Ah, Wordpress.
Let’s hear it for upgrading the whole site in like four clicks. Yes, ladies and gentleman, some serious shit goes on behind the scenes here at PSAA.
A few notes for today:
- Lost was awesome, as usual. As fucking usual. And also ended with quite the “Holy shit!” moment.
- I realized, through message board threads, that some NIN fans are gonna get to the Charlotte venue even earlier than I will. This is not acceptable.
- Super Dave did some funny stuff tonight. Where do I begin? Perhaps when he thought the song “Personal Jesus” went “Personal Jesus/Suck my cock.” It’s worth noting, he has never heard the song.
- I should be laying out drums for the next track on the album, which if all goes well we’ll be recording tomorrow night. Fuck all.
- I’ve decided that in addition to aiding in the piracy of albums here on Patrick and Shawn Are Awesome, I (we?) am going to start compiling the occasional mixtape. The first of these will probably be posted tomorrow assuming I am not too busy and have the time to decide what should be on it. It will be VERY eclectic. Some of it you will be extremely familiar with. Some of it you may or may not be. Shawn will automatically dismiss it as “music for ‘people like me’ “(something that pisses me off more than most things in the world). Shawn will, as it happens, be wrong.
- I have also elected to slit Shawn’s throat the next time he makes a “people like me” comment.
- Failing that, I may just lock him out of the site for a week.
- I will have to watch House next week because the might Mos Def (whose album I posted for you the other day – go find it; I’m too lazy to link you to it) will be on the show playing the patient. Apparently this is the first episode told almost entirely through the patient’s eyes and Mos’ new song, which actually is pretty hot, will feature.
- That song will probably wind up in the first mixtape, hmmm?
Things that were awesome about today
1. Put the finishing touches on the song we’ve been working on recently. Spent a mere 20 minutes arranging a whole new introduction for it (which will actually be placed at the end of the previous track and lead abruptly into the song…cool shit.)
In other “my music”-related news, I still haven’t actually gotten to see but have been given a description of the cover that a friend of mine is doing for the record and it sounds like it’s gonna be fucking cool. I don’t need the artwork right away, so I told him not to rush his already busy schedule with it, but at the same time I’m really anxious and excited to see what it looks like. I have a great feeling about it. I probably won’t unveil it until after the record has been submitted to the various online music stores (iTunes, Amazon, RealPlayer Rhapsody, etc.) that it will be available on.
2. Bought tickets for Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction. Spent a little over $100 on my ticket, but I think it will be well worth it. I bought pre-sale, meaning I’ll be let in early by NIN’s own staff and probably get to be right on the rail.
Studio time!
I’m very excited today. After a night of in-apartment recording at my good friend Chris Barron’s place, we managed to get down most of an entire song. Everything sounded great but when we got to the vocals we realized that for this song we just don’t have a good enough mic. So I crashed there and this morning went with Chris to the School of Communication Arts (conveniently located four fucking seconds away from his apartment) and we talked to his audio production teacher, who told us to have me come in at 2PM this afternoon to do the vocals in a very expensive, professional-grade studio. I’ve never gotten to even set foot in a vocal booth before, let alone record in one, so this is a very exciting day for me. Moreover, the rest of the mix sounds great already and with some well-recorded it’s gonna turn out to sound pretty fucking fantastic.
And bonus – after this song is done (which it should be by this evening; there’s not a lot of mixing left to do) there will only be two songs left to record on my upcoming EP (one of which uh…still needs to be written…but you know, whatever.)
That’s it – I’m getting into shape.
This is something that’s been on my mind grapes quite a bit these days. I feel like shit about 90% of the time. Part of this is probably because I eat whatever I want to (which I can afford to do, and still stay skinny, because I have the most unbelievable metabolism known to man.) Part of it is probably my wacky sleep schedule. I stay up til absurd hours and sleep in til equally absurd hours. Those things should probably change, particularly the sleep one, but I think the number one thing here is the fact that I get no exercise. I am woefully out of shape.
I remember back toward the end of senior year in high school, for one reason or another, I buckled down on everything. Maybe it was because I was taking Adderall or some variation thereof, who knows, but I stuck with the most basic of exercising (wall pushups every morning when I woke up, every night before I went to bed, and some weight lifting here and there.) I ate breakfast every morning. I think maybe it might have just been those two things that did it, but I felt great, and everything else was great too. I could miraculously stay awake in class. I came home and had absolutely all of my school shit knocked out by 6PM. I wrote a lot more music then than I do now, and a lot of it was pretty good considering. I taught myself a little piano. I got a girlfriend. But most important of all, I didn’t constantly feel like shit, like I was about to pass out every five seconds if I didn’t have an IV of Monster or Red Bull pumping into me. Quite the opposite – I felt fucking great.
I really want to feel that way again, because physically and, more or less mentally and spiritually, it was the best I’ve ever felt and I need to get back to that. As I’m typing this I am groggy as shit and it is damn near 1:00 in the afternoon and I have not been awake for very long at all. I’m really kind of ashamed of that.
I started yesterday. I bought a new iPod arm-band apparatus and took it on a jog yesterday, which I’m gonna try to do once a day in addition to a few other physical things. Once I can afford it I’ll join a gym, too.
Bottom line, is from now on Ol’ Patty Boy is gonna gris exercise hardcore. Here’s hoping I actually stick to it!
Seth’s Giggity Goo (Hulu Ad)
I love that Hulu is taking out ads on TV. They are clever, this one is with Family Guy creator Seth Macfarlane.
Happy St. Me Day!
Little known fact: There are two St. Patricks. One of them is me, and I am the patron saint of Awesome.
Tell all your friends, and drink to my honor tonight.
This has seriously got to stop.
So first of all, for reasons that escaped me I stayed up until damn near 5. Doing absolutely nothing important, at all. Not one thing I did last night was productive or worthwhile. I went to IHOP with Shawn and his friend who’s in town, was home by 2:30 and just dicked around the whole night.
Then I have the nerve to sleep in til 2PM (after, I might add, a very long night of very vivid, rather strange dreams) and I’ve missed my entire day. It’s now 2:48 and I have to work at 5.
Fuck my life.
Video games and burritos…
I just got home from a lengthy 7 hour video game and burrito marathon with my best mates. It seems we are all a lot older then we used to be. Dave has a family and is in grad school, and while Kenneth does not have a family, he too is in grad school. So, it is a rare treat to convene at one of our houses and take in a handful of months worth of current video game titles. This is really important to Dave. KP and I are connected to the video game industry in one fashion or another. Kenneth writes reviews for the news paper, and I work as a video artist at a game studio. Dave used to work at the same place, in fact he helped get me this job, but he decided that making more money was fun. This is why these sessions are planned weeks in advance therein maximizing the amount of HD polygonal interactive entertainment that can be crammed in on one single night. These digital game nights normally commence with some version of tasty burrito and put into intermission for a trip to Starbucks. Old standards, inside jokes, and burning witticism are flung about making it feel like we still hang out every weekend in a moldy basement or campus housing. There is something extremely comforting knowing that after all these years I’m lucky enough to have such close friends. Even if they both love man pole. (One of those old standards)
I drove home from this particular cavalcade of gay jokes, video games, and heartburn festering Chipotles, I had a since of pride knowing how much the three of us genuinely support one another and care for each other (pause). Though we sparingly come together these days because of our grown up lives, there still is little more satisfying as a staunch hand clap with Dave or the ebullient laugh with Kenneth. With as much uncertainty in the world right now its good to have some rather extraordinary constants in ones life. For me, I know unequivocally that, I will love movies and video games, gay jokes will never stop being funny, and Dave and Kenneth will always be my friends.
Greetings from Patrick
Some people think blogs are for narcisstic people.
I think blogs are for Awesome people.
I am Patrick, and I am Awesome. This will be a blog about either things that are Awesome, or things that aren’t that I can rant about, which is, in and of itself, Awesome.