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About Me

There is always a story behind my headline.
My name is Patrick and this is what I do. If you know me and my family, I have a blog here .
I'm not responsible for the content of my friends pages...
Visit us at Independent Music Online .
Submit stories about your favorite indie bands at the Indie News Network .
We are also on MOG (Music Blog).
Get some free mp3s at ZuneTracks .
If you want to see a great show, go see Until Dawn .
If you want to hear some other great artists, check out Benjamin Olson , Tim Tibbitts , Exercise in Futility , Bent Ascent , Poor Skeletons and many other excellent bands at Independent Music Online .
If you want to keep up with the latest in technology, from someone who knows, drop by and see Big Eddie Ed .
We are an Independent Music Store for Indie Bands/Artists. All bands can sign up with us for FREE! The bands can set their own price for their music, and they can distribute their music in any of the following formats; .m4a (AAC), .mp3 (MP3), .ogg (Ogg Vorbis), .flac (Free Lossless Audio Codec, a.k.a. "flack")
We are based in the Upstate of South Carolina and are trying to make noise with a huge Indie Music movement, but we can always use more help. We need people to go to our site, tell their friends, tell their bands, tell everyone they know.
I have loved music all of my life, and want this to be an avenue for Bands/Artists of any Genre to get their music out, and not have to compromise their creative freedom. No one should have to give that up. Nor should they have to give up all of the rights to that music, just to sign a deal.
Help us spread the word, and make some noise in the world. Because music sure does need it. I do this because I love music, and nothing else. Not fame, not riches, I do it for the love of the music and to support indie music.

My Interests

Emo...Innovation, setting the standards, going against the grain, in short...all out REVOLUTION!!

and/or

Dressing up as Bigfoot at Halloween, and standing just off the edge of the woods, near the road, so that passing cars will see me and slam their car to a halt so they can get a look, and then I run off in to the woods.

and/or

Linux

I'd like to meet:

Anybody that loves and supports music. Emo people. Michael Jackson. Robert Plant. Bigfoot. MC Hammer. Tom from Myspace. Anyone from Weezer. Ric Flair. Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat.

Music:

For Mainstream, I like:

Faith No More, Nirvana, the Melvins, Smashing Pumpkins, Alice in Chains, Beck, Green Day, Soundgarden, Weezer, the Special Goodness, Rage Against the Machine, Butthole Surfers, Fugazi, Mr. Bungle, Whitesnake (yep, I said it), Weird Al, NoFX, Radiohead, Stone Temple Pilots, the Pixies, Beastie Boys, list goes on and on....Emo

For Indie bands, I like (see my website www.ind-music.com for some of these):

Tim Tibbitts, Nineteen 88, Benajmin Olson, Bent Ascent, August Christopher, Death AfterLife, Self, Deadlock, Lee Haymond & the Cybermonkeys, Wesley Willis, Shell, and many more to come...

Movies:

SPACEBALLS!, Star Wars Trilogy, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, This is Spinal Tap, Monty Python, Kindergarten Cop...too many more to name. Anything that is Emo.

Television:

Television is the spawn of the evil one..., although Family Guy, Venture Bros, Futurama, Simpsons, Ren and Stimpy, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, and Beavis and Butthead are my favorites.

Books:

J.R.R. Tolkien, Timothy Zahn, Douglas Adams, Harry Potter series, Michael Crichton, Tech Geek books...

Heroes:

First and foremost...Bigfoot (and by Bigfoot I mean Sasquatch, the big hairy monkey-like creature that lives in the Pacific Northwest...not the Monster Truck)

Anyone that has actively promoted the Indie Music culture, and shown that things can be done differently than the mainstream.

My Blog

"Wrist-Slit Red"

So I came across a really great picture today. It is a new crayola set for emo kids:As the blog title shows, you now know which one makes me laugh the most...oh the pain....
Posted by I Need To Hit The Gym on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:03:00 PST

Old Weezer

Old Weezer b-sides from the Pinkerton era = Good times.I really wish the band would re-record and release the song "Superfriend". That song, in my opinion, is an absolute jewel that needs to see the l...
Posted by I Need To Hit The Gym on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 04:31:00 PST

New Place, New Things, Yada Yada

Well, as most of you know by now, we have moved from Franklin, TN to Inman, SC. It's been a good move (so far) and I'm excited about it for a number of reasons, which are too lengthy and boring for me...
Posted by I Need To Hit The Gym on Wed, 16 May 2007 10:18:00 PST

Goodbye my dear Franklin

To my dear Franklin,It's been an amazing 3 years in which we've spent together. We've experienced many wonderful things, like children, pets, businesses, and other accomplishments. We've also experien...
Posted by I Need To Hit The Gym on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:24:00 PST

Thank You

Thank you to everyone for your condolences and thoughts and well wishes for me and my family since my father passed away. It's going to be REALLY weird not having him here. He had just turned 50, but ...
Posted by I Need To Hit The Gym on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 04:52:00 PST

Interview with Patrick Wilson (of Weezer)

We recently had the opportunity to have an interview with Patrick Wilson. Pat is best known as the drummer of the Alternative Rock band "Weezer" however we spoke with him at length about his own indie...
Posted by I Need To Hit The Gym on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 02:33:00 PST

Our stance on audio lecture sales and more...

A debate has started recently over at North Carolina State University. The debate has spread to Slashdot and Digg as well as news outlets in the Raleigh, NC area and the Chronicle for Higher Education...
Posted by I Need To Hit The Gym on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:41:00 PST

What's in store?

In about 3 weeks, we will find out exactly what the subject of this Blog means...are you ready, or are you prepared?Let's hope so...
Posted by I Need To Hit The Gym on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:36:00 PST

Emo

Why is it that everyday there has to be something "Emo" going on? Just the other day I heard the most Emo metal song I've ever heard. It was "Rainbow in the Dark" by Dio. Yeah, the DJ said it was Iron...
Posted by I Need To Hit The Gym on Tue, 30 May 2006 08:45:00 PST