Patton Oswalt Talks Hot Chip, TV On The Radio, And TV
Funny man/animated rat Patton Oswalt is the most recent person to submit his picks and pans for P4K's Guest List and -- surprise! -- it's a great read. In addition to showing love for TVOTR's "Wolf Like Me" as his favorite song of the moment (he also told SPIN recently that he'd love to open for the band -- "I'd probably get booed off stage, but at least I'd get to see TV On The Radio"), Oswalt talks up his "Favorite New Band":
Hot Chip, Coachella FestivalAfter the jump, Patton admits he played the fest for indie cred, but got more than he bargained for! In a good way!
There's something about them-- they all look like middle school music teachers, and they're so happy about what they're doing. It's almost like by having no banter or stage presence it makes you fall in love with them that much harder. Their show is so fun. It's not so much that it's visually exciting, but you're genuinely watching a bunch of pasty geeks having the time of their lives. It's almost like guys at a science fair, like, "We actually found a way to make a cold fusion bomb, we gotta show this to you!" And even though you don't know anything about it you get really excited. That's the best live show I've seen in a while. They were performing on the stage next to us so we kind of walked over there. I was watching Roky Erickson and then my wife was like, "I want to go see this band Hot Chip," and the crew was like, "You gotta go see these guys."
Best Thing I Did This Year You know, I've got to say the best thing I've done this year -- it just blew me away how nice everyone was -- was performing at Coachella. Because I thought it was going to be a nightmare. Like it did it because I thought, "Oh, I'll get some indie cred," but goddamn, it was so much fun and the audience was so nice; it was just great, so that was the best thing I've done so far this year.Other stuff Patton's giddy about includes Jody Hill's The Foot Fist Way, a low-budget flick that's "basically like the British show The Office if it were set in the South and about a Tai Kwan Do instructor," and an interesting reevaluation of Friday Night Lights (saying "when that show came out I was like, "Football in Texas? Pass!" and then offering "it's not about, 'Hey, America is great,' and waving the flag and playing a Toby Keith song; it's about, 'Please tell us we we're not the ones who did Abu Ghraib. Please tell us that, because we really want to believe in our country but things are testing our belief all the time.' I can't stress to you how good that show is.")
He caps it with "Sorry about that, I get really evangelical about shit that I love." Nobody's complaining, Patton. Here's some shit that we love: A bit that Patton does on his buy-this-now Sub Pop comedy album Werewolves And Lollipops, about cleaning up his dirty talk for TV. Warning: The language is only safe for work if you have headphones.
Posted at 11:10 AM
Tags: Hot Chip | Patton Oswalt | TV On The Radio
Patton is the best comic working today... as much as Werewolves is awesome, his debut "feelin kinda patton" (or the extended version, "222") is more essential.
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What's the point in this? You're just regurgitating material from another website. You literally copied and pasted what Pitchfork posted a few hours ago and then published it on your site. Why?
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Just ignore Zach. He seems to confused about how the Internet works--about how sometimes bloggers read something they're interested in, and post sections of it in an attempt to get other people to read the entire thing.
It's an understandable confusion. It's a new technology, after all.
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relax zach, it's the internet.
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Wow! Love for The Darling Buds from 1990! It's funny because I heard "It Makes No Difference" yesterday. Looking forward to the Comedians Of Comedy tour this fall.
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Zach,
One of the purposes of a blog is to assimilate material on one specialty subject in a centralized location so that you don't have to go look for it.
P4K isn't a blog, it's more like a shitty music journalism powerhouse that has many of the characteristics of a blog, without actually being one. So in that respect, I guess Stereogum just links back to loads and loads of bullshit. But that's the appeal, because if you come here you aren't necessarily looking for news or journalistic integrity for that matter, so much as little nuggets of trivia and musical gold.
This is all to say, just kinda appreciate it for what it is...
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There's a big difference between "assimilating material into a centralized location" and simply reposting someone else's material. Largehearted Boy is a prime example of the former. Too many other blogs have taken it upon themselves to forgo creativity and originality in favor of regurgitating the work of others (and getting paid to do it, by the way). Read the post - it's chunks of quotes and paraphrasing, plus a little "We love Patton." Where's the dignity in that? Stereogum is one of the more creative and original blogs out there (look at all of the features), but it's certainly prone to less-than-occasional recycling (as in this case).
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Zach, don't you mean "Stereogum is one of the MOST creative and original blogs out there"? It would be "more" if it were comparing Stereogum to one other blog, not many. I'd normally let this go, but you seem very particular about correcting others, so....
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"...paraphrasing"
Zach, you said it in a nutshell. Most people don't want to read the entire pieces, just a summation. This is especially true of a P4K interview which averages no less than about 1000 words (and that's just the starting point).
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Is Zach Galifanakis mad stereogum didn't post stuff he wrote?
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@ju bean.
you're totally right. my head really hurts when i'm asked to read anything more than 100 words. i mean, especially if it's something of interest to me, then we're talking migrane territory.
also, how can you beat the creativity of this blog posting a youtube clip in addition to the copy & paste. who's doing that?
yep, nobody
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While I disagree with Zach's assessment, Wayne, you're absolutely incorrect. Saying that Stereogum is one of the "more interesting" blogs is a perfectly acceptable phrasing. You're being a jerk.
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Tears of a Nation,
Since you think you're so smart, learn to count dipshit - I said a thousand words (1000), not a hundred (100). I sure hope you aren't the accountant where you work...
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Patton is filthier than Britney's interviewin' dress, but he's sickeningly funny.
Of course, he may well remember he was on The King Of Queens one day and commit suicide...
DwD
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