Frog Blog » Oakley Hall http://blog.patbarrett.com the Pat Barrett sketchblog Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:13:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Rock & Roll Dreams Come True http://blog.patbarrett.com/2010/01/rock-roll-dreams-come-true/ http://blog.patbarrett.com/2010/01/rock-roll-dreams-come-true/#comments Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:37:21 +0000 Pat http://blog.patbarrett.com/?p=617 It’s great to be back at CCS, where people love comics, beer, pot, soccer, and Mario Kart. What can I say, I’m flying around in a fuckin fantasyland! Although, that ol’ demon money keeps tugging at me like some sort of devilish ballast and crashing me back to reality! The less you have, the more it ways you down. Oakley Hall’s Landlord is my anthem. It’s about how Pat “Papa Crazy” Sullivan’s great-great-grandfather murdered his landlord, and then bucked the system by sewing an iron collar into his shirt so he wouldn’t die when he was hanged. And how that same Irish anger is flowing in Crazy’s veins today and he wonders if his landlord really wants the rent so bad? Love it so much.

And speaking of songs I love so much, I think its hilarious to think about any of the Jim Steinman Meatloaf lyrics literally. Such fraught, overwrought metaphors! Like this one.

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