tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8129944.post7875644651612429735..comments2023-12-25T03:12:03.872-05:00Comments on Hootsbuddy's Place: Video - Amish ParadiseHootshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01108363655472450828noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8129944.post-90221519657474123122006-12-06T05:01:00.000-05:002006-12-06T05:01:00.000-05:00Since posting this link I have learned that it's o...Since posting this link I have learned that it's over ten years old, first released on an album released in 1996. Am I getting old, or what? <br /><br />My guess is that Wierd Al, whose career is thick with parodies, goes to some lengths to do his homework. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic">Wikipedia article</a> and the official website make for interesting reading. <br /><br />Appearances and that goofy name notwithstanding, he strikes me as clean as a pin and very professional, typically getting permission from performers before releasing his parodies. He reminds me of a latter-day Spike Jones, a great entertainer from my parents' generation who quit working about the time rock-n-roll started, quipping that modern music had become so bad it was no longer possible to make fun of it, even with satire.Hootshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01108363655472450828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8129944.post-40140718216352938742006-12-05T22:06:00.000-05:002006-12-05T22:06:00.000-05:00i think my "favorite" line in that song is, "we're...i think my "favorite" line in that song is, "we're all crazy mennonites living in an amish paradise." i wonder how much weird al actually knows about anabaptist history and how the amish and mennononites came to be.j.danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04390704455842210518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8129944.post-31684455450851842522006-12-04T19:08:00.000-05:002006-12-04T19:08:00.000-05:00This is Wierd Al Yankovic. He wrote and recorded "...This is Wierd Al Yankovic. He wrote and recorded "Amish Paradise" for hiw 1996 album, "Bad Hair Day". It's a parody of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise".<br /><br />The Amish try to neither give, nor take, offense. After the recent shooting here in Lancaster County, someone set up a fund to care for the children who were wounded - and they made sure that there was another fund established to care for the wife and children of the gunman as well. <br /><br />Yes, there's tragedy in Coolio's lyrics - but that seems to have been his point....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com