Peter Knego
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Maritime |
| Occupation | Writer and Ship Fittings Dealer |
| Location | Moorpark, CA, United States |
| Introduction | Delighted to have the "Sea Treks" blogspot to showcase my sea-going adventures and to launch a new blogspot, "Ocean Liner Oracles", featuring people who have been at the forefront of Ocean Liner history and preservation. A third blogspot, "Decked!", offers in depth tours of various ocean liners and cruise ships. And, just added, and potentially very scary, is "Pseudo Sophisti-Conceited" a personal blog featuring the musings of a, well, "me". |
| Interests | Ocean Liners, Travel, Classic Hollywood Movies And Lore (1930s through 1950s), Midcentury Design and Architecture, Tudor England, Anne Boleyn, Butterflies |
| Favorite movies | "My Man Godfrey" (1936), "The Poseidon Adventure", "To Be Or Not To Be" (1942), "North By Northwest", "The Awful Truth", "Stage Door", "Rear Window", "The Man Who Knew Too Much", "The Fourth Man"(Verhoeven), "Jackie's Back", "Grand Hotel", "Ninotchka", "Lifeboat", "Die Die My Darling!", "The Tenant", "That Obscure Object of Desire", "Entre Nous","Network", "Coup De Torchon", "La Cage Aux Folles", "Diva", "All About My Mother", "Anne Of A Thousand Days", "Sunset Boulevard", "All About Eve", "Chinatown", "The Morning After" |
| Favorite music | Sparks, Electric Light Orchestra, Nina Simone, Sarah Vaughan, Beatles, Abba and just about anything but HipHop and Country Western (although there are always exceptions), Yoko Ono, Nina Hagen, early Depeche Mode, Giorgio Moroder, New Wave, Moody Blues, Lovin' Spoonful, Mamas and Papas, Marianne Faithfull, Godley and Creme, 10CC, The Sweet, Blondie, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, Jean-Michel Jarre, Henry Mancini, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, The Buggles, Blancmange, The GoGos |
| Favorite books | "Julian" by Gore Vidal, "The Only Way To Cross" by John Maxtone Graham, "The Last Blue Water Liners" by William H. Miller |