AGAIN?! Now "Canadian Idiot" by Weird Al hits online

For the second time in 24 hours, a song from "Weird Al" Yankovic's upcoming Straight Outta Lynwood album has appeared online. A little while ago somebody (that I haven't been able to recognize from any previous correspondence) sent me a very high-quality MP3 of "Canadian Idiot", Weird Al's parody of Green Day's "American Idiot". Last night it was "White and Nerdy" that appeared on Chamillionaire's Myspace page. And the other week Al released "Don't Download This Song" (as a legitimate free download of all things). At this rate we're going to have every track on Straight Outta Lynwood available over the Internet by the end of next week.

So what's "Canadian Idiot" like? It's a spot-on spoof of the original by Green Day, poking fun at everything stereotypical Canadian from hockey to beer to guns. I like it a lot (then again I like just about everything Weird Al does so I might be biased a bit :-) I just hope that this is the last song from the new album that gets leaked before the CD's street date: I mean, there has to be something fresh to make us ought to want to buy the album that much more, right?

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Look at it if you wanna

No way am I going to post the pictures of this thing here. It wigs me out too much to even think about it. But in case anyone's interested: "Weird" Ed found an... interesting... collection of photographs. What they are of is anyone's guess. Here's the blog post he made on his Myspace page about it. You can find more images from the link he's got there. I'm warning ya though: I took one look and the first words out of my mouth were "Ye gods... what the hell IS that thing?!" If you have nightmares tonight after taking a gander, don't say I didn't warn you.

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How SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE should have REALLY ended

Too funny...

EDIT 8:19 AM EST: I just found where this video originated from. It's a site called How It Should Have Ended and there's even MORE hilarious stuff to be watched over there. You just have to see this one for Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory...

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Forty years ago today...

...a little television show called Star Trek debuted.

Live long and prosper.

(P.S.: the original show will always be cool.)

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ANOTHER new Weird Al song makes its way online!

Wow... "Weird Al" Yankovic really needs to slow down these online releases or else we'll have heard all the songs on his next album by the time it comes out on the 26th :-) Without any kind of announcement about it or anything the first track from Straight Outta Lynwood - the parody of Chamillionaire's "Ridin'" titled "White and Nerdy" - is on Chamillionaire's Myspace page right now! So far I've listened to it about three times and it's playing again now. I was really wrong though: I was so sure this song was going to be about Napoleon Dynamite. But it's still pretty funny. This could have been my theme song when I was in high school :-P

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That's gotta hurt

The above photograph is that of a cell phone lodged in the intestines of an inmate in an El Salvador maximum security prison. Here's the story via Yahoo!...

Cell phones found inside four prisoners
Wed Sep 6, 10:57 PM ET

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Cellular telephones were found inside four prisoners in El Salvador's maximum-security prison, authorities said Wednesday.

The discovery was made Tuesday at the prison in Zacatecoluca, in central El Salvador, after suspicious officials took X-rays of each of the inmates, federal corrections chief Jaime Villanova said.

The names of the prisoners, all members of the dangerous Mara Salvatrucha gang, were not released in order to avoid jeopardizing an ongoing investigation that began a month ago, he said.

Capt. Juan Ramon Arevalo, director of the prison known as Zacatras, said the gang members had introduced the cell phones, wrapped in plastic bags, into their bodies through their anuses. Authorities also found nine cell phone chips and one charger.

"Each one had a cellular with a number of chips," Arevalo said, adding that one also had hidden a charger in his anal cavity.

The inmates allegedly used cell phones to direct criminal activities on the street from inside the prison, Arevalo said. The smuggled phones were found during an investigation at prisons throughout the country amid complaints from business owners of extortion by gang members.

Prisoners change phone chips frequently to avoid being traced, Arevalo said.

The police have doubled their security levels to combat the criminals.

Makes you wonder how painful this thing is if it's set on "vibrate".

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The full track listing for Weird Al's STRAIGHT OUTTA LYNWOOD

So far I haven't seen any official announcement, but so many sources are consistently reporting this so this may very well be the real deal. This is the point before "Weird Al" Yankovic releases a new album when all of his fans will be speculating about what the songs will be like exactly. For me personally, there are always some song titles that I have to wonder what in the world could possibly be funny or original about them... and then the album comes out and I wind up playing those very same songs over and over and over again, they are so good. Last time it was the songs "Hardware Store", "Bob" and "Wanna Be Ur Lovr" (by far the most risque thing Al has ever done). So far as Straight Outta Lynwood goes, I think this time "Pancreas" and "Virus Alert" might be the big surprises.

Anyway, here's the list of what will be on Straight Outta Lynwood:

1. White and Nerdy - parody of Ridin' by Chamillionaire featuring Krayzie Bone

2. Pancreas - an original song with an animated video on the DualDisc

3. Canadian Idiot - parody of American Idiot by Green Day

4. I'll Sue Ya - an original song that also includes an animated video on the DualDisc

5. Polkarama! - Al's usual polka medley of current well-known songs (my favorites of those have got to be Polka Your Eyes Out and Bohemian Polka)

6. Virus Alert - an original song about computer viruses and the like that infect your computer from your friends's e-mail outboxes, also featuring a music video is animated by David Lovelace, the creator of Retarded Animal Babies. According to Lovelace, "just about every RAB character will have cameos in the video."

7. Confessions Part III - parody of Confessions Part II by Usher

8. Weasel Stomping Day - an original song to be given a "Robot Chicken video treatment" with a stop-motion animation piece on the popular cartoon's 35th episode, airing on September 24, 2006.

9. Close But No Cigar - an original song "kind of about this cat who's trying to hit on several girls, but he finds out that they're not really his type." John Kricfalusi, creator of Ren & Stimpy, and Katie Rice are working on the animated video.

10. Do I Creep You Out - parody of Do I Make You Proud by Taylor Hicks

11. Trapped in the Drive Thru - parody of Trapped in the Closet by R. Kelly

12. Don't Download This Song - a style parody of We Are the World which "describes the perils of online music file-sharing." Also features a Bill Plympton-animated video.

As you migh know, "You're Pitiful" was originally going to be on this album, but James Blunt's record company asked Al not to do it (which is why he made it a free download). One thing I've noticed is that the parodies from Straight Outta Lynwood seem to be those of some very current songs, like the Taylor Hicks one. Makes me wonder if Al might be considering doing song parodies all the time and sticking them on the Internet after he finishes them. That would definitely be a good self-marketing thing to do (in my opinion marketing himself through his own website and his Myspace page like this is something very innovative that Al is doing).

Taylor Hicks fan that I am, I can't wait to hear "Do I Creep You Out" :-)

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