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Derek

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About Me

"We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of the dreams..." -Anonymous
"All the best things in life cannot be described they must be experienced" -Radiohead

"If you change the way the people think... the way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you can do that, you can change the way people live their lives. And that's the only lasting thing you can create." -Chuck Palahniuk

"So i guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have he power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them." -Stephen Chbosky
"Here's what I know about the realm of possibility. It is always expanding it is never what you think it is... As hard as it is for us to see sometimes, we all exist within the realm of possibility. Most of the limits are of our own worlds devising. And yet, everyday we each do so many things that were once impossible to us." -David Levithan
I'm Derek. I am a pacifist, I hate violence. I’m originally from Long Island, but moved to Philadelphia for school. I'm studying to be a psychologist in hopes for some day to get my Ph.D. I have an amazing brother who has saved my life on numerous occasions and because of that I owe him my life. I have a beautiful sister that I love dearly. I have another brother that constantly teaches me about life each day. I love the ocean. I love the fall and the summer. I love walking in the rain and thunder storms help me go to sleep. I love the sky. I am amazed of how the sky surrounding us can be made up of so much beauty when here on earth there is so much hate. I try to seize the day at every moment that I can but most days I don't. I think entirely way too much, I over analyze. I'm complicated and constantly learn about myself. I love to laugh and I believe in love. Above all I believe in love. Simple things make me happy, I don't need a lot to make me smile. The thing I want to do the most is drive until the sun comes up with the windows rolled down and the music blasting until I feel infinite . I believe in reincarnation and fate, but I also believe in free will. I believe that everything happens for a reason. I love photography. I'm a Democrat . I want to travel more than anything; I want to see the world. I'm a writer; my poems hold my every emotion and are my outlet from life. I love music, it has been apart of my life ever since I was born and I could never live without it. I want to make a difference in some ones life. I want to be the reason they are alive. SN: NuAmericnClassic.
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My Interests

Apple Juice

Astrology

Autumn

Black and White Pictures

Clouds

Driving

England

Friends

The Fourth of July

Holding Hands

Halloween

H&M

Italy

Laughing

Long Island

Love

Montreal

Music

New York City

The Ocean


Orange

Peace

Philadelphia

Photography

Poetry

Politics

Pumpkins

Pyschology

Random trips to New Jersey

Reading

The Sky

Smiling

Smoothies

Spontaneity

The Stars

Sweaters

Team Fabulous

The Threesome Of Life


Trees

Urban Outfitters

Veggie Burgers

Vitamin Water

Writing

I'd like to meet:

I want to meet people that aren't afraid to be themselves. People who make me smile and laugh simply when thinking about them. People that I can trust.

Music:

Air

The All American Rejects

Armor for Sleep

Beck

Bjork

Blind Melon

Bloc Party

Blur

Brand New

Broken Social Scene

Cave In

Coldplay

Counting Crows

The Cure

Damien Rice

Daphne Loves Derby

Dashboard Confessional

Death Cab For Cutie

The Doors

Elbow

Eve 6

Far

The Get Up Kids

Gorillaz

Hawthorne Heights

Head Automatica

Her Space Holiday

The Honorary Title

The Hush Sound

Incubus

Jack Johnson

Jack's Mannequin

Jason Mraz

Jeff Buckley

Jonah Matranga

Jurassic 5

Justin Timberlake

Live

Lydia

Matchbook Romance

Motion City Soundtrack

A New Found Glory

Nine Inch Nails

Nirvana

Oasis

On

Onelinedrawing

Panic! at the Disco

A Perfect Circle

Phantom Planet

Pinback

Pink Floyd

Placebo

Plain White T's

The Postal Service

Radiohead

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Relient K

R.E.M.

Rookie of the Year

Saves The Day

Say Anything

Senses Fail

Sigur Ros

Smashing Pumpkins

Something Corporate

Stellastarr*

Straylight Run

Sublime

Sunny Day Real Estate

Taking Back Sunday

Third Eye Blind

Thursday

Timbaland

Tricky

Weezer

Movies:

American Beauty
American History X
Almost Famous
Big Fish
Brokeback Mountain
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Chasing Amy
Closer
Cruel Intentions
The Corpse bride
Dancer in the Dark
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
Dazed and Confused
The Dead Poets Society
The Departed
Donnie Darko
Drop Dead Fred
Edward Scissorhands
Elizabethtown
Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
Ever After
Finding Neverland
Garden State
Happy Endings
Half Nelson
I ♥ Huckabees
Igby Goes Down
Jerry Maguire
The Last Kiss
Moulin Rouge
Old School
The Omen
The Prestige
Proof
Rent
Romeo and Juliet
The Royal Tenebaums
Saved!
Singles
Super Bad
Thirteen
28 Days Later
Wedding Crashers
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The United States of Leland
Vanilla Sky
A Very Long Engagement
The Virgin Suicides

Television:

The Andy Milonakis Show

Dawson's Creek

Heroes

The O.C.

Project Runway

Real World/Road Rules Challenge

Top Chef

Will and Grace

Books:

Are We There Yet?

Boy Meets Boy

Catcher in the Rye

The Da Vinci Code

Harry Potter

Pebble in a Pool

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Pieces

The Realm of Possibility

Romeo and Juliet

Running with Scissors

Wide Awake

My Blog

another poem yet again

I Walk My Paths in Circlesforgottenlost confusedand in a way i don't even believe in myselffor the influence i once believed inhas disappearedand i dont have anything to help me keep travelingi reach ...
Posted by Derek on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:42:00 PST

new poem :)

Cafe of ClosureI sit right in front of you whispered voices floating all around us our coffee cups once filled are to the bottom all that remains of a lost conversation with our lips no longer moving...
Posted by Derek on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:50:00 PST

Its been a while since I wrote one of these...

Simplicity Lost it's Way to ConfusionUnable to chooseUnable to find an easy answerA simple decisionBeing pulled in two directionsMy heart Being encompassed in new impressionsMy brain Explaining it's a...
Posted by Derek on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:37:00 PST

you guessed it...

The Disembodiment of a DreamerFeeling escapes through my fingersmy breath escapes past my lipsmy eyes close to block what's in front of meI become a weakened silouhette without originality and passion...
Posted by Derek on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:14:00 PST

The result of being stuck in a car for 8 hours

Reverie of a Traveler89 miles away100 miles deepI lift myself upwake from a prolonged slumberrealize i have thousands of miles morethis shall never enda labryintha winding avenuean exploration I ...
Posted by Derek on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:42:00 PST

the future and you.

It's funny cause I look at my life, I look at the people in it and realize how happy I am. I look to the future and want one thing more than anything, but i have realized that I cannot be so lucky. No...
Posted by Derek on Thu, 31 May 2007 06:03:00 PST

poem once again.

Decisions Made in a New LightI listen to your voiceI watch your lips shape the insultsthat you delegate for mewords you absent mindly cast at mebut as each syllable passes from your mouthyou become tr...
Posted by Derek on Tue, 08 May 2007 07:06:00 PST

si senior

An Imitation Holding on to youthough I have nothing to hold on toyou were hereand now now you're gone simply in secondsyou are transparenta fraction of realitysomething that could never be genuineI wa...
Posted by Derek on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:17:00 PST

It's time for you to appear.

I need something more than everything I have. I need something greater than this life that I lead. I just need something that I can hold on to, something that is mine, which makes me feel happy. I don...
Posted by Derek on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:23:00 PST

This just isn't fun anymore.

So I don't feel like myself recently... I feel like something is missing. I just don't feel comfortable in my skin anymore. I feel like I'm itching to be someone else, to be somewhere else, to do some...
Posted by Derek on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:04:00 PST