. Anyway, the hyperlink below or just go to Al's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgzAAyvVDEE
| Monday, 9/10/12: I haven't been to a Weird Al live concert since the "Poodle Hat" tour, and I probably won't have time to go again. Come to think of it, that was my only concert anyway. Well, why not just purchase the Weird Al "Al-Pocalypse" Tour! DVD which was just released awhile ago, and have all the parody fun and goodness of his most recent album right on a computer, ipad or HDTV! I remember purchasing "Weird Al Live!", Al's first live concert filmed/recorded on DVD I believe and which was released way back in '98 or something. If you don't have the time to go live, then go DVD or bluray! muhaha. I'd prefer a digital download, but I have the means to extract the DVD into digital files if I have to.
| Saturday, 6/16/12: It's been quite awhile, more like seven months since last updates or news from the 'Weird' one. I bet he's been busy with concert touring for Alpocalypse, but other than that it's been pretty quiet. But eventually, it was bound to happen. Eventually, I did come across his latest project called 'Face To Face With Weird Al', which is on the nerdist Youtube channel. Well, probably the only thing interesting on there muhaha. Nevertheless, it's the interview parodies that he used to do back in the day on Al-TV I think. I remember some of them, pretty funny stuff. And now, they're back with more celebs to ridicule muhaha. The Eminem interview parody was one of the funniest...if ya know what I'm sayin' muhaha. Embedded video below.
Sat., 11/19/11
| With the current NBA lockout resulting in an antitrust lawsuit, I think it's only appropriate to bring to ya Al's style-parody song 'I'll Sue Ya' from the album 'Straight Outta Lynwoood', a parody in style of the band 'Rage Against The Machine', for those grunge/heavy metal fans out there. The song is a caricature about today's culture of suing for every little thing, for every petty, non-sensical reason. As far as the NBA lockout is concerned, it's mind-boggling how some petty labor disagreements has resulted in a potentially embarrassing lawsuit for either side, which the players will be seen as money-hungry and the NBA as seen as powerless. After all, I guess it's all about the 'Caaaasshtth!!' muhahaha.
Wed., 8/24/11:
| Music videos usually showcase a track in all its visual hilarity, but they aren't made overnight. I would've liked to have seen a video for 'Couch Potato', but apparently Al was denied permission for it. From then on, a live video has been pretty much rare or non-existent if at all. Harken back to the days of videos like 'Fat', 'Eat It', and 'Smells Like Nirvana' lol. These days, computer-animated videos have been the 'fad' for Al most likely because of 'time constraints' haha. Whatever the reason, it sure isn't the same when a live video is produced.
Sat., 7/23/11: | This could have been another case of 'Coolio'-itis muhaha, since Al was supposedly denied permission for 'Perform This Way'. Well, he eventually got permission but the video was already produced so they say. Remember when 'Bad Hair Day' came out, and Coolio was not so happy about 'Amish Paradise'? Those were the days indeed hahaha. It really is a sad state of affairs when a good majority of folks don't know how to bcc in an email albeit cc. It's one thing if you never had to use it, but it's another when Outlook or Lotus Notes is an integral part of someone's sedentary, slouchy job lol.
| Sun., 7/17/11: 
For me, it was about being able to recognize
who or what he was parodying or what I'd like to think as, 'making fun of' hahaha. In the beginning, I didn't
really know who they were nor did I really care except the fact that the lyrics were pretty hilarious. After awhile though,
the parodies become catchy enough to belt out the lyrics out as I did with 'Couch Potato' and 'It's All About The Pentiums',
two of my favorites. The pre-release of 'Internet Leaks' might have suffered from 'overexposure', as usually the newness or the novelty of is pretty much lost on release of the full album. At any rate,
I don't think fans would really care about that anyway. 'Al-Pocalypse' is certainly here.
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