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Barry

Beers are for cheersin'

About Me

I work as a senior graphic designer at a small firm and I'm doing some design work on the side under the name Solid Uncoated, based in Providence. Mostly website design for small businesses. I love all forms of art and design. I also listen to music as often as possible. I write songs, sing, play guitar and bass.

Favorite Foods:
Ham & Eggs, Baked Beans, Waffles, Sausage and other breakfasty foods, Thanksgiving Sandwiches, Burgers, Chicken Chow Mein, Sushi, Water, Tea, Juice, Beer.

Favorite Smells:
Coconut, Wood Burning, Sandlewood, Fresh Ink on Paper.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

kind souls. sights for sore eyes. people who like to hang out and talk and listen to music, and maybe make some music... and drink.

Also, people who need cool websites designed for them.

IM: talkstoolittle

Music:

AC/DC
Alice In Chains
Beatles, the
Bad Religion
Beck
Ben Harper
Beulah
Black Clouds
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Blind Melon
Brian Durkin
Cake
Clash, the
Creedence
Cursive
Diamond Nights
Doves
Elliott Smith
Explosions in the Sky
Face to Face
For Squirrels
George Thorogood
Huey Lewis & the News
Hum
Jawbreaker
Johnny Cash
Kings of Convenience
Kings of Leon
Led Zeppelin
Lemonheads
Lucinda Williams
Lynyrd Skynyrd
M. Ward
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Pedro the Lion
Radiohead
Rancid
Ray Lamontagne
Smashing Pumpkins
Soul Coughing
Spoon
Stills, the
Strike Anywhere
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Wilco

Movies:


FILMS I ENJOY
Amelie
American Beauty
Anchorman
Big Fish
Big Lebowski, the
Blow
Buffalo 66
Crow, the
Dazed & Confused
Detroit Rock City
Fear & Loathing
Fight Club
Goodfellas
High Fidelity
Kill Bill (I & II)
Lost Boys, the
Lost In Translation
Magnolia
Office Space
Oh! Brother Where Art Thou
Once Upon A Time In Mexico
Powder
Princess Bride, the
Professional, the
Rad
Royal Tenenbaums, the
Run Lola Run
Rushmore
Say Anything
School of Rock
Snatch
Truman Show, the
Waking Life

Television:

Law & Order: CI, SVU
CSI: Las Vegas
Family Guy

Books:

DaVinci Code
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Graphic Design Mags

Heroes:

ARTISTS I DIG

Chuck Close:

Eduardo Recife:

www.misprintedtype.com

Gil Elvgren:

Peter Cardoso:

www.ghost-town.net

Shepard Fairey:

www.obeygiant.com

My Blog

Forgetting the Noise

Inspired by those around us, we march forward eyes to the sky, hoping to never lose momentum and keeping dreams at center sight. There are many things left to do, and many travels yet to take, many mo...
Posted by Barry on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:26:00 PST

Words of Wisdom

This sounds really familiar, I have a feeling I already posted this in here. Oh well. Deal with it.01. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully. 02. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to...
Posted by Barry on Wed, 24 May 2006 12:28:00 PST

5 Lessons on How to Treat People

Five lessons to make you think about the way we treat people.1. The Cleaning Lady During my second month of college, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had breezed thr...
Posted by Barry on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:01:00 PST

Liquid Lunch

I wish that meant I was getting tanked right now, but instead it means that I'm trying to satisfy my hunger with Ensure High Protien Shakes because I just got a tooth yanked out at the dentist yesterd...
Posted by Barry on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:20:00 PST

Hardware Dreams

It's not too too often that I feel the real need to get something new in the hardware department, but when I do, I don't know, I just really want it bad. I have been ogling these now for the past two ...
Posted by Barry on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:56:00 PST

The Italian Tomato Garden

An old Italian man lived alone in the country. He wanted to dig his tomato garden, but it was very hard work as the ground was hard. His only son, Vincent, who used to help him, was in prison. The old...
Posted by Barry on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:24:00 PST

Beauty

"People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places w...
Posted by Barry on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:42:00 PST

Live Music

So I went to the Living Room last night to check out this band the Slackers. I am glad I got there early to see Neutral Nation. I had never heard this band before, but apparently, some people call the...
Posted by Barry on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:26:00 PST

Pickin' and a Singin'

Lately, I've been itching to play some music out. I haven't done that in a long time. Looking back to the coffeehouse back at UMass, then this little coffeehouse down on the cape, the Prodigal Sun... ...
Posted by Barry on Thu, 02 Feb 2006 06:35:00 PST

Instructions For Life

by The Dalai Lama 1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. 2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. 3. Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. ...
Posted by Barry on Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:00:00 PST