Awesome Celebrity Birthday Of The Day: Mike Patton
Posted at 12:15 PM Jan 27, 2009
By Kenny HerzogWelcome to one of NCDSUV's favorite daily features, where we acknowledge another turn of the calendar for a member of Hollywood land, even if it's a celebrity who often goes overlooked by the rest of the blogosphere, and regardless of whether we have a huge affinity for their body of work.
Yesterday we cracked a cold one for a former Miller Lite spokesman who's equally adept at cracking a home run as he is cozying up to live-in nanny Mr. Belvedere. And today we sing happy 40th in incomprehensible gibberish to one of the last two decades' truly cracked musical pioneers.
Mike Patton
Age: 40
Why He's Sort Of Awesome: Were his interests more glaringly multi-medium, former Faith No More vocalist Patton would have been recognized as one of the latter 20th/early 21st century's great renaissance man. Well, that also would have been more likely if such canonizing were inviting of avant noise makers and subversive weirdos. Between his iconic, aforementioned alt-metal band, influential work with Mr. Bungle and subsequent collaborations with everyone from Dillinger Escape Plan to Rahzel to Fennesz to The Melvins and Dan The Automator, there have been few musical shapeshifters quite like the chameleon-tongued, oddly seductive Patton. And more than arguably any frontman of the past 20 years, he has simultaneously indulged the classic appeal of rock-god bravado and the ulterior motive of pushing listeners' limits with genuine outsider madness.
Most Likely Celebrity Status 20 Birthdays From Now: More than likely, Patton will have attained an almost Laurie Anderson-esque status of almost mundanely acceptable oddness. But will still continue infiltrating the mainstream consciousness with his twisted instincts via the oversight of his record label, Ipecac, and its corresponding film-production house, which by then will be famous for Dakota Fanning's shocking, John Waters-inspired directorial debut, Mommie Queerest.
All Apologies To: Patton Oswalt, Mimi Rogers, Alan Cumming, Frank Miller, Bridget Fonda, Steve Wynn
Age: 40
Why He's Sort Of Awesome: Were his interests more glaringly multi-medium, former Faith No More vocalist Patton would have been recognized as one of the latter 20th/early 21st century's great renaissance man. Well, that also would have been more likely if such canonizing were inviting of avant noise makers and subversive weirdos. Between his iconic, aforementioned alt-metal band, influential work with Mr. Bungle and subsequent collaborations with everyone from Dillinger Escape Plan to Rahzel to Fennesz to The Melvins and Dan The Automator, there have been few musical shapeshifters quite like the chameleon-tongued, oddly seductive Patton. And more than arguably any frontman of the past 20 years, he has simultaneously indulged the classic appeal of rock-god bravado and the ulterior motive of pushing listeners' limits with genuine outsider madness.
Most Likely Celebrity Status 20 Birthdays From Now: More than likely, Patton will have attained an almost Laurie Anderson-esque status of almost mundanely acceptable oddness. But will still continue infiltrating the mainstream consciousness with his twisted instincts via the oversight of his record label, Ipecac, and its corresponding film-production house, which by then will be famous for Dakota Fanning's shocking, John Waters-inspired directorial debut, Mommie Queerest.
All Apologies To: Patton Oswalt, Mimi Rogers, Alan Cumming, Frank Miller, Bridget Fonda, Steve Wynn
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Comments
Thank you for the MP love.
I can't be the only person who at 15 had a faith no more covered wall and 5 foot tall Patton poster over his bed.
And on that note, FNM is one of the only bands that I listened to at that age that I can still listen to today. My just about 2 year old daughter always wants to dance with me when anything of the Real Thing shows up on my Ipod's shuffle.
Posted 01/31/2009 at 12:53:52 PM