A NIGHT OUT WITH WEIRD AL
ONE FAN AT THE POODLE HAT TOUR--PART 2
After the Medley more film clips-this time from the cult film UHF.....the
WHEEL OF FISH part and the UNCLE STANLEY'S FUN HOUSE Billy drinking from the
fire hose segment.
The crowd talks back to the screen and yells the
lines.....let me explain---going to a Weird Al concert is kind of like going
to the Midnight showing of Rocky Horror.lolol There were 3 old fogeys my
age sitting right in front of us.....they had brought 5 boys, their teenage
sons. The fogeys sat there motionless, hardly even clapped.......they did
look back at us & must of really been rolling their eyes at me behind them
hollering, singing and waving my arms. Even Dan, who's idea to go to this
it was NOT, got into it. He appreciated the humour what little he could
hear of it as he doesn't know all the lyrics by heart.
Next up was a great send off of SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT called SMELLS LIKE
NIRVANA (Nirvana)....
"Now I'm mumblin' and I'm screamin'
And I don't know what I'm singin'
Crank the volume, ears are bleedin'
I still don't know what I'm singin'
We're so loud and incoherent
Boy, this oughta bug your parents
Yeah"
There are two teenage girl cheerleaders with big red pompoms up center on
the stage listlessly doing a routine with a Whatever! attitude, Al comes out
in a long dirty blonde wig, dressed like Kurt Cobain, stands there listless
mumbling the lyrics, drinks some water, hanging his head to the side and
lets the water just dribble out, spews water on the audience, slam dances
against the bass player and the other guitar player in the band, lays on the
floor screaming and convulsing...GAWD! I had deja vu and thought I was back
at a Nirvana concert!lmao It was a great number!!
On the way home I had to explain the whole Grunge Rock/Seattle
movement/Nirvana thing to Matt.....he's just too young sometimes.lol
Then we had AMISH PARADISE(Coolio's GANGSTA'S PARADISE)-a big hit in this
part of PA by Amish Country.
"As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain
I take a look at my wife and realize she's very plain
But that's just perfect for an Amish like me
You know, I shun fancy things like electricity
At 4:30 in the morning I'm milkin' cows
Jebediah feeds the chickens and Jacob plows... fool
And I've been milkin' and plowin' so long that
Even Ezekiel thinks that my mind is gone
I'm a man of the land, I'm into discipline
Got a Bible in my hand and a beard on my chin
But if I finish all of my chores and you finish thine
Then tonight we're gonna party like it's 1699"
Next it was time for the 7th inning stretch of theatre-The
Showstopper....COUCH POTATO(parody of LOSE YOURSELF by Eminem). Here's a
site you can hear Al do the song.
http://entertainment.msn.com/Artist/?artist=100720
Click on the Hear COUCH POTATO BUTTON
Here are the lyrics-don't worry, Al doesn't use profanity like M&M man so no
warning necessary....now go and singalong-you'll be glad you did!
"Look
If you had
One shot
To sit on your lazy butt
And watch all the TV you ever wanted
Until your brain turned to mush
Would you go for it?
Or just let it slip?
Yo
Remote is ready
Eyes wide, palms are sweaty
There's Flintstones on the TV already
Wilma 'n' Betty
No virgin to channel surfin'
And I'm HD-ready
So I flip
Garbage is all I'm getting
There's Simon Cowell
Who folks wanna disembowel
He opens his mouth
Always says something foul
They're dyin', wow
Wannabes are crying now
He votes them out
Time to throw in the towel
Shows based on reality
Oh, the humanity!
Oh, Ozzy's family
Sho' loves profanity
Whoa, the insanity
Oh, dogs that crap and pee
Home of depravity?
No, they live happily
Yo
Plus "Da Ali G Show"
And "Celebrity Mole"
Oh, and there's Anna Nicole
Well, she's scaring me
"Look ma, no cavities"
Oh, it's a station break
Better go out to the kitchen and microwave something
"You're gonna lose your mind watchin' TV" They told me, they'd scold me
But I'd still tune in every show (show)
My cable gets C-SPAN, TV-Land, and HBO
The Travel Channel, Discovery, and Lifetime (yo)
"You're gonna lose your mind watchin' TV"
They told me, cajoled me, "Turn off those music videos" (no)
I'm gonna watch C-SPAN, TV-Land, and HBO
The History Channel and QVC and Lifetime (yo)
(You're gonna)
My butt is aching
As I watch NASCAR racing
That show about undertaking
Larry King
To "24" to "Law And Order"
The Weather Channel's boring like "60 Minutes"'s ancient reporters
Next up on "E! True Hollywood Story"
The rise and decline of twelve actors named Corey
Shows for next fall, they've already been namin'
"CSI: Boise" and "Touched By An Uncle" both sound pretty lame 'n'
So does "Everybody Tolerates Raymond"
And "King of Queens" jumped the shark the first minute
I can't believe Richard Simmons ain't in it
I'll move right on to "8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenaged Daughter"
Then I bet
I watch "The Bachelorette"
Followed by "Welcome Back, Kotter"
And "The Muppet Show" where they go 'Mahna Mahna'
"You're gonna lose your mind watching TV"
They told me, they'd scold me
But I'd still tune in every show (show)
My cable gets C-SPAN, TV-Land, and HBO
The Disney Channel and A&E and Lifetime (yo)
"You're gonna lose your mind watching TV"
They told me, cajoled me
But I still love Lisa Kudrow (drow)
I'm looking at C-SPAN, TV-Land, and HBO
The Playboy Channel and Court TV and Lifetime (yo)
(You're Gonna)
Never missed "Melrose Place" or "Lost In Space"
I've seen each "Amazing Race" and "Without A Trace"
But I only watched "Will And Grace" one time one day
Wish I hadn't 'cause TiVo now thinks I'm gay
Oh, and "Fear Factor" I watched maybe a half hour
After that, felt like I needed a long shower
Network execs with naked ambitions
"Next week on FOX, watch lions eat Christians"
Like to tie up those programming planners
Make 'em watch all of that junk 'til their heads explode just like
"Scanners"
Leech-covered grub-eatin' fools on "Survivor"
Look there's James Lipton discussing the oeuvre of Mr. Rob Schneider
And there's "Gilligan" and "SpongeBob", plus there's "MacGyver"
And Jay Leno has got Madonna, hey there's Luke Perry on a
Special all Pig-Latin episode of "Drew Carey"
Wanna turn on "E.T." 'cause I'm a gossip freak
And I gotta know who J. Lo is marryin' this week
A 30 second spot
Then we come back to "Are You Hot?"
I was planning on recording "The Sopranos"
I forgot!
I love shows with or without a plot
I'll stare 'til my legs are numb, my eyes bloodshot
Because I only have got
One brain to rot
I'm gonna spend my life watching television a lot
"You're gonna lose your mind watching TV"
They told me, they'd scold me
But I'd still tune in every show (show)
My cable gets C-SPAN, TV-Land, and HBO
The Sci-Fi Channel and AMC and Lifetime (yo)
"You're gonna lose your mind watching TV"
They told me, cajoled me, "Turn off that Oprah Winfrey show" (no)
I got it on C-SPAN, TV-Land, and HBO
The Learning Channel and MTV and Lifetime (yo)
(You're gonna)
You can watch anything you want to, man"
Then came the perennial favorite & show closer, FAT(Michael Jackson's BAD)
with Al in a fat suit, strutting and trying to grab his crotch like Mickey
but he can't cuz he's well, Fat.lol.....and the sight gag of Santa on stage
carrying a yard tool shouting Ho Ho Hoe! to Al and he punches him in the
head(it's a running gag from waaaaaaaay back I am told).
Fade to Black....thunderous applause......crowds starts chanting Al, Al, Al
and clapping slowly in unison. Lights up & we go into the Encore
section.....Sonny would love this, it's an all Star Wars selections...First
we get THE SAGA BEGINS(Don McLean's AMERICAN PIE)-sing with me the
chorus....
"We were singin' ...
My my this here Anakin guy
May be Vader someday later - now he's just a small fry
And he left his home and kissed his mommy goodbye
Sayin' "Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi"
Then we get YODA(Eric Clapton's LOLA)....
"met him in a swamp down in Dagoba
Where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbonated soda
S-O-D-A, soda
I saw the little runt sitting there on a log
I asked him his name and in a raspy voice he said "Yoda"
Y-O-D-A, Yoda
Yo-yo-yo-yo Yoda"
The YODA CHANT(another concert only item)is performed during this song
too.....someday if we ever all meet I will perform this for you if ya'll ask
nice.hehehehe
The concert finished up after 11 pm. The crowd was orderly, not your
usually drunk rock concert type.....unless concert crowds have changed since
the last time I attended a concert.rofl
Holly, Noah & I waited in the parking field under a light for Dan & Matt to
bring the car around as my knee might not have made it back to where we were
parked.
This light was 20 feet away from the gate for the fenced lot where the Weird
Al tour buses were parked with a security guy standing guard at the gate
which was ajar. I could see roadies in one of the buses watching tv on a
flat (plasma?) screen set in the front of the bus. No glimpses of Al...I am
sure he was in the shower after the last 2 hours of gyrations. I would have
loved to hang there and try to get them to come out for an autograph or two
but like Dan said before, he had Beagles that haven't peed for 7 hours
now!lol
While standing there some girl(late teens/early 20's) and guy walk by
us....the gal asked Holly something and she answered "yeah"......the girl
walks off with the guy toward the parking area. I turned to Holly and asked
her if she knew what they girl had asked her....she said, "I couldn't hear
her." "Holly, you just told her we were waiting for some one....and where
we are standing, she prolly thinks we know someone in the Tour!" As soon as
I said this I look down the field and here comes the girl walking back to
us. She strikes up a conversation with me and then throws in, "so who in
the show do you know?"lolol It was all I could do not to laugh....the
thought of me, the short, fat, greyhaired badly dressed over 40 mommy w/2
kids in tow being seen as a groupie waiting for a peek of the band.LMAO
Turns out this girl has seen this same show 3 TIMES already....she's
traveling around the region with her boyfriend trying to rack up mileage
traveled to follow the tour. This seems to be the new "in" thing.....track
your tour mileage. hhhmmmmmmm Aaah, to not have a life and be able to do
something like that....it's mind numbing.
Dan finally showed up with the car, I bid the gal good luck with her Tour
Journey and left her standing under that light wistfully looking into the
gated fenced area.
We finally got home (after a pottybreak and sodas) just after 1 am. The
kids slept real late this morning but I was up at my usual crack of 10. ;-)
All in all the trip was a success.
Matt was thrilled....he can't wait to rub this into his Likewise Al Obsessed
Friends' Faces. He is still thanking me and Dan for this present. If I'm
lucky I get use this as leverage til almost Christmas to get him to
behave.hehehe
Holly, the cranky child who you can't please actually enjoyed herself-not
that she wants anyone to know tho. But I did look over at her and saw her
laughing at least on 9 occasions.lol Holly loves Eminem....I screamed in
her ear at the beginning of the Eminem parody, "This is as close to an
Eminem concert as you are going to get kiddo so enjoy it!" I am
cruel.....hehehehe
Noah turned to me after the 2nd song and said he was ready to go home.argh
He did get into it later when they did songs he knows and showed the UHF
clips but it was a long night for him.
My ears stopped ringing by the time we hit the Mahoning Valley exit on the
Turnpike.lolol Honestly, not that the music was too loud but it was like it
infiltrated my bones......my rib cage and spine were vibrating!!!EGADS I
felt assaulted by sound! After I adjusted to the sensation it was almost as
good as sitting on a washer during the spin cycle....geez, did I say
that??lmao
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Report copyrighted Denise Bowman-Arcure
Pictures borrowed from the net-mostly from the Official Weird Al Website(www.weirdal.com)