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Peter

Something's NOT Better Than Nothing At All

About Me

Having spent what seemed like a lifetime working in offices and call centres a change of personal circumstances approx. 10 years ago enabled me to explore other fields, mainly web building and design/multimedia, which has been my main passion for the last 8 years or so. Examples can be found under 'Videos'.
Currently I run a website dedicated to the work of Siouxsie & The Banshees. The Banshees & Other Creatures

My Interests

Music, Web design, multimedia, DIY, gardening, movies, cats...

I'd like to meet:

Like minded, creative people with a passion for all genres of music.

Music:


Siouxsie And The Banshees, The Creatures, Steven Severin, David Sylvian, Billy Mackenzie, Kate Bush, Marc Almond, Siobhan Fahey, Billie Ray Martin, Grace Jones, Toyah, Boy George, Everything But The Girl, Prince, Danielle Daxx, Eurythmics, Bjork, The Cardigans, Pet Shop Boys, David Bowie, The Cure, Sinead O'Connor, Pink, Cyndi Lauper, St. Etienne, Madonna...

Movies:

Classic horror old and new. Marilyn Monroe, Bette Davis, Winona Ryder, Tim Burton, Merchant & Ivory. Enemy Mine, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Come Back To The Five & Dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean, Sybil, The Boys In The Band, Peter's Friends, Dogma, Grey Gardens, The Color Purple, Cabaret, Howard's End...

Television:

Prisoner Cell Block H, Lost, Oz, Medium, Coronation Street, Judge Judy, The Martian Chronicles, Grand Designs, Daria, Big Brother, This Life, Tales Of The City, Angels In America...

Books:

The Painted Bird, Sybil, The Handmaid's Tale, Memoirs Of A Geisha, In The Eyes Of Mr. Fury...

Biographies; Kenneth Williams, Joe Orton, Alan Bennett, Oscar Wilde, Noel Coward...

Heroes:

I don't really do heroes. I've never had any desire to meet anyone famous, but I do either admire or respect the work of the following people:
Siouxsie Sioux, Kenneth Williams, Bette Davis, Steven Severin, Pedro Almodovar, Johnny Depp, Tim Burton, Victoria Wood, Stephen Fry, Sandra Bernhard, Frankie Howerd, Alan Bennett, Marilyn Monroe...

David Bowie, Quentin Crisp, Man Ray, Debbie Harry, Gustav Klimt...

My Blog

Raise The Roof

All has been quiet on the building front for some time now.  That is until this evening.  This evening we were informed that deep drilling will commence next week.  Let me think, was it...
Posted by Peter on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:39:00 PST

Audio Black & White

Where should I get my news?   I'm thinking perhaps I should watch more television.  There's obviously so much more to learn and with all these different means of communication available why...
Posted by Peter on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:04:00 PST

Dreaming

In 1979 we went on a school trip to France.  How sophisticated we felt putting 'Heart Of Glass' on the jukebox in the local café, still too wet behind the ears to realise that love really could b...
Posted by Peter on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:01:00 PST

Dropping Out Of The Top Forty

It's a miserable grey day in Taunton, grey sky, grey roads, grey everything.  The rain is all but a drizzle now, certainly not heavy enough to keep me indoors but heavy enough to make me think tw...
Posted by Peter on Wed, 28 May 2008 08:22:00 PST

171,476 Words

I was thinking maybe I should write a book containing some of my favourite words before they are lost forever and are officially declared un-hip or dated.  Well, maybe not a book, after all the O...
Posted by Peter on Thu, 22 May 2008 01:42:00 PST

Strangers When We Meet

This morning I decided to expand the morning walk and visit Pete at work.  Just as I reached the outside of the Sex Shop that Pete manages I bump into a girlfriend I haven't seen or spoken to in ...
Posted by Peter on Tue, 20 May 2008 07:32:00 PST

Pay Day

The older I get the more open I am to the idea of paying others to do things for me.  It dawns on me that it's not always necessary to be completely self-sufficient.  Why struggle to find th...
Posted by Peter on Sun, 18 May 2008 02:10:00 PST

Money From Misery

I've just finished reading 'My Life Among The Serial Killers', in which psychiatrist Dr. Helen Morrison studies a bewildering array of serial killers.    I was under the misassumption that ...
Posted by Peter on Tue, 13 May 2008 01:54:00 PST

Aftermath

The family party was a great success.  It was not 'hitch-free' but the obligatory family argument, although quite ferocious, was late in the evening, self-contained and extinguished quickly and p...
Posted by Peter on Tue, 13 May 2008 06:45:00 PST

One Hour Photo

Last night our uninterrupted run of Saturday night pubbing came to an abrupt end when earlier in the week we discovered that our pub of choice had closed amidst rumours of unpaid electricity bills and...
Posted by Peter on Sun, 04 May 2008 09:02:00 PST