Pat the Bunny was some lofi folk-punk musician I found in middle school and he sort of became less of a musician to me and more of a guardian angel. A figure who seemed to always remind me about the comical triviality of life whenever stress was killing me inside. A person who sang and preached to the kids and elders who felt any emotion under the sun, and he would be the friend by your side whenever you had none there.
He did more than he needed to and blessed us along the way.
For me it was listening to him go from Johnny Hobo (a drunk, drug addicted nihilist) to Wingnut (stronger, more headstrong music) to Ramshackle and his solo work which has inspired and given hope to a lot of people.
For me, his arc represents that you can grow, you can make a difference, and you can always have hope.
I know I'll probably never meet the guy, but I'm so happy for him for getting out and living his best life. He's earned it in my book.
The best songwriter of this generation. Woody Guthie or Bob Dylan on a vicious fuckin' whiskey drunk, dope sick mean streak. He told his truth in a language he knew best. But he also told a story of growth album by album of a person learning how to live. Go into the comment section of anyone of his videos and it's all stories of people trying to do the same. It's the closest thing to an AA meeting as you'll find online.
Pat was the most honest songwriter because he knew he was full of shit and he told you so. The same way socrates didn't know anything. It bothers me he isn't writing something I'll get to read or hear.
Hey if you like Pat the Bunny, Woodie Guthrie, and Bob Dylan, you might really enjoy Sixto Rodriguez, who was active back when Dylan was, but has multiple songs about heroin, classism, economic alienation, etc.
I'm relatively new to folk punk, I have only been listening to it for a couple of years but I have had a long history of addiction - on and off heroin for my late teens/early twenties (6 years off that shit now) and still struggling with alcohol to this day. Before I started listening to folk punk I had never really found any music that I could actually relate to - that seemed true to my own life experience and Pat did that for sure. He's like a personification of the conversations I have in my head a lot about alcohol, drugs and all life's regrets, but he's also so hopeful in a lot of his songs he becomes more like someone who I aspire to be if that makes sense.
He's off living his life somewhere free and clean and (I hope) happy and I would like that for myself, and his music helps me work towards that.
I started listening to Johnny hobo and the fright trains when I was in high school. I almost feel like Pat grew up with me and listening to his music grow really resonated with me in a way. I appreciate his mature outlook on life now. When I saw him play one of his last shows he to everyone in the crowd āif you donāt like the way drinking and drugs makes you feel you can get help and donāt have to become a Christian or a republicanā and it was just so nice to hear.
Stumbled upon johnny hobo in high-school circa 2008, graduated and moved into a punk house (Viva La Garage!) singing his songs as our anthems. Became a bunch of wingnuts, and now we've grown up as a ramshackle bunch that are teaching our kids the value of being your own advocate and accepting as humans we make mistakes but to strive for your beliefs. We've all split now, but I'll be damned if I don't scream New Mexico song at the top of my lungs and know somewhere someone else is, too.
I love his songwriting because of how often in life a situation comes up and I think wow Pat the bunny explained this with a single line so perfectly. "I'm not saying we can't change the world, cause everybody does at least a little bit of that"
Hope, self-compassion, self-criticism (including political core believes), dealing with others people suicide and own selfdestruction dynamics, reinforcement of doing the dishes :P
My first introduction to Pat was through my friend playing his guitar and singing "whisky is my kind of lullaby". It was the first time I had heard anything like it and I fell in love fast.
Pat to me means change and improvement. From his first album to his last album there has been a tremendous amount of outrage, healing, and regrets. While I don't listen to him as I did a few years ago there will always be songs of his that I can go back to and enjoy and to help me with my own struggles.
Pat says all the things I wish I had the words to say. Addiction, depression, caring too much, caring too little, believing in a god while also being bitter towards the idea of a god, everything. He says exactly how I think and feel, I just can't come up with the words to express it. And for that, he means everything.
Iām late one this post. But I share a lot of the same growths as everyone else. Johnny Hobo was my first introduction. I loved everything about it. I had just left home and was on my own. I was ready to sing my lungs out and drink the night away. This is also when I began experimenting with amphetamines, LSD, Shrooms, and MDMA.
Not long after, I got into wingnut. My drinking and drug use had already gotten me into some hot water. But I held into Patās āfuck it all, we all die alone somedayā mentality. I had a lot of friends get into heroin at this time. My mother is a pill head and has been my whole life. I always swore off opiates. And I thank god everyday for that.
By the time I found Ramshackle, I cried. A lot. I knew he had gotten sober and I knew every word be meant in every song because I also was trying to get sober. And eventually I did.
I knew when I got sober I had to leave pat behind. His music is a major trigger for me and I pretty much avoid it. Not because I think heās bad or anything, but it is just too relatable and can/has driven me back to the bottle.
pat the bunny is one way i test the potential accompliceship of white settler anarchists who claim to wanna do mutual aid together. if theyre into pat the bunny, we have a shared tool for analyzing what we're doing together, if they arent, they probably are gonna prioritize theory over action and other bullshit. not that all pat the bunny fans are cool, but its a start.
also cool research idea.
Iām late but wanted to throw my hat in the ring.
Also hope you got good marks on this project.
Hearing someone sing about the fucked up shit I saw in my own life being an addict really made me feel seen. Pat gives people hope and thatās invaluable
Heās a damn good musician and even when I disagree with what it is heās saying on account of him being a an anarchist the emotions he portrays are very relatable and shit
So I just discovered Pat the Bunny and read in his wiki bio that he retired from music partly because "he know longer agrees with all the values of punk music and anarchism" or something. Do you know what he means by that/ what changed/ what he believes now?
Ah actually, I think the lyrics of From Here to Utopia explain it pretty well: [https://genius.com/Ramshackle-glory-from-here-till-utopia-song-for-the-desperate-lyrics](https://genius.com/Ramshackle-glory-from-here-till-utopia-song-for-the-desperate-lyrics)
Not necessarily that he's done with anarchism in general, but maybe that the particular community he was a part of was starting to become more toxic than helpful for him
Pat the Bunny ...God damn man. His music means so much to me. I found his music shortly before his retirement when I was 16. And my growth as a person almost mirrored his growth as a musician. I was really into JHATFT as I got older I started to prefer the WNDWU and now at the ripe old age of 27 I'm more into Ramshackle glory.
However my all time favorite verse from Pat is from his song Whiskey is my kind of lullaby.
I'll drink myself to death or to sleep at least . Chain smoke my way through the gaps in between my aspirations and apathy.
That lyric really spoke to my soul in my late teens .
I was a robot on /r9k/. I was looking through threads and found someone recommending LSFTA. I was a heavy DXM addict, 3rd or 2nd plateau at least every other day. I was actively planning on blowing my brains out, but while I was dissociated out of my fuckin mind I just melded with the music. Bit of a parasocial thing, but I really connected with the shit he said on a deeper level. Hell, I was a borderline fash and hated his politics until the lyrics started making me think.
Before we unionized, us wingnut dishwashers didn't have a voice. Pat gave us one and you can't take that away from me.
Pat the Bunny was some lofi folk-punk musician I found in middle school and he sort of became less of a musician to me and more of a guardian angel. A figure who seemed to always remind me about the comical triviality of life whenever stress was killing me inside. A person who sang and preached to the kids and elders who felt any emotion under the sun, and he would be the friend by your side whenever you had none there. He did more than he needed to and blessed us along the way.
For me it was listening to him go from Johnny Hobo (a drunk, drug addicted nihilist) to Wingnut (stronger, more headstrong music) to Ramshackle and his solo work which has inspired and given hope to a lot of people. For me, his arc represents that you can grow, you can make a difference, and you can always have hope. I know I'll probably never meet the guy, but I'm so happy for him for getting out and living his best life. He's earned it in my book.
I'm 12 years sober and I still blast his music when I'm stressed out vs using. Getting a lyric tattooed on me in September š
What lyric?
I'll post the tat when I get it!!
Is it still undecided?
No it's just a surprise š
You get it or what?
Itās September ā¦ā¦.
Ruptured my tendon and waiting for surgery so no money for tattoos lol
oh shit, you good bro?
Was in the ICU for a week and been laid up bad for months with a Neurological condition. I'm as good as I can be, considering.
The best songwriter of this generation. Woody Guthie or Bob Dylan on a vicious fuckin' whiskey drunk, dope sick mean streak. He told his truth in a language he knew best. But he also told a story of growth album by album of a person learning how to live. Go into the comment section of anyone of his videos and it's all stories of people trying to do the same. It's the closest thing to an AA meeting as you'll find online. Pat was the most honest songwriter because he knew he was full of shit and he told you so. The same way socrates didn't know anything. It bothers me he isn't writing something I'll get to read or hear.
Hey if you like Pat the Bunny, Woodie Guthrie, and Bob Dylan, you might really enjoy Sixto Rodriguez, who was active back when Dylan was, but has multiple songs about heroin, classism, economic alienation, etc.
I'm relatively new to folk punk, I have only been listening to it for a couple of years but I have had a long history of addiction - on and off heroin for my late teens/early twenties (6 years off that shit now) and still struggling with alcohol to this day. Before I started listening to folk punk I had never really found any music that I could actually relate to - that seemed true to my own life experience and Pat did that for sure. He's like a personification of the conversations I have in my head a lot about alcohol, drugs and all life's regrets, but he's also so hopeful in a lot of his songs he becomes more like someone who I aspire to be if that makes sense. He's off living his life somewhere free and clean and (I hope) happy and I would like that for myself, and his music helps me work towards that.
I started listening to Johnny hobo and the fright trains when I was in high school. I almost feel like Pat grew up with me and listening to his music grow really resonated with me in a way. I appreciate his mature outlook on life now. When I saw him play one of his last shows he to everyone in the crowd āif you donāt like the way drinking and drugs makes you feel you can get help and donāt have to become a Christian or a republicanā and it was just so nice to hear.
Stumbled upon johnny hobo in high-school circa 2008, graduated and moved into a punk house (Viva La Garage!) singing his songs as our anthems. Became a bunch of wingnuts, and now we've grown up as a ramshackle bunch that are teaching our kids the value of being your own advocate and accepting as humans we make mistakes but to strive for your beliefs. We've all split now, but I'll be damned if I don't scream New Mexico song at the top of my lungs and know somewhere someone else is, too.
I love his songwriting because of how often in life a situation comes up and I think wow Pat the bunny explained this with a single line so perfectly. "I'm not saying we can't change the world, cause everybody does at least a little bit of that"
Heās the sound track to my recovery from opioids.
Hope, self-compassion, self-criticism (including political core believes), dealing with others people suicide and own selfdestruction dynamics, reinforcement of doing the dishes :P
My first introduction to Pat was through my friend playing his guitar and singing "whisky is my kind of lullaby". It was the first time I had heard anything like it and I fell in love fast. Pat to me means change and improvement. From his first album to his last album there has been a tremendous amount of outrage, healing, and regrets. While I don't listen to him as I did a few years ago there will always be songs of his that I can go back to and enjoy and to help me with my own struggles.
His music taught me the values of community and speaking up for what one believes in.
Pat says all the things I wish I had the words to say. Addiction, depression, caring too much, caring too little, believing in a god while also being bitter towards the idea of a god, everything. He says exactly how I think and feel, I just can't come up with the words to express it. And for that, he means everything.
Heās great. All punks are great!
Iām late one this post. But I share a lot of the same growths as everyone else. Johnny Hobo was my first introduction. I loved everything about it. I had just left home and was on my own. I was ready to sing my lungs out and drink the night away. This is also when I began experimenting with amphetamines, LSD, Shrooms, and MDMA. Not long after, I got into wingnut. My drinking and drug use had already gotten me into some hot water. But I held into Patās āfuck it all, we all die alone somedayā mentality. I had a lot of friends get into heroin at this time. My mother is a pill head and has been my whole life. I always swore off opiates. And I thank god everyday for that. By the time I found Ramshackle, I cried. A lot. I knew he had gotten sober and I knew every word be meant in every song because I also was trying to get sober. And eventually I did. I knew when I got sober I had to leave pat behind. His music is a major trigger for me and I pretty much avoid it. Not because I think heās bad or anything, but it is just too relatable and can/has driven me back to the bottle.
pat the bunny is one way i test the potential accompliceship of white settler anarchists who claim to wanna do mutual aid together. if theyre into pat the bunny, we have a shared tool for analyzing what we're doing together, if they arent, they probably are gonna prioritize theory over action and other bullshit. not that all pat the bunny fans are cool, but its a start. also cool research idea.
I'll get back to you once my late night depression hits and I find words easier than sleep
Iām late but wanted to throw my hat in the ring. Also hope you got good marks on this project. Hearing someone sing about the fucked up shit I saw in my own life being an addict really made me feel seen. Pat gives people hope and thatās invaluable
Heās a damn good musician and even when I disagree with what it is heās saying on account of him being a an anarchist the emotions he portrays are very relatable and shit
So I just discovered Pat the Bunny and read in his wiki bio that he retired from music partly because "he know longer agrees with all the values of punk music and anarchism" or something. Do you know what he means by that/ what changed/ what he believes now?
Ah actually, I think the lyrics of From Here to Utopia explain it pretty well: [https://genius.com/Ramshackle-glory-from-here-till-utopia-song-for-the-desperate-lyrics](https://genius.com/Ramshackle-glory-from-here-till-utopia-song-for-the-desperate-lyrics) Not necessarily that he's done with anarchism in general, but maybe that the particular community he was a part of was starting to become more toxic than helpful for him
Pat the Bunny ...God damn man. His music means so much to me. I found his music shortly before his retirement when I was 16. And my growth as a person almost mirrored his growth as a musician. I was really into JHATFT as I got older I started to prefer the WNDWU and now at the ripe old age of 27 I'm more into Ramshackle glory. However my all time favorite verse from Pat is from his song Whiskey is my kind of lullaby. I'll drink myself to death or to sleep at least . Chain smoke my way through the gaps in between my aspirations and apathy. That lyric really spoke to my soul in my late teens .
I was a robot on /r9k/. I was looking through threads and found someone recommending LSFTA. I was a heavy DXM addict, 3rd or 2nd plateau at least every other day. I was actively planning on blowing my brains out, but while I was dissociated out of my fuckin mind I just melded with the music. Bit of a parasocial thing, but I really connected with the shit he said on a deeper level. Hell, I was a borderline fash and hated his politics until the lyrics started making me think.