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Derek

Bite My Shiny Metal Ass

About Me

One of these days I'll be able to afford to construct a moat to keep the Black Night at bay.Damn you to hell Black Night!

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Someone that can get that damn Black Knight off my back

Music:

Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, The Band, Robert Johnson, Pavement, Cap 'n Jazz, Joan of Ark, Built to Spill, Blonde Redhead, Eric's Trip, The Pastels, The Vaselines, Superchunk, Drive Like Jehu, Rights of Spring, Embrace (the Discord band, not the boring crap-fest), Refused, Buzzcocks, The Clash, X-Ray Spex, UK Subs, Vibrators, MC5, The Stooges, Aphex Twin, just about everything that Warp Records ever realeased, Palace, Whiskeytown, Wilco, Old 97's and anything else twangy, Suede, Blur, Pulp, The Wedding Present, The Smiths, Belle and Sebastian, The Libertines, Dirty Pretty Things, The Thermals, The Ravonettes, Jesus and Mary Chain, T Rex, Mates of State, Love is All, The Cribs, Kaiser Chiefs, We Are Scientists, Young Heart Attack, Franz Ferdinand, The Rakes, 60ft Dolls, Artic Monkeys, The Strokes, The Exploding Hearts, The Rezillos, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead + way too many to list

Movies:

Breathless, Shooting of a Chinese Bookie, Amelie, City of Lost Children, Blade Runner, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Annie Hall, The Big Lebowski, Chungking Express, Fallen Angels, Tokyo Raiders, Wall Street, Boiler Room, Hail Mary, Sleeper, The Matrix, Star Wars, Stranger Than Paradise, Coffee and Cigarettes

Television:

Anything involving millionaires, soon to be millionaires and midgets, Twitch City, Newsroom, hot ass food porn, any show where they build trucks, things that go fast and things that blow up

Books:

Coupland, Gibson, Cryptonomicon and my newly acquired copy of the Art of War