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Nate Patrin
@natepatrin.bsky.social
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StP, MN | 48 y/o | he/him | beat weirdo/film galoot/art oaf

https://www.upress.umn.edu/author/nate-patrin/
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funny that there's a prompt going around that combines "hey you like music" with "hey you like cars" and I haven't even weighed in yet

but anyways, here's an album cover with a motor vehicle on it
The Chemical Brothers' 'Exit Planet Dust' (1995), featuring a photo of a hippie couple walking down the grassy shoulder of a highway in evening daylight as some model of late '60s sedan approaches them on the road from behind, and it's only now I'm realizing this either has to be from Australia or something owing to which side of the road they're driving on. that or they flipped the photo?
November 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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all this Discourse over Parks & Rec and yet nobody has brought up this deeply embarrassing moment from the show
the cover to Yo La Tengo's CD single for 2000's "You Can Have It All," featuring Amy Poehler sitting in front of a blue backdrop. She is wearing a (slightly darker) blue sweatshirt with YO LA TENGO in white sans-serif font. Her hair looks a bit disheveled, her expression seems halfway between grumpy and irritated, and nearly the entirety of her mouth is covered in some sort of marinara sauce goatee as though she had just filmed a commercial for Chef Boyardee Overstuffed Beef Ravioli
November 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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this observation inspired by the lede of a 1976 NME piece by David Hepworth that reads uncannily like Serling's intro to the movie
The Runaways: The Runaways (Mercury, Import) David Hepworth, New Musical Express, 26 June 1976 Falling foul of Fowley? AND SO, our hero, Kim Fowley, emerges once again. He has always been around when there's been a solid commercial angle to exploit from a lunatic fringe of late '50s doo wop, through the Beatles impressions of Paul Revere and the Raiders and the anarchic splendour of the early Mothers to 1976 and The Runaways.
October 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Mike Muir:
Hans Moleman from the Simpsons trapped in a phone booth as it's attacked by many colorful birds a'la that one Hitchcock movie. He's on the phone and asking someone on the other line: "I need the biggest seed bell you have. [PAUSE] No, that's too big." Just in case you haven't run across this bit before
October 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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better yet, fast-forward it to Juno times
a photo of the Burger King Halloween Whopper, which is basically a Whopper with a black bun and I guess some A1 steak sauce on it (for bloooooood or something)
October 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Recently had my memory jogged about how deeply backpacker the Tony Hawk's Underground soundtrack was. This was 2003, when every white scenester dude who listened to nothing but Dipset swore this stuff was irrelevant and/or for cornballs
the Hip-Hop section of the listing to the Tony Hawk's Underground soundtrack: Aceyalone - Rappers on Deck Anacron - A Prototype BUSDRIVER - Imaginary Places Cannibal Ox - Iron Galaxy Dan The Automator ft. Kool Keith - A Better Tomorrow Deltron 3030 - Positive Contact DJ Qbert - Cosmic Assassins Frog One - Blah Blah J-Live - Braggin' Writes (Revisited) Juggaknots - The Circle (Pt. I) Jurassic 5 ft. Percee P & Big Daddy Kane - A Day At the Races L.A. Symphony - King Kong Living Legends - War Games Mr. Complex - Underground Up Mr. Dibbs - Skin Therapy Mr. Lif - Phantom Murs - Transitionz Az a Ridah Nas - The World Is Yours People Under the Stairs - The Next Step II Quasimoto - Low Class Conspiracy R.A. the Rugged Man - King of the Underground Supernatural - Internationally Known The Herbaliser ft. MF DOOM - It Ain't Nuttin' Wildchild - Secondary Protocol
October 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Shrek has a 7.9, meanwhile
the users of IMDB -- 44,000+ of them -- think Repo Man is a 6.8, which a score I used to give albums on Pitchfork when they had a couple solid tracks but were otherwise kind of just OK
October 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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just a big "KEEP HONKING, I'M LISTENING TO GOBLIN'S 1977 LP 'ROLLER', WHICH ISN'T EVEN A SOUNDTRACK" right on that doughy ass bumper
the rear 3/4 view of a red 1982 Ferrari Mondial 8 Coupe in somebody's workshop. I'd go further into detail but I don't have the words to express "Pininfarina tries to do that Bertone folded-paper thing and fails spectacularly"
October 16, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Just got this in the mail and I’m wondering if the position of the sticker is an incredible meta-joke
a sealed copy of the new Criterion edition of 'This Is Spinal Tap'. The cover is pretty normal all-told (title, band logo, Derek Smalls/David St. Hubbins/Nigel Tufnel bust portraits arranged in a lower 3/4 "Bohemian Rhapsody" formation). But the little circular sticker on the cellophane denoting that this is a "DIRECTOR APPROVED ROB REINER 4K UHD + BLU-RAY COMBO EDITION" is upside down and in the lower right hand corner.
October 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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what if everyone who operated a vehicle wore one and then we all got to customize them with cool patterns like race car drivers

me, I'd go with the classic Jackie Stewart look
the helmet of Scottish F1 driver Jackie Stewart, which is a plain white '60s/'70s-era design with a clear plastic swing-up visor. A blue/yellow/white/maroon-on-red tartan-pattern (Royal Stewart) band encircles the helmet around the upper third.
October 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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as for the actual purpose of coming out day I will say that while all my real-world experiences have been trad cis-het I look at this album cover sometimes and think "hmm"
the cover of Thin Lizzy's 'Fighting' featuring four men being incredibly sexy in a romanticized street-hoodlum kind of way, all prominently wielding pipes. (Phil Lynott and Brian Downey are also holding weapons of some sort.) Anyways I think a lot of our social problems could be reduced by your average dude being allowed to process any feelings an image like this may give them without any shame
October 11, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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I love YouTube sometimes
@RealLeFishe 1 year ago It's called "Clocks" by John Hyde from an album called "Cartoon and Comedy Music" from 1991. There are no uploads of it on YouTube and the only place it can be found is in an online production library called DeWolfe music. Unfortunately, I can't post the link because YouTube will take my comment down.
October 11, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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new favorite Wikipedia disambiguation link
Leaders of the New School Not to be confused with Atarashii Gakko!
October 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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the surly Gen X record store clerk from the episode 'Homerpalooza', about to put a CD in a component system, replying to Homer's reference to Apple Computers with a confused "*What* computers?"
October 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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from 'The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular': Troy McClure standing on the inside staircase of the Simpsons residence, with family portraits featuring the cast as they looked in Seasons 1 and 7 respectively. He's beaming smarmily and proclaiming "WHO KNOWS WHAT ADVENTURES THEY'LL HAVE BETWEEN NOW AND THE TIME THE SHOW BECOMES UNPROFITABLE?"
September 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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oh hey
the scene from The Simpsons episode 'Lemon of Troy' where Milhouse is about to beat up another kid because he's from a rival neighboring city, only to break down in weepy solidarity when he discovers the other kid also has the same extremely unlikely first name (if you're clicking this alt-text you probably already know the reference but hey just in case)
September 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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more racing games should be unafraid to get a little self-indulgent with the poetry. this is from a title called Tokyo Xtreme Racer where you battle souped-up Toyotas on the expressway and it reads like someone describing a really eclectic DJ set
a screencap from a cutscene in the game 'Tokyo Xtreme Racer (2025)' featuring a night-time cityscape, an amber-lit freeway overpass in the foreground with tower blocks in the back. The caption reads: "New and old souls meet, clash, and eventually blend into a rhythm."
September 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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"I am gonna pull so much ass in this"
A mid '70s AMC Matador, brown with beige detailing. As fastback coupes of the era goes it looks like if the Ford Pinto got a vaguely sporty glow-up but still emits a lot of schlub energy
September 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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I am not typically a concert photo posting type but it is my birthday and I am seeing a bunch of legends so hey
It’s Pulp! Purple smoke, wacky waving tube guys, Jarvis, you know the score. OK later, gonna put my phone away
September 21, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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"millennials are immune to internet brainrot"
Charlie Brown's face superimposed over the rhinestone suit-wearing eyepatch pimp from 'Truck Turner', surrounded by three women
September 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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yeah I'm sorry but this is soulless as hell, I am a YIMBY for whatever just so long as it doesn't look like this
the generic modernoid retrofuture "utopia" people like to use in memes such as "the world if everyone shared my opinion" or whatever
August 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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today's Balatro victory is a tribute to tunnel-vision specialization
A Balatro win screen where I've just beat Amber Acorn (all jokers are flipped and shuffled, which had practically zero effect on this deck) on orange stake. $18 cash out, 936,514 points. Now here's the goofy part: By Ante 3 or so I wound up with TWO permanent burglars (when blind is selected, gain +3 hands and lose all discards) thanks to getting a duplicate via an Invisible Joker, Shortcut (allows Straights to be made with gaps of 1 rank), Runner (gains +15 chips for each played Straight; at this point it's been built to +600 chips), holographic (+10 mult) Smiley Face (played face cards give +5 mult), Four Fingers (all flushes and straights can be made with 4 cards), and a Negative (+1 Joker slot) Ride the Bus (gains +1 mult per consecutive hand played w/o a scoring face card; it's currently +2 and has been more or less redundant since I got it in Ante 6). It's like this deck wound up purpose-built for straight spamming. I played 38 straights in total (topping out at Level 6) along with 4 straight flushes (Lvl 3).
August 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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the funniest part is that Paul Thompson's Pitchfork review singled it out as the only tolerable song on the album
"But then there's "Home", a jaunty duet between Sharpe and ladyfriend/bandmate Jade Castrinos. It's the one moment that justifies Up From Below's existence. Sure, it calls to mind another fairly different classic sound of the 60s-- Johnny and June Carter Cash's conversational duets-- but, thanks in no small part to Castrinos' whiskey-splashed pipes, it feels glaringly original amidst the daisy chain surrounding it, an obvious affection passing between Sharpe and Castrinos as they murmur sweet nothings."
August 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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cc @generalmusician.bsky.social hey what the hell
two consecutive posts on my TL, with the post I'm responding to now immediately/concurrently followed up with user 'generalmusician' posting "Waiting for @abbysliva.bsky.social to write about the Hey Y'all Taco/Ferris wheel situation so I can finally post that "Save Ferris" pun I've been impatiently sitting on since yesterday..."
August 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM