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tBarrett

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About Me


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About Me? Well, as you already know, I'm really scary and mean . I match my socks. I have skin all over my body. Sometimes I don't wear a Los Angeles Dodgers Baseball cap. I do way more things with my right hand than I do with my left hand. My glasses make me see better. I love mushrooms but they don't make me high. I think sandwiches taste good. So does coffee. I have a funny friend named Beauregard Bogart Brooks. Dogs are cool.
My son Jake is a funny kid. This one time when I went to pick him up from daycare, I arrived at the same exact time as one of the other parents. This other parent was new and it was the very first time she had been there to pick-up her child, so needless to say, I’d never seen her before. She was an extremely large woman. So, we commenced with the usual routine: You walk into the house and stand in a tiny room and wait for someone to bring out your child. The new mom and I, standing inches apart, greeted each other and waited. It was kind of awkward. When Jake came out into said room he stopped, dead in his tracks, and stared at the new mom. When I picked him up he said, pretty much at the top of his lungs: "Oh my God! Look how fat that lady is!" Yeah, that Jake... he's hilarious.
I used to have a landlord named Dick Reamer. Seriously.
My wife’s name is Jodi. She’s the best. She’s beautiful, loving, smart, and witty. Also she wears cute glasses and cute shoes and she’s Jewish… And on top of all that, she’s a wonderful mom. What more could I want!? She’s also quite the wordsmith, and luckily her amazing grasp of the English language has been rubbing-off on our son since he began speaking, years ago. Here’s a great example: She used to drop me off at the BART station before work, every day. For a long time, the parking lot was under construction, so the buses had to share the same lane and drop-off area as the cars. So, inevitably, whenever Jodi would start pulling away from the curb, there’d be a giant bus trying to pull up to the curb, trapping her in one way or another. Obviously, this would be very frustrating - especially when it kept happening, day after day. So, of course when faced with this situation, she’d always say, under her breath, something like: “Fuckin’ bus!” … Well, one day when Jake was just starting to be able to form sentences, he and I were on our way to Toys R Us to pick up some Hot Wheels. Jake saw an AC Transit bus barreling down the freeway and he said in his precious little boy voice: “Look Daddy, a Fuckin' Bus.” Now mind you, I wasn’t in the car when Jodi would make this daily proclamation, so hearing those words coming out of my 3-year-old’s mouth was, needless to say, a shock. I honestly had no idea where this was coming from. It wasn’t long before Jake started referring to the kids playing out at the pool as the “God Damn Teenagers” or the young men in suits with black books that kept showing up at the door as “Mother Fucking Bible Thumpers.” Even the hottie 20-something neighbors that partied every night ‘til like 4 had a name: He’d call them the “Cock-Sucking Whores.” By now I started figuring it all out… Jodi has quite a way with words and I loved that my little boy was taking after her.
My brother Willy ("Biker Bill" below) is probably the coolest person alive today. He rides Harleys, he's always happy, he's given me ridiculously amazing nieces and nephews, he's grayer than I am, he has a really, really long beard, he listens to cool classic rock and he likes the Dodgers. Also, he served in the Navy for a couple of decades, and now (like I need to have another reason to be extremely proud of him) he just graduated from college. I love you, Will.

My Interests

Reading, My Dogs, Hamburgers, Playing Records, Shoes, Tattoos, Math, Death Metal, Portland, Berkeley, Seattle, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Austin, Red Meat, Hate, Reid Flemming, Diet Coke, Nestlee Quick, Old Buildings, The Smith Tower, Urban Architecture, Pinball, Gran Turismo, Forza Motorsport, Formula 1, American Le Mans Series, World Rally Championship, Red-Hooded Plastic Penguins, Cloven Hoofs, Satan, Banged-Up?, Oaxacan Food, Tito's Tacos, The Soy Bean, Red Mill Burgers, Book Stores, Record Stores, M3, M5, The White Whale, The Portland Trailblazers, The Los Angeles Dodgers, The Oregon Ducks, The Seattle Seahawks, Stoner Rock, Cooking, Leica, Jake Barrett

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to hook up with old friends, and by that I don't mean people I used to hang out with, I mean old people that would like to be my friend... and possibly hook up.

Music:


Mastodon, Tool, Slayer, Black Sabbath, The Sound Gallery V.1 and V.2, Refused, Death From Above, Karp, Carcass, 16 Horsepower, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jane's Addiction, Superjoint Ritual, Lauren Hoffman, 10,000 Maniacs, The Cardigans, Cannibal Corpse, The Mars Volta, Mr. Bungle, Astrud Gilberto, Bjork, Isis, Stevie Wonder, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Beastie Boys, The Cult, Cold War Kids, Cursive, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Neurosis, Earth, Faith No More, Early Man, High on Fire, Pelican, Rage Against the Machine, Priestess, Suicidal Tendencies, Thine Eyes Bleed, At the Drive-In, Bad Brains, The Dave Pell Singers, Keith Mansfield

Movies:

Frida, Amelie, House of 1000 Corpses, Dazed and Confused, Audition, Fight Club, Heavenly Creatures, Ghost World, Magdelene Sisters, The Usual Suspects, The Shining, Reservoir Dogs, The Exorcist, Lovely and Amazing, Rules of Attraction, Au Revoir Les Enfants, Full Metal Jacket, The Station Agent, Ice Storm, Maria Full of Grace, Kill Bill(s), Falling Down, Little Miss Sunshine, Are you really reading this shit?

Television:

F1, ALMS, Dodgers, Headbanger's Ball, Dexter, Big Love, Sopranos, The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman, Arrested Development, The gross shit that Jodi likes.

Books:

The Fountainhead, Cruddy, The Human Stain, Music For Torching, The Secret History, Atlas Shrugged, Battle Royale, History of Love, The Dictionary, The Hours, Geek Love, Memories Dreams Reflections, Fight Club, House of Leaves, The Birth of Venus, Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, Anthem, Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradisio

Heroes:

Kerry King, Beau Brooks

My Blog

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Felix, a Statistic, RARE, My Brother and Red.   May 25th, 1994. Felix, a fellow Tower Records employee, and I have tickets above the visitors dug-out to an Oakland A's game. Both of us were (an...
Posted by tBarrett on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:07:00 PST