Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 3:19 pm
Wow, you learn something new every day.
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Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 4:15 pm
OE, I love you. You made my morning!
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 4:36 pm
FS Key's words fit the tune better. I heard an old recording of To Anachreon... once on Dr D.
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 4:48 pm
Dr. D-- that would be the MA musicologist who has always recognized the value of the polemical allusion and pataphysics and whatnot of Mr. Yankovic, no?weird_el @ April 21, 2009 02:36 pm wrote: I heard an old recording of To Anachreon... once on Dr D.
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 7:23 pm
As are quite a few hymns. And probably vise-versa.Orthography Enthusiast @ April 21, 2009 12:48 am wrote: Our own national anthem took its tune from what can only be described as an eighteenth century drinking song
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 8:06 pm
I also enjoyed the essay, but agree with everyone else that it would be improved somewhat by being put into less arcane terminology. Direct is best.TMBJon @ April 21, 2009 04:33 am wrote: I agree that it was written with overly-academic speech, but the core of what the article was saying - that Weird Al is in essence a post-modern artist - feeds into the very reasons why I first got into Al, and why I still listen to him to this day. Obviously, I didn't have a clue what post-modernism or irony were when I was nine years old, but the concepts therein I've always found humorous.
There's nothing much there I haven't said or thought before myself I think we are all agreed this is a fan. I think its cool:)
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 5:40 am
LOL! Beautiful. That's why the good Doctor's got a PhD-- Pretty High Discernment in these matters.Orthography Enthusiast @ April 21, 2009 08:48 am wrote: Dr. D-- that would be the MA musicologist who has always recognized the value of the polemical allusion and pataphysics and whatnot of Mr. Yankovic, no?
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 1:49 am
I just saw a Carmax commercial and the guy in it says to a car "Do you believe in love at first sight or should I walk by again?" I did a double take!
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 2:11 am
I've heard that phrase others places before, too. I don't think Al was the first person to coin it.
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 2:24 am
He might not have been but I still did a double take 