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p e t e r

lost in time like tears in the rain

About Me



My Interests



the future, colors, shapes, textures, acrylics, chairs, string theory, space, open-plan-post-and-beam-floor-to-ceiling-windows architecture, textiles, hand-stitching, thread . . .

I'd like to meet:



Music:

currently:

the tough alliance "1981"

always:

Movies:



along with Blake Edwards, Wes Anderson, PT Anderson, Todd Haynes, Todd Solondz, Jean-Luc Godard, Federico Fellini, Charlie Kauffman and Sofia Coppola

Television:

twin peaks, arrested development, conan o'brien, six feet under, battlestar galactica, seinfeld, strangers with candy, lost, the simpsons, family guy, the office, 30 rock

Books:

james joyce, hermann hesse, the elegant universe, the third monkey, rene descartes, bertrand russel, mark strand, w.s. merwyn, raymond chandler, phillip k. dick, ken kesey, banana yoshimoto, j.r.r. tolkein, the new yorker, dwell, print, communication arts

Heroes:


(credits: my love , my macca , my architect , my blade runner , my id , my phillip marlowe )

My Blog

best music of 2006

once again, i must indulge my nerdy need to categorize and rank . . . the following are, in my humble opinion, the top albums of 2006:10...danielson ships If Danielson ever started his own church, I c...
Posted by p e t e r on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:34:00 PST

I'M A FATHER!!!

[this is a posting from 11/10/05, which i edited, and the date got changed to 10/10/06]My beautiful wife Sarah gave birth to our beautiful daughter Elliot McKay on November 7th, 2005. Click here to v...
Posted by p e t e r on Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:09:00 PST

perfect pairings

though i live in wine country, i'm no wine connoisseur--i couldn't begin to expound upon which wines pair perfectly with which dishes.  however, here are a few perfect pairings of listening mater...
Posted by p e t e r on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:09:00 PST

the most beautiful sound in the world

i can't stop watching this:..> ...
Posted by p e t e r on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 10:45:00 PST

dudes that live in the darkness of my head . . .

i found these studs living in a dark corner of my mind. here's a little bit about each one of them . . . name orionlocationeugene, orhomei built an underground house on a hillside that i call 'the shi...
Posted by p e t e r on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 05:54:00 PST

gotta do my top 20 albums of 2005 . . .

despite there still being two days left in 2005, i've determined it safe enough to share my favorite twenty albums released this year.  for the most part, in making this ...
Posted by p e t e r on Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:59:00 PST

it would mean so much to win & regine!

i can't think of a better cause-- http://www.myspace.com/nahpi Go out and buy the single today and play it at your next halloween party and be the envy of the hipster crowd. The love of Devendra compe...
Posted by p e t e r on Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:33:00 PST

franz ferdinand owe me money!

june 2005:franz ferdinand's sophemore album cover art is reported to be exactly the same as their first album cover art, except in a different color scheme: pitchforkmedia.com 6/29/05:". . . Alex Kapr...
Posted by p e t e r on Mon, 03 Oct 2005 01:37:00 PST

2046

go see 2046.  it's a gorgeous film: http://www.sonyclassics.com/2046/ it will make the perfect period-piece-foreign-pop-sci-fi-noir centerpiece to any evening. think blade runner as an adulterous ch...
Posted by p e t e r on Fri, 23 Sep 2005 03:02:00 PST