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Peter

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About Me

Mon chien est sur mon bureau.

My Interests

These questions are hard..

I'd like to meet:

Hmm...No one in particular.

Music:

...and You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Arcade Fire, Afghan Whigs, Beatles, Built to Spill, Cursive, Cure, Dinosaur Jr., Radiohead, Modest Mouse, Television, Smashing Pumpkins, In Praise of Folly, Par Corlis, Catherine Wheel, Air, Twilight Singers, Mazzy Star, Pixies, Nirvana, Flaming Lips, Refused, Nada Surf, Pavement, Posies, Shins, Spiritualized, Superchunk, My Bloody Valentine, Sigur Ros, Elliott Smith, New Order, Mountain Goats, Grandaddy, Beck, Blur, December's Architects, Joan of Arc, Portishead, Talking Heads, Elvis Costello, Black Heart Procession, Murder City Devils, Fugazi, Eels, White Stripes, Breeders, At the Drive-in, Clash, Carissa's Wierd, Sonic Youth, Sunny Day Real Estate, Sebadoh, Mars Volta, Smiths, Echo and the Bunnymen, Queens of the Stone Age, Black Eyes, Cheap Trick, Daniel Johnston, David Bowie, Holly Golightly, Jimi Hendrix, Leadbelly, M.I.A., Make Believe, Sufjan Stevens, Decemberists, CocoRosie, Ladytron, Depeche Mode, Adam & the Ants, Bjork, Blonde Redhead, Blondie, Bright Eyes, Cat Power, Leonard Cohen, Love, Low, Peter Gabriel, Serge Gainsbourg, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Ugly Casanova, Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt....

Movies:

Lost in Translation, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Virgin Suicides, David Lynch things, Citizen Kane, Vertigo, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenenbaums, Life Aquatic, Little Miss Sunshine, I Heart Huckabees, Dogville, Big Lebowski, Christopher Guest things, A Very Long Engagement, Dig, Adaptation, Ghost World, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Wet Hot American Summer, Spinal Tap, No Direction Home, Scoop, Frida, Punch-Drunk Love, The Station Agent, Amelie, High Fidelity, Science of Sleep....

Television:

no thanks

Books:

flannery o'connor, joseph heller, george orwell, david sedaris, c.s. lewis, kurt vonnegut, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau, Raymond Carver......

My Blog

...of junk mail subject lines and such

So listen, I'm sitting on hold with Puget Sound Energy as they attempt to figure out who's account they keep applying my checks to, since they aren't applying them to mine....and, after 20 minutes, I'...
Posted by Peter on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:47:00 PST

mais non!

Earlier this week I began a new (very early morning) French class, which is located in Thompson Hall at the UW. As class began and I was still quietly pondering the significance of all the signs poste...
Posted by Peter on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:17:00 PST

guy with ax...

(with apologies to the handful of folks who may have already heard this one)A couple of summers back, after a concert somewhere, we were loading equipment into the van and I was left alone waiting wit...
Posted by Peter on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:39:00 PST

..did you know?

....that the French don't really have a number for seventy? They say sixty-eight, sixty-nine, sixty-ten, sixty-eleven, sixty-twelve and so on. It gets even crazier when they get to eighty. From there ...
Posted by Peter on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:36:00 PST

Memory of the day (2/4)....

 As a birthday present, my grandma once gave me one of those flashlights that plugs into your car lighter. It was the exact same one that my mom had given to my grandpa not one year earlier. &nbs...
Posted by Peter on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:18:00 PST

so...

...Red Robin is currently flying their flag at half-mast. I was aware that since a former President died all American flags would be flying at half-mast.....but, I was not aware that this custom also ...
Posted by Peter on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:12:00 PST