--- uuid: "4350078615047149432" title: "pHat riNO" date: "2006-03-09" permalink: "/pHat-riNO.html" description: categories: ---
Many people ask me what the deal is with my screen name, phatrino. How is it pronounced? Where did it come from? What does it mean? First off, it's pronounced like Fat Rhino (not Reno). It started as a nickname in high school. I don't remember who started it, and I doubt anybody ever knew what it ment, but I thought it was really funny. This was around the same time as when I was writing and recording a lot of songs. I was putting together a CD of my original music to pass around my friends, and while designing the CD cover, I thought it'd be cool and funky to spell Fat Rhino wrong. Thus the current spelling. Nobody has called me phat rino (or Fat Rhino, for that matter) in years, but I still think it sounds funny and don't have the effort to change all of my online accounts, so I'll keep the name, for now.
changed), so I developed a persona known as pHat riNO (Notice capitalization. If you look at only the lowercase letters and add "ck" to the end, you've got patrick, my first name. Really wanted an anagram, but Praktis Chawk was the closest I could get.).

Most of what was recorded is bad.
No, it's beyond bad.

But the experience of writing songs and other people listening to them was a lot of fun, and I learned a lot about who I am and how I relate to people.

I'll never forget one night at my friend Kerry's house, while we were all upstairs and I was playing some of my songs, everybody else started singing along.
This had a profound impact on me, one that I'll never be able to put into words.

Sometime during my junior year of high school, the whole pHat riNO thing kind of went away.
There were several reasons for this, which I won't get into right now.

Listening to these recordings, I remember how much I love music, regardless of my talent (or lack thereof).
My buddy Kevin wants to go into the studio in February and record some songs, with me on guitar. I think that's a good idea.

Many times, I've thought about putting some of my old recordings online. I don't know if that's a good idea, or if this is even the place for that.
All of my recordings were online at one time, but I deleted my Geocities page a long time ago.

Meh.

pHat riNO