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Pat

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About Me


I was born in a crossfire hurricane. Wait, maybe that was someone else. I wasn't born so much as I fell out. In the womb, sounds of The Beatles Revolver and the Rolling Stones Beggar's Banquet had profound effect on the developing brain, as I would learn later. I recently found out the other day the the very first Rock Single 45 (vinyl!) my Mother bought me was Rick Springfield's "Jessie's Girl". I find this extremely troubling and frightening, but perhaps it explains how I came to be in a band with a Rick Springfield fanatic. Other Singles I inherited included Norma Tenega's "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog" which might explain my fascination with disturbing art.
Then some other stuff happened, and here we are.
A couple of surreal experiences of note:
1) Being asked at a party if I knew "Pat" (me) and then being told what a cool guy I am by someone who has obviously never met me. 2) Sitting in a movie theater watching a movie that contains a scene shot outside that very movie theater.
Post Script:
I stay up ridiculously late for no reason. Enjoy stumbling around Olde City after a marathon post-work happy hour. Distrust squirrels.
Check Out My Band:
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My Interests

Songwriting, reading, pondering ridiculousness and then pondering the ridiculousness of the pondering.
"making the fun scene
and making the love scene
and making the sad scene
and singing low songs and having inspirations
and walking around
looking at everything
and smelling flowers
and goosing statues
and even thinking
and kissing people and
making babies and wearing pants
and waving hats and
dancing
and going swimming in rivers
on picnics
in the middle of the summer
and just generally
'living it up' "
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I'd like to meet:

Clowns, Midgets, Carnies........but no Wilsons. Frank the Rabbit. Interesting people, people with a passion.

Mount Drinkmore Blog
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Music:

Beatles, Kinks, Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pixies, The Doors, VU, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, The Clash, The Ramones, Television, The Sex Pistols, REM, U2, Nirvana, Radiohead, Beck, Soundgarden, Supergrass, The Dandy Warhols, The Wipers, Foo Fighters, R.E.M., Elvis Costello, Garbage, Wilco, Franz Ferdinand,The Flaming Lips, The Who, Jane's Addiction, The Vaselines, The Talking Heads, Interpol, Tom Petty, Blur, Bob Dylan, Frank Black, The Charlatans UK, The Smiths, The Church, Dipsomaniacs, Neil Young, The Adolescents, Afghan Whigs, The Arcade Fire, Angelfish, The Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen, Eels, Elliot Smith, Flipper, John Lennon, Johnny Cash, Manic Street Preachers, Muse, Nick Cave, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Tenacious D, Milton and the Devils Party, Effusion 35, Wayward Gene and the Natural Selection, Lunapath, The Rude

Most Recent iTunes Plays:

Movies:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Donnie Darko, Garden State, This is Spinal Tap, INLAND EMPIRE, Being John Malkovich, Mulholland Drive, The Empire Strikes Back, Pulp Fiction, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Shining, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Sideways, American Splendor, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Blue Velvet, The Godfather, Taxi Driver, American Beauty, The Big Lebowski

Television:

Twin Peaks, The Simpsons, Carnivale, Seinfeld, Family Guy, Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office. LOST, Heroes

Books:

A Prayer for Owen Meany, Frankenstein, Jude the Obscure, The Water Method Man, The Dharma Bums, The World According to Garp, Lyrical Ballads, Tess of the Durbervilles

Heroes:

Pythagorus, John Lennon, Leo Fender, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Pat Harrington (Snyder from 'One Day at A Time', made me want to smoke cigarettes so I could wrap them in my sleeve).

My Blog

Mr. Strangeguide; or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Tour

So, last week in my first non-"airport only" visit to Boston, Massachussetts my girlfriend and I took a tour of historic Fenway Park, the oldest active baseball stadium in the Major Leagues. What I ha...
Posted by Pat on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:48:00 PST

Great Moments In Idiocy Vol. 1: A Battery of Problems

One afternoon three years ago, I learned a valuable lesson on reasons not to put loose AA batteries in your pocket after changing them in your Discman. As I sat down to return to work after lunch, I f...
Posted by Pat on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:26:00 PST

5 Oddities

A good friend tagged me so I shall continue the chain. RULES: Each player of this game starts with "5 weird things/habits about yourself". People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 5 wei...
Posted by Pat on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 12:21:00 PST

My Celebrity Look-alikes


Posted by Pat on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 06:46:00 PST

Wish I had never broken that mirror.......

Today marks 7 years in my current place of employment. Let's look at the positive and negative aspects of this. For one, it shows loyalty and devotion. The kind of loyalty where I spend time writ...
Posted by Pat on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:56:00 PST

Why shower?

So, I am walking down 16th street today and directly over my head comes a flood of water from a storm gutter or air conditioner vent on the high rise beside me giving me a disgusting early morning sho...
Posted by Pat on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:09:00 PST

Fifteen Years Ago This Month......

I was in Gym class being verbally abused by the ironically morbidly obese "Health" instructor when one of the "hilarious" athlete types decided to make fun of the T-Shirt one of classmates was wearing...
Posted by Pat on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:00:00 PST

Another year, Another guitar

Well, after years of  fighting it I finally broke down and added a Gibson Les Paul to my arsenal. I say "arsenal" because all of my guitars are also fitted with bayonets just in case those Red Co...
Posted by Pat on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 09:36:00 PST

Run in with Dave Grohl

So, on a whim I went with my friend Sean to see the Foo Fighters at the Borgata in Atlantic City tonight, one of the two electric shows on their acoustic tour. Amazing venue, high energy show. During ...
Posted by Pat on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 08:50:00 PST

Random Childhood Memory (not a hallucination)

First Grade Lunch Hour: Unlike every other school in America, we did not use our school cafeteria for anything other than entertaining Senior Citizens. Instead, we ate at our desks. In this pre-Ritali...
Posted by Pat on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:23:00 PST