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So this week we got to interview Parry Gripp, he of awesome-internet-song and underrated-rock-band fame.  Hopefully I didn’t make toooo much of an ass of myself, but the fact that we managed to do an interview that wasn’t just 20 minutes of girlish squeals has to be considered a success.  INTERVIEW STARTS AT THE 47-MINUTE MARK. We talked animal songs, the birth and re-birth of Nerf Herder, rock music’s horrible death in the late 90s, the Santa Barbara Orchid Estate, and lots of other fun stuff.  One interesting note was the genesis of “The Girl at the Video Game Store,” the song G4 eventually used for Attack of the Show and made a video for starring Olivia Munn (which he’d recorded on his own before G4 came along).

“I was trying to buy a Nintendo Wii, and I was working on this record for Hallmark, of kids’ music.  And my system was to work late into the evening, and then wake up in the morning and take the things that I’d recorded, go to Starbucks, buy a cup of coffee, and listen to what I’d made the night before.  Then I’d walk to the video store right when they opened and see if they had a Wii.  And it was probably a couple weeks before I got one. So I’d go in there, and there was this girl who worked there.  And I’m kind of older, but I know if I was younger, I would’ve been kind of fixated on her, because that’s just the kind of nerd I was in high school.  So every day for a couple weeks I’d go in there, and I’d ask if the Wii was in yet, and the girl would be like, ‘You know, you could just call.’”

I should also include a link to Horrible Movie Night, which I think I was supposed to ask about but didn’t.  In all seriousness, it sounds pretty cool if you live in the LA area.  Besides Parry, we brought Lindy West back to talk Sucker Punch.   Listen, share, enjoy.

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With Vince scoring an interview with Parry Gripp for tomorrow’s Frotcast (one many Hollywood movers and shakers are calling “the most important interview of all time ever in the history of things that have been or will ever be”), I figured it would be a good idea to put together a post full of the videos that made Parry Gripp so beloved around these parts. Anyone who has spent any time on the Uproxx sites knows our clan’s affinity for cute animals. Little known fact: when you join the Uproxx stable of bloggers, you have to swear a blood oath to Lobster Dog and all he stands for. It’s like the mafia, but, like, a ZILLION times cuter.

So it is no surprise that Parry Gripp’s video’s combination of cute, fuzzy animals and catchy as all holy hell songs would lead to a love affair for the ages. Get your toe-tappin’ shoes out and be ready to hit the “AAAWWW” button, people. It’s a slideshow so cute you might break your monitor trying to pinch its cheeks.

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Parry Gripp’s “Dog with a Box on His Head.”

MORNING LINKS

Get caught up on last week’s Frotcast before we record tonight’s with guest Parry Gripp.  Get excited. |Frotcast|

Five ways to improve your funeral. |Uproxx|

‘Simpsons’ Vs. ‘Family Guy’: Who Stole Which Jokes? |WarmingGlow|

Mega Gallery: The Stupid, Awesome, But Mostly Stupid Wrestler Tattoo Trivia Challenge. |WithLeather|

Using a jetpack on a swingset. |GammaSquad|

Does this look like the face of a child-molesting zoo employ– OH MY GOD WHAT’S WRONG WITH HIS FACE? |BostonBarstoolSports|

“No chance” of Charlie Sheen returning to Two and a Half Men. |TheSuperficial|

Dam surfing looks legit. |TheDailyWhat|

It could use a powerbomb, but otherwise this is another great home-made anti-bullying PSA. |BroBible|

The sexiest topless television scenes: Showtime edition. |ScreenJunkies|

Where are they now? 9 famous album cover babies. |Buzzfeed|

Kim Martin is really good at aaaaalmost showing her vagina. |GorillaMask|

Making crappy posters for good movies. |UnrealityMag|

Did Natalie Portman do her own dancing?  Who cares, as long as she didn’t use a cunnilingus double. |WWTDD|

Angry chef gets KTFO. |HolyTaco|

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You just know it’s going to be a good day when it starts with Parry Gripp singing about a baby monkey riding on a pig.  …There’s an incredibly racist joke to be made in there, and I’m not touching it. I love you, Parry Gripp.

DAILY CIRCLE JERK LINKS

• Listen to our latest Frotcast, in which we discuss Kevin James’ MMA movie, Paul Blart: Mall Cro-Cop, and bemoan the disturbing rise in slam poetry.  Important stuff. |Frotcast|

• So Where’d All That BP Oil Go, and Who’s Eating It? (Your mom). |Uproxx|

• If you’ve never read one of Drew’s Rex Ryan posts, make this your first and clear your schedule. |KSK|

• Delaware senatorial candidate Christine O’Donnell is against masturbation, which is why she dresses like that.  Isn’t awesome how people who hope to lead others are legitimately retarded nowadays? |WarmingGlow|

• Kill Us Now: 5 Examples Of Glee Butchering Urban Music. |SmokingSection|

• Lady Gaga in Tweet off with Harry Reid. Man, politicians really need to get the f*ck off twitter. |Fark|

• WithLeather’s Punté guests on the Gunaxin show. |Gunaxin|

• The 16 most shameful politicians’ daughters. |Ranker|

• 6 pitiful movie virgins and the lessons they taught us. |Clutch|

• Why Robots With Vaginas Are a Bad Idea.  Whoa whoa whoa, speak for yourself, Hitler. |SmokingJacket|

• Right now on South Park Studios, you can enter their sweepstakes and win a Butters-related prize every week. |SouthParkStudios|

• 5 legitimate reasons to watch porn at work. |HolyTaco|

• High school sluts on film. |ScreenJunkies|

• Pictured: I don’t know what the hell this is, but I’m having trouble looking away. |via Jertronic|

SITE NEWS: A NOTE ON COMMENTING.  A lot of people have been having trouble logging in.  I don’t know if this will solve everyone’s problem, but when you register and you get your registration email, you can’t just use the username/password in the email to log in on any page. You have to click the link in the registration email, THEN login.  After that, it should work.  Theoretically.

It’s like Christmas — two new Parry Gripp songs. “Pile of Kittens” after the jump and “Abe Lincoln Man” above.

DAILY CIRCLE JERK LINKS

Listen to the latest Frotcast. Topics include Machete, Juggalos, and the discovery that “tacocat” is a palindrome. |Frotcast|

Here’s that story about Ron Howard directing Dark Tower that I didn’t cover yesterday. |WarmingGlow|

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak could get you free long distance calls back in the day. So you could call your lady in prison. |GammaSquad|

How Are Pastor Terry Jones and Fidel Castro Alike? |UPROXX News|

8 TV characters women swoon over (and what you can learn from them). Number one, be on TV. |Guyism|

The Best Fat Stripper Names. |Buzzfeed|

If Kurt Vonnegut were Online Today (Picture). |ForkParty|

The 14 sexiest 3D magazine pictorials. |BroBible|

The 8 greatest Macho Man Randy Savage interviews. |TheSmokingJacket|

Vote for this guy or he’ll keep screaming. We are so close to Idiocracy, where the president is a pro wrestler.  I give it 10 years. |HolyTac0|

Edward James Olmos to (stand) and deliver a Battlestar Galactica graphic novel. |ScreenJunkies|

Michelle Rodriguez drops by Attack of the Show to deliver hardcore Latin-ness. |G4|

DC Animated Original Movies – From Good to Awesome. |UGO|

Another picture created for the Frotcast. Thanks, Mick.

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