{"id":6907,"date":"2007-08-24T13:14:35","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T17:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6907"},"modified":"2022-10-13T15:10:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T19:10:15","slug":"clips-to-make-one-feel-homesick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6907","title":{"rendered":"Clips to make one feel homesick."},"content":{"rendered":"

Pat McCurdy<\/a> is an old old friend of mine and today I found some clips of Pat in action on Youtube. <\/p>\n

First clip:<\/p>\n

The F*** Buddy Song:<\/a><\/p>\n

Wow, you think he’s into Gilbert & Sullivan? hahahahaha<\/p>\n

Oh – and at the end, as he’s coming to the big finale – he kind of makes his voice go whispery and intense – and to quote Mitchell: it is pure liquid bullshit (the highest of compliments in our world) – and it just makes me LAUGH.<\/p>\n

Also:<\/p>\n

Screw You<\/a><\/p>\n

An all-time favorite. “I never thought forgetting you could be so easy ….”<\/p>\n

And this one:<\/p>\n

Oh Well<\/a><\/p>\n

Listen to that audience. You are loved, Pat McCurdy!!<\/p>\n

I can’t explain why I find him so perpetually amusing and entertaining. I’ve been going to his shows for, good Lord, forever now? I don’t even want to think of how long. I NEVER get sick of him.<\/p>\n

There are gestures he does. Like there’s one near the beginning of “Screw You” (22 seconds in, to be exact) – a kind of swoopy double-armed move – that is so STUPID, and yet – SO FUNNY. I am thinking about it now, and I am laughing out loud.<\/p>\n

There are lyrics. There is audience participation. But there’s also a constant whiff of Gilbert & Sullivan that floats around everything he does – that just … it just strikes me as sooooo funny.<\/p>\n

I am never over it. Love it.<\/p>\n

One last clip below. Gives you KIND of an idea of the raucous-ness of his live shows. Also – the melodrama – he’s so … melodramatic. Like every song is part of Edwin Drood<\/i> or something. It cracks me up!!<\/p>\n

\nI Have My Moments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

“spawn of Satan”? hahahahahaha<\/p>\n

Listen to the audience chiming in. And I love how he basically demands more applause at the end. I love that about him. MORE, MORE, MORE!<\/p>\n

“Peyton … fucking Manning!”<\/p>\n

Nothing like a Pat McCurdy show. Nothing at all.<\/p>\n

Ann – when you read this, for whatever reason the following anecdote popped into my mind yesterday (Oh, I know why – because I kept writing “Learn boundaries” in my Dean Stockwell post<\/a>):<\/p>\n

I think it was at a show at Hoghead McDunna’s and I believe Pat had some instant drunkenness going on – you know what I’m talking about. We loved it when he got instantly drunk. hahaha You and I were sitting there, having a great time – and he was coming up to a break, and he said something to the entire audience like, “I’m gonna take a 15 minute break now … so please … feel free to sexually approach one another ….”<\/p>\n

You and I DIED … we just were like: WHAT? Feel free to what?? and you shouted up at him: “LEARN BOUNDARIES.”<\/p>\n

I don’t know – that came into my head yesterday and I burst out laughing, even though it’s an anecdote from the Pre-Paleozoic Era of our lives!<\/p>\n

One more story and then I’ll be done<\/b>: Speaking of his whole “more more more” quality – one of my favorite Pat stories (and they are legion) is this: He and I were in Rhode Island. We had gone to Foxwoods and had the most hysterical time gambling. I took pictures in the casino and got in trouble. I drove him around my old haunts. I showed him the house on Ocean Road where I lost my ………… luggage. He was enthralled. “Over there? Right over there?” Goofball. He spoke in a bogus New England accent and made jokes that everyone was named Ezekiah or Jebediah. “Ezekiah, batten down the hatches – a nor’easter’s comin’ down!” he kept declaring. So stupid. So fun. We went out for seafood at George’s (Rhode Islanders in exile may swoon with homesickness now) – and we had beer and then went for a walk on the beach. It was a full moon. The beach was spectacular. I felt as though my homestate were showing off for Pat – putting on her finest clothes, letting him see her at her best. The tide was low, there was a huge moonpath in the water – we walked silently – it was absolutely gorgeous. A perfect moment. Pat was like a little kid, staring around him. Then he said, eagerly, “Wouldn’t it be perfect if there were like little flopping dead fish on the sand?” (Okay, so first of all – I love it that THAT was what he thought was missing … but that’s not the point of the story.) He said that, and I stared around – at the full moon, and the ocean and the lighthouse – and said, “Man, it’s never enough for you, is it?” And he just LOST it. My comment took him so by surprise – and I had just nailed him – not with scorn or contempt – it was a simple observation. Pat was dying. “It isn’t! It’s never enough!” Hours later, we were still laughing about the two of us walking thru this dream-like perfect scene of nature – and him wishing for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pat McCurdy is an old old friend of mine and today I found some clips of Pat in action on Youtube. First clip: The F*** Buddy Song: Wow, you think he’s into Gilbert & Sullivan? hahahahaha Oh – and at … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6907"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181250,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907\/revisions\/181250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}