Happy birthday to Weird Al Yankovic who celebrates his birthday today. Yankovic was born on 23 October 1959 in Downey, California.

Yankovi is best known for the spoofs he creates, by taking popular songs and substituting the lyrics for hilarious gems of his own. He has won 3 Gammiy Awards for his songs. Some of his spoof songs include: Pretty Fly for a Rabbi (original: Pretty Fly for a White Guy), Amish Paradise (Gangster’s Paradise), I love Rocky Road (I love Rock and Roll) The Saga Begins (American Pie) and Another one Rides the Bus (Another one bites the dust).

So in honour of Weird Al I’ll post a part of  lyrics to one of his parodies It’s a very long song).  It’s All about the Pentiums parodies It’s all about the Benjamins by Sean  “Puff Daddy” Combs.

“It’s All About The Pentiums”

It’s all about the Pentiums, baby

(Uhh, uh-huh, yeah Uhh, uh-huh, yeah)

It’s all about the Pentiums, baby [x2]

It’s all about the Pentiums! (It’s all about the Pentiums, baby) [x2]

Yeah . What y’all wanna do?

Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers

Wastin’ time with all the chatroom yakkers?

9 to 5, chillin’ at Hewlett Packard?

Workin’ at a desk with a dumb little placard?

Yeah, payin’ the bills with my mad programming skills

Defraggin’ my hard drive for thrills

I got me a hundred gigabytes of RAM

I never feed trolls and I don’t read spam

Installed a T1 line in my house

Always at my PC, double-clickin’ on my mizouse

Upgrade my system at least twice a day

I’m strictly plug-and-play, I ain’t afraid of Y2K

I’m down with Bill Gates, I call him “Money” for short

I phone him up at home and I make him do my tech support

It’s all about the Pentiums, what?

You’ve gotta be the dumbest newbie I’ve ever seen

You’ve got white-out all over your screen

You think your Commodore 64 is really neato

What kinda chip you got in there, a Dorito?

You’re usin’ a 286? Don’t make me laugh

Your Windows boots up in what, a day and a half?

You could back up your whole hard drive on a floppy diskette

You’re the biggest joke on the Internet

Your database is a disaster

You’re waxin’ your modem, tryin’ to make it go faster

Hey fella, I bet you’re still livin’ in your parents’ cellar

Downloadin’ pictures of Sarah Michelle Gellar

And postin’ “Me too!” like some brain-dead AOL-er

I should do the world a favor and cap you like Old Yeller

You’re just about as useless as jpegs to Hellen Keller

(Yankovic)

Lyics from azlyrics.com

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Today is the birthday of British film director/ writer/ producer Guy Richie.

“I am relatively familiar with getting a good old rumping from the critics. In some cases, the critics just didn’t like the film – fair cop. Others, I think, didn’t understand it.”
~Guy Richie

Guy Stuart Ritchie as born on 10 September 1968 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England. He dropped out of school at 15.

He got a job as a runner (an errand runner on film and TV sets). He was a fast learner and soon started directing music videos and commercials.

He wrote and directed his first short movie A Hard Case (1995) which was a prequel to his hit feature debut film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (2000). Lock Stock won him a (best director) Tokyo Film Festival award and a (best new filmmaker) MTV movie award.

He then made my favourite Richie film: Snatch (2000). The movie is hilarious and violent and features popular actors like Brad Pitt,Benico Del Toro and Jason Statham. Richie won the Empire “Best British Director” award for the brilliant movie. It was very successful at the box office. I have watched this flick several times

Guy Richie is perhaps more famous for his marriage to Madonna, which has since folded, than for his films. In 2002 he cast his wife as the leading lady in a remake of the 1974 Lina Wertmüller film Swept Away. He won a “worst director” Razzie for this box-office flop. Not surprisingly, it was ill received by critics and disappointed his fans. I think this movie sucks big time. I thougt I’d buck the trend and give it a rave review… but then I actually watched it… and I just could not. Watching it only once was more than enough. Luckily I waited for it to be on TV, so there was no money lost.

He also directed:

• Star (2001) – Short
• Revolver (2005)
• Suspect (2007) – TV
• Rock n Rolla (2008)

His latest film is Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jnr, which will be released this year. I look forward to seeing this movie. Judging from the trailers: it looks awesome!

Happy Birthday Guy! I think I’ll pop Snatch into the DVD player tonight and have a good laugh.

Filmography: IMDB
Photo Credit: Albert L. Ortega / PR Photos

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