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Peter Adamyan

www.peteradamyan.com

About Me

I spend a large amount of time painting. I listen to a lot of great music while doing this. (If you add me and I don't know you personally, please send me a message before hand, it'd be greatly appreciated.)

www.peteradamyan.com

My Interests

Paint, Art, Music, Movies, Books, The Human Be-In, Folkways, the pursuit of infinite knowledge.

I'd like to meet:

Art school dropouts, artists, musicians, film makers, animators, photographers, curators, gallery owners and so on.

Music:

White Manna, Staple Singers, Bob Dylan, Charles Manson, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Wilco, 13th Floor Elevators, King Khan and BBQ Show, King Khan and The Shrines, The Beatles, Mark Sultan, The Easybeats, The Electric Prunes, The Pretty Things, Chocolate Watchband, The Standells, Billy Childish, Junior Kimbrough, The Animals, The Count Five, The Music Machine, Dead Meadow, The Black Angels, The Gris Gris, The Velvet Underground, Vetiver, Awesome Color, The Black Lips, Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash, Yo La Tengo, The Zombies, The Black Keys, Morning After Girls, The Buckinghams, The Blues Magoos, The Yardbirds, Ambulance LTD, Memphis Minnie, Memphis Jug Band, Cannon's Jug Stompers, Leadbelly, Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker, Blind Willie Mctell, Bling Willie Johnson, Dock Boggs, Clarence Ashley, Roscoe Holcomb, Mississippi John Hurt, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, The Mummies, Sonic Youth, Spiritualized, Spacemen 3, Slowdive, Jandek, Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, Apples in Stereo, Pavement, Silver Jews, Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks, Preston School of Indusstry, The Flaming Lips, The Sunshine Fix, The Dandy Warhols, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (pre-baby81), Devendra Banhart, Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd, The Black Keys, Radiohead, The Beachwood Sparks, Rick Bain, The Beach Boys, Blue Cheer, Cat Power, White Stripes, Animal Collective, Beulah, White Hassle, King Crimson, Modest Mouse, Bright Eyes, The Stooges, Joana Newsom, My Bloody Valentine, Ray Charles, The Pandoras, Backdoor Men, The Byrds, Chuck Berry, Donovan, Doug Martsch, The Fiery Furnances, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Love, Neil Young, Nick Cave and The Badseeds, Nick Drake, Polyphonic Spree, Ravi Shankar, Violent Femmes

Movies:

The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, The man with no name series, How To Get Ahead In Advertising, Train Spotting, Eternal Sunshine, Little Miss Sunshine, God Father (1 and 2), Lucky Number Slevin, Seven Samurai, Braindead, Evil Dead, Forrest Gump, Toxic Avenger, Truman Show, I'm Not There, Dig!, Don't Look Back, Psych Out, Annie Hall, Star Wars, Beast of Yucca Flats, Tommy Boy, Super Troopers, Duel to the Death, Easy Rider, The Wild One
Film Makers

Woody Allen, Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Peter Jackson (espiecally the early stuff) Lloyd Kaufman, David Lynch, Early Tim Burton.
Can I get some Recommendations? I've been really into bad B movies, Mystery Science Theatre 3000 kind of stuff

Television:

Twilight Zone, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Robot Chicken, How It's Made, Rainbow Quest, Avatar The Last Airbender, Family Guy, Lost, Simpson's, Home Movies, 30 Days, The Oblongs, Dilbert, Futurama, Scrubs. The History Channel, Discovery Channel.

Books:

Wikipedia, On The Road, Into The Wild, Post Office, Tropic of Cancer, War of the Worlds, Junky, Bound For Glory, Bob Dylan Chronicles, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Fountain Head, 1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Sirens Of Titan, Slaugther House 5, LSD My Problem Child, anything on art history.

Heroes:

Bob Dylan, Tommy Hall, Kilgore Trout, Henri Chinaski, Jack Kerouac, Moses Ashe, Harry Smith, Greg Shaw, Alan Lomax, Robert Williams, Albert Hofmann.

My Blog

Art show.

I'll have 3 paintings in this show tomorrow..but it's in Costa Mesa, so I don't expect to see any familiar faces other then those who are tagging along with me....
Posted by Peter Adamyan on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:30:00 PST

Music.

I started to play guitar about 3 months ago, you can listen to how it's coming along here www.myspace.com/atomyin
Posted by Peter Adamyan on Fri, 23 May 2008 07:28:00 PST

NEW PAINTINGS!

I got three new paintings up on my website, you can check them out here.
Posted by Peter Adamyan on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:08:00 PST

Shows Im in.

Hey, I'm in a couple shows, this one is opening tonight.I also have a piece in this show that already opened, so if you want to go check it out....
Posted by Peter Adamyan on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:37:00 PST

Does anyone still have a livejournal these days?

I have one, if you have one you should add me, I would use mine more often if I felt I had more readers.www.peteradamyan.livejournal.comalso I have a deviant art account, www.staggerlee.deviantart.com...
Posted by Peter Adamyan on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:49:00 PST

BIG NEWS (Website Launch and Art Exhibit)

First off I'm proud to say that www.peteradamyan.com is finally up and running please check it out and let me know if you see any problems, or just tell me what you think.Second I will be in my first ...
Posted by Peter Adamyan on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:41:00 PST

What's going on with me?

So, this is my first blog I just wanted to let everyone know that I'm working really, really hard to get some paintings done, and fix the flaws in the paintings that I do have and get my website up an...
Posted by Peter Adamyan on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 04:38:00 PST