Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Eddie Albert dead at 99. Honestly I didn't know he was still alive.

Yes folks Green Acres star Eddie Albert is now dead. From reading his obit he did some other stuff but for me his career begins and ends with Green Acres. Actually when I heard of this during the weekend I knew I had to go off the normal CITW and do the Eddie Albert version to the theme song of Green Acres. Mainly because when I heard of this the first thing in my mind was the phrase "Eddie Albert is dead" matches pretty damn close to the first part of the Green Acres theme song, so of course I had to do it. The song actually starts with the little riff at the begining of the theme song. You can check ou the rest of the goodness right here www.deadcelebritysongs.blogspot.com

Ed-die Albert…IS DEAD
Ed-die Albert…IS DEAD

Eddie Albert is dead you see
Earth living wasn't the life for thee
Career spreading out so far a wide
Arnold Ziffel just roamed that countryside

New York is where he'd rather stay
His bitchy wife got him to move away
He just adored a penthouse view
Screw the cop hitting wife live on Park Avenue

Sorry that's all I got for you Eddie R.I.P. and say hi to Arnold for me.

**Totally unrelated note today I'm going to pick up the greatest Stallone movie of all time as it comes out on DVD today. Over the Top, the greatest arm wrestling movie........EVER!

Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Frank Gorshin 5/18/05

Well Frank Gorshin from the 60's TV show Batman died today. In case you are a complete moron you know that he played the Riddler. Oddly in his obit it says that his last acting gig was on an episode of CSI that will air, oddly enough, this Thursday. Something seems fishy maybe Grissom needs to investigate his passing away. I make references to the spectacular Batman movie of the 60's where all the villians hung out on the Penguin's submarine. Its the same movie where Batman and Robin are in a helicopter that falls from the sky into a big pile of foam rubber. Batman says something to the effect of, "Good thing the national gathering of foam rubber producers was in town!" If Batman is such a super hero why did Robin figure out all of the Riddler riddles? Vigil same time and place, I'm wearing my Riddler costume to it. The site has been updated to include a few other non CITW remixes related to celebrities right here: www.deadcelebritysongs.blogspot.com

Goodbye FrankGorshin
Thought I knew you pretty well
You challenged Batman and Robin
With those riddles you did tell
You crawled out of nowhere
Question marks on your pants
Became a super villain
You're on the Penguin's submarine again

And it seemed to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Robin figured out your riddles
Batman hardly ever did
And it seemed like I did know you
Watched you as I was a kid
Your legend burned out long after
The Riddler's laugh ever did.

Monday, May 16, 2005

GNR Realty

A passing remark by my brother this weekend about this http://www.gnrrealty.com/ and him not knowing that Guns and Roses was in realty now led me to riff part of this version of Welcome to the Jungle in the car after he said it, here's the finished product, and yes I already know I'm stupid:


Welcome to the jungle
We got homes for sale
We got everything you want
Sales and mortgage is the game
We are the people that will find
Whatever your family needs
If you’ve got no money honey
Can get a mortgage through me

In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Give me my commission please please
I wanna watch you succeed

Welcome to the jungle
We list homes day to day
If you want a townhome
There’s a price to pay
You’re a very picky girl
Don’t like any homes you see
You can buy this or that one
As long as you buy it through me
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Inspections aren’t for for for free
I’ll sell you a dream

Welcome to the jungle
This home has every thing you need
3 bedrooms and two bathrooms
One master bath to play
If you got a hunger for what you see
You’ll buy it eventually
You can have any home you want
But you better just buy form me


In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Give me my commission please please
I wanna watch you succeed

And after you buy you never
Ever want buyer remorse to bring you down, down, down

You know where you are
You're in the jungle baby
You're gonna buy
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Let me make my commission please please please
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Feel my, my, my listings
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Let me make my commission please please please
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your
You’re pre approved for your mortgage now!
Ha!

Oh Anna

I figured this would be a better spot to put all my celebrity related song parodies rather than two different spots. Here's my first entry and an explanation:

Due to an email I received from an acquaintance I had to write this ode to my favorite Chicago news anchor the one and only Anna Davlantes. This is sung to the song "Oh Mandy" by Barry Manilow. I'm surprised some wacky DJ doesn't hire me to write parody songs for them.

Oh Anna

I remember you on channel 5
Snowing as they kick it to you live
Talking to the anchorman
A face through on my TV window
Reading in the night
The night goes into

Sunday evening, just another day
Happy people read the news that way
Looking in your eyes
I see a memory
I never realized
You made me so happy, oh Anna

Well you came and read news without taking
But I sent you away, oh Anna
Well you talked to me and stopped me from waiting
I need you today, oh Anna

I'm standing on the edge of time
Won’t buy the Trib spend one more dime
Caught up in a world of news anchors climbing
The tears are in my mind
And nothing is rhyming, oh Anna

Well you came and read news without taking
But I sent you away, oh Anna
Well you talked to me and stopped me from waiting
I need you today, oh Anna

Yesterday's news I face the morning
Waiting on the news
A big story is calling, oh Anna

Well you came and read news without taking
But I sent you away, oh Anna
Well you talked to me and stopped me from waiting
I need you today, oh Anna