All Things Rock * Songwriting * Painting * Bowling * Vespa Scooters * Straight-Razor Shaving * Making Homemade Liquors / Mixology * Photography * Cooking * Origami * Mexican Day of the Dead Art * Frank Kozik * Coop * Bettie Page * Comedians: Mitch Hedberg, Dave Attell, Dave Chappelle * An unhealthy addiction to playing Battlefield 1942 *
I'd like to meet:
A bottomless Caipirinha served by a topless Brazilian..
Music:
AC/DC
Beach Boys
Beatles
Beck
Black Flag
Black Sabbath
Bleu
Blink-182
The Cars
Cat Power
The Cautions
Elvis Costello
The Cure
Dead Milkmen
Devo
Einsturzende Neubauten
Esquivel
Fountains of Wayne
Good Charlotte
Hot Rod Circuit
Jellyfish
Sheila Jordan
Henry Mancini
Aimee Mann
Morrissey
OK-Go
Michael Penn
Sam Phillips
The Pixies
Public Enemy
Run-DMC
Judee Sill
Elliott Smith
The Smiths
Sparklehorse
Stereolab
The Squeeze
Suicidal Tendencies
Sum-41
The Turtles
Ultimate Fakebook
Caetano Veloso
Rufus Wainwright
Tom Waits
Weezer
Wonkavision
XTC
Neil Young
John Zorn
Movies:
Trust (by Hal Hartley) * Slacker & Waking Life (by Richard Linkletter) * Reuben & Ed (by Trent Harris) * Hairspray, Pecker, and everything else by John Waters * Down by Law * Clerks * Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael * Office Space * Drowning by Numbers * Blue Velvet * 9 1/2 Weeks * Wild Orchid * Barfly * Angelheart * Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas * Blazing Saddles and most other Mel Brooks films * Dr. Strangelove * The Patsy (Jerry Lewis) * Harold and Maude * Napolean Dynamite * Most Woody Allen films *
Actors: Roberto Bernini * Mickey Rourke * Martin Donovan * Winona Ryder * Adrienne Shelley * Crispin Glover * Irene Dunne
Television:
Oyeah, it'll rot your brain.
Comedy Central favs:
Daily Show, The Steven Colbert Report
Adult Swim favs:
Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Home Movies, SeaLab 2020
Other shows:
The Office, The Henry Rollins Show
Books:
"On The Road" by Jack Kerouac * "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint Exupery, * "Damien" by Herman Hesse, * "Poor Folk" by Dostoyevsky, * "Skywriting by Word of Mouth" by John Lennon, * "Thirst for Love" by Yukio Mishima * books by: Mark Leyner * David Sedaris * Spaulding Gray * Diane DiPrima * Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy *
Biographies of: Andy Warhol, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Jack Kerouac, Howard Hughes, Jerry Lewis * "Tales From the Rock-N-Roll Highway" by Marley Brant <--(Note of bias: I'm IN that last book, but in spite of that, it's a really good book)
Spoken Word Artists: Jello Biafra, Henry Rollins
Heroes:
Jack Kerouac, Andy Warhol, John Lennon, and my family.
The Cautions CD'S:
Balls of Fury
Original Motion
Picture Soundtack (2007)
Eric plays synth on Loud Lion's cover of 'Rock of Ages' by Def Leppard!
Purchase Info:
Official Site | Amazon
Proceed With... The Cautions (2005)
15 songs
Purchase Info:
Not Lame | CD Baby | iTunes | Emusic
More CD's featuring The Cautions:
The Cautions (debut EP 2001)
6 songs
Purchase Info:
Not Lame | CD Baby | iTunes
L.E.O. - Alpacas Orgling(2006)
Eric Barao plays piano, keyboards
Purchase Info:
Cheap Lullaby | NewburyComics.com | Not Lame | Amazon
Substitution Mass Confusion: A Tribute to The Cars (2005)
21 Songs (The Cautions perform The Cars' song 'Night Spots')
Purchase Info:
Not Lame
International Pop Overthrow Vol. 9 (2006)
A multi-city, multi-country festival of the best Power-Pop music around the world! Now in it's 9th year, this 3 disc set includes "Big Hit Song" by The Cautions.
Purchase Info:
Not Lame
Hook Heaven Vol. 1 (2005)
41 song sampler from Not Lame Records
Currently out of print.
Krautfest: Live Boston Rock (2003)
All bands recorded live at The Linwood Grille, Boston, MA
Currently out of print.
Coffee With Joe (2004)
11 songs about coffee. Features 'Coffee Shop Girl' by The Cautions.
Currently out of print.
These are Centre Street Tracks (2003)
Boston rock complation disc
Currently out of print.