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Derek

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About Me

I'm 19, from Medford originally but living in Corvallis, OR goin to college at OSU. I'm majoring in Chemical Engineering. Pretty much my life consists of homework, sleep, skating, and hanging out with my housemate and the cats. Blah...

My Interests

Skateboarding, writing, reading, and learning as much as I can about anything.

I'd like to meet:

Karl Marx, Engel, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Churchhill, Stephen Hawking, Rutherford, Viktor Frankl, George Orwell, Madison and Jefferson. Oh and William Carlos Williams so I can punch him in the face and tell him how much he sucks, im sorry if that angers you but i cant stand that guy.

Music:

DJ Tiesto, Blackalicious, The Decembrists, STABBING WESTWARD!!!, NIN, Radiohead, DJ Shadow, Nickel Creek, Slipknot, 311, The Toys, Sublime, NOFX, Bad Religion, A Tribe Called Quest, Ultraspank, DJ Dara, Chemical Brothers, Cradle of Filth, The Postal Service, Morcheeba, Slipknot, Mudvayne, A Perfect Circle, Cold's first CD, Staind's first CD way before they got shitty, DJ Q-Bert, Dialated Peoples, Hootie and the Blowfish, Lacuna Coil, Rob D., Keller Williams, Long Beach Dub All Stars, Norah Jones, Al Green, Bjork, Charlie Hunter Trio, Medeski Martin & Wood, The Gift of Gab. Pretty much everything except country, cant stand it.

Movies:

Enemy Mine, Garden State, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Donnie Darko, American Beauty, The Pianist, The Lost Boys, Pleasantville, Waking Life, KIDS, Stand and Deliver, Fantastic Planet, The Edukators, Only the Strong. Too many good ones out there. Pretty much anything that has a well thought out message.

Television:

Family Guy, TechTV stuff, Adult Swim, thats about it.

Books:

The Tripod Series by John Christopher, A Brave New World, The Invisible Man, Turn of the Screw, The Dollhouse, Midnight, Twilight Eyes, We, 1984, Mans Search For Meaning, Lost Horizon, Stranger in a Strange Land, The Martian Chronicles, Frankenstein, The Time Machine, The Prince, The Professor and the Madman, 9 Short Stories by Truman Copote, Farhenheit 451, Animal Farm, The Power of Myth, The Divine Comedy, Cathcer in the Rye, The Samuri's Garden, Johnny Got His Gun, Redwall series, Anthem, Ishmael, IROBOT.

Heroes:

No one. Heroes only divert ones attention from his own full potential.

My Blog

The meaning to life

Have you ever thought what is the meaning of my life, what is there in life. I think that life involves continuous suffering, life is suffering. But it is more of the way you approach that suffering t...
Posted by Derek on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Good short story and poem

Night He woke up. He thought he could hear their child's breathing in the next room, the near-silent, smooth sound of air in and out. He touched his wife. The room was too dark to l...
Posted by Derek on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A Favourite

John Hollander Mad Potter Now at the turn of the year this coil of clay Bites its own tail: a New Year starts to choke On the old one's ragged end. I bite my tongue As the end of me--of my rop...
Posted by Derek on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST