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Country: United States
State: Illinois
Gender: Male
Interests: the arts, rock shows, bourbon, dinosaurs.
Expertise: dinosaurs. the sciences as arts, not like chemistry and physics, but lots of other stuff maybe. i did quantify a certain unit never before quantified, and got the metric unit named after me, the Abbott. right there in the halls with faraday and coulomb. ask about that if you want. not as nerdy as it sounds if you do.
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| 1. What's your name?
Patrick Abbott
2. Who are you?
I'm a guy who's about to graduate college. I am awesome in most aspects.
3. Where were you born?
Suffern NY
4. Where is your stomping ground?
Gurnee IL, also champaign IL in recent years. I know how to stomp both places pretty readily.
5. What is your most vivid memory from the ages 0-5?
Playing in the woods behind my house.
6. What is your most vivid memory from grades 1-5?
My dad dying.
7. What is your most vivid memory from middle school?
this one time a girl told a girl i liked that i didnt like her anymore, and then the girl i liked was like woo-hoo and they high fived. they didnt know i was right behind them. i dont think ive ever been angrier/more hurt. thats a middle schools story to the core.
8. What is your happiest memory from high school?
There were a lot, i think the happiest one that seems like 'woo hoo this is great life is great' is hanging out on the beach a ton sophomore year. there was a lot of plain ol awesome times there.
9. What is the worst dream you've ever had? In detail. i know dreams are weird and boring to explain in conversation, but just write out what you can remember.
this one was recent. first, paul was dead and me and sean d and some other people were in this weird other plane where everything had a blue tint to it, like some sort of spirit world and the wind was howling but not cold but it was still sort of like a desert or ice plain with no vegetation except maybe a shitty little shrub. there were roads and hills so you couldnt really see around the next corner, but we were looking for paul and there was something we could do to save him. we eventually found him and brought him back from over this strange divide thing and the we were leaving but then i turned around and andrew was there, and i had to tell everyone that it was andrew and i'd be there in just a sec but i had to go give him a hug. so i ran over and gave him a hug but he couldnt really say anything and hardly look at me, like he wasnt physically able to. anyway then i had to run back and catch up to paul and sean. if that dream alone wasnt bad enough then everyone i knew was at a beach in hawaii because we had all survived something, like it was a prize for surviving some event. imagine if you will a Hawaiian mountain all lush and green but plunging straight down into the ocean at 45 degrees, but then out of that a hollow cave the size of soldier field cut into the rock. so there was this huge rocky overhang of mountain and mountain on both sides but under the rocky crags there was a huge sandy beach with thousands of people on it, including pretty much everyone i knew and tons of people i didnt, happy families of indian children for example. anyway there were these huge waves that everyone was having tons of fun with, like ten foot tall waves that would hover at their cresting point just long enough for you to be totally impressed with how long they were hanging there before crashing down. then they got bigger and i had to help this little mexican or indian boy who got sucked out a little bit up off the part of the beach where the sand dips down a little bit before the wave crashed down. anyway we were like wow that was fun, then some time passed with me forgetting about the waves, before someone called to my attention that the ocean was funny, and by funny i mean gone. at that point i panicked, knowing a tsunami was on its way. i ran down the beach frantically yelling at everyone, telling them if they didnt do what i would say they would surely die. paul and sean followed, along with a handful of random people, but everyone else looked at me like a lame ass crazy person trying to ruin their fun. anyway we ran to the top of this building, about 200 feet high, which went from the sandy beach to the top of this weird cave thing, just in time to run out on top and see the huge fucking wave hovering like the smaller ones, just long enough for you to go 'what the hell is it waiting for, is it not going to smash' before it crashed down and smashed just about everyone i know and thousands of happy indian families up against the craggy underbelly of a mountain. the part that overflowed the guard rail pushed us up somewhat and we managed to hang on to some rope and get sloshed around and up and down this mountainside but survived. then we spent some time in this weird windy warm snow that was blowing through everything, unloading some red cross trucks. then i was thanked and called a hero by one of the indian families, which made me added a little sweet to the bitter, but the dream ended with me calling my mom and telling her my other brothers were dead, and having her go through the same bittersweet whatever you want to call it when she has to say well im just happy youre safe.
10. Do your parents know you are gay?
i imagine she suspects it sometimes, as do other people. it probably has to do with my rainbow hoody and me being an emo gay pants in some aspects. i also dont tell my mom about relationships at all really so she might suspect it from that. but really its because i have no desire to talk to my mom about sex or girls or anything like that, and i'd kind of rather just be suspected to be gay than have to really talk to my mom about what girls want and this that and the next thing.
11. You know those memories you have where you cringe when you think about it, because you did something embarrassing or something like that? yeah. tell one of those. you'd better cringe while writing it.
i have to many. if im sitting there wrapped in thought and you see me grimace its probably because i stumbled upon one of these gems. um ok heres one in like fourth grade there was a big school thing at the roller rink and it was couple skate only time this one dude who was my older brothers friend was like screw this man you wanna just go out there like it doesnt have to be boy girl couples and i was like hey yeah thats right but this was before anyone really knew what gay was or anything like that. anyway i think i immediately regretted the decision regardless, but somehow justified it because it was one of my older brothers cool friends and i thought he knew better than i did. im leading by example here people. this is embarrassing. im cringing. you should do the same.
12. What would you die for?
a million otherwise undeserving people. to counter certain dire threats to what i consider self-evident human rights on a massive scale. that sweet sweet ass of yours.
13. What would you kill for?
probably less than above, provided the recipient deserved it or was otherwise unavoidable to kill. not to say it would be easy, and i would definitely do most everything in my power to not kill someone, but its probably much easier to live with myself killing someone or something than decide to give up my own life for some ideal or whatever. oh yeah, and that sweet sweet ass of yours.
14. What is the worst medical affliction you have suffered?
that throat thing i had was pretty bad. ive never had a cavity, broken bone, or stitches, but i do get nasty throat infections. last christmas eve it looked like i had two slimy golfballs lodged in my throat, and it felt like smoking fiberglass shards, and smelled like i ate a bowl of gangrene for breakfast.
15. Who is the man?
me.
16. I am?
well yeah.
17. Don't you agree?
yeah so do you.
18. What is the cutest animal?
puppies pretty much. and kittens. just about anything that has hardly any clue about the world yet.
19. What is the tastiest plant?
i like pears and pineapples a lot.
20. What is one thing you think will never change?
conservation of forces.
21. What is the least attractive part of you, physically?
my gut.
22. How do you feel about porn?
cant complain about it. it serves its purpose.
23. What is the most attractive part of you, period?
um, at the moment not the fact that i put comma 'period' then a question mark. in retrospect thats a pretty stupid thing to do. i'd probably say my perceptiveness. im a pretty good listener when i want to be.
24. Do you have that 'one that got away'?
yeah. technically there would be a couple but there should only really be one 'the one that got away' if you want to take yourself seriously, otherwise you are just being greedy. the one that got away is supposed to be someone that was supposed to be everything you wanted, which can change, but also if what you want changes so would be the 'one that got away'. but yeah theres a girl thats makes me go 'damn, what the hell happened there. life would be better if we were together.' i'm probably wrong there, but hell you gotta have someone.
25. In relationships, how good are you?
pretty bad, maybe. part of me thinks that its my fault things go bad, and that i could be a lot better in relationships, but really i treat girls really well and enjoy all the cuddly stuff and intimacy and whatnot. im usually poor so i can't buy presents and do whatever all the time, but i pay out big in cuddle time and whatnot. i dont know what professional cuddlers and back touchers make per hour, but if its over 10 i'd probably have to change my tax bracket if i was in a relationship.
26. In bed, how good are you?
i'd like to think pretty damn good. i also think its important in this arena, as well as most others in life, that thinking you're damn good probably interferes with actually being good, as when you get cocky you usually slack off and dont improve. the counterpoint to that would be that while that is true, it may be more important that girls consider you a confident son of a gun as they find that way attractive. anyway, your mom says im pretty damn good in bed.
27. In math, how good are you?
not too good. i can handle long devision and some tougher mental math and geometry and algebra and stuff, but i suck up calculus. as far as college goes, i wish i cared more to be better at math, its the universal language. of dorks.
28. What is one thing you feel especially gifted at?
nothing really. i find myself to be decently gifted at a great number of things. i can sort of play guitar, not half as good as the worse half of guitar players i know, but i think i can write some catchy diddys and sing them and im pretty talented at writing lyrics and singing them. im decently talented at art, nothing that could compete with most art majors but i think in a two to three years of intense study i could be beating most of them. im not too good at writing, but in a pinch i can write a hell of a eulogy. im definitely not a savant at anything. i think im especially gifted at being awesome in a well rounded sense.
29. How often do you do that one thing?
being awesome? i'd say 90% of the time im in public. not too often when im by myself, maybe 30% of the time. the other 70% of the time by myself is spent watching tv and eating and sleeping and shit.
30. What is your favorite element, on the periodic table? Here is some help.
Tungsten. that stuff is awesome. oh, sprechen de deutche? it is also known as WOLFRAM.
31. Who do you miss?
andrew. that is pretty simple.
32. You have 40 words to say to the entire world, and everyone will hear it. What are they?
we all need to work harder. i know you are working hard already. but please, if we help each other out a little more, our neighbors or people across the globe, everything will be much better and easier for everyone.
33. What do you think about Jesus, and people who really love Jesus?
he was probably a nice dude. he mightve been the first guy wth some press behind him to say 'be nice dudes.' he was not divine. he was the martyr for a small group of very vocal people in the desert 2000 years ago. his importance on the world should not be shoved down the throat by a bunch of people who want to get off on being right. because they are robably not and dont know a damn about the world. i say this because i was one of those people shoving it down peoples throats, and i came to the realization on my own that it was bullshit and i was doing something wrong.
34. In songs, what is one thing you hate? examples, that you cannot use, would be stuff like xylophones, vocoders, and fergie.
wah-wah pedals.
35. What has happened to the good times we used to know?
i havent given up on them. i think they are trying to shake me though, get rid of me, with all the shit thats been happening. fuck that though, im gonna stick with them. anyone who thinks the good times are gone and passed just hasn't gotten up off their ass to chase them down.
36. Are you superstitious? What about?
not really, but sort of. i kind of hope there is some sort of karma sometimes, like when im super poor, i might give my last dollar to a dude on the street asking for change, because i feel that the forces of nature will see my noble gesture and some squandering billionaire would pass off his last million to me.
37. How long was your last relationship, or how long has your current relationship been going on?
about six months start to finish, with a month in the middle of broken up time, so five months of actual dating.
38. On a scale of 1-10, how healthy are you compared to other people your age?
five. im not morbidly obese or sick or anything, but i dont really keep in shape and i smoke and drink. considering how little i do to stay in shape i should be much grosser.
39. What do you think about cigarettes?
love'm and hate'm. i should quit, but sometimes they are the most delicious thing ever.
40. Booze?
its good. its good to get a little sloppy, take the edge off. constant escapism is bad, but looking life straight in the eye all the time is probably worse. gotta make it silly and enjoy it some times. not all the time though. just some times.
41. Speaking of which, what is your favorite mixed drink?
gin and tonic.
42. Beer?
steel reserve 211 high gravity. tastes not too good, but is the best bang for your buck. shitty beer is shitty beer, 211 is shitty beer you have to drink less of to get drunk.
43. May i buy you a drink?
yes you may.
44. Can i buy you a drink?
probably not you are poor as hell.
45. When was the last time you were surprised by someones actions towards you in a good way?
some people who called during all the shit with andrew were surprising. some people who called i really wasnt expecting to call and it was nice. its not like calling was a prerequisite for caring, but when someone surprises you like that its doubly nice.
46. Ok, you wake up in a gym with no exits (except for maybe one on the ceiling about 30 feet up, but we'll get to that later). Zombies will enter this gym in random spots, at the rate of 3 zombies a minute. You can possibly exit if and only if you can stack up about 200 zombies. You get one simple weapon (no guns or swords or chainsaws or fancy stuff like that). Remember to kill a zombie you destroy the brain, and zombies are decently slow and stupid but pretty strong and diligent. What weapon would you pick?
i think an axe or a baseball bat with a nail through it. the axe would be less hits and more z-brain all over but would be unwieldy and more tiring. the baseball bat would be easier to use but maybe tiring as far as you dont want to spend a full 20 seconds beating the shit out of a zombie and still have him be like 'ouch but seriously im gonna bite your ankle now that baseball bat hurt but didnt kill me.' i mean it would sound like 'ushhsh ugh narrf' but thats what he'd say, with his zombie teeth to your now zombified leg.
47. What would be your general strategy?
stay in the open and run around. remember that you are faster and smarter than the zombies, in the middle of the gym you could always get surrounded but then move out of the pocket and kill a zombie before you are overwhelmed. you dont want your back up against a wall when you are relying on your brains and agility.
48. How long do you think you could last?
i'd probably hit the first zombie and some of his brain would land in my mouth or something. im the unluckiest person alive. anyway i think i could manage about 45 minutes before slipping up and having fatigue set in. thats 135 zombies. maybe thats too high. if i actually had a chance to survive i might fight harder and last longer, smashin brains long into the night.
49. Now you get to pick someone to help you out? Who would it be and what would their weapon be?
casey jones. cricket bat.
50. Doesn't killing zombies feel good?
mmmhmmmmm.
51. What would be the most epic fight between two animals, and who would you pick to win?
moose with sharpened antlers versus a velociraptor with a jet pack. moose wins. moose with sharpened antlers always wins.
52. What would be the most epic fight between two dead ex-presidents? once again pick a winner.
george washington versus andrew jackson. andrew jackson didnt give a fuck and would pop a cap in yo ass and not think twice. but george washington was 6'8'' and weighed a fucking ton. george washington in ten seconds.
53. What would the name of your metal band be?
DEATH STROGANOFF
54. What would the name of your emo band be?
The war at sea
55. What would the name of your boy band be?
Fuck if I know.
56. What would the name of your ska band be?
Skank You Very Much
57. What would the name of your alter-ego country star be?
Chet McGriddle
58. What would be your pen name?
Dan Brown
59. What is the awesomest name for a first born child you can think of?
Expealodotious.
60. What is your best vice?
Escapism.
61. What is your most annoying virtue?
Honesty maybe.
62. Ok, you wake up one morning as Joey Fatone. Do you kill yourself immediately?
No I’d probably go spend a lot of money at a really nice resturaunt and smoke a sweet cigar and maybe try some drugs, because its not my body, and as long as I didn’t see any mirrors I would wait til I was sick of that before killing myself.
63. What is the best birthday/christmas/hannukah present you ever got?
I got a baseball glove a couple of years ago from tim jenny and matt I think. That was really sweet because I never had one as a kid. It was like an ol school Christmas present, made me feel really good.
64. What do you think about religion in general?
Meh. I think it’s a good thing for people who want it and have more important things to worry about. Its terrible for people who are bored and want a hobby like most of the religious zeal-holes that are in the suburbs.
65. What do you think about atheists in general?
I think we are ok. I’d rather just not care about religion, but when its shoved in your face its good to have a counter, in this case being able to tell them with no regret that I once was very religious, and I got over it. Theres no way to prove im right, but I see no good reason to think that they are.
66. Ok you have 4 months to live. What do you do?
Travel the world, bring friends with me. I’d visit just about everyone I knew and partied the hell out of everything. I’d also try to accomplish as much as possible, probably write a manifesto or something.
67. Same deal, but 4 hours.
Call a few people and tell them, and say bye. Write a couple short notes to other people, a line or two. Get a really nice meal, smoke some cigarettes, and listen to some music. Hopefully hang out with people if they are around, but if they got all freakin out I’d be like ok I need to go and enjoy this last couple hours.
68. Same deal, but 4 minutes.
Masturbate furiously. Ok probably not, just panic. I’d panic all over the place. Smoke a cigarette, call my mom, scrawl out something general to everyone else I knew.
69. What do you think about 69, for reals?
I think if you can manage to get over the juvenility of it and awkwardness, its well worth the trouble. Weird question, even weirder answer.
70. Explain what you believe to be the perfect weather.
Warm, breezy, sunny with scattered puffy clouds. The temperature where it feels like nothing, not hot or cold, but when the sun hits you it feels warm and when the wind hits you it feels like nothing.
71. Explain what you believe to be the perfect world.
No wars, no assholes, more cooperation, more resources, prehensile tails, jet packs, no stds
72. What is your favorite comic strip in the funnies section?
Probably calvin and hobbes or farside.
73. What is your favorite animated character, tv or movie or whatevs?
Murderface from metalocalypse
74. Who is your favorite?
Benjamin franklin?
75. What is your favorite curse word?
Goddamn. As one word.
76. What is your favorite question to steal from inside the actors studio?
That one.
77. First member of the opposite sex you remember being attracted to. you can leave out last names, as the internet is a sneaky place and people like googling their own names.
Krystal, in kindergarten. She wore a little mermaid costume, I was totally in love.
78. What personality trait do you find amazingly attractive, other than universal ones, like humor or 'puts out'?
energetic is usually really good. Im a sucker for girls who make we want to get up off the couch and do something awesome. Or maybe stay on the couch and do something awesome.
79. What personality trait do you find terribly repulsive, other than the obvious ones, like racism?
Bitchiness. I aint got no time for bitches. if you wanna be miserable, just be miserable, don’t be miserable to everyone else.
80. When was the last time you were really hurt by someones actions towards you?
About a month ago.
81. Any regrets?
Probably. Nothing crippling though.
82. Is there a word that particularly pisses you off for no reason?
Whom. I still don’t get it exactly.
83. Detail one of your psychological idiosyncrasies, everyone has them, weird things they do for no reason.
I count my steps when the floor is broken up into sections, like on sidewalks.
84. Do you fart in crowded rooms?
No. I pretty much don’t fart if anyone is in the room. Itll probably kill me eventually.
85. Do you order the same thing all the time from resturaunts?
Sort of, ive been tending to branch out lately.
86. Stranded on an island question time. I imagine the island would be something like 'lost' without all the crazy bears or ghost shit, probably something like 10 square miles, and you get to have one other person there. You'd be there anywhere from 5 years to forever. who is it you'd like to be stranded with?
An attractive girl who would be worth getting to know better and could hold her own and not make me cut down trees and fish and do everything.
87. You get one tool/weapon. What is it?
Machete. It seems like the thing to need in a junglish place.
88. Two medical supplies that will last the whole time. What are they?
Antibiotics and birth control. Shazaam!
89. One constantly refurbished food, something you could get from a grocery store or fast food place here, but there it might just grow on trees or something, but thats what you get to eat for most of the time. i mean you might be able to learn to catch fish or something to supplement it, but this is what you are going to be eating for a long time. What is it?
I’d probably say jimmy johns gargantuan. I don’t particularly like the sandwich, but I could pick it apart and gather up all the veggies off it or take the bread or the different meats and cheeses. Then I could make whatever from it. I might regret this later. But hell I could catch some fish or eat some pineapples or whatever.
90. Same thing but with a drink, which could somehow manage to grow on trees ice cold or steaming hot how ever you'd like it.
Pilsner urquell, ice cold. I think itd be damn refreshing, and not to alcoholic to actually dehydrate me.
91. One author's complete works you could bring?
Vonnegut. Ive read probably a third of his books and enjoyed all of them, and I’d like to read the rest. I think they would keep me in touch with the absurdity of life and lovability of humanity.
92. One band/composers complete discography you could bring?
Maybe the beatles. Theres a lot there and a lot of different stuff. Itd be a little lame, but its just a pretty huge discography. I could switch it up a bunch.
93. Given all those things you picked, would you voluntarily do it? Pick that life over the one you have ahead of you? In otherwords, would you lose the possibilities you have in this life for one much more adventurous in some ways but certainly good in others?
Maybe. Im pretty much freaking out about whatever im going to do with the rest of my life. I’d say yes. Everyone wants an easy way out.
94. You just won a $5000, on the condition that you have to spend it in 3 days. what do you buy?
A crappy car. A bunch of booze. A bunch of party hats.
95. What is your understanding of the big picture?
There isn’t much of a reason for anything, but there is a reason to make it as enjoyable, and not just in a hedonistic sense, but in a long run whats best for everyone. There’s no real reason for it, its just what we have and we should make the best of it.
96. Is the big picture really all that important?
Yeah I think so. If not, we risk being as insignificant as we actually are. I think we can rise above living for a paycheck and basic needs and whatever, and on a bigger scale just being a species that uses everything and fucks and makes more of us until we go extinct. We can do much more than that.
97. Make one outlandish claim about yourself. An example would be 'you know how in space no one can hear you scream? well i can'. best one gets a present from pat.
At the beginning of the universe they called it the huge bang. That went on until I held my crotch up next to it.
98. Write a limerick about your childhood.
There once was a child named pat abbott
Who had quite a few bad habits
Like picking his nose
And biting his toes
And talking to squirrels and rabbits.
99. Write a short rap about your current life.
I don’t believe in god, I don’t believe in zeus/ I don’t believe in allah and I don’t trust he-sus/ because if those motherfuckers are really in control/ then they are malicious bitches who can smoke my pole/ cause I never gave’m trouble, I never did them harm/ and now the fates or furies are twistin on my arm/ but if I make it through this, if I make it free/ im passin the mic to my homie Nietzsche/ “excuse me audience, let me help you understand/ you killed god long ago but now you’ve made a superman.”. holla at chyo boy fredrich!
100. Say bye to pat. He's done with xanga.
Bye xanga. You’ve served your purpose, something pat has hopefully yet to fulfill.
well thats it. its been fun. last post here ever. not on the internet. just xanga and charliepoe. this is no longer a refuge or an embarrassment or whatever. its been fun. something like 1600+ days. thats gross. later skaters.
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| ok. im done with xanga. i promised one more xurvey. this will be a kicker hopefully. i will answer it soon. i dont know who will fill it out, i dont think many people use this anymore. on a side note, this has been the worst month of my life. if i make it through this next month, and graduate, i will be leather on marble. what doesnt kill me makes me stronger.
1. What's your name?
2. Who are you?
3. Where were you born?
4. Where is your stomping ground?
5. What is your most vivid memory from the ages 0-5?
6. What is your most vivid memory from grades 1-5?
7. What is your most vivid memory from middle school?
8. What is your happiest memory from high school?
9. What is the worst dream you've ever had? In detail. i know dreams are weird and boring to explain in conversation, but just write out what you can remember.
10. Do your parents know you are gay?
11. You know those memories you have where you cringe when you think about it, because you did something embarrassing or something like that? yeah. tell one of those. you'd better cringe while writing it.
12. What would you die for?
13. What would you kill for?
14. What is the worst medical affliction you have suffered?
15. Who is the man?
16. I am?
17. Don't you agree?
18. What is the cutest animal?
19. What is the tastiest plant?
20. What is one thing you think will never change?
21. What is the least attractive part of you, physically?
22. How do you feel about porn?
23. What is the most attractive part of you, period?
24. Do you have that 'one that got away'?
25. In relationships, how good are you?
26. In bed, how good are you?
27. In math, how good are you?
28. What is one thing you feel especially gifted at?
29. How often do you do that one thing?
30. What is your favorite element, on the periodic table? Here is some help.
31. Who do you miss?
32. You have 40 words to say to the entire world, and everyone will hear it. What are they?
33. What do you think about Jesus, and people who really love Jesus?
34. In songs, what is one thing you hate? examples, that you cannot use, would be stuff like xylophones, vocoders, and fergie.
35. What has happened to the good times we used to know?
36. Are you superstitious? What about?
37. How long was your last relationship, or how long has your current relationship been going on?
38. On a scale of 1-10, how healthy are you compared to other people your age?
39. What do you think about cigarettes?
40. Booze?
41. Speaking of which, what is your favorite mixed drink?
42. Beer?
43. May i buy you a drink?
44. Can i buy you a drink?
45. When was the last time you were surprised by someones actions towards you in a good way?
46. Ok, you wake up in a gym with no exits (except for maybe one on the ceiling about 30 feet up, but we'll get to that later). Zombies will enter this gym in random spots, at the rate of 3 zombies a minute. You can possibly exit if and only if you can stack up about 200 zombies. You get one simple weapon (no guns or swords or chainsaws or fancy stuff like that). Remember to kill a zombie you destroy the brain, and zombies are decently slow and stupid but pretty strong and diligent. What weapon would you pick?
47. What would be your general strategy?
48. How long do you think you could last?
49. Now you get to pick someone to help you out? Who would it be and what would their weapon be?
50. Doesn't killing zombies feel good?
51. What would be the most epic fight between two animals, and who would you pick to win?
52. What would be the most epic fight between two dead ex-presidents? once again pick a winner.
53. What would the name of your metal band be?
54. What would the name of your emo band be?
55. What would the name of your boy band be?
56. What would the name of your ska band be?
57. What would the name of your alter-ego country star be?
58. What would be your pen name?
59. What is the awesomest name for a first born child you can think of?
60. What is your best vice?
61. What is your most annoying virtue?
62. Ok, you wake up one morning as Joey Fatone. Do you kill yourself immediately?
63. What is the best birthday/christmas/hannukah present you ever got?
64. What do you think about religion in general?
65. What do you think about atheists in general?
66. Ok you have 4 months to live. What do you do?
67. Same deal, but 4 hours.
68. Same deal, but 4 minutes.
69. What do you think about 69, for reals?
70. Explain what you believe to be the perfect weather.
71. Explain what you believe to be the perfect world.
72. What is your favorite comic strip in the funnies section?
73. What is your favorite animated character, tv or movie or whatevs?
74. Who is your favorite?
75. What is your favorite curse word?
76. What is your favorite question to steal from inside the actors studio?
77. First member of the opposite sex you remember being attracted to. you can leave out last names, as the internet is a sneaky place and people like googling their own names.
78. What personality trait do you find amazingly attractive, other than universal ones, like humor or 'puts out'?
79. What personality trait do you find terribly repulsive, other than the obvious ones, like racism?
80. When was the last time you were really hurt by someones actions towards you?
81. Any regrets?
82. Is there a word that particularly pisses you off for no reason?
83. Detail one of your psychological idiosyncrasies, everyone has them, weird things they do for no reason.
84. Do you fart in crowded rooms?
85. Do you order the same thing all the time from resturaunts?
86. Stranded on an island question time. I imagine the island would be something like 'lost' without all the crazy bears or ghost shit, probably something like 10 square miles, and you get to have one other person there. You'd be there anywhere from 5 years to forever. who is it you'd like to be stranded with?
87. You get one tool/weapon. What is it?
88. Two medical supplies that will last the whole time. What are they?
89. One constantly refurbished food, something you could get from a grocery store or fast food place here, but there it might just grow on trees or something, but thats what you get to eat for most of the time. i mean you might be able to learn to catch fish or something to supplement it, but this is what you are going to be eating for a long time. What is it?
90. Same thing but with a drink, which could somehow manage to grow on trees ice cold or steaming hot how ever you'd like it.
91. One author's complete works you could bring?
92. One band/composers complete discography you could bring?
93. Given all those things you picked, would you voluntarily do it? Pick that life over the one you have ahead of you? In otherwords, would you lose the possibilities you have in this life for one much more adventurous in some ways but certainly good in others?
94. You just won a $5000, on the condition that you have to spend it in 3 days. what do you buy?
95. What is your understanding of the big picture?
96. Is the big picture really all that important?
97. Make one outlandish claim about yourself. An example would be 'you know how in space no one can hear you scream? well i can'. best one gets a present from pat.
98. Write a limerick about your childhood.
99. Write a short rap about your current life.
100. Say bye to pat. He's done with xanga.
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| new years is the best holiday ever. no other holiday brings as much hope and promise as a new year a fresh begining. 2007. its never happened before. its happening as we speak. do something about it.
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| well well well look whos back on the xay-train. not for long, just hopping on to bring in the new year. i dont know who still reads this, i hardly do any more. i feel like if i leave, it will die. i don't wish that on it, but really its just too goddamn easy to think you know and care about someone by reading their blog. you dont. i mean you sort of do. but really you don't know someone if the only contact you have is a one way juicy tid-bit pipeline straight from their life to your screen. phonecalls and lunchdates would have been a much more healthy way to get my life to all of you. blogs are good and all, but im quite through with a blog about my personal life. if you want to be a part of that, then please be a part of that. or just stalk me on facebook.
2006 was a hell of a year. hell of a year. i really dont know what happened. it seemed like a lot of stuff fell completely apart. truth be told i thought we had a solid group of friends in chicago that were pretty damn awesome in the good times. it seems the good times are over, and apparently when the wind blows and thunder roars, ducks dont fly together. i don't know if thats true or not, really i feel pretty seperate from the group of people i consider to be my closest and oldest friends, seperated by distance and a great deal of time spent at that distance. i swear im not a college boy coming to rain on your city parade. 3/4 of my social time at college was spent trying to convince new friends that my good friends in the city are awesome. it would've been nice to have some evidence to back it up. it was nice learning while away that i am pretty damn awesome without you guys. and its nicer knowing that even knowing that i still give about 35000 damns what happens to all of us.
events of this year:
about a dozen good parties at the pee-hole that i attended. i enjoy dancing like hell. i enjoy getting sloppy drunk and making out with girls. i enjoy the comfort and good times of good people i feel comfortable with. one of those parties i was beligerent at. im sorry for the wall, pee-holers. my elbow and rage were too much for it.
ok shit i forgot i do this every year. the year in review. ok just a sec.
jan 9- - i built a pool table and refelted it.
- rearanged my basement
- slept until 4 on wednesday
- thursday recorded group vocals with ammi
- hung out on the southside and saw syriana friday
- watched half the 1st season of lost. dayumn that show is good.
- party saturday, became 'belligerence incarnate'. more on that later
- drove back to the southside and then back to the far north side
(lawrence university in appleton wisconsin) sunday. beat andrew in a
40 race.
i did a whole lot that first week. the past two weeks ive been going to the avalon and playing my little brother's xbox 360. i have a lot of things i want to do. those aren't 2 of them. good for me beginning of last year. jan 17- i also made a to-do list (i got everything on the last one done
except for 'secret item' and '2 songs all the way done'). this new
to-do list is big, official looking on cardboard in thick marker. it
includes: blah
ok seriously the onlything on the to do list that was done was write and record songs. which i did a lot of. thats a major accomplishment of this year, musical stuff. im not really that much better at guitar but i write cheesy songs that people like. suck on that. also i did lose weight. probably about 25 pounds over the year. people tell me i did, and i know i did, but its weird because i didnt work out or anything. i just was poor and didnt eat and walked or rode my bike to class. im pretty sure years of wendys and driving around and dorm food made me the fatty of yesteryear. feb 6- i dont know how many of you watched grays anatomy, but i know you
saw the commercials. im proud of this, when we saw the commercials
everyone was like what is a code black? and i didnt know, but through
some deductive reasoning that took me 5 seconds i said it was an
explosive lodged in someones body. everyone was like no way its like
an epidemic or something. i was like nuh uh
hells yeah thats my 'i called it, bitches' of the century. deductive reasoning and seductive pleasoning, i do it all. also in february, anyone remember the underwear dance party? at the time it was probably the greatest moment of my life, and to this day remains the best party of my life. heres to the jason and sarah's wedding after party. three cheers. mar 29- m on a gauntlet schedule right now. this gauntlet is so bad ass
im gonna wear a suit the whole time and a ninja headband when im alone.
i really did. there are pictures. i was also that dork that showed up for the presentation in a shirt and tie. and people were like what the hell you dressed up for this and i was like no i have an interview after this (lie) and then i totally choked on the presentation. not really choked but lost my train of thought and just decided to stop the presentation. it was pretty badass. i pretty much just said 'eh, yeah im done. im done.' and then sat down. doesnt sound badass, but when a presentation is worth 80% of your grade, its pretty badass.
apr 27- streptococcus? more like suck my diiyyiiick.
no joke. i didnt tell some of you yet but this christmas eve i was at condell medical center with an IV of antibiotics due to a throat infection. i really need my tonsils out so that my throat can stop killing me.
may 23- to my back i got the rockys
to my front i got my glock-ies
to my side i got my ho's in some knee-high sockies
colorado springs aint got no ghetto
got less green than an alpine meadow
doin lots of yoga standin on their head-o
less gangster than a volkswagon jett-o.
rolling down the street cadillac eldorado
whats the name of the street aw fuck its colorado
sippin them drinks colt 45 in the bottle
whats the name of the springs aw fuck its colorado
shootin state cops with a double barrelled shot-ow
whats the name of the state aw fuck its colorado
whats with that stupid name says me to my vato
he said fuck square states and thats our new motto.
werd people. werd. you don't mess with those skillz. alls yall haters, step the fuck off. jun 1- so i guess the campus really wants their run down bikes. a very
kind investigator murphy stopped me on my way to work, asked if i was
pat abbott, and asked if i took campus bikes. anyway they took the
bikes and i wrote a signed statement saying i was sorry and even though
it was a victimless crime it was not a perpetrator-less crime, and the
university police efficiently and kindly reminded me of that. this was the start of my hate affair with xanga. someone turned me in because of my xanga. not cool. really not cool. the cop had a dossier with a print out of my xanga and my goofy ass mustachio'd self on it. it was a stupid idea fuckin with johnny law. but seriously i stole some abandoned bikes. they had no homes, no owners. they needed love, and i was going to give it to them. then the law took my love away. that was the beginning of the downfall of 2006. i went from a man with a plan and a bike gang and tons of stuff to do to a worried mess thinking i was going to get kicked out of school. fuck you whoever reads this and turned me in. i didnt steal your or anyone elses bike. jul 7- god forbid when we finish this screenplay that people will read
it it and say nothing about it. i'd rather you'd hate it than you
wouldn't care about it. we didnt finish the screenplay. i think i tried to take too much control of it and i wasnt creative enough. i was just trying to write the story of my life or how i wanted it. it wasn't funny and wasnt finished. i still want to write. jul 20- time for a new pat authored xurvey. these things get too
repetitive. like before i wont answer this one for a couple days, so
that i forget the answers before i start writing them. dont worry kyle, before i completely retire from xanga i will make one more xurvey. maybe and exit xurvey. my last hurrah/ aug 20- here are the first two cartoons of the year. hopefully they're
funny. i dont know if editorial cartoons are supposed to be laugh out
loud funny or that sort of 'heh, yeah' sort of thing. i hope they dont
have to be laugh out loud funny. thats a lot of work. the cartooning thing is going very well. im still a little peeved that i cant post them online, but they are still going strong and i got entered into the illinois journalism association awards or something, i havent won anything yet but i think my chances are pretty good. sep 13- i took a picture of the omelette saying 'this is the best
omelette the world has ever seen. or tasted. just in case someone ate
a really good omelette while blindfolded.'you know how sometimes people think that i'm always right? or that they think that i think im always right? well
those people are right. and i was right. it was so delicious that
when i finished god himself came down from the heavens and said 'damn
pat you were right. you wanna make me an omelette?' and i said 'no, god, make your own damn omelette.'
funny, this was my second post of the year claiming i had made the best omelette ever. this was also the beginning of my ridiculous narrative style, as seen in the more recent 'marstupials'. oct 20- NEWS FLASH!
Pat got all his shit stolen. stop. by a burglar in the
middle of the night. stop. he was gone from his house from
430pm to 1030 am. this sentence has two major ideas in it. one, i got all my shit stolen. two, i spent a good amount of time not sleeping at my apartment. having a girlfriend was one of the few good things about the second half of this year. oct 26- this is the final reminder. halloween party here, in champaign,
saturday. i gave fair warning, almost a month. plus ive
been telling people up there to come down here for years. and the
last time i was back i said 'hey come down for halloween'. i know
jay is coming down. he is on the awesome list. i dont even
know who reads this anymore. but you are coming down too.
or you are telling people that they better come down. i'll be
damned if no one shows up to my halloween party. anyone outside a
three hour radius does not apply. i wish you could make it, but
dont expect anything. anyone south of the wisconsin border
though, for serious. hall. o. ween.
par. tay.
i thought about letting sleeping dogs lie, but who cares. i gave you fair warning. i gave warning in a threatening tone of voice. and then when not a soul save jay said a damn thing to me and not a soul save no one showed up, i was angry. i wasnt surprised. i've had three and a half years of no one visiting and three of those years spent visiting up there quite often. to see one old face in champaign wouldve been surprising, none the less the whole lot of you coming to my party. i wanted you guys to come down, and the last time i was in town said come down for halloween then mentioned it a lot of times after that, set up my own party so that itd be convenient. i wasnt surprised when no one showed up. i was surprised that no one had the care to lift a fucking finger and tell me no one was coming. anyway i decided to tell all of you in the most ridiculous way possible, the drunk dial, on purpose. not to say i didnt have faith in you, but i had considered that you guys might totally let me down, and for that contingency, i decided that i'd leave funny angry drunken messages. i still laugh at some of the things i said. i thought about letting it slide, but really i had made decissions and followed through with them the entire way up to the party, and i wasnt about to not follow through on this decission. and it was a good way to have fun in a dinosaur costume talking like ari gould and letting your friends know you're disappointed. i know, i know. who am i to be disappointed. oh yeah, im your fucking friend. and if i dont tell you that you need to pick up the slack then who the hell is going to. we need to be gentile, i failed there. we need to be kind. we need to care about each other. but we don't have to be polite and we dont need to tiptoe. we aren't that fragile. we are friends.
thats pretty much the end of my xanga posts for 2006. ive gone through a lot this year and im a better person for it. im a little more jaded and at the moment not as fun person, but thats for the moment. im not feeling great about 2007. i think it can be amazing. like any year. but how i feel right now is like crap, i am broke, i just broke up with my girlfriend, my throat is falling out again. i have a lot of things i want to do. i have very little to show for myself except that i want to do things. i need to get things done and stop talking about doing them. 2007 is the year of getting shit done. you know that commune/art forum? itll be operational by october. i promise. i dont know in what form, but i will have something working like something we've talked about by then. also, im going to record an album on my computer. my other computer had everything i had worked on, but its fine most of it was old crap. i'll have the album done by july 15th, at least the recording and everything. i promise you at least 9 songs. what else, yeah im thinking about working on a graphic novel. anyway either a graphic novel or a complete screen play by the end of the year as well. on top of that i will have also graduated with a bachelors in biology from UIUC around may. anyway im not going to talk about doing shit anymore. im going to fucking do it. im not going to write about the stuff im planning on doing on this blog, im going to write the things ive been writing about writing and do the things ive been writing about doing. i suggest you do the same. our time where this is even a possibility is running out. maybe you feel like it already has. they in a riptide (riptide!) that you die if you fight the current, your best chances are just floating out to see and possibly getting found. fuck that shit. the ocean has sharks and lampreys and a bunch of bullshit. jellyfish. killer wales. AIDS. anyway what im getting at is don't lose sight of whatever the hell it was we wanted two years ago. i know we aren't kids anymore but i'll be damned if im a grown-up. grown-ups are lame, they cant change their minds, they once again are lame. im not talking about all adults, but you know, grown-ups. dont go with the flow and become a grown-up. we have a couple years left to raise some hell and change things. we are a good generation. we have a lot of potential. i really dont want to hurry off and become a slave to a bunch of baby boomers and generation x'ers. we have a couple of years left, and im not giving this one to those bastards.
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