Check out this event: Patrick Boothe’s BIRTHDAY Show 2008

Hosted By: Patrick Boothe
When: Friday May 09, 2008
at 8:00 PM
Where: The Prophet Bar
2513 MAIN ST (enter on Elm St)
Dallas, Texas|44 75226
United States
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Patrick Boothe

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Check out this event: Patrick Boothe Live at The Prophet Bar, Dallas

Hosted By: Patrick Boothe
When: Saturday Mar 01, 2008
at 9:00 PM
Where: Prophet Bar
2513 MAIN ST
Dallas, Texas|44 75226
United States
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Patrick Boothe

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Check out this event: Laura Palmer and Patrick Boothe at JRs

Hosted By: Patrick Boothe
When: Monday Feb 18, 2008
at 10:00 PM
Where: JR Bar And Grill
3923 Cedar Springs Rd,
Dallas, Texas|44 75219
United States
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Patrick Boothe

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Check out this event: PATRICK BOOTHE LIVE @ Across The Street Bar

Hosted By: patrick boothe
When: Friday Jan 25, 2008
at 9:00 PM
Where: Across The Street Bar
5625 Yale Blvd
Dallas, Texas|44 75206
United States
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patrick boothe

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Check out this event: Patrick Boothe LIVE at Across The Street Bar

Hosted By: Patrick Boothe
When: Friday Jan 25, 2008
at 9:00 PM
Where: Across The Street Bar
5625 Yale Blvd
Dallas, Texas|44 75206
United States
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Patrick Boothe

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NEW SONG-FREE DOWNLOAD-HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Hey folks!
Happy Holidays...
You are invited to stream and download a new song on my myspace page, called Don't Lose Your Swank, which will not be on any album or any upcoming release...

Head on over to my MUSIC Page for this FREE song!
ENJOY!
-patrick b

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maybe i’m a desperate believer
Current mood: intimidated

i know it's my fault.

i'm not denying that. it's in the forefront of every decision i make now. Or else it will get thrown back at me unexpectedly. So i'll have to wear it on my sleeve.

the weight on my arm is the weight of the image of a man who sometimes i believe exists and sometimes i don't. Usually I start to believe less and less when i think i'm getting closer.

the weight on my arm is also the door that leads me to the stage. the only comfort that i've ever known, aside from isolation, is stepping away from common ground and putting myself in the forefront of a spot. Otherwise you'll just see a boy standing on his own, with no second thoughts.

i had a choice to make early on, and i chose wrong at first, but i'm still here. struggling to choose to live, still. the weight on my arm is also the resistance to surrender(ur?, er? or?), though i dream and fantasize about doing so all too often these days.

i'm counting down to 30 because people keep telling me that it starts to melt away after this "milestone"... that the anger, frustration, and anxiety decreases...

Currently listening : Young Modern By Daniel Johns Release date: 24 July, 2007

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Inside The Mind Of...

well last night's gig at Opening Bell with Kris Landherr was pretty good. I was fighting my cough and stuffy nose, so that was a minor setback, but Kris had some good advice for me afterward, to just go with it, sound gruff, let the music carry the show, don't call myself out, etc... not in all those words but that was what I got out of it.  The crowd wasn't very big but I still enjoyed playing.

the songs played were: the visitor (new song); kill him and tell God he died; pantomime (incubus cover); hestia/boys like me; isn't it obvious (new song); jump in (new song); sorry for what i've done; silvergirl (cover); whatever peace; suicide negotiation (new song)

I didn't do as many as I had originally planned, mainly because of my weak vocals. Or at least that's what I thought while I was up on stage. The sound was a little muffled to me as well, so I was a little concerned about that, especially since some of my newer songs use more of the lower registers of the keyboard and I was afraid that it would sound too chaotic through the soundsystem. But after the show a friend of mine told me they thought the sound was great and the system they use was a good one, so it was probably just my monitors.

Others there advised that the vocals as well sounded great, my voice didn't sound too affected, and one friend who had never seen me play live before thought my vocals sounded phenomenal, so I was happy that it was all in my head.

I did a new song called Suicide Negotiation that I played at my birthday show in May but instead of having all instrumentation on the mixer like I did at the b-day show, I played it on the piano, which it's a very simple piano part, like most of my songs, but it's just an intense song to concentrate on both the lyrics, music, and inst. all at once...just because of what this song means to me. I closed with it.

I wanted to premiere a new song that I've been working on lately, called Living Man. It's a very poppy song that isn't going to be on the next album, for sure, but I really enjoy and think that it has a catchy melody. I'll probably play it next time I'm out and about at an open mic or something... I use a simple generic drum beat when I play it, but I have to create the beat manually all the way through the song, and sometimes my keyboard memory isn't the best once you unplug and then replug it. But I think it has the possibilities to be a crowd-pleaser.

It's about a man who's living a lie so he can feel like he's living a normal life, but in reality he is anything but normal but won't act on what would really make him happy for fear of being shunned by "normal society". Whether he's secretly Gay, or a Fetishist, or a Biker, or a Circus clown, he feels that he can't be what he really is, what his real contribution to society should be. So he'll never really feel normal until he can admit that there is no such thing.

Maybe you'll hear it soon...

Currently listening : Finally the View Has Changed By Patrick Boothe Release date: 24 January, 2006

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NEW DALLAS SHOW WED July 18th W/ KRIS LANDHERR!!

Opening Bell Coffee
Date/Time: July 18, 2007 Wednesday

Time:
Kris Landherr 8:00pm
Patrick Boothe 9:00pm

Location:

Opening Bell Coffee in the SouthSide on Lamar building.

Street Adr: 1409 S. Lamar Suite 012
City: Dallas
Zip: 75215

COME CHECK IT OUT!!!

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CALLING ALL ANGRY GAY MUSICIANS
Current mood: angry

Ladies and Gentlemen,
We're getting screwed. Am I the only one this pissed off? We've allowed society to take a step back and once again use us as scapegoats, making it acceptable to derogate us to make THEM feel better. How did we let this happen? We've become complacent and overly concerned about the next purple party and thumping beat. We've allowed the straight world to walk all over us but use us when they want a hip new club to check out. I don't want to see a tina'd up twink (regardless of age) and think that this is the norm in our community. I hate to feel like I am the only exception around. While I'm no saint,  I am so sick of the empty beats that permeate all of our safe spots. Country music really isn't my bag but I enjoy my time spent at the Round Up than any other beat infested bar in our community. Whatever happened to variety? Apparently, we lost it along with our dignity and self-respect.

Original thought has flown out the window. We used to be ahead of the game, in regard to fashion, in regard to music, in regard to attitude. We used to be the cause to the effect. Now we are straggling behind in every way. "Revolution" is not a term you use loosely, but it is certainly time for one. I'm starting with what I am in need of the most among us: a musical revolution. In the traditions of Velvet Underground, Patty Smith, N.W.A, Sonic Youth, Pixies, hell even Pansy Division.

I don't want to feel the overwhelming senses of wanting to be dead and wanting to just be in a coma for the rest of my life to escape the angst and resentment. I want to fight this internal and external struggle that surrounds me and spew it out of my lungs the best way I know how. My dream is to form a new band, an all gay band, where the other members have as much rage as I do, and instead of expressing it in overtly destructive ways, wish to tear it apart and then glue it back together through the music. I don't want to be another electronic cliché in gay music. I don't want to be a campy version of the sex pistols, and I certainly don't want to wish I were Whitney Houston or Christina Aguilera while I'm on stage. I want to do something real and aggressive and in your face.

My number one goal within this music is to return the power back to our hands. We have become so weak that we don't even know it. Even our strong leather bears and daddies seem to have been blindsided by the club culture. So unappealing now. There's more for us than this. It's time to switch the gears from something to laugh at to something to fear.

Contact me at patrickboothe@patrickboothe.net if you are interested in joining the fight.

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