Nate Patrin

Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:53 UTC

OK this episode is fantastic, especially the bit where they talk about how unsettling amusement parks are and one of them says "I saw what happened to KISS, it wasn't good"

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:53 UTC

adding that screencap to this song's Genius page

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:15 UTC

(I mean I like Rees and Miyazaki, it's not just me on an anti-ogre vendetta)

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:14 UTC

I've listened to and enjoyed a couple episodes of Blank Check but didn't add it to my permanent podcast rotation so it'd be funny if this was the thing to finally do it

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:07 UTC

though maybe this new film will finally resolve the question of why shrek is piss

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:07 UTC

literally the only positive thing I can think of from that meme-poisoned franchise is the intricate meta-reference of using the Beastie Boys' 'Sure Shot' as a needle drop in the second movie because it samples a song recorded by William Steig's son

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:57 UTC

time to put my get-psyched soundtrack on

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:55 UTC

Double Threat should sue

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:50 UTC

This is me every time Budos Band puts out a record

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 22:42 UTC

everybody has their own all-time "wait is that what the lyrics are about, what the fuck" moment, and sometimes I think mine is when I found out what that garbled partially-backmasked voice in Boards of Canada's "1969" was saying

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 16:58 UTC

I still hang around spaces like this as a way to trade chill banter with people I (at least kinda) already know and like; everything beyond that is a minefield

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 16:57 UTC

2004: "never read the comments" 2024: "now everything is the comments"

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 16:56 UTC

that could stand a non-zero chance of actually being kind of cool

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 21:05 UTC

been a pretty good month for democracy

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:42 UTC

funny timing, thinking about how things converge sometimes

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:02 UTC

(also props to Peter Boyle for noticing the reactionary love for that movie and going "OK I'm going to stop taking roles like this for a while")

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:01 UTC

incidentally one of the few legit positive things about 'Joe' was that it had this on the soundtrack

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 14:38 UTC

it's Beck's birthday so I'm glad I have an excuse to post my favorite post-'90s song of his, a stoned-beautiful 2000 b-side / post-facto title cut with lyrics that read like Philip K. Dick riffing off Joan Didion ("Contaminated actors/Living on a farm/Harnessed to a life of protein and equipment")

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 14:32 UTC

starting to wonder if I have both. in any case this is me

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 14:10 UTC

me being a little kid in the '80s and growing up being fascinated by pop-psychedelic '70s aesthetics could probably be pinned at least partially on this

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 14:08 UTC

(referring to the whole playlist, not just "Ladybugs' Picnic", though now I'm like "whoa, Bud Luckey from Pixar animated this?!") (also I'm pretty irritated that most of these uploads seem to be in 12p resolution potatovision)

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 14:05 UTC

it will take a lot of effort to convince me that this is anything but the ideal childhood aesthetic

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr8v...

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 14:03 UTC

(according to one commenter they saw it on HBO in '83, so it was still circulating on random TV blocks somehow)

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 14:00 UTC

this just reminded me of the first music video I ever remember seeing, apparently by the same animator. I'm not sure how, why, or when I saw it (this must've been late '70s at the absolute earliest), but I'm sure it was years after it originally aired

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 13:50 UTC

so with Ade it's largely down to the band and the sound of his voice itself; the language barrier makes me wonder what I might be missing in context but the pull of the music itself sustains my interest far beyond that

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 13:47 UTC

I'm not sure how deep our disagreement is, though? Because it depends for me. Creative and interesting lyrics are crucial in a lot of contexts for me (especially rap) but in other cases -- the ultrasimplicity of "I Feel Love" is the first that comes to mind -- the vocal performance is the real draw.

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 13:04 UTC

My newest Substack post is about "world music," everything that category implies, and the effect that had on the international breakthrough of a legend in African music.

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 23:25 UTC

ah memories

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 23:20 UTC

Once again I am given to contemplate one of Minnesota's most undersung and bizarre contributions to music lore: ensuring that the first Kraftwerk song thousands of people would ever hear was "Ruckzuck"

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 19:26 UTC

I am literally writing a post about King Sunny Adé this weekend and I watched a clip of him performing in that movie, it seems like a completely bewildering tonal mismatch

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 19:57 UTC

I keep thinking of those characters as late Generation Jones a'la 'Dazed and Confused' but that's an interesting candidate. Maybe 'Repo Man' qualifies too even if it predates the codification of whatever "Gen X" represented at its peak I also haven't seen it yet but I wonder if 'SLC Punk' qualifies

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 19:33 UTC

our big "we turned out worse than we hoped we would" movie being contemporaneous with our teen years is a wild idea

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 19:20 UTC

(the song they are dancing to in this scene came out when I was 2)

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 19:18 UTC

I mean I never had any time for that movie's own nonsense (I was still in high school, these were the kinds of people I wouldn't be for another 5ish years at least) but its whole Voice of a Generation status is all about the "stay true to yourself and never go corporate" POV and so much for that

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 19:14 UTC

haha no, that's still deeply in the "we are cool and will never sell out" phase (read: denial)

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 19:08 UTC

I'm also inclined to wonder what the Gen X (or in my case Xennial) equivalent is, the "we thought we'd be daring and rebellious forever but we fumbled the bag" reckoning, and coming up short. Maybe Fight Club could've been it but it caught Scarface "too many fans ignore act 3" syndrome

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 18:46 UTC

(anyways if you want a more honest self-critiquing dose of Whither the Boomers in your cinema the answer is a 'Lost in America'/'The Big Lebowski' double feature)

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 18:38 UTC

I can't stand this film, but everybody in our generational cohort using it as an example of how boomer pop-culture narcissism is a unique and singular horror should be forced to listen to the unabridged 'Ready Player One' audiobook

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 23:49 UTC

I love how the uploader looked for the first image of Michael McDonald they could find and wound up using Rick Moranis's impersonation from SCTV (which, algo-driven or otherwise, is also the first result to autocomplete when I search for "SCTV" on YouTube)

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 22:48 UTC

Well great, now I'm speculating why Wakko is the only Warner with a British accent and whether he's even eligible to vote. Is he some sort of expat? Or is he one of those Americans who spends a year in Britain and comes back talking like Paul McCartney?

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:27 UTC

the ironic thing about this skit is that I never saw it until 15+ years later, at which point Smirnoff was a popular fixture in Branson and memes riffing off his most popular joke structure were everywhere

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 21:43 UTC

imagine restaging this video with those guys

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 20:48 UTC

this is why I don't like that movie, it presents us with a world in which Scarface's 'The Fix' cannot exist

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 01:20 UTC

(OK, going to come clean and admit that I am usually thinking about it anyways whether or not anyone else inspires me to)

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 00:48 UTC

and now you've got me thinking about Debbie Harry's Muppet Show/Polyester/Videodrome/Rock and Rule/Scarface early '80s run

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