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Major Butch Silverback Van Orsdel

Sing like the beer you have in your hand was brought to you by the Lord!

About Me

My name is Patrick, some folks know me as "Butch." I'm a dad, a geek, a college student, and the guitar player for a psychobilly band , a surf band... and various other things.

My Interests

My Family, Vintage guitars & amps, Comics, Retro/Low-brow art, music, & culture, Movies (see below), American & world history, My dog, Politics, Instrumental-surf music, Graphic art, Blogging...

I'd like to meet:

I got nuthin.

Music:

It's easier to show you...

Movies:

Almost any moie based on a comic, mid-70's samurai movies, 60-70's Spaghetti westerns, some miscellaneous horror, some 70's exploitation flicks (look it up), noir-comedies (alot of film-noir in general), the first 3 Rocky's, Pirates, anything Tarantino, almost anything Kubrick, most of Scorcese, half of Speilberg, and Lucas up to '89. Oh, and anything with Peter Sellers.

Television:

Lost, The Office, Heroes, I Dream of Jeannie, Berwtiched, Hogans Heroes, My Three Sons, Gilligans Island, Dobie Gillis, The Addams Family, The Munsters, Green Acres, The Prisoner, Get Smart, The Gong Show, Good Times, The Andy Griffith Show, Happy Days, M*A*S*H, most Hanna Barbera cartoons, Batman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, Spider-Man (the 90's Fox series), X-Men (90's Fox series), and the occasional History Channel documentary.

Books:

Mostly rediscovering comics, otherwise, I rarely have time to read...

Heroes:


My Blog

Stuff done, stuff to do...

Once again it's time for the post weekend wrap-up, featuring me...by whatever name I call myself these days... Friday night. The Atomic Garage. Full house. Got to see quite a few folks I haven't seen ...
Posted by Major Butch Silverback Van Orsdel on Tue, 29 May 2007 08:35:00 PST

Damn, I'm tired...

Man...sooooo much to catch up on... First off, I need to get this off my chest. I don't usually do alot of social current-event commentary, and I'm a little late on this, but damn if I ain't glad...
Posted by Major Butch Silverback Van Orsdel on Mon, 21 May 2007 08:31:00 PST

Red checkerboard pattern in the whites of his eyes...

Feast or famine, folks, feast or famine... The time is nigh, or close to nigh, I'm not exactly sure how soon "nigh" is, but I imagine it's somewhere in the ballpark of "around the corner." What am I b...
Posted by Major Butch Silverback Van Orsdel on Fri, 11 May 2007 07:35:00 PST

Hanzo, Spidey, some guit-pickin, but mostly, bed.

Ok, so I spent a major portion of my weekend in bed, and not in the good way. Strep sucks, friends. But, in spite of ailing physical health, we did take the chirrens to Spidey 3, which didn't suck, bu...
Posted by Major Butch Silverback Van Orsdel on Mon, 07 May 2007 08:04:00 PST

Woke up last night and thought I was gonna die...

Awwwww, sick! Aside from being a catchy Cramps lyric, it's damn true. I was close - like this close (imagine my thumb and index finger in very close proximity) to calling in today. But I didn't. Why? ...
Posted by Major Butch Silverback Van Orsdel on Fri, 04 May 2007 08:13:00 PST

Slow week...little news.

Ok, so I was mulling over how to best represent without leaving anyone out, I think I have it covered. Nelsons? check. Disasternauts? check. TVO (pending approval)? check. The only handle no...
Posted by Major Butch Silverback Van Orsdel on Wed, 02 May 2007 11:45:00 PST

The little things get to ya

Why am I so pissed off today? It's like the tiniest things are making want to hedge someone's face off with a lawnmower. Even things that are meant to be pleasant or reassuring...at one point as I has...
Posted by Major Butch Silverback Van Orsdel on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:14:00 PST

Exams, moving, et al. Go BVO, Go!

If idle hands are the Devil's plaything, he can gladly have them. Finals this week, relocating to a new house sometime near the end of May, musicians stuff, all in this installment of "Butch's Blog of...
Posted by Major Butch Silverback Van Orsdel on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:32:00 PST

Unrelated rantseses.

Band stuff aside for a sec, I'm gonna lower the tone here significantly (musically, known as a trainwreck, I've no idea if there's a blog-quivalent term). But here's some seriousness. One of the big d...
Posted by Major Butch Silverback Van Orsdel on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:32:00 PST

Grindhouse!!! and the lazyass weekend...

Everything I ever wanted in a movie. That's my stock answer for anyone who asks me anything about Grindhouse. I'm not going to do the "which was better" thing - I loved both Tarantino and Rodriguez's ...
Posted by Major Butch Silverback Van Orsdel on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 05:58:00 PST