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derek

words are difficult

About Me

I should start off by saying that this IS my personal page, but music is just about all I really enjoy doing with my life so I converted it into a music profile. Usually, this means I get spammed with people looking for shows in the area, but sometimes people actually stop and listen. No, I don't sing on my songs. Yes, I can sing, but I feel that our voice as humans can only bring so much to the table. I realize, of course, that hearing someone sing the words you've wanted to hear your entire life can be inspiring/catastrophic, but I just don't think anyone could possibly relate to the things that I would personally want to sing about. Similar to trying to tell another person about some kind of religious or mystical experience you may have had; It sounds great but it really carries no empirical meaning to the person outside of the experience.
I usually check myspace once or twice a day, but I'm never on for more than about four minutes, because the website is just so clunky what with all of these glittery graphics and slide shows and embedded videos and WACKY WEDNESDAY comments. In any case, if you would like to get a hold of me usually just message me or comment and I'll get back to you. Unless it's something stupid and meaningless. Then I'll probably just ignore it. THOSE ARE THE BREAKS, DOGG.
And usually, I avoid profiles that feature angle shots. They're mostly pretty sad, really. You can't just pretend you're the shit and go on with your miserable life, in which you have no real attachment to anyone or anything because you haven't developed any kind of inner dialogue.
I figured that since I have
so many damned music projects,
I should post the newest songs
here first. Consolidation is good.
Current Projects:
centre
warm.dead
chupacabra
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/30/2004
Band Website: myspace.com/chupacabraofficial
Band Members: centre
derek - guitar, composition
scott mcgowan - drums, engineering, sexy

alternate bands:
warm.dead
derek - composition, guitar, bass, vocals, drums, keyboards
brian grainger - contributed/sampled beats
mike bunting - contributed ambience
alan fisk - contributed ambience
jonathan curtis - harp and/or pitchfork

chupacbra
derek - programming, bass, vocals, composition
ian kepple - some vocals
patrick cullen - various interventions
kutler kollinz -- intense cocaine devil doll saga!!!

Influences:

the melvins, tool, pelican , mono , isis , fugazi , at the drive in , dredg , circa survive , sonic youth , wolf eyes , xiu xiu , converge , deftones , godspeed you black emperor , boris , tortise, circle takes the square , autolux , team sleep , nine inch nails , four tet , kenna , broken social scene , ladytron , the books , the mars volta , low , milieu , satanic mechanisms , pixels of death , the appleseed cast , bark bark bark , dir en grey , death from above 1979 , queens of the stone age , our cure the rocketship , coheed and cambria , penfold , the moirai , bark psychosis , movietone, explosions in the sky , guapo , nurse with wound, desert sessions , kid606 , swans , skeleton key , fantomas , cave-in , enemy, tera melos , the pillows frankenstein holocaust , a beautiful lotus ,

Sounds Like: any mixture of the bands above
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Bitches got trolled

http://www.dabbler.ca/news/parliament-of-one-starving-dog-as -art-%E2%80%93-don%E2%80%99t-believe-everything-you-read-200 80411/That artist completely owned every reactionary (liberal or conservative) i...
Posted by derek on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:58:00 PST

Tucson 100

March 7th & 8th:Gorilla Productions Presents:The Tucson 100CENTRE - Saturday March 8thAll ages/bar with I.D.Tickets: $10 adv. / $12 @doorDoors: 6:30pm
Posted by derek on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:07:00 PST

teh nathan bomb

    AHOOOOOO!
Posted by derek on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:26:00 PST

layers

sometimes i forget the world isn't just an illusion, that we live in cities upon cities, layers of earth laid upon one another in the endless expanse of the world, where the illusion of escape seems s...
Posted by derek on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:09:00 PST

World of Warcraft?

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Posted by derek on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:45:00 PST

new phone

I need you dudes to send me yr phone numbers again if you think I would like to call you.
Posted by derek on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:37:00 PST

Brainless Students Invade [your college here]

important copypasta? in MY /b/log?it's more likely than you think.[found this adorning the University Community bulletin board ][at the Computer Center (not BBS, the kind of bulletin board ][you stick...
Posted by derek on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:33:00 PST

Dry River

    Hey everyone, just wanted to say thanks for making the show last night a great sucess. I had to take off after our set, but I hope you all enjoyed the rest of the bands performing, ...
Posted by derek on Sun, 13 May 2007 04:28:00 PST

warm.dead recording photos

kinda artsy, but cool anyway.             ...
Posted by derek on Sun, 08 Jan 2006 04:07:00 PST

this month in derek:

i'm going to be working my ass off on warm.dead demos so i can put out an official release. if nothing works out, the show must go on, so expect an independent release, maybe a CD-R release if i'm br...
Posted by derek on Mon, 02 Jan 2006 05:36:00 PST