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Fred The Barber

New Punk name: Fredly Weapon!

About Me

I hate cell phones!

My Interests

Playing with the cat, driving the van around, comics and cheesy movies.

I'd like to meet:



Music:



You know, all kinds of Punk, Hardcore, Power Pop, and related music. Ethiopian Chldren, The Avengers, The Wipers, Sleepwalkers R.I.P., Warkrime, The Estranged, Fucked Up, Defect Defect, Warcry, Career Suicide, Deep Sleep, Really Red, Government Warning, Direct Control, Peligro Social, Young Offenders, Naked Raygun, No Hope For The Kids, The Bayonettes, The Subhumans (the CANADIAN band), The Boys, Gorilla Angreb, The Diskords, Knugen Faller, The Exploding Hearts, Asta Kask, Nazis From Mars, The Tyrades, 7 Seconds, Frantic, DSB, Carbonas, Lebenden Toten, The Sonics, Tragedy, The old Dutch band Tits, The Registrators, Plan R, Never Healed, The Spits, PRF, The Pedestrians, Dead Moon, Hjertestop, The Maximumrocknroll radio show, Polka Madre Y La Comezón

unPunk stuff like 60's Minit Records Soul, Stax/Volt (Soul, not Funk), Françoise Hardy, Young Marble Giants, 60's girl groups, Mexi-Polka (Norteños), Los Yaki and Stompin' Tom Connors

I really enjoy buying and listening to vinyl. I am one of those dorks with a sad, sick record collection that hangs around my neck like an albatross. I hate moving!!

Movies:

I watch the dumbest crap ever. And documentaries. Check out "The King Of Kong: A Fistfull Of Quarters", it's great!

Television:

Greg The Bunny, Arrested Developement, Trailer Park Boys, SCTV, Triumph The Insult Comedy Dog, weird cable access, Hockey Night In Canada and that new Battlestar Gallactica series, so what?!?!

Books:

Lately I just read comic books.

Heroes:

Stompin' Tom Connors,

My Blog

I bought a van!!

It's true, I now own a 1991 Dodge Ram 250 cargo van. Yes, it's white. It has a window on the side sliding door, and windows on the back doors, so it's not too "rapisty". It still only has two bucket s...
Posted by Fred The Barber on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:42:00 PST

Tour is still fun, even with no clothes

So, it turns out that somehow my bag of clothing got left behind somewhere along the trip. Probably in the parking lot of the club that we played in Boise. Last night after another small yet really fu...
Posted by Fred The Barber on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 12:35:00 PST

I Hate Computers

No, not the defunct Portland band. I actually hate computers, or at least my complete lack of a clue when something goes wrong with them. I've had a night where NOTHING that I needed to do worked. I c...
Posted by Fred The Barber on Tue, 09 May 2006 02:07:00 PST

It's offficial!!

I'm going to Austin for Rikkifest / Cissiefest / Chaos In Tejas in May. I've known that I am going for some time, but it's official as of today because I finally bought my plane ticket.
Posted by Fred The Barber on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:32:00 PST

Maybe this will work, or maybe not.

Go back to school. Get a degree. Get a professional job. Earn more money. Join a gym. Work out daily. Read more books. Watch less television. Buy and use Rogaine. Buy a car. Learn how to be handy. Tal...
Posted by Fred The Barber on Thu, 29 Dec 2005 02:43:00 PST

Year end update.

 I'm 35. I feel fat as hell these days. Must be all of the eating and not exercising at all.  I haven't thought up a slogan for 2006.  I'm too poor to go home to Vancouver, BC for X-mas...
Posted by Fred The Barber on Thu, 22 Dec 2005 03:08:00 PST

At this point and time

Rent is paid. August is over, so I am no longer on self-imposed bacon restriction! I have a nice bruise and lump on my left shin from attempting (unsuccessfully) to ollie on Aaron Anti's new Young Dea...
Posted by Fred The Barber on Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:18:00 PST

Foodapalooza 2005

J Hill is coming to town tomorrow. When J is in town, it's a non-stop eating frenzy! He's half the eater that he used to be, though. My favouite phrases of his were (right after a meal) "I'm just not ...
Posted by Fred The Barber on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Pancake Party Tonight!! Pancake Party Tonight!!

Earlier this year I had a contest among my Myspace friends. I filled up the "About Me" secction of my profile with quotes from Punk and Hardcore songs that had "I" in them. Here's some examples: I do...
Posted by Fred The Barber on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Canada Day, down Portland way.

Canada Day is more fun with Rikki around, but we did what we could. We listened to Stompin' Tom Conners, ate poutine, and dipped bread into maple syrup. The other folks also drank canadian beer. It wa...
Posted by Fred The Barber on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST