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“Weird Al” Yankovic Talks New Album, ATP, Upcoming Children’s Book

Revealed in this interview:  the children’s book, When I Grow Up, will be released on March 1, 2011 and will be a word-for-word duplication of the UHF script, oops no wait, I mean it’ll be about a curious monkey named George, no wait, it’s about a boy hoping to someday be the subject of a book by Weird Al and other careers.  Yeah, I think that’s it.

“Inside the Magic”, the longest-running Disney podcast in the world, gets an intimate one-on-one interview with Weird Al just before his Orlando show and asks him all about one of my favorite songs “Skipper Dan” plus other Disney related connections with Al.

Super hush hush secret revealed:  The Skipper Dan costume used in concert is authentic and was recovered from the  grave of a former Skipper captain who met an untimely demise when battling those hungry, hungry hippos.  Amazing!

[Thanks Gil for the link]

In case you only read this blog, but not Weird Al’s twitter (Why not?)…

Venue change! My show in San Antonio this Sunday will now be at the fabulous Majestic Theatre.

From Al himself:

New dates! 8/10 at the Warfield in San Francisco!
8/12 at the Phoenix Celebrity Theatre!
8/20 at the Henderson NV Pavilion!

Can’t make it to any concerts this year?  Seriously?  Not one of these?  Aw man, sorry to hear that.

Well, you can still get your concert fix thanks to NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series and even feel like you’re standing right next to him as he sings.  Here is Weird Al and the entire band playing “You Don’t Love Me Anymore,” “Good Old Days” and my favorite, an acoustic version of “CNR.”   Graciously, NPR also provides an audio version for download at the top of the page.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127983640&ft=1&f=1039

If you’re planning on going to the June 27th show in Homdel, NJ, there has been a last-minute venue change.  The concert will now be held at the Paramount Theatre in Asbury Park, NJ.    According to that page, all tickets will be honored.

Hot diggety, if you’ve been salivating over those trading cards that Weird Al posted on twitter a while back but couldn’t afford the VIP concert packages that you had to buy to get them, then fret no more.   A cornucopia of new items have been pushed out at WeirdAl.com’s Merchandise page.  In addition to the trading cards, you can also get a dozen t-shirts or caps with Al’s name on it.  Sweet!

Well, this is HUGE news for all you Weird Al fans across the pond.   For the first time ever, Al will be playing in UK in December.  He’ll be part of the ATP Festival that’ll also include about 40 other bands.  How insane is that?  Check out ATP’s event site for all the details.

Check out the lastest podcast from Nerdist.com:

http://www.nerdist.com/2010/05/nerdist-podcast-17-weird-al-yankovic/

(Thanks Greg!)

So Al tweeted a pay phone number at the airport yesterday where he said he’d be available for a quick chat for 15 minutes.

Twitter / Al Yankovic: Killing time at LAX…

I tried the number and not surprisingly it was busy.  Just curious if anybody actually managed to get through and what did you two talk about?  Anyone?