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The new Weird Al album, Straight Outta Lynwood, comes out tomorrow. For those of you who (like me) don't listen to the radio much, or if you just want a refresher, here are his parody targets this time around:

Chamillionaire - Ridin' - I'm not sure I'd even heard of Chamillionaire before news that he was going to be parodied came around, but this song is presumably pretty big (I guess Al wouldn't have made it his lead parody target otherwise). Al's own version of the video is up at his MySpace page.
Green Day - American Idiot - Okay, you probably know this one even if you don't know the others.
Usher - Confessions Part II
Taylor Hicks - Do I Make You Proud? - No actual video at this link, just a changing series of pictures. I'm not sure there even IS a real promotional video for the song, and I don't think it's been played on the radio much either (although, as I've admitted, I don't really listen to the radio that much, so I suppose I wouldn't know for sure). My guess is that, after Atlantic Records denied Al permission to include "You're Pitiful" on the album, he decided he'd just go ahead and parody the American Idol winner.
R. Kelly - Trapped In The Closet - Okay, let's all ask the obvious question together. Ready? "Does this really NEED a parody?" Thank you. Still, knowing Al's skill with rambling story songs, I have pretty high hopes for "Trapped In The Drive-Thru." Don't disappoint me, Al! {g}

Incidentally, I think exposing my brain to "Trapped In The Closet" was damaging to my subconscious, because I had a dream that I saw R. Kelly in concert (WTF?), and he performed all twelve parts. The only other thing I remember about the dream is that 3x1minus1 was also at the concert, presumably because I'm pretty sure it was on her journal that I first heard of Mr. Kelly's saga. My mind might have also been somewhat influenced by the fact that, when I saw the Decemberists last year, they started out with "The Tain," their own multi-part epic (although it's nowhere near as long as "Closet").

obsessical did a whole lot of surveys this past weekend, and I appropriated a few of them for my own purposes.
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My next post will probably include my comments on last night's Simpsons, American Dad, and Futurama episodes. For now, though, I might as well just go ahead and post this.

Any problem started by a tank can also be solved by a tank

I don't want to sound too much like the Comic Book Guy (whose exchange with Principal Skinner was actually pretty funny), but last night's Simpsons was another disappointing episode. I liked the beginning (and it made me think of kristenjarrod and her interest in dead malls {g}), but the main plot was kind of dull for me (although Homer's "I Do All The Work" shirt was amusing), and the subplot...well, Bart forcing Skinner to do gross or embarrassing things got a little tiresome. I thought the allergy idea had potential when they first brought it up, but it didn't work out so well.

On the other hand, I found both American Dad and Family Guy to be quiite good last night. In the former, I liked Stan's line about negotiating through negotiation class (it's rare to hear such a clever logical paradox on TV nowadays {g}), and Deputy Director Bullock's banjo bit was great. (Was that actually Patrick Stewart singing?) The best joke in FG was the guy driving the Hummer, but I was also quite amused by the talking stump and toilet seat, as well as the tumbleweed salesman. And it had a plot that actually worked well, so that's another plus. I'd say it's the best episode of the season so far (although that DOES only require it to beat out two others).

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