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Patch

Old teenage hopes are alive at your door.

About Me


My Interests

High fives.

I'd like to meet:

Emily Kane, Seymour Glass, Thomas Kinkade: Painter of Light.

Music:

Sufjan Stevens, Explosions in the Sky, Arcade Fire, my boy Jay-Z, Gillian Welch, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Rilo Kiley, The Magnetic Fields, Art Brut, Tom Waits, Ben Folds, Fiona Apple, Deb Talan, Jack Johnson, Annie, Beirut, Dangermouse, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Yann Tiersen, The Streets, Regina Spektor, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (thank you Brett Haley and Daniel Radcliffe), Feist, Johnny Cash, Journey, Jens Lekman, Kanye West, Mos Def, Nina Simone, Mirrah, OCMS, some Oasis (you know the songs) Ryan Adams, Gorillaz, The White Stripes, good cover songs, Beck, Bjork, Red House Painters, Amos Lee, Wallflowers from way back in the day, "Sparring Partner" by Paolo Conte, The Temptations, The Jackson 5, Al Green, Huey Lewis and the News, The Isley Brothers, Radiohead, etc., etc.

Movies:

Beautiful Girls, Before Sunrise/Before Sunset, Back to the Future, Amelie, Casablanca, City of God, Seven Samuri, Rushmore, Friday Night Lights, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Swingers, Million Dollar Baby, Thin Red Line...

Television:

Arrested Development, The Office (UK), The Wire, Deadwood, Entourage, Lost, Buffy circa 1997-99, I Love the 80's.

Books:

Then We Came to the End, by Joshua Ferris. It's was published in march 2007, and I'd get it as soon as possible so you can say you've read it before every critic in the world tells you to.

Heroes:

Marty McFly, Tavis Smiley, My sister Veronica, The Subway

My Blog

Homeward Bound

I am leaving Europe in a few hours to head back to The States.   I have been here for just over three months, and have wanted to come here for most of my life.  In Norway (the...
Posted by Patch on Mon, 24 Oct 2005 08:47:00 PST

Northern Scandinavia, Part II: My Grey Period

Saturday   My first thought when I woke up was, Where the fuck am I? My second thought? Seriously, where the fuck am I? I was looking at silk curtains, and when I rotated my hea...
Posted by Patch on Sun, 09 Oct 2005 01:58:00 PST

Northern Scandinavia, Part I: Big Trouble in Little Sweden

This one is long, but, with out a camera, 20 years from now it will be all I have   Thursday   The first real day of rain since I'd been in Europe.  I drug myself ...
Posted by Patch on Sun, 09 Oct 2005 11:39:00 PST

Sweden: The Beginning

Here goes the start of everything.    Sunday   I woke up on the train from Berlin and something was severely wrong.  I had taken two sleeping pills again the night befor...
Posted by Patch on Tue, 27 Sep 2005 03:08:00 PST

Berlin: A trip behind the Iron Curtain

Thursday   Those sleeping pills Liz gave me were really something.  I woke up, well sort of woke up, with my mind cloudy and my body feeling fuzzy.  I wasn'...
Posted by Patch on Mon, 05 Sep 2005 12:09:00 PST

Cologne: The Catholics take over Germany

I have been waiting to write about this since it happened.   Monday   I arose later than I wanted to at Julian's, and it was pretty clear that I wouldn't make the ear...
Posted by Patch on Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:47:00 PST

St Malo: Rockin' in a French world (Obscenely Long)

Expect a lot of these soon because I'm about 2 weeks behind...     Friday   My 25th birthday.   Woke up late once again.  The plan was to go t...
Posted by Patch on Mon, 29 Aug 2005 01:19:00 PST

Somebady save me...

I am about 2 weeks behind in my blogs and am currently trapped at the worst Swedish house party in the world.  I hope to catch up, but the internet has conspired to earse most of my blo...
Posted by Patch on Fri, 26 Aug 2005 02:40:00 PST

St. Malo: Captured Deep In French Territory

Fool me once shame on you; fool me twice shame on me.Tuesday After more restless sleep on a the night train, it finally arrived in Paris and I pulled myself out of bed and realized that Maria, the G...
Posted by Patch on Sun, 21 Aug 2005 01:55:00 PST

Back to Barcelona; onto Nice: redux

Oh God here I go again,   This is coming from a very shady internet cafe in Paris.  I have a train lay-over (Is there a phrase for that?) and I wanted to catch up. It's been a week and no...
Posted by Patch on Wed, 17 Aug 2005 04:19:00 PST