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About Me

Ok it's about time I updated this thing, it's been a while. First this continues to be a solo act although occasionally I plan on bringing in other performers depending on the show. On Feb 12th this year I made my singing debeut at Karla LaVey's Satanic Valentines Show. I'm still too scared to hear the tape, but if it's not to hideous I'll try to post it as one of my songs. Also I left Sprak over a year ago. Nothing bad, but sometimes friends go different directions. This band is basicly me Barney playing a large variety of home built elcrtonic instrumensts. All instruments, amps, effects and various strange unnamed electronic devices are designed by and built by me. All so far are analog. I tend to like the sound better in most instances and they tend to add a certain randomness that keeps the shows from getting too repetative. I've been playing around San Francisco for about a few years and even played Maritime hall once. I also play in a punk band called Fluff Grrl (http://profiles.myspace.com/users/7514593) Check it out, it kicks ass and can be alot of fun. I've also sat in with various other musicians from bands such as Victims Family, Throbbing Gristle, Social Unrest, Jean Jacques Perrey, L7, Hawkwind, DJ RAZ, Farflung and numerous bands I just can't think of at the moment.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/7/2004
Band Members: Barney
Sounds Like: Throbbing Gristle, early Psychic TV, a bag of drowning cats
Record Label: Shot Noise
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Windows Genuine DIS-Advantage

OK, so I'm sure most of you are aware of Micro$ofts "Genuine Advantage Program". You know the little feature you must install to use Windows Update. The one that often tells people their ...
Posted by Barney The Theremin Wizard on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:09:00 PST

And you wonder why kids graduate highschool and can’t read or write

Just a couple of quotes from the New Jersey school board members arrested today on corruption charges. (As reported by NJ.com)Marcellus Jackson from the Passaic City Council told a secret FBI informan...
Posted by Barney The Theremin Wizard on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:46:00 PST

Enough already

Celebs in jail. It seems to be this countries latest fetish. Just when we were finally through being force fed the last of the Paris Hilton saga now we're likely to have to endure weeks of Nicole Ric...
Posted by Barney The Theremin Wizard on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:29:00 PST

I apologise in advance........

Yes if you're one of those whom I've posted a silly picture comment please don't take it too personally. At least it's not another comment about how wonderful MY music is or how fine your ass is. I'm ...
Posted by Barney The Theremin Wizard on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:17:00 PST

Creative IS CRAP. Do not buy their products

Creative IS CRAP. Do not buy their productsThis is a warning to anyone thinking of buying any of Creative's mp3 players. DON"T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And Here's why. Two days ...
Posted by Barney The Theremin Wizard on Mon, 07 May 2007 11:23:00 PST

Apple, I-Tunes, DRM, and suffering record labels. Because youll believe anything.

A couple of weeks ago Apple (you know Apple Computer, as sued by members of the European Union, for violating many anti-trust laws) came out against selling music protected with DRM...
Posted by Barney The Theremin Wizard on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:12:00 PST

Well just a few more random but noteworthy comments on what crap Vista is

Well just a few more random but noteworthy comments on what crap Vista is. As you may have noticed M$ has been trying to force Vista down everybody's throats, but even PC manufactures are changi...
Posted by Barney The Theremin Wizard on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 08:42:00 PST

Vista..Or how to do less with more

Well these past 3 weeks I decided to give Windows Vista a try. I mean after all the Micro$oft hype you might think it's the greatest thing since indoor plumbing or possibly the wheel. Sadly however it...
Posted by Barney The Theremin Wizard on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:15:00 PST

Poorly written software makes me laugh

Ok, Time to rant again. I'll lay off poor Micro$oft here for a moment here, not out of sympathy or respect, but because.....well.... they're not the only ones screwing up in new and absurd ways. I do ...
Posted by Barney The Theremin Wizard on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:19:00 PST

UHH .... Proof you don't need to know how to write to get a job as a writer.

Ok not to be intellectually snooty or anything but here is living proof you don't actually need to know how to write to be a writer for a major newspaper. Here is an actual paragraph from a certain wi...
Posted by Barney The Theremin Wizard on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:15:00 PST