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derekjay

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About Me

6'5" PhD Student from Sydney Australia. I love travelling, meeting new people, playing guitar, reading a good book, listening to music, going to a gig, etc. My Website

My Interests

Playing guitar, snowboarding, trying to get out to do some mountain biking.

I'd like to meet:

*People who know how to laugh. *Interesting quirky people.

Music:

Jazz (John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Wynton Marsallis, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker), Ska (Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake, Mad Caddies, Save Ferris, Dancehall Crashers), Punk (NOFX, NUFAN, The Adverts, The Descendents, Black Flag, ATDI, Ramones, The Clash, Frenzal Rhomb), Dance/House (Armand Van Helden, Chemical Brothers, Felix Da Housecat), Break Beat (Plump DJs). Full List

Movies:

Requiem for a Dream, The Blues Brothers, Clerks, The Usual Suspects, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, North By Northwest, Vertigo, Indianna Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Television:

Don't really watch much TV. But I like the following: Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law, The Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, The X-Files (seasons 1 and 2), Chapelle's Show, Gerhardt Reinke's Wanderlust.

Books:

Some of My favourite Authors are: Albert Camus, Aldous Huxley, Dante Alighieri, Douglas Adams, Douglas Coupland, Franz Kafka, Ben Elton etc...

Heroes:

Harvey Birdman, Apache Chief, Black Vulcan