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To have your own planet isn´t just an ego thing. My personal theory is that life nowadays is so complex and complicated that we grow up and turn out to be very unique and individual beings shaped by our unique experiences, and that we watch the world through our very personal filters. We create our own planets where we are the only intelligent life. The only way to leave the isolation is to explore other planets. This is what life looks like on my planet... Full name: Jan Peter Eriksson Born: In Luleå, Sweden on the 17th of October 1968 Gender: lesbian trapped in a male body Lives: apartment in Malmö, Sweden Have lived in: Luleå, Stockholm, Malmö ICQ: 41334914 Family: my wife Jenny and my friends Work: freelance writer Previous occupations : electrician, technician, salesman, engineer, actor/extra, environmental guide, project leader, educator, speaker, columnist, producer, teacher, scriptwriter, and a bunch of other things... Hobbies: tough one. The line between what I enjoy to do and what I do for a living is a thin and blurry one. But if the definition of a hobby is something that you enjoy to do but will never ever get paid for, then graphic design, making webpages and tormenting the guitar fits that description for sure Food: everything that involves cheese, chocolate For breakfast: tea, pineapple/orangejuice, toast, cheeses of all kinds, paté, ajvar, spaghetti sauce, strawberry marmalade Drinks: water, red wine, dark rum, cocoa, tea. Smokes: when I drink Favorite movie: Aliens - directors cut
Other movies I like: Gladiator, Bladerunner, T1 & 2, Fellowship of the Ring, Chasing Amy (and other Kevin Smith movies), True Romance, The Thing, City of lost children, Fight Club, Amelie, The Crow, the other Alienmovies, Se7en, Matrix, Wallace & Gromit, Strange Days, Vampires, Manhunter, Toy Story 2, Hellraiser 1 & 2, Romeo + Juliet, LA Story, Shawshank Redemption - and many more... Favorite book: can´t choose between Douglas Couplands "Life after God" and "Girlfriend in a coma" Other favorite books: Ernest Hemingway - Islands in the stream, Chuck Palahniuk - Survivor, Terry Pratchett - Jingo, Graham Masterton - Devils of D-day, Ulf Lundell - Tårpilen, Graham Greene - Dr Fischer, Douglas Adams - The hitch hikers guide to the galaxy, Whitley Strieber - Communion, Katherine Dunn - Geek love, Jack Kerouac - On the road, Douglas Coupland - Generation X, Neil Gaiman - American gods, Klas Östergren - Gentlemen, Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffanys, Benjamin Hoff - The Te of Piglet, Bret Easton Ellis - Less than zero, Oscar Hijuelos - Mambo kings plays songs of love, Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Always buying records of: Foo Fighters, Fish, Ratata/Mauro Scocco, Midge Ure, Dalbello, K´s Choice, Rebecka Thörnqvist, Rush, Life of Agony, Infectious Grooves, Eric Gadd, Linkin Park, Prince, Paula Cole, Stonefunkers, Wendy & Lisa/Girl Bros, Faith No More, Dive, Kent, Type O Negative, Alanis Morisette, Queensrÿche, Sarah McLachlan, Lisa Miskowsky, Iron Maiden, The Time, Bruce Dickinson, Gina Jacobi, Kate Bush, Daniel Lanois, Ozzy, Anggun, Peter Gabriel Last album I bought: Mauro Scocco - Beat Hotel, Melanie C - Reason, Evanescence - Fallen, Peterix collection vol. 24-36, Peterix Metal vol. 6-8 A childhood memory : can´t even remember what I did last week... Plays: records, guitar, theater, Zen bones Tattoos: a mediaeval sun symbol, a tribal turtle, a crop-circle, the WWF-panda and the Chinese signs for "Truth" and "Tao". There will be more...
Piercing: two silver-rings in left ear. The eyebrow is next... Likes: heat, sleep, taking it easy, life with Jenny, escaping reality, music, books, art, friends, movies, peace and quiet, getting drunk, being left alone, words, acting, to create stuff, taking long baths, chillin´, cheese, cool things, to learn new things, comics, sun, nighttime, to laugh, aesthetic design Dislikes: cold, stress, stupid rules, getting up in the morning, hard work, grouchy and negative people, injustice, intolerance, whining, uncreative environments, snow, when it´s crowded, being interrupted, lingonberries, getting up in the morning (really!!!), 98% of the world the way it looks today, peas Favorite Disney character: Goofy The ultimate journey: another planet - until then: Cuba, and of course - death, but that´s no hurry... Political: don´t like -isms, it corners you in a static paradigm. Politics is to pay close attention to what you really want - then pay the same attention to what's others want. I care more about people than money, dislikes greed and prejudice, believes in justice and equality but not in erasing our individuality and turning us into gray clones. Question what you think you know. Challenge traditons and conservatism. That´s the only way to progress. Then of course there´s the problem with the state of the planet - mother earth hurts bad from our way of life and we need to make some changes fast - everything else is rearranging deckchairs at the Titanic... Love is: to make each other grow as persons, a shoe that fits Good sides : kind, diplomatic, nice, get things done, funny, easy to be with, clever, faithful, dedicated, anti-conservative, full of life, creative - at least that´s what I think...
Not too good sides: have a huge ego, have hard to decide, pretty lazy, avoids conflicts, works to hard now and then, not to responsible sometimes, morally flexible (I decide what´s right and what´s wrong), make up my own rules, don´t always pay attention to what others think, can be introvert and tough to communicate with sometimes (when I crawl into my cave) Shares birthday with among others: Arthur Miller, Rita Hayworth, cheese-mogul Charles Kraft, Evel Knievel, Wyclef Jean, Norm Macdonald, Annelie Ryde, Beavis & Buttheads creator Mike Judge and Eminem... Totem animal: The Turtle - believes that it represents slow pace and wisdom - two things that I can relate to. There is also something sad about them...
Favorite subject in school: Swedish Not my favorite subject in school: math Good at: creating things, relax, communicate, taking charge, enjoying things, solve problems, holistic views, describe, repeat myself (this page would be half it´s size if I didn´t write almost the same thing everywhere... ;-) Mission statement: make people around me laugh and think Scent: Dolce & Gabbana On the TV: The Simpsons, Millennium, X-files, Seinfeld, Parlamentet, Sopranos, Southpark, Futurama, Star Trek TNG, Stargate SG-1, Total Recall 2070, Norm Sport: Sport? Hate sports! If I ever won a million I would: take a year off to develop my writing further and put together a portfolio. Take my life together with Jenny to higher levels Clothes: a lot of black Poem: for a writer I´m not very found of poetry. The only poem that have stuck in my mind through the years is an ancient aztecpoem that goes something like this: This
is not a poem If I was king of the world for one day I would: turn all the worlds weapons into a satellitebased meteor defense, turn world economy upside-down in a Robin Hood kind of way, construct a longterm Marshallplan for saving the planet, tear down all borders and turn the world into one nation with common rights and responsibilitys, abuse my power for personal gain, get assassinated before lunch. Motto: I only listen to what people say when they´re right Death smiles at us all - all a man can do is smile back If you ask first you may get no as an answer Don´t eat the yellow snow Why my own site/planet: the ultimate ego-trip, education, a place to publish my writing, make myself a logo. Combined book, portfolio, diary/therapy, CV, catwalk and think tank. Everyone should have the possibility to visit Peterix Planet Favorite colors: silver, red, black and purple People I admire/like: Dalai Lama, Dogbert, Theo Yak, Winnie the Pooh, Fish, Ronny Eriksson, Ladislaus Horatius, Tyler Durden, James Cameron, Beetle Bailey, Chuck Palahniuk, Tage Danielsson, Scott Adams, Calvin & Hobbes, Douglas Coupland, Groucho Marx, Henry Rollins, Noam Chomsky, Modesty Blaise, Michael Moore Car: I don´t think so Subscribes to : Sydsvenska Dagbladet (news), Stockholms Fria Tidning (news), Larson! (The far side), Fönstret (about culture), Nya Söndagsnisse Strix (satire), Witchblade, Ernie, Grönköpings Veckoblad (satire), Pondus, Jämsides + assorted member magazines from Ordfront, SNF, WWF, SKTF, and other... Turn on´s: love Turn off´s: loveless sex, money, countrymusic, lack of sleep, greed, to much reality, lies, bad TV & stress Makes me turn off the TV: soap operas, Jerry Springerish shows - and of course sports... Religion: godless heathen, but really likes the philosophy of Taoism (but that´s not a religion, but more of a way of life)
Screensaver: homemade slideshow with digital art and photography Painted on the door to the drivers seat if I was a truckdriver: planet Earth Favorite wine: Beaujolais Favorite liquor: Captain Morgan The song that makes me run to the dancefloor: Stonefunkers - No Problem Origin: Swede since generations back as far as I know If I could choose my own superpowers: I would be able to control other people´s thoughts and actions (like professor X) Regrets: all the time I wasted on boring and soulless jobs, all the times I should have said "no" or "stop" - I´m far to kind... Proud of : my individuality - I grown up to be ME without to much interference from other sources Being versatile and having a holistic way of looking at life Secret passion: I don´t think I have any secret passions, wait - there´s one: spectacularism. Guess what that means... Favorite kitchen appliance: the electric kettle UFOs: the question is not IF they´re here - the question is WHY they´re here
For President of Sweden: Ronny Eriksson (alt. DiLeva) Cellphone tune : Manic Monday My Jeopardysubjects: The Alien movies, Duckburg, Ronnie James Dios career until 1985, Rum, Science Fiction, Discworld, Hjorthagen, Fishs life and lyrics Famous for : always bringing my camera, my passion for cheese, increasing the temperature in a room just by being there, sleep forever and ever, make things happen Pets: not any more. Misses my snakes sometimes. Would like to have a turtle one day, or a huge, hairy spider Grief of my life: being fully aware of the fact that the species of Homo Sapiens can´t make the right choice between fear and love and is slowly but very successfully destroying this planet without even being aware of it That the pace of this civilization is constantly increasing and being more stressful by the day, when I enjoy taking it slow and stop to smell the flowers on the side of the road That so many can draw a line between sex and love when I can´t When I sometimes am being stupid and consider it "not to be enough!" Happiness of my life: ironically the same thing - I´ll rather be who I am and know what I know and does something about it than being ignorant That I looked myself in the mirror and decided to live according to my dreams and ambitions Favorite vegetable: broccoli Places I enjoy: the bathtub with a good book and a drink, the bed when I don´t have to leave it, Aquaria ( museum of water), Konstens Hus (museum of art), the bar downstairs at La Habana, libraries all over the world, in front of my computer when creativity flows, anywhere close to Jenny Haircolor: natural reddish dark blonde - at the moment Red/Black On the sandwich: cheese of all kinds, veggiepates, salami, ajvar, tacosauce Makes me cry: pinch the hairs in my nose, some movies, when someone rams their hand into my chest and touches my heart Favorite art: HR Giger , Bajema, Magnus, Mike Massee, Ronin, maYam, Mike Bohatch, Jason Beam, and a lot of the digital gothart (Photoshop forever!) Favorite photographers: Horst P Horst, Edward Weston, Way to die: would be fun to run in on a Jehovas Witness service with a bomb and shout: "Did you really believe in living forever - see you in hell!" before detonating, but I think I prefer to drink a bottle of 12-year old dark rum (Brugal) on the top of Mt. Everest and then fall asleep in the snow while thinking back on all the fun stuff that have happened in my life and the last thought being that I won´t have to get up in the morning Favorite lyric: Marillion: Warm Wet Circles On
promenades where drunks propose to lonley arcade mannequins I
saw teenage girls like gaudy moths, a classrooms shabby butterflies In
a warm wet circle She
nervously undressed in the dancing beams of the fidra lighthouse Favorite Shakespeare: Much ado about nothing First concert : Iron Maiden, Hovet 5th of June 1983 Latest concert : Alanis Morissette, Globens annex 5th of July 2001 Wish to be remembered for: making the mummified corpse of Lenin laugh + become a present bodishattva Favorite time of year: the summer - no discussion! Makes me angry: don´t get mad - I get sad, because of a large part of the human behavior Would bring to a deserted island: a guitar, lots of pens and paper, a well equipped toolbox, a library, a bar, Jenny of course Desktoptheme on my computer: Alien commemoration Most important in a home: bed, bookshelf, plants, entertainment technology, art, computer, bathtub Favorite Bond: Pierce Brosnan Would save first in case of a fire: my photoalbums, my files on the computer Favorite room: the bathroom - it s warm and cozy, and it´s the only place where your privacy is respected and you can be left alone Dreaming of: achieving my goals, a better world Favorite "fika": hot chocolate and cinnamon buns, cupcakes, mudcake Favorite Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back Favorite radio: nightradio at P3, Smoke Rings, webradio: Chill Factor 100, Mauroradio, Art of Darkness, Soul Metal, Glow Starz, Sirens of Song Favorite comic: Dilbert Other comics: Bizarro, Get Fuzzy, Monty, Calvin & Hobbes, Spawn, Nemi, Pondus, Shermans lagoon, Non Sequiteur, The far side Burgers: BK and Sibylla Cinema or video: cinema, if it´s not to crowded, a quiet audience, great soundsystem and I can sit in the front Watches preferably : horror and sci-fi
Favorite shops: Lush, SF Bokhandeln (sci-fi bookstore (paradise on earth!!!)), Indiska, Systembolaget at Regeringsgatan (liquor store), H & M (clothing), Bodyshop, Alvglans (comics), Five O´clock the & konfektyr (candystore) My own private revolution: against the return of Luther, injustice, to much work and stress, more laughter and pleasure in this world Favorite holiday : Halloween Costume on Halloween: Green Goblin, with jetdriven bat and working pumpkin-grenades Businesscard:
Most precious possession: besides the photoalbums everything can be replaced, but some of my books and vinyl records could be hard to find again. And of course the things I´ve written Favorite song: Tears For Fears - Woman In Chains Things I wanna do before I die: write a book, create a sitcom, become a guru, move to a warmer place, sing "for real", make a larger quantity of people really think, create a comic, write the rules Choice of weapon in a duel: TP or Jeopardy Calendar: Filofax Tecnic and The Simpsons at the movies (on the wall) Favorite drink: Bella notte (rum, amaretto and Black orange) Would like to have invented: the dildo (not for the money it would have made me, but for the feeling of having helped so many people) Inventor of : the drink Poundcake (Jack Daniels, Tequila, Coke, lots of Tabasco), a lot of fictional characters and stories, some words that I thought the swedish language lacked Soda: Dr Pepper On my pizza: just veggies or just seafood. Spinach and fetacheese is a personal favorite Sign: Libra
Personality according to sign: diplomatic on the verge of being a wuz, enjoys beauty, feminine, don´t like arguments or fights, hard to make my mind up, creative, pushing, have high demands, easily disappointed, sways a lot before I reach balance Things I´d like to change about myself: body: loose a couple of pounds and get in better shape mind: learn to say no and stop carrying the world on my shoulders, develop my psychic abilities, get smarter and funnier This years new years resolution: writing a sitcom, follow my inner voice without hesitation Want for christmas: a year off and a home movie sound system Criminal record : none (I´m to smart to get caught ;-) Favorite decade: the eighties, probably based on the fact that I was young then. Have a romantic thing for the forties and fifties, probably based on to much TV- and movie-nostalgia Hate decade : seventies. It was UGLY Favorite prescripted drug: Prozac Prejudiced against : Finnish people being primitive and that all males born in the forties can´t change their minds Things I m ashamed over: not a thing - it´s no use, but I´m not proud over everything I´ve done either... Looking forward to: Lord of the Rings trilogy, new creative challenges, the end of the world as we know it, to get in harmony with my direction in life, be able to have my passion as a living (Try to) stay in shape by: using my legs as much as possible. Would like to (need to!) swim, practice Tai Chi and Qi Gong Scared of : have lost my fear of heights and spiders, but instead I´m being freaked over the fear of throwing up in public. There´s another one, but that´s private... If I could be a fictional character I would be: Ford Prefect in The hitch hikers guide to the galaxy Favorite virtue: self control Favorite sin: idleness (lust is OK to...) A day to remember: december 10th 2001 What I like in others: humor, humor, humor, originality, spontaneity, honesty, a relaxed way of life, inner harmony and balance, creativity, personality, a strong mind, cynicism, cleverness, passion, inability to talk about the weather What I don´t like in others: dishonesty, denial, stagnation, cowardness, lack of humor, when someone turn the back on love, projecting your own contempt on others Wasting my money on: bills, old debts, CD´s, books, movies, DVD´s, food, clothes, booze, chocolate, body lotions and similar stuff, comics Death is : the meaning of life, the ultimate journey Definition of beauty: naked honesty, timelessness Favorite science: quantum mechanics Morning or night: night - I´m at my peak 23.00 - 03.00 Lie of my life: "Now I´m just going to do things I want to and that I enjoy" "Next year´s going to be different" (Both are history now...) Handicap: shortsighted, partial colorblind, slightly damaged by to much stress Eyecolor: greenish blue or blueish green, depending on who´s watching and when Favorite weather: real hot and sunny, only interrupted apocalyptic thunderstorms
Favorite theory: Scott Adams theory that the reason why the world works so badly is that we are all idiots ("life is to complex to be smart all the time"). We use the most of our intelligence just to get to work in the morning without killing anyone - and then it´s just downhill from there... My name in other contexts: The Peter principle - In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence Peter out - astronomy term for fading away, fading out Peterculter - (according to The Deeper Meaning of Liff) Someone you don´t want to be friends with who calls you up at eight-months intervals and suggests you get together soon StruwwelPeter - click here Peter Plys - danish for Winnie the Pooh Nicknames: Geten (The Goat), Peterix (web-alias) Immortal albums: Iron
Maiden: Killers Planes, trains or bus: train Porn: sure, but not all of it
Favorite part of my body: the collarbones Ice-cream: Rocky Road Things I´d like to able to do: sing, kung-fu, speak Spanish, photography, being good at Photoshop, telekinesi, draw Worlds most underestimated movie: Chasing Amy, and probably Strange Days as well Reads stuff by: Douglas Coupland, Terry Pratchett, Chuck Palahniuk, Ernest Hemingway, Charles Bukowski, Ulf Lundell, Whitley Streiber, Douglas Adams, Raymond Carver, Johan Tell, Neil Gaiman, Graham Greene, Ben Elton, HP Lovecraft, P.J. O´Rourke Computers: they´re a tool for my creativity, but somehow I got a grip about the technology behind without even being interested. I want to be in charge of the comp - not the other way around The web is fun, as long as it´s not turning into an addiction In my bag: calendar, notebook, lenses and/or glasses, business cards, pens galore, camera & extra film, sunglasses, rechargeable batteries, Pantoloc, tissues, cigarettes, lighter, books, Walkman, tiny flashlight Bands I´ve been a member of: Aztec, Rogers Friends, Golden Dawn, Fears For Ears, the embryo of Wicked Lester, the ALF chorus Favorite Disneymovie: Lilo & Stitch Lady & The Tramp and Peter Pan as a close seconds Xpressoncover: Alien Misses: warmth, friends not living nearby, peace and quiet, motivation sometimes, Jenny when I travel alone Things the years have brought: ulcer, heavy hangovers, more hair!! - even on the scalp (I´m slowly turning into a werewolf), less energy, focus, boredom, insight, comfort, cynicism, a slight touch of misantrophy, lovehandles, less patience with morons that waste my time, ambitions, an urge to change the world Favorite fruit: avocado, pineapple DNRC title: earthly incarnation of Urga Gurga the amazingly pissed The bedroom´s supposed to be: hot! 18 degrees (C) my ass - preferably 28 Thing´s I´ll never do: buy a Volvo stationwagon (been there - done that), get a dog, try square-dance, move to Finland, get a motorhome, wake before the alarm, stop caring ´bout what I´m wearing, become a father, put butter on my sandwich, abandon my dreams for a safer and more predictable life, stop loving music, decorate the walls with pictures of cute crying children, bulkshopping, go skydiving/bungyjump/other falling activity, like sports, dress in pink, zap between the channels when there´s nothing I wanna see anyway, loose my sense of humor Words that don´t mean much to me: relatives, duty, fuck around, hate, patriotism Favorite snacks: OLW cheesedoodles Can´t live without: music, sleep, Jenny, solitude, books and other things to read, art, moments of peace and quiet, balance, creating, beauty, fun Occupation of my dreams: something where I can express my creativity, don´t have to get up early in the morning, can work from home, can touch the mind and soul of people and make them have a thought they never had before - make them laugh and think. Some kind of writer would be nice.
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