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Derek

yes!

About Me

Whom a shadow stalks at every turn, and ... then finally laughs...

My Interests

Cheese, compressed or otherwise. Conversation, creation, exploration, design, architecture, ideas, philosphy, science, microbrew, good whiskey, insightful analysis, sharing the unsatiating intellectual curiosity for most everything, travel (journey and destination), cooking, hiking, rock climbing, camping, mountain biking, sking (liquid and frozen), white water kayaking, scuba diving, longboard surfing, humor and good times.

I'd like to meet:

Activity partners who are; truth junkies, humorists, enthusiasts, archivists, gear nerds, wallflowers, wierdos, collectors, fellow robots, musicians, computer geeks, bunnies, not afraid to miss sleep, climb onto rooftops, game to try most anything once, sometimes obsessed, and be cool with themselves,...

Music:

Tesh, Night Ranger, Estaban, Zamphir, Loggins and Oats, Jefferson Starship, Stryper, Coverdale/Page, Cameo, Celine Dion, Lil BowWow, Kenny G., Diddy, Reba, Ronstadt, Manilow, Jovi, Jermaine Dupree, Pet Shop Boys, Clay Aiken, Wilson Philips, Queen Latifa, Winger, Slaughter, DeBarge, George Michael, Boy George, ABBA, NKOTB, K-Fed, & freshly grated parmigiana...

Movies:

Matthew Barney. Craig Baldwin. TV Sheriff, and the Trailbuddies (the Prospector, & the Video Ape) Short films. Documentaries. 16 mm footagehead - Aurora Pisture Show. Wet Gate. Live interactive VJ is the shizzle! www.microcinema.com showcases. Sundance or IFC vs. mainstream Hollywood. But, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Tron, Blade Runner, Logans Run, Conan, The Warriors, the many versions of Frankenstein, Dracula and zombie spins, The Pythons' efforts, ... VideoDrome is real man! and motzarella in brine tins ...

Television:

The View, Reba, CSI: Houston, Hollywood Squares, Golden Girls, Gimore Girls, Dr. Phil, Mama's Family, Ellen, Montel, Maury, Jerry, Wilcos, Oprah, Martha, Sally, Ricky, Rosie, all day Alf and Tony Danza marathons, excratainment altar genuflection with: Hollywood Insider, Inside Edition, Extra, Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood, TMZ, and the gargantor pressurized container filled w/ Hickory Smoked Gruyere.

Books:

MySpace For Dummies, TapeOp, "O" Magazine, autobiographies, biographies, analysis, history, aesthetics, sci-fi, fiction, humor, comics, etc... prepackaged Swiss slices.

Heroes:

George Washington, Les Paul, Bob Moog, Jacques Cousteau, Shackleton, Newton, Kepler, Dr. Wernher von Braun, Einstein, Alan Turing, John Lydon, Joseph Beuys, Leibniz, Philo T. Farnsworth, Tesla, B.Franklin, John Muir, FDR, Sir Edmund Hillary, Warhol, Donald Judd, VanGogh, Wassily Kandinsky, Davy Force, John Wesley Powell, Frank Lloyd Wright, Tom Bergeron, M.Mothersbaugh, HR Giger, Buckethead, Danza, Emile Durkheim, Pavlov, James Hetfield, Evil Kenevil, Steve Jobs, all cancer combatants & survivors, Mark Pauline of Survival Research Laboratories, Howard Roark, all explorers, my immigrant grandfathers and pioneer grandmothers, my parents. Jalapeno Colby Jack.

My Blog

dragsville, bigtime

One the main reasons to visit the Art Car HQ was to hang out and shoot the breeze with this man, one of the coolest, kindest, creative, intelligent, humorous, and fun people in Houston, ever.  My...
Posted by Derek on Mon, 12 May 2008 09:02:00 PST

Holy Mountain Toad Invasion :: bizzaire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjvVOtcv6MI [yawn]...
Posted by Derek on Sun, 04 May 2008 05:25:00 PST

gone, but revisited

Just awoke from a powerful dream where my of my best friends was still alive and we were having a great old time, just like the old times.  It was wonderfully fun, until I came more awake and rea...
Posted by Derek on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:37:00 PST

optimistic for '07

I have a great feeling about 2007! 
Posted by Derek on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:54:00 PST

gas station food up :: NOT

i stole this from CHRIS...who says,"GREASE YOUR ASS!!" this is from Cragislist: http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/lax/182862349.html DO NOT EAT PRINGLES FAT FREE POTATO CHIPS. THEY WILL GREASE...
Posted by Derek on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:31:00 PST

tortured

Guess its fitting to be thusly wracked with night terrors this time of year.  I am feeling badly physically, partially due to the onset of a cold and the 1-2 punch of emotionally tolling events o...
Posted by Derek on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:16:00 PST

Find time for the "Non Sequitur Alliance"

I'm so busy of late with job, friends, readings, am I finding it so difficult to schedule time to do something I really like and want to do, adn that being the new project The Non Sequitur Alliance?&n...
Posted by Derek on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:35:00 PST

melecholic mordidity :: the span is too short

Its 4 AM and I can't sleep. I've beeen long reflecting on my online friend Kim who is having a tough bout with ovarian cancer.  She is such a beautiful person, and even more radiant after the dia...
Posted by Derek on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:21:00 PST

ah-ha :: time waster for the idle

All the credit for this brilliant find goes to Regicidal SociopathIMAGESHACK'S backdoorBody: Ok there are many ways to do this this is the quickest onetype:http://imgXXX.imageshack.us/my.php?image=XXX...
Posted by Derek on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 04:49:00 PST

Concrete Vixen

This city is a woman.  A sultry, fickle goddess of stone and mortar.  A crumbling venus coarsely veiled in a cloak of steel-sinewed sudection... forever casting an icey shadow over all who d...
Posted by Derek on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 02:36:00 PST