{"id":4648,"date":"2009-06-16T13:36:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T19:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geek.ravenkai.com\/?p=4648"},"modified":"2009-09-03T01:28:32","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T07:28:32","slug":"craaaaaaaigslist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=4648","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic: Craaaaaaaigslist!"},"content":{"rendered":"

from \u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic<\/a>:<\/p>\n

My new single \u201cCraigslist\u201d is out today. In case you haven\u2019t heard it yet (SPOILER ALERT!) it\u2019s an original song in the style of The Doors about… well… Craigslist.<\/p>\n

To explain some of the pictures that I\u2019ve been tweeting<\/a>… last month I drove up to Sausalito to visit a recording studio owned by Jerry Harrison<\/a> (Talking Heads, Modern Lovers)… where I recorded the keyboard parts for \u201cCraigslist\u201d with original Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek<\/a>! It was quite a thrill and an honor to work with Ray. We spent that afternoon eating Mounds bars and guacamole and listening to Ray tell stories about his recent South American tour — it was amazing.<\/p>\n

Anyway, back to present day… As I always implore you, if you\u2019re at all inclined to buy this single, please do it this week — it\u2019d be so cool to get this thing to chart. We came THIS CLOSE to getting \u201cWhatever You Like<\/a>\u201d on the Billboard chart (and I\u2019m certain we would have done it if our release date hadn\u2019t been bungled)… but since this new single is available at all the digital retailers simultaneously, I think it\u2019s got a real shot. And by the way, I just checked — none of my \u201coriginal\u201d songs have ever cracked the Billboard Hot 100. So if enough people (legally) download \u201cCraigslist\u201d — and it actually charts next week — well, that would be a career first and a real personal accomplishment for me. (Maybe someday people will even stop asking, \u201cHey, did you ever think about writing your own songs?\u201d) Anyway, if you\u2019ve got a buck and change just lying around somewhere not doing anything — please consider giving it to iTunes<\/a> or one of those other fine Internet portals that sells mp3s.<\/p>\n

And of course the \u201cCraigslist\u201d video is out as well. Liam Lynch did an amazing job directing it. We wanted to create something which looked like the kind of typical low-budget music video that The Doors themselves might have made in the 60\u2019s — lots of random, psychedelic stock footage… and me in leather pants trying to look like a smoldering, damaged poet. You can buy it on iTunes<\/a>, or just watch it for free on YouTube<\/a>… heck, you can even watch it in HD<\/a>!<\/p>\n

And oh yeah, I\u2019m doing a live chat on Twitter and Ustream<\/a> just a little bit later today. I\u2019ll be on from 5PM to 6PM Pacific time (8PM to 9PM Eastern). You can watch the broadcast just by clicking on this Ustream<\/a> link… you don\u2019t have to sign up for anything or do anything. BUT… if you want to participate and ask questions, you have to be signed up on Twitter. Just tweet me a question with the hashtag #WeirdAl at the end of it. That way it\u2019ll show up on my screen — and perhaps I\u2019ll answer it! We\u2019ll see how this goes today… if my head doesn\u2019t explode by the end of it, maybe I\u2019ll do these broadcasts for the rest of the Internet Leak releases as well.<\/p>\n

Okay, I\u2019m done promoting myself now. Thanks for listening!<\/p>\n

Al<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from \u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic: My new single \u201cCraigslist\u201d is out today. In case you haven\u2019t heard it yet (SPOILER ALERT!) it\u2019s an original song in the style of The Doors about… well… Craigslist. To explain some of the pictures that I\u2019ve been tweeting… last month I drove up to Sausalito to visit a recording studio … Continue reading “\u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic: Craaaaaaaigslist!”<\/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":[3,20,8,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-arts-culture","category-multimedia","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648","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=4648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}