Welcome Everybody!

Thank you for finding the time to read my blog page - tonight, this Australia Day (Jan 26, 2005 - for you non-aussies), officially starts my blogging activities. I promise to write with great mirth, wit, humour, and hopefully you'll learn a great deal about my life - my triumphs, my catastrophes, and many other wonderful delights along the way :)

My name is Peter and I am 33. I live in Australia's 6th largest city, Newcastle (pop. 500,000+) which is located in the state of New South Wales.

I am a professional library student at Newcastle TAFE currently undertaking second year - I hope to eventually find work in a library environment in the not-too-distant future **fingers crossed**

My interests are very diverse and largely centre around the arts & entertainment. They include a passion for:

DVD Collecting & Watching

• Sci-Fi (Day The Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, War of the Worlds)
• Classic films (Mildred Pierce, Laura, Vertigo, The Third Man etc)
• TV Series (Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Blake's 7, Doctor Who, I Claudius)
  

Music Listening

• Film Music (Bernard Herrmann, Eric Wolfang Korngold, Max Steiner, Richard Addinsell, Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein, Georges Delerue, Michel Legrand, Richard Rodney Bennett etc.)
• Classical (Burgmuller, Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, Vivaldi, Boccherini, Sibelius, Khatchurian, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov etc.)
• Jazz (Antonio Carlos Jobin, Dave Grusin, Michel Legrand, Fats Waller, Hoagy Carmichael, Jerome Kern etc)
• Easylistening (Paul Mauriat Orchestra, Franck Pourcel, Raymond Lefevre, Francis Lai, Michel Legrand, Percy Faith, Ray Conniff, Andre Kostelanetz, Geoff Love, Ron Goodwin, Frank Chacksfield, Stanley Black, Erich Kunzel Cincinnati Pops etc)

Books

• Australian Authors (Alex Miller, Christopher Koch, Louis Nowra, A.B Facey, Ruth Park, Henry Handle Richardson, David Malouf etc)
• Classics (Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Bronte Sisters, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad etc)
• Science Fiction & fantasy (Clifford D. Simak, Arthur C. Clark, Issac Asimov, Brian Aldiss, Dan Simmons, Philip Jose Farmer, Raymond E. Feist, Phyliss Eisenstein etc.)
• Gay (Edmund White, Andrew Holleran, David Leavitt, Armistead Maupin, Scott Heim etc)
  
• Poetry (Slessor, Owen, Frost, Keats, Wordsworth, Pound, Chaucer etc)

Theatre

• Assorted works - (Shakespeare, Middeton, Jonson, Strindberg, Ibsen, Chekov, Stoppard, Mamet, Hare, Johanna Murray-Smith, David Williamson (early stuff), Bernstein, Rogers & Hartz / Hammerstein, Jerome Kern, Stephen Sondheim)
  

Favourite Foods

• Italian - Veal Scallopine, Spaghetti Bolognaise, Lasagne, Creamed Chicken Pollo in Bianco Sauce, Gourmet Pizza, Chicken Tomato Rocket & cheese Foccacia
• Chinese - Sweet & sour pork, satay beef, vegetable chow mein, chicken with ginger & shallots accompanied with boiled rice
• Mexican - Gordidas, tacos, nachos etc.
• Turkish - vegetable / chicken piddah

Hopefully I've whet your appetite for more NewcastleBoy blog reading. Feel free to send an email and to contribute to my frequently appearing daily blogs.

- NewcastleBoy