05.17.11

I Think It’s Time (Again) for a Carla Sandwich

Posted in Phlogiston, Rock 'n' Roll at 2:43 pm by George Smith

Good news, lads! Good news! We had this old song just waiting for news like this.

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UPDATED

From the LA Times, on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s problem with other women and a child born out of wedlock:

“After leaving the governor’s office I told my wife about this event, which occurred over a decade ago,” Schwarzenegger said Monday night in a statement to The Times.

Although most of the online ribbing delivered through Twitter and blogs have poked fun at Schwarzenegger through lines he spoke in blockbuster films …

DD had a song for that in 2005. Posted to the Highway Kings bio page in March of that year, it was in response to news — again from the LA Times — on Arnold’s escapades as a serial sexual harasser of women on the sets of his blockbuster movies.

For that he was nicknamed the Gropinator. The story, which was published before his election, didn’t have much effect although it went nationwide and spawned many many jokes. Schwarzenegger became the Governator.

I Think We Should Make a Carla Sandwich — by DD under the nom de plume, Arnold & the Gropinators, is here.

It comes from material originally published in the Los Angeles Times, concerning Schwarzenegger and a woman named “Carla:”

[The song] is taken from a description in the The Times of an alleged movie set incident in which Schwarzenegger and his stand-in trapped [a stand-in named Carla] next to a food service table. Schwarzenegger supposedly said: ‘I think we should make a Carla sandwich,’ and the men squeezed her between them. After they released [the woman] … Schwarzenegger stuck his tongue in her mouth.”

Wunderbar! Everything old is new again for a few minutes!

“I vould like to vork you out! Your ass feels to me very stout!”

Arnold’s vocal contributions originally taken from prank telephone call sites.

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Arnold’s election as governor of California came about as a consequence of something now dreadfully familiar in American elections: The voting public’s rage winding up misdirected into electing someone who becomes observably much worse than the person replaced.

In California the voters were enraged with bland Gray Davis. The budget was a mess and Schwarzenegger showed up, promising the public he’d take the Terminator to Sacramento and beat the government into line with a broom.

He also ran on repealing and refuning the “car tax.” No joke. And this appealed to the reactionary California voter.

Yeah! We wanted our trivial car tax refund from the state! And we got it!

With one of his first act’s as the governor Schwarzenegger made the budget deficit far worse than it had been. And as the state’s public sector economy continued to crater in the coming years his fellow Republicans, always in the minority, blocked all attempts to fix it because of the state law that requires a supermajority to pass any tax/budget legislation.

I explained it back then on the DD bio page:

The Gropinators [explained] the politics behind the big man’s success, using rock and roll. Our leader’s election came not through reasoned judgment, but a good old angry and mentally ill snapout, a desire of the polity to strike, to lash out, to schlag — someone in government. We weren’t going to take it! Take what? Who cares? But someone, like Gray Davis, had to be made to pay and Arnold was the benefactor. Lyric: You sent him to Sac-ra-men-to; No rotten car tax, no, no! We sent ‘im to Sac-ra-men-to; We’re not gonna take it, no, no! Arghhh! Danger! Get out of the way, we might have to hit you.

This defines the instability of US government. In bad times, and we got them in spades, the people turn ugly. Instead of relying on thought when they need it most, they just take the fist to those in office even if the alternative is worse. When the poisoned product of their rage arrives, everyone suffers belated buyer’s remorse.

It is not new.

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