Our video for Colleen Green’s “Taxi Driver” premiered earlier this week over at VICE’s NOISEY and Colleen’s record is getting rave reviews from Pitchfork and the like which is great. I’m happy to have worked with her on this video and even more happy that she is talented enough to get our video on high-traffic parts of the internet. Thanks Colleen. Here’s some gifs from the video courtesy of HardlyArt:

And here’s the whole thing with sound and continuous photography. It’s fun to produce the talkies, people.

More fun stuff coming up. Shooting a video with my friends, Ex-magicians in a couple weeks and with my good friend, Cameron, co-owner of midriff records and driving force behind the Boston powerhouse known as Eldridge Rodriguez for both of their new records.

Don’t stop moving America,
Pat

Hey. Here’s some screens from the new Earthquake party video that’s almost done. I don’t sleep very well because of these… New Colleen Green video coming soon as well! Don’t ever stop moving, America!

So, with the last of my free tapes, I released my friends’, Ex-magicians, new album entitled, California Grass. Straight-forward pop songs reminiscent of good memories, warm feelings, and sunny afternoons. The band internalizes the early/mid 90′s rock formula that recalls early foo fighters and gin blossoms and other stuff that I don’t know and crafts an album that feels wholly unique. It’s a great little tape. I’ve listened to it too many times to count, and the packaging turned out amazing thanks to my good friend, Tom, from now-defunct Boston punkers, The Credentials. I’m sure they’d appreciate if you’d bought all the records they probably have sitting in their parents garages/basements.

Anyways, back to Ex-magicians. Head to the band’s bandcamp if you like what you hear and want to buy one, or check them out if you’re ever in Boston.

Hey guys,

My latest video for Miniboone’s “Brand New Thing” premiered. Here it is:

I just wrapped on two more videos, one for future indie darling, Colleen Green, and one for my good friends, Earthquake Party. So expect to see that stuff soon!  Also, Colleen and Earthquake party are on tour right now. Go check them out, I already did when they came through NYC this week. They were good. Here’s the dates:

Earthquake Party

!!!!SEPTEMBER TOURDATES!!!!
09/04 Cambridge, MA | Middlesex Lounge*
09/05 New Haven, CT | BAR*
09/06 Brooklyn, NY | Glasslands*
09/07 Manhattan, NY | Pianos*
09/14 Rochester, NY | The Bug Jar
09/15 Columbus, OH | The Summit
09/16 TBA
09/17 Chicago, IL | The Empty Bottle*
09/18 TBA
09/22 Montreal, QC | Les 3 Minots (Pop Montreal showcase)
09/25 Boston, MA | Great Scott
* w/ Love of Everything

Colleen Green — 2012 Tour Dates
9/7 – Brooklyn, NY @ 285 Kent
9/8 – Storrs, CT @ Storrs Congregational Church
9/9 – Boston, MA @ Middle East (upstairs)
9/10 – Lowell, MA @ TBA
9/11 – Buffalo, NY @ Ninth Ward
9/12 – Cleveland, OH @ Happy Dog
9/13 – Columbus, OH @ Cafe Bourbon Street
9/14 – Cincinnati, OH @ MOTR Pub
9/15 – Louisville, KY @ Haymarket Whiskey Bar
9/16 – Lafayette, IN @ Black Sparrow
9/17 – Detroit, MI @ TBA
9/18 – Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
9/19 – Milwaukee, WI @ Cactus Club
9/20 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry
9/21 – Lawrence, KS @ Replay Lounge
9/22 – Denver, CO @ Lion’s Lair
9/23 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
9/25 – Missoula, MT @ Zoo City
9/26 – Seattle, WA @ Comet Tavern
9/27 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
9/28 – San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside
9/29 – Los Angeles, CA @ TBA

So I’m bored sometimes, and drunk other times, and today I was a mixture of that and I read this article: http://jezebel.com/5923898/republican-horrified-to-discover-that-christianity-is-not-the-only-religion

So, since I’m unemployed, I wrote this letter to Representative Hodges. I hope you like it. 

Dear Representative Hodges,

Hello. I hope you are having a wonderful day today. It’s hot where I am. Is the weather nice where you are? I hope it is because people generally like nice weather. I know I do. I read your recent statement about the Act 2 school vouchers in Livingston Parish, LA, and I was floored. Not since the Constitution of this Great United States™, have more poignant and truer words been committed to print. Your masterful interpretation of the laws of this great nation of ours would leave columbo, matlock, and murder she wrote lady fumbling to form sentences, as their brains shut down at the very thought of connecting the dots of your complex theorums, leaving them drool-soaked, babbling shells of their former selves, committed to homes and old-timey mental institutions for the stars, where jaded nurses neglect them, barely finding the time to clean the poop out of their pants in between bong rips. I wanted to commend you on your keen observation that “a thousand muslim schools” have shown up recently. I, in my liberal haven of Massachusetts, have noticed that same phenomenon. I pass nearly two hundred Muslim schools, where I am harassed for being a white, non-practicing catholic in the predominantly Muslim-based town of Boston, MA, each day on my way to Walmart. I work at Walmart and my job is to beat up minorities and poor people. I don’t get paid but I’m very passionate about my job.
I know you’re thinking, “but Boston isn’t a predominantly Muslim town! It’s filled with white people and a lot of them are bigots.” So I apologize for lying to you. I just assumed that if you can make the claim that Muslim schools are teaching radical Islam to our nation’s youth and that they don’t deserve the same rights that Christians deserve, then you must be some crazy shit-head, shut-in, who has never left her home and doesn’t know anything about the geography or ethnic makeup of the rest of the country or planet. I can only imagine you were elected in some shady, shadow election, where no one voted in the entire county except you, and your public appearances featured you broadcast on a old sony TV screen from your home to crowds of other nut jobbers. Or maybe you know James Cameron, because he seems crazy too, and he gave you the avatar technology, which allows you to function in regular, outdoors society while really being in a pod and in regular-D and not 3-D. The fact that you were somehow voted into office makes me think less of the great state of Louisiana, which has given us so much culture: Jazz music, Cajun cuisine, and hurricanes. Were you in office when the hurricane showed up a few years ago? If you weren’t, I bet you would’ve handled it really shittily. If you were, I’m sure you were on vacation at the time.
Some good has come out of this whole interaction. You have inspired me, because despite being a drunk and moderately employed, I now have the confidence to run for public office. If I trim up a bit, buy a really nice suit, and say really uninformed, shitty things about the state of the country, I can probably trick some county somewhere into thinking I’m fit to represent them.
Anywho, I just wanted to let you know that I think you are the dumbest person I know. You are way dumber than me even after I’ve drank, like, twelve cans of beer. And let me assure you, when I do that, I am dumb. I’ve fallen down stairs and bandaged the wounds with painters tape and toilet paper and I still think that’s a smarter decision than telling a public news source that you don’t feel muslims deserve school vouchers, and in turn, giving the world documented proof that you are an idiot. Oh, and when I said you were the dumbest person I know, I lied. I don’t know you at all and I’m glad I don’t, you big, dumb, idiot and can you please give James Cameron my latest script?

Best Regards,

Patrick Breen

Hey,

I’ve been editing everyday forever, but here’s some screenshots for an upcoming music video I directed/edited. Soon to be released!