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peter

Question, why everything you do is fresh? Answer, my name is Peter fucking Agoston

About Me

i like eating pizza drunk, hot L.A. nights, hanging with friends, barbeque parties, smoking cigarettes, romantic comedies, avoiding weinerheads, driving, writing stories, taking trips, taking pictures, ice cream, tapes, helping people, being in Europe, indulging my celebratory status in Japan, and being Heshen/Hesher. reviewing old high school text books for factoids i may of overlooked in my studies. twirling my hair. collecting. living amongst clutter. staring into space.

My Interests

dark places. dark bars. the darker the better. public school architecture. pizza. sleeping. thinking about spending lots of money. the open sea. working out. smoking. yelling. being frustrated. banging my fist on desks and walls. making people feel uncomfortable. shaking hands. and making money!

I'd like to meet:

Marlon Brando, Werner Herzog, the original Jack Johnson, Lenny Bruce, Roman Polanski, casual devil worshipers, Sebastian Bach 2, Richard Pryor, John Malkovich, Malcolm X, 2Pac, Chuck D, Matt Doo, Serge Gainsbourg, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Sting, Prince, Kim Gordon, Parker Posey, and Kathleen Hanna who is a total babe. Here are a few of the kinds of people I DONT want to meet: fake models, fareweather friends, unintentionally bad dressers, people wit bad bref + big moufs, fake documentarians, people who didn't pay dues and got on outta nowhere, cats who don't know the worth of a hard days work, people who read too much and then accendentally got stupid, DJs that mess up a house party wantin to juggle records and playing played out indie-crap, and mash-ups, and weird party-rock-rave-records. fuck i'm mad at the world.

Music:

Weather Report, Yes, Mahavishni Orchestra, Traffic, John McLaughlin, Return To Forever, Idris Muhammad, the "Last Tango In Paris" soundtrack, CTI, Vanilla Fudge, Deodato, Gabor Szabo, George Benson, Hank Crawford, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, Miles Davis, The Youngbloods, Willie Nelson, Thurston Moore, Mike Watt, Kathleen Hanna (total babe), Sonic Youth, Faith No More, Defacto, Subtle, why?, sole, alias, sixtoo, Anticon, Moka, Kirby Dominant, Swollen, CP, Count, Mike Patton, Gary Numan, Men At Work, Duran Duran, Pet Shop Boys, The Smiths, Gary Wilson, Grand Buffet, 3rd Bass, Shapeshifters, OMD, CVE, HHK, Awol, Circus, PUTS, Lexicon, DJ Spinna, Wajeed, Four Tet, Ge-ology, Prince Paul, J Dilla, Mike Zoot, Z-Man, Nice & Smooth, P.E., The JB's, Stet, BDP, LONS, Whodini, X-Clan, Brand Nubian, Organized Konfusion, Powerule, Kurious, G.M. Grimm, Godfather Don, Above The Law, NWA, The DOC, 2 Live, Rodney O & Joe Cooley, King Tee, Ras Kass, Project Blowed, Acey & Ab's "Maskaraid pt. 1&2", Hieroglyphics, Ganja K's "Harvest For The World" album, The Dereliks, Dooley, Dante Ross, Gametightelectro (one of my favorite groups of all time), Travis from Gym Class (he's doin it!), Green Milk From The Planet Orange, DMBQ, Motley Cru, The Foster Kids, The Sin Men, Spencer Doran, Bobbyhatchskiffleclatch (RIP Robb: u were my friend), Professor Mojo, The Hitch (fav band from Humboldt), Zombie Kore Allegiance, Suicide, Negativland, DNA, Guns N Roses, Ween, Ben Allen, Chuck, CJ Stewart, my brother when he used to jam on gituar

Movies:

Color Me Kubrick, The Missouri Breaks, Last Tango In Paris, Fitzcarraldo, The Tenant, Serpico, Rosemary's Baby, Straw Dogs, On The Waterfront, Lenny, The Godfather, 1991: The Year Punk Broke, Fly by Night, Wet Hot American Summer, The Baxter, Grizzly Man, Crumb, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Fata Morgana, Bamboozled, The Shining, We Jam Ecno, Punk Attitude, The Ten, Bottle Rockit, Culturama Series, Weeds, Oh In Ohio, Dead Poets Society, Mo Betta Blues, Thumbsucker, Dog Day Afternoon, Idiocracy, The Jerk, Happiness, Rogue Male (Peter O Toole tv movie that was dope), The Black 8, all Spike Lee joints (that's my foundation - particularly School Daze when it used to be on TNT), Juice, King of New York, 1991: The Year Punk Broke, my unreleased/incomplete documentary For Lack of a Better Word (1998-2002), 60's-70's movie trailors. Music videos by my friends

Heroes:

my brother, my parents, all mothers, my girlfriend for her tenacity and no nonsense tude, any immigrant family that raised children in the U.S., Scorpios, indie record label owners, people who really love sports, dedicated librarians, people who work hard to make rent. good public speakers. nice assholes, nice hobo's. ricky powell, dante ross, ego trip dudes, athletes from the old days. jerry heller, honest car mechanics like my dad. airplane pilots, thurston moore, oldtimey bartenders, kathleen hannah (love her), non-hippy environmentalists, non-hippy hikers, non-cliche music video directors, serious people. loyal friends/true friends.old friends of mine that i lost touch with that i'd admire from a far but never got the chance to let them know that i loved them. and denzel washington - i wanna go to a knicks game with him.

My Blog

Recommended Event: Dante Ross @ APT/NYC Tues 13th

No Cover.Free Beer.Dante Ross DJing disco.Thanksgiving Brown, the man is the myth. The Anti-Yul BrynnerWith Tall Man: Josh Money Man aka The Boss SpringSTEIN.+ more. & laffs for free....
Posted by peter on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:56:00 PST

advise is no longer free

I am no longer providing advise for free any more. Due to a high volume of requestsfor: other people's contacts, record deals, distribution solutions, publicity, promo, et al. This service has now bec...
Posted by peter on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:02:00 PST

For Lack Of A Better Word documentary

For Lack Of A Better Word documentary directed & produced by Peter Agoston. medium: hi-8 video cassettes. filmed exclusively on Sony hi8 (XR)I have been editing and pieceing together my long & lost do...
Posted by peter on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:38:00 PST

Culturama 8

I'm working on Culturama 8 now, shooting for a early summer release. It's called'Culturama 8: Played Out'. I'll have videos on it and various bits, but I'm trying toreally bring back a lot of the skit...
Posted by peter on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:58:00 PST

pondering

i love my office, it's like a bomb shelter of memorabilia. bits and bobs out the waazoo. disorderly, but coxy. memories, some times thats all we have when time runs out. i lovememories. and making pre...
Posted by peter on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 05:40:00 PST

ego trip's The (White) Rapper Show

THE GAME IS SO SERIOUS RIGHT NOW, FUCKIN PETER AGOSTON IS IN THE BUILDING!!! (SIREN NOISES) ... (FLEX DROPS A BOMB ON ME) ... 'A KA A KA' JADAKISS CROW-SOUND EFFECTS (MORE SIRENS AND AIR WISTLE NOISES...
Posted by peter on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:34:00 PST

Attila Agoston's photo/blog (my brother)

Hey, check out my big brother's new photo blog thing:http://www.flickr.com/photos/attilaagoston/He's a great photographer, a true influence on me. This is all digital camera shit (ya know, easy on tha...
Posted by peter on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:01:00 PST

don't fuck with east new york

today i decided to take a lesurely bus ride around east new york. i was fortunateto see a kid get seriously mushed in the back of the head for suckin his teeth at another man who held up a line on the...
Posted by peter on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:53:00 PST

last night's big rave

last night's big rave was something up there, with, the birth of god, tacos or pizza. it was totally 3-demensional! there was a mixture of people like the swirls of an ice cream cone. and the djing wa...
Posted by peter on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:09:00 PST

Re:Up Magazine . 12 / I wrote the cover story / Out Nov 1

Re:Up Magazine ..12 - Out Nov 1st. Please pick up a copy or two! It's some good shit! In part, due to the fact that I wrote the double/cover-story on Michael Showalter (Wet Hot American Summer, The Ba...
Posted by peter on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:19:00 PST