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derrick sanskrit

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About Me


someday, i will be a sensational graphic designer. i'll also be a fairly excellent musician. until then, i'm practicing.

My Interests

politics, music, art, theater, comic books, design, discussion, fashion, hopeless romance

I'd like to meet:



cool cat creative types.
misunderstood geniuses.
people who want to collaborate on something great.

Music:

Kupek, His Name Is Alive, The Dears, They Might Be Giants, Q And Not U, TV On The Radio, Blanket Music, Ted Leo, Les Savy Fav, World/Inferno Friendship Society, My Bloody Valentine, Dar Williams, Radiohead, Mirah, Beulah, Beck, Asobi Seksu, Bjork, Ben Folds, Belle & Sebastian, Brendan Small, Cake, Interpol, The Cure, Eels, Gil Scott-Heron, James Kochalka Superstar, Liam Lynch, Moxy Fruvous, Phil Ochs, Ratatat, girlsareshort, Final Fantasy, Talking Heads, The Magnetic Fields, Stephen Merritt, of Montreal, Yann Tiersen, sanskrit, The Pen Sixteen Club

Movies:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Casablanca, Fight Club, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Stand and Deliver, Pump Up the Volume, Jim Henson movies, I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, Stop Making Sense, Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns, Wes Anderson movies, Bill and Ted moives, Citizen Kane, UHF, Better Off Dead

Television:

The West Wing, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Project Runway, 30 Days, House, Home Movies, Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law, Sliders (except the last two seasons), Time Trax, Quantum Leap, Bobby's World, Freakazoid!, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, The Awful Truth, TV Nation, Sifl & Olly, The State, Kids in the Hall, Dinosaurs, The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, The Prisoner, Schoolhouse Rock

Books:

Pretty much anything by Bryan Lee O'Malley, Craig Thompson, Brian Wood, David Sedaris, Dave Eggers, Augusten Burroughs, Sarah Vowell, Theodore 'Dr. Seuss' Geissel, Damon Hurd, Brian Vaughn or Chip Kidd.

Heroes:

Theodore Geissel, Jim Henson, Michael Moore, Chip Kidd, Bill Clinton, Stefan Sagmeister

My Blog

Comic! - Kirby On A Rampage

hey party people! i took a break from my two-year-long stretch of reading and talking about comics without actually drawing any to whip up this submission for Life Meter Comics, a strip based on my fa...
Posted by derrick sanskrit on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 08:23:00 PST

sanskrit mixtape number eleven: school angst

as september started, i quickly became depressed and it was extremely obvious why. everyone was going back to school all at the same time, just like every year before, and there is a certain amount of...
Posted by derrick sanskrit on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 07:58:00 PST

This weekend: MoCCA Art Fest '06!!!

i'll be there all weekend. drop on by and hang out or hit me up on the cell.also very exciting:...
Posted by derrick sanskrit on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 09:29:00 PST

sanskrit mix number ten: end of an era

this mix started conception just before finals and ended after my first full week back home after graduation. it feels like an excellent soundtrack for that awkward and emotional transitional time. it...
Posted by derrick sanskrit on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 09:23:00 PST

mixtape number nine: no such thing as love!

this ain't love potion number nine peope, its sanskrit mixtape number nine. since i pimped out mixtape number 2 last february with songs about love, it only made sense to me to have this one be more a...
Posted by derrick sanskrit on Wed, 01 Feb 2006 03:09:00 PST

Sweet Nothing music video!!!

okay, so I made this music video before the holidays and totally forgot to blog about it. my bad, i guess? anyway, please check out my first music video, "Sweet Nothing": 19.6mb MOV...
Posted by derrick sanskrit on Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:05:00 PST

i got a cell phone (for real)

some of you may remember that three years ago i had a cell phone for about a month and a half. after i ran out of minutes i decided i hated it and stopped using it. now i have a real one:(picture take...
Posted by derrick sanskrit on Fri, 16 Dec 2005 07:11:00 PST

'Tis the Season!

yeah, i know its only Thanksgiving today, but that means its almost Christmas, dammit, and while most people love Christmas for the family or the gifts, i love it for the cheery music, so here's my mi...
Posted by derrick sanskrit on Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:19:00 PST

why am i in florida?!?!?

its been torrential downpour on and off for the past three days. this is what i have to look forward to for the next few days: whereas back in new york, tommorrow night Les Savy Fav are playing w...
Posted by derrick sanskrit on Thu, 25 Aug 2005 03:32:00 PST

Mixtape vol. 3 - DANCE!!!

happy april fool's day. i've never been very good at april fool's pranks, so instead, here's something really good that's not a trick, volume 3 of the sanskrit Mixtape series. the coincide with spring...
Posted by derrick sanskrit on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST