Nate Patrin
@natepatrin.bsky.social
music + popcult + whatnot
post like cringe never existed
StP, MN | 48 y/o | he/him | beat weirdo/film galoot/art oaf
https://www.upress.umn.edu/author/nate-patrin/
post like cringe never existed
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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Nate Patrin
@natepatrin.bsky.social
· Oct 17
Nate Patrin
Albums recommended by Nate Patrin
theshfl.com
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)
you'll probably have some faves in here (for me they're all faves)
a fun category -- I'll throw in Black Sabbath's '70 s/t, Kendrick Lamar's 'Section.80', and White Stripes' 'De Stijl'
10 favorite Album-Before-The-Album albums:
'19'
'Brown Sugar'*
'Exit Planet Dust'
'Fleetwood Mac'
'Isn't Anything'
'Mellow Gold'
'Music for the Masses'
'Ooooooohhh... On the TLC Tip'
'Post-Nothing'
'Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)'
(*not 100% sure this should count)
'19'
'Brown Sugar'*
'Exit Planet Dust'
'Fleetwood Mac'
'Isn't Anything'
'Mellow Gold'
'Music for the Masses'
'Ooooooohhh... On the TLC Tip'
'Post-Nothing'
'Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)'
(*not 100% sure this should count)
November 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
a fun category -- I'll throw in Black Sabbath's '70 s/t, Kendrick Lamar's 'Section.80', and White Stripes' 'De Stijl'
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Every line read from the man here gets increasingly weird and unhinged. You will never believe where it lands.
November 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Every line read from the man here gets increasingly weird and unhinged. You will never believe where it lands.
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
but anyways, here's an album cover with a motor vehicle on it
November 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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
but anyways, here's an album cover with a motor vehicle on it
“if you believe that shit I bet you also don’t wipe your ass” is one of the clearest and most efficient insults ever posted
November 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
“if you believe that shit I bet you also don’t wipe your ass” is one of the clearest and most efficient insults ever posted
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bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass
November 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass
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Coming spring 2026, in the @dukepress.bsky.social anthology Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign.
November 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Coming spring 2026, in the @dukepress.bsky.social anthology Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign.
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Oh come on, you know him. He's the one who likes all our pretty songs? Sings along? Shoots his gun? Kinda slow on the uptake?
November 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Oh come on, you know him. He's the one who likes all our pretty songs? Sings along? Shoots his gun? Kinda slow on the uptake?
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mayor zohran sir please immediately dispatch the boppers, gramercy riffs, turnbull ac's, hi-hats, electric eliminators, rogues, lizzies, orphans, punks and warriors to chicago to join the fight against ice
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 AM
mayor zohran sir please immediately dispatch the boppers, gramercy riffs, turnbull ac's, hi-hats, electric eliminators, rogues, lizzies, orphans, punks and warriors to chicago to join the fight against ice
this just reminds me that one of my most petty "who cares, Nate" lyrical nitpicks is Ghostface mentioning a "booger green '68 Pacer" on "Ghost Deini" when the car didn't debut until '75
(sadly it was discontinued before '81 so no actual model year would fit the meter)
(sadly it was discontinued before '81 so no actual model year would fit the meter)
November 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
this just reminds me that one of my most petty "who cares, Nate" lyrical nitpicks is Ghostface mentioning a "booger green '68 Pacer" on "Ghost Deini" when the car didn't debut until '75
(sadly it was discontinued before '81 so no actual model year would fit the meter)
(sadly it was discontinued before '81 so no actual model year would fit the meter)
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We have the PREDATOR sequel PREDATOR: BADLANDS. Now we just need the BADLANDS sequel BADLANDS: PREDATOR.
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We have the PREDATOR sequel PREDATOR: BADLANDS. Now we just need the BADLANDS sequel BADLANDS: PREDATOR.
Quadrophenia (1979, dir. Franc Roddam)
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Quadrophenia (1979, dir. Franc Roddam)
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HELL YES CHICAGO KICKS ASS AND HATERS KICK ROCKS
After reading Carl Sandburg's "Chicago' poem in full in open court this morning, Federal Judge Sarah Ellis says this about our city:
It should go without saying that is she correct & Donald Trump is lying. #chicago
It should go without saying that is she correct & Donald Trump is lying. #chicago
November 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
HELL YES CHICAGO KICKS ASS AND HATERS KICK ROCKS
all this Discourse over Parks & Rec and yet nobody has brought up this deeply embarrassing moment from the show
November 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
all this Discourse over Parks & Rec and yet nobody has brought up this deeply embarrassing moment from the show
oh hey, I was just wondering what Poets of Rhythm had been up to earlier this week, so this is way up my alley ("more krauty"? yes pls)
A Munich-based jazz-funk outfit is joined by JJ Whitefield (Poets of Rhythm, Karl Hector & the Malcouns) on guitar for a far-wandering set of deep-crate psych-jazz adventures. 🎧
#newmusic #musicsky
webweb.bandcamp.com/album/plexus...
#newmusic #musicsky
webweb.bandcamp.com/album/plexus...
Plexus Plexus, by Web Web
14 track album
webweb.bandcamp.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:20 AM
oh hey, I was just wondering what Poets of Rhythm had been up to earlier this week, so this is way up my alley ("more krauty"? yes pls)
McDonald's will make you fat
They serve Cchinges
They serve SiCarges
They will put chier on you
Uncanny McDonald's
Uncanny McDonald's
Uncanny McDonald's
Uncanny McDonald's
They serve Cchinges
They serve SiCarges
They will put chier on you
Uncanny McDonald's
Uncanny McDonald's
Uncanny McDonald's
Uncanny McDonald's
mmmm my favorite mcdonald’s food, Dore, Caprer, and a side of Cchinges
November 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
McDonald's will make you fat
They serve Cchinges
They serve SiCarges
They will put chier on you
Uncanny McDonald's
Uncanny McDonald's
Uncanny McDonald's
Uncanny McDonald's
They serve Cchinges
They serve SiCarges
They will put chier on you
Uncanny McDonald's
Uncanny McDonald's
Uncanny McDonald's
Uncanny McDonald's
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It’s where we used to get lied to for months on end that people were clamoring for a collaborative video between Jermaine Jackson and Pia Zadora: youtu.be/aahViYznVTQ?...
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
It’s where we used to get lied to for months on end that people were clamoring for a collaborative video between Jermaine Jackson and Pia Zadora: youtu.be/aahViYznVTQ?...
I was a synthpop/disco weirdo before I was a city pop weirdo but both sides of that equation agree that this is S-tier
Carnaval
YouTube video by Taeko Onuki - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I was a synthpop/disco weirdo before I was a city pop weirdo but both sides of that equation agree that this is S-tier
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going to a big experimental show at the fancy DIY house
November 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
going to a big experimental show at the fancy DIY house
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As part of Hilobrow's "Skank Your Enthusiasm" series on ska, I wrote a short piece about my conflicted history with the genre's post-punk revival waves, via Madness's 1979 signature cover of Prince Buster's 1964 "One Step Beyond." www.hilobrow.com/2025/11/04/s...
November 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
As part of Hilobrow's "Skank Your Enthusiasm" series on ska, I wrote a short piece about my conflicted history with the genre's post-punk revival waves, via Madness's 1979 signature cover of Prince Buster's 1964 "One Step Beyond." www.hilobrow.com/2025/11/04/s...
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Rudy Giuliani, desperate for perspective in the face of such loss, asks Siri to play Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. It plays “Big Girls Don’t Cry.”
November 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Rudy Giuliani, desperate for perspective in the face of such loss, asks Siri to play Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. It plays “Big Girls Don’t Cry.”
Cheney's gone, I'm feeling hopeful after last night's elections*, the 'Lowdown' season finale was amazing, and I just beat the Jokerless challenge in Balatro. Might close out tonight listening to the new Danny Brown as the posi vibes coup de grace
*well, maybe not MPLS, sorry y'all
*well, maybe not MPLS, sorry y'all
November 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Cheney's gone, I'm feeling hopeful after last night's elections*, the 'Lowdown' season finale was amazing, and I just beat the Jokerless challenge in Balatro. Might close out tonight listening to the new Danny Brown as the posi vibes coup de grace
*well, maybe not MPLS, sorry y'all
*well, maybe not MPLS, sorry y'all
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The biggest public embarrassment for a Cuomo since "Beverly Hills" was released as a single.
November 5, 2025 at 3:58 AM
The biggest public embarrassment for a Cuomo since "Beverly Hills" was released as a single.
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Next Week's New Yorker cover, illustration by Edel Rodriguez.
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Next Week's New Yorker cover, illustration by Edel Rodriguez.
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I really like that someone who clearly *loves* big cities won. I am so tired of Hallmark movie-esque slop being sold to us as the only "real" America.
November 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I really like that someone who clearly *loves* big cities won. I am so tired of Hallmark movie-esque slop being sold to us as the only "real" America.
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