He is the brother of media mogul Tony Scotti, with whom he co-produced a few television programs, most notably the lifeguard drama Baywatch, and also co-founded the Scotti Bros. record label which released music by artists such as Survivor and "Weird Al" Yankovic until the label was dissolved in the mid-1990s.
In 1992, "Weird Al" Yankovic included the chorus as the first song in his polka medley "Polka Your Eyes Out" from his album Off the Deep End.
Jim Blashfield (born September 4, 1944, Seattle, Washington) is an American filmmaker and media artist, best known for his short films such as Suspicious Circumstances and The Mid-Torso of Inez, and his music videos for musicians Talking Heads, Joni Mitchell, Nu Shooz, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, Michael Jackson, Tears for Fears, "Weird Al" Yankovic and Marc Cohn.
It is included on the DVD "Weird Al" Yankovic: The Ultimate Video Collection as an Easter egg.
He decided against the idea, but told them that they could make one themselves by cutting together bits from "Weird Al" Yankovic Live!", which they did.
The "Weird Al" Yankovic comedy film UHF features an ad for a fictional outlet store called Spatula City that sells nothing but spatulas (most are of the "turner" variety, though examples of the "scraper" variety are visible in both the Graduation and Birthdays sections of the store in the ad).
Silva died at the age of 38 in a car accident involving a collision with a drunken driver in Whittier, California while filming the "Weird Al" Yankovic film UHF, parts of which had to be rewritten since he had not finished filming his part.
"Weird Al" Yankovic, American singer-songwriter, music producer, actor, comedian, writer, satirist, and parodist
Several songs have been used in conjunction with the Woodsy Owl environmental campaign, including "The Ballad of Woodsy Owl" and "Help Woodsy Spread the Word." Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz, the drummer for "Weird Al" Yankovic, recorded "The Woodsy Owl Song."
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Other artists Jimmy Zavala has performed and/or recorded with include Dr. Dre, Willy DeVille, Rick Springfield, Carole King, Eric Burdon, Rita Coolidge, Thomas Dolby, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Yes, Rick Price, Corey Hart and Shakespears Sister.
From 11 pm EST to Midnight EST (one hour), a bock called Big Kids Stuff plays music from old television shows and artists (i.e. Schoolhouse Rock!, The Muppets, "Weird Al" Yankovic, old Hanna-Barbera shows, etc.)
Feature films shot in the Tulsa region include the Francis Ford Coppola productions The Outsiders and Rumble Fish (both released in 1983), as well as "Weird Al" Yankovic's UHF (1989), Tulsa (1949), All-American Murder (1992), The Frighteners (1996), Phenomenon (1996), Keys to Tulsa (1997), and Tim Blake Nelson's Eye of God (1997).
The runners-up were Naked Beneath My Clothes (Rita Rudner), Jonathan Winters is Terminator 3 (Jonathan Winters), An Evening with George Burns (George Burns), and Off the Deep End ("Weird Al" Yankovic).
Weird Al Yankovic's song "Pretty Fly for a Rabbi" on his album Running with Scissors frequently uses the phrase.
Some prominent events and performances include touring with Full Tilt Poker in Europe doing workshops and performing magic for 10,000 fans on jumbo screens as well as numerous high profile events for a wide range of celebrities such as Jay Leno, Chuck Liddell, Jack Hanna and Weird Al.
The Compleat Al (made for video, 1985): producer, writer, director (videos "Dare to Be Stupid," "Like a Surgeon," "One More Minute", "This is The Life")
The mockumentary also contains clips from his first Three "AL-TV"s, and all of Yankovic's music videos up to 1985: "Ricky", "I Love Rocky Road", "Eat It", "I Lost On Jeopardy", "This Is The Life", "Like a Surgeon" ,"One More Minute", and "Dare to Be Stupid".
"You're Pitiful" is a parody of "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt written and recorded by American parody musician "Weird Al" Yankovic.
20 Years of Weird: Flaming Lips 1986–2006 is an updated version of the free compilation CD given away at the SXSW Film premier of the The Flaming Lips documentary "The Fearless Freaks", a film by Bradley Beesley.
Allmusic's Jason Lymangrover gave the album four stars out of five, describing it as "weird, ‘60s-rooted, psychedelic hip-hop", sounding "like if J. Dilla produced George Clinton after visiting with the Dalai Lama, or if Dan the Automator recorded Cody Chesnutt after the two shared a plate of magic mushrooms", and calling it "truly visionary".
The Allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine awarded the album 2 stars and stated "On his final album for Blue Note, Freddie Roach decided to step outside -- way outside -- the tasteful soul-jazz that had become his trademark. Roach decided to make a concept album... in a weird way, it's almost fortunate that Roach attempted something grand, because All That's Good sounds like no other Blue Note record of the early '60s".
Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion is book of science history by Gary Taubes about the early years (1989–1991) of the cold fusion controversy.
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die." - Raoul Duke
In 1998 Dino Ignacio, Wout J Reinders and Jasper Hulshoff Pol accepted the Webby Award and the People's Voice Award for Best Weird Website at the Palace of Fine Arts auditorium in San Francisco.
Among the television series which Zimmerman has worked on are Desperate Housewives, CSI: NY, K-Ville, The District, Judging Amy, Reunion, So Weird, and Street Time.
"Cavity Search" (song), the third track on the "Weird Al" Yankovic album Bad Hair Day
Mike Crandol of Anime News Network puts it in the same class as Airplane!, National Lampoon, Tex Avery, and Monty Python, adding that the "combination of character-based humor, outrageous slapstick farce, and a plot that is engaging if only for how weird it is make for a thoroughly enjoyable comedic experience".
When a hot air balloon crashes on a remote and uncharted island, the four balloonists and their dog Melvin are captured by a pair of drunken old pirates who take them to the hilltop laboratory home of Dr. Frankenstein's modern-day descendant Sheila Frankenstein (Katherine Victor) who is carrying on the family tradition by turning shipwrecked sailors into pre-programmed bloodless, black-garbed zombies who must wear sunglasses to protect their weird white eyes from light.
Grand Order of Weird Writers is a writers' organization founded by authors Charlie Carlson and Linda S. Godfrey based on the Weird US series of books started by authors Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman.
The same autumn one of the largest incidents in Slovenian cheerleading history took place on the way to Maribor, at the train station in Štore, near Celje, considered mostly the fault of the Slovenian Police and weird coincidence.
Though some believe the song to be about Nikki Webster, the band have said it isn't, but is more about the appearance of young stars "the costume designer has attempted to create some kind of weird, freaky, sexy bimbette out of someone who is so quintessentially the class dobber."
Ben Cisneros of The 9513 gave it a "thumbs down", saying that "It has a weird melody and the whole first verse is sung to only a piano…It has the 'faux-broadway, sensitive ballad' feel that South Park uses when making fun of a Les Mis style musical".
He also discussed plans with Jol Dantzig for doing a side project called "The Boss Weird" that was to include possibly Elliot Easton as well (Dantzig Design Group, 2006).
His fiction has been described as "new weird SF," and compared to both the anime of Hayao Miyazaki and the early writings of Brian Aldiss.
I Lost on Jeopardy, a parody of the Greg Kihn Band song by "Weird Al" Yankovic
Rolfe claimed that it was inspired by "Weird NJ magazines, the TV series The Twilight Zone and anthology films like Creepshow" but when James started making the web series The Angry Video Game Nerd, it became a large hit, and he found that he would have to postpone later episodes to another time, not known at the moment.
Cyril Pearl, a noted Sydney journalist and Lower's editor, described Here's Luck in the following terms: "It remains pre-eminently Australia's funniest book, as ageless as Pickwick or Tom Sawyer, a work of 'weird genius', as one reviewer put it, written by a 'Chaplin of words'".
Followed by resent events, when she looks curious to Elisabeth (Martina Servatius), when she was talking about the late Johannes von Lahnstein (Thomas Gumpert) and when she gets a very weird look by looking at a picture of Johannes' first late wife Francesca.
His studio appears in the book Weird Virginia and the Roadside America books and website.
Film Threat called the film was a "curious fusion of Alice in Wonderland, Reefer Madness and Herschell Gordon Lewis' Two Thousand Maniacs. It's shot directly onto video and contains lots of gore, bizarre situations and female nudity. It's not particularly funny or gross or sexy, but it was gratifying in some sort of weird way."
Before the first/second part of Pinky and the Brain, Reggie gives this instruction and everyone gets in a weird position in order to watch "Pinky and the Brain".
The Dūrocs (led by fellow San Fran hippie leftover Ron Nagle) and the Ophelias mistakenly believe that weird songs call for wacky performances, resulting in a sort of contrived lunacy that's at odds with Spence's unself-conscious outpourings.
The firm published critical journals such as Lovecraft Studies (now superseded by Lovecraft Annual published by Hippocampus Press) and Studies in Weird Fiction, both edited by Joshi; Crypt of Cthulhu, edited by Robert M. Price; and has also published critical studies of Campbell (The Count of Thirty, edited by Joshi) and Fritz Leiber (Witches of the Mind, written by Bruce Byfield).
The film has received mixed to positive reviews with Dan Owen of MSN praising Turner's acting and the moving storyline while criticising some of the characterisation and "weird shortcuts in the storyline".
Permanent Record: Al in the Box, a four-disc compilation boxed set of songs by "Weird Al" Yankovic
Polka Party!, the fourth studio album by "Weird Al" Yankovic
Starting out as a horror/suspense title, the first volume gradually moved toward eerie fantasy and weird science fiction, before ending as a vehicle for the superhero Captain Atom.
The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories is Penguin Classics' third omnibus edition of works by 20th-century American author H. P. Lovecraft.
When asked why, Yankovic stated that, "They didn't want to scare small children," a reference to the playful teasing of Yankovic's pianist, Rubén Valtierra, commonly used in his live shows.
The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories is Penguin Classics' second omnibus edition of works by 20th-century American author H. P. Lovecraft.
Unlike the predecessor, it was a fantasy anthology at first, then turned into a weird/horror anthology in the style of House of Secrets and House of Mystery.
For example: Popular magazine said The Weird Villa brings us a terrifying with the psychologist but lives at the haunted house and reminds us of the South Korean 2003 film A Tale of Two Sisters.
By 2005 it was the largest cryptozoological conference in Britain, and in 2006, when the CFZ relocated from suburban Exeter to the small village of Woolfardisworthy in North Devon, the Weird Weekend followed, and the 2006 event was a massive success.
1930s technology worked side-by-side with Egyptian magical astronomy and "weird science" powers and gizmos, while costumed Mystery Men patrolled the alleyways of Cairo.
The band have often been mentioned by BBC comedians, The Mighty Boosh, both on radio shows and in interviews; their member Noel Fielding commented "The singer's great, the classic front man in an old fashioned sense, in that he makes you feel really weird and looks mental".
George Carlin said on one of his comedy albums that, "they're approving some pretty weird things, man. Like the guy in the toilet is pretty strange. Originally, it's a rowboat. Then he got a speedboat. Then he was on a raft with two calypso guy musicians and two bushels of lemons singing "We put the lemon in the Ty-D-Bol for you.
The songs tend to be weird, and are an eclectic mix of rare recordings, home recordings sent in, and the occasional Tom Lehrer song.
Weird City: Sense of Place and Creative Resistance in Austin, Texas is a non-fiction scholarly text by Joshua Long published in 2010 by University of Texas Press.
Weird NJ began in 1989 as a personal newsletter sent to friends by Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman.
The Boards of Canada album Geogaddi contains a song titled "The Smallest Weird Number," a reference to another song, "Sixtyten" (equalling 70), as well as their record label, Music70.
Weird Paul: A Lo Fidelity Documentary was completed in 2005 and was released in April 2006, where it went on to show at the Chicago Underground Film Festival and Leeds International Film Festival.
The shows (now defunct) website www.weird.tv was nominated for 3 Webby Awards in 2006, under the categories of Best Humor, Best Use of Animation or Graphics and Best Weird.
Ash said of the video: "Howard took us to the Natural History Museum in London. There we shot performance against giant video screens and metallic globes. We also headed to East London for more performance shots in the Docklands area. The video follows a sci-fi looking chick obsessed with water. She has some kinda weird aqua car and then ends up surfing a tsunami which destroys the city. The final special effect shot is so tacky and crap it's laughable!"
The series follows host Bob Blumer as he travels the world searching for weird and unusual restaurants.