So yes, we’ve finally finished up the recording work on our upcoming release “C is for Cthulhu”, quite possibly the heaviest thing we’ve done in a long while. Of course, no ice cream sundae of RAWK is complete without the metaphorical cherry on top, so at last night’s practice, we hired the last two existing specimens of Homo Neanderthalensis at no small expense and had them chant incantations to summon the mighty Cthulhu:
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyou get the point.
So the trick with wrangling neanderthals to do your bidding is to ply them with Jim Beam (their tastes are prehistoric, don’t waste the good stuff!) and put a microphone in front of them. But for this occasion it became even trickier because the language they would be speaking contains far too many consonants, and no thinking person could possibly pronounce this stuff, much less a couple of drunk man-monkeys. So we had to figure out a way to pronounce this incantation, and then a way to make it easy for two neanderthals just jonesing for a good time with some ladies with protuberant brow ridges to remember the incantation. So we loaned them a dry-erase board (nothing with sharp edges or points) and let them hash it out:
Astonishingly, defying all anthropological sense, these two managed not only to come up with an acceptable phonetic spelling of the incantation in question, but to sneak in a reference to pho for those of us who were hungry at the time. And hey, we threw in a little illustration for reference:
So yes, it was done, we paid the two neanderthals in cheap bourbon and false promises that we would let them join the band as Flo & Eddie style backup singers, and the song was completed. Now we just have to mix. Nothing ever goes wrong during that process.
Oh, also, this symbol looks like a butt: Ѡ
