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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/film galoot/art oaf 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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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 33m

I know, right? The one time it doesn’t feel like a hoary cliche!

Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 51m

Best closing line ever.

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 5h

I don't care if it was replaced by a better concert venue, "Saint Paul Civic Center" just scans better than anything else (and not just because of "I Bought a Headache")

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 5h

this is going to wind up one of the most disastrous examples of Sunk Cost Fallacy in modern history

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 5h

tonite I'm going to watch a classic horror film (subtextually) about the dangers of trying to find solace in nostalgic obsession. It's also about a car that kills people, but this is John Carpenter's adaptation of 'Christine' we're talking about here so maybe the interpretation isn't that ridiculous

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 7h

they're like those little weasels people keep as pets, right

Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 8h

that apostrophe is where it is for a reason, feels like he belongs to anyone who wanted musical revelations at any point after the early '90s

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 8h

yeah, feels like we lost our generations' Marvin Gaye

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 8h

it's like we lost one of his heirs

Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 8h

I was too young to really grasp the implications of Marvin Gaye dying when it happened but this makes me feel like it must've felt back then, in part because he constantly struggled with his own self-image for that very reason

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 9h

and there are names he forgot! Ka was 52

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Sklutecase @sklute.bsky.social · 9h

this is just fucking terrible.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 9h

Drew: The Man Behind The Poster (2013) is a really nice watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=olXQ...

Drew The Man Behind The Poster 2013 1080p

YouTube video by marcio luiz del nino

www.youtube.com

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Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 9h

I have a theory that major publications all know this is all bullshit, but are publishing this article again and again just to harvest hateclicks, the only reliable currency left for them to collect.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 9h

been a while since a trailer was edited that well to get a belly laugh out of me

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Dee Phunk @deephunk.bsky.social · 9h

An hour and 11-minute long mix of nothing but D'Angelo live tracks from various shows during the Brown Sugar and Voodoo eras. It's so well done. Also downloadable.

D'Angelo Live, by Ian Wallace

15 track album

ianwallaceproductions.bandcamp.com

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 9h

yeah, I prefer his Village Voice criticism

Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 10h

I'm one of those generalists who likes punk rock but is not Punk Rock and they had me right at "We Live Here," I thought "this will piss off the right people"

Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 10h

yeah, though I can't help but think about the complicated feelings it gave him

Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 10h

he has had to deliver far too many impromptu eulogies

Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 11h

imagining what D'Angelo would be doing if he'd lived as long as George Clinton

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solace @solace.bsky.social · 11h

From his last show at First Ave in 2015 😪

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 11h

Ann makes a real gut-kick observation here. So many artists I love who should've had a Scott Walker/Yoko Ono aged-experimenter coda

Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social · 11h

D'Angelo was remarkable in so many ways. I'm saddest right now, as a fan, that we won't be getting an eccentric late period from him. His contributions remain inestimable but what he would have made in his 50s and onward, I just know it would have been amazing. RIP

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Danyel Smith @danyelsmith.bsky.social · 11h

Heartbreaking: Neo-soul legends Angie Stone and D’Angelo both passed away in 2025, just 7 months apart. Stone died in March at 63. D’Angelo died today at 51. They shared a son together. An entire generation’s soundtrack, gone. Rest in power to both 🕊️💔

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 11h

yeah, BLM shirts in '15 made me think about 2020 and how some people must've been like "I thought this would've blown over by now"