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Wingnut Dishwashers Union

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About Me

My name is Pat The Bunny.

My home is southern Vermont but I am usually some place else playing songs with my friends. For the record, the meaning of life is freedom and joy, and you'll find it away from all screens and in the hands of communities that make you feel safer than the police ever could. See you there! It's good to meet you, but I hate talking over the internet.

I love to play shows!

Booking is all done over e-mail, not MySpace: [email protected] to get on my contact list for next time I am coming through your area on tour. I hate bars, clubs, and legitimate institutions of commerce. I tour frequently, although my band can almost never come. I love show houses, anarchist collectives, bike shop basements, etc. It costs mad money to go on tour these days, so please don't ask me to play a show where nobody comes and nobody pays. Not feeding and housing touring bands is bad punk rock karma.

You don't have to ask me if you can cover my songs!

Unless you thought you needed someone's permission to play songs. In that case, pay me royalty money. Remember that songs are living things. They live through everyone who finds meaning in them. That being said, I'm not going to write the tabs for the songs out for you, because I'm grumpy and I don't give a shit. (Apply the same logic to file sharing and questions about why all my songs aren't up for free download.)TUE AUG 5 Right now I am on top of shit. Your order is in the mail. Yesterday I moved into a semi-permanent place to live for the first time in years. My friends and me have been giving away free food every day in the center of town. Unless something terrible happens in the next thirty days, on September 5th I will start the next tour (three weeks in the northeast) with my road dawg Mark Leonard. To new songs and old friends! Freedom is madness...and goddamn am I free!

DON'T BUY ANYTHING EVER AGAIN

but if you do, i got stuff i can sell you

SPARE CHANGE RECORDS 17 ELLIOT STREET BRATTLEBORO, VT 05301 send a letter explaining what you want, with well concealed cash or a money order (with the payee left blank) to pay for the items. Click those fancy buttons to order through PayPal, but that's not nearly as fun. All items sold on a sliding scale. If you're new to anti-capitalism, that means pay whatever you think is fair. Pay the minimum amount on the slider because it costs money to mail shit. Also, I like to eat food. Add $2 for international postage to anywhere outside the United States. EXPECT TO WAIT A MONTH FOR YOUR ORDER! Often it will come sooner but do not write me to complain until a month has gone by.
T-SHIRTS
($10-20 sliding scale) T-shirst and patches look like this. Personally I wouldn't pay anyone money for the right to advertise their band, but I also say that I've seen sasquatch. Indicate what size you want, and a color preference, in your order comments--although often we only have white shirts. They are much cheaper if you buy them at a show.PATCHES
($2-5 sliding scale) Look the same as the shirts. They are screen printed on scraps of cloth I find lying around.
NEW! wingnut dishwashers union: never trust a man who plays guitar!
($5-10 sliding scale) the newest batch of seven songs i wrote. a couple of them were played at the show which was released as "live in plattsburgh, NY". also included on this CD are the full band recordings of the older songs, previously released as "towards a world without dishwashers", making this CD a solidly good deal. (march 2008)
wingnut dishwashers union: live in plattsburgh, NY
($5-10 sliding scale) pat the bunny, songwriter of wingnut dishwashers union, delivers a great set to a packed basement in New York state. featuring three new songs (one of which is now up on this MySpace), plus the intangible energy you can't recreate outside a great punk rock show. listen to it for free at archive.org or order a copy on CD and help me out. (oct 2007)
johnny hobo and the freight trains ...is dead!
($5-10 sliding scale) old songs about being sixteen, addicted to speed, and miserable all the time. these songs don't get played any more because they are not the truth any more. this CD contains all of the old johnny hobo material for those still interested. (july 2006)

SPARE CHANGE RECORDS

...if you give a shit, I run a mail order CD-R label to put out my favorite music nobody's heard of. Through it I release my own music, plus CDs of all kinds of music that I sell through the mail for $2 each ($1 in person). Whether you're looking for pop punk, spazzpukepunk, country, orchestral pop, pirate-gypsy, vaudeville, or anything in between we are bound to have something you will fall in love with and could have never found otherwise. Donate at least $2 for a sampler with a song from every release, or donate at least $5 for three CDs randomly selected from our catalog! Please indicate in your order comments what you're after.

...But can you really make a living at punk rock?

Of course. You already have. It's a false question: if you're breathing, you've made a living.Thank you for giving a shit about songs I wrote. You have set me free. Please get as free as you can before it's too late.(pat the bunny) august 2008

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/18/2007
Band Website: SpareChangeRecords.wordpress.com
Band Members: chaos!
Influences: hobart
Sounds Like: bullshit
Record Label: Spare Change Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

the internet is death (part 2)

I would never try to deny the many examples of my hypocrisy (using the internet to beg that people use the internet less, selling merchandise while being anti-capitalist, etc)--but if hypocrisy invali...
Posted by Wingnut Dishwashers Union on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:39:00 PST

FREE MIX TAPE CLUB!

Come to the merch table at any of the shows I play to pick out a hot new mix from a new best friend you've never met. Bring mix tapes of your own to be given away to someone down the road. Mail mix ta...
Posted by Wingnut Dishwashers Union on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:39:00 PST

the internet is death.

stop reading blogs. start writing letters. i write a letter or postcard every day and i would like to recommend it to every one interested in a radder life. don't talk to me on myspace. i'll meet you ...
Posted by Wingnut Dishwashers Union on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:01:00 PST