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ShorDurPerSav: "Weird Al" Yankovic
I'm having a bad week. It's not a bad work week per se, but I have all day to myself at work to stew. Fortunately, I've had the music of "Weird Al" Yankovic to succour me in my desolation. How can I listen to "One Of Those Days" from 1991's Polka Party! ("and a big steamroller ran over my mom, and I cut myself shaving, and they're dropping the bomb") without feeling better?
In fact, Albert Ellis, the founder of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy, wrote a paper (cache) on the use of self-satirical songs in psychotherapy. His songs have titles like "I Am Just A Fucking Baby!" and "Glory, Glory Hallelujah, People Love Ya Till They Screw Ya". They're not as funny as Weird Al's, but Ellis offers some good how-tos. I need to poke more fun at me; I'll be doing this soon.
And then there's Katie Lee with her Songs of Couch and Consultation, mentioned elsewhere on this blog. My favourite of hers is "The Will To Fail", which is also available in one of the Incredibly Strange Music collections.
But Weird Al's music right now is like finding a two-litre bottle of cold, sweet water in the middle of an asphalt parking lot that stretches for miles around. He is the W.A.Y., the truth, and the life at this farpotchket moment in my life.
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