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Pete - The General

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me


Corporate helper and purveyor of fine things to alternative people...

Clothes - Jewellery - Costumes

WWW.MADAMEDIAMANTE.COM

My Interests

Snowboarding, snakes, music, mountain biking (preferably using a ski lift!), MTB tandem (preferably steep & fast)trapeze, guitars, Plastik Wrap, Girls (much more interesting than guys!), unusual photography, karate, astronomy, driving cars fast, yank tanks, Food! (Mexican, Indian, Pizza, cakes), mountains, deserts, rivers, oceans, stars, storms, travel, interesting people, freaks, fine & (some!) modern art, anything that takes skill and time to create

I'd like to meet:



Music:

Turisas, Fun Lovin Criminals, Hoobastank, Bon Jovi, Bill Craig, Chilis, Pearl Jam, rock, metal, goth, electronic, acoustic, Blind Melon, Moriarty & The Sith, Bob Marley, Stravinski, Bon Jovi, Whitesnake, Prodigy, Placebo, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, Nickel Creek, Kula Shaker, Skin, Little Angels, Body Count, Gwar, Goldfrapp, All About Eve, Soul Asylum, The Feeling, Gwen Stefani, Muse, Foo Fighters, Snow Patrol, NIN, Maralyn Manson, Juliette & The Licks

Movies:

From Dusk Till Dawn, Lost Boys, The Crow, Zoolander, The Outlaw Josie Wales, Apocalypse Now (redux), Shaun of the Dead, any backcountry boarding films, Blade Runner, Leon, Dragon, any Pink Panther, Silent Running, Solaris, Matrix, Jaws, original Star Wars trilogy, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Spaghetti Westerns, Young Guns I & II, A Matter of Life & Death, Bullitt, Labyrinth, Legend, Edward Scissorhands, The Bill & Teds, Waynes World, the Pythons, Most Carry On films, Up Pompeii, Lair of the White Worm, early Bond, Dr.Jeckyl & Sister Hyde, Airplane, Touching the Void

Television:

Try not to...Twin Peaks, Lost (sorry!), Northern Exposure, Babylon 5, My Name is Earl, any cheesy detective, sky at night, from the earth to the moon, Porridge, Watery Fowls, Corny Sci-Fi, cracker, top gear, Buffy & spin-offs, BBC Winter Olympics coverage '06! "Colin's going to burn his skis...!"

Books:

Cloud Atlas, Between a Rock & a Hard Place, Moon Dust, Death Zone, The Beckoning Silence, Private Rooms, Dr.Eckner's Dream Machine, LOTR, Original Dragon Lance Trilogies & Legends, Cthulu Mythos

Heroes:

Alan Chapman, Richard Branson, Fred Dibnah, Jean Luc Picard, David Coverdale, Isembard Kingdom Brunell, Brian Blessed, Richard O'Brien, Story Musgrave, Joaquin Cortes, Henry Rollins, Derren Brown, Jenson Button, Most World Cup Downhill Skiers, pink pixies!

My Blog

New Season Looming!

Planning's started for a new season of festivals&.. Sun's out, trees are blossoming, frogs in the pond  Whitby next weekend!   I'm looking on events differently now. Not necessarily in a bad ...
Posted by Pete - The General on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:41:00 PST

Thieving B*stards!

Ok, so many of you will have heard that we had several thousand pounds worth of Plastik Wrap stolen this week. The response from the alternative crowd has been amazing! Lots of messages of support and...
Posted by Pete - The General on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:33:00 PST

Should have been born in Bhutan!

Why? Because maybe then I'd have been trained to be satisfied with what wonders the world has to offer instead of this Western striving to "better oneself" crap. With a history of carefully restr...
Posted by Pete - The General on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:49:00 PST

What a strange life we lead...

10 o'clock on Saturday night. Sitting here printing business cards for the Carnival of Souls tomorrow. Can't believe we've handed out all the flyers we had printed last year! Sounds a bit sad sitting ...
Posted by Pete - The General on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:14:00 PST

Day 1...

So, here we go - Blog No.1 & experiments with the Myspace world! The first time I tried this lark a few days ago I created a full site and went to bed a happy camper. Unfortunately I was so pisse...
Posted by Pete - The General on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 04:38:00 PST