Well, here we are. At last.
I’ve been here a while, quite a while actually, depending on your take on what “a while” is of course. It’d be roughly 4 years though, almost. I wasn’t serious about this whole thing until 2 years ago though. I’m not disillusioned anyone cares hence the name. This all started as a website to blog about my student loan woes and poking fun at the horrible companies taking advantage of borrowers and a place for information. That didn’t last long, it fell off and I revamped it to simply be my little place in the world. My undeserved, pretentious little piece of the internet.
I suppose my goal though was that if anyone did or does care, the few have a single place to go and get all my stuff. Also, to build this behind the scenes unadvertised until I decide to purge it on my tiny artistic circle. But here we are, here you are.
If this is the first place or thing you’ve read here, you’re in for a real treat. Or in for some eye-opening intensity you might not be ready for or care much about. I’ve written some dark stuff in this blog, some are a bore and some entries are funny too. Other pages I’m updating on a constant basis as well. Sometimes they’re simply updates like this.
Anyway, I wrote a book. “I’m Right Here and I Want to Dance” It’s kind of a memoir of sorts. I kind of cheated with it. Most of it is blog posts in order from this very site interspersed with short stories. It’s a fairly lengthy paperweight. But to soften the blow, I only listed the interesting stories in the T.O.C. so you can flip right to those if need be. I’m not sure if anyone will read it or how it’ll be received.
As I wrote it I found it very therapeutic and fun. But as most of my creative projects go, I find the last 10% extremely difficult. So in procrastinating and going through the frustrating process of learning how to format a damn book, I wrote another book. It took about 3 days. I wrote it at work. Don’t tell.
This book is called “Excuse Me, Forgive Me, Fuck You” and it’s a novel. I think many would call it a novella, but to those people I say fuck you. A novel is anything over 40,000 words and I made damn sure to hit it. Also, I used Bukowski’s first novel “Post Office” as a gauge. It’s under 40k and still considered a novel. I’m over 40. There. It is however a small book but I’m proud of it. Not too proud, but enough as it’s a somewhat cohesive story told in short chapters. It’s a bit dirty, a bit based in truth mixed with a lot of bullshit and exaggeration. I’m not sure if there’s a point, but most of Charlie’s work didn’t seem to have one other than the constant struggle anyway. I wrote it while reading Bukowski’s “Women”. It very much influenced it. It’s in quite the same vein, minus the poor treatment and demonizing of said women. Just read it. My point is, it’s a first run. Everyone starts off this way. I’d rather get it out and openly admit it was directly influenced, than not to at all.
Also put out a new record, a long awaited (in my eyes) follow up to my second record “200: Sucha” This one’s “200: Party Killer” a lovely moniker given to me at a karaoke bar by a few guys who thought they were going to make a move on the ladies I had arrived with. In the end, I lost them anyway, but out of it came these two records. I did the first in my car, the second, I did some of it in my car. Perhaps all of it if it’d gone out in March when I wanted it to. But life gets in the way. I realized I could disappoint myself further if I waited and put out the record, both books, and this website all at once to make a “bang.” This record’s quite good, as long as you compare it to my first two albums. Do that, then, it’ll be good.
Here we are, here you are. Still? Below are links to all of it. Welcome, enjoy it. Don’t be afraid to explore. There’s quite a lot. Also, buy my shit. I need to pay for this place.
Party Killer: https://patlynch.bandcamp.com/
I’m Right Here and I Want to Dance: https://www.amazon.com/Im-Right-here-want-dance/dp/1986350339/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1540914396&sr=8-1&keywords=pat+lynch+i%27m+right+here
Excuse me, Forgive Me, Fuck You: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1726259005/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1