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esoDerek

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.

About Me



ME

FRIENDLY
UNCONFRONTATIONAL
SOCIAL
HUMOUROUS
EXTROVERTED
INTROVERTED
HUMBLE
OPTIMISTIC
CHARISMATIC
UTILITARIAN
WORLDLY
WISE
COY
JAPANESE
DUTCH
WRITER
FILMMAKER
POET
IMAGINATIVE
LIBRA
ECLECTIC
CURIOUS
CURTEOUS
RESPECTFUL
GNARLY
CULTURED
NERD
GENTLEMAN
INDIE
FLEXIBLE
BROAD-MINDED
GENUINE
ATHEIST

VAIN
AIMLESS
INDECISIVE
PERVERTED
PRETENTIOUS
SCAVENGER
LAZY
INEBRIATED
SEDATED
SKEPTIC
MISANTHROPIC
COMPLEX
HUMILIATED

DIG DEEPER

IM : FlaurosEnigma
LJ : FlaurosEnigma

My Interests


ART
VEGETARIAN CHIPOTLE
GREEN TABASCO
FUNK NUGZ
SEVEN-FIVES
RUSSIAN CINEMA
SKATING
MUSIC
JALAPENOS
ILFORD FILM STOCK (PAN-F 50)
PIRACY
THRIFT STORES
GNARLY JIVING
CLOUD FORMATIONS
PBR
COFFEE SHOPS
HOOKAH TOBACCO
UNIVERSAL/CULTURAL TRUTHS
HUMAN BEHAVIOR
POETRY
BINAURAL AUDIO
FILM THEORY AND CRITICISM
GIN AND TONIC
TWEAKING EQs
CEREAL
SILENT HILL
DARK/BROKEN/HYPERSEXUAL GIRLS
PHILOSOPHY
PING PONG
1990S ERA SQUARESOFT GAMES
FRONT PORCH CHILLIN'
FILMMAKING
ATHEISM
PHYSICAL FITNESS
SCREENWRITING
ROAD TRIPS
INTELLECTUAL CONVERSATIONS
INDIE BARS
BALLROOM DANCING
SMASH BROTHERS MELEE
KEY WEST
AMARULA AND MILK
MAKING PEOPLE HAPPY
PAINTING
CLODHOPPERS

I'd like to meet:

I go gaga for girls in mascara

Music:


REQUIEMS BY:

W.A. MOZART
GABRIEL FAURE
GYORGY LIGETI

ALSO...

STEVE REICH
RADIOHEAD
BRIAN ENO
PRINCE
SLOWDIVE
TOM WAITS
ERIC SATIE
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
MAURICE RAVEL
THE BEATLES
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE

ALSO I LIKE...

SHOEGAZE
AMBIENT MUSIC
MINIMALISM
IDM
ELECTRO
KRAUT-ROCK
SOME ATONAL MUSICIANS
COMPOSERS OF THE ROMANTIC/IMPRESSIONIST ERA
EXPERIMENTAL ROCK/POP
PUNK
GOTH
POST-PUNK
DANCE-PUNK
ALT-COUNTRY
FUNK
EXPERIMENTAL DUB
MOTOWN
HIP-HOP (CIRCA 1991-1995)
FREAK FOLK
LO-FI
TRIP-HOP
80s ALTERNATIVE
80s ROMANTICISM
C-86 (POINTS IF YOU CAN GUESS WHAT THIS IS.)
NOISE/SLUDGE

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST:

JAZZ:
BEBOP
HARD-BOP
MODAL

Movies:

FAVORITE FILM:
ANDREI RUBLYEV
OTHER MASTERPIECES:
THE TRIAL
DIARY OF A COUNTRY PIREST
EDWARD MUNCH
COME AND SEE
FANNY AND ALEXANDER
CRIES AND WHISPERS
AUTUMN SONATA
THE MIRROR
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR
BATTLE OF ALGIERS
THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC
UGETSU MONOGATARI
THE SEVEN SAMURAI
MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
DUCK SOUP
CITY LIGHTS
PICKPOCKET
PLAYTIME
RULES OF THE GAME
EVERYTHING BY:
ANDREI TARKOVSKY
INGMAR BERGMAN
ROBERT BRESSON
ORSON WELLES
HAYAO MIYAZAKI
AKIRA KUROSAWA
PETER WATKINS
FRANK CAPRA
STANLEY KUBRICK
KRZYZSTOF KIESLOWSKI
RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER
SERGIO LEONE
GIUSEPPE TORNATORE
AND I STILL LOVE FILM AS ENTERTAINMENT:
SPILEBERG
ZEMECKIS
LUCAS
HUGHES
COEN BORHTERS
GENE KELLEY
VINCENTE MINELLI
LUC BESSON
JEAN PIERRE JEUNET
TERRY GILLIAM
DAVID LYNCH
QUENTIN TARANTINO
P.T. ANDERSON
WES ANDERSON
MICHEL GONDRY
AND SO ON
AND SO ON

Television:

EDIT: Good TV is hard to find these days.

MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000
BULLSHIT
PLANET EARTH
THE DEKALOGUE
MYTHBUSTERS
ADULT SWIM
THE DAILY SHOW
THE COLBERT REPORT
TWIN PEAKS
MAN VS. WILD
FREAKS AND GEEKS (BEST SHOW, EVER)
MY SO CALLED LIFE
ENTOURAGE
WEEDS
THE ADVENTURES OF PETE AND PETE

Books:

I SUCK AT BOOKS

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GREY - OSCAR WILDE
CANDIDE - VOLTAIRE
SCULPTING IN TIME - ANDREI TARKOVSKY
JOHNNY THE HOMICIDAL MANIAC/SQUEE - JHONEN VASQUEZ
AESOP FABLES - VARIOUS

I NEED MORE BOOKS. SERIOUSLY.

Heroes:

ATTICUS FINCH (Gregory Peck)

JEFFERSON SMITH (James Stewart)

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Andrei Tarkovsky

Ingmar Bergman (w/ Sven Nykvist)

My Blog

FRENS TWO ELECTRIK BOOGALOO

FOR MY BIRFDAY I GOT:A SORE THROAT&A HAIRCUT...Lately, I've been absent of that radiant feeling of being surrounded by amazing friends. I'm not saying I don't acknowledge, respect, or love 'em, to be ...
Posted by esoDerek on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:42:00 PST

GOILS

So...here goes a little gnarly one from the gut:Girls, girls, girls. I crave them. I want to be surrounded by them constantly. I want to smell them and touch them and kiss them all the time. I want to...
Posted by esoDerek on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:26:00 PST

BYOOTIE

For me, the strongest beauties lie in subtleties. They're natural, like a woman trying to smile off the fact she's not wearing makeup. They aren't in the clinique products that mask every woman's face...
Posted by esoDerek on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:19:00 PST

"History"

"History"Can you hear my voice through my megaphone?It buzzes and it beeps."Just leave me alone.""Please leave me alone."Sticks and stones can break your bones.They can break my own.I'll leave you alo...
Posted by esoDerek on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:50:00 PST

I Don’t Know

After many futile attempts to define how I feel in eloquent words, all I can say is that I feel empty and I'm having a hard time understanding why. I think its because I've been craving passion lately...
Posted by esoDerek on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:50:00 PST

Untitled

I once met a girl in a sea of sound,Whose grace flowed with the music.A siren on stage lured all to love, But she led me to shipwreck.- A new Van Valken joint. I can't seem to make long poems without ...
Posted by esoDerek on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:53:00 PST

The Matrix

http://wcco.com/health/health_story_271115428.htmlSome say that you see a light when you die. People interpret this as the proverbial stairway to heaven. Bill Bondar saw NOTHING.As medicine continues ...
Posted by esoDerek on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:02:00 PST

What stopped you then should stop you now.

What is this illness slipping inside? The consequence of women and time. (Or the lack thereof.) I understand...It's just supply and demand.Stop looking at their pictures,And you'll be better again....
Posted by esoDerek on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:21:00 PST

Freaks and Geeks and the state of Television

Freaks and Geeks is the best show I have ever seen. Every episode plucks my heartstrings. Every episode has me laughing my ass off. Every episode is full of complex character developments yet every ch...
Posted by esoDerek on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:29:00 PST

SPINNIN’ ’N’ POLITIKIN’

I don't know what the statistics are but I'm under the impresssion that your average Joe Schmo American doesn't know jack shit about politics, current events, and the focus of this rant, presidential ...
Posted by esoDerek on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:21:00 PST