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Nate Patrin

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music + popcult + whatnot post like cringe never existed StP, MN | 48 y/o | he/him | beat weirdo https://www.upress.umn.edu/author/nate-patrin/

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · Oct 17

now that I've found out you can pin posts here, here's a link to my favorite recent body of work: a whole bunch of reviews for The Shfl spanning all kinds of genres and eras and regions and levels of popular renown

you'll probably have some faves in here (for me they're all faves)

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Albums recommended by Nate Patrin

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 2h

DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist turn to each other like Laverne and Shirley

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Elias FKA Big Voyage @bigelias.bsky.social · 3h

Madvillain instrumental in the Claude AI commercial made me want to die a little, ngl

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 4h

(the song, I mean)

Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 4h

oh yeah, I think it'll figure in my punk chapter

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 5h

that's the funniest thing I've encountered about an Aronofsky film since this

DEADLOCK Without The Wrestling (Deadlock Podcast Compilation)

YouTube video by Sweetz

www.youtube.com

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 5h

in case you're thrown by how much I've been posting comparatively lately I guess it's just that my mood's improved in recent days, no idea why whatsoever but I think this may have been a significant contributor

open mike eagle @mike-eagle.bsky.social · 2d

youtu.be/XP-IrKvKbYY

100 of the best rap albums I could think of part 1

YouTube video by other mike eagle

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 5h

wait no I think I misread that -- Murphy did COMMERCIALS for Ax-Man at KTMA, which is an actual next-level step up in ultraniche cred

Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 5h

confirmed by Kevin Murphy

(no relation to the inspiration of my original post)

Interview: Kevin Murphy » FRED Entertainment

asitecalledfred.com

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 5h

and now I'm wondering, in the most Minnesotan of all possible queries, if Joel Hodgson ever shopped at Ax-Man

Axman Surplus

We buy and sell surplus of all kinds, including industrial, electronic, and consumer goods. Located in the Twin Cities metro area, Minnesota.

www.ax-man.com

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 5h

I got the concept pretty quick and I absolutely marked for the early version of the junkshop-robot aesthetic, I thought it was the wildest shit since Pee-Wee's Playhouse

at times I could tell it felt like event viewing for cool young folks (DISCLAIMER: stepdad taught at an art college)

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 5h

I distinctly remember being sorely disappointed I wound up having to miss the conclusion of "City on Fire"

Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 5h

two very particular "Losing My Edge" cred-flaunt details of my life at age 11 or so: I was into 'Life in Hell' before The Simpsons were even on The Tracey Ullman Show, and I watched several of the KTMA-era MST3K episodes as they first aired

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 6h

and now I'm looking up the trailer for the movie he mentioned and good god yes

Heartbreaker (1983) Trailer

YouTube video by The Duke Mitchell Film Club

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 6h

I would straight up [REDACTED] an ICE officer in defense of that interior alone

Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 6h

I will never be able to empathize with or understand the mindset of the kind of person who surveys the culture that gave us this and goes "no, go away"

1978 Ford Thunderbird by Louie Carrillo - LOWRIDER Roll Models Ep. 46

YouTube video by MotorTrend Channel

www.youtube.com

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 6h

I am strictly Tekken/Street Fighter/SNK in my inclinations but I may expand the canon if I ever have the opportunity to be an Ichiro Main

Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 6h

me as Fry: "Hm. So they finally jazzed it up?" except the "it" is Smash

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Frankendarling @futurehasbeen.bsky.social · 6h

By popular request, the ending of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre rescored with Meredith Wilson's "Chicken Fat."

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 6h

FUN FACT: this film premiered four months before the first episode of 'Miami Vice' aired

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 6h

like in 'Beat Street' or 'Repo Man' there are still plenty of scenes where you can tell the remnants of the '70s were still a presence in the '80s, here everything that predates Blondie's 'Parallel Lines' is carefully stashed out of frame

Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 6h

yeah, I joke that I immerse myself in a lot of '70s popcult because I wanna see how the stage was set for the world I was born into

Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 6h

it can be a real fun time when a niche obscure cult film somehow bats 1.000 in making sure to include elements of every single possible stylistic signifier that people still consider "peak [whatever decade]" dozens of years later

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 6h

oh wait I thought of an even funnier example

Alphabet City (1984) Official Trailer

YouTube video by Fun City Editions

www.youtube.com

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 6h

every movie becomes a period piece eventually. "The American Friend" is not About The Seventies and yet

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 6h

I got some weird namesearchy response the last time I openly mentioned That Director and I have trod carefully ever since

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