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Nate Patrin

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music + popcult + whatnot 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)

Nate Patrin

Albums recommended by Nate Patrin

theshfl.com

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Michael A. Gonzales @magonzales.bsky.social · 1h

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 1h

I vaguely remember a spot from the late '90s/early '00s featuring a Fox Sports (?) talking head with his mouth on his forehead and this somehow sounds worse

Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 1h

'Bioshock Infinite' has to be one of the most egregious examples of all time there

Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 1h

not the first time I've considered this

Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · Nov 8

Wayzata

(it's "why-zeta," though I think my dialect makes it sound a bit more like "why-zata")

Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 1h

the funny thing is that I still suspect I pronounce it wrong even though I'm a lifelong Minnesotan because I've never had any reason to go there or even acknowledge it much

(Edina is another story)

Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 2h

then again I'll take this or any other "tacky" aesthetic over the last decade of blank monochrome austerity

anyways this has been another installment of Nate Thinks Too Hard About A Fun Video

Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 2h

I have distinct memories of living through second-term Clinton not getting why people ranted about how tacky the '70s were ("it wasn't all Studio 54 and Robert Redford, cars were shitty, everything was earth tones, shag carpet sucks") and it turns out I just wound up with my own version of that

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 2h

this also embodies the bizarre tandem effect so much of this era's aesthetic has on me: the warm glow of familiar memories, and the embarrassingly puerile unwitting kitsch of the aesthetics

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 2h

you think in the waning seconds "this cannot get any more '90s" and then it turns out the Pistons are playing the Raptors

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 2h

this embodies 1998 in the same way that Saul Bass embodies 1960

Kelly Dwyer @kdonhoops.com · 2h

I know Civil War is happening but this just went up and I think we should watch it:

The 1998 Detroit Pistons Broadcast Introduction (now with updated computer graphics!)

YouTube video by Ryan Van Dusen

youtu.be

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 2h

The MacArthur is often referred to as the “genius” award, much to the Foundation’s dismay

A year after George Saunders won it, i heard him asked whether the award had changed him. He said (i’m paraphrasing) “Yes. Now when I drop my toothbrush in the toilet, my wife says ‘Nice work, genius!’”

George Saunders

Satirizing and humanizing the moral dilemmas faced by Americans in the twenty-first century.

www.macfound.org

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 3h

he is no longer able to smile politely

Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 3h

say what you will about the tenets of 'Stations of the Crass', weeder, at least it's a banger

Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 3h

lol yes

Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 5h

I don't know Swift's work well enough to know if she compares, but there's this bloke called Dylan who actually won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his lyrics, just for a start.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 2d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 3h

Serengeti needs to do sequel to this Kenny Dennis song, this time absolving the 2016 Cubs World Series win from causing our current horrible timeline

SERENGETI - "Don't Blame Steve"

YouTube video by anticon.

www.youtube.com

Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 3h

also the previous strip's gag about the cast living in a neighborhood called "Giuliani Gardens (renamed 2002)" is choice

Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 3h

I bet Ashford & Simpson have an undercurrent of that somewhere in their discography (though maybe "we are happy in our long-running partnership" is its own category)