This is a Derek - ProfilesArchive

About Me

i live in portland, oregon, and i love it here. i'm staying in town for college partly because i fear change and partly because i'm unsure what i want to study and felt it would be silly to go off to some fancy expensive college that specializes in some field in which i may or may not end up being interested.
i am currently enrolled in the professional music program at portland community college.
i don't drive a car because i can get everywhere i need to go on my bicycle.
also, i think i might have a repressed fear of killing people.
i can play all sorts of different instruments with various levels of competency, but none especially well.
just about the only thing i do think i do especially well is origami. i own nearly every good book ever published in the states on the subject, and several more from japan.
i'm a better poet than most people seem to think i am. i swear.
i have an irrational love of old things, in particular old video games and computers, vinyl, books, and fountain pens.
i also like to wear neckties, and to build things with my hands.

My Interests

numerous. strike up a conversation - it's less work for me and more fun for the both of us.

I'd like to meet:

i'd like to meet people who are genuine - people who are informed, interested, involved, and invested in their world. people who value substance over style without forsaking style completely. people who love doing, making, and being.

Music:

aphex twin
atari teenage riot
autechre
blue Ã¶yster cult
boards of canada
david bowie
cake
catch 22
the chemical brothers
charlie clouser
covenant
the cure
daft punk
dead kennedys
dieselboy
john digweed
dispatch
the doors
eisbrescher
emerson lake and palmer
the faint
fischerspooner
funker vogt
the future sound of london
godspeed you black emperor
gorillaz
guns n' roses
kmfdm
kraftwerk
the kronos quartet
led zeppelin
linkin park
lucky boys confusion
mac dre
the mighty mighty bosstones
mindless self indulgence
nine inch nails
orbital
orgy
pendulum
a perfect circle
photek
pig
pink floyd
pixies
presidents of the united states of america
primus
prodigy
puscifer
queen
raconteurs
radiohead
rammstein
reel big fish
sasha
skinny puppy
solenoid
streetlight manifesto
sublime
supertramp
system of a down
they might be giants
tool
robin trower
van halen
vast
venetian snares
white stripes
the who
:wumpscut:
xtc

Movies:

my tastes in movies are sparse and strangely distributed.

Television:

rarely

Books:

most or all of the authors i currently enjoy, and some i used to, in the order i thought of them just now:

lewis
stephenson
palahniuk
salinger
lovecraft
rice
card
fitzgerald
poe
jacques
orwell
huxley
vonnegut
le guin
heller
hÃ¶fstadter
bulgakov
selby, jr.
burgess
quinn
voltaire
pirsig
eggers

Heroes:

none

My Blog

an elaboration

so i posted a bulletin earlier with a link to this article, along with what i now realize may have been a bit of an overreactive rant. i do tend to get carried away with these things sometimes.&...
Posted by This is a Derek on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:50:00 PST

woo, new poemetry!

slow burn &n bsp; hold this paper to the fire expose a message written there ...
Posted by This is a Derek on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:49:00 PST

i'm an ungrateful little bitch. or something.

i came to an unpleasant realization last night, during one of the increasingly frequent intervals in which there's more tetrahydracannibanol in my blood than oxygen. it seems i am not afforded t...
Posted by This is a Derek on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 08:57:00 PST

a sort of a free write about amanda and caffeinated beverages, circa early this year

caffeinated mannerismscute at first but tiring in more ways than onefirst impressions are made at timesbut seldom last for hours. ////////---these are the things that i take away with me after thin...
Posted by This is a Derek on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:27:00 PST

i don't even know, man...

so i'm up at 2:30 two nights in a row now, only tonight instead of trying to write shitty poetry i'm playing an iron and wine song in the wrong key on an unplugged electric guitar. somehow it's ...
Posted by This is a Derek on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:26:00 PST

damnit, but i _want_ to leave the subject line blank!

i've discovered recently that your life can fit in boxes. true story. lie to me because you love mesacrifice to keep me wholereality is tempting butdeceit is far more comfortablesuch a deg...
Posted by This is a Derek on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 02:28:00 PST

mexicobaggage pt. 2

the rest of my mexico journals. again, a lot of this is incomplete and some is damn near nonsensical. i'm not really happy with any of it, but i'm posting it because something needs to hap...
Posted by This is a Derek on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 01:38:00 PST

mexicobaggage pt. 1

100% pure imported mexican journal entry. poor grammar and sentence structure are natural products of the fatigue experienced by the author at the time. i've been thinking a lo...
Posted by This is a Derek on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 07:25:00 PST

this is quite possibly a cry for help.

ahh, the wonders of the internet. you can take two perfectly stupid websites and combine them to yield something far, far more stupid. a russian clone of bash.org +freetranslation.com=* ...
Posted by This is a Derek on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:06:00 PST

c'mon guys, it'll be fun!

ladies and gentlemen, i have found my calling. well, not really, but i think i've found something with which i can occupy my time for a while. you see, i've spent years talking to people o...
Posted by This is a Derek on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 07:56:00 PST