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Subject: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: ChuckyG on 02/24/03 at 06:09 a.m.

OK, you must get your entries in by Friday morning, at 6 AM. To insure everyone has to write a parody, I picked a topic no one has covered yet. Christopher Walken. http://us.imdb.com/Name?Walken,+Christopher

Why Christopher Walken? well.. the way, he talks, is somewhat funny, don't you think? He was host of Saturday Night Live last week, plus he's been in more movies than I can count. (Pulp Fiction, Catch Me If You Can, Sleepy Hollow, Antz, Mouse Hunt, Pulp Fiction, Wayne's World 2, A View to a Kill, Pennies From Heaven) and the most excellent music video by Fatboy Slim, "Weapon of Choice".

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: Tone-Def on 02/24/03 at 07:03 a.m.

i guess its kind of good for me that im not in this anymore since i would be stumped on that one (even though i probably wouldve looked at the bio until i thought of something dumb to write). good luck to everyone in this round it seems you'll need it with this topic.

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: philbo_baggins on 02/24/03 at 07:11 a.m.


Quoting:
good luck to everyone in this round it seems you'll need it with this topic.
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Thanks, I will...  ???

He's a good subject, I'm sure: I remember the face, and the voice - but can't think of any parody material at all...

Phil

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: My_name_is_Kenny on 02/24/03 at 07:22 a.m.

Um.

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: ChuckyG on 02/24/03 at 07:44 a.m.

hehehe.. gotta seperate the men from the boys with this one..

of course, since I'm going to only eliminate one person a round, all you have to do at this point, is avoid writing the worst parody.  I think I initally stated I was going to drop two people in the second round, but that seems a bit harsh, so we'll stick to dropping one a round.

I'm also pretty sure there's going to need to be research done by contestants and judges alike on this one. I think there's a certain value to having to come up with a parody based on something you previousily knew nothing about. If Christopher Walken was to do something newsworthy today, and you were writing parodies for a radio station, you'd need to come up with a lot of stuff from scratch really quickly.

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: jbuchoff on 02/24/03 at 07:45 a.m.

You said it Kenny!

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: philbo_baggins on 02/24/03 at 07:58 a.m.


Quoting:
OK, you must get your entries in by Friday morning
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..just a thought: you want them submitted as normal?  I guess it'll be pretty obvious which the amIright Idle songs are...

Phil

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: ChuckyG on 02/24/03 at 08:16 a.m.


Quoting:

..just a thought: you want them submitted as normal?  I guess it'll be pretty obvious which the amIright Idle songs are...

Phil
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yeah.. post them normally, and then respond to this thread with the url like you did for the initial entries.

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: Rice Cube on 02/24/03 at 09:22 a.m.

Christopher Walken, huh?  Awesome.  ;D

Good luck folks!

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: Hairspray on 02/24/03 at 09:35 a.m.

Christopher Walken is awesome. Do him justice people!  ;) ;D

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: Billy_Florio on 02/24/03 at 10:16 a.m.

my God, I never knew this...Chris Walken went to the same college as i am going to now!  Man, .....now what the hell am I gunna write....I was thinking of parodying Fats Domino's "Im walkin", but I cant make it sound good.....darn

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: Billy_Florio on 02/24/03 at 10:26 a.m.

alright, I think this is what Im gunna do, to the tune of ABBA's "Dancing queen", "Dancing scene"

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: My_name_is_Kenny on 02/24/03 at 11:37 a.m.


Quoting:
I was thinking of parodying Fats Domino's "Im walkin", but I cant make it sound good.....damn
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Yeah, my original idea ("Walken of Choice") kinda fell through too.

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: Mike_Florio on 02/24/03 at 04:17 p.m.


Quoting:
OK, you must get your entries in by Friday morning, at 6 AM. To insure everyone has to write a parody, I picked a topic no one has covered yet. Christopher Walken. http://us.imdb.com/Name?Walken,+Christopher

Why Christopher Walken? well.. the way, he talks, is somewhat funny, don't you think? He was host of Saturday Night Live last week, plus he's been in more movies than I can count. (Pulp Fiction, Catch Me If You Can, Sleepy Hollow, Antz, Mouse Hunt, Pulp Fiction, Wayne's World 2, A View to a Kill, Pennies From Heaven) and the most excellent music video by Fatboy Slim, "Weapon of Choice".
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Im not sure if you did it on purpose or not, but you put pulp fiction twice in your list of movies...

Wow, I probably couldve done it, but with my inability to reach a computer recently, I donno if I wouldve been able to get it in by Friday...Wow, I cant believe I only missed it by .2 of a point!

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: STG on 02/24/03 at 04:37 p.m.

good luck!!

I can't believe I submitted "Wish I Had Beer"

Oh well, Mike and I can root you on.

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: philbo_baggins on 02/25/03 at 02:57 a.m.


Quoting:
Yeah, my original idea ("Walken of Choice") kinda fell through too.
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It's a bugger of a song to parody, too: not helped by the way it's remixed - I've downloaded the video and a couple of (different-sized) copies of the MP3, and they're all slightly different in the way the stanzas are put together.  Might be worth it, if I can figure a suitable alternative for "Halfway between the gutter and the stars"...

Phil

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: philbo_baggins on 02/25/03 at 05:51 a.m.

Having said it was a bugger of a song to parody, I've just submitted what will probably be my entry, called "Baddie of Choice"... it just had to be done, I guess.

If anyone's still got problems getting info about CW, there's an excellent recent interview from the Daily Torygraph www.telegraph.co.uk - search for the article: "Abominable showman" (Filed: 15/02/2003).  You do need to register to be able to view it, however.

This is an extract which might inspire a parody (it's the reason for the "probably" above):

Quoting:When he was 16, Walken had a job at a small, single-ring circus in the north-eastern United States. There he performed a lion-taming act with a 'very sweet' elderly lioness called Sheba. How close would he have to get to her? 'Very close - as close as we are now.' Although he is sitting a couple of feet away, it feels close enough. 'She was so well-trained,' he remembers fondly. 'She was like a dog, a big German shepherd. I would do a little thing and she would go...' he mimes lying on his back with paws in the air. The act, Walken explains, was 'a gimmick'. The actual lion-tamer, who also owned the circus, would finish his own performance with more ferocious big cats. Then Walken would come in, dressed identically, pretending to be his son, and be left alone with Sheba. So he was kind of like Mini-me, Mike Myers's tiny doppelganger in Austin Powers?

'I was a version!' Walken nods delightedly. 'Back when I was a version...' By now he is pronouncing the word to make it sound like 'virgin', as if remembering himself in the Madonna song. 'Like a version, touched for the very first time.'
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Another nice quote from CW:

Quoting:'It's my training,' Walken shrugs. 'I don't know much about acting, but I know a lot about performing, and that word you're not supposed to use, "entertaining", that's what I really know about.'
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Me, I reckon he knows a lot about acting, too :-)

Thanks for the subject, Chucky

Phil

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: rmiller on 02/25/03 at 07:28 a.m.

Chuck, do I just submit my Chris Walken parody to Amiright like usual, for the second round?  Royce Miller

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: rmiller on 02/25/03 at 08:39 a.m.

I'm pleased to give a Christopher Walken parody a try.  I think it's a challenging subject, and regarding Chuck's earlier comment about separating the men from the boys, well, you can throw a woman in there, too.  I know my name sounds like a man's, of course, but since I'm in this second round, I'll just come clean.  

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: ChuckyG on 02/25/03 at 11:11 a.m.


Quoting:
Chuck, do I just submit my Chris Walken parody to Amiright like usual, for the second round?  Royce Miller
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yup.. just submit it to the site like normal.. and then post the URL here after I approve it

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: ChuckyG on 02/25/03 at 11:12 a.m.


Quoting:
I'm pleased to give a Christopher Walken parody a try.  I think it's a challenging subject, and regarding Chuck's earlier comment about separating the men from the boys, well, you can throw a woman in there, too.  I know my name sounds like a man's, of course, but since I'm in this second round, I'll just come clean.  
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you know I was never sure.. I thought you were a woman, and then noticed Royce could be male as well... so I was left wondering myself.. good to see at least one woman in the contest, and writing for amiright.. seems like a total boys clubs sometimes..

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: My_name_is_Kenny on 02/25/03 at 12:22 a.m.

Whoo.  Here it is.  *crosses fingers*

http://www.amiright.com/parody/misc/fatsdomino0.shtml

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/99/pics/99pcowbell1.jpg

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: ChuckyG on 02/25/03 at 12:59 a.m.

some more Walken inspiration:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cstuhr/flash/walken.swf


I've got some more Walken stuff, big files.. if you're a contestant email me, and I'll give you the link.. I don't want to pass it around too much..

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: Hairspray on 02/25/03 at 01:51 p.m.


Quoting:
Whoo.  Here it is.  *crosses fingers*

http://www.amiright.com/parody/misc/fatsdomino0.shtml

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/99/pics/99pcowbell1.jpg
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Veeery good!  :)

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: The_Ghetto_John on 02/25/03 at 02:24 p.m.

im not in this round but chucky did forget Joe Dirt  ;D so theres a little inspiration for yall  ;D

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: Billy_Florio on 02/25/03 at 03:30 p.m.

screw that "Dancing scene" crap.I couldnt do it :(  ...instead expect "The ballad of Christopher Walken" tomarrow to the tune of the beatles "Eleanor Rigby"!  Its the best I can do.  (And I almost parodied "Lowrider"! HA..that would have been interesting)

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: philbo_baggins on 02/26/03 at 03:16 a.m.


Quoting:
"The ballad of Christopher Walken" tomarrow to the tune of the beatles "Eleanor Rigby"!
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Damn!  Being unhappy with my "Weapon of Choice" parody (and I challenge anybody to do a good and funny parody of that song), I'd pretty much completed an Eleanor Rigby parody in the car on the way in this morning... but it's back to the drawing board...

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: rmiller on 02/26/03 at 08:42 a.m.

My entry for the second round is "Mr. Mouse Man",
www.amiright.com/parody/misc/thechordettes2.shtml
Royce Miller

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: Billy_Florio on 02/26/03 at 10:02 a.m.


Quoting:

Damn!  Being unhappy with my "Weapon of Choice" parody (and I challenge anybody to do a good and funny parody of that song), I'd pretty much completed an Eleanor Rigby parody in the car on the way in this morning... but it's back to the drawing board...
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sorry Phil,   :(
well theres nothing that states that there cant be TWo Eleanor rigby parodies....I dont know.....

well, heres my entry:

http://www.amiright.com/parody/60s/thebeatles31.shtml

called "The ballad of Christopher Walken" to the tune of the Beatles, "Eleanor Rigby"


Of course, someone could try to pull off mmy "Lowrider" idea..lol.."Chris-Walk-en is really good actor"...well, maybe someone could do better than that lol

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: ChuckyG on 02/26/03 at 10:54 a.m.


Quoting:
Having said it was a bugger of a song to parody, I've just submitted what will probably be my entry, called "Baddie of Choice"... it just had to be done, I guess.
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so have you settled on this for your entry yet? I just updated the Idle page, but was unsure wether you were going to use this entry, or write another.. I'm perfectly ok with people writing a quick parody, or a couple, waiting a day to see the votes/comments, and then picking their stronger parody.. so long as you can do it before the deadline

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: klipster on 02/26/03 at 11:28 a.m.

You should check out this guy's bio at : http://us.imdb.com/Name?Walken,+Christopher

He has 93 credits listed under his name dating all the way back to 1953...

This guy's a chamaeleon, he's ubiquitous, he's creepy, he's great...!!!


Quoting:
OK, you must get your entries in by Friday morning, at 6 AM. To insure everyone has to write a parody, I picked a topic no one has covered yet. Christopher Walken. http://us.imdb.com/Name?Walken,+Christopher

Why Christopher Walken? well.. the way, he talks, is somewhat funny, don't you think? He was host of Saturday Night Live last week, plus he's been in more movies than I can count. (Pulp Fiction, Catch Me If You Can, Sleepy Hollow, Antz, Mouse Hunt, Pulp Fiction, Wayne's World 2, A View to a Kill, Pennies From Heaven) and the most excellent music video by Fatboy Slim, "Weapon of Choice".
End Quote

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: philbo_baggins on 02/26/03 at 11:45 a.m.


Quoting:
so have you settled on this for your entry yet?
End Quote


Not, yet - I've just submitted "Walken in Batman" to the tune of "Walking on Sunshine", which is definitely funnier (well, it talks about Walken's defenstration of Michelle Pfeiffer, and her reappearance in a skin-tight catsuit :-)) - but for some reason, I still prefer the first one, probably because I love the video, but it's much less accessible.

Phil

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: ChuckyG on 02/26/03 at 11:55 a.m.


Quoting:

Not, yet - I've just submitted "Walken in Batman" to the tune of "Walking on Sunshine", which is definitely funnier (well, it talks about Walken's defenstration of Michelle Pfeiffer, and her reappearance in a skin-tight catsuit :-)) - but for some reason, I still prefer the first one, probably because I love the video, but it's much less accessible.

Phil
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ok.. that's fine.. I just don't want to miss an entry.. so far only 3 out of 8 parody author's have submitted their parodies.. I guess they're trying to build tension.. or they're completely stymied by the subject

I totally forgot about his role in Batman Returns..

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: Jared_Lerner on 02/26/03 at 09:58 p.m.

Prepare to be blown away by the best Christopher Walken Parody ever come friday morning.  I just need a little time to think, you know...

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: Will on 02/26/03 at 11:09 p.m.

Make that 4 out of 8.  My parody entry, "Played By Walken" has been submitted via the Amiright web form.   ;)

Quoting:


ok.. that's fine.. I just don't want to miss an entry.. so far only 3 out of 8 parody author's have submitted their parodies.. I guess they're trying to build tension.. or they're completely stymied by the subject

I totally forgot about his role in Batman Returns..
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Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: philbo_baggins on 02/27/03 at 04:00 a.m.

Quoting:
so have you settled on this for your entry yet?
End Quote


I have now :-)  I've just submitted "A Few of his ninety-three parts" to the tune of "A Few of my Favourite Things"... third time lucky I guess.

Phil
PShttp://amiright.com/parody/60s/mariasoundofmusic0.shtml

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: jbuchoff on 02/27/03 at 06:22 a.m.

I'll be submitting mine Thursday night.  I'll add the link to the thread Friday as soon as I see it posted.  Is that okay Chuck?  The deadline is 6am, and the song will be submitted by then...but I won't know the URL until it's on the site.

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: Will on 02/27/03 at 10:50 a.m.

Here's the posted URL for my second round entry:
http://www.amiright.com/parody/60s/nancysinatra0.shtml

"These Boots Were Made For Walkin' " Originally by Nancy Sinatra
"Played By Walken" Parody by William Tong

Best of luck to the other contestants!

Quoting:


ok.. that's fine.. I just don't want to miss an entry.. so far only 3 out of 8 parody author's have submitted their parodies.. I guess they're trying to build tension.. or they're completely stymied by the subject

I totally forgot about his role in Batman Returns..
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Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: ChuckyG on 02/27/03 at 11:18 a.m.


Quoting:
I'll be submitting mine Thursday night.  I'll add the link to the thread Friday as soon as I see it posted.  Is that okay Chuck?  The deadline is 6am, and the song will be submitted by then...but I won't know the URL until it's on the site.
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yup.. the deadline for submission is 6 AM, posting the URL is midnight Friday (ie. you have all day Friday to post it in this thread)..

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: ChuckyG on 02/27/03 at 11:25 a.m.

well.. there's five on the page now, and Jeff is submitting his tomorrow.. not a peep yet from the last two authors..

and positive voting results on all the entries so far.. all about the same rating too.. if all the entries are submitted, this could be very, very close.

I didn't specify what would happen if someone missed the deadline.. basically, that person would get eliminated, and everyone else could make it on to the next round.

I will announce the next topic tomorrow afternoon, to give everyone a full week to write their next parody.. of course, whoever loses this week, won't have to write another parody, but they won't know until Monday.. I didn't think it would be fair to announce it last Friday considering how many entries there were (I didn't want 18 people writing parodies that didn't necessarily want to)..

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: Syncronos on 02/27/03 at 12:25 a.m.

http://www.gamegen.com/fightgen/characters/iori-smash.gif

I KNEW I SHOULDA subMITTED my FRESHman RHAPsody!

Oh well...http://www.gamegen.com/fightgen/characters/x-jaehoonclap.gif Congrats to all those who made it in...

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: jbuchoff on 02/27/03 at 12:56 a.m.

I think Jared said his was coming tomorrow as well

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: jbuchoff on 02/27/03 at 01:20 p.m.

Mine will either be Man Of Sleepy Hollow (tune of Man Of Constant Sorrow by the Soggy Bottom Boys...Oh Brother Where Art Thou theme) or Walkin Parody (tune of Talkin In Your Sleep by the Romantics).

Haven't read any of the others yet, hope I can stand up to the competition!

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: Double_E on 02/27/03 at 03:33 p.m.

I won't be able to reply after 5 am tomorrow. My high school TV station is covering the state wrestling meet, so I have to go there. But, I have noticed how the links are assigned, so I should know the URL as soon as I submit the parody.

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: Jared_Lerner on 02/27/03 at 04:45 p.m.

Damn Will, you used the song I was going to use!  Oy vey, gotta start off with some new material...this should be interesting...

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: ChuckyG on 02/27/03 at 05:28 p.m.


Quoting:
I won't be able to reply after 5 am tomorrow. My high school TV station is covering the state wrestling meet, so I have to go there. But, I have noticed how the links are assigned, so I should know the URL as soon as I submit the parody.
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you have until midnight on Friday to post the URL.. if you want, send me a private message with the name of the song, and when it goes up in the morning, I'll post the URL in the thread and on the page..

my biggest concern, is making sure the person who submitted the parody to the website, is really the person entered into the contest (since I don't use a username/password system on the parody submission). I also want to make sure I only post the proper parody (some people have written multiple parodies before they submit their final one)

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: ChuckyG on 02/28/03 at 05:25 a.m.


Quoting:
I won't be able to reply after 5 am tomorrow. My high school TV station is covering the state wrestling meet, so I have to go there. But, I have noticed how the links are assigned, so I should know the URL as soon as I submit the parody.
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I didn't get your parody in this morning's batch of submissions.. please try and email me in case it didn't go through or if you didn't write one, etc.

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: jbuchoff on 02/28/03 at 06:36 a.m.

My entry:  Walken Parody to the tune of Talkin In Your Sleep:


http://www.amiright.com/parody/80s/theromantics0.shtml

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: Jared_Lerner on 02/28/03 at 02:48 p.m.

Damn Skippy.  I proudly submit "Walken Brings The Fun" to the song of "Walking On The Sun" by Smash Mouth...

http://www.amiright.com/parody/90s/smashmouth17.shtml

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: ChuckyG on 03/03/03 at 02:31 p.m.

Double E never made the submission deadlines.. so he was eliminated from this round, once I get the final results, I will update the contest page. Otherwise, read the third round thread for the next round of judging.

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: Jared_Lerner on 03/03/03 at 02:39 p.m.

Oh man!  I stayed up on Thursday night until 2:30 A.M. finishing mine so it got in on time.  Heh, it's ok, I'll take a 3rd round pass.   :D

Subject: Re: amIright Idle - Second round entries

Written By: ChuckyG on 03/03/03 at 03:18 p.m.


Quoting:
Oh man!  I stayed up on Thursday night until 2:30 A.M. finishing mine so it got in on time.  Heh, it's ok, I'll take a 3rd round pass.   :D
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judging from the results from the first two judges, I'd say the effort was well worth it anyways, I think you have the highest combined score so far (at least the reviews looked the most favorable).

I updated the contest page with the judging results so far. I'm sure I'll get the last set in a little while so we can at least see who scored best.