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Patrick

Why are all these pudgy animals running around my bedroom?

About Me

I rule. Hard.

My Interests

music, film, rock shows, parties, traveling, scotch, computers, vintage cars, breakfast, video games, bicycles, camping, hanging out, digital photography, sport stacking, rally racing, road racing, vintage scooters, (okay, I lied about the sport stacking - I'm not THAT cool.)

I'd like to meet:

Other people who rule hard.

Music:

The Pixies, David Bowie, The Who, Herbie Hancock, Babyland, Supergrass, The Clash, Interpol, Devo, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Iggy and the Stooges, Portishead, Fugazi, Frank Zappa, Sonic Youth, Radiohead, And You Will Know Us By the Trail of the Dead, Sleater-Kinney, Make-Up, Stereolab, The Rolling Stones, Jucifer, Kraftwerk, Elliott Smith, The Beatles, Jason Falkner, Queens of the Stone Age, Lalo Schifrin, The Doves, Morphine, DJ Shadow, Built to Spill, Parliament-Funkadelic, Jon Brion, Blonde Redhead, The Dagons, Grandaddy, The Propellerheads, Blur, Death Cab for Cutie, The Flaming Lips, The Breeders, King Crimson, The Beach Boys, Add N to X, The Hives, Pink Floyd, The Dandy Warhols, Clinic, Trans Am, Talking Heads, Catherine Wheel, Miles Davis, The International Noise Conspiracy, Chet Atkins, Ladytron, Sex Pistols, Le Tigre, The Police, Mogwai, Elvis Costello, Black Flag, Mocean Worker, Buzzcocks, Daft Punk, Led Zeppelin, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sebadoh, Imperial Teen, Squarepusher, Joy Division, The Shins, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Spoon, Turbonegro, Junior Brown, Soviet, Funky House, Johnny Cash, Deep House, Air, Ennio Morricone, Drum 'n Bass, Stevie Wonder, Breaks, John Barry, At the Drive-In, Electro/Electroclash, The Meters, The Prodigy, James Brown, XTC, Wellwater Conspiracy, Rilo Kiley, Faith No More, The Postal Service, Super Furry Animals, Broken Social Scene, Moving Units, Reverend Horton Heat, Gang of Four, Antonio Carlos Jobim, The Damned, Maurice Jarre, Arcade Fire, The Walkmen, Guided by Voices, The Ramones, Papas Fritas, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Futureheads, The Jam, Camper Van Beethoven, LCD Soundsystem, Bloc Party, Art Brut, New Pornographers, The Faint, Adam Freeland, M.I.A., Aphex Twin/AFX, Wire, Calexico.........the pretentiously long list goes on......

Movies:

Lawrence of Arabia, Chinatown, Quadrophenia, The Train, Aliens, Bullitt, Tron, The Big Lebowski, Sunset Blvd, Once Upon a Time in the West, Blade Runner, Das Boot, Kurosawa Flicks, James Bond flicks, WWII flicks, Jacques Tati flicks, Kubrick Flicks, Hong Kong action/kung fu flicks

Television:

Speed Channel, Discovery Channel, History Channel, G4TV, The Thirsty Traveler, Battlestar Galactica (the new one), Family Guy

Books:

Brave New World, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Catch-22, Hitchhiker's Guide "trilogy", Heart of Darkness, LOTR trilogy, Lord of the Flies, Catcher in the Rye, Trout Fishing in America, Black Holes and Time Warps, Initial D

Heroes:

"Fifty gold sovereigns"

My Blog

"The Battle of Algiers"

This is a frank and generally unbiased portrayal of the Algerian War of Independence against the French from 1954 through their independence in 1962.Amazingly timely and well produced film done partia...
Posted by Patrick on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:55:00 PST

Terrorist Mooninites?!?

Pretty much one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time.http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070201/ap_on_re_us/suspici ous_devicesThe asininity of the slideshow is overwhelming. I would find it hard t...
Posted by Patrick on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:28:00 PST

Beers

http://www.pabst.com/mainpage.html?http://www.pabst.com/beer _schaefer.html I could listen to this music all night. It makes me think of that naughty, naughty scene in "Reefer Madness" where that guy ...
Posted by Patrick on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:41:00 PST

Chrystler will ROCK YOUR SOUL!!!!

I'd first like to thank Steph for the inspiration on my new calling.  God must have been directing her fingers when she was typing her last comment.  I'm totally starting a Catholic metal ...
Posted by Patrick on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 07:01:00 PST

The death of James Bond?

So it's finally coming to an end.  After four and a half years of various testing, proof-of-concepts, and two and a half years of actual work, I will finally be done with my responsibilities on t...
Posted by Patrick on Sat, 08 Apr 2006 11:19:00 PST

Blizzog...

So it's been like a year and a half since I last posted a blog.  I figured I should take the thing for a drive to keep it running, you know, and then, BAM, all this new crap shows up like the moo...
Posted by Patrick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Patrick's Big Car Day!

Yeah, so I finally had a completely free day and the weather was awesome, so I took my 240 out on the Angeles Crest highway today. So much fun.....I took a left onto the Angeles Forest highway when I...
Posted by Patrick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Hah! Figures....

You rule. in 15 years, you won't be as known as youare now, but most of the people that will knowyou then will like you (or else I'll beat themwith a stick). You're nice to listen to. What band fr...
Posted by Patrick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

New suspension

I'm totally awake right now and want to get up "early" tomorrow to do errands, so I'm going to journal myself to sleep..... I got my 240 back today with a completely rebuilt, re-aligned suspension....
Posted by Patrick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Songwritin'

There is a fine line between consistently and enjoyably writing songs, and turning it unpleasant by making it feel like an obligation. It is the same with most other things that one can enjoy, I sup...
Posted by Patrick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST