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!

So, get this. Have you ever wondered how so much stuff ends up on the internet? I, personally, have never been one to spend my time uploading how-to videos or written tutorials or really anything to help others, but I often find myself googling stuff and taking advantage of the internet’s collective kindness, helping me learn new things and appear to be a better and more learned person than I actually am. What drives people to upload all this content? I finally figured it out when I created Grown Up Ecto Cooler. There’s this inexplicable force urging me to tell the world about what the hell I did. This is what all the kids must feel when they decide to make a youtube video on how to post an animated gif on facebook (you can’t, btw, without getting some dumb facebook app which is stupid.)

So, I’m bored sitting in Lexington, KY cause that’s what you do in Kentucky. So I’ve decided to put together a quick pictorial recipe for a morning-after drink I created to help wash those dreary headaches away: Grown Up Ecto Cooler.

Ingredients

Beer
Limeade
Mountain Dew
Rock Candy/Pop Rocks/Salt
Limes

Step 1:

Cut up your limes and smash up your rimming rocks of choice. I chose rock candy because it was all I had on hand. Salt works well, obviously, or if you got a wild hair up your ass, go with pop rocks for an added adventure.

Step 2:

Rub some Lime around the rim of the glass and dip it into your rimming rocks and get this rollercoaster moving.

Step 3:

Add about half a glass of beer. Any crum bum beer will do. I chose Bud Light Platinum because I’m an idiot. As a sidenote, I do not recommend drinking budlight platinum. While it provides an added alcoholic push, at what gastrointestinal cost, dear readers? It is too crude to mention. Use your imagination.

Step 4:

Add about 1/4 of a glass of Mountain Dew. I’ve chosen DIET Mountain Dew. I’m trying to watch my figure.

Step 5:

Add 1/4 a glass of Limeade to give your drink a little weight and thicken it up a bit.

Step 6:

No step 6. You’re done, stupid. Now go enjoy yourself. You’ve managed to crush these pieces of coal into a delicious brain diamond. Look at how sweaty and tasty that looks you just wanna have it all to yourself. You’ve earned yourself a few hours to relax. This recipe isn’t perfect and could use some tweaking for enhanced flavor. I blame the DIET Mountain Dew. If anyone figures out something to make it better, lemme know. Maybe a maraschino cherry or something. Whatever.

YO. It’s pretty cool I do this all the time now. Hopefully, someday I’ll get paid. Here’s a video I finally got online after messing with it for awhile. It’s a quick timelapse showcasing the makeup effects that will be seen in the new MiniBoone video, “Brand New Thing.” Makeup FX by Amanda Mcgrady and music by Johnathan Richman, duh.  We’re doing reshoots for the video this weekend so it should be done soon gonna be totes dopeshow.

So, this weekend I had the pleasure of directing a video for NYC-based band, MiniBoone. They asked me to tell the story of a two best friends on the hunt for the elusive abominable snowman.  Here’s some candid photos featuring Roger Lussier of Yale, MA and Pretty & Nice playing our yeti on our woodland apartment set we built. Big thanks to Boston Studio and Rough Water Films for making all this possible! Editing is flying, I hope to have the video done before the end of the month!

 « prev      1   2      next »  
(13 Photos)

So last week I hung out with my friends in Yale, MA, and helped them shoot a video for their song “Danger City, Population: Me.” My “help” involved me and others getting drunk and throwing records and other assorted garbage at them. Trying to hurt them. Cool stuff.

 « prev      1   2   3   4   5      next »  
(57 Photos)

Oh yeah, here’s the video. Done and edited. In, like, 10 hours.

Impressive shooting and editing work done by Daniel Danger over at Tiny Media Empire. Dude’s a madman. Check out his other stuff, and listen to more Yale, MA over at their bandcamp.