{"id":4629,"date":"2009-06-14T12:11:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T18:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geek.ravenkai.com\/?p=4629"},"modified":"2009-09-03T01:30:05","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T07:30:05","slug":"new-%e2%80%9cweird-al%e2%80%9d-yankovic-single-video-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=4629","title":{"rendered":"New \u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic Single &#038; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/weirdal.com\/\">\u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>June 16 is almost here! This Tuesday, the first of four brand new originals songs will be released digitally (available at iTunes and&#8230; you know, all the usual places). The name of the song is \u201cCraigslist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There will be a music video for \u201cCraigslist\u201d as well, also released on Tuesday. It was shot by my friend Liam Lynch (who directed <em>Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny<\/em> and <em>Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic<\/em> and is also responsible for those wonderful Lynchland podcasts). It\u2019s a live-action video &#8212; my first since \u201cWhite &#038; Nerdy.\u201d But lower your expectations &#8212; \u201cWhite &#038; Nerdy\u201d had a huge budget, and \u201cCraigslist\u201d had a miniscule one. We shot it in Liam\u2019s garage. I\u2019m not even kidding. As it turns out, though, the \u201clow budget\u201d vibe happens to dovetail well with the concept of the video, so don\u2019t worry, it all works out fine.<\/p>\n<p>If you just can\u2019t wait till the 16th to see this thing, AOL will be doing a world premiere of the \u201cCraigslist\u201d video tomorrow. (Unless they change their minds at the last minute and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&#038;friendId=90827837&#038;blogId=169566305\">pull the plug<\/a> on it like they did with \u201cWhite &#038; Nerdy.\u201d) So check with AOL for all the details on the sneak peek!<\/p>\n<p>BTW, also on Tuesday the 16th I\u2019ll be doing a live online chat via Twitter and Ustream. I\u2019ll be answering your questions from 5PM to 6PM Pacific time (8PM to 9PM Eastern). Details to come&#8230; but in the meantime, make sure you\u2019re <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/alyankovic\/\">following me<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and in case you haven\u2019t seen it yet, here\u2019s the promo clip for <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=2OyljwuuJ58\">AlsBrain.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you like the new song &#038; video!<\/p>\n<p>Al<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from \u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic: June 16 is almost here! This Tuesday, the first of four brand new originals songs will be released digitally (available at iTunes and&#8230; you know, all the usual places). The name of the song is \u201cCraigslist.\u201d There will be a music video for \u201cCraigslist\u201d as well, also released on Tuesday. It &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=4629\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New \u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic Single &#038; Video&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,7,8,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-arts-culture","category-films","category-multimedia","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}