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derek

I am here for Friends

About Me

i like getting lost in music loud in my headphones. i like frontside ollies. i live in flip flops. i love a good shuffle mix on my ipod. i like the color black. i like long road trips with plenty of good music. i love being cold. i hate being hot. i love discovering new places, and meeting new friends. i love finding i have alot in common with someone. i love taking pictures. i love the sound of my daughters laughs. i love smiles from pretty girls. i love sushi. i like to be with friends. i like to be alone. i love to be clean and organized. i love my cds to be alphabetical order. i love discovering a new band, and letting someone else know. i love being sarcastic. i love lazy sunday afternoon beer buzzes.

My Interests

miller high life. stellas. good concerts. traveling. movies. debates and discussions. chicken fingers at caseys. sushi. listening. reading. writing.

I'd like to meet:

you!

Music:

radiohead, deathcab for cutie, buck 65, black heart procession, black keys, coldplay, travis, keane, aphex twin, boards of canada, arcade fire, air, rjd2, album leaf, belle and sebastion, doves, badly drawn boy, gary jules, joseph arthur, my dad is dead, american analog set, broken social scene, iron and wine, shins, interpol, smiths, johnny marr, tribe, qtip, de la soul, m83, low, miles, flaming lips, black rebel motorcycle club, mmw, elefant, trashcan sinatras, tricky, massive attack, mazzy star, trembeling blue stars, asleep at the sea, pinback, colin hay, black angels, dandy warhols, bjm, of montreal, blackalicious, mates of state, her space holiday, clap your hands and say yea, spoon, soledad brothers, serena maneesh, hotel lights, stars of track and field, frou frou, rob sonic, atmosphere, slug, rogue wave, appleseed cast, denali

Movies:

napoleon dynamite, garden state, lost in translation, kill bill, magnolia, royal tenebaums, rushmore, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, say anything, adaptation, being john malkovich, donnie darko, i heart huckabees, shaun of the dead, snatch, back to the future, science of sleep.

Television:

LOST. office, scrubs, six feet under, entourage, arrested development, always sunny in philadelphia.

Books:

any book by moody. kerouac. beat authors. philip dick.

Heroes:

is there any?

My Blog

Southern Tour

just got back from Jackson MS to see my friend Tate and Kelly.  what a blast.  a weekend of skating, drinking, eating, skating, and yea, more drinking.  took many photos:My Flickr Pagei...
Posted by derek on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:26:00 PST

this year.

this year is off to a much much better start then the end of last year.  its truly amazing what lessons life teaches you, and i thank God for each and every minute of my life, the good, and the s...
Posted by derek on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:14:00 PST

a better day coming.....

six months ago, i dont know how many people said to me, "what doesn't kill you will make you stronger", and i just wanted to say, i would rather die.  but looking back on that time, and also look...
Posted by derek on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:36:00 PST

top ten albums of 2006

yet another great year for releases.  tough to narrow down to ten, but here goes:band of horses - everything all the timebuilt to spill - you in reversetv on the radio - return to cookie mountain...
Posted by derek on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:55:00 PST

words to live by, when it comes to love..

Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift.   When the door o...
Posted by derek on Mon, 15 May 2006 06:36:00 PST

new music 2/06

Film School - Film School From pitchfork: Despite a debt to such early-90s Brits as Slowdive, Film School's basis in the gloomier undercurrents of the current 80s-revival zeitgeist provides an eas...
Posted by derek on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:50:00 PST

Best of 2005

it was a great year, here are some of my highlights: Iron and wine/Calexico - in the reins Wolf parade - apologies to the queen mary American analog set - set free Franz Ferdinand - you c...
Posted by derek on Fri, 13 Jan 2006 06:44:00 PST

Things to listen to......

things to listen to if you already haven't: japancakes - waking hours - indie electronica with bits of americana thrown in the books - lost and safe - laid back electronica/indie rock from mo...
Posted by derek on Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:40:00 PST

one am radio

headed to tucson last night to catch one am radio.  what a great show.  very short set, but very good anyway.  very small, intimate crowd, with all of us just sitting on the floor throu...
Posted by derek on Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:00:00 PST

music review - her space holiday - the young machines

here is a new blog i will be featuring, a weekly music review.  so here is the first i wrote: Breaking up is hard to do. So is dealing with loss. Marc Bianchi used both as the framework for Her S...
Posted by derek on Sat, 13 Aug 2005 08:47:00 PST