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Petro

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About Me

I am a special one. I never hammer my mind out, I never had their bloody hammer.

My Interests

The only things that interest me are starships, parasite ecology and cheese sandwiches.

I'd like to meet:

Mr. Kurtz or a phone booth death fetus from Fetusmart!

Music:

Neil Young, T.Rex,El Producto,the Liars, Skip Spence, Pee Pee, Rabbit Is A Sphere,Roky Erickson, Thelonius Monk,Everything Absent Or Distorted (a love story), Black Sabath, middle era Flaming Lips, Run DMC, Debussy, Pictureplane, Night Shark, the Beach Boys, coolio, sunno))), Prince

Movies:

the Navigator, the Science of Sleep,Fitzcaraldo,tod solondze, Midnight Cowboy, early Godard, The Man with the Golden Arm, My Own Private Idaho, 2046, In the Mood for Love, A History of Violence, American Splendour,Polanski, Jean Cocteau,Terrence Malick,David Lynch, all the obvious stuff like the Third Man and Vertigo,John Waters, Sergio Leone,Party Monster,the Umbrellas of Cherbourg,Valley of the dolls,Return to the Valley of the Dolls,Batman Begins, Repo Man, Cockfighter

Books:

Faulkner, Capote, Bukowski, Kerouac, Cormac McCarthy, Chomsky, Memoirs of a Revolutionist, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, the Winter of Our Discontent, Victor Hugo, Vonnegut, Phillip K. Dick,Joseph Conrad, the Birth of the Peoples Republic of Antartica (though I don't know why), Ray Bradbury, the Family of Pascual Duarte, the Painted Bird, Marquez, the Fan Man, Walt Whitman, I hate Nabokov

Heroes:

Heroes are a lame excuse for something else entirely.

My Blog

Do charitable rich people or airline employees read my blog?

Despite the turmoil of my personal life, nothing can shake me like the news of the passing of the great Turkmen Bashi. Can anyone spot me a couple grand to make the funeral on sunday?try:http://www.ny...
Posted by Petro on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:48:00 PST

Syd, I miss you already

So, last December, my mother and step father gave me an MP3 player in clebration of a holiday based in a religion that, to my knowlege, noone in my family embraces, knowing full well that I didn't own...
Posted by Petro on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:00:00 PST

Sorry if it's your band I'm mocking, I mean no disrespect.

I finaly watched Munich last night. It's easily Spielberg's best which is faint praise but still a good movie. I think what upsets me about him is not that he is unrealistic but the specific elements ...
Posted by Petro on Sat, 17 Jun 2006 07:12:00 PST

Proust goes shopping!

    A friend asked me the other day if I remembered bulk beans being sold at the grocery store. Grocery stores have changed in subtle ways since I was a kid. I remember most the music. ...
Posted by Petro on Sat, 25 Mar 2006 06:09:00 PST

you have the right not to be killed

Myspace deleted one of my friends. I find it hypocrytical that I can be friends with George jr and not an innocuous small time murderer like Eric Harris. Oh and of course no one could ever relate to t...
Posted by Petro on Fri, 03 Mar 2006 07:57:00 PST

Sufjan, is that you?

I saw a bumper sticker a few weeks back that read "For such a small town, this one sure has alot of assholes!". The car was a falling apart economy 2 door with an illinois plate and it was parked ille...
Posted by Petro on Sun, 19 Feb 2006 08:47:00 PST