Hi! Not sure if you know this, but I love me some Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Â I won’t even get into it, because I will ramble on about my youth, chatting with Douglas Adams, and an extraordinary predilection to organize my entire youth around the Infocom game, radio series, TV series, books, etc. Â I encourage you all to listen the first run of the 1978 12 episode 6 hour original radio series. Â It’s sort of epic. Â And the last 3 hours is completely different from anything you have ever heard. EVER. It’s superb.
Some other things you haven’t heard? Marvin. Singing. That’s right…. he got popular a bit in the early 1980’s. Â His first single crept up the UK charts, and then plummeted down the charts again. For a moment, it floated in a way that bricks do not.
I bookended the songs between the front and rear 7″ covers. If you can’t figure that out, I feel deeply worried for you.
MARVIN THE PARANOID ANDROID – MARVIN
Marvin The Paranoid Android – Marvin
Marvin The Paranoid Android – Metal Man
MARVIN THE PARANOID ANDROID – THE DOUBLE “B” SIDE
And then… we have the second 7″ that wasn’t nearly as almost popular as the first.
Marvin The Paranoid Android – Reasons to be Miserable
Marvin The Paranoid Android – Marvin I Love You
These were a long time pursuit, and the day I finally got them, I found this gent was already hosting the songs. Â I have to thank him for the high quality image scans, and compliment him that great minds think alike… Â there is so much out there to discover, and much of it is lingering and atrophying due to rights issues or general rarity. Â It’s time we use this new way to communicate to share these arcane relics with other niche fans.
What I am saying is, kick back, wrap a towel around your head, figure out how to sip your Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster through said towel… and see if you can enjoy the music over the chatter of robots yammering about our interests in tea. Â Don’t you worry, either. If you can’t see the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast… it can’t see you.
So your only real challenge is making the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. Recipe below, excerpted from the Guide.
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The best drink in existence is the Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster. The effect of drinking one of these is rather like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon, wrapped around a large gold brick. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy will tell you on which planets the best ones are brewed, how much you can expect to pay for one, and which voluntary organizations exist to help you recover afterwards.
“Fortunately, the Guide also tells you how you can make one yourself.” (And, of course, it’s gin-based.)
Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster
1 bottle Ol’ Janx Spirit.
1 measure Santraginean seawater.
3 cubes frozen Arcturan MegaGin.
4 liters Fallian marsh gas.
1 measure Qualactin Hypermint Extract.
1 Algolian Suntiger tooth.
Zamphour to taste.
Olive garnish.
1) Take the juice from one bottle of the Ol’ Janx Spirit (see page 15 of the actual Guide).
2) Pour into it one measure of water from the seas of Santraginus V — Oh, that Santraginean seawater, it says. Oh, those Santraginean fish!
3) Allow three cubes of Arcturan MegaGin to melt into the mixture (it must be properly iced or the benzene is lost).
4)Â Allow four liters of Fallian marsh gas to bubble thrugh it, in memory of all those happy hikers who have died of pleasure in the marshes of Fallia.
5) Over the back of a silver spoon float a measure of Qualactin Hypermint Extract, redolent of all the heady odors of the dark Qualactin Zones, subtle, sweet and mystic.
6)Â Drop in the tooth of an Algolan Suntiger. Watch it dissolve, spreading the fires of the Algolan suns deep into the heart of the drink.
7)Â Sprinkle Zamphour.
8)Â Add an olive.
9) Drink… but… very… carefully.