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peter

Just like my lower heaven, you know so well, my higher hell

About Me

A jumble of contradictions

My Interests

breathing, laughing, music, individuality, creativity, hockey, writing, sugar kisses, dancing at the pill

I'd like to meet:

creative people creating creativity creatively

Music:

the cure, echo and the bunnymen, suede, morrissey, the smiths, stellastarr*, elefant, pulp, new order, depeche mode, the tears, blur, cocteau twins, brett anderson, editors, bm linx, the knife, richard hawley, the stone roses, ian brown, john squire, psychedelic furs, the streets, delays, saint etienne, prodigy, sex pistols, juliana hatfield, squeeze, james, longpigs, beastie boys, happy mondays, soup dragons, omd, peter murphy, bauhaus, the primitives, bernard butler, rialto, ride, siouxsie and the banshees, sisters of mercy, jesus and mary chain, anything box, the mission, human league, duran duran, erasure, kaiser chiefs, u2, nin, nitzer ebb, berlin, japan, oasis, graham coxon, the ocean blue, the sundays, the verve, richard ashcroft, editors, brmc, pseudo echo, sheila divine, frank sinatra, the kinks, elkland, goldfrapp, white stripes, the hives, s club seven, etc.

Movies:

star wars, swingers, wedding crashers, 28 days later, borat, napoleon dynamite, made, 24 hour party people, just one of the guys, the elephant man, platoon, life with father, halloween, the thing, fletch, ace ventura, dumb and dumber, layer cake, the cutting edge, breakfast club, van wilder, thirteen days, reality bites, army of darkness, bubba ho tep

Television:

the office (both versions, but the british one is top 3 shows all time), arrested development, degrassi junior high, degrassi high, degrassi:the next generation, vh1 classic, the joy of painting with bob ross, days of our lives

Books:

contain a lot of words

Heroes:

echo and the bunnymen - thorn of crowns live with a drunk or stoned (maybe both!) mac on vocals. You don't see performances like this anymore... brilliant.
blur - the universal ....

My Blog

richard hawley

I had a chance to see Richard Hawley the other night at T.T. the Bear's in Cambridge, and what a cool gig it was. I was among a group of maybe 200 people in that tiny room and walked out into the cold...
Posted by peter on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:25:00 PST

Indiana MoFo and the Temple of Doomed

This is a little story about the mouse that had invaded our apartment at 34 Medfield St. We enjoy most guests, but this little fucker was arrogant and really no pleasant company. In 5-6 years living i...
Posted by peter on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:56:00 PST

Haircuts Like a Knife

Yeahhhhhhh but it feels so right!Ok, so that was my first-ever Bryan Adams musical reference and God willing, it will also be the last.On to this week's adventure!I've been cutting my own hair since c...
Posted by peter on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:19:00 PST

Rob Zombie’s Halloween: Trick or Tripe?

So it was with low expectations that I went to see the 're-imagined' Halloween last Monday. How low you ask? Picture Gary Coleman working a limbo stick at a luau party. Buried up to his waist in sand....
Posted by peter on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:06:00 PST

The first 'Red Dawn Appreciation Blog' part 1

Having watched the seminal 1984 cold war cautionary tale 'Red Dawn' on demand recently, I felt compelled to say a few words about this classic piece of so-bad-it's-good cinema. For those unfortunate s...
Posted by peter on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:48:00 PST

The latest and greatest... well the latest

So I need to write more. There's things that don't like staying inside my head and frankly, I don't really blame them. It can be a fucked up place. Sometimes starting is the hardest part, but I s...
Posted by peter on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 01:55:00 PST

winter's memory of summer

This is one of the best pop songs I've heard in a while so I figured I'd share...Obviously without music it lessens the effect a little...winter's memory of summerby delaysfaster sarah lets run,from d...
Posted by peter on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:01:00 PST

funny things in my head

This was in my head when I woke up... I'll leave it to someone else to figure out what it means! I'm balancing kniveson the tip of my tongueand the blissfully bubbling burst of blood across my op...
Posted by peter on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 08:25:00 PST

make up

 'make up' i've fallen asleepstanding heretalking to youeyes openfast asleepshake meshove mefuck mejust don't love mei need to wake upit's time to wake upso much time to make up...
Posted by peter on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 07:16:00 PST

untitled

 'untitled' i'm going nowhere fastsat in the back ofa broken down taxi cab     all the dreams     i kept in my pocket     have fallen ...
Posted by peter on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:28:00 PST