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Derek.

I am here for Friends

About Me

A non rhetorical radical. My heart is as big as a house.

My Interests

Humanism, Lemurs, Green Tea, Sweden, France, Pugs, Indie Shows, Small Art House Theatres, Foreign film, experimental guitar playing, Sushi ... wandering.

Music:

Radiohead, Guided by Voices, Pavement/Stephen Malkmus, Tortoise, The Microphones/Mount Eerie, Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, 6 Organs of Admittance/Comets on Fire, Ali Farka Touré, GodSpeed You! Black Emperor, Mogwai, Explosions In The Sky, Do Make Say Think, Caetano Veloso, Tom Zé, Os Mutantes, The Magnetic Fields, Smog, Deerhoof, M. Ward, Dinosaur Jr/Sebadoh/Folk Implosion, Fennesz, Autechre, Amon Tobin, Boards of Canada, Fugazi, Mclusky, Broken Social Scene, Silver Jews, Will Oldham, My Bloody Valentine, The Mountain Goats, The Hold Steady, Spoon, Super Furry Animals, The Walkmen, The Books, Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, Slint, Andrew Bird, Animal Collective, Sufjan Stevens, Les Savy Fav, Belle & Sebastian, Xiu Xiu ... & more.

Movies:

The films of Bergman, Godard, Ozu, Herzog, Truffaut, Cassavetes, Renoir, Kurosawa, Melville, Kubrick, Malle, Antonioni, Hitchcock, Lynch, F.Lang, Pasolini, Wilder, Buñuel, Welles, Almodóvar, Kieslowski.

Books:

Dostoevsky, Kafka, Sartre, Camus, Tolstoy, Delillo, Palahniuk, Clevenger, Welsh, Selby Jr, Vonnegut, H.S.Thompson, Kerouac, Huxley.

Heroes:

Mr. John Cassavetes