peteplastic

The following is a composite biography comprised of search-engine results of my name:

I am the Vice President of the Deutsche Bank; a computer systems programmer in Wisconsin with an interest in Homeric Greek; a Swiss tenor who studied at the Zurich Conservatory; an attorney at law in Zurich; Professor of the Dept. of Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Bath, UK; the Director for Tourism at the Federal Administration of Switzerland; a musician and producer in Hamburg, Germany who has produced a hit single for A-Ha and Apoptygma Berzerk and have put my mark on everything from German rock to international pop to Norwegian metal. I like to build scale-model balsa-wood aircraft powered by rubber-bands.

OK, actually I am an audio and visual artist, creating art out of found sound and found objects. I also create photographs, designs, illustrations, cartoons, and paintings. I DJ around town, playing 1920-30s American jazz and blues; 1950s rockabilly and shouter blues; 1960's mod, garage, psych, and funk; 1980s goth, industrial, new wave and post-punk; and more.

I am into art as social/political expressions, such as Dada, Fluxus, Situationist, Lettrism, stencil-graffiti, "culture-jamming," and other revolutionary movements and moments in art, music, literature, and culture.

I am also into political activism against oppression, anthropology, repressed and unheralded history, silent movies, 1950/60's B-movies, anarcho-punk, obsolete electronics and technology, vintage cartoons, mythology, supernatural/paranormal, radical politics, among other unusual things of interest.

I am 42, was born in Germany (Frankfurt, also lived in Nürnberg), and moved to the US when I was 10.

Postcard wishlist:

Anything offbeat, absurd, unusual, strange, disturbing, kitschy, vintage, retro, quirky, dark, or surreal would be greatly appreciated.

And please, when you write, I would love it if you tell me an interesting and unusual fact or two about where you are living.

For example, Seattle, where I live, was the first US city to play a Beatles song on the radio.

Seattle also had the original "skid row," a part of town that was run-down and impoverished, referring literally to a path along which workingmen skidded logs down to the waterfront.

Seattle's Harvard Exit Theater is alleged to be haunted, with numerous reports of apparitions, and on several occasions, theater managers opened the building for the day to movies playing to an empty house, with the empty projection room locked on the inside.

Thanks so much!