Peter Knego
- Gender: Male
- Astrological Sign: Virgo
- Industry: Maritime
- Occupation: Writer and Ship Fittings Dealer
- Location: Moorpark : CA : United States
About Me
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
My Blogs |
Team Members |
| Peter Knego's Sea Treks | MaritimeMatters.com |
|---|---|
| Pseudo Sophisti-conceit... | |
| Ocean Liner Oracles | MaritimeMatters.com |
| Decked | MaritimeMatters.com |