Tuesday, January 17, 2006

"You Did a Raghu Thing" (2000)


this is an audio post - click to play


recorded this ditty about six years ago on my old Fostex R8. It's based on the Chris Isaak recording "You Did a Bad Bad Thing" (remember from "Eyes Wide Shut"?). Unfortunately, the recording was transferred over the phone, and so the sound quality is poor. (You can hear me monkeying with the phone. Drat.)

Note: to hear the song, press on the red arrow to the right of "play this audio post." Voila!

What's this stuff across the floor?
What's this sh*t up on my door?
What's this memo over here?
And that crap right under there?

Chorus:
You did a Raghu thing
You did a Raghu thing
You put that sh*t up on my door
You did a Raghu thing

You been lyin' like a rug
You been dressin' like a thug
What's that guff you givin' me?
So you bought a Ph.D.?

Chorus

Saw you grabbin' someone's plant
Saw you grinnin' at the bank
You put a stink into my world
Don't you point that thing at me

Chorus


Etc.

Notes:

The line about the plant is an allusion to the infamous "poinsettia" episode. See The "poinsettia" episode.

The line about "pointing" is an allusion to the Great Man's love of the saying, "when you point a finger at someone, three fingers point back at you." Somenow, the fellow doesn't seem to grasp that the point is NOT to point at people. To see a fine illustration of Raghu's penchant for pointmanship, see the Archives: Raghu points a finger of blame.

The line about the "Ph.D." concerns the Great Man's doctorate (not a Ph.D., actually, but a doctorate) which he received from the spectacularly unprestigious Nova Southeastern U in Florida, an institution that routinely ranked dead last in U.S. World & News Report's yearly rating of colleges and universities. Who knows, maybe it's climbed up the rankings in recent years.



"BONUS" SONG:

this is an audio post - click to play
I recorded this "song" at about the same time. It's essentially a kind of punk chant. The lyric: "Rat bastard at 12 o'clock," repeated ad nauseum. I played the guitar on an old acoustic, routed through a distortion box. Noisy, ain't it?

It's not about anyone in particular. If you know a "rat bastard," then it's about him (or her or it).

Karl Rove? --Sure, why not. It's about Karl Rove and all Karl Rove wannabes.

Played into my phone and thus onto Blogspot's computer. Pretty low-tech. Think I'll have a beer and call it a day.

--CW

P.S.:

See The Incident for an old article re the history of the phrase in question.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good Lord!

Anonymous said...

He stole a poinsettia?

Anonymous said...

Yeah, click on the "poinsettia" link!

Anonymous said...

Sadly, your portraits of your contributors give the administration a clue they didn't need to have, viz., that Red Emma isn't a woman.

Anonymous said...

What! Red isn't a female? I am shocked.

Anonymous said...

Um, like, the worst thing they could do to Our Red has already been done. It's like worrying that a dead guy might get killed. Well, sure, but so what?

Anonymous said...

What?

What did they do to Red?

Is this why we're all "anonymous"?

Rebel Girl said...

You'll all be happy to learn that, today, I updated "Red Emma," making her image anatomically correct! I'm especially proud of her left breast.

Red Emma is a blonde! But I guess everyone aleady knew that.

Anonymous said...

Listening to "You Did a Raghu Thing" brought back fond memories of hearing this the first time in the front seat of your car. Thanks for posting it.

Anonymous said...

I thought Chunk was strictly on two wheels. does he have a sidecar?

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