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Mario Barrio

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

“Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.”

My Interests

(in alphabetical order)
Babies
Beer
Black Flag
Books
Burritos
Comedy
Descendents
Drums
Friends (as in my)
Jessi Stein
Klosterman
Music
Pad Thai
Photoshop
Pizza
Records
Songs
SST

I'd like to meet:

“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”

Music:

Bands I like that start with the letter S
Samhain
Scared Of Chaka
Scream
Screeching Weasel
Seaweed
Sepultura
Shark Attack
The Shins
Skitsystem
Slayer
Slint
Smashing Pumpkins
The Smiths
Someday I
Sonic Youth
Squirrel Bait
SSD
The Stooges
Street Trash
Sugar
Suicidal Tendencies
Suicide File
Sunny Day Real Estate
Superchunk
Surf Nazis Must Die
Swervedriver
Swiz

Movies:

Kubrick
Coens
Scorcese
Hitchcock
Charlie Kaufmann Scripts

Television:


Books:

Bukowski

My Blog

Pics of Dez!!!

Here are some phone pics I took of Dez yesterday.I'll be posting some more in the next day or two!...
Posted by Mario Barrio on Tue, 27 May 2008 05:51:00 PST

DEZ!!!

Desmond Logan Garcia was born at 7:27 AM this morning. He weighs in at 8 lbs 14.8 oz and is 20 1/4" long. So yeah, big kid. Jess woke me this morning at 15 til 5 and he was born 2 hrs 42 minutes late...
Posted by Mario Barrio on Sun, 25 May 2008 02:17:00 PST

Warning: Bodily Fluids!

    If you're going to shit your pants it's best to do it in front of JR's Clothing.    So the last couple of days have been a little rough on the Garcia/Stein house...
Posted by Mario Barrio on Thu, 22 May 2008 04:04:00 PST

Random thoughts as Prenatal Tension kicks into high gear...

When Jess had her first ultrasound we were told that baby 2.0's ETA was June 4, 2008. When she went in for the second ultrasound the technician thought that based on the size of baby we were looking a...
Posted by Mario Barrio on Mon, 19 May 2008 09:49:00 PST

Max thinks...

that I look like Taco.Jessi was watching VH1's One Hit Wonders and when they showed this video Max got excited and started saying "Daddy! Daddy!" I don't know what's creepier; this video, th...
Posted by Mario Barrio on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:01:00 PST

Time to say goodbye fatty.

Hey remember 2 years ago when I posted about how I was 100 pounds overweight and was going to make a real effort to lose some of that poundage? Since then, I've gained 5 pounds. I lose! I know it's co...
Posted by Mario Barrio on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:46:00 PST

The Old Me Was Nine Years Old

I took an English composition class this past semester and wrote the following essay. The assignment was to write an autobiographical sketch where you underwent a personal change, old you versus ...
Posted by Mario Barrio on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:33:00 PST

2007: A year when stuff happened.

2007 was a weird year. It started out for us in Minnesota/Wisconsin and ended in Puerto Penasco, Mexico. Here's some things that happened this year. Max turned one. He's a hilarious, cuckoo clock...
Posted by Mario Barrio on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:46:00 PST

In the movie of my life I want Amanda Peet to play me...

I stole this from Sheela. Thanks Sheela! In the following pic I kinda spoofed on the usual MySpace photo. You know, taking a picture of yourself, looking serious, making sure the angle is from above a...
Posted by Mario Barrio on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:36:00 PST

Dear Mr. Vonnegut

Dear Mr. Vonnegut, I know I don't have you listed as such on this insignificant webpage but if someone stuck a gun to my head and made me choose someone who I would name my hero it would have had...
Posted by Mario Barrio on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:23:00 PST