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Derek

When you look like I do it's hard to get a table for one at Chucky Cheese.

About Me


“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”- Jack Kerouac

My Interests

Life, my real friends, music, books, movies, scotch, fashion, coffee, drumming, zombies, the 70's, traveling

I'd like to meet:


A never ending cup of coffee and people who have never wanted to be anyone else cause they are happy with themselves!

Music:

-At the Gates
-Big Star
-The Birthday Party
-Black Flag
-Blur
-Botch
-Dave Brubeck
-Calabrese
-Carcass
-Johnny Cash
-Nick Cave
-The Chameleons UK
-Coalesce
-Cocksparrer
-Danzig
-Miles Davis
-Death
-Dizzee Rascal
-The Doors
-Dredg
-Bob Dylan
-Frodus
-Goblin
-Grade
-Vince Guaraldi
-Woody Guthrie
-Lee Hazlewood
-Iggy and the Stooges
-Waylon Jennings
-Manic Street Preachers
-McLusky
-The Misfits
-Willie Nelson
-The Nerve Agents
-Nim Vind
-Radiohead
-Raft of Dead Monkeys
-Refused
-Damien Rice
-Rocket From the Crypt
-Samhain
-The Sisters of Mercy
-The Sound
-Stereophonics
-Suede
-Super Furry Animals
-T.Rex
-Third Eye Blind
-Tom Waits
-The Who
-Zombi
-The Zombies

Movies:

-8 1/2
-400 Blows
-About a Boy
-Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
-The Big Lebowski
-Black Christmas
-Cemetery Man
-Dawn of the Dead
-Deep Red
-Dirty Harry
-Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
-Easy Rider
-Fistful of Dollars
-Halloween
-The Lost Boys
-Network
-The Pianist
-Rebel Without A Cause
-Suspiria
-Touch of Evil
-Winter Light
-Zombie

Television:

Dexter, Doctor Who, Dark Shadows, The Muppet Show, and Count Duckula

Books:

Brave New World, 1984, Tipping Point, Blink, The World Is Flat, Crimes Against Logic, Freakonomics, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, No Logo, Filth, Porn, About A Boy, High Fidelity, Fight Club, The Bell Jar, Bullshit, Brainwashed, The Halloween Tree, Fahrenheit 451, On the Road, The Idiot, Rebel Without A Crew

Heroes:

Austin Lee Gutowski, Mike Balent, and Ernest P. Worrell

My Blog

Can you love life too much??

So just sitting here listening to some Whiskeytown (who are AMAZING by the way), but having some thoughts as well... and I thought... hell.. I want to jot this down... and who uses pen and paper these...
Posted by Derek on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:55:00 PST

Summer plans

So for the first time in a long time I plan to have a relaxing summer. I will simply be working a 9-5 and that is it... and I love it! It will be nice to simply go to work.... then come home... and ...
Posted by Derek on Fri, 18 May 2007 07:30:00 PST

Ever take a pill cause it was a pretty color??

Neither did I, cause I'm not an asshole.
Posted by Derek on Sun, 06 May 2007 11:24:00 PST

Is it just me...

or does it feel like life is one big 'pissing contest'? It feels like everyone looks around at what others have and they want that, but bigger and better. It feels that no one is content just with w...
Posted by Derek on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:11:00 PST

What's A Happenin...

So I haven't posted anything in a bit, as usual, figured I would give some brief updates as to whats going on and what has gone on...Well I am doing my first bit of traveling again since I got back fr...
Posted by Derek on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:04:00 PST

Finally... an update!!

Ok so time has passed since my last one and many of you I know are a bit "in the dark" when it comes to me as of late. I have seemingly disappeared on a lot of you and for that... I apologize.I have ...
Posted by Derek on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:47:00 PST

Another one over...

So another year ends and a new approaches... strange thing happens to people around this time... we feel the need to take stock of things that happend this past year and feel the need to make a "new s...
Posted by Derek on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:02:00 PST

UPDATE!

Ok so finally I am jotting down something with regards to my current situation in life... well I am back in PA now... 2 months and 10 countries later... I am back in my bed... thank gawd is all I ca...
Posted by Derek on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 01:22:00 PST

Whats new..

Ok so here is whats going on... whats coming up... and everything in between:I am back home in PA til Sept. then I head back overseas to the UK and out into Europe... I will be out of the country from...
Posted by Derek on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:04:00 PST

What I have been listening to non-stop..

So I thought I would share with everyone the albums that I listen to constantly anymore... whether during work, working out, driving around... they are just good for everything and are worthy of your ...
Posted by Derek on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 07:20:00 PST