Hippo Tipping on the Nile
Do You Want Me to Do the Thing That I said That I'd do?
February 19, 2007.
I must have been feeling fairly creative that day. (See journal entry below.)
A day off of work with a work party in the evening always improves the vibe, am I right?
Today’s song addition to the “Mixed Up Files” album series, a song which I’ve subsequently titled “Do You Want Me to Do the Thing That I said That I'd do?”—was recorded that day, while wearing pajamas apparently. (Listen in the player below.)
I came across this song, which had the working title “improv 2 19 007,” while trolling for something to share with you this week.
I gave it a listen and was like, “I have no recollection of creating this art.”1
But I liked that it ended with the lyric “Do you want me to do the thing that I said that I'd do?”—though I couldn’t make out all of the words, which were spontaneously uttered as I played guitar on this recording.
And then I went looking to my journal to see if I had made any notes on this spontaneous bop prosody. I hadn’t.
Which brings us to Hippo Tipping on the Nile.
I remain your humble servant,
OX&C,
Faux Jean
Here is a dramatic reading of the journal entry from February 19, 2007:
And here are the lyrics for today’s song:
Do You Want Me to Do the Thing That I said That I'd do (Improv 2 19 2007)
I do love you
with all my heart
And I’ll touch you
in a special way
You can feel it
In our hearts
and
You can feel it
in our hearts
And I see it coming through
I love you very much
Look around you
braggadocious
and you’re feeling like an ocean
like a color black and blue
I need you
Do you need me
Like I need you
Do You Want Me to Do the Thing That I said That I'd do
credits
from From the Mixed Up Files of Mr. Matthew T. Schindler, Volume 12, released March 25, 2025
words and music by Matty Schindler.
This piece of paper fell out of the 2007 journal as I was looking for the Feb 19 entry:
This was recorded on a G4 iBook using the built-in mic on the laptop, with a single pass overdub of Farfisa, which I had set up in my living room at the time.