Patrick Wadden
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By & By
As I was walking, two people passed me. One to my left and one to my right. It’s a city we’re in. Cars buzz by and so do the people. The pace of life more staccato, forte, & allegro. Pretty words for the cacophony one pays a pretty penny to surround oneself with. Fire in the Badger Holes.
By Patrick Wadden11 months ago in Fiction
i miss the idea of less
I miss the idea of less. Less things. Less stuff. There seems to be a lot of stuff now. More than ever before. A thing is popping up on my screen as I write this. A thing I added to help me. ‘You’re supposed to use the word ‘fewer’ for countable, quantifiable objects’ It’s telling me. Another thing I have to swipe away. I dream of less.
By Patrick Wadden11 months ago in Humans
10 Old Films that are Gold
Over the course of my lifetime, nothing entralls and enraptures me more than a good film. I find myself utterly consumed by a rich text for days and even weeks afterwards; my mind constantly rolling it over in my head or scenarios in my life awakening discourse within me. Being such a great part of my life, it's been hard not being able to share the same love of particularly old films with those of my generation as they seem unlikely to even watch a trailer for one. Normally my prescription for an aversion this extreme would-be all-time greats such as the likes of '12 Angry Men', 'Some like it Hot' and 'Casablanca', but I thought maybe I'd reccomend some films of a slightly different flavour that haven't been tinged by radical cinephiles lambasting you across the internet for never watching. Thus, I present some great films that may be falling out of the culture. Don't worry, there are no achingly slow independant films on here, just simply great blockbusters that should still connect with the average filmgoer today.
By Patrick Wadden2 years ago in Geeks
Don't Sleep on a Good Wake-Up
It’s amazing how the tiniest of hammers on my alarm clock can create such a monstrously irritating sound. Little hammers clacking aggravating bells and baggy-eyed set alarms on smartphones are how billions of people awake each day. Do you know that expression, ‘woke up on the wrong side of the bed’?. Well if you ask me, waking up to the drudge of an impending day and dragging your body out of bed to the tune of annoyance would put anyone in a bad mood. Innovations have tried to invigorate those dreamers who begrudgingly have a hard time integrating back into the world of the awake. From moving alarm clocks that will taunt you as you chase it to hit snooze, alarm clock mats that only shut off when you stand upon it, to clocks that demand you solve puzzles to disarm them or one that wakes you up the wafting aroma of freshly cooked bacon, the possibilities available to torment and rid yourself from procrastinatory slumber are endless. Unfortunately, I find these all gimmicks, a solution that is not adequately addressing the correct problem: the bit you do when you finally do get up.
By Patrick Wadden2 years ago in Motivation
Golden Moments
It was a thick winter day. A thin layer of perfectly level freshly laid snow was engraved by minute rabbit paw prints. Naked trees danced in the fierce wind, shedding any white skin from their branches. I was walking violently, my worn-out boots chiselling blisters on my feet. My mother, dressed in blue from her hat to her eyes to her snowshoes, gracefully trotted over the snow, leaving only a faint mark on the fluffy white flakes.
By Patrick Wadden2 years ago in Petlife
Contemporary Thoughts on Manic Melancholia
It was one of those cold days, you know the ones? A winter day where the whole sky was that milk-fog white, like someone had dragged a white sheet across the sky that blocked anything coming in and trapped everything trying to leave. I wonder if this pearl sky had some sort of greenhouse effect, like when the gasses get trapped in the atmosphere and can never leave, making the climate it came from worse-off. My head was like that.
By Patrick Wadden2 years ago in Fiction