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El Barto

About Me

I'm a guitarist, sound engineer and nutcase living in Prague since 2005. I'm originally from Yorkshire, England.
I'm obsessed with music, bodybuilding, food, Star Trek (yes I am a Trekkie), zombie films, and learning about everything.
Currently, I'm playing mad metal guitars with the drum and bass extravaganza that is 'Masters of the Universe', working on some new music and trying to learn more about everything about anything.
My Geetars are the love of my life; I designed and built them myself. I've recently discovered that I am addicted to Ragga/Jungle/DnB/Breakcore and Metal music and see no point in fighting it any longer. Yes, my name is EL and I am an addict. THIS YEAR IS MY YEAR.
Check out: www.myspace.com/manhattanengineerdistrict to hear more of my music

I play guitar with Masters of the Universe!
We like to breask things!

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

How evil are you?

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

It took me too long to realise that drummers are all full of shit. Almost as much as geetarists. LONG LIVE MY PC!

You Are Bert
Extremely serious and a little eccentric, people find you loveable - even if you don't love them!

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Seventh Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers) Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) Moderate
Level 2 (Lustful) Very High
Level 3 (Gluttonous) High
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) Moderate
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) Low
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics) Very High
Level 7 (Violent) Very High
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) High
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous) Low
Take the Dante's Divine Comedy Inferno Test

My Blog

SELF DEFEAT AND PHLEGM

I'm celebrating my first respiratory infection by saving up all my mucus in a glass. So it turns out that I'm not so invincible after all, and there is a good reason why I've felt like shit most of th...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:12:00 GMT

THE 3RD PERSON

The advantage of being cynical is that you question everything. The obvious downside to this is that it’s hard to get any enjoyment from life when you’re bombarded by mediocrity. It ta...
Posted by on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:32:00 GMT

BURN-OUT

I find myself thinking more and more about the past. What I did, what I should or shouldn't done. It's been 3 years since I left england and at that time I was completely burned out. I'd been workin...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:33:00 GMT

OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE

I remember when I was growing up the only thing I ever wanted to be was intelligent. I thought the one way to escape where I was from was to be as clever as I could possibly be, and learn everything a...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:26:00 GMT

THE ROAD TO THE MIDDLE

What did I learn this year? Did I reach some kind of life-changing epiphany? Did I find God or the love of my life? No. Cynicism is a gift. Yes it's true that the price of intelligence is that you ...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:13:00 GMT

SELF PITY

New month, new flatmate, I'm being creative again, started training hard and eating right again. But why does every keep saying to me "It's great your ex has moved out. Now you can find someone else"?...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:25:00 GMT

MASS MEDIA

I saw this documentary on youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dmPchuXIXQ I always knew people could be cruel, greedy and selfish but this made me so fucking angry. I mean, are we actually happy ...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:18:00 GMT

BACK ON IT

So, I spent the week getting my head together and feel a lot better for it. It was a tough time, but I am relieved that it's over now. Time to move on and stop living in the past. It's funny though, ...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:20:00 GMT

SHES GONE

What do you get for opening up to someone? The indignity of confessing your feelings in tears while they just stand there emotionless, drinking a beer and calling you pathetic. I wish I could be the...
Posted by on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 06:00:00 GMT

THE GIFT

I have this gift. Well, maybe it's a gift or a curse I'm still not sure. A blankness, or emotional detachment from everything around me. I'll give you an example of what I mean. I move into a tiny s...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:03:00 GMT