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Barakat

I like to adult swim

About Me


Allo allo... Barakat here.
Be sure to check out How About Trout at
WWW.MYSPACE.COM/HOWABOUTTROUT
And if you like what you hear, feel free to buy a selection of tracks from our E.P from
WWW.ARKADE.COM/ARTISTS/HOW_ABOUT_TROUT.ASPX
Faceless plugs are great aren't they?
Well as you may have guessed by now, my name's Barakat (yes it's my real name) and I am indeed a member of How About Trout. I play the bass, occasional harmonica, and lead 'vocals' so to speak. I could never call myself a singer. I think of my voice as a mixture between William Shatner and Nick Oliveri (only not half as cool as the latter.... or the first either). A very very shite Screamin' Jay Hawkins mixed with that nutter from Sikth. Maybe even a dash of Claypool. I'd like to think he'd sound like me if he wasn't so nasal and red necked.
I've played and recorded with the lovely Cellar Door, with whom I hope to be jamming and writing with in the very near future.
I also play the occasional gig with Harmonica Lewinski, which is a stark contrast to Trout as I get to stand in the back and be a "real" bassist, lurking in the shadows.
I've also recently been picked up to play in a sexy new band of rather heavy proportions, under the codename of 'Prosperina'. We'll be sure to have some material up and running in the very near future too.
Being a musical slag is great.
I love to record and produce as much as possible in the old abode; whether it be some of my closest mates having a grin (look out for the Supergay Sunshine Tree which should be coming soon!) or one of my many unfinished solo projects.
I hate public transport, as I rely on it everyday. I wish I lived in Japan.
I live for music as the popular cliche goes, and enjoy every aspect of it... whether it be playing it, watching, listening, recording, mixing, analysing, exploring, grooving, miming pathetically, laughing at/with it, or even criticising the hell out of it. It's all good.
I've started almost every single paragraph here with "I".
I hate that.
Have I written enough yet?
I say yes. For now.
And I agree with me.
Please please please check out the band pages if I have intrigued you in any way. And if I haven't intrigued you in any way, still check it out.

What Is Your Battle Cry?


Y ea, verily: Who is that, running out of the freeway! It is Barakat, hands clutching buzzsaw hand extensions! And with a gutteral howl, his voice cometh:

"For the love of carnage and discord, I sow darkness and discord until Satan himself emerges from the pit to thank me!!"


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My Interests



Music,
Films,
Dingying Down the Canal,
Hair Spray,

Boogying - you HAVE to dance like an idiot. It's the only way... my perfect partner will dance worse than I do,

More Music,
"ETC"

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I'd like to meet:



Everyone.

Apart from knobheads.

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Break Dancing Oops

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Music:

Primus
(and anything else involving MR. CLAYPOOL - eg Colonel Claypool's Flying Frog Brigade, Buckethead collaborations, Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains, Sausage, Solo nonsense, etc),

Mr. Bungle
(and anything by the fabulous MR. PATTON - eg Fantomas, Tomahawk, Lovage, Faith No More, Peeping Tom, etc),

Estradasphere,
Eenor (can't wait for Eenormous Sidecar),
Sleepy Time Gorilla Museum,
Secret Chiefs 3,
Akira Yamoaka,
The Book Of Knots,
Thom Yorke,
Radiohead,
M.I.R.V (and all other Mirv Haggard and/or Bryan Kehoe collaborations),
Eagles of Death Metal,
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster,
Air,
Iain Ballamy,
Screamin' Jay Hawkins,
Ratatat,
Justice,
Iron & Wine,
Damien Rice,
Bumblefoot,
The Presidents of the United States of America,
Sikth,
Death From Above 1979,
Eels,
Skeleton Key,
Clor,
Hook N Sling,
Farmers Market,
Jaco Pastorius,
Zappa,
cLOUDEAD,
Space Cowboy,
Muse,
Coheed and Cambria,
(The once mighty) Goatboy,
John Zorn,
The Locust,
The Dillenger Escape Plan,
The Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno),
Jeff Buckley,
Zen Guerrilla,
Captain Beefheart,
Bloc Party,
M.Y.N.C Project,
Massive Attack,
DJ Shadow,
Jose Gonzalez,
Pendulum,
The Arcade FireETC.

The list goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on.
And on.

And on and on.

And then off.

Oh, and Sigur Ros, Morphine, Pani Luda, Coldplay, Converge, The Haunted, Ima Robot, Without Face, Led Zeppelin, Beatsteaks, Interpol, Lagwagon, Buckethead, Hi-Standard, Electric Six, Beastie Boys, Smashing Pumpkins, Butthole Surfers and Bloodhound Gang...

Did I mention...

Movies:

Old Boy,
Save the Green Planet,
Evil Dead Trilogy,
Withnail and I,
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,
The Grudge,
The Machinist,
Casshern,
The Ring Trilogy,
Memento,
Dumb and Dumber,
Children of Men,
A Scanner Darkly,
Clockwork Orange,
Sexy Beast,
Sin City,
A Bittersweet Life,
Battle Royal,
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance,
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,
Monty Python (all 3 films),
Edward Scissor Hands,
Layer Cake,
District 13,
The Warriors,
Azumi,
Napolean Dynamite,
The Nightmare Before Christmas,
Beetlejuice,
Cowboy Bebop The Movie,
Brazil,
Reservior Dogs,
Spirited Away,
Rocky Horror Picture Show,
American Psycho,
Scarface,
Taxi Driver,
Natural Born Killers,
Shaun of the Dead,
Team America,
Leon,
Pulp Fiction,
Rocky Balboa
Date Movie is possibly the worst piece of shit I've ever seen.

Television:

The Venture Brothers;
The Boondocks;
Metalocalypse;
dethklok - go into the water
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force;
Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law;
Squidbillies,
Sealab 2021,
Cowboy Bebop,
Curb Your Enthusiasm,
The Brak Show,
Space Ghost Coast to Coast,
Jam,
Green Wing,
Spaced,
Brass Eye,
Big Train,
Outlaw Star,
South Park,
League of Gentlemen,
15 Storeys High,
The Day Today,
Invader Zim (go Gir!),
Drawn Together,
Ren and Stimpy,
The Fast Show,
The Tick,
Monkey Dust,
Aaaarrgghh it's the Mr. Hell Show (anyone remember that??),
Look Around You,
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy,
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends,
and the one and only MIGHTY BOOSH.
"Look at them shine".
Genious.

Books:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time,
and many many Terry Pratchett masterpieces.

Reading "Good Omens" at the moment

Heroes:



Les Claypool;

Mike Patton;

Captain Murphy;

Phil Sebben;

And this guy;

My Blog

haha

lolu left ur myspace on lol.sorrykatex
Posted by Barakat on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:26:00 PST

I Want Candy

I WANT CANDYBy MC PEE PANTSYup - the one from AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE.   Does ANYONE know where I can get a full length and decent quality mp3/wav/any audio file of it?? I NEED. IT IS MANDATO...
Posted by Barakat on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 05:03:00 PST

BUY TROUT ONLINE!!

  NOW AVAILABLE!! TROUT MUSIC TO BUY ONLINE!! DOWNLOADS VIA: WWW.ARKADE.COM/ARTISTS/HOW_ABOUT_TROUT.ASPX      ...
Posted by Barakat on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 09:56:00 PST

Damn...

You can't add yourself as a friend... devastating
Posted by Barakat on Sun, 02 Oct 2005 10:22:00 PST

Shameless plugging...

You know, if I type; How About Trout, New CD - "Clap Your Teeth", www.howabouttrout.com, or www.myspace.com/howabouttrout again... I think I'll explode. *explode*     Oh, it was worth i...
Posted by Barakat on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST