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peter

If this is paradise, I wish I had a lawnmower.

About Me

"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore...whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."--Sir Isaac Newton

My Interests

Family, friends, music, painting, randomness, irreverancy, irrelevance, movies, outside, people, reading, art, musicals, writing, philosophy, books, English history, improv theater, thrift stores, and mustard.

I'd like to meet:

People that can tie a cherry stem into a knot with their tongue, someone that appreciates the virtues of Ghostbusters II, the Elvis Trooper, whoever invented Coin Star machines, a girl that can sing in Yiddish, a bus stop boxer, Quentin Tarantino, Larry David, Tina Fey, Noam Chomsky, William Shatner, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Kurt Vonnegut, Bill Murray, David Cross, Mike Patton, Charlie Kaufman, and a bunch of famous dead people.

Music:

The Beatles, Nirvana, Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, The Flaming Lips, Radiohead, Pearl Jam, Wilco, John Lennon, The Melvins, Pink Floyd, Beirut, Devotchka, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Guns N' Roses, Iron Maiden, Gogol Bordello, Madonna, Modest Mouse, old-school Metallica, R.E.M., Elvis Costello, Broken Social Scene, Bob Dylan, Sigur Ros, The Smashing Pumpkins, Jens Lekman, David Bowie, Air, Travis, Iron & Wine, Reverend Horton Heat, Sunny Day Real Estate, Dandy Warhols, Eels, Nine Inch Nails, Queen, Beastie Boys, Syd Barrett, Bloodhound Gang, Muse, Beat Happening, Mogwai, Galaxie 500, Moby, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Green Day, Snow Patrol, MC Chris, The Decemberists, Danny Elfman, M83, Fantomas, June of '44, Damien Rice, Explosions in the Sky, Ben Folds Five, Battles, The Strokes, Type O Negative, Architecture In Helsinki, Ween, Oasis, Butthole Surfers, Joanna Newsom, The Arcade Fire, Mike Patton, Queens of the Stone Age, Ben Harper, Athlete, Pinback, H.I.M., Neil Young, Isis, Saturday Looks Good To Me, Alice In Chains, Okkervil River, The Most Serene Republic, Dinosaur Jr., John Williams, Blind Melon, Tom Waits, Blur, DJ Shadow, The Hold Steady, Before Our Time, The Pixies, Scott Stapleton, Olivia Tremor Control, Jon Brion, Megadeth, Venusian Skyline, Kingsbury, Built To Spill

Movies:

Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Edward Scissorhands, Wet Hot American Summer, Ghostbusters, A Clockwork Orange, Fight Club, Dark City, Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, American History X, Spiderman 1 and 2, Almost Famous, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Seven, Evil Dead trilogy, Donnie Darko, Pi, all of the Monty Python movies, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, As Good As It Gets, A Hard Day's Night, Yellow Submarine, Pulp Fiction, Beetlejuice, The Thing, Kill Bill, Vanilla Sky, Groundhog Day, Indiana Jones, I Heart Huckabees, Goonies, Everything Is Illuminated, Oldboy, A Christmas Story, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Four Rooms, Stand By Me, Rules of Attraction, Requiem For A Dream, Wonder Boys, Munich, Goodfellas, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, American Psycho, Scarface, The Breakfast Club, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Shaun of the Dead, Sin City, Batman Begins, The Squid and the Whale, The Fountain, Pan's Labyrinth, Borat, Little Miss Sunshine, The Departed, Grindhouse

Television:

The Daily Show, Buffy, Conan O'Brien, Mr. Show, Chappelle's Show, Adult Swim, Six Feet Under, B.S., MST3K, Beavis and Butthead, South Park, The Simpsons, Firefly, Lost, Wonder Showzen, The Family Guy, The History Channel, Curb Your Enthusiasm, House MD, Stella

Books:

Sun Also Rises, Catch-22, Invisible Monsters, Breakfast of Champions, Timequake, Everything Is Illuminated, Naked Lunch, On the Road, The Stranger, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Dharma Bums, A Confederacy of Dunces, Catcher In the Rye, Go, Foop!, Slaughterhouse-Five, Nausea, Jude the Obscure

Heroes:

John Lennon