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Peter

oort cloud - it's all around us

About Me

look! I have pictures at www.flickr.com/photos/kaipeter.

My Interests

substance, distraction, small in-betweens. scrabble, drawing, paper cut-outs. nighttime adventures, scooter rides, being captivated by music, imagining other people's lives. words, pictures, animals, mysterious things. small doors set into the sides of buildings. mystery houses. stimulating tea. cooking food, eating food. petting small furry things.

I'd like to meet:

wealthy patrons, poor philosophers, chuckles and guffaws.

Music:

Otis Redding. Menomena. Pulp. Belle & Sebastian. Juana Molina. Hood. Stereolab. Devo. Tortoise. Pavement. Broadcast. The Sea and Cake. Beirut. Tom Verlaine, Television. Gary Numan, Tubeway Army. Sonic Youth. Billie Holiday. A Hawk and a Hacksaw. M. Smog. The Movies. 8 Bit Betty. Blonde Redhead. The Shins. Jolie Holland. Dirty Projectors. Low. Animal Collective. The Books. David Bowie. Aretha Franklin. John Zorn. Bert Jansch. The Unicorns. the for carnation. Pere Ubu. The Cyrkle. Prefuse 73. I am Spoonbender. cLOUDDEAD. The Beach Boys. The Smiths. Silver Jews. Beans (Canadian). Rachel's. The Divine Comedy. Four Tet. Howe Gelb, Giant Sand. Syd Barrett. Trans Am. The Saints. Etta James. The Magnetic Fields. Joy Division. Neutral Milk Hotel. Caravan. Soft Machine. Man Man. Amon Duul (II). Captain Beefheart. The Ladies. Jim O'Rourke. Lilys. By the End of Tonight. Hella. Nancy Sinatra. Chicago Underground Duo/Trio/Quartet. The Arcade Fire. Ornette Coleman. Duke Ellington. Brian Eno. Swell Maps. Young Marble Giants. Voxtrot. Sound Team. Mice Parade. Can. Camera Obscura. Echo & the Bunnymen. American Analog Set. Neu!. The Decemberists. Bob Dylan. Monade. Final Fantasy. Laddio Bolocko. Constantines. My Bloody Valentine. The Fall. Analogue. Come On. ESG. Slint. Nick Drake. International Airport. Subtle. Talking Heads. Gal Costa. Ui. Art Ensemble of Chicago. Terry Riley. Gang of Four. Islands. Knife in the Water. The Fiery Furnaces. Penguin Cafe Orchestra. The New Year. Cat Power. Van der Graaf Generator. Tussle. Nice Nice. Isotope 217. Owls. Miles Davis. Howlin' Wolf. The Ramones. Enon. Wire. XTC. The Kinks. Frank Zappa. Comsat Angels. Calexico. Bark Psychosis. Caetano Veloso, and so on.

Movies:

Kicking and Screaming (Baumbach not Ferrell). Mulholland Drive. Blue Velvet. Schizopolis. The Life Aquatic. Me and You and Everyone We Know. 8 1/2. Donnie Darko. Rashomon. Children of Paradise. Punch-Drunk Love. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. City Lights. The Exterminating Angel, and Buñuel in general. Fassbinder. more and more and more.

Television:

Twin Peaks. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Spaced. The Office. Freaks & Geeks. Firefly. Stella. The State. deep sea diving.

Books:

David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest, Broom of the System, stories, essays. Nabokov: Pale Fire, Ada, Invitation to a Beheading, stories. Kavalier & Clay. House of Leaves. Hitchhiker's Guide. The Magic Mountain. The Stranger. Geek Love. short stories. Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. The Sound and the Fury. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. popular science books. Alice in Wonderland. Ulysses. White Teeth. Golden Books Treasury of Elves and Fairies. Swann's Way. Tom Robbins. Tintin. Against Nature. Orwell.

Heroes:

explorers, patient fingers, determined minds

My Blog

art showing please

I've been doodling for months now and it's time to show the world and let my aimlessness be evaluated. come judge me! art show is happening at Shady Lane Studios (702 Shady Lane, near E. 7th & 183) ...
Posted by Peter on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:51:00 PST

in case you didn't know: the list

10 FIRSTS1. First Best Friend: andrew king, partner in magic and bamboo explorations2. First pet: sammy the snake; he slithered away and broke my heart... no more snakes.3. First book: hmm... the cat ...
Posted by Peter on Tue, 09 May 2006 03:31:00 PST

a name, a name, an ink, a pen

Why would I ever get excited about a pile of decades-old wood pulp, spotty with humid age, ripped and tangled, out as in? Because my fingertip oils were crossing the pages of a first-edition, signed ...
Posted by Peter on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:59:00 PST

I can share my house, it's okay

I saw a ghost today, before the sun rose. at the end of the long hallway, a silhouette and shuffling feet, approaching or walking in place or affecting some sort of virtual vertigo-shot that made me ...
Posted by Peter on Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:57:00 PST

pistol again

last week my nickname took a break, but now, when playing pool, I am once again Pistol Pete. but even that didn't break my fall. I have lost my second match of the night three weeks in a row; maybe ...
Posted by Peter on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 09:03:00 PST

sick room

what am I doing getting up so early? I know better! I can't work (I mean real work not money work) unless it's dark outside, it seems, so I guess I'm thankful that it's winter again. but still, my ...
Posted by Peter on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 06:39:00 PST

the new me.com

am I re-investing? am I warming up to socialization? or is this an afternoon whim? who cares. I have a happy room in a shared home and it is not quite mine yet but almost, I'm almost there. blank...
Posted by Peter on Fri, 02 Dec 2005 01:14:00 PST

make me shudder by proxy

a click, a wink to my endless aggapanthus, a cozy for the end of my 19.5 oz. pool cue. a back pocket rose in return. a mystery girl that I've seen but not heard since, this is the subject that makes...
Posted by Peter on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I stutter when I step.

Wait. I j-- Hold on now. I know we've been here before. I know it. Don't try to distract me with your new dance step I've seen it before. The light is a bit different, ... a bit more... artificia...
Posted by Peter on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST