Who doesn’t like free shit?  Shit ain’t normally free, brah…  I know how you can get some of the aforementioned shit o’ free, dawg. Come closer. Closer… Too close. Please release my buttocks. … Both hands. Thanks. Kay. So anyway, you want some free shit?  Well, I got some fo’ ya.  Just go to www.jaspatrick.com and you can download my brand-spanking new album “Tributaries” for FREE. ...

As I straight, mad chill whilst listening to my nearly-completely-mixed new EP (coming soon), I find myself enjoying a real treat that I had only recently discovered:  Pumpkin Ale.  It’s a long story and I shall tell the whole damn thing as I am generally wont to do; but first, let me give a bit of back story.  I was raised a poor… No.  Too far.  Let me fast forward through video games and all that silliness and just come...

I live in Nashville.  Nashville has a music scene.  These things should not come as a real surprise.  What you may not know (and shame on you if you don’t, as I have lovingly blogged about these folks before) is that Nashville also has itself a rather popular blog which goes by the name of “HOW DARE YOU WRITE ABOUT BANDS YOU LIKE, MOTHERFUCKER?!!!” No.  I’m sorry.  It’s actually called “STOP...

Apparently if you ain’t repenting, then you best be kissing dat ass goodbye.  The rapture is reportedly at hand; therefore, one could reasonably say: The word is at hand and the word is doom…. DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! Believe it or not, I’m not going to spend a lot of time on this; but let’s talk about it for a few, shall we? For those that don’t know, the rapture is basically the second coming of Christ and all...

I believe, if I am not mistaken, that by now my nerd credentials are well established and I am above reproach in my declaration of nerdom.  I am correct.  I am not mistaken.  Wanna fight about it? What?  Nerds can’t throw hands? Okay, you got me… I just wanted to say “throw hands.”  Moving right the hell along… I’m the kind of nerd that has loved and practiced martial arts most of my life.  Yes,...