User:Pete Best Beatles

"There's no winning, there's only losing more slowly." - Robert Mitchum

"They think vision's just some costly infection." - Jim Carrol/"City Drops Into The Night"

Regarding my username, Pete Best Beatles; I am not nor have I ever claimed to be Pete Best. I do not have, and have never had, any connection to him. Pete Best Beatles does not refer to any person, living or dead, but rather is a metaphor for any one of the many cruel ironies life may throw at us. No deception is intended.

I've been editing since December 2021, and have focused on articles about cinema, music, and literature (film noir, punk rock, and hard-boiled detective fiction respectively).


 * Favorite book about the movies: The Pat Hobby Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
 * Favorite book about Noir: More Than Night: Film Noir In Its Contexts by James Naremore
 * Favorite book about Punk rock: Burning Down The Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and The Fall of The Berlin Wall by Tim Mohr
 * Best TV show ever: The Shield

Here's a list of the articles which I've made significant contributions to so far:


 * 1) Private Hell 36 - Rewrote Plot
 * 2) The Captive City (1952 film)- Added to Plot
 * 3) Foreign Correspondent (film) - Keep watch for the perennial well-intended but incorrect edits to ffolliott's name.
 * 4) The Turning Point (1952 film) - Expanded Plot
 * 5) Born to Kill (1947 film) - Rewrote Plot summary; created Multifaceted femme fatale section.
 * 6) Hugo Haas - Created Production company section.
 * 7) Baby Face (film) - Added contemporary reviews.
 * 8) Barbara Stanwyck - Added paragraph about her pre-code work.
 * 9) Paradise Alley (1962 film) - Created Cast section.
 * 10) The Prowler (1951 film) - Created three sections: Restoration, Hollywood Blacklist, and Production
 * 11) The Clay Pigeon - Created Depiction of Japanese-Americans section.
 * 12) Harlem Detective series - Expanded, retitled.
 * 13) The Woman on the Beach - Created Production section.
 * 14) Draft:A Rage in Harlem (novel) - Created draft, started adding content.
 * 15) Cotton Comes to Harlem (novel) - Edited throughout.
 * 16) Native Son (1951 film) - Created Film noir style section. Added to the Development and Release sections.
 * 17) Walk a Crooked Mile - Added to the Production section.
 * 18) T-Men - Added a paragraph each to the Lead and Cast sections and two paragraphs to the Production section, rewrote Plot summary.
 * 19) Pistol (miniseries) - Added to the Production section, added six reviews, added Short Summaries to Episodes 4, 5, and 6.
 * 20) Sound film - Created Further reading section.
 * 21) Film noir - Created Suggested listening section.
 * 22) James Naremore - Completed Bibliography section.
 * 23) Power pop - Created Suggested listening section.
 * 24) Pub rock (United Kingdom) - Created Suggested listening and Suggested viewing sections.
 * 25) Punk rock - Created Suggested viewing section.
 * 26) Mark Eitzel - Created In collaboratin sub-section.
 * 27) Peter Buck - Created Discography section.
 * 28) Catholic Boy - Created Origin and Music sections, added to Critical reception.
 * 29) Category:Film noir cartoons - Created new category.
 * 30) Crass - Created Suggested viewing section.
 * 31) Black Flag (band) - Created Videography and Tribute compilations sections.
 * 32) Dead Kennedys - Created Videography section.
 * 33) Spanish Civil War - Created Suggested listening section.
 * 34) Lincoln Battalion - Created Suggested listening section.
 * 35) Hank Williams III - Added See also section.
 * 36) Draft:How to be a Detective - Created draft.
 * 37) Big Black - Created See also section.
 * 38) Steve Albini discography - Created Spoken word section, added information and standardized the format.
 * 39) The Effigies - Created Compilation album appearances sub-section.
 * 40) Naked Raygun - Created Compilations sub-section, reformatted Discography section.
 * 41) Pegboy - Created Videography section, and Compilation appearances and Tribute to sub-sections.
 * 42) Rifle Sport - Created Compilations sub-section.
 * 43) The Replacements (band) - Created Suggested reading and Suggested listening sections.
 * 44) Skip Spence - Created Compilation appearances sub-section.
 * 45) Angry Samoans - Created Compilation appearances sub-section.
 * 46) Tim Buckley - Created Compilation appearances sub-section.
 * 47) The Dils - Created Compilation appearances sub-section.
 * 48) The Zeros - Created Compilation appearances sub-section.
 * 49) The Weirdos - Created Compilation appearances sub-section.
 * 50) The Last - Created Compilation appearances sub-section.
 * 51) BOMP! Records - Initiated article move.
 * 52) X - Created Compilation appearances sub-section.
 * 53) The Dickies - Created Compilation appearances sub-section.
 * 54) Eleventh Dream Day - Created Compilation appearances section.
 * 55) 5, 6, 7, 8's - Created Singles and Videos sub-sections.
 * 56) Bomb the Rocks: Early Days Singles 1989-1996 - Initiated article move.
 * 57) 21st Century Girls - Created Compilation appearances section.
 * 58) Insaints - Initiated article move.
 * 59) The Furys - Transformed a Selected discography into a full, complete Discography.
 * 60) The Ace Of Cups - Created entire Discography.
 * 61) Adickdid - Created entire Discography.
 * 62) Material Issue - Created Compilation and Video appearances sub-sections.
 * 63) Sloppy Seconds - Created Compilation appearances sub-section.
 * 64) Gitogito Hustler - Initiated article move.
 * 65) Zero Boys - Created Singles and EPs, Compilations, Compilation appearances, and Videos sub-sections.
 * 66) Desperately Seeking Susan - Created See also section.
 * 67) Who's That Girl (1987 film) - Created See also section.
 * 68) Pony Up! - Initiated article move.
 * 69) Leonard Cohen discography - Created Tribute compilations section.
 * 70) Toxic Reasons - Created Compilation appearances section.
 * 71) Klaus Voormann - Created With Manfred Mann section.
 * 72) After Hours - Created See also section.
 * 73) AC/DC discography - Created Tribute compilations section.
 * 74) Estrus Records - Created Suggested listening section.
 * 75) Bhopal Stiffs - Created Studio releases and Compilation appearances sub-sections.
 * 76) Third-wave feminism - Created Suggested listening section.
 * 77) Green - Created Compilation appearances sub-section.
 * 78) Breaking Circus - Created Studio releases and Compilation appearances sub-sections.
 * 79) The Bomb - Created EPs, Albums, and Compilation appearances sub-sections.
 * 80) Rapeman - Created Compilation appearances sub-section.
 * 81) Shellac discography - Created Compilation section.
 * 82) Vic Bondi - Created four Compilation appearances sub-sub-sections.
 * 83) Cheer-Accident - Created Singles and EPs, Compilations, Compilation appearances, and Video compilation appearances sub-sections.
 * 84) The Slugs - Created Albums, Singles, and Compilation appearances sub-sections.
 * 85) The Applicators - Created Compilation appearances sub-section.
 * 86) Hey Violet - Created Compilations and Compilation appearances sections.
 * 87) Doll Skin - Created Studio releases and Other appearances sections.
 * 88) The Eyeliners - Created Singles, Albums, Compilations, and Compilation and Soundtrack appearances sub-sections.
 * 89) Hepburn - Created Compilations and Video compilation appearances sub-sections.
 * 90) KSM - Created Studio releases and Compilation and soundtrack appearances sub-sections.
 * 91) Lash - Created Compilations and Compilation appearances sub-sections.
 * 92) Peaness - Created Compilation appearances sub-section.
 * 93) Partyline - Created Albums, Singles and EPs, and Compilation appearances sub-sections.