Class Work

“Don’t take any wooden nickels, was the best advice I have ever heard,” said Patrick Devine. His grandfather told him this when he was a child. The meaning is obvious, don’t get ripped off but for Patrick he sees it differently; “It’s not really the meaning that means something. It’s just funny,” he says with a laugh.
This surfer music man considers Dave Chappell, Muhammad Ali, Bob Dylan and Barack Obama as his heroes and ends everything thing with a smile and a laugh. Patrick, is a senior at High Point University majoring in English wants to, “Change the world,” when he graduates; but his greatest obstacles at the moment is just that: graduating. His friends consider him as easy going and opinionated but Patrick does not see himself the same way, “Silly… and extremely serious,” she says with a laugh of sarcasm.
If he had to choice a job, he wants to be involved in music. He plays the piano, electric guitar as well as the harmonica. Everything about Patrick is a hodgepodge of different ideas.
He picked up the guitar in high school with no real pressure for his parents considering his mother is a elementary school music teacher.
“My father, though, he kind of introduced me to a lot of music. Not playing just the music,” says Patrick whose favorite song is, All Along the Watchtower, by Jimi Hendricks, “Not Dylan’s version.” He makes sure to specify. Because like few Patrick knew that Bob Dylan wrote and recorded the original version.
As for Patrick the destination of a musical career is not the most important thing at the moment for him, “Finishing Research Methods class right now is.”