for the sad, untimely and ultimately preventable death of "Weird" Al Yankovic's parents. read Al's note to his fans here.
growing up, i was, along with the official brother of t.s.o.a., probably a bit too into "Weird" Al but we would have rather listened to his versions of most of the songs he parodied. and with song titles like "Nature Trail to Hell", "Christmas at Ground Zero", and "Slime Creatures from Outer Space" it's not hard to see what was appealing to our pre-adolescent brains. UHF is one of those cult classic types of movies that still makes me laugh when i catch 15 minutes of it on USA at 4:30 on a Saturday afternoon. but it *is* hard to believe that he's still at it these days, and still winning Grammys. that should probably be a further indictment of the worst awards in existence, but really how great is it that he's been able to carve out a 20+ year career with this stuff?
somehow it's fitting that "you're no rock'n'roll fun" came on while i was typing this. i know that makes no sense.
bonus stuff: a 13-year old interviews Al for the Onion.
Posted by jamie at April 13, 2004 05:59 PMremember how nature trail to hell used to scare the pants off chris morrison and me and we once had to leave the room as you continued to listen to it, deaf to our countless protests.
Posted by: crispin at April 15, 2004 02:55 PMreally? that's priceless. christmas at ground zero was always way more freaky to me. i guess i worried about nuclear war more than i did homicidal maniacs.
Posted by: jamie at April 15, 2004 04:58 PM