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Patton Oswalt

Oh SHIT...we forgot to say grace.

About Me

New EP "Frankensteins and Gumdrops" only through www.wfmu.org

Buy the new album Werewolves & Lollipops from Sub Pop

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Action portrait by Jason Rudolphpena -- www.jasonrodulphpena.com

My Interests

To be perfectly blunt, sleep

I'd like to meet:

Myself at 80

Music:

10cc, Aimee Mann, Alarm Clocks, BACK FROM THE GRAVE comps, GIRLS IN THE GARAGE comps, NUGGETS and PEBBLES comps, Band of Horses, Beastie Boys, Belle & Sebastian, Buzzcocks, Elvis Costello, Led Zeppelin, Fantomas, flamin' groovies, Erik Satie, The Go-Go's, The Coup, Gnarls Barkley, Holly Golightly, Ted Hawkins, TV on the Radio, Peter Gabriel, Jimmy Scott, Raveonettes, RJD2, The Kinks, Frankie Laine, Le Tigre, Merle Haggard, Michael Penn, M. Ward, Shocking Blue, Marvin Gaye, My Favorite, Three Dog Night, Camera Obscura, every single song on Rod Stewart's EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY and Lush's SPOOKY, The Smiths, Stylistics, Supergrass, New Pornographers, Caleb, Pixies, Prince Paul, Prince, Waylon Jennings, Webb Brothers, Wire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yo La Tengo

Movies:

3:10 TO YUMA (1957), AFTERLIFE, ALIEN, AMERICAN MOVIE, BAADASSSSS!, BAD SANTA, BANK DICK, BARBAROSA, THE BIG LEBOWSKI, BLADE RUNNER, BLAST OF SILENCE, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE BROOD, Budd Boetticher's RANOWN cycle, THE CANDIDATE, CARNIVAL OF SOULS, CAT PEOPLE (1942), CHARLEY VARRICK, CHILDREN OF MEN, CHOPPER, CITY OF GOD, THE CONVERSATION, CRIME WAVE (1954), CURE, CURSE OF THE DEMON, DAY OF THE JACKAL, DEEP BLUE SEA, DR. STRANGELOVE, ED WOOD, ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE, ELEMENT OF CRIME, EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, EYES WITHOUT A FACE, FARGO, FLOATING WEEDS, FOOT FIST WAY, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, GHOST DOG, GOLDFINGER, GOODFELLAS, GROUNDHOG DAY, HARD EIGHT, HEART OF THE GAME, HONEYMOON KILLERS, I AM CUBA, I WAKE UP SCREAMING, IKIRU, THE IRON GIANT, ISLAND OF LOST SOULS, JAWS, KINGPIN, KISS KISS BANG BANG, LATE SHOW, LIVES OF OTHERS, MACBETH (Polanski), MALTESE FALCON, THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES, MARTIN, McCABE & MRS. MILLER, MIDNIGHT RUN, MS. 45, MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, NEAR DARK, PHANTOM LADY, PRIME CUT, RATATOUILLE, RAVENOUS, REPO MAN, THE ROAD WARRIOR, RONIN, SALESMAN, SERIE NOIRE, SEVEN, SHERMAN'S MARCH, SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER & UNCUT, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, SUPERBAD, T-MEN, THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, THIEF, TOY STORY 2, LE TROU, UNBREAKABLE, UTU, VILLAGE OF THE GIANTS, THE WICKER MAN, WILD THINGS

Television:

30 ROCK, ANDY GRIFFITH, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, BARNEY MILLER, DEADWOOD, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, FRONTLINE, HEROES, LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O'BRIEN, THE OFFICE, P.O.V., THE SHIELD, SOUTH PARK, SUBTERRANEAN, TOP CHEF, WIDE ANGLE, THE WIRE

Books:

Anything by: Alan Moore, Cormac McCarthy, Shirley Jackson, Michael Shea, Heather Havrilesky, Mark Steyn, Charles Willeford, Harlan Ellison, Arthur Machen, Wallace Stevens, Jim Goad, Donald Westlake writing as Richard Stark, James Ellroy, Brian K. Vaughn, Dostoevsky, Willa Cather, Fritz Lieber, Peter Richmond, Alain de Botton, Sarah Thyre, William Maxwell, Thomas Cahill, all the writing on TrueCrimeDiary.com

Heroes:

Ben Franklin, Jonathan Winters, Nellie Bly, Hoke Moseley, this karate instructor I saw on YouTube who punched a pimp, Gale Sayers, my dad

My Blog

HAVE I EVER STEERED YOU WRONG?

Is "steered" even grammatically correct? THE WIRE. FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS. Matthew Bernier. wwwpopthatzit.com. I think my standards are pretty high, as far as recommending things. I want ...
Posted by Patton Oswalt on Fri, 30 May 2008 10:00:00 PST

PIE IN THE STEAKHOUSE

I spent the last three days in Decatur filming a movie. The hotel was nice. They treated the huge, sprawling cast very well, and arranged, on Friday night, to have the hotel's steakhouse available...
Posted by Patton Oswalt on Sun, 18 May 2008 02:45:00 PST

GHOULS OF PROVIDENCE

I'm writing this from my hotel in Providence, R.I. It's gloomy out and I'm fighting a fever.I wasn't as bad yesterday, when I showed up. I took a commuter train down from Boston. The cars wer...
Posted by Patton Oswalt on Tue, 13 May 2008 04:06:00 PST

EVERYBODY DO THE CRYPTIC CATCH-UP!

1. Yes, that was me wandering around Geno's Cheesesteaks (8th and Passyunk) at dusk in Philly yesterday. I wasn't really wearing "mime" makeup, just a half-white, half-green painted face: (www.ph...
Posted by Patton Oswalt on Sat, 10 May 2008 04:43:00 PST

INDEED I DARE

Kristen Schall and I went to the Shark Fin Inn last night and ate crocodile.  It was goddamn delicious.  We also ordered a plate of chicken and cahsews, as a backup in case the crocodile was...
Posted by Patton Oswalt on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:39:00 PST

DO I DARE TO EAT A CROCODILE?

I was wandering the Laneways in Chinatown yesterday, here in Melbourne. I had beef and noodles at a restaurant which features crocodile on their menu.I think I should do my last show, tomorrow night...
Posted by Patton Oswalt on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:11:00 PST

MELBOURNE, THURSDAY the 27th, MY MIND SAYS ITS MIDNIGHT

Whoever slipped the gift-wrapped copy of The Age’s 2008 Melbourne Good Food Guide under my door an hour ago -- thank you! There’s a French fry stand in Finbar Station called Lord of the F...
Posted by Patton Oswalt on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:34:00 PST

MELBOURNE, WEDNESDAY the 26th, 5pm

It’s tomorrow if you’re reading this in the states. I am in your near future. Or, as President Nader (spoiler!) would say, "I can’t fucking believe I won."I’m going to tr...
Posted by Patton Oswalt on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:11:00 PST

A WRITHING THING

I’m hanging out with Harlan Ellison now.Well, I’ve been to the house twice -- Ellison Wonderland, with the tower and the 5 foot door and the secret rooms and stairwells and the tens of tho...
Posted by Patton Oswalt on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:45:00 PST

MAKE UP YOUR MIND, FLU

Kill me or let me get better. Anything’s better than this phelgm-y, body ache-y limbo I’m staggering around in. I got hit with this thing Friday evening, midway through a screening of R...
Posted by Patton Oswalt on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:30:00 PST