michael patrick welch
michael patrick welch
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Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace. -- Elbert Hubbard
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35 years old
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
United States
Last Login: 11/13/2009
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| General | Debating. Abstaining. Home recording. Goat husbandry. New Orleans music that nontheless sounds fresh and new and is full of surprises. Utilizing sentences wherein I utilize the words "wherein" and "utilize". | | Music | From New Orleans: Telefon Telaviv, Ray Bong, Deacon Johnson (Jambox Pyramid), PotPie, Ratty Scurvics, The Interlopers, Mikronaut, The Mole, MC Shellshock, Phil DeGruy, Quintron, Belong, Drums-n-Tuba, El Tonios.
From wherever else: Nation of Ulysses/The MakeUp, Devin the Dude, Needs New Body, Atmosphere, Of Montreal, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, White Stripes, AntiPop-Consortium/Beans. Man, I been stuck in the south too long; I need to hear some new music! | | Movies | too personal | | Television | Glad that thing is keeping y'all busy as the apocalypse draws neigh. | | Books | Ooh. Shit. John Fante. Fredrick Exely. Fucking Dennis Johnson. Nabakov. Strindberg. Jonathan Ames (The Extra Man is my favorite novel of all time). Graham Greene. Charles Bukowski (though I do wish he were more emotionally well-rounded). Fitzgerald. Updike. Hunter S.! Marquez.
All dudes, I know, I know... | | Heroes | Prince (the artist). Chuck D (the hard rhymer). Phil DeGruy (guitharpist de N.O.). Dennis Johnson (author/journalist). Otis (owner of FAB bookstore on Frenchmen Street). Dave Chapelle (artist/comedian). Abram Himmelstein (author/teacher) and, really, all of New Orleans public school teachers. Also, the inventor of New Orleans, and anyone who can manage to accomplish a ton, without pissing a lot of people off. |
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| Status: | Single | | Zodiac Sign: | Aquarius |
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About me:
Michael Patrick Welch is a redhead who lives in what New Orleans' real-estate agents have begun calling "The Bywater". He is the author of the diary Commonplace and the novel The Donkey Show (equator books), plus a few more books, out some day (see links down below for new excerpts!). MPW served as a staff writer at The St. Petersburg Times in FLA, and as columnist for OffBeat magazine, New Orleans' longest-running music publication. His work has also appeared in Newsweek, McSweeneys.net, SPIN, New Orleans Review, Kitchen Sink and many other venues -- including a piece about my goat in the New Orleans CONSTANCE book, which you can click HERE to buy
MPW is also the sketchy one-man-electro-rock-n-r&b-band, The White Bitch, who has opened for TVontheRadio (thrice), Of Montreal, Trans Am, The MakeUp, Thrones, The Fucking Champs (twice), Dalek, Quintron, Isis, Needs New Body and...I can't remember em all. CLICK HERE to visit The White Bitch's myspace page, and own the tunes for free!
PS> Here are some newer stories, all from the as-yet-unpublished "journalism novel" Transport Instinct:
1) From NEWSWEEK - About painting flooded Mardi Gras floats.
2)From HOUSTON PRESS - about evacuating with my goat:
Pt.1 - Between Is and Was
Pt.2 - Refugee Special
Pt.3 - Destruction Tour '05
3) DALLAS OBSERVER - about evacuated New Orleans musicians living and playing in Houston.
4) CLEVELAND SCENE - about one-man-band Quintron and the drowning of Spellcaster Lodge.
5) And here's the first chapter of The Donkey Show, from McSweeney's.
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People who are good at things. Other goat husbands.
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