Thursday, November 13, 2008

Chewbaccad


...so way back in the fall of 1996, I was hanging out with a group of guys (some combination of Lopez, Bob, Wells, etc...) in Crazy MotherFORTRAN Paul's room on 2nd Eicher listening to the then-new Spacehog album. The album ended (or so we thought) and we continued discussing the news of the day. But the album had not stopped. The music for the last song, To Be A Millionaire.....Was It Likely?, ended around the 2:30 mark, but the track continued in silence for another ten and a half minutes and at around the 13:00 mark strange, evil-sounding noises erupted from the speakers. We quickly identified the song as a few creepy piano notes accompanied by the horrible wailing, screaming noise of two Wookies making sweet, sweet love. Thus the name Chewbacca.
If you wish to Chewbacca someone, you must sneak into their room while they are napping. Fortunately for you, college kids nap more than babies. Find their CD player, turn the volume down all the way and then flip the power switch. Insert the Spacehog CD, skip to track 10 and fast forward to the 3:30 mark. Crank up the volume as high as you dare and then sneak out of the victim's room. You now have 8 to 10 minutes to make your getaway.
The hidden song starts out rather quietly, so it probably screws with the victim's mind on a subconscious level before he or she awakes. I hadn't edited the track or looped it, so I had to run downstairs and rewind the CD every 6 or 7 minutes. But it still freaked out all the kids in our neighborhood.
"chewbacca [ choo baa ka ] verb (past and past
participle chewbacca'd, present participle chewbacca·ing, 3rd person present
singular chewbaccas)

To wake a unsuspecting napper with the sweet, sweet sounds of Wookie
lovemaking"

- Websters 11oth Edition Dictionary

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