Nate Patrin 🎧

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StP, MN | '77 born | he/him | enthusiast as in "patron of the arts" "The music began again and was much improved." -Kurt Vonnegut 'Versions and Subversions: the Cover Songs That Changed Music' out soon

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Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· May 5

had to

Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· May 4

anyways uh yeah I like some Star Wars I suppose. sorry, I'm saving all my fanboy insufferability for next week

a black screen with white sans-serif lettering reading:

Sunday
May 11, 1980

6:55 am

if you immediately hear the Herbie Flowers bassline looking at this then that makes two of us

Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· Apr 29

Advertise your account using one Simpsons image

an enthusiastic Homer driving in his car with far-less-enthusiastic Bart, Lisa, Nelson, Milhouse, and Janey as passengers. He is holding forth on '70s rock: "The stage was now set for the Alan Parsons Project, which I believe was some sort of hovercraft."

Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· Apr 17

this is yet another case of a provocative headline obscuring a wider point that the otherwise irritated reader would probably agree with; also Hanif Abdurraqib is a fantastic writer

"The yearning for the past often lands us on the somewhat hollow nostalgia of ephemera: if we can’t have the nineties back, we can build a life of things that might feel transportative. I have no right to judge, really. I push physical media on anyone who will listen, ranting about the need for hard drives and for ways to store the things you love because, one day, they may not be accessible on streaming anymore. I have a CD player in my home, a VCR in a closet. But I’m also inclined to think about the work that older devices demand of a person compared with the frictionless present day, when we are told that any and all content is at our fingertips (a myth, but a myth that sells.) And I can’t help but think of the reality that there are many significantly larger and more consequential inconveniences that Americans, plainly, do not have the heart or stomach for. One example might be the inconvenience caused by a mass political uprising, one that risks the security, safety, and comfort of its participants. I have seen glimpses of people’s threshold for that level of friction. I think, for instance, of the summer of 2020, when a protest movement collided with the first COVID summer and people’s material needs—at least in my community— weren’t being met. And so, for almost a month, after being on the streets all day, protesters would go and sew masks at night, or make care packages for elders, or do grocery runs to fill pantries, and many of us did that at the cost of our own sleep, or our own time with loved ones at home, or we did it in betrayal of our desire for convenience, ignoring the temptations of the couch and the latest streamable binge."

Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· Apr 15

well, fortunately there's an explanation for it that isn't completely ableist and class-ignorant!

a combo of That Fucking Lead Poisoning Chart every smug millennial here loves to use every time a poll shows Gen X being assholes, and the sad worker thumbs up "YOU GOTTA DO WHAT YOU GOTTA DO" poster from the first episode of Futurama.

Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· Apr 5

someday there will be more

this is my admittedly paltry CD shelf, what with most of my collection being on a hard drive now (though I have a decent vinyl collection too). there is no way I can catalogue all these in an alt-text but suffice it to say it’s a kind of broad cross-section. lots of Chemical Brothers and Rahsaan Roland Kirk and reissue comps galore and so forth. Plus the James Brown Star Time box set on the bottom shelf under a Ray Charles collection and a PIR comp.

Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· Apr 3

Barry Manilow, "Looks Like We Made It", 1977

Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· Apr 3

looking at the discrepancy between critic reviews and user reviews re: a certain new animated movie and getting reminded of this, as usual

middle-aged 1960s Abe Simpson, in A-shirt and blue slacks, is sitting in his recliner watching Super Bowl III on TV while middle-aged 1960s Mona Simpson in pink mod housedress looks on irritably. Abe is grumbling -- again, this is about Super Bowl III -- "If people don't support this thing, it might not make it." Also that dingy olive/rust striped wallpaper is remarkably/fittingly hideous, wow

Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· Apr 1

I keep going to this well yet it never fails

Bart Simpson in a tie-dyed shirt, hanging out in the Simpson family backyard pretending to be a hippie: "Peace, man. Groovy. Bomb Vietnam! Four more years! Up with people!"

Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· Mar 31

oh well!

millennial co-presidents Stephen Miller and J.D. Vance

Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· Mar 31

Keith’s old band all “what”

a flyer reading “BLACK FLAG KILLS ANTS ON CONTACT”. a bunch of their fans threw eggs at Adam Ant during an instore around 1981

Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· Mar 31

today in strangers I hate

the little teal/avocado-tinted photo of an astronaut holding and looking at a 12" that I have to deal with seeing when a Discogs page is down

Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· Mar 30

also: I want this on a t-shirt

Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· Mar 29

I need to get out of the house this evening

from the Simpsons episode "Homer's Phobia": Barney telling Homer "Better yet, Bart could shoot a deer. That's like shooting a beautiful man." except instead of "a deer" it's "Columbo."

Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· Mar 29

oh neat, I talked about politics in an extremely benign and evenhanded way and now I'm here

a blocklist that I am on with four other people (so far) by some poster named "ady on a bike"

Liberal Scum
Less than useless, these people actively hold progress back by supporting Nazis.

I. Uh. I don't think that's correct. What with the Nazis kind of having a problem with my people and all.

Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· Mar 29

in conclusion, the old joke about how "the greatest generation gave us the worst generation" seems to be completely inverted here

from LyricsVault:

1971
Performer Gloomys
Title I'm a bum

I just lie here down by the river
Watching the ships go drifting by
Takin' a swallow out of my bottle
Rolling a cigarette, let my thoughts fly

Happy am I, don't have to think of tomorrow
I'm a bum
Happy am I, ain't got no troubles and sorrow
'Cause I'm a real darn bum

Oooh!

Sometime ahead right in the near future
I'll think of a girl who's thinking like me
Bummin' around, we'll have us a good time
Laughing and living is all that we need

Happy am I, don't have to think of tomorrow
I'm a bum
Happy am I, ain't got no troubles and sorrow

'Cause I'm a real darn bum

Oooh!

Up in the country people get nasty
Watching this longhaired bum go by
I don't care what they all are sayin'
Keepin' myself just out of the line

Happy am I, don't have to think of tomorrow
I'm a bum
Happy am I, ain't got no troubles and sorrow
'Cause I'm a real darn bum

Happy am I, don't have to think of tomorrow
I'm a bum
Happy am I, ain't got no troubles and sorrow
'Cause I'm a real darn bum

Oooh!

Contributed by the author: Andreas Neumann

Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· Mar 29

I must speak my truth no matter how unpopular it may make me re: the Village Voice Pazz & Jop singles winners of 1999

The singles winners of the Village Voice Pazz & Jop Poll, 1999:

Singles

1. TLC: "No Scrubs" (LaFace)
2. Eminem: "My Name Is" (Aftermath/Interscope)
3. Len: "Steal My Sunshine" (Epic)
4. Madonna: "Beautiful Stranger" (Maverick)
5. Backstreet Boys: "I Want It That Way"
6. Cher: "Believe" (Warner Bros.)
7. Smash Mouth: "All Star" (Interscope)
8. Ricky Martin: "Livin' La Vida Loca" (C2/Columbia)
The Roots: "You Got Me" (MCA)
10. Santana Featuring Rob Thomas: "Smooth" (Arista)
11. Kid Rock: "Bawitdaba" (Atlantic/Lava)
12. TLC: "Unpretty" (LaFace)
13. Fatboy Slim: "Praise You" (Astralwerks)
14. Beck: "Sexx Laws" (DGC)
15. Q-Tip: "Vivrant Thing" (Arista)
16. Ol' Dirty Bastard: "Got Your Money" (Astralwerks)
Rage Against the Machine: "Guerrilla Radio" (Epic)
18. Christina Aguilera: "Genie in a Bottle" (RCA)
19. Juvenile: "Back That Azz Up" (Cash Money/Universal)
Britney Spears: ". . . Baby One More Time" (Jive)
21. Basement Jaxx: "Rendez Vu" (Astralwerks)
Limp Bizkit: "Nookie" (Flip/Interscope)
Red Hot Chili Peppers: "Scar Tissue" (Warner Bros.)
24. Moby: "Honey" (V2)

Len, Backstreet Boys, Smash Mouth, Santana/Thomas, Kid Rock, Limp Bizkit, RHCP, and Moby's entries are all circled to indicate "no thanks"

Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· Mar 28

half the posters here:

the bit from the Simpsons episode where he figures out his own religion and is reclining on the couch in a bathrobe smoking a cigar, except he is smugly professing "BOY... EVERY GENERATION IS STUPID EXCEPT MINE."

Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· Mar 28

Listen, I want to be happy about this, and I am, but come on. I'm not even out there and I'm closer to this than Minneapolis is

a screencap of a newscast's aerial shot of the massive crowds gathered by the MN State Capitol in St. Paul. I repeat: ST. PAUL.

Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· Mar 28

I suspect the author Doesn't Get It re: why someone would have a panic attack over something like a VR supermarket

A VR shopping spree game show goes awry.

To quote Robinson’s character in “Pink Balloon,”… what’s the joke? Is it that VR is disorienting? Is it that we’re all essentially meat sacks with eyes and it’s a miracle that we figure out how to navigate the world in these bodies? Or is it that Ayo Edebiri deserved better?

Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· Mar 27

there are at least two reasons I should stop ordering beverages from Amazon and one of them is that at least one can always winds up like this

holding a can of Polar Seltzer cranberry clementine in my left hand but without making it too far because the can looks partially crushed despite not having been opened

Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· Mar 27

while I recognize this urban legend is regionally specific I do not actually believe that the motivations behind it are (CITATION: I live in America) also "Phil Hiscock"? Are you kidding me

Philip Hiscock, when interviewed by The Star, suggested that fan death's prevalence in Korean beliefs and its potential as a euphemism contributed to the idea's continuation, "Traditional fairy legends (or) contemporary UFO abductions are used for things that are either inadmissible or untellable in present company. The fact that fan death is well known in Korea (and) can be used to postpone explanations or cover up the truth is very interesting and a very traditional way of going about things."

Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· Mar 26

Agree

Listen, I have a pretty good CD/LP collection, but this is my main MP3 drive: 124,918 files, 1,157.6 GB, and enough music to play for 358 days, one hour, and 48 minutes uninterrupted. I will have an uninterrupted year's worth of music by the end of the year at the latest. That's... kind of nuts, honestly.

Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· Mar 26

as terrible as this year is, there are still things to look forward to

a calendar for August 2026. On Friday, August 14, I have superimposed the cover of Funkadelic's 'Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow'.

Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· Mar 26

I mean: duh

the cover to Company Flow's single "DPA (As Seen on T.V.)"/"Simian D AKA Feeling Ignorant (ft. Ill Bill)"/"Simple" on Def(initive) Jux. The design is a video screen featuring a woman with her lips pursed, mounted on a skeleton wielding an aerosol can like she's blowing it out. The background looks like a hazy, warped, damaged city skyline. It's based on the cover to the paperback of 'Ubik'. See next slide.

Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· Mar 25

Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy:

Rally driver Erik Carlsson sitting at the side of a forest road looking kind of like a grumpy John Candy. He is seated on the grass, helmet perched on his left knee, resting his head in his left hand while he holds a beer in the other. In the background we see why he is exasperated: the red #25 Saab 96 he'd been driving in a rally has overturned onto its roof, door slightly ajar.

Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· Mar 24

hmm. HMMMM.

exit polls for the 2024 election. The pertinent info is that white millennials voted for Donny Deals 54-44 while Black/Latin Gen Xers were 14-84 and 48-51 respectively

Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· Mar 24

If anyone in this pic is over 40 I'd be shocked

a black and white crowd pic from the Kamasi/Sanders/Allen show at Greenpoint Terminal Warehouse, 2016. A fairly diverse cross-section of people who all look like they don't remember being scared of nuclear war

Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· Mar 23

(less a callout than a warning shot, and fair's fair since my negative yet diplomatic P4K 'Heligoland' review once made this guy incandescent with rage)

a Power User I will refer to only as SHUTYOURHOLEMACHINE lists his five bands he can't fucking stand as "the talking heads" x5. This was like a month ago. It's like his thing, I guess. Which, fine, the quote he posts has three pop-punk bands and Billy Joel twice. I have Limp Bizkit. But you can just say it and not make it a Schtick.

And if he dares come for 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts' I will not break upon him, he will break upon me

Nate Patrin 🎧@natepatrin· Mar 23

I mean it's true. Sorry. Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder -- hell, a lot of the '70s Motown and PIR rosters -- the CBGB's scene, early disco, the first hip-hop DJs, the NWOBHM... that starfish has a point.